Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)
@shengokai.blacksky.app
Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Professor @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: [email protected]
Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Assistant Professor @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: [email protected]
Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Pinned
Fuck tenure, I want revenge.
Oh, so NOW the Hatch act fucking matters? Come the fuck on.
January 21, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Oh, so NOW the Hatch act fucking matters? Come the fuck on.
Not for nothing, they said the same thing about snowboarding and most contemporary sports.
The problem with elevating this class of wresting to Olympic level competition is that it cheapens the meaning of fair and honest Olympic games. Not that it can't be judged.
January 21, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Not for nothing, they said the same thing about snowboarding and most contemporary sports.
*sigh* Y'all do know that ICE agents, like other LEOs receive training on how to operate their weapon systems, right? If they can't follow that training (don't point less lethal weapons at faces) what makes y'all think that "de-escalation training" will do fuck all.
Other aspects:
-de-escalation training for ICE and CBP officers
-training all law officers and agents, on Americans’ right to record any interactions.
-Provides line-item funding ($20 million) for mandated, independent oversight of detention facilities
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
-de-escalation training for ICE and CBP officers
-training all law officers and agents, on Americans’ right to record any interactions.
-Provides line-item funding ($20 million) for mandated, independent oversight of detention facilities
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
January 21, 2026 at 7:27 AM
*sigh* Y'all do know that ICE agents, like other LEOs receive training on how to operate their weapon systems, right? If they can't follow that training (don't point less lethal weapons at faces) what makes y'all think that "de-escalation training" will do fuck all.
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This is why you don't make training the moderate position. Democrats who are scars of their shadows think this nonsense is wining. Meanwhile in the real world armed avoid Nazis and former J6ers now have more money and bipartisan support. Easily avoidable stupidity.
Other aspects:
-de-escalation training for ICE and CBP officers
-training all law officers and agents, on Americans’ right to record any interactions.
-Provides line-item funding ($20 million) for mandated, independent oversight of detention facilities
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
-de-escalation training for ICE and CBP officers
-training all law officers and agents, on Americans’ right to record any interactions.
-Provides line-item funding ($20 million) for mandated, independent oversight of detention facilities
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
January 21, 2026 at 7:20 AM
This is why you don't make training the moderate position. Democrats who are scars of their shadows think this nonsense is wining. Meanwhile in the real world armed avoid Nazis and former J6ers now have more money and bipartisan support. Easily avoidable stupidity.
These are questions that have come up with the introduction of almost every new sport into the Olympics, especially new or non-western ones. Judo, for example, ran into the "how to judge" issue.
The question of safe competition has been a question since combat sports became a thing.
The question of safe competition has been a question since combat sports became a thing.
How to judge chain wrestling vs lucha spots?
Will they detract points from someone for having the wrong body type like they've done in skating?
How does storytelling get judged?
How do you have a competition be safe when there's an incentive to injure the person you're against in this format?
Will they detract points from someone for having the wrong body type like they've done in skating?
How does storytelling get judged?
How do you have a competition be safe when there's an incentive to injure the person you're against in this format?
Olympic Pro Wrestling would be especially interesting if it was modeled like Olympic Judo or other combat sports, but judged like Gymnastics or Figure Skating. Competitors would not only have to demonstrate technique but maintain kayfabe and character as they competed and adapted to other wrestlers.
January 21, 2026 at 7:19 AM
These are questions that have come up with the introduction of almost every new sport into the Olympics, especially new or non-western ones. Judo, for example, ran into the "how to judge" issue.
The question of safe competition has been a question since combat sports became a thing.
The question of safe competition has been a question since combat sports became a thing.
I mean, if you want to get into this, we can.
The Olympics have long since been a fora for the kinds of long form storytelling that you're referring to, we simply don't think of it as "a narrative" in that way.
Consider the ways that national or cultural rivalries play out on the Olympic stage.
The Olympics have long since been a fora for the kinds of long form storytelling that you're referring to, we simply don't think of it as "a narrative" in that way.
Consider the ways that national or cultural rivalries play out on the Olympic stage.
Additional retort: the ability to do in ring work is just one small aspect of pro wrestling as a medium, which also includes things like promo work, crowd work, & the ability to flexibly engage in LONG FORM STORYTELLING, which means you'd only be able to judge a small sliver of what pro wrestling is
January 21, 2026 at 7:15 AM
I mean, if you want to get into this, we can.
The Olympics have long since been a fora for the kinds of long form storytelling that you're referring to, we simply don't think of it as "a narrative" in that way.
