Jack Badelaire
@jbadelaire.bsky.social
Novelist from Boston. Career in Higher Ed academic support. 48 y/o Cat Dad. Posts a lot about old books, food, and drinks. Occasionally tells other guys how to dress better. Supports writers and artists. He/Him
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Jack Badelaire
@jbadelaire.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Fellow authors, I love you all, but this is not Twitter. Please think about ditching that habit of repeatedly spamming the same link to your one book over and over again. Post your pets, share a photo of the flowers you saw today. Bring some Joy here with you, we all need it now more than ever.
I'm so sorry but why do I always forget that ZZ Top actually fuckin' slaps?
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm so sorry but why do I always forget that ZZ Top actually fuckin' slaps?
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Episode 393: #TheFifthElement Bruce Willis smirks his way through this sci-fi silliness as a cab driver tasked with helping a sexy supreme savior safeguard the solar system from a sinister sphere. Get your mool-tee pass at soundcloud.com/murmanproductions.
December 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Episode 393: #TheFifthElement Bruce Willis smirks his way through this sci-fi silliness as a cab driver tasked with helping a sexy supreme savior safeguard the solar system from a sinister sphere. Get your mool-tee pass at soundcloud.com/murmanproductions.
What an absolute fucking MANCHILD he is. Just astounding.
Trump has added new plaques under his ‘presidential walk of fame’ in the White House.
On Obama: “Barack Hussein Obama was the first Black President…One of the most divisive political figures in American history.”
On Biden: “Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History...”
On Obama: “Barack Hussein Obama was the first Black President…One of the most divisive political figures in American history.”
On Biden: “Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History...”
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
What an absolute fucking MANCHILD he is. Just astounding.
Man, 2nd Amendment brains are so blendered by hateful rhetoric. Every post about the shooting in Australia on Threads is crammed with snarky, sociopathic comments like "WELP SO MUCH FOR YOUR GUN CONTROL LOL" and I really do think these folks would just let children die then give up their Pew-Pews.
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Man, 2nd Amendment brains are so blendered by hateful rhetoric. Every post about the shooting in Australia on Threads is crammed with snarky, sociopathic comments like "WELP SO MUCH FOR YOUR GUN CONTROL LOL" and I really do think these folks would just let children die then give up their Pew-Pews.
I am not a Dad, but I *did* just walk the entire building at work and close every classroom door while muttering about the heat.
December 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I am not a Dad, but I *did* just walk the entire building at work and close every classroom door while muttering about the heat.
When my sister was in college she confided to our Mom that she was worried she was pregnant (she wasn't). Mom told her that if it was true, she would never speak to my sister again.
My Mom also once said "Love is my superpower". 🙄🙄🙄
My Mom also once said "Love is my superpower". 🙄🙄🙄
Welcome to the pissed-off parent pushback: After years of therapists and others encouraging adult children to cut ties with families they deem harmful or “toxic,” estranged parents are speaking out on.wsj.com/4s49U52
These Moms Are Done Being ‘Doormats’ for Their Estranged Children
Parents publicly blast their adult offspring for cutting them off, drawing tens of thousands of online followers.
on.wsj.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
When my sister was in college she confided to our Mom that she was worried she was pregnant (she wasn't). Mom told her that if it was true, she would never speak to my sister again.
My Mom also once said "Love is my superpower". 🙄🙄🙄
My Mom also once said "Love is my superpower". 🙄🙄🙄
YES. I pay a *premium* for an apartment that's close to the train stop I take to work. And even then, I run so many errands where I either have to spend hours walking and taking multiple trains / busses, or paying out for rideshares that make my errands even *more* expensive. It's all Lose / Lose.
I know it's too much to read the words that many of us write, but what we are actually mad about are systems that force people into car dependency and policy choices that mean living somewhere walkable and bikeable with robust public transit is ridiculously expensive. We want to fix this!
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
YES. I pay a *premium* for an apartment that's close to the train stop I take to work. And even then, I run so many errands where I either have to spend hours walking and taking multiple trains / busses, or paying out for rideshares that make my errands even *more* expensive. It's all Lose / Lose.
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As someone who does not drive due to vision issues & who lives in an area where living without a car is very difficult and expensive, I resent people treating carlessness as some sort of pious luxury. Everyone I know outside major cities who doesn't have a car is disabled or poor.
