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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy)

@jmhart.bsky.social

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Songwriter and music enjoyer. New album, "Turned Around" 16 September 2025. Host/Producer of Brokedown Pod (ret.) formerly ATrowj on the tweets https://linktr.ee/jmhart On Mastodon at: https://shakedown.social/@rowjimmy Virginia, USA

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · Jul 1

My next album, “Turned Around”, comes out on 9/16 on digital and CD. I’m thrilled with it and I hope you will be too. You can pre-order it, beginning today, on my Bandcamp page, other streaming sites to follow.
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Turned Around, by J.M. Hart

8 track album

jmhart.bandcamp.com

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1h

I did not need this debate to happen to make my decision in this election but, if you want an easy illustration of why my choice is so clear... see below.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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Theo Priestley @tprstly.bsky.social · 1h

In order for AI to avoid a bubble and collapse the tech companies need people, not enterprises, to use it. To use it daily. To use it for everything. To use it knowing they’re doing harm to themselves and others - job losses, mental health issues, climate impact, data privacy.

For no upside.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2h

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Streetwise, the Cville DEAD Cat (Dead for Halloween) @averysafecat.bsky.social · 3h

Trump will sincerely never understand why he didn't get it, why he will never get it, because the Peace Prize is about a lifetime's work, be it one person's lifetime or an idea's lifetime, and Trump's object permanence only extends as far as things he wants to fuck, kill, or eat.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 11h

Amazing!

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 12h

Hell yes

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Shane Parish @shaneparish.bsky.social · 12h

This is Bob Dylan to me.

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

Letter from antifa General Eisenhower to his antifa troops on the eve of D-Day.

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.
The eyes of the world are upon you, the hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you, In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one, Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944. Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have in-ficted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man.
Our air offensive has seriously reduced
their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory !
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

[signed]
Dwight D Eisenhower

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revoltoftheapes.bsky.social @revoltoftheapes.bsky.social · 1d

“The fact that human beings have the capacity to recognize themselves as a manifestation of the entire cosmos opens up a possibility that, if embraced, may help us through the crises that now confront us.” — David Loy

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a mustache is making a funny face and pointing at the camera .

ALT: a man with a mustache is making a funny face and pointing at the camera .

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

Dwight Eisenhower was a General for antifa

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 1d

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

General Patton was antifa.

He would beat the shit out of Donald Trump.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa goes back almost a hundred years to when our grandfathers fought the fucking Nazis.

And we’ll keep fighting them even as they occupy the US federal government.

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

I do indeed

J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

Joined HFPod > made great friends > started BDPod > made great friends

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

Oh well!

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely made up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

Yer killing me with this

Wish I could make it

J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

lol

Yes 2nd Guyute.

Pretty standard rotation for new material in those days.

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, if bang for the buck is paramount, this wins.
If you want it to sound good… oops

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

Yep

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J.M. Hart (rowjimmy) @jmhart.bsky.social · 1d

Mixing be like

Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 1d

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