David Jewell
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David Jewell
@dsjwhatnot.bsky.social
Better on paper. They/them
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We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.
Any one of us could be shot or kidnapped because an ICE agent doesn’t like the look of us. Are you prepared to be murdered in cold blood while “news” sources repeat the claim you were “weaponizing your vehicle” trying to leave your driveway? They want you to accept that. They want to make it normal
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Are you even a 90s kid if you never felt the mall sway?
January 6, 2026 at 3:41 AM
What's he up to?
December 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
It's not confusing at all switching between three different seasons of Friends at the Table. I never think I'm in Sangfielle during a Realis episode.
December 16, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I haven't seen a whole lot of Lifetime movies. Is it usually impossible to tell how long you've been watching it?
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Accidentally dropped a unique piece from my crafting goblin hoard, then found it with less than ten minutes of searching, which feels huge.
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
When wolves howl, do you think they're saying "moooOOOoon"?
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Anybody else got banana knees? Knees bend back, anyone?
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This movie is incredible.
This week's SBG bonus episode is on PENDA'S FEN, a striking BBC teleplay from 1974 wherein an incredibly uptight young man through a series of increasingly anomalous encounters learns to interrogate British identity, personal history, sexuality, religion, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/shelve...
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Until reading this thread, I thought the cooking scenes in Pieces of April were unrealistic.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
My Star Wars movie ranking take is that Attack of the Clones is a good movie. Revenge of the Sith is the most fun of the prequels, but aside from the interminable droid factory sequence, Episode 2 is the most interesting of that trilogy.
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"They're still not sure it is a lababy!"
Eraserhead baby labubu
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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betty and veronica at tanagra
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Om nom binary, is this anything?
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I bet some kind of music scientist could figure out why the fuck I like arpeggios so much.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I think putting the search tool right in the url bar was a mistake. It was a step towards removing the intentionality from our time online, and it helped facilitate the flattening of the internet into five big websites.
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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On one hand this is great because there is some stuff you can get that is legitimately helpful like the use case here.

On the other hand, as a working academic, I have to tell you that Scholar is just as busted as standard search in terms of serving you bad information, and it’s a known issue.
I don’t usually do the whole “go check out my latest video” thing but this might be the most important thing I’ve ever posted:
October 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Found out today that you can get addicted to nitroglycerin. You get powerful headaches they call "bang head," and the only relief is more nitro.
October 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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My next rpg is FERAL BLOOD DOLL.
Play as a dual-personality sexworker fighting cops and feds in an underground city beneath the present-day US.
September 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Is there a German word for a mistake that's both easy to avoid and easy to make?
September 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
So what's "civility," then?
September 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM