Jonny
@aploverplods.bsky.social
Librarian. Unionist. Reuben Sandwich Enthusiast.
An island of such great complexity.
An island of such great complexity.
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being smart is available to anyone, you just need to read and be willing to not understand at first
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
being smart is available to anyone, you just need to read and be willing to not understand at first
"Remember all those cool thrash metal songs about acid rain in the 80s? What if we slashed all emissions standards and issued hockey jerseys and Jackson guitars to all the alienated young men? Teach them pentatonic guitar scales! New enviro dystopic thrash metal would abound!"
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"Remember all those cool thrash metal songs about acid rain in the 80s? What if we slashed all emissions standards and issued hockey jerseys and Jackson guitars to all the alienated young men? Teach them pentatonic guitar scales! New enviro dystopic thrash metal would abound!"
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There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
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watching this is a warm blanket on a damp, cold day
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
watching this is a warm blanket on a damp, cold day
Watched the doc about 80s hair metal, Having the dude from Slipknot as a talking head ranting about the snobs who made fun of Poison did not make want to reconsider Poison.
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Watched the doc about 80s hair metal, Having the dude from Slipknot as a talking head ranting about the snobs who made fun of Poison did not make want to reconsider Poison.
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the supporters of the elizabeth street garden have turned me into an elizabeth street garden radical abolitionist. i dont even care if they put the senior housing on it at this point, it needs to be destroyed
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
the supporters of the elizabeth street garden have turned me into an elizabeth street garden radical abolitionist. i dont even care if they put the senior housing on it at this point, it needs to be destroyed
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"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out. It’s one bubble to rule them all."
From the people who brought you the financial crisis, Theranos, and Juicero: say hello to data center financial engineering!
I'm pretty nervous about this ending badly, but everyone's dug in because AI is the only pulse in the economy.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
I'm pretty nervous about this ending badly, but everyone's dug in because AI is the only pulse in the economy.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out. It’s one bubble to rule them all."
It would be horrible if the credibility of Bill Clinton or Larry Summers got trashed...
Not for nothing but if you’re gonna print the Trump White House’s attack strategy verbatim you might want to offer an assessment of whether it will actually work? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
‘Democrats are going to come to regret this’: After Epstein vote, Trump ready to attack
The White House is frustrated about being backed into a corner on the Epstein vote. They plan to punish Democrats for it.
www.politico.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It would be horrible if the credibility of Bill Clinton or Larry Summers got trashed...
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i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all
James Bond, who was he?
youtu.be/-l2D0QfJSt8?...
youtu.be/-l2D0QfJSt8?...
Monks - Black Monk Time(1966)(Garage Rock)(Avant-Rock)(Proto Punk)Must Hear!!!
YouTube video by Mr. Kpm
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
James Bond, who was he?
youtu.be/-l2D0QfJSt8?...
youtu.be/-l2D0QfJSt8?...
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Punktendo, a set of punk-themed NES ROM hacks playable on your phone. Fun stuff!
Now You're Playing With Punk Power -
punktendo.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Punktendo, a set of punk-themed NES ROM hacks playable on your phone. Fun stuff!
Don't know if the polity is ready yet for the @InzaneJohnny meme wars
If a soundcloud rapper can become mayor of New York City, perhaps the stage is set for a harsh noise President
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Don't know if the polity is ready yet for the @InzaneJohnny meme wars
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion
Would consider moving from Brooklyn if a nice Manhattan apartment is opening up in this exodus.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Would consider moving from Brooklyn if a nice Manhattan apartment is opening up in this exodus.
This is so dumb. It is impossible to overstate the historical pull of the Cuomo dynasty in NY Dem politics. Mario was a three term governor. A Cuomo has been on the Dem ballot line in about half of elections since the 70s. Mamdani still got over 50% in spite of all that.
Btw, the press obsessing about Mamdani seems weird. He seriously underperformed the Democratic vote in NYC compared to recent elections, barely scraping 50%. Moderate Democrats in VA and NJ dramatically overperformed. That seems the real story
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is so dumb. It is impossible to overstate the historical pull of the Cuomo dynasty in NY Dem politics. Mario was a three term governor. A Cuomo has been on the Dem ballot line in about half of elections since the 70s. Mamdani still got over 50% in spite of all that.
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getting emotional about the mayoral election but the thing that actually broke the dam for me was watching zohran screaming his brains out at the knicks game last night. a dude who could easily be one of my dumbass friends is cruising toward a landslide victory. unreal.
November 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
getting emotional about the mayoral election but the thing that actually broke the dam for me was watching zohran screaming his brains out at the knicks game last night. a dude who could easily be one of my dumbass friends is cruising toward a landslide victory. unreal.
FWIW I think this explains a lot of what figures like aoc and bernie have been doing recently (that has caught the criticism of the "online left"). They are doing the basic work of party building that these nominally dem donors should be funding, but are not.
noteworthy that rather than funding experiments into challenging conservative message domination on the local level or building between-election outreach capacity at the state level, centrist donors are throwing millions at what amount to online factional battles among a couple dozen people
it is mostly driven by this guy who represents large dollar donors.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
FWIW I think this explains a lot of what figures like aoc and bernie have been doing recently (that has caught the criticism of the "online left"). They are doing the basic work of party building that these nominally dem donors should be funding, but are not.
I mean... I'm glad millennials revived socialism but they also created, or revived... I'm still not sure, something called "yacht rock" so anything is possible.
Imagine if Gen Alpha gets really into smooth jazz
My morning joy!
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I mean... I'm glad millennials revived socialism but they also created, or revived... I'm still not sure, something called "yacht rock" so anything is possible.
Why did parents start doing this? Goodie bags are over if we want them to be.
I am calling for a full and complete ceasefire on goodie bags
please stop giving my children sticky hands I beg of you
please stop giving my children sticky hands I beg of you
Man, can we have an international moratorium on birthday party goodie bags? We ended up handing out books instead (nothing serious, just funny and mildly educational).
October 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Why did parents start doing this? Goodie bags are over if we want them to be.
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I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!
October 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!
FWIW Zohran's campaign is proof that political leaders (heck... maybe even a political party) can win under a "big tent" if they choose issues around which to polarize the electorate. This "popularist" stuff being peddled by yglesias and his ilk is a managerialist evasion of politics as such.
this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”
Bigots in the tent
What did you think winning meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.
www.theargumentmag.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
FWIW Zohran's campaign is proof that political leaders (heck... maybe even a political party) can win under a "big tent" if they choose issues around which to polarize the electorate. This "popularist" stuff being peddled by yglesias and his ilk is a managerialist evasion of politics as such.