I know it's too much to read the words that many of us write, but what we are actually mad about are systems that force people into car dependency and policy choices that mean living somewhere walkable and bikeable with robust public transit is ridiculously expensive. We want to fix this!
December 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
As someone who does not drive due to vision issues & who lives in an area where living without a car is very difficult and expensive, I resent people treating carlessness as some sort of pious luxury. Everyone I know outside major cities who doesn't have a car is disabled or poor.
Imagine knowing you're the consolation prize for a woman who'd gone after a dude whose bedside table looked like this:
December 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Imagine knowing you're the consolation prize for a woman who'd gone after a dude whose bedside table looked like this:
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Dropped this one a little early, for your holiday travel listening pleasure! It's freaky and loud and dark (but still light, you know?). All I want for Xmas is for you to listen and share!
Merry GenXmas! Holiday tales about mean cats, ogres, cannibalism, ghost horses, setting stuff on fire & more. Music by Alice Bag, Siouxsie & the Banshees, the Dickies, the Linda Lindas, & more. This one's not a kiddie show, kids!
Free/Ad-free/No Ai
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Free/Ad-free/No Ai
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Late w/Taffeta V. - Xmas 2025
'Tis the season! OK so this one is not a kiddie show - traditional holiday tales about mean cats and ogres and like, so much cannibalism. Music from Alice Bag, the Linda Lindas, the Dickies, the Cute ...
www.mixcloud.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Dropped this one a little early, for your holiday travel listening pleasure! It's freaky and loud and dark (but still light, you know?). All I want for Xmas is for you to listen and share!
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AI is not here to cure cancer, it's here to get specific, individualized data on us to maximize the amount of money extracted from us to make billionaires into trillionaires. Period. Right now, tech companies have a social graph of us. Like, they know I'm a millennial Minnesotan suburban mom.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
AI is not here to cure cancer, it's here to get specific, individualized data on us to maximize the amount of money extracted from us to make billionaires into trillionaires. Period. Right now, tech companies have a social graph of us. Like, they know I'm a millennial Minnesotan suburban mom.
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Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.
What if people just need more health and financial security and a fuckin' break from chaos and a little whimsy in their lives instead of tripling their electricity bills to feed the Billionaires' slop machines?
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What if people just need more health and financial security and a fuckin' break from chaos and a little whimsy in their lives instead of tripling their electricity bills to feed the Billionaires' slop machines?
Her: [clicking through movie choices] "Ohhhhh, THE ROCK!"
ME: "Ohhhhh, THE ROCK!"
HER: [nods, clicks Play] "It's almost like we're married or something!"
ME: "Ohhhhh, THE ROCK!"
HER: [nods, clicks Play] "It's almost like we're married or something!"
December 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Her: [clicking through movie choices] "Ohhhhh, THE ROCK!"
ME: "Ohhhhh, THE ROCK!"
HER: [nods, clicks Play] "It's almost like we're married or something!"
ME: "Ohhhhh, THE ROCK!"
HER: [nods, clicks Play] "It's almost like we're married or something!"
The speed with which certain people are just abdicating their lives to a computer they don't control is sickeningly astonishing.
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The speed with which certain people are just abdicating their lives to a computer they don't control is sickeningly astonishing.
I signed up for Nextdoor a month or two ago just to kinda lurk and see what is being discussed by my neighbors. I have now come to the conclusion that most of the people within a twenty-mile radius of me have suffered some kind of untreatable brain injury. It's actually astonishing to witness.
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I signed up for Nextdoor a month or two ago just to kinda lurk and see what is being discussed by my neighbors. I have now come to the conclusion that most of the people within a twenty-mile radius of me have suffered some kind of untreatable brain injury. It's actually astonishing to witness.
Totally for this, but also, as an urban non-driver, I'm less concerned about someone's car's top speed and more concerned with how people routinely violate low speed limits. I know fast highway driving is dangerous, but idiots doing 35-40 in a 25 routinely end people in cities.
one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech
December 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Totally for this, but also, as an urban non-driver, I'm less concerned about someone's car's top speed and more concerned with how people routinely violate low speed limits. I know fast highway driving is dangerous, but idiots doing 35-40 in a 25 routinely end people in cities.
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NEW LATE! It's Shakespeare, but I promise, it's light & fun and I'm not going to make you sit through 2 hours of Elizabethan madrigals & me doing some bad acting
Music by Rasputina, Gavin Friday, The Smiths, Tangerine Dream + more
Please share!
