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@jamiejones723.bsky.social
30. He/Him. Fan of fiction. Movies. TV. Books. Games. Star Wars. Doctor Who. Left-leaning. Support LGBTQ folk, everyone deserves happiness. Black Lives Matter.
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So, turns out our domain name for Japanimation Station expired and got parked by some kind of scam site. Trying to get it back, but in the meantime, go ahead and bookmark www.japanimation-station.com as the current domain. Will be updating links elsewhere to fix the issue.
Japanimation Station
Japanimation Station is an anime podcast where hosts Jonathan Lack and Sean Chapman, creators of Weekly Suit Gundam, create deep dive conversations not just on individual shows, but on complete bodies...
www.japanimation-station.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Incumbents gotta go. Regulation needs to be embraced at every level of government. Anti-corruption is the only way we survive. Fight for it.

Right now, though ... our economy is about so suffer greatly so like 2,000 douchebags can afford a third house.

Brace yourselves.
January 10, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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This, like the flat and possibly declining price of oil, shows how we're in a phantom economy.

Businesses saw a way to lie about layoffs without worrying investors, so they lied. All those big big numbers making line go up are a fantasy.
AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune
"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.
fortune.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Growing up in Texas in the 2000s made anti-immigration fear mongering not work on me because I'd hear adults and politicians describe the most horrific war zone imaginable, evil criminals crossing the border into your country to do violence... but I could step outside and see everything was *fine*
January 9, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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It's why I get angry whenever I see Dems saying that ICE just needs to be reformed. Because what you're saying is a secret force being used to detain people in detention centers and separate them from their families is a necessary evil for the crime of not having all proper immigration paperwork
January 9, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.

Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.

Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.

Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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"Elon Musk, the white nationalist..." with no hedging or qualification is an objectively stone cold factual description that no mainstream media outlet would ever allow be included in an article about him.
Earlier today, Elon Musk endorsed full-on Neo-Nazi blood and soil ideology.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.

The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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“Let’s take our suite of programs, all of which are epynomous in their category, and rename them after our slop factory that everyone hates”

What could possibly go wrong
January 5, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Microsoft is so fucking stupid.

Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App

I'm not joking
January 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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I expect evil people to do evil things

I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do

only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations
January 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Increasingly feels like we're entering a new warlord era, with Russia and the US just taking whatever they want from countries that don't have nukes. If you aren't nuclear-capable, you simply aren't viewed as a sovereign country. Your resources, your leader, all can just be taken freely.
January 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Based on responses so far, when Trump attempts illegal invasions of Greenland and Canada they can expect stronger support from China than they can from the United Kingdom.
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “China is deeply shocked by and strongly condemns the US’ blatant use of force against a sovereign state and action against its president."
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Elon Musk should be in prison (for many reasons, mainly the mass murder, but this too). X should be shut down. Its remaining staff should be investigated for criminal wrongdoing. And then we should have a larger discussion about reigning in tech platforms in sweeping, systemic fashion.
January 2, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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Genuinely think that any political candidate who makes their two main priorities going after AI and sports gambling would put up LeBron numbers in their election because the amount of people who've had their lives ruined by one of those two is astronomically high and climbing daily
January 2, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Our society will be judged by what happens to Elon Musk. Between the USAID cuts likely killing millions of people over the next five years, and him releasing a fucking CSAM machine, he needs to go to prison, or vigilantism is the only option, and I presume that's something the powerful want to avoid
I don't think my suggestion of "Strap every AI CEO into a big centrifuge, spin it up, then toss in a brick" is an unreasonable one.
This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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literally laid the modern groundwork for the imperial presidency. see also bush v gore. see also iraq war. see also "reality-based community." literally the trump blueprint. despicable
Not a fan of Bush but he was a step up from what we got now.
January 2, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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People who try to shill AI on the backs of the disabled are lower-than-low trash humans exploiting people who never asked for this bullshit to make a quick buck. It is so profoundly insulting to the disabled to assume they need the plagiarism machine to make stuff. I find it deeply offensive.
Ive been blocked by some pro-gAI academics on here who think Im "ableist" for refusing to allow gAI in my classrooms, but the thing is I do fundamentally believe that we make a moral statement when we decide to teach students that they must rely on this kind of theft to read, write and think.
This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids
December 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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It would also go a long way in explaining why generative AI has found such a foothold with fascists - it's a tool of power consolidation, sure, but it's also a tool to hurt and attempt to replace those who can make things that resonate with people in ways they could never.
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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My review of AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH is now live at Fade to Lack.

The first James Cameron film you could ever accuse of being “more of the same,” but “the same” still means something pretty spectacular. Lots to love here.

www.jonathanlack.com/p/review-ava...
Review: "Avatar: Fire and Ash" is more of the same, but 'the same' is still spectacular
Come for the Tulkun, stay for Miles Quaritch's midlife crisis
www.jonathanlack.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM