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user experience strategist ✦ hermeticist ✦ flâneur ✦ recovering natural philosopher ✦ nerdy & geeky

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · Apr 28

I put together a proper website

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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.

Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com

Arizona Public Service killed my mother

www.APSKilledMyMom.com

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12h

Time magazine is owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who just came out as a Trump supporter and said it would be great if he sent the National Guard to invade San Francisco

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 9h

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Then you realise it’s just yesterday's tear gas and pepper spray being kicked up by passing feet and cars.
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Josh tells me that ICE •used• to sit next to a school, but the school had to move because the kids were choking on tear gas all the time.
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Fingers on Their Triggers

Peacefully protesting under the watchful eyes of federal agents.

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Ryan Smith @rysmith.bsky.social · 10h

For Spooktober, we will be doing a meditation which helps you commune with the dead.
#HeathenSky #WitchSky #PaganSky #DruidSky #Religion #Spirituality #Meditation #Podcast #Halloween #Spooktober

Meditation - Reaching Into the Mound

For Spooktober, we will be doing a meditation which helps you commune with the dead. It helps for this meditation to have a picture or possession of the dead

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 10h

YES

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 10h

A thing I admire about how Scorsese portrays violence, not that Bad Fans get it

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12h

I get the sense that a staggeringly high percentage of guys who earnestly say with some regularity “fuck around and find out” simply do not understand that the real life versions of the street or bar fight they are picturing typically last a few seconds, don’t have defined winners, and look stupid

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 13h

I think businesses asking people to rate every single experience has furthered this damage. We shouldn't have this many opinions about this many things, and we certainly shouldn't expect other busy people to care if we do.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 12h

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 11h

Don’t engage my stubbornness to get me interested in Abundance again, please

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

hhngngngngngngn

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, and plenty of parliamentary systems cannot form a government. And and and.

But I am feeling urgency about the particular problem of fascism.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 12h

I have crackpot ideas!

JK @miniver.bsky.social · Aug 26

Restless about the gawdawful American electoral system, I have come up with a crackpot proposal for a system for electing a legislature or other body of respresentatives. It seems so simple and elegant to me that I cannot understand why I cannot find anyone else proposing it.

A novel system for proportional representation with ranked ballots

Personal blog of Jonathan Korman

miniver.blogspot.com

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 12h

Just so

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

I have been skeptical of my own enthusiasm for parliamentary proportional representation — the grass is always greener — but it is demonstrably necessary to make a popular front against fascism possible

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · May 28

Agree substantively, but it suggests something that's become clearer to me in the last few days: the absolute non-negotiability of multi-partyism as the key remedy for the US's present authoritarian slide.

There is no stable escape from where we are that doesn't break up the existing parties.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · May 28

One Real Problems party, folks. If the policy problem you care about is not some version of “people I hate are insufficiently subjugated”, there is one (1) game in town. Yes, even basic good-government stuff. Yes, even things that would be in the self-interest of GOP constituencies like businesses.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

Spooktober sleeper:

‘Hellhole (Ostatnia wieczerza)’ gives us a haunted monastery with zero surprises but perfect atmosphere.

A very haunted tree. Candles. Secret passages. And of course …

So. Much. Skulking.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

Convincing

Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 14h

The version of Mark I subscribe to ends with the stone rolled away, Jesus vanished, and the disciples terrified.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

Gold!

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

Legit.

I confess that I have a soft spot for the Gospel Of John, which (based on zero scholarship) I am tempted to take as partly an attempt to draw on J’s style.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

Our Latchkey Kids brought Eliot Rappaport back from the other side, but did not have the heart to tell his aunt that he won’t make it to his 14th birthday

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

I’m in the middle of a LONG Public Access campaign and enjoying the heck out of it

Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 18h

Big announcement: Public Access is now Pay What You Want on @drivethrurpg.com! Public Access is our hit game about analog horror and childhood trauma, Carved from Brindlewood. Pick up a copy today!

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Public Access - The Gauntlet | DriveThruRPG

A roleplaying game of analog horror, based on the Brindlewood Bay mystery system! Public Access is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people in 2004—the Deep Lake Latchkeys—who find themselv...

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 13h

I see your Gospel Of Mark and raise you the Book Of J, which makes every single word work for a living

Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 14h

The greatest, most literarily interesting prose narrative from antiquity is the Gospel of Mark. Eat it Thucydides

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Apr 28

There are many, many experiments that test bugs in how you effortlessly create the illusion that your sight and hearing are synchronized. It's easy to convince you that you heard a bell significantly before or after it actually rang.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 15h

Thread about how yes, Trump was instrumental to the Gaza ceasefire but we should not give him “credit” for it

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 21h

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 16h

I have been thinking a bit about a continuum which looks like

known
settled
strong consensus
weak consensus
disputed
plausible
legitimate
illegitimate

Plus of course …

JK @miniver.bsky.social · 16h

Thread on the intersection of Portland cultural politics and political culture

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 18h

You can arrest us or pepper spray us or whatever, but we will make you look stupid and feel silly doing it because wanting to assert control is stupid. You want to assert control? Do it to an inflatable frog!
So, it’s not just a meme thing, it’s a Portland cultural thing.

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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 16h

Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay!

a native woman with her middle finger extended.

FUCK CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

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