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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2h

DEBUTING NEXT WEEKEND, get your pre-orders in!

JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 20d

Pre-orders are OPEN for COLOUR INTO FOCUS, an anthology of queer and trans collage edited by @allisonanne.com and yours truly 👋. We have a stellar selection of work—31 artists from four different continents in this issue alone (the first of eight!). It's at the press now and should ship in October~

[PREORDER] Colour into Focus: Queer + Trans Collage [Issue 1: Identity/Visibility]

**This is a preorder. We anticipate shipping in October 2025. Images are a digital mockup that represents the final design and layout. There are a...

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 8h

has anybody seen these reports that the destruction of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have been reversed? this is behind a paywall and the archive.is snapshot loads a non-updated version

Deep cuts made to CDC's flagship MMWR publication reversed hours later

Deep cuts made to CDC's flagship MMWR publication have been reversed hours later.

www.statnews.com

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 13h

What is power electronics?

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Eric Badofsky @ebadofsky.bsky.social · 1d

#Chicago restaurant and business owners: Please print, post, and share these door signs. Let Homan’s bounty hunters know they’re 𝘯𝘰𝘵 welcome to invade your establishment.

NOTE: You have the right to refuse service to anyone carrying a weapon or creating a threatening atmosphere for your patrons.

Printable door sign reading:

NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IMMIGRATION AGENTS

[STOP sign symbol]

NO ICE ENTRY

• Private Property - Entry Restricted by Law In this Business Without a Judicial Warrant Signed by a Judge

• This is a private business - You are not permitted to enter non-public areas.

• You may not search the premises or question employees without proper legal authorization.

• Any persons on this property have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.

• An ICE administration warrant - Form I-200 or I-205 - does not authorize entry into private areas.

[Lower bar]

In compliance with The Constitution of the United States of America, 4th amendment and The Immigrant Worker Protection Act AB 450

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 1d

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 1d

Send him this one back

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 1d

Cole cites Marty Lederman, a former Justice Department official in the Office of Legal Counsel, who notes: "absent further facts that haven’t yet been disclosed, the strike would appear to have implicated the federal felony murder statutes."

JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 1d

David Cole, writing with moral conviction about Trump's strikes on Venezuelan boats in international waters: "In the absence of any conceivable military justification for these acts, it is difficult to view them as anything but premeditated murder, pure and simple." At the NYRB:

Getting Away with Murder | David Cole

During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose

www.nybooks.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 3d

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

I still have to get to that one!

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

Same. DRIFTS is good and I love Samatar's fantasy

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

some notes I took from Sofia Samatar & Kate Zambreno's TONE

Sofia Samatar & Kate Zambreno's TONE

Notes [oldest to newest] 1. Melancholy collage 2. Tone as "an organizing quality of feeling" 3. Trash in "The Rings of Saturn" 4. Fred Moten on "voice" and "sound" 5. Fred Moten on "university wo...

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

"director's cut"

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all ain't ready to hear this but

crimesididntcommit🏳️‍⚧️ @crimesididntcommit.bsky.social · 2d

acab includes jesse faden and all members of the federal bureau of control. if an inter-dimensional rubber duck wants to mess with our reality, we should let it do so!!!

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

I like how one of the cover lines extends out to connect to the doorknob.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“We have the money. Damn near ALL of it.”

@laurajedeed.bsky.social saying what many have been thinking — as Trump threatens to pull funding from blue cities, blue cities should be looking at withholding federal taxes in retaliation: www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/the-point-...

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 3d

It does not give off "top shelf Carpenter" vibes

JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 3d

Let me know your take! How's STARMAN holding up?

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 3d

Is THEY LIVE horror? Close enough for my October horror run but I have hit upon a different way of thinking about it boxd.it/bjyPeb

A ★★★★ review of They Live (1988)

It's a science fiction film, it's horror, it's an action comedy, it's a conspiracy thriller—actually, I'm calling it, it's a "Dudes Rock" movie. Roddy Piper and Keith David are one of the great Dudes ...

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 3d

nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

/9 And you think ANTIFA is a progressive employer? Please. The health insurance sucks. There's no dental. And when I asked for compassionate leave for a relative's funeral HR said "the family serves as a pillar for bourgeois ideology, half-day only"

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