John Moxin
@johnmoxin.bsky.social
Stagehand, voracious reader, enthusiastic skeptic, currently broken and awaiting replacement parts. Usually wrong.
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Bluesky was generally better when we all more or less agreed to simply block dumb accounts and move on rather than quote dunk on them for clout.
December 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Bluesky was generally better when we all more or less agreed to simply block dumb accounts and move on rather than quote dunk on them for clout.
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While attempting to buy winter boots, I am reminded of the weirdest job search ever. Buckle up: it’s a wild ride. It was my last year of grad school, and I had an interview for what I thought was my dream job. It was an open rank search where they were hoping to hire two people. +
December 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
While attempting to buy winter boots, I am reminded of the weirdest job search ever. Buckle up: it’s a wild ride. It was my last year of grad school, and I had an interview for what I thought was my dream job. It was an open rank search where they were hoping to hire two people. +
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The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little."
‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”
So a napkin is a little tablecloth.
10/10, no notes.
‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”
So a napkin is a little tablecloth.
10/10, no notes.
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little."
‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”
So a napkin is a little tablecloth.
10/10, no notes.
‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”
So a napkin is a little tablecloth.
10/10, no notes.
If the only job available is thuggery, some choose thuggery. Some choose homelessness and starvation. Yes, we're responsible for our choices. We can also understand context.
We’ve found it, folks, the ultimate form of fetishism of American oppression. Poor Americans simply have no choice but to become fascist thugs, for the benefits.
that choice was made in a system that provides few jobs that pay well with benefits, respect & opportunity to those who don't hale from society's "upper crust."
How many would choose to work at ICE or the military if they had better job opportunities that didn't require them to mete out torture?
How many would choose to work at ICE or the military if they had better job opportunities that didn't require them to mete out torture?
December 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If the only job available is thuggery, some choose thuggery. Some choose homelessness and starvation. Yes, we're responsible for our choices. We can also understand context.
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Guy in the Epstein Files wonders why everybody’s so mean.
Why have Americans become so mean, sad, and alienated? The answer is simple, @nytdavidbrooks argues. People no longer grow up learning how to be decent to one another: bit.ly/4qskLny
December 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Guy in the Epstein Files wonders why everybody’s so mean.
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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In the tune of The Moody Blues, Nights In White Satin
December 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In the tune of The Moody Blues, Nights In White Satin
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DOGE and Elon Musk's Libertarian Fever Dream
Can the US govt be more efficient? Sure, says Prof. Lindsay McCormack, but that's not what DOGE was about.
DOGE was part of Trump's "ungoverning" strategy to break the "administrative state."
@DCInbox
youtu.be/6EQqcXpcXz4
Can the US govt be more efficient? Sure, says Prof. Lindsay McCormack, but that's not what DOGE was about.
DOGE was part of Trump's "ungoverning" strategy to break the "administrative state."
@DCInbox
youtu.be/6EQqcXpcXz4
DOGE and Elon Musk's Libertarian Fever Dream
YouTube video by Energi Media
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
DOGE and Elon Musk's Libertarian Fever Dream
Can the US govt be more efficient? Sure, says Prof. Lindsay McCormack, but that's not what DOGE was about.
DOGE was part of Trump's "ungoverning" strategy to break the "administrative state."
@DCInbox
youtu.be/6EQqcXpcXz4
Can the US govt be more efficient? Sure, says Prof. Lindsay McCormack, but that's not what DOGE was about.
DOGE was part of Trump's "ungoverning" strategy to break the "administrative state."
@DCInbox
youtu.be/6EQqcXpcXz4
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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Gift link. The VSO needs to do better.
VSO faces backlash after legal threat against violinist who spoke out about alleged retaliation
Orchestra sends cease and desist letter to Esther Hwang after she broke an NDA to speak out about her sexual-assault complaint
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Gift link. The VSO needs to do better.
Lean in!
I have acquired an epic housecoat/robe and I believe this is the beginning of my Lebowski era.
December 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Lean in!
