Jon Ficke
@jonficke.bsky.social
Husband, Writer, Woodworker, SFWA Member.
Stories in Cossmass Infinities, Flame Tree Fiction Amazing Science Fiction, Dread Space (Vols. 1 and 2), and WotF.
https://jonficke.com
Stories in Cossmass Infinities, Flame Tree Fiction Amazing Science Fiction, Dread Space (Vols. 1 and 2), and WotF.
https://jonficke.com
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It really is the administration of King Herod the Great tweeting at Jesus family during Christmas.
"I was a stranger and you welcomed me." -Matthew 25:35
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It really is the administration of King Herod the Great tweeting at Jesus family during Christmas.
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"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
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One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
Do any of these people have any idea how fucking strange they appear to basically everyone who isn’t in their bizzare insular online communities?
The Lord Glasman sex thing is nuts. Like if he had loved ones they should sit him down and talk to him about his wellbeing.
Send the white coats stuff.
The Lord Glasman sex thing is nuts. Like if he had loved ones they should sit him down and talk to him about his wellbeing.
Send the white coats stuff.
Do not surrender. Do not log off. Do not permit Lord Glasman to have sex with his wife
December 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Do any of these people have any idea how fucking strange they appear to basically everyone who isn’t in their bizzare insular online communities?
The Lord Glasman sex thing is nuts. Like if he had loved ones they should sit him down and talk to him about his wellbeing.
Send the white coats stuff.
The Lord Glasman sex thing is nuts. Like if he had loved ones they should sit him down and talk to him about his wellbeing.
Send the white coats stuff.
I think at some point the financialization musical chairs game is going to run out. Everyone is just leveraging to the eyeballs debt for acquisitions and the debt service on these deals is bananas.
At some point a board has to tell these M&A sharks no.
At some point a board has to tell these M&A sharks no.
I mean this earnestly: we are legitimately running out of money for investments just as the AI industry needs them
Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, HSBC, and BNP Paribas for its WBD deal, one of the largest ever unsecured bridge loans (Bloomberg)
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Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I think at some point the financialization musical chairs game is going to run out. Everyone is just leveraging to the eyeballs debt for acquisitions and the debt service on these deals is bananas.
At some point a board has to tell these M&A sharks no.
At some point a board has to tell these M&A sharks no.
It's cold comfort that Bill Cassidy is in a hell of his own creation, but that's not nothing.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's cold comfort that Bill Cassidy is in a hell of his own creation, but that's not nothing.
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Scour his name from every building.
SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
December 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Scour his name from every building.
lot to unpack here, but I choose the funniest option, which is that RG3 is a theological unicorn who believes that Catholics are not Christian but Mormons are Christian.
Is he uh, aware of Notre Dame’s affiliation?
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
lot to unpack here, but I choose the funniest option, which is that RG3 is a theological unicorn who believes that Catholics are not Christian but Mormons are Christian.
Only way it could be improved is if it had been made from the tattered remains of Confederates.
The best American flag is the battle flag of Tecumseh Sherman’s 23rd Corps, made from the tattered remains of Confederate banners.
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Only way it could be improved is if it had been made from the tattered remains of Confederates.
I will go back to high school to vote for a student body president who campaigns on "Thaddeus Stevens didn't go hard enough."
Just pure unadulterated evil
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I will go back to high school to vote for a student body president who campaigns on "Thaddeus Stevens didn't go hard enough."
The only justice is [redacted]
The idea of a 6 year old child being treated this way, the poor child
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The only justice is [redacted]
every single day their actions make me more steadfast in a maximalist response.
I want every race in the country from Dog Catcher to President to be run by someone channeling Thaddeus Stevens.
"Free every slave—slay every traitor—burn every rebel mansion" and let this be the moderate position.
I want every race in the country from Dog Catcher to President to be run by someone channeling Thaddeus Stevens.
"Free every slave—slay every traitor—burn every rebel mansion" and let this be the moderate position.
The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.
December 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
every single day their actions make me more steadfast in a maximalist response.
I want every race in the country from Dog Catcher to President to be run by someone channeling Thaddeus Stevens.
"Free every slave—slay every traitor—burn every rebel mansion" and let this be the moderate position.
I want every race in the country from Dog Catcher to President to be run by someone channeling Thaddeus Stevens.
"Free every slave—slay every traitor—burn every rebel mansion" and let this be the moderate position.
Do these people have any idea how fucking insane they sound to normal people?
Like if you grab a rand parent off the street and tell them that Ms. Rachel is turning kids into antisemites they’re gonna call the men in white coats.
Like if you grab a rand parent off the street and tell them that Ms. Rachel is turning kids into antisemites they’re gonna call the men in white coats.
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Do these people have any idea how fucking insane they sound to normal people?
Like if you grab a rand parent off the street and tell them that Ms. Rachel is turning kids into antisemites they’re gonna call the men in white coats.
Like if you grab a rand parent off the street and tell them that Ms. Rachel is turning kids into antisemites they’re gonna call the men in white coats.
the sad thing is that he probably *wasn't* laughing while typing it out. I think he's so thoroughly cooked himself on his hyper-curated reality tunnel that he *believes* this.
What can you even say? Obviously they’re full of shit, but I am impressed at the emptiness of this post. You knew he was laughing while typing it out. Just utter trash.
You could put this tweet on toilet paper
You could put this tweet on toilet paper
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
the sad thing is that he probably *wasn't* laughing while typing it out. I think he's so thoroughly cooked himself on his hyper-curated reality tunnel that he *believes* this.
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As everyone knows, the basis of capitalism is that if a product is great you'll need to cram it down everyone's throats (without consent) for years before finally being bailed out by the government
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
As everyone knows, the basis of capitalism is that if a product is great you'll need to cram it down everyone's throats (without consent) for years before finally being bailed out by the government
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
Tbf if it was immediately followed up by directly linking it to corruption or by explicitly stating that the “others” are people in favor of corruption as a state of affairs, that might have worked.
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Tbf if it was immediately followed up by directly linking it to corruption or by explicitly stating that the “others” are people in favor of corruption as a state of affairs, that might have worked.
This should be the moderate position.
Smash this administration so badly that its members flee the country and go into hiding because they know that if they appear in public they will be dragged into the street and made to stand for their treason against everything America holds dear
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This should be the moderate position.
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you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
without regard for human life.
additionally, he has facial hair in this photograph
Deeply unsettled by this older photo of Mike Johnson with a beard.
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
without regard for human life.
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It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.