Free/Ad-free/No Ai
www.mixcloud.com/KOPN/late-wt...
Music by Rasputina, Gavin Friday, The Smiths, Tangerine Dream + more
Please share!
Free/Ad-free/No Ai
www.mixcloud.com/KOPN/late-wt...
Late w/Taffeta V. - Shakespeare
This one's all about the Bard - but, you know, fun a& accessible! Music by Rasputina, Gavin Friday, The Smiths, Tangerine Dream & more; I'll read from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, tell you abo...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
NEW LATE! It's Shakespeare, but I promise, it's light & fun and I'm not going to make you sit through 2 hours of Elizabethan madrigals & me doing some bad acting
Music by Rasputina, Gavin Friday, The Smiths, Tangerine Dream + more
Please share!
Free/Ad-free/No Ai
www.mixcloud.com/KOPN/late-wt...
Music by Rasputina, Gavin Friday, The Smiths, Tangerine Dream + more
Please share!
Free/Ad-free/No Ai
www.mixcloud.com/KOPN/late-wt...
When I get brave enough to finally publish my homebrew TTRPG, I'm gonna quote this on page one:
Sorry - gotta keep ranting here: OK DINGLEBERRIES TRY JUST ONCE TO BE CLEVER. Try a little to be witty, to develop actual connection & repartee with your party and your GM. Maybe develop an internal life that can inform how you play, use your senses of empathy and imagination. THAT'S WHAT IT'S ABOUT
December 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
When I get brave enough to finally publish my homebrew TTRPG, I'm gonna quote this on page one:
Folks, I had a dream that I was visiting another city and eating at a sidewalk bistro and down the street some cops were chasing after several people WHO WERE ON FIRE and I turned to someone next to me and said "life in the big city I guess" and then I decided to go sightseeing. Big yikes. 😬🤯
December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Folks, I had a dream that I was visiting another city and eating at a sidewalk bistro and down the street some cops were chasing after several people WHO WERE ON FIRE and I turned to someone next to me and said "life in the big city I guess" and then I decided to go sightseeing. Big yikes. 😬🤯
Those types of dingleberries always hate anything that makes TTRPGS more relatable. I bet he's got some really strong opinions on the introduction of the Dragonlance adventures and how they "ruined" D&D *forty friggin years ago*.
I cannot express how pathetic you have to be to believe this happened in the TTRPG hobby in the last decade
December 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Those types of dingleberries always hate anything that makes TTRPGS more relatable. I bet he's got some really strong opinions on the introduction of the Dragonlance adventures and how they "ruined" D&D *forty friggin years ago*.
Brown University, fuck. This is so awful. I've walked that campus a bunch of times. Just heartbreaking. 💔😞🫶
December 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Brown University, fuck. This is so awful. I've walked that campus a bunch of times. Just heartbreaking. 💔😞🫶
"Caked up" was the topic of conversation at the company holiday party tonight, thanks to HEATED RIVALRY.
December 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"Caked up" was the topic of conversation at the company holiday party tonight, thanks to HEATED RIVALRY.
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Very well: impulsive, small US #KindleBookGiveaway: 4 copies of The Indestructibles by @matthewphillion.bsky.social, and 4 copies of Action Figures - Issue One: Secret Origins, by @mbaileywriter.bsky.social, both of which are very good superhero novels, and the start of their respective series.
Also, while I love some of the franchises and IPs these companies own, this holiday season, as one big superhero owner goes deeeeep on AI and the other is close to being bought out by like, war-crimers, maybe scope out some indie superhero/sci-fi stuff. Might find a new favorite.
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Very well: impulsive, small US #KindleBookGiveaway: 4 copies of The Indestructibles by @matthewphillion.bsky.social, and 4 copies of Action Figures - Issue One: Secret Origins, by @mbaileywriter.bsky.social, both of which are very good superhero novels, and the start of their respective series.
NOPE. That's not my Memere, it's a chatbot pretending to be her, she wouldn't have given (and can't give) consent to this. Turning a perished loved one into some kind of Cursed Tamagotchi is fucking awful and anyone who does this is a ghoul.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
NOPE. That's not my Memere, it's a chatbot pretending to be her, she wouldn't have given (and can't give) consent to this. Turning a perished loved one into some kind of Cursed Tamagotchi is fucking awful and anyone who does this is a ghoul.