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Jonathan Hansen

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Last of the V-8 Interceptors. He/Him. Pop Culture, Politics, and an undying hatred of Trumpers and their white enablers. No friend of fandom. 280,132nd person on Bluesky. Occasionally surly. “Che la mia ferita sia mortale.” https://jonathanhansen.ghost.io

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Jonathan Hansen @jonathanhansen.bsky.social · Apr 29

I have a #blog on Ghost. This is where I talk about #comics and #movies and #tv shows. It's also where I post my genre #fiction #writing, both short stories and my #WIP #novel. And you can even subscribe for updates for free! Or pay me, if you want... 📽️ 📺
#Filmsky
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At the End of Everything (A Work in Progress)

Pop Culture Commentary and Fiction

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2h

Damn yo what if the United States empire was collapsing. Just imploding & losing all its function because its white supremacist history culminated in a dictator. That would be crazy, yo. Nah that would never happen.

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 27m

There has to be a reckoning for this, for all of it. No more “look forward, not back” nonsense. Not this time. Those who ordered this evil shit, and those who carried those orders out *must* be held to account.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

This is why they feel it’s necessary to establish conservative centers on campus and constantly elevate voices arguing Black people need to hear “painful” opinions.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

It always looks silly from these guys but this basic logic where the most marginalized people are actually elites representing “the machine” is also the shared understanding people running newsrooms and universities believe as well.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Vyria Durav, Dragon Princess of the Night @vyriadurav.bsky.social · 2h

People will try to excuse/defend the chuds by saying they've just watched too much porn but I'm a dyke who watches porn all the time and don't have this problem. Chuds do this because forcing every woman into their ideal sex doll aesthetic is the power fantasy.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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Jonathan Hansen @jonathanhansen.bsky.social · 2d

I watched The Phoenician Scheme. 📽️
#FilmSky

The Phoenician Scheme

“Please help yourself to a hand grenade”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h

Actually circulating videos of Candace Owens that make her seem reasonable because she’s correct on *one* issue is not good work

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 9h

Oh what’s that? They will depreciate at roughly 3 times the rate previously touted and require constant replacement and 2-3x the revenue to match initial expenditure?

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6h

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Jonathan Hansen @jonathanhansen.bsky.social · 5h

Pure fucking evil. This is the world that the overwhelming majority of white America eagerly voted for. It’s never anything but cruelty and entitlement. They love it. It makes them happy.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 8h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 6h

If you won’t stand for trans people that way then why the hell should anyone else expect you to stand for them the moment it seems politically inconvenient

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 7h

It’s simple and it’s morally clear and it’s very hard to argue with directly without sounding like a monster

Don’t get bogged down in bad faith “concerns” about sports or kids. Just “trans people are people and deserve lives of freedom and dignity, and this is not something we’re going to debate”

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 7h

Okay so I’m not a strategist and I’m trying to not PLAY strategist very much but if I can just say: I think this should be a model for Dems all over the country, even in conservative areas

Not in literal content but in sentiment. “Trans people are vulnerable and targeted and that’s wrong”

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 10h

If you don't follow the courts, you may not realize how absolutely unheard of it is for sitting federal judges to say ANYTHING on the record about other federal judges — let alone this:

“a war zone”
“judicial crisis”
“incredibly demoralizing and troubling”
“have not been models of clarity”

John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 10h

One judge compared their district’s current relationship with the Supreme Court to “a war zone.” Another said the courts were in the midst of a “judicial crisis.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Jonathan Hansen @jonathanhansen.bsky.social · 6h

This is because the majority of centrist-left establishment Dems are from white privileged backgrounds, and heavily white social circles, and therefore are far more concerned with the thoughts and feelings of their MAGA Nazi relatives and friends, who they spend all their weekends and holidays with.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Why would they? Punch a Dem in the nose and they'll immediately launch an investigation into what they may have done to upset you and how to avoid it in the future.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 23h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 7h

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 9h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Jonathan Hansen @jonathanhansen.bsky.social · 23h

Yep. I mean, if I had to sum up the last one, it would be “boring as fuck”

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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 1d

oh wow, the early reports are that the new Tron movie isn’t doing very well at the box office. this is wild, because the last Tron movie didn’t do very well at the box office, and also the very first Tron movie didn’t do very well at the box office and also neither of those first two were very good.

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Jonathan Hansen @jonathanhansen.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if the “guys who liked TRON as a kid” demographic are also way too heavily represented amongst studio executives too. It’s the only thing that makes sense that they made two more TRON films.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 1d

This is the tell that they don't want people with creative capacity. They want menials and drones that they can use extract wealth from their lives and labors, then discard before the next quarterly report.

The actual cruel burden is the point.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Jonathan Hansen @jonathanhansen.bsky.social · 1d

There’s like 3 bud lights in the fridge and a bottle Captain Morgan’s. There’s no clean cups.

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