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Stefan E. Jones

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Post-employed/Self-employed. Generation Jones. TTRPG author, maker, rocketeer, tech geek, political volunteer. @[email protected] #MakeGoodTrouble

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · Oct 26

Enough with the portentous Death of Democracy whinging.

Enough with filling out your Autocracy Bingo Cards.

Enough with mournfully quoting Hanna Arendt.

Get together, get active, organize, #MakeGoodTrouble, fundraise, lobby, litigate, protest and fight back.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 34m

There is a playbook for what they're doing:

"Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism"

About the book: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Free download: d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net/open-access/...

d119vjm4apzmdm.cloudfront.net

Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 40m

Doomscrolling break.

Geek cripes, "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free" is one totally-not-fucking-around lyric.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b5d...

Battle Hymn of the Republic

YouTube video by Release - Topic

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 42m

Made a cheesecake yesterday. Added a can of cherry glop this afternoon.

As soon as I get back from walking Daphne I'm having a slice.

Last year's version:

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 47m

tl;dl:

isportlandburning.com

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1h

Is Portland "burning to the ground?" A new website has the answer.

Want to know if Portland is 'burning to the ground'? There's a website for that

Is Portland "burning to the ground?" A new website has the answer.

www.oregonlive.com

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 59m

Just saw GFM update.

Hope you can get home soon and start treatments in earnest.

#FuckCancer

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Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

gofund.me

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 2h

Every Portland school has a carefully guarded window with glass in it that teachers use to show children who grew up in a world of plywood what the before-times were like.

Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 2h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

(hat tip @kokomojoe.bsky.social)

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 2h

Please.

If you can manage it physically, make plans to attend a No Kings rally on October 18th.

Even if it is you and a few friends standing on the corners of a local intersection, waving protest signs.

Poster for the No Kings protests.

Symbol of a crown with red slashes over it.

Next:

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE

NO KINGS. OCTOBER 18

NOKINGS.ORG

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 2h

They give bags of hammers someone to look down on.

Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 2h

"One of the founders of antifa."

So, like, someone who fought in the Spanish Civil War?

You have to give them credit, these dumbfucks are really committed to their bit.

Screenshot of a social media post by @Acyn, with a video frame of a press conference with Donald Trump and Kristi Noem.

Text:

"Noem: One of the individuals we arrested recently was the girlfriend of
one of the founders of antifa and we’re hoping as we go after her and
prosecute her, we'll get more and more information about the network
and how we can root them out and eliminate them from the existence of
American society."

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 7h

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 7h

I salvaged an very impressive-looking, control-rich black leather office chair from the meeting room of my old office.

Sitting in it exacerbated my sciatic nerve problems.

I eventually replaced it with a relatively cheap ergonomic office chair from Costco. AMAZING difference.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 7h

You are not alone.
Find your community out there.
Find them haunting used bookstores.
Find them telling tall tales in dark taverns.
Find them shambling in mossy forests, communing with others in the gloom.

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven't joined my Patreon yet, here's what you're missing:
www.patreon.com/jonrosenberg

A screaming cheezburger with eyes and a mouth with onion teeth and somehow a tongue

A giant cyber potato monster makes a BWEEN noise

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 12h

I think Pritzker is spot on.

🍊🐷 blathers about (obsolete) battleships and fantasizes about send the elite 82nd Airborne to Portland, where they'd be bored, useless, resentful, and resented.

A failing, frustrated old man trying to feel relevant and powerful.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/g...

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 13h

This could work.

Due to the rising costs of medical
tests, all you can do is pee under a
tree and wait a bit:

If ants gather = diabetes.

If grass dries up = high salts.

If it smells like BBQ = high
cholesterol.

If you forget to pull up your pants,
you got Alzheimer's.

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Washington County Democrats @washcodems.bsky.social · 14h

Scenes of carnage and destruction on the streets of Portland.

Spread this widely. The world must know. 😂

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 23h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 14h

Portland is having none of it.

bsky.app/profile/cour...

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 23h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 23h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 14h

Yikes.

Practice chocolate layer cake layers came out flat and dense.

Realized, after reading recipe, that I put in three times the baking powder called for.

And next time I'm using a faster hand mixer to get the sugar & butter fluffier.

Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 1d

Exhausted from a day of baking and dog walking.

The Dark Gray Puppy* is lurking about. Going to watch happy stupid TV until it leaves.

Maybe finish rewatching Hundreds of Beavers.

*A mild version of the Black Dog.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 1d

These hurtful, threatening times fill me with sadness and anger. But I will not let my anger make me cruel or unfeeling, especially towards those I hold dear. Our enemies have not earned our kindness, but nor have they earned the right to strip us of ours.

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't shoot them, dig a pit and hope they can't read.

Landscaping by side of a road. A square has been spray painted on the turf. Inside are the worlds BORE PIT.