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“rush of financings, which do not show up on the tech companies’ balance sheets, may be obscuring the risks that these groups are running” [a dash of the 90s tech bubble w a dash of early 2000s subprime mortgage crisis… hidden high risk via off the books SPVs]
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Tech groups shift $120bn of AI data centre debt off balance sheets
Creative financing helps insulate Big Tech while binding Wall Street to a future boom or bust
giftarticle.ft.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“rush of financings, which do not show up on the tech companies’ balance sheets, may be obscuring the risks that these groups are running” [a dash of the 90s tech bubble w a dash of early 2000s subprime mortgage crisis… hidden high risk via off the books SPVs]
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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i have seen this error made enough times that I have to ask if people know that the thing that slows your car down is spelled "brake"
China Pumps Breaks on Plans to Mass Produce Self-Driving Cars https://gizmodo.com/china-pumps-breaks-on-plans-to-mass-produce-self-driving-cars-2000703109
China Pumps Breaks on Plans to Mass Produce Self-Driving Cars
Chinese regulators have been slow to approve the mass production and sale of more advanced self-driving tech.
gizmodo.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
i have seen this error made enough times that I have to ask if people know that the thing that slows your car down is spelled "brake"
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A very funny thing people sometimes do is throw a term I put in my own bio at me as an epithet. What exactly do they think they’re accomplishing there.
December 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A very funny thing people sometimes do is throw a term I put in my own bio at me as an epithet. What exactly do they think they’re accomplishing there.
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The fact that it was absolutely ready and the standard for comment had been met several times over?
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The fact that it was absolutely ready and the standard for comment had been met several times over?
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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Blocked someone who told me they intended to pirate my work because they can't get it exactly where and how they want. Maybe they will, but they're an asshole to go out of their way to tell a creator that, and I'm not tolerating assholes on this site. It's easy not to be an asshole, y'all.
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Blocked someone who told me they intended to pirate my work because they can't get it exactly where and how they want. Maybe they will, but they're an asshole to go out of their way to tell a creator that, and I'm not tolerating assholes on this site. It's easy not to be an asshole, y'all.
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Now that everyone knows who Trump-protecting Bari Weiss is, let's recall that Vancouver Coastal Health's Head of Comms, Deana Lancaster, was RT'ing Bari Weiss not long ago
The 2 of them, busy mocking & downplaying the seriousness of Covid. PS Covid never was & still is not "the sniffles" #bcpoli
The 2 of them, busy mocking & downplaying the seriousness of Covid. PS Covid never was & still is not "the sniffles" #bcpoli
December 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Now that everyone knows who Trump-protecting Bari Weiss is, let's recall that Vancouver Coastal Health's Head of Comms, Deana Lancaster, was RT'ing Bari Weiss not long ago
The 2 of them, busy mocking & downplaying the seriousness of Covid. PS Covid never was & still is not "the sniffles" #bcpoli
The 2 of them, busy mocking & downplaying the seriousness of Covid. PS Covid never was & still is not "the sniffles" #bcpoli
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Do any medievalists out there know what marrying "modo de Rasyn'" might mean? It's Lincoln Diocese in 1526. Something to do with Market Rasen, perhaps?
December 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Do any medievalists out there know what marrying "modo de Rasyn'" might mean? It's Lincoln Diocese in 1526. Something to do with Market Rasen, perhaps?
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pov you are witnessing a Great Becoming
December 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
pov you are witnessing a Great Becoming
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it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do
Michael Caine Loves 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' as Much as You Do
God bless us, every one! But especially Michael Caine.
www.gq.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do
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Sorry but I am Team Aunt
December 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Sorry but I am Team Aunt
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Medical debt should not exist.
Tom Mimis, 86, still wakes up at 3 a.m. every morning to work at the Piggly Wiggly, needing the income after immense medical debt.
Vincent woman starts GoFundMe campaign to help her 86-year-old grandfather retire
Tom Mimis, 86, still wakes up at 3 a.m. every morning to work at the Piggly Wiggly, needing the income after immense medical debt.
buff.ly
December 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Medical debt should not exist.