Joel Hernandez
@minnesotaj.bsky.social
Marine Vet. Philosopher. Poet. Author of “Baghdad Express.” Born in Duluth, still growing up.
This cycle of the Telephone game is almost complete & we need more artists: www.telephonegame.art
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July 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This cycle of the Telephone game is almost complete & we need more artists: www.telephonegame.art
Making art books is a big commitment—and our poor dining room is a workshop—but I love the meditative process of physically spending time with a book.
July 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Making art books is a big commitment—and our poor dining room is a workshop—but I love the meditative process of physically spending time with a book.
Bsky—excited to announce that new art book project is live. www.ninechainspress.com
They are only available by invitation — which you can request using form on the site or by DM.
They are only available by invitation — which you can request using form on the site or by DM.
July 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Bsky—excited to announce that new art book project is live. www.ninechainspress.com
They are only available by invitation — which you can request using form on the site or by DM.
They are only available by invitation — which you can request using form on the site or by DM.
So great to see tens of thousands at the capitol in St Paul. We are not alone—and we’re not done.
April 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
So great to see tens of thousands at the capitol in St Paul. We are not alone—and we’re not done.
Can we just start calling DOGE “Roko’s Basket List?”
March 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Can we just start calling DOGE “Roko’s Basket List?”
Matt Gaetz has two fingers of vodka left in the bottle and three day old underwear on in his kitchen: “Even I wasn’t gonna fuck up this badly.”
March 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Matt Gaetz has two fingers of vodka left in the bottle and three day old underwear on in his kitchen: “Even I wasn’t gonna fuck up this badly.”
Remember folks—it’s taken us 300 years to engineer a strainer. It could take even longer to fix some of the rest of this shit.
March 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Remember folks—it’s taken us 300 years to engineer a strainer. It could take even longer to fix some of the rest of this shit.
I gotta confess: “what’s the craziest thing they can do?” has shifted several registers beyond what I ever would have imagined.
March 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I gotta confess: “what’s the craziest thing they can do?” has shifted several registers beyond what I ever would have imagined.
Anyone still wondering how that whole Trojan Horse trick worked?
February 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Anyone still wondering how that whole Trojan Horse trick worked?
The world would be better served if more sci fi and fantasy entertainment ended in the seventh minute or on page nine: “Ooops: everyone’s dead, forever.”
February 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The world would be better served if more sci fi and fantasy entertainment ended in the seventh minute or on page nine: “Ooops: everyone’s dead, forever.”
“Space Caligula” is my new favorite… h/t to the crazy geniuses in Josh Marshall’s thread, where Musk was described this way.
More important was the discussion: a LOT of GS employees are vets—as any vet who remembers all the GS folks (including friends who transitioned) would know.
More important was the discussion: a LOT of GS employees are vets—as any vet who remembers all the GS folks (including friends who transitioned) would know.
February 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Space Caligula” is my new favorite… h/t to the crazy geniuses in Josh Marshall’s thread, where Musk was described this way.
More important was the discussion: a LOT of GS employees are vets—as any vet who remembers all the GS folks (including friends who transitioned) would know.
More important was the discussion: a LOT of GS employees are vets—as any vet who remembers all the GS folks (including friends who transitioned) would know.
Reposted by Joel Hernandez
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
Reposted by Joel Hernandez
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
February 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
Emil Bove is Gustavo Fring’s still more evil twin.
February 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Emil Bove is Gustavo Fring’s still more evil twin.
Who’s looking forward to the Kendrick Lamar post-game show?
February 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Who’s looking forward to the Kendrick Lamar post-game show?
Sunday Poetry prompt:
An Odd Number of Stanzas
An Even Number of Sentences
The Grammatical Mood Shifts on the Volta
“Tell me about the weather inside”
An Odd Number of Stanzas
An Even Number of Sentences
The Grammatical Mood Shifts on the Volta
“Tell me about the weather inside”
February 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Sunday Poetry prompt:
An Odd Number of Stanzas
An Even Number of Sentences
The Grammatical Mood Shifts on the Volta
“Tell me about the weather inside”
An Odd Number of Stanzas
An Even Number of Sentences
The Grammatical Mood Shifts on the Volta
“Tell me about the weather inside”
Elon & the Broheimlich Contingent are cordially invited to my next TED talk: “The four dumbest words in the English language are ‘why don’t you just…’”
February 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Elon & the Broheimlich Contingent are cordially invited to my next TED talk: “The four dumbest words in the English language are ‘why don’t you just…’”
Your Sunday poetry prompt:
American Sonnet
“Riddle me a Turn”
“Give the Clues, but Give them Slant”
American Sonnet
“Riddle me a Turn”
“Give the Clues, but Give them Slant”
February 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Your Sunday poetry prompt:
American Sonnet
“Riddle me a Turn”
“Give the Clues, but Give them Slant”
American Sonnet
“Riddle me a Turn”
“Give the Clues, but Give them Slant”
“The board has concluded the call.”
Among the many uncanny things “Severence” gets right is the seeming non-specificity/absence of agency in many workplace decisions.
Like: “who the fuck decided this?” and the answer is just: “The board has concluded the call.”
Among the many uncanny things “Severence” gets right is the seeming non-specificity/absence of agency in many workplace decisions.
Like: “who the fuck decided this?” and the answer is just: “The board has concluded the call.”
January 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“The board has concluded the call.”
Among the many uncanny things “Severence” gets right is the seeming non-specificity/absence of agency in many workplace decisions.
Like: “who the fuck decided this?” and the answer is just: “The board has concluded the call.”
Among the many uncanny things “Severence” gets right is the seeming non-specificity/absence of agency in many workplace decisions.
Like: “who the fuck decided this?” and the answer is just: “The board has concluded the call.”
Your Sunday poetry prompt:
14 lines
Title is an abstraction
Extended metaphor
Volta relies on verb tense
14 lines
Title is an abstraction
Extended metaphor
Volta relies on verb tense
January 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Your Sunday poetry prompt:
14 lines
Title is an abstraction
Extended metaphor
Volta relies on verb tense
14 lines
Title is an abstraction
Extended metaphor
Volta relies on verb tense
Reverend Budde is the most fearless, inspiring person in America at the moment && this brought me to tears.
youtu.be/eXTRASEHXgk?...
youtu.be/eXTRASEHXgk?...
January 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Reverend Budde is the most fearless, inspiring person in America at the moment && this brought me to tears.
youtu.be/eXTRASEHXgk?...
youtu.be/eXTRASEHXgk?...
Spending some time with Padraig O Tuama’s “Kitchen Hymns” today && they are lovely meditations (& sometimes bitterly funny). To love what does not exist, I suppose, does make the unrequited part a bit easier to bear.
January 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Spending some time with Padraig O Tuama’s “Kitchen Hymns” today && they are lovely meditations (& sometimes bitterly funny). To love what does not exist, I suppose, does make the unrequited part a bit easier to bear.
Reposted by Joel Hernandez
Let's see how long Meta's "no fact checking" policy lasts.
January 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Let's see how long Meta's "no fact checking" policy lasts.
“Yeah—you figure out how to make ‘CATastrophe’ and ‘apostrophe’ work in the same lyric, papa. You got plenty of time, ‘cause I’m not going anywhere.”
January 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
“Yeah—you figure out how to make ‘CATastrophe’ and ‘apostrophe’ work in the same lyric, papa. You got plenty of time, ‘cause I’m not going anywhere.”