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The Jester Crow

@thejestercrow.bsky.social

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He/Him, Digital Exodist & Blundering Fool who Wandered from Over Yonder; Here for the Art, a Few Laughs and some Genuine Enlightenment from a few Good Souls; Socially-Rabid Greymouzzle & - *Professional* Idiot

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The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · Nov 24

LIKES –
Original content! ART! YOUR Art! people droppin thoughts & sharing their passions! Folks who add their own input on reposts.

NOT-SO-MUCH –
Repost mills, folks thinkin this is the new LinkedIn v2, Crypto-bruh Evangelistos working their next rug-pull. Hate Feeds earn a block.

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The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 5m

You know, i think of Power Washer Simulator and how people like Markiplier just totally groove to that kind of catharsis & i gotta wonder-

Whatabout a game where players just trim sheep, woolly dogs, yaks or etc. strip-by-buzzy-strip? Not click-n-done. Might be a hot idea waiting to happen.
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The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1h

Settlers have a habit of treating treaties as a tool for binding others, not themselves.

The goal isn’t Peace, it’s Conquest, be it in the Levant, along the Amazon, or on a certain Turtle Island.

If you really care you honor your commitments by line and by heart.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1h

Well, there are people who pay hundreds for this kind of treatment. Usually there's more leather involved but your money, your call. Just don't forget the safe word and remember they hard-close at 1am....

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 5h

"Your position has been ..."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 5h

Yet she was happy to cut their health care and throw them to the wolves whenever Trump barked "Jump!"

But why does she bother? She already read the tea leaves and decided it was time to cut and bail.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 5h

It could mean you've been snacking off the wrong bag of treats -

A box of beef-flavored Sentinel medicated tablets for dogs, used to poison-off fleas, ticks, heartworms, and the occasional skeeter. A young girl hugs her happy puppy.

Dog don't care; dog got nummins.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 6h

Oooo - Goddamn

This Talarico guy is GOOD

So of course the scuttlebutt is that the DNC/Texas Dems want to back Collin Allred or such again. Anyone but Talarico. Because obviously.

You know, most people see "Groundhog Day" as a nightmare, not an aspiration.

A black-and-white image of a snake swallowing its own tail, the classic "ouroboros", here symbolizing the Democratic Party's obsession with endless unchange in the face of *everything*

A still-shot from the movie "Groundhog Day". Phil, the Groundhog, takes the wheel as Bill Murray drives them headlong into fiery catastrophe for the umpteenth time in a row, here again symbolizing the Democratic Party's obsession with self-destructive "centrism", over-and-over-and-over again. Voters who? F-you, send moar munni, compromising with the fash is the only way to maintain comity in Congress or etc.! Yeah, go ahead and hit the gas again, Bill....

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 7h

Truth.

People also overlook the fact that the balance of power is an essential part of any story, any media, any exploration. Every story concerns power by default, and "politics" is just power by a different name.

CalebDMTG @calebdmtg.bsky.social · 9h

People who say "I don't want politics in my media" actually mean "I don't want *those* politics." We want to be affirmed, not challenged.

And tbh, I get it. Life is hard, and not everything has to be a point of contention. But life could be less hard, and we don't get there with apathy.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone wants to believe they can control their golem, but the creature has a will of its own.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 8h

Could be someone who's computer or small business got hit with ransomware. They have to pay with bitcoin but bitcoin is still a user-service nightmare. Prolly desperate to close the transaction before the hacker's deadline hits

All these years & bitcoin's still effectively non-functional "currency"

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 8h

"The Atlantic" makes sport of getting ratio'd.

Dunno what it'll be when you see this, but it was running about 1,000+ hot takes and 323 quote-posts against to just, eh, "12" likes.

And it's only been 4 hours.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 8h

It's rare to find something truly different in the wild 👇

Simple, yet spectacular.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 9h

Remember This 👇

The Democratic Establishment/DINO "centrists" are not our friends NOR representatives. They pitch for corporations & the status quo.

Just because it's "blue" doesn't mean it's backing YOU 🫵

The Old Party has got to go.

See them for what they are- the Handmaidens of Autocracy.

pediophobicchick.bsky.social @pediophobicchick.bsky.social · 12h

Establishment Democrats are trying to shove Janet Mills down our throats in Maine instead of backing this candidate who is pulling in huge crowds and resonating with voters in this non-election year. Maine is not biting. Graham Plattner for senate.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 22h

There's a strong parallel - hell, a direct line - between the weak knees of Nuremberg and the failure of Congress on J6 to prosecute *any* of the elected officials who helped encourage & engineer that insurrection.

and the fruit of that labor to avoid all responsibility paid off in November 2024.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 22h

Just a QUICK reminder that Nuremberg was not at all the "raging success" we've mythologized it to be. Some very bad, absolutely evil assholes were let go & for the worst of reasons.

Joachim Peiper of Malmedy Massacre fame was backed by Sen. Joe McCarthy bcuz he looked good in uniform & hated Reds.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

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

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

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1d

Well, once you've banned your own Constitution what's another 1600 books, historical works, art, treaties, etc. on the ol' banfire pile?

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The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1d

I can visualize a bureaucrat nervously pouring over it, cigarette burning to ash in his hand, as he tries to decide: do i censor it as subversive material & thus call attention to it? or should i ignore it & hope no one notices? Do i call my own death or do i hope it all slides into obscurity?
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The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1d

It has a very transgressive feel.

The yellow is bright and outshines the red, invading & dominating the space. The crispness of the edge is assertive; no attempt to ‘blend’ or mingle to compromise. And the way it deliberately angles *against* the red’s direction just screams “rebellion”.

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The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1d

We're all different in our own way.

We don't each of us precisely fit the mold.

We only ask that you give those who are different the space they need to grow; you never know what might bloom -

even for a dolphin missing a fin.

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The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously?! no no no- the car FITS, don’t you see? The boxy shape, the misaligned panels, the old styling; it feels like a Lada, an Eastern Block-built car, which is perfect for a Russian legend.

& the idea the janky thing might break down at any moment, leaving you stranded? HERE? Very Halloween.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1d

"Wokespotting: How to Maximize Your Ticket to Fame & Monetization!"

I think the term was coined by "Pillage of Garbage" on YT a couple years back.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, well, it's all fun & games until someone rats them out ...

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1d

Cynical re the Establishment Democrats

Optimistic re the activists who'll hopefully replace them and give the public at least *one* political party representative of their desires & interests.

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1d

Ellison, right?

The Jester Crow @thejestercrow.bsky.social · 1d

The so-called "Fourth Estate", the self-annointed "Guardians of Democracy" all immediately tripped over themselves in a rush to cave at the feet of the first tin-pot to sneeze "obey!" in their direction.

Rot upon rot;
our 'heroes' were Quislings to the core

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