John Sundman
@jsundman.bsky.social
Biodigital novelist, mover of heavy objects, volunteer firefighter (retired), national treasure.
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John Sundman
@jsundman.bsky.social
· Jan 10
A chronicler of biodigital technopotheosis
How I accidentally became a self-publishing cyber-bio-nanopunk novelist
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I write & publish literary fiction for hackers, geeks, and fans of Borges, Lem & Nabokov. I’ve written 4 novel(la)s; another novel in the works. Cyberpunk/biopunk technopothestic biodigital thrillers, some of them metafictional. All concern hacking of both silicon- & carbon-based systems. 💙📚 🪐📚
I visited my son Jake today at the nursing home where he's been since mid-July. Next week he's to have surgery on his spine, again. Then maybe he'll relearn how to walk, again, and relearn how to use his hands. When he's not dealing with seizures. Or blindness.
An outdoor cat did this to him. 1/
An outdoor cat did this to him. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I visited my son Jake today at the nursing home where he's been since mid-July. Next week he's to have surgery on his spine, again. Then maybe he'll relearn how to walk, again, and relearn how to use his hands. When he's not dealing with seizures. Or blindness.
An outdoor cat did this to him. 1/
An outdoor cat did this to him. 1/
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Katie Wilson, who is good, is currently 4,500 votes behind Bruce Harrell, who is evil.
There are 45,000 ballots outstanding. 10% of those ballots could change the fate of Seattle.
Check your ballot.
There are 45,000 ballots outstanding. 10% of those ballots could change the fate of Seattle.
Check your ballot.
This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Katie Wilson, who is good, is currently 4,500 votes behind Bruce Harrell, who is evil.
There are 45,000 ballots outstanding. 10% of those ballots could change the fate of Seattle.
Check your ballot.
There are 45,000 ballots outstanding. 10% of those ballots could change the fate of Seattle.
Check your ballot.
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I've written about Pericles, Lincoln, and the decay of civic life. You're welcome. I know this is the content everyone wanted.
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
The Conspiracy Against America
National Populism and the United States
othermeans.io
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I've written about Pericles, Lincoln, and the decay of civic life. You're welcome. I know this is the content everyone wanted.
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
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It's time for us in the US to admit that we do not have a shared vision, nevermind shared values.
The counter to groups like Run for Something are religious groups, like For LIberty & Justice and their Campaign University.
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The counter to groups like Run for Something are religious groups, like For LIberty & Justice and their Campaign University.
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Mercy Culture Church trains Christians to run for office in Texas - The Texas Tribune
At the core of the program is the idea that there is no separation between what happens within the church and what happens in the government.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It's time for us in the US to admit that we do not have a shared vision, nevermind shared values.
The counter to groups like Run for Something are religious groups, like For LIberty & Justice and their Campaign University.
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The counter to groups like Run for Something are religious groups, like For LIberty & Justice and their Campaign University.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Trump was busy playing announcer for a football game while the government’s shut down, people are starving, and flights are getting cancelled! You can’t fight against that?!?!?!
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Trump was busy playing announcer for a football game while the government’s shut down, people are starving, and flights are getting cancelled! You can’t fight against that?!?!?!
AOC must primary Schumer. It's our only hope. If we make it that far.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
AOC must primary Schumer. It's our only hope. If we make it that far.
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“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...
Ms. Shelley was harsh, but she had her reasons. She wrote Frankenstein & created the genre of science fiction when she was 19 years old, one of her many accomplishments. So, pretty much a smart one & probably worth listening to. Much as it pains me to say it, her argument does have some merit.
"Men are trash"
- Mary Shelley, 1818
- Mary Shelley, 1818
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Ms. Shelley was harsh, but she had her reasons. She wrote Frankenstein & created the genre of science fiction when she was 19 years old, one of her many accomplishments. So, pretty much a smart one & probably worth listening to. Much as it pains me to say it, her argument does have some merit.
Schumer must go. I know that changing leaders during wartime is a fraught business, but Lincoln stood for re-election in 1864, as did Roosevelt & Churchill in WW2. Jeffries is bad, but Schumer is worse. Not even clear that he's entirely on the side of Democrats. 100% not a wartime consigliere.
I know everyone is still holding out hope that Axios is wrong but there have been so many other reports from a variety of sources now.
Nothing is done yet, but it seems like the Dems are preparing to fold for peanuts.
Nothing is done yet, but it seems like the Dems are preparing to fold for peanuts.
Thune Plans Test Vote on Shutdown, Saying Deal Is Getting Closer
Senate Republican leader John Thune said a deal is “coming together” as he planned a test vote Sunday on a narrow spending package that would end the 40-day government shutdown.
www.bloomberg.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Schumer must go. I know that changing leaders during wartime is a fraught business, but Lincoln stood for re-election in 1864, as did Roosevelt & Churchill in WW2. Jeffries is bad, but Schumer is worse. Not even clear that he's entirely on the side of Democrats. 100% not a wartime consigliere.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Are we starting to see a permanent impact on the economy from the shutdown?
BESSENT: It's getting worse and worse. We had a fantastic economy under Trump the last 2 Qs, and now there are estimates that growth this Q could be cut by as much as half. We could end up with shortages.
BESSENT: It's getting worse and worse. We had a fantastic economy under Trump the last 2 Qs, and now there are estimates that growth this Q could be cut by as much as half. We could end up with shortages.
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
STEPHANOPOULOS: Are we starting to see a permanent impact on the economy from the shutdown?
BESSENT: It's getting worse and worse. We had a fantastic economy under Trump the last 2 Qs, and now there are estimates that growth this Q could be cut by as much as half. We could end up with shortages.
BESSENT: It's getting worse and worse. We had a fantastic economy under Trump the last 2 Qs, and now there are estimates that growth this Q could be cut by as much as half. We could end up with shortages.
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A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
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I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
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So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
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Thread: part of an ongoing project to erase people of color from military history:
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Thread: part of an ongoing project to erase people of color from military history:
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Golly. You don't say!
Senate Democratic Minority Leader Schumer’s decision not to endorse Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral race “was driven in large part…by his self-conception as a guardian of Israel, something he considers a core part of his personal and political identity.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Even on Election Day, Schumer Is Mum on Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Golly. You don't say!
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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The right way to do a headline on yesterday’s events in Chicago.
It is embarassing that only a news outlet from the UK has an accurate headline while our local papers keep saying "reports" without specifying a liar made that report.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The right way to do a headline on yesterday’s events in Chicago.
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Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I love reading these "You're an Italian-American? I am too!" posts. So many shared cultural experiences! Jokes, accents, traditions! (Ditto for Jews, etc.) I'm Finno-Irish-Scottish American. I've known 6 others in this demographic: My sisters Maureen, Barbara & Muggs, & brothers Mike, Peter & Paul.
As a Long Island born Italian, I can say Moonstruck is as an excellent depiction of the better side of the people I grew up with, without the worst side of the people I grew up with. It’s extremely endearing and gets what made the people who are better side actually the better side.
November 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I love reading these "You're an Italian-American? I am too!" posts. So many shared cultural experiences! Jokes, accents, traditions! (Ditto for Jews, etc.) I'm Finno-Irish-Scottish American. I've known 6 others in this demographic: My sisters Maureen, Barbara & Muggs, & brothers Mike, Peter & Paul.