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James Felix Black
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A large person, in Canada. Father to two, smaller persons. Wife guy. Dual citizen, a modicum of discipline. Proud liberal. Hobbesian. Unix apostate, Classic Mac OS revanchist, tilter at path-dependent windmills. Emacsist.
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Yet Another Emily @anomily.bsky.social · 8h
My favorite
Person 1: Hit My name is Jason Person 2: Ah! Nice to meet you, Jason Words in the person 1’s brain: Jason, FRIENDS, FAMILY, BRASSICA OLERACEA Person 1: Say Jarvis, did you know that over a dozen common vegetables are actually the same plant species?
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 11h
FFFFFFFFATALITY
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h
Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob" Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 11h
Burger's good, tho
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 15h
Making those idiots look ridiculous is so powerful.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 13h
Fuckin Frank Lloyd Wright man
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 13h
I am just normally tall and I still hit my goddamned head all the goddamned time.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 15h
Jesus Christ
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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 15h
Me calling Edward Said not to report that someone did an Orientalism but to invite him to a concert by his favorite composer JS Bach, because I'd never reduce his complex relationship to European high culture to just 'critique'
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 15h
This is the most credulous brain fried horseshit imaginable
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 15h
Laughter is the most powerful weapon against this regime. They can’t STAND it and they aren’t in control enough to make it stop.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 15h
Making those idiots look ridiculous is so powerful.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 15h
Well sure I’m just you know speaking my truth, man
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 15h
I was EXTREMELY confused because to me “the Killdozer guy” is Michael Gerard

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is-V...
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James Felix Black @tft.io · Mar 18
Check the gold fringe on the settings pane. Dead giveaway.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 21h
This is why, regardless of more kinetic sanction, there absolutely 100% must be a lustration process in the de-MAGAification of the new republic. Not every collaborator needs to be hanged; not even most of them need to be jailed. But they all MUST carry the scarlet M for the rest of their lives.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah I think people here have unrealistic expectations for like jailing all ICE agents and that’s just almost certainly not going to happen even in extremely cool zone scenarios. But they should 100% have to lie for the rest of their lives about their employment history in conversation with everyone
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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d
Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · May 4
Yes just as there isn’t King In Yellow shit that corrupts one by reading it, there’s not a Good Think version either.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 21h
I agree with this! There are no second-class citizens, but there are people who have demonstrated their inability to be public servants.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 21h
This is why, regardless of more kinetic sanction, there absolutely 100% must be a lustration process in the de-MAGAification of the new republic. Not every collaborator needs to be hanged; not even most of them need to be jailed. But they all MUST carry the scarlet M for the rest of their lives.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah I think people here have unrealistic expectations for like jailing all ICE agents and that’s just almost certainly not going to happen even in extremely cool zone scenarios. But they should 100% have to lie for the rest of their lives about their employment history in conversation with everyone
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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d
Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 22h
HEROES
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eke @eke.bsky.social · 22h
the note that none of the films were banned or even offensive really made me laugh.

not samizdat, just french guys drinking and watching popular movies underground
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23h
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 22h
It's why I'm genuinely frightened of him kicking off the big one when he gets the news he's going to die.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 22h
This is my lonely hill; he is so profoundly broken a person that he exists in a hermetically sealed universe of one man's sense perceptions.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 22h
There is no cognitive dissonance because he is incapable of mentalization. There simply aren't any other people in the universe, to him.
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 1d
The Mouse “Neo and Morpheus are fighting!” meme from THE MATRIX, with the text THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT THE PECOTA XLS ON BLUESKY
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 1d
Fucking awesome
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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 5d
Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland
club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce: The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland. After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias "Impossible Interview" come true. As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky. Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck. They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo - over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked. Parker didn't just happen to…
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 1d
God almighty