Elijah Lovejoy
@elijahlovejoy.bsky.social
Lover of words and worlds
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One of my more unpopular beliefs is that I don’t believe in explaining jokes.
Jokes are, by definition, boundary work. They include by exclusion. If you explain it, you cheat the ingroup and the joke.
I know this leads to some unsavory places but it also gives me a lot of pleasure.
Jokes are, by definition, boundary work. They include by exclusion. If you explain it, you cheat the ingroup and the joke.
I know this leads to some unsavory places but it also gives me a lot of pleasure.
November 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
One of my more unpopular beliefs is that I don’t believe in explaining jokes.
Jokes are, by definition, boundary work. They include by exclusion. If you explain it, you cheat the ingroup and the joke.
I know this leads to some unsavory places but it also gives me a lot of pleasure.
Jokes are, by definition, boundary work. They include by exclusion. If you explain it, you cheat the ingroup and the joke.
I know this leads to some unsavory places but it also gives me a lot of pleasure.
Who did nazi that only part of the GOP would be in the 'Hitler Sucks' wing?
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Who did nazi that only part of the GOP would be in the 'Hitler Sucks' wing?
après nous, le déluge
Six months ago I wrote this post about “the next terrorist attack.” I republish it now (lightly updated) because my fear of this scenario has recently grown much greater.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After (Updated)
snyder.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
après nous, le déluge
This is so wonderfully 2025-ish!
October 31, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is so wonderfully 2025-ish!
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When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
Exclusive: The U.S. government asked a judge to deport a man to Afghanistan, where he expects the Taliban to kill him. Legal experts say the case could have consequences for Afghans the U.S. rescued and promised to support.
Trump administration makes misleading case in high-stakes asylum hearing
Homeland Security asked a judge to deport a man to Afghanistan, where he expects the Taliban to kill him. The case could affect thousands of asylum seekers.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
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Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?
Now you know.
Now you know.
October 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?
Now you know.
Now you know.
Let them eat cake
WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
October 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Let them eat cake
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Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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"When we hear and accept what we hear without meeting others, without asking how can it be, without looking for friends outside our circles, when we accept hatred for a group as a legitimate discourse – Pharaoh is alive and well, inside ourselves."
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
October 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"When we hear and accept what we hear without meeting others, without asking how can it be, without looking for friends outside our circles, when we accept hatred for a group as a legitimate discourse – Pharaoh is alive and well, inside ourselves."
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Robert Badinter, the lawyer and former Socialist Justice Minister who pulled off the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981, died last year. Today, his body is being moved to the Pantheon — one of the highest honors France can bestow.
www.reuters.com/world/who-is...
www.reuters.com/world/who-is...
October 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Robert Badinter, the lawyer and former Socialist Justice Minister who pulled off the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981, died last year. Today, his body is being moved to the Pantheon — one of the highest honors France can bestow.
www.reuters.com/world/who-is...
www.reuters.com/world/who-is...
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Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Dolphins at sunrise this morning
October 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Dolphins at sunrise this morning
Rebecca Solnit and Robert Reich are calling it. Did orange potus jump the shark this week?
I'll take that golden escalator that wouldn't take him up as a symbol of his own personal endtimes (no rapture included). For what began with going down a golden escalator 10 years before.
"A broken escalator and a malfunctioning teleprompter — that's what I got from the UN." - Trump.
Before the UN speech, the escalator "refused" to carry the U.S. President and First Lady.
Before the UN speech, the escalator "refused" to carry the U.S. President and First Lady.
September 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Rebecca Solnit and Robert Reich are calling it. Did orange potus jump the shark this week?
I love a good environmental succes story!
The U.S.’s largest estuary is showing signs of revival. Once written off as a dead zone, water clarity in Chesapeake Bay has improved, underwater grasses are expanding, and crab populations are steadier thanks to decades of pollution controls. Nature buff.ly/morNFth
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Reviving the Old Bay
To undo centuries of damage in the Chesapeake Bay, six states are fixing forests, farms, city runoff, wetlands, rivers and oyster reefs across this massive watershed.
buff.ly
September 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I love a good environmental succes story!
Happy 105th birthday to the 19th ammendment!
August 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Happy 105th birthday to the 19th ammendment!
Sometimes the beaches are full of birds watching the sunset. I don't have a picture of the dolphins swimming by, but they were there too.
August 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Sometimes the beaches are full of birds watching the sunset. I don't have a picture of the dolphins swimming by, but they were there too.
Batteries are becoming affordable and transforming how we think about grids and solar. Such good news!
www.volts.wtf/p/solarstora...
www.volts.wtf/p/solarstora...
Solar+storage is so much farther along than you think
On how plummeting battery prices make 24/7 solar power a reality today.
www.volts.wtf
August 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Batteries are becoming affordable and transforming how we think about grids and solar. Such good news!
www.volts.wtf/p/solarstora...
www.volts.wtf/p/solarstora...
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How climate messaging should be done
August 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
How climate messaging should be done
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I just sent this out.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
to Jews, on the Gaza famine
an open letter: we have been commanded
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I just sent this out.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
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Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago.
I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.
Give it a watch and share it.
I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.
Give it a watch and share it.
Trump VS MAGA? The Epstein Crashout Explained
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
www.youtube.com
July 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago.
I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.
Give it a watch and share it.
I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.
Give it a watch and share it.
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I … worked on this story for a year and she just … said it from the bench
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Xinis comes in hot this morning after DOJ fails to produce the ICE detainer to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia locked up.
She won't take DOJ's word for it that it exists.
"You have taken the presumption of regularity and you’ve destroyed it in my view," she says.
She won't take DOJ's word for it that it exists.
"You have taken the presumption of regularity and you’ve destroyed it in my view," she says.
July 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I … worked on this story for a year and she just … said it from the bench
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If I told you that President Trump just announced a 40% tariff on South Korea because he thinks BTS has too many members you wouldn’t know if I were joking, would you
July 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If I told you that President Trump just announced a 40% tariff on South Korea because he thinks BTS has too many members you wouldn’t know if I were joking, would you
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She’s right.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
She’s right.