Chris Johnson
@ectowombat.bsky.social
Unitarian Universalist, humanist, lefty. Interests include linguistics and other cognitive sciences. Probably mostly reskeets. he/him/his
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Chris Johnson
@ectowombat.bsky.social
· Apr 17
Last year, inspired by perennial home decor discourse, I came up with perhaps the one good idea I’ve ever had. (Very much not a graphic designer)
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still not convinced this guy isn't doing a bit, even if he's the ambassador to malaysia or whatever
December 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
still not convinced this guy isn't doing a bit, even if he's the ambassador to malaysia or whatever
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INCREDIBLE STORY: Rural Ohio trans candidate nearly drops out of race after being targeted online, wins seat in Republican stronghold.
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Rural Ohio trans candidate nearly drops out of race after being targeted online, wins seat in Republican stronghold
Amy Heutmaker pledges to heal political divide in her rural Ohio township
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December 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
INCREDIBLE STORY: Rural Ohio trans candidate nearly drops out of race after being targeted online, wins seat in Republican stronghold.
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/15/a...
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/15/a...
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Incredible. How perfectly Trumpian.
As inhumanly, psychopathically low as he had to go to make the boast the he owned the tallest building in downtown Manhattan on the day of 9/11, he STILL had to go even lower and LIE in order to do it.
As inhumanly, psychopathically low as he had to go to make the boast the he owned the tallest building in downtown Manhattan on the day of 9/11, he STILL had to go even lower and LIE in order to do it.
Which was also--of course--a lie. After the Twin Towers & 4 World Trade Center were destroyed, Trump's 40 Wall Street building was still just the THIRD tallest building in lower Manhattan.
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Incredible. How perfectly Trumpian.
As inhumanly, psychopathically low as he had to go to make the boast the he owned the tallest building in downtown Manhattan on the day of 9/11, he STILL had to go even lower and LIE in order to do it.
As inhumanly, psychopathically low as he had to go to make the boast the he owned the tallest building in downtown Manhattan on the day of 9/11, he STILL had to go even lower and LIE in order to do it.
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I love the sheer unapologetic awfulness of this. Pudding for a head. Headless goose corpse for a body. Then bottles for peg-legs along with the implements to eat him for crutches. THIS, friends, is Dr. Frankenstein's Christmas miracle.
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I love the sheer unapologetic awfulness of this. Pudding for a head. Headless goose corpse for a body. Then bottles for peg-legs along with the implements to eat him for crutches. THIS, friends, is Dr. Frankenstein's Christmas miracle.
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a lot of MAGA people have basically an imagined vision of Trump and i think the Reiner post is a good example of them encountering reality for the first time
"it's beneath you" lol
Scrolling through the comments on that truth social post
December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
a lot of MAGA people have basically an imagined vision of Trump and i think the Reiner post is a good example of them encountering reality for the first time
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Scrolling through the comments on that truth social post
December 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Scrolling through the comments on that truth social post
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a little perspective | patreon.com/lubchansky
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
a little perspective | patreon.com/lubchansky
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Sedevaccinationtist?
Rival CDC in Avignon
Breaking: Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to announce on Monday that California has hired two former CDC leaders who accused the Trump administration of abandoning scientific standards.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
December 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Sedevaccinationtist?
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as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons
December 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons
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We can will and should restart the straw hat riots
CBS should make me editor-in-chief and it will be 24 hours nonstop coverage about arcane menswear rules no one knows or cares about
December 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
We can will and should restart the straw hat riots
This is usually the day of the week when I see other human beings in person. But, alas, the extreme cold.
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is usually the day of the week when I see other human beings in person. But, alas, the extreme cold.
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yeah I'm involved in unethical non monogamy. no no, nobody's cheating on anyone else; me and my polycucle just operate a whaling ship.
December 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
yeah I'm involved in unethical non monogamy. no no, nobody's cheating on anyone else; me and my polycucle just operate a whaling ship.
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what, you want to get your hands dirty like some fucking shipcel?
December 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
what, you want to get your hands dirty like some fucking shipcel?
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“be a scribe” was the first “learn to code”
December 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“be a scribe” was the first “learn to code”
This account for Gibsonian weather reports is delightful.
The color of the sky in Seattle is dim gray #696867
![2025-12-13 23:55:01 #696867 dim gray | [#696867 - 84%] [#666465 - 12%] [#626467 - 2%] [#626463 - 1%] [#998d7b - 1%]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ohjjzadgzeub2ffc5agg7k4z/bafkreignsfzckistq45hosrid62c4bflgnzhy3jj7d67rvjhfwa2fbv5ne@jpeg)
December 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This account for Gibsonian weather reports is delightful.
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Seeing Like a Nate.
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Seeing Like a Nate.
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This guy on Wikipedia made a list of real, extant things that have never been photographed before as a sort of challenge, and I've been rabbit-holing myself through each article all morning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ge...
User:Geni/The unreasonably difficult photo contest - Wikipedia
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December 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This guy on Wikipedia made a list of real, extant things that have never been photographed before as a sort of challenge, and I've been rabbit-holing myself through each article all morning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ge...
I suppose I should take out the trash before the snow gets too bad.
December 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I suppose I should take out the trash before the snow gets too bad.
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This video is trending in France and i share it bc it's so funny
She says that she'll leave Morocco for some time to go back to France and she founds no one to take care of her dog, the people who had him before said no, it's unclear why
She says that she'll leave Morocco for some time to go back to France and she founds no one to take care of her dog, the people who had him before said no, it's unclear why
December 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This video is trending in France and i share it bc it's so funny
She says that she'll leave Morocco for some time to go back to France and she founds no one to take care of her dog, the people who had him before said no, it's unclear why
She says that she'll leave Morocco for some time to go back to France and she founds no one to take care of her dog, the people who had him before said no, it's unclear why
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An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
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Long shot, but does anyone in Switzerland have an emergency Theremin to loan tomorrow night ( Friday 12 December )?
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
December 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Long shot, but does anyone in Switzerland have an emergency Theremin to loan tomorrow night ( Friday 12 December )?
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
#ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!!
We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!!
#theremin #switzerland
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Every repost is another glass of water they let me have. Every like is another handful of rice. Sometimes when I don’t post for a while it’s because I’m going on a strike. But I always break in the end.
when i'm not posting on bluesky i'm actually just sitting alone in a completely white windowless room until it is time to post on bluesky again. i do not have any thoughts other than the ones expressed here
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Every repost is another glass of water they let me have. Every like is another handful of rice. Sometimes when I don’t post for a while it’s because I’m going on a strike. But I always break in the end.
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The weird thing is that I can't find evidence that Trump has made a threat like this publicly.
It seems like Heritage is either freelancing or else laundering an administration threat in a way that gives Trump plausible deniability.
It seems like Heritage is either freelancing or else laundering an administration threat in a way that gives Trump plausible deniability.
December 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The weird thing is that I can't find evidence that Trump has made a threat like this publicly.
It seems like Heritage is either freelancing or else laundering an administration threat in a way that gives Trump plausible deniability.
It seems like Heritage is either freelancing or else laundering an administration threat in a way that gives Trump plausible deniability.
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One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them