Chaplain John
@chaplainjohn.medsky.social
Grateful for community, especially after so much plague! Palliative Care Chaplain focusing on caring and listening. He/him.
Lover of music, movies, MCU, Zelda, and all things silly.
Lover of music, movies, MCU, Zelda, and all things silly.
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Chaplain John
@chaplainjohn.medsky.social
· May 31
Hi, I’m a historian. My greatest hits include “Yes, people lived to 70+ in pre-modern ages; ‘average’ life span of 40 just accounts for all the kids dead before 5 with no #vaccines,” “Yes, birth control was around before Ancient Egyptians,” and “Yes, ffs, #transgender /LGBTQIA have ALWAYS been” 🗃️🧪🩺🏳️⚧️
Hi, I'm a social media Trust & Safety and policy expert. My greatest hits include "No, anonymity is not the problem", "that law is also unconstitutional", "that's not what that clause in that ToS means", "multiply your estimate of spam volume by, like, 10000x", and "people in groups are depressing".
Hi, I'm a chaplain. My greatest hits include: "That sucks," "Fuck cancer AND covid," "Actually, a lot of people in the Bible were angry at God," and "no one knows what they're doing, everybody needs to be weak sometimes."
Plus, don't miss my classic: "What if you still have a future?" ⚓️🛟🩺🧪
Plus, don't miss my classic: "What if you still have a future?" ⚓️🛟🩺🧪
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
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The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
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“Liberty and Justice for *all*” is right there you dinguses.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“Liberty and Justice for *all*” is right there you dinguses.
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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not to belabor the point but any idea that the DHS goons make up a force as casually violent and numerous as the SA/Brownshirts really does have to contend with the fact that they are routinely stymied by a bunch of unarmed community members, even operating in force
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
not to belabor the point but any idea that the DHS goons make up a force as casually violent and numerous as the SA/Brownshirts really does have to contend with the fact that they are routinely stymied by a bunch of unarmed community members, even operating in force
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I like how they didn’t fall into “Department of War” cargo cultism on Capitol Hill.
It’s going to look absolutely ridiculous in hindsight and better haters than me should be screencapping people’s LinkedIn posts celebrating the absurdity.
It’s going to look absolutely ridiculous in hindsight and better haters than me should be screencapping people’s LinkedIn posts celebrating the absurdity.
Now Senate Armed Services Committee and House Armed Services Committee - vow "vigorous oversight" and "full accounting" of Secretary Hegseth's alleged "kill them all" order and double-strike operation.
Rare joint statements by GOP Chairman and Ranking Member on both committees
Rare joint statements by GOP Chairman and Ranking Member on both committees
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I like how they didn’t fall into “Department of War” cargo cultism on Capitol Hill.
It’s going to look absolutely ridiculous in hindsight and better haters than me should be screencapping people’s LinkedIn posts celebrating the absurdity.
It’s going to look absolutely ridiculous in hindsight and better haters than me should be screencapping people’s LinkedIn posts celebrating the absurdity.
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Bluesky flagged this person’s entire account, so that every post they make is behind a veil of “rude” which, ironically, seems like a pretty rude way to moderate, especially when I already FOLLOW this person.
I ordered a fried green tomato BLT with loaded mashed potatoes and I’m so fucking excited
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Bluesky flagged this person’s entire account, so that every post they make is behind a veil of “rude” which, ironically, seems like a pretty rude way to moderate, especially when I already FOLLOW this person.
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Murder is an offense under Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. With respect to civilians, they have to contend with the federal criminal laws punishing murder on the high seas (18 U.S.C. § 1111) and conspiracy to commit murder outside the United States (18 U.S.C. § 956).
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Murder is an offense under Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. With respect to civilians, they have to contend with the federal criminal laws punishing murder on the high seas (18 U.S.C. § 1111) and conspiracy to commit murder outside the United States (18 U.S.C. § 956).
Northwestern University now discriminates against Trans people, in academic life, sports, and in healthcare.
They gave in to the fascists and are denying Trans people existence in their school.
They might as well shut down, why remain when you abandon your values?
They gave in to the fascists and are denying Trans people existence in their school.
They might as well shut down, why remain when you abandon your values?
And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
November 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Northwestern University now discriminates against Trans people, in academic life, sports, and in healthcare.
They gave in to the fascists and are denying Trans people existence in their school.
They might as well shut down, why remain when you abandon your values?
They gave in to the fascists and are denying Trans people existence in their school.
