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John Bowe

@johnbowethejoker.bsky.social

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Creating dumb solutions to dumb problems.

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John Bowe @johnbowethejoker.bsky.social · Mar 10

I once worked a 3rd shift by myself because the dude who was supposed to be serving passed out from a coke binge.

A drunk girl and her drunk friends came in during the bar rush, and besides being cool as shit, she popped her tits out on the high bar so I'd make her hash browns with extra love.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one

Rudy Giuliani on Facebook posting a photo of the twin towers burning on 911 superimposed with his own face and the message "New York, you forgot"

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

The “Jenga Tower” economy is some pretty vivid framing.

@bloomberg.com @jessefelder.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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John Bowe @johnbowethejoker.bsky.social · 3h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

We’re hiring!

Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.

Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 4h

I feel seen by this monument; me and my 100kg skullfaced boulder

photo of the Parable With Skull statue in Prague by Podobenstvi S Lebkou

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 5h

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 12h

People will be mad at me for saying this, but I think we have to do it. Nothing is more important for the future of this country, and indeed humanity, than the app that makes you schizophrenic and helps you forget how to learn. The juice is worth the squeeze.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.

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John Bowe @johnbowethejoker.bsky.social · 6h

Whoopsiedoodle

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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 14h

lol

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 6h

The assassination of Julius Caesar might have gone very differently if he had a couple of droidekas to back him up

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John Bowe @johnbowethejoker.bsky.social · 6h

I turn 34 today. Can't help feeling rather pathetic.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

Page One.

@theguardian.com #ICE

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 8h

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire Space X fanboy picked to take over NASA, plans to eviscerate the agency

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7h

India is repatriating on Thursday the first batch of hundreds of its nationals who last month fled to Thailand from Myanmar, where most had been working at a notorious center for online scams.

Indians who fled a Myanmar cyberscam center are being flown home from Thailand

India is repatriating the first batch of hundreds of its nationals who last month fled to Thailand from Myanmar, where most had been working at a notorious center for online scams.

bit.ly

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Mom @milph.mom · 15h

Starting to think all of the repetitious abandoned ruin environments in 90s Japanese post-apocalyptic RPGs were data centers.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 16h

i am so ready for the eight-part docuseries about all of this

One of the men arrested on suspicion of stealing €88m (£77m) of crown jewels from the Louvre museum is a minor social media star with a passion for motorbikes who has worked as a security guard at the Pompidou centre, French media have reported.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery

absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18h

the first what now

Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC

Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict

www.theguardian.com

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John Bowe @johnbowethejoker.bsky.social · 15h

Here's a briefcase of money, can you be in the green room in 15?

John Bowe @johnbowethejoker.bsky.social · 15h

That'd be pretty lit

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Cool Mecha Art @coolmechaart.bsky.social · 1d

Blastoise from Pokémon (ポケットモンスター) by Yunimaru

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 16h

been having a chuckle about this. looking on that subreddit, the mods are constantly running searches for and deleting posts that mention mamdani. the posters have been saying things like "the frontrunner for mayor" and so on to evade getting banned lol

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

The Reddit community r/Democrats has a conspicuous absence of any news about Zohran Mamdani today. But that's by design.

The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.

www.reddit.com/r/democrats/

5. R5: NO POSTS ABOUT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OR THIRD PARTIES
Posts & Comments
Reported as: R5: No posts about Democratic Socialists or Third Parties
• No posts about Democratic socialists
• Do not promote Independent politicians
• Do not promote events held by Independents or third parties
• Do not promote any form of Democratic socialism, socialism, Leninism, Marxism or communism.
• Do not promote other political parties or its members.
• Do not promote other political ideologies.
• Users that participate in a brigade will be banned without any warning

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Travis Baldree @travisbaldree.bsky.social · 16h

The AI generated scam emails from nonexistent book groups (that try to extract some sort of fee) and phony book marketing/promotion ‘experts’, both trying to scam vulnerable authors, are out of control. The sheer number I receive daily is nuts.
AI generation makes them un-filterable.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Ebro: Your boy was just on 60 Minutes, Cuomo, saying that you're his guy!

Cuomo: No.

Ebro: Trump said you're his candidate.

Cuomo: *ends call*

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

I'm not sure there's anyone on the planet who deserved to celebrate the defeat of Andrew Cuomo more than Lindsey, who had unimaginable amounts of courage in coming forward and continuing to push until he suffered actual consequences for sexual harassment

thrilled for her

Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 22h

Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari

Me cheering with one hand up. Holding jacket eyes closed smiling screaming

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

“Idle facility activations” mostly refers to CoreCivic bringing unused private prisons online — to be used by ICE.

In 2023, California stopped using a massive prison which CoreCivic had built in the California desert in the 90s. It sat empty until August. Now it’s ICE’s largest jail.

KQED

THE CALIFORNIA REPORT
Facility In California City Expected To Be State's Largest Migrant Detention Center

By Keith Mizuguchi
Jul 2, 2025

A photo of a large complex of buildings in the Mojave desert. It looks desolate. It is a large prison. Underneath the photo is this caption from KQED: Exterior of a shuttered 2,500-bed prison in California City, which is expected to be transformed into the state's largest immigrant detention center. (Saul Gonzalez/The California Report)

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