Joey Walnuts
@jolwalton.bsky.social
Writing a book, After Capitalism: The End of the End of the World | https://linktr.ee/jolwalton
I have a feeling this is the week Wile E. Coyote finally kills Jürgen Habermas
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I have a feeling this is the week Wile E. Coyote finally kills Jürgen Habermas
legally changing my name to however it's in your phone
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
legally changing my name to however it's in your phone
The way it slips into everything, emails from friends, amazing artists applying for tiny grants, meltdown messages on mutual aid forums, interesting articles by experts on the interesting thing ... it's like a medium I didn't even know I needed to live is being slowly poisoned
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The way it slips into everything, emails from friends, amazing artists applying for tiny grants, meltdown messages on mutual aid forums, interesting articles by experts on the interesting thing ... it's like a medium I didn't even know I needed to live is being slowly poisoned
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seems like that should be the main focus then huh
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
seems like that should be the main focus then huh
The votes are not in, the judging panel is not assembled, for the 2025 Baseline Award for Speculative Fiction
My prestigious and rigorous Baseline Award, which chooses a SFF book completely at random, this year goes to ... baselineaward.blogspot.com/2025/01/2024...
2024 Winner
The methodology this year was to ask ChatGPT for a list and a random number, but it struggled for some reason. So the next methodology was t...
baselineaward.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The votes are not in, the judging panel is not assembled, for the 2025 Baseline Award for Speculative Fiction
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This is chapter and verse for how and why the Supreme Court judgement is bad law. Not just because of the EA or the GRA or basic human decency or the ECHR or Goodwin Vs UK, but because of law laid down in the late 90s.
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is chapter and verse for how and why the Supreme Court judgement is bad law. Not just because of the EA or the GRA or basic human decency or the ECHR or Goodwin Vs UK, but because of law laid down in the late 90s.
"Clear Joe" they call me because of my communication style or maybe my conscience
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"Clear Joe" they call me because of my communication style or maybe my conscience
There exists a girlfriend in Canada that which than no greater girlfriend in Canada exists. Now that which is in the flesh is greater than that which is merely in the fancy
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
There exists a girlfriend in Canada that which than no greater girlfriend in Canada exists. Now that which is in the flesh is greater than that which is merely in the fancy
Only three emojis (in Unicode 17.0, & discounting numbers set) are perfectly to scale with the corresponding real thing: ladybug, far away Eiffel tower and laughing crying hunting sideways head 🤣
November 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Only three emojis (in Unicode 17.0, & discounting numbers set) are perfectly to scale with the corresponding real thing: ladybug, far away Eiffel tower and laughing crying hunting sideways head 🤣
To go to sleep in an egg and awake in a murmuration
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
To go to sleep in an egg and awake in a murmuration
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Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
Is Rosalia dropping Lux right after the Mamdani win a sly allusion to Rosa Luxembourg 'The entry of a socialist into a bourgeois government is not, as it is thought, a partial conquest of the bourgeois state by the socialists, but a partial conquest of the socialist party by the bourgeois state'
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Is Rosalia dropping Lux right after the Mamdani win a sly allusion to Rosa Luxembourg 'The entry of a socialist into a bourgeois government is not, as it is thought, a partial conquest of the bourgeois state by the socialists, but a partial conquest of the socialist party by the bourgeois state'
AI is resurrecting the dead. Should we be worried? NOPE
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
AI is resurrecting the dead. Should we be worried? NOPE
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Recommended read: Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wrote in the Guardian ahead of COP30 about the need to act “with the urgency the climate crisis demands”.
The era of fine speeches and good intentions is over. Brazil’s Cop30 will be about action | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith, says the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Recommended read: Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wrote in the Guardian ahead of COP30 about the need to act “with the urgency the climate crisis demands”.
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thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
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November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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elections should follow mario rules
sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
elections should follow mario rules
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probably not huge in the grand scheme of everything happening, but it's so funny and sad and stupid how much of politics is reported as gambling odds now
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
probably not huge in the grand scheme of everything happening, but it's so funny and sad and stupid how much of politics is reported as gambling odds now
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substack.com/@jolwalton/n... Part 1 here: Midas and the Golden Touch. These are Diet-zschean Ecce Homo titles btw, Why I Am So Rich and Why I Am The GOAT fell off
[Money Abolition] Why I Want To Be Rich
It was Nietzsche, philosophy's aristocratic rebel, who appointed Apollo the god of individuation, and named Dionysus his opposite number, god of dissolution and everything sort of smooshing together.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
substack.com/@jolwalton/n... Part 1 here: Midas and the Golden Touch. These are Diet-zschean Ecce Homo titles btw, Why I Am So Rich and Why I Am The GOAT fell off
Take me down to the pair of guys city Neil Degrasse Tyson Carson Kressley
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Take me down to the pair of guys city Neil Degrasse Tyson Carson Kressley
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Two guys getting into a fistfight over whether "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys counts as a Halloween song
October 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Two guys getting into a fistfight over whether "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys counts as a Halloween song
King Midas was not just the guy who turned everything to gold open.substack.com/pub/jonlyfan...
![Trippy forest, maybe there's a party or something in the distance? Text: [Money Abolition]: Why I Am The Goat. The King's new ears were cool. What could go wrong?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eajo6em6hgdmhob47l66rqds/bafkreiaw44l3gmykppq4pmadgc3dgvjvcyc3lgnh5mmgq2s4sd3dckuoh4@jpeg)
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
King Midas was not just the guy who turned everything to gold open.substack.com/pub/jonlyfan...
What if where we go when we die depends not on what we do in this life, but on what we did before it?
October 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What if where we go when we die depends not on what we do in this life, but on what we did before it?
Time for a refresh Nike. How about Never Stop Eating
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Time for a refresh Nike. How about Never Stop Eating
Ha — a fair suspicion! And you’re right to ask.
October 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Ha — a fair suspicion! And you’re right to ask.