Consider the ways that national or cultural rivalries play out on the Olympic stage.
The Olympics have long since been a fora for the kinds of long form storytelling that you're referring to, we simply don't think of it as "a narrative" in that way.
Consider the ways that national or cultural rivalries play out on the Olympic stage.
I mean, this is kinda what happens if you found a democracy on stolen land acquired through genocide and attempt to build said democracy using slave labor.
How's that analysis of how a once mighty democracy founded on justice & righteousness crumbled at the hand of a cruel & foolish tyrant going. It amuses me they're still looking everywhere for answers but at the root, that it's all founded on native genocide & chattel slavery. Still waiting.
January 20, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I mean, this is kinda what happens if you found a democracy on stolen land acquired through genocide and attempt to build said democracy using slave labor.
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People who were right about the need to divest from policing and criminalization are not platformed in the MSM. The ones platformed are former prosecutors, cops, and pundits who know nothing. Those people keep telling you about "training" and "new tech" "solutions." It's pathetic.
January 20, 2026 at 7:22 PM
People who were right about the need to divest from policing and criminalization are not platformed in the MSM. The ones platformed are former prosecutors, cops, and pundits who know nothing. Those people keep telling you about "training" and "new tech" "solutions." It's pathetic.
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No one hates your boundaries more than someone who chose not to defend their own.
January 20, 2026 at 7:40 PM
No one hates your boundaries more than someone who chose not to defend their own.
I would like to see this.
I made a half joke back during the summer games during Breaking that Flat Track Roller Derby would be a great Olympic sport, but the IOC would have to get cool with a lot of things real quick. Many of which is what you’ve described here.
January 20, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I would like to see this.
Okay, hang on. This actually isn't true.
You could evaluate the aestheticism and athleticism of Pro Wrestling similarly to how you evaluate the aestheticism and athleticism of Figure Skating or Gymnastics in terms of difficulty of the techniques and so on.
You could evaluate the aestheticism and athleticism of Pro Wrestling similarly to how you evaluate the aestheticism and athleticism of Figure Skating or Gymnastics in terms of difficulty of the techniques and so on.
Also the Olympics are a bad lense through which to view sports with creative / artistic qualities.
Pro wrestling would be dogshit as an Olympic sport.
Pro wrestling would be dogshit as an Olympic sport.
January 20, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Okay, hang on. This actually isn't true.
You could evaluate the aestheticism and athleticism of Pro Wrestling similarly to how you evaluate the aestheticism and athleticism of Figure Skating or Gymnastics in terms of difficulty of the techniques and so on.
You could evaluate the aestheticism and athleticism of Pro Wrestling similarly to how you evaluate the aestheticism and athleticism of Figure Skating or Gymnastics in terms of difficulty of the techniques and so on.
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I'm sure lots of folks will celebrate this, but this speech is quite horrifying. Carney stresses over and over that Canada must become more and more inward.
Our solution to Trump cannot be that we mirror Trump.
Our solution to Trump cannot be that we mirror Trump.
'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative speech at Davos — CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based intern...
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January 20, 2026 at 6:54 PM
I'm sure lots of folks will celebrate this, but this speech is quite horrifying. Carney stresses over and over that Canada must become more and more inward.
Our solution to Trump cannot be that we mirror Trump.
Our solution to Trump cannot be that we mirror Trump.
Two reasons come to mind: first, if it was an olympic sport they'd have to ensure the safety of the athletes.
Second, our culture would have to confront the fact that this requires a degree of athleticism in contradiction to how the sport is deemed "unserious" for its association with women.
Second, our culture would have to confront the fact that this requires a degree of athleticism in contradiction to how the sport is deemed "unserious" for its association with women.
how is this not an olympic sport
Weber State with a "WTF did I just watch? (Complimentary)" to win the partner stunt competition at nats
www.instagram.com/reel/DTmAnJx...
www.instagram.com/reel/DTmAnJx...
January 20, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Two reasons come to mind: first, if it was an olympic sport they'd have to ensure the safety of the athletes.
Second, our culture would have to confront the fact that this requires a degree of athleticism in contradiction to how the sport is deemed "unserious" for its association with women.
Second, our culture would have to confront the fact that this requires a degree of athleticism in contradiction to how the sport is deemed "unserious" for its association with women.
