J-P Treen
@jptreen.bsky.social
I am at heart a Kindly Troll. These days my sort are endangered. Out-competed online by virulent Greater Trolls, we often hide in forced earnestness, or on Reddit, while we await a time when it's again safe to ask daft questions.
Fines of up to 10% of worldwide revenue. They do have options here should they choose to use them.
January 12, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Fines of up to 10% of worldwide revenue. They do have options here should they choose to use them.
Ha. Essay Tactic #1: Attack the Question:
How does this visual hurt them? Reform value obedience over coherence, no?
They're playing a different game. When a 'vanquished foe bends the knee' it's possibly even *better* if it's embarrassing, degrading. Brings to mind Trump making RFK eat McDonalds.
How does this visual hurt them? Reform value obedience over coherence, no?
They're playing a different game. When a 'vanquished foe bends the knee' it's possibly even *better* if it's embarrassing, degrading. Brings to mind Trump making RFK eat McDonalds.
January 12, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Ha. Essay Tactic #1: Attack the Question:
How does this visual hurt them? Reform value obedience over coherence, no?
They're playing a different game. When a 'vanquished foe bends the knee' it's possibly even *better* if it's embarrassing, degrading. Brings to mind Trump making RFK eat McDonalds.
How does this visual hurt them? Reform value obedience over coherence, no?
They're playing a different game. When a 'vanquished foe bends the knee' it's possibly even *better* if it's embarrassing, degrading. Brings to mind Trump making RFK eat McDonalds.
That was incorrect. Now, allow me to explain how it was incorrect as inelegantly as possible.
January 11, 2026 at 7:19 PM
That was incorrect. Now, allow me to explain how it was incorrect as inelegantly as possible.
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but to see a woman say with kindness "I'm not mad at you" before being murdered by state authorities, who have now gone on to claim her killing was just and right, and we're here making the case she was acting with righteousness and killed unjustly
this is just Martyrdom
this is just Martyrdom
January 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
but to see a woman say with kindness "I'm not mad at you" before being murdered by state authorities, who have now gone on to claim her killing was just and right, and we're here making the case she was acting with righteousness and killed unjustly
this is just Martyrdom
this is just Martyrdom
You have more reposts already on this 9-minute-old post.
January 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
You have more reposts already on this 9-minute-old post.
Might it not follow that if the job were a better one, better people would apply?
January 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Might it not follow that if the job were a better one, better people would apply?
I'd like to steal that, thank you.
Too many of them don't know what they want to do. They never knew what they wanted to do.
Too many of them don't know what they want to do. They never knew what they wanted to do.
January 8, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I'd like to steal that, thank you.
Too many of them don't know what they want to do. They never knew what they wanted to do.
Too many of them don't know what they want to do. They never knew what they wanted to do.
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
Future Man
A show which had no right to get so good or end so well.
A show which had no right to get so good or end so well.
January 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Future Man
A show which had no right to get so good or end so well.
A show which had no right to get so good or end so well.
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I was trying to google the exchange rate, and you don't see this every day.
January 6, 2026 at 8:17 PM
I was trying to google the exchange rate, and you don't see this every day.
Nice. I remember this *chart-fight* from Michael Caley. Really stuck with me.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
bsky.app/profile/mich...
this report is really good stuff
I love these charts, which are fascinating just for thinking about data and storytelling
both charts a) display data correctly and b) tell you something true and important about the world
and they're very, very different www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-ins...
I love these charts, which are fascinating just for thinking about data and storytelling
both charts a) display data correctly and b) tell you something true and important about the world
and they're very, very different www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-ins...
January 6, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Nice. I remember this *chart-fight* from Michael Caley. Really stuck with me.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
bsky.app/profile/mich...
I was trying to google the exchange rate, and you don't see this every day.
January 6, 2026 at 8:17 PM
I was trying to google the exchange rate, and you don't see this every day.
I partly want a ‘fake Basil Liddell-Hart’ to write a new ‘The other side of the Hill’ with interviews of people who do this. I fear it would be short and…sad.
January 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I partly want a ‘fake Basil Liddell-Hart’ to write a new ‘The other side of the Hill’ with interviews of people who do this. I fear it would be short and…sad.
We speak only in nothings, for we carry no stick.
It's abject. At this point it's like we're using our helplessness as an excuse to remain helpless.
It's abject. At this point it's like we're using our helplessness as an excuse to remain helpless.
January 4, 2026 at 11:12 AM
We speak only in nothings, for we carry no stick.
It's abject. At this point it's like we're using our helplessness as an excuse to remain helpless.
It's abject. At this point it's like we're using our helplessness as an excuse to remain helpless.
Does this count as the most expensive kidnapping ever?
January 4, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Does this count as the most expensive kidnapping ever?
If accurate, this would be unprecedented. Several steps beyond 2022.
January 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
If accurate, this would be unprecedented. Several steps beyond 2022.
Domestic Analogy: If I tried to argue to my family that eating pizza, fish fingers, and then pie at successive meals meant that next time we want Canadian-Ethiopian food, I’d be looked at funny both because nobody knows exactly what I’m asking for and also because I didn’t make an argument.
January 2, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Domestic Analogy: If I tried to argue to my family that eating pizza, fish fingers, and then pie at successive meals meant that next time we want Canadian-Ethiopian food, I’d be looked at funny both because nobody knows exactly what I’m asking for and also because I didn’t make an argument.
Ensuring the right people (and right quantity of people) are accessing your flat.
Useful for subletting/cleaners/trades. Also paranoia.
Useful for subletting/cleaners/trades. Also paranoia.
December 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Ensuring the right people (and right quantity of people) are accessing your flat.
Useful for subletting/cleaners/trades. Also paranoia.
Useful for subletting/cleaners/trades. Also paranoia.
In a Nicholas II sort of way, or a 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington' sort of way?
December 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
In a Nicholas II sort of way, or a 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington' sort of way?
It's Anyone But You, because recency bias makes this 2023 film that much better than any of yours regardless of any other relative merits of the films.
It's also really good though.
It's also really good though.
December 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It's Anyone But You, because recency bias makes this 2023 film that much better than any of yours regardless of any other relative merits of the films.
It's also really good though.
It's also really good though.
Dudley Moore? What about Patrick Moore!?
December 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Dudley Moore? What about Patrick Moore!?
Phil Silvers (Sgt. Bilko).
Although I have watched a few episodes of Bilko with my 11 year old and unlike most of the stuff I'm seeing here, it still works.
Although I have watched a few episodes of Bilko with my 11 year old and unlike most of the stuff I'm seeing here, it still works.
December 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Phil Silvers (Sgt. Bilko).
Although I have watched a few episodes of Bilko with my 11 year old and unlike most of the stuff I'm seeing here, it still works.
Although I have watched a few episodes of Bilko with my 11 year old and unlike most of the stuff I'm seeing here, it still works.
The mirror of the 2020s is kind only to Ozempic users.
December 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The mirror of the 2020s is kind only to Ozempic users.