Jon Lyons-Raeder
@jonlyonsraeder.bsky.social
Writer, reader, and your friendly neighborhood GM | they/them | I write essays and reviews of speculative fiction at https://jonathanlyonsraeder.substack.com.
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make a blood sacrifice to the crab. you will not regret making a blood sacrifice to the crab
January 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
make a blood sacrifice to the crab. you will not regret making a blood sacrifice to the crab
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Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.
March 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.
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The actual trajectory of Democratic opposition to Trump since 2016 is that Democrats first engaged in #resistance and cultural progressivism, won the House in 2018, defeated Trump and won a trifecta the year of the George Floyd protests, tacked right under Biden, and lost in 2024.
Elissa Slotkin told Tim Alberta why her response to Trump's joint address did not touch on a laundry list of priorities from various advocacy groups.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
March 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The actual trajectory of Democratic opposition to Trump since 2016 is that Democrats first engaged in #resistance and cultural progressivism, won the House in 2018, defeated Trump and won a trifecta the year of the George Floyd protests, tacked right under Biden, and lost in 2024.
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jj abrams: "omg what if chewbacca finally got the medal that he didn't get in the original movie!"
tony gilroy: "German Sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) once said that a government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence--"
tony gilroy: "German Sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) once said that a government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence--"
The Ghorman Massacre is officially confirmed for #Andor S2
• Shows stormtroopers slaughtering hundreds of peaceful protestors
• Takes place in 2 BBY
• Mon Mothma publicly blames Palpatine
• In Legends lore, Tarkin lands his warship on tons of protestors
• Shows stormtroopers slaughtering hundreds of peaceful protestors
• Takes place in 2 BBY
• Mon Mothma publicly blames Palpatine
• In Legends lore, Tarkin lands his warship on tons of protestors
March 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
jj abrams: "omg what if chewbacca finally got the medal that he didn't get in the original movie!"
tony gilroy: "German Sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) once said that a government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence--"
tony gilroy: "German Sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) once said that a government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence--"
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Ludic Lemur is developing the Monsterhearts TTRPG, created by Canadian designer Avery Alder @lackingceremony.bsky.social of Buried Without Ceremony, into a computer game.
Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake will launch on Kickstarter in the summer of 2025.
www.ludiclemur.com/monsterhearts
Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake will launch on Kickstarter in the summer of 2025.
www.ludiclemur.com/monsterhearts
Monsterhearts
A Cards-Based RPG About the Messy Lives of Teenage Monsters
www.ludiclemur.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Ludic Lemur is developing the Monsterhearts TTRPG, created by Canadian designer Avery Alder @lackingceremony.bsky.social of Buried Without Ceremony, into a computer game.
Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake will launch on Kickstarter in the summer of 2025.
www.ludiclemur.com/monsterhearts
Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake will launch on Kickstarter in the summer of 2025.
www.ludiclemur.com/monsterhearts
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watch I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024)
March 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
watch I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024)
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I've called American politics a death cult before, but this beggars understanding. They are gorging themselves on misery for no reason but a love of human pain and annihilation.
February 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I've called American politics a death cult before, but this beggars understanding. They are gorging themselves on misery for no reason but a love of human pain and annihilation.
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People born Catholic: I swear, if Ginny DiMinico makes baked ziti one more time.
Adult Catholic converts:
Adult Catholic converts:
February 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
People born Catholic: I swear, if Ginny DiMinico makes baked ziti one more time.
Adult Catholic converts:
Adult Catholic converts:
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One of the most underrated cultural divides in America is between people who know and care what motion smoothing is and people who still don't. The anti-smoothers went for Kamala by 20 points, minimum.
February 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
One of the most underrated cultural divides in America is between people who know and care what motion smoothing is and people who still don't. The anti-smoothers went for Kamala by 20 points, minimum.
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for all the ways the United States of America have made the world a palpably worse place to live for billions and billions of human beings, the USPS is such a triumph of organization and people barely see it or think about it
you *have* to save the USPS
you *have* to save the USPS
February 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
for all the ways the United States of America have made the world a palpably worse place to live for billions and billions of human beings, the USPS is such a triumph of organization and people barely see it or think about it
you *have* to save the USPS
you *have* to save the USPS
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Breaking Bad Creator Calls For "Less Grimdark And More Hopepunk". "We need more wholesome and cozy media," said Gilligan. "Perhaps about a witch trying to find her lost cat in a ghibli-esque world"
February 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Breaking Bad Creator Calls For "Less Grimdark And More Hopepunk". "We need more wholesome and cozy media," said Gilligan. "Perhaps about a witch trying to find her lost cat in a ghibli-esque world"
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Trump: I AM A KING!
NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"
NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"
February 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Trump: I AM A KING!
NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"
NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"
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Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
February 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
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The United States is now an open kleptocracy. The Constitution has been suspended to allow the wealthiest man in the world to loot and destroy the federal government.
Elon Musk is working to transform X, his social media platform, into a virtual wallet where people can send money to each other. Digital payment platforms have come under intense scrutiny by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but that is likely to ease.
Elon Musk’s Attacks on CFPB Remove Obstacle to Building ‘X Money’
Former officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Elon Musk’s payment-business aspirations were driving his efforts to hobble the agency.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The United States is now an open kleptocracy. The Constitution has been suspended to allow the wealthiest man in the world to loot and destroy the federal government.
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You are not entitled to a fixed and unchanging neighborhood character.
Cities are not museums. Neighborhoods change. We desperately need housing, and we can't let voices like these derail needed development.
February 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
You are not entitled to a fixed and unchanging neighborhood character.
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well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough
February 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough
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Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer
February 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer
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Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
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Just last week Sam Altman and Marc Andreesen were saying us poors would have to accept new levels of poverty in order to reorganize society around AI instead a single Chinese developer wiped out $1 trillion of hype overnight by releasing the free Flappy Bird version lol
Deepseek could be an extinction-level event for some venture capital firms," per Axios
January 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Just last week Sam Altman and Marc Andreesen were saying us poors would have to accept new levels of poverty in order to reorganize society around AI instead a single Chinese developer wiped out $1 trillion of hype overnight by releasing the free Flappy Bird version lol
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we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
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I love this for them. I hope they're all wiped out.
January 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I love this for them. I hope they're all wiped out.
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Had this sitting in my HD since July 2022, unreleased. I finally decided to just throw it up on itch for free, today. Enjoy.
Building Mirrors//Setting Fires is the complete collected works of mecha illustrations I made of Friends at the Table's Twilight Mirage.
sifsweetman.itch.io/building-mir...
Building Mirrors//Setting Fires is the complete collected works of mecha illustrations I made of Friends at the Table's Twilight Mirage.
sifsweetman.itch.io/building-mir...
January 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Had this sitting in my HD since July 2022, unreleased. I finally decided to just throw it up on itch for free, today. Enjoy.
Building Mirrors//Setting Fires is the complete collected works of mecha illustrations I made of Friends at the Table's Twilight Mirage.
sifsweetman.itch.io/building-mir...
Building Mirrors//Setting Fires is the complete collected works of mecha illustrations I made of Friends at the Table's Twilight Mirage.
sifsweetman.itch.io/building-mir...
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What’s an ashcan — and why are people so excited about Austin Walker’s?
What’s an ashcan — and why are people so excited about Austin Walker’s?
The Realis ashcan is the latest installation of a century old tradition
buff.ly
January 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What’s an ashcan — and why are people so excited about Austin Walker’s?
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Again: do not accept anything less than this from any of them
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Again: do not accept anything less than this from any of them