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You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 6:17 PM
You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
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And in the time of monsters the magicks grew more potent
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
www.independent.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 7:01 PM
And in the time of monsters the magicks grew more potent
Me: I'm going to make a point of teaching my students to do research in philosophy.
My colleague: *laughs so hard they drop their phone*
My colleague: be real, did anyone ever teach US to do research, or did we just stumble through it?
My colleague: *laughs so hard they drop their phone*
My colleague: be real, did anyone ever teach US to do research, or did we just stumble through it?
January 20, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Me: I'm going to make a point of teaching my students to do research in philosophy.
My colleague: *laughs so hard they drop their phone*
My colleague: be real, did anyone ever teach US to do research, or did we just stumble through it?
My colleague: *laughs so hard they drop their phone*
My colleague: be real, did anyone ever teach US to do research, or did we just stumble through it?
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This book banning bill would set the precedent that the Miller Test is irrelevant, which will legally imperil creators nationwide, especially queer creators. It died last year and it's shambling corpse has been trotted out to horrify us anew this year.
If you're in FL pls call your state reps.
If you're in FL pls call your state reps.
Please email members of each Subcommittee and stress your opposition to the bills.
HB 1119, Book Ban Bill
Education Administration Members:
www.flhouse.gov/Sections/Com...
HB 1119, Book Ban Bill
Education Administration Members:
www.flhouse.gov/Sections/Com...
Education Administration Subcommittee
Education Administration Subcommittee
www.flhouse.gov
January 20, 2026 at 3:30 AM
This book banning bill would set the precedent that the Miller Test is irrelevant, which will legally imperil creators nationwide, especially queer creators. It died last year and it's shambling corpse has been trotted out to horrify us anew this year.
If you're in FL pls call your state reps.
If you're in FL pls call your state reps.
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“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."
Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
January 20, 2026 at 3:40 AM
“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."
Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
Canonically, James Kirk was allergic to Retinox, the most common medication in the 23rd century to fix eyesight degeneration. You know what Bones gave him?
Glasses.
Glasses.
Yeah, that's cool and all, but... it's the 31st century, a time when young have cyborgs, nanotech, transporters in your watch, hundreds of years after Dr. Crusher cloned Worf a NEW SPINE...
In this context, that's not diversity or inclusion. That's just POVERTY.
In this context, that's not diversity or inclusion. That's just POVERTY.
January 19, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Canonically, James Kirk was allergic to Retinox, the most common medication in the 23rd century to fix eyesight degeneration. You know what Bones gave him?
Glasses.
Glasses.
I use this thing EVERY semester.
Shoutout AGAIN for this guy, which means I already have all the dates generated and ready to go
bsky.app/profile/swil...
bsky.app/profile/swil...
huge shoutout to whoever at Rice who made this syllabus generator that calculates when all the dates of your classes are going to be
additional shoutout to my supervisor who sent it to us with a list of the holidays and important dates pre-made
saved me an hour
wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
additional shoutout to my supervisor who sent it to us with a list of the holidays and important dates pre-made
saved me an hour
wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
January 19, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I use this thing EVERY semester.
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Nice call back to Star Trek: IV with the pregnant whale, Starfleet Academy.
January 19, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Nice call back to Star Trek: IV with the pregnant whale, Starfleet Academy.
Sign language still exists in the Final Frontier. Starfleet Academy seems to be making the point that disability in its wholeness still exists in the Final Frontier.
Even with interpretation drones, they still have ASL interpreters IN STARFLEET.
Even with interpretation drones, they still have ASL interpreters IN STARFLEET.
HOLY SHIT, THERE'S A CADET IN A WHEELCHAIR.
Not a futuristic hovering nonsense chair, a whole-ass recognizable wheelchair. It's in the second episode of the series, and not just in a "blink and you'll miss it."
Not a futuristic hovering nonsense chair, a whole-ass recognizable wheelchair. It's in the second episode of the series, and not just in a "blink and you'll miss it."
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Sign language still exists in the Final Frontier. Starfleet Academy seems to be making the point that disability in its wholeness still exists in the Final Frontier.
Even with interpretation drones, they still have ASL interpreters IN STARFLEET.
Even with interpretation drones, they still have ASL interpreters IN STARFLEET.
When Chancellor Ake said "These children are our ambassadors to now. They have experienced things beyond their years," she might as well be describing many of the students in today's classrooms.
January 19, 2026 at 10:53 AM
When Chancellor Ake said "These children are our ambassadors to now. They have experienced things beyond their years," she might as well be describing many of the students in today's classrooms.