JP Maranda
@jpmaranda.bsky.social
Mundus sine caesaribus. I think a lot about novel writing, scholarly comms, small cats, big cats, ravens, Prog and British heavy metal, Norse mythology, Tolkien, LOTR, ROP, and travel. Very dangerous over short distances. Opinions are my own.
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There are only three political positions in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
June 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There are only three political positions in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
Hold up. Why would he be surprised by being confronted? Are you telling me that our senators and representatives are not calling out this bullshit regularly? What exactly are you doing at work @slotkin.senate.gov? @peters.senate.gov?
Update Tina Smith says Mike Lee “honestly seemed surprised to be confronted”
Yea that’s been every Utah Republican in my experience
Yea that’s been every Utah Republican in my experience
June 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Hold up. Why would he be surprised by being confronted? Are you telling me that our senators and representatives are not calling out this bullshit regularly? What exactly are you doing at work @slotkin.senate.gov? @peters.senate.gov?
“Aspirational security line setup” is a hell of a phrase. 😂 #sadtrombone
One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
June 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
“Aspirational security line setup” is a hell of a phrase. 😂 #sadtrombone
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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Me watching all these QR announcements coming out for gigs sooooo far away 😭 #happy4Utho #come2MI
June 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Me watching all these QR announcements coming out for gigs sooooo far away 😭 #happy4Utho #come2MI
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Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
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Good morning to everyone who agrees that we need to tax the church!
April 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Good morning to everyone who agrees that we need to tax the church!
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More and more since the 2025 started, I’ve only been able to fall asleep to astrophysics audiobooks that describe to me how truly huge the universe really is and how we really are just absolutely meaningless flecks of dust clinging to a pebble floating in an endless ocean.
April 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
More and more since the 2025 started, I’ve only been able to fall asleep to astrophysics audiobooks that describe to me how truly huge the universe really is and how we really are just absolutely meaningless flecks of dust clinging to a pebble floating in an endless ocean.
My sweet Lilly. 19 years is a long relationship by any standard. And it’s rare and special to enjoy the love of a pet for that long. She has brought me joy through so many life changes, so the pain of witnessing the changes she’s enduring as she nears the end of her long life is nearly unbearable.
April 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My sweet Lilly. 19 years is a long relationship by any standard. And it’s rare and special to enjoy the love of a pet for that long. She has brought me joy through so many life changes, so the pain of witnessing the changes she’s enduring as she nears the end of her long life is nearly unbearable.
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Due to the political coup and lawlessness in Turkey ⚖️
Protesting against the government of Erdogan, Trump's best friend, Turkish youth held up a banner in Elvish in front of the courthouse 📢
The banner reads: “Though Sauron's hunters wait, the people will never surrender!” 👊
#Trump #Resist
Protesting against the government of Erdogan, Trump's best friend, Turkish youth held up a banner in Elvish in front of the courthouse 📢
The banner reads: “Though Sauron's hunters wait, the people will never surrender!” 👊
#Trump #Resist
April 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
April 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.
April 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.
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Germany had its own January 6-style attempt at a coup. It also failed. But Hitler was sent to jail.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
April 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Germany had its own January 6-style attempt at a coup. It also failed. But Hitler was sent to jail.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
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War hero schools a chickenhawk.
April 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
War hero schools a chickenhawk.
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The FAFO schadenfreude aside, it's really insane how many people seem to sincerely believe in their heart that politics is just a game people play to amuse themselves and isn't something with very real consequences for real people who may have intensely vested stakes in the outcome.
April 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The FAFO schadenfreude aside, it's really insane how many people seem to sincerely believe in their heart that politics is just a game people play to amuse themselves and isn't something with very real consequences for real people who may have intensely vested stakes in the outcome.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Ban abortion
Ban all gender based healthcare, research, education and jobs programs under the premise of [very real] transphobia
Defund social safety net programs
Defund the department of education
Collapse the economy and restrict the job market
They’re forcing American women back 100+ years.
Ban all gender based healthcare, research, education and jobs programs under the premise of [very real] transphobia
Defund social safety net programs
Defund the department of education
Collapse the economy and restrict the job market
They’re forcing American women back 100+ years.
April 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Ban abortion
Ban all gender based healthcare, research, education and jobs programs under the premise of [very real] transphobia
Defund social safety net programs
Defund the department of education
Collapse the economy and restrict the job market
They’re forcing American women back 100+ years.
Ban all gender based healthcare, research, education and jobs programs under the premise of [very real] transphobia
Defund social safety net programs
Defund the department of education
Collapse the economy and restrict the job market
They’re forcing American women back 100+ years.
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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My theory is that a lot of people call earnestness cringe because they’re uncomfortable with their emotions around earnestness & they can’t be arsed to deal with it
April 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
My theory is that a lot of people call earnestness cringe because they’re uncomfortable with their emotions around earnestness & they can’t be arsed to deal with it
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Seriously friends, 99% of my cases are things nobody ever hears about. 99% of my activism isn't shit I post about.
Assuming people only do what you see on social media isn't just inaccurate, it's actively harmful.
Assuming people only do what you see on social media isn't just inaccurate, it's actively harmful.
April 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Seriously friends, 99% of my cases are things nobody ever hears about. 99% of my activism isn't shit I post about.
Assuming people only do what you see on social media isn't just inaccurate, it's actively harmful.
Assuming people only do what you see on social media isn't just inaccurate, it's actively harmful.
Yet in the next breath they say they love him because he ‘tells it like it is’ or ‘says what he means’. Clowns.
“i voted for him because i didn’t think he would do what he said he’d do”
April 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Yet in the next breath they say they love him because he ‘tells it like it is’ or ‘says what he means’. Clowns.
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Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
April 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.