Jeff Stevens
@kuratowa.bsky.social
80% water. 20% karaoke, theatre, pop culture, board gaming, hiking, travel, reading. Natural state: happy and confused.
The number 1 film when you were 10 years old will be how 2026 goes.
2026: 40 years of darkness, rivers and seas boiling, the dead rising from the grave, dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria.
That tracks.
2026: 40 years of darkness, rivers and seas boiling, the dead rising from the grave, dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria.
That tracks.
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The number 1 film when you were 10 years old will be how 2026 goes.
2026: 40 years of darkness, rivers and seas boiling, the dead rising from the grave, dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria.
That tracks.
2026: 40 years of darkness, rivers and seas boiling, the dead rising from the grave, dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria.
That tracks.
Eviscerating the local economies of tourist-dependent towns while virtue signaling xenophobia. Completely on brand for this toxic administration.
The Trump administration is raising national parks' prices and adding fees for international tourists from next year in an "America-first" initiative, the Interior Department announced.
Trump admin hikes national parks prices by up to $170 for international tourists
The Interior Department said the "America-first" policy will see "resident-only patriotic fee-free days" on some holidays.
www.axios.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Eviscerating the local economies of tourist-dependent towns while virtue signaling xenophobia. Completely on brand for this toxic administration.
Remember how in Schwarzenegger’s version of the Running Man, the story begins when the military is deployed to California? And Ben is ordered to open fire on starving people in the Bakersfield food riots?
What a crazy, unrealistic dystopia, right? Anyway, the Running Man remake is coming out soon.
What a crazy, unrealistic dystopia, right? Anyway, the Running Man remake is coming out soon.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Remember how in Schwarzenegger’s version of the Running Man, the story begins when the military is deployed to California? And Ben is ordered to open fire on starving people in the Bakersfield food riots?
What a crazy, unrealistic dystopia, right? Anyway, the Running Man remake is coming out soon.
What a crazy, unrealistic dystopia, right? Anyway, the Running Man remake is coming out soon.
“I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.”
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.”
Billy Joel could take the last two weeks of news and turn We Didn’t Start the Fire into an operetta.
September 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Billy Joel could take the last two weeks of news and turn We Didn’t Start the Fire into an operetta.
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
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“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”
Opinion | Concentration camps are not just part of our past, but our present and future
From David M. Perry: From Minnesota’s Fort Snelling to Japanese internment camps to Florida's Alligator Alcatraz, these camps have become an American tradition.
www.startribune.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”
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We finally have the State Department Human Rights reports 6 months late, and it's hard to overstate how bad they are. These will get people killed. Specifically, women and LGBTQ folks have just been written out of these reports. Good luck applying for asylum... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio recasts long-held beliefs with cuts to U.S. human rights reports
The State Department’s annual human rights reports arrive a half-year late with significant cuts and little fanfare from America’s top diplomat.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We finally have the State Department Human Rights reports 6 months late, and it's hard to overstate how bad they are. These will get people killed. Specifically, women and LGBTQ folks have just been written out of these reports. Good luck applying for asylum... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.
I’m Not Panicking. I’m Outraged.
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.
Every day I hope to wake up to see John Quinones walk up to the White House podium and say “Hello America, for the last six months you’ve been on ‘What Would You Do?’”
July 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Every day I hope to wake up to see John Quinones walk up to the White House podium and say “Hello America, for the last six months you’ve been on ‘What Would You Do?’”
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One man cannot, overnight, change a fact as written in thousands of copies of hundreds of different books across the world's libraries.
But under pressure from the politicians or guided by his own depravity, he can rewrite history overnight by altering the output of the LLM he owns.
But under pressure from the politicians or guided by his own depravity, he can rewrite history overnight by altering the output of the LLM he owns.
July 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
One man cannot, overnight, change a fact as written in thousands of copies of hundreds of different books across the world's libraries.
But under pressure from the politicians or guided by his own depravity, he can rewrite history overnight by altering the output of the LLM he owns.
But under pressure from the politicians or guided by his own depravity, he can rewrite history overnight by altering the output of the LLM he owns.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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We as a nation went from “why should I get vaccinated, the government will track me, microchips, blah blah blah” and then immediately into “I trust AI with all my personal info, it’s my best friend, I tell it everything”- and that makes zero sense to me.
July 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We as a nation went from “why should I get vaccinated, the government will track me, microchips, blah blah blah” and then immediately into “I trust AI with all my personal info, it’s my best friend, I tell it everything”- and that makes zero sense to me.
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it is going to take so much love and kindness to deal with the amount of hate and violence we are going to experience.
we need to be as sweet with each other as we are brutal with them. we need to have as much love for each other as we have hate for the fascists.
together is the only way.
we need to be as sweet with each other as we are brutal with them. we need to have as much love for each other as we have hate for the fascists.
together is the only way.
July 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
it is going to take so much love and kindness to deal with the amount of hate and violence we are going to experience.
we need to be as sweet with each other as we are brutal with them. we need to have as much love for each other as we have hate for the fascists.
together is the only way.
we need to be as sweet with each other as we are brutal with them. we need to have as much love for each other as we have hate for the fascists.
together is the only way.
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Dismantling our collective social obligation to care for one another to fund the gestapo and tax cuts for the rich isn't just a moral failure: It will ultimately hurt everyone, incuding those self-same rich people who are about to find out how much the safety net affects their daily lives.
July 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Dismantling our collective social obligation to care for one another to fund the gestapo and tax cuts for the rich isn't just a moral failure: It will ultimately hurt everyone, incuding those self-same rich people who are about to find out how much the safety net affects their daily lives.
The cat distribution system brought a cat to work today. Meet Fizzgig Snarf. I won’t accept any other name.
April 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The cat distribution system brought a cat to work today. Meet Fizzgig Snarf. I won’t accept any other name.
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American president sending random people to a torture prison run by a suave central american dictator seems like the plot of a lesser Arnold Schwartzenegger movie from the early 90s
April 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
American president sending random people to a torture prison run by a suave central american dictator seems like the plot of a lesser Arnold Schwartzenegger movie from the early 90s
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Mark your calendars! Several 18F alumni are speaking at this free virtual event on Tuesday, April 15.
🫂Colin Murphy, Lena Trudeau, Patrick Kigongo, and Hillary Hartley are joining us at #FWD50!
📍 11:30 AM EDT
📍 RSVP on Access under "The talks" : bit.ly/4lpTOPF
This conversation is too important to miss.
📍 11:30 AM EDT
📍 RSVP on Access under "The talks" : bit.ly/4lpTOPF
This conversation is too important to miss.
April 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Mark your calendars! Several 18F alumni are speaking at this free virtual event on Tuesday, April 15.
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Looking on the bright side I've always wanted to read the sequels to John Steinbeck's books
April 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Looking on the bright side I've always wanted to read the sequels to John Steinbeck's books
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.
April 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.
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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
Finds things that spark joy. Like this Type 2 phaser. Or that I Like Pile pin. Thanks, John, for making the end of this week much more happy.
March 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Finds things that spark joy. Like this Type 2 phaser. Or that I Like Pile pin. Thanks, John, for making the end of this week much more happy.
Foggy Nelson is on a trip to Tahiti. I hear it’s a magical place.
March 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Foggy Nelson is on a trip to Tahiti. I hear it’s a magical place.