They might as well shut down, why remain when you abandon your values?
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A reminder that many of grandma's famous recipes are just depression-era recipes with cheap ingredients.
When my husband's grandma died, his family searched high and low for her famous chocolate cake recipe. Everyone tried for years to recreate it. Nobody could. Finally, someone figured out that it was a recipe on the back of a pre-mixed cake mix. All super cheap and non-fancy ingredients.
No the once a year casserole has to be made perfectly
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A reminder that many of grandma's famous recipes are just depression-era recipes with cheap ingredients.
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Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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To sum it up.
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
To sum it up.
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I want to make an important point here: assessing strategic, operational, and tactical success in a campaign is both easy and exceedingly hard at the same time. It's easy because one is basically counting things. 1/
Putin told reporters that the fighting will end when Ukrainian forces withdraw from the territories they currently hold.
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I want to make an important point here: assessing strategic, operational, and tactical success in a campaign is both easy and exceedingly hard at the same time. It's easy because one is basically counting things. 1/
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Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy related issues because of blatant and systemic racism and this is an example of how and why hospitals need to do better
Mercedes Wells, the mother who gave birth on the side of the road minutes after she was discharged from a hospital, has been hospitalized with post-birth health issues
Mom Who Was Turned Away While in Active Labor Back in Hospital with Post-Birth Health Issues, Family Says
The mom who gave birth on the side of the road minutes after she was discharged from an Indiana hospital has been hospitalized with post-birth health issues.
people.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy related issues because of blatant and systemic racism and this is an example of how and why hospitals need to do better
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This is unbecoming of a mayor to be honest. He should not be doing photo ops with “Catholic” Charities he should be doing actual New York mayor elect work like further militarizing the police in Queen or getting blackmailed by Tom Homan on live tv
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is unbecoming of a mayor to be honest. He should not be doing photo ops with “Catholic” Charities he should be doing actual New York mayor elect work like further militarizing the police in Queen or getting blackmailed by Tom Homan on live tv
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This is quite literally HER land. 🤬
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This is quite literally HER land. 🤬
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The classic from John Rogers
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The classic from John Rogers
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Trump & Vance's blocking of food stamps for immigrants is directly antithetical to well-known Catholic social justice teaching, by the way. Yet another way in which Trump & Vance have the most anti-Catholic administration in modern times.
New York Sues Over Rule Barring Thousands of Immigrants From SNAP
The Trump administration says refugees and asylum seekers can never get food stamps, but attorneys general from New York and nearly two dozen other states say that is unlawful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/n...
The Trump administration says refugees and asylum seekers can never get food stamps, but attorneys general from New York and nearly two dozen other states say that is unlawful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/n...
New York Sues Over Rule Barring Thousands of Immigrants From SNAP
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Trump & Vance's blocking of food stamps for immigrants is directly antithetical to well-known Catholic social justice teaching, by the way. Yet another way in which Trump & Vance have the most anti-Catholic administration in modern times.
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the New York Times being pro-pedophile and pro-eugenics is the kind of stuff people would shit all over me for saying as recently as last year
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
the New York Times being pro-pedophile and pro-eugenics is the kind of stuff people would shit all over me for saying as recently as last year
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I wrote about "Quiet, Piggy," natalist movements, the denigration of women in authoritarian societies, the ways that women were treated not so long ago in the workplace (including me), and how you can push back against all that.
Quiet, Piggy
Trump's relentless campaign against women has shifted U.S. culture.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I wrote about "Quiet, Piggy," natalist movements, the denigration of women in authoritarian societies, the ways that women were treated not so long ago in the workplace (including me), and how you can push back against all that.
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Have any news outlets that ran scathing front page headlines, op-eds and editorials about Biden pardoning Hunter admitted that they were wrong after we've seen Trump maliciously prosecute Comey, James, McIver etc?
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Have any news outlets that ran scathing front page headlines, op-eds and editorials about Biden pardoning Hunter admitted that they were wrong after we've seen Trump maliciously prosecute Comey, James, McIver etc?
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Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
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They came after DEI for a REASON. They had random tweets from em in presentations for a reason
Folks can pretend it started with theory but it started with worker and online and we have examples from the civil war
Folks can pretend it started with theory but it started with worker and online and we have examples from the civil war
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
They came after DEI for a REASON. They had random tweets from em in presentations for a reason
Folks can pretend it started with theory but it started with worker and online and we have examples from the civil war
Folks can pretend it started with theory but it started with worker and online and we have examples from the civil war
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.