Justin Myers
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Justin Myers
@justinmyers.net
Journalist, tinkerer, crocheter, parent.
Married to @juliajrh.bsky.social.

Graphics editor, @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org.

🏳️‍⚧️⚧🟨⬜🟪⬛, any pronouns.

Also active on fediverse/Mastodon:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@myersjustinc
Mostly stuffed toys, like these two. (Have managed to complete just two blankets in my crochet career, which at this point is old enough to vote but not yet drink.)
November 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The lower-court precedent the government wants to overturn:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The #SCOTUS case:
www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

US Concealed Carry Association guidance on cannabis use:
www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/marijua...

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October 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The statute prohibiting "an unlawful user of … any controlled substance" from owning guns is 18 USC 922(g)(3):
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...

The regulation that says it counts if use occurred "within the past year":
www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...

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October 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Great placement for @karenhao.bsky.social’s book by the window of this island bookstore in Friday Harbor, Washington.

Literally between Silver, Kurzweil and other rah-rah hype types, Karen and @emilymbender.bsky.social/@alexhanna.bsky.social hold down the fort with the voices of caution and reason.
August 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
True all around. That said, that restriction only applies to people who are citizens of somewhere _else_.
www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
March 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I miss him so much.
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
and his mom always dressed him up for Packers game days.
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
we cooked together,
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
We read together,
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
and he loved percussion.

(The radiation oncology clinic let him play a giant gong once!)
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
he loved kisses,
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
He loved naps,
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Even though he was born on the last day of winter, he got an early chance to see snowfall before the weather really started to warm up for the year.
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
(Sometimes he’d simply try to eat the grownups.)
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
He routinely wanted to try grownups’ food, even to the point of trying to snatch it out of their mouths.
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
But I want to tell you about the strongest and most determined person I’ve known.

Clark always was more interested in standing than crawling, partly because of the way his cancer affected the use of his right arm.
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Six years ago tonight, I met the most wonderful baby boy.
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Nonprofit community journalism needs all of us—whether we’re doing the work, spreading the word, contributing financially, or finding out more about our neighbors and institutions.
#MugsUpForPublicMedia
March 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Long room is long—and filling up!—to hear @simonwillison.net weigh in on the state of the art of LLMs and what actually might be reasonable uses of them. Lots of interest at #NICAR25, and good to have someone like Simon to help cut through the hype.
March 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Boarding #Amtrak 1333 (#AmtrakBorealis) CHI-MSP! Looking forward to #NICAR25, including presenting on how to approach #DataJournalism in a smaller newsroom. (And maybe I'll get some #embroidery done on the train!)
March 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Merry Christmas from @juliajrh.bsky.social and me (and our little one)!
December 25, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Made in the image of a God who defies all categorization.
Proud to have been in the #Chicago #Pride parade yesterday with Church of the Three Crosses and the Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches!
#nonbinary #UnitedMethodist #UnitedChurchOfChrist #christianity
July 1, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Boarding United #UA1963 ORD-BWI!

Looking forward to an especially packed #nicar24 (and my first journalism conference after leaving Twitter).

If you’ll be in Baltimore, say hi!

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March 7, 2024 at 12:08 AM
For sure, but considering the alternative…

(cw: central nervous systems having a Bad Time™)
January 20, 2024 at 5:49 AM
There's a neat effect on our kitchen ceiling from the Christmas lights @juliajrh.bsky.social put up.
December 16, 2023 at 10:28 PM