Chris Johnson
@chj0.bsky.social
Survey statistician, public health nerd, auto enthusiast, square dancer, hiker, childless cat dad, opera buff, fan of German language & culture, and proponent of the Oxford comma. 🏳️🌈 He/him/his/his’n. EN/DE.
Stunningly beautiful
Strawberry Fields forever
Fall color on strawberry plant.
#macromonday #minimalmonday #minimalism #strawberry #gardening #digitalart #autuumn
Fall color on strawberry plant.
#macromonday #minimalmonday #minimalism #strawberry #gardening #digitalart #autuumn
December 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Stunningly beautiful
Bari Weiss is a partisan hack.
If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism
Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Bari Weiss is a partisan hack.
LUCY: Charlie Brown, you’ve been duped by the elite consensus and its woke worldview. You think this tree needs help? That’s exactly what it WANTS you to think!
LUCY: Let’s face it, Charlie Brown. We all know that censorship has ruined Christmas. That’s why we have to support the academic renegades on the intellectual dark web and their righteous fight against the suppression of free speech.
Bari Weiss’s A Charlie Brown Christmas
Sixty years ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut on CBS. Today, as part of CBS’s new initiative to modernize content, CBS Editor-in-Chief ...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
LUCY: Charlie Brown, you’ve been duped by the elite consensus and its woke worldview. You think this tree needs help? That’s exactly what it WANTS you to think!
The DOJ finally released the Epstein files.
The Latin phrase "hic multa desiderantur" translates to "here many things are wanting" or "here many things are missing".
It is commonly used to indicate a gap, omission, or incompleteness in a text, manuscript, or discourse.
The Latin phrase "hic multa desiderantur" translates to "here many things are wanting" or "here many things are missing".
It is commonly used to indicate a gap, omission, or incompleteness in a text, manuscript, or discourse.
December 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The DOJ finally released the Epstein files.
The Latin phrase "hic multa desiderantur" translates to "here many things are wanting" or "here many things are missing".
It is commonly used to indicate a gap, omission, or incompleteness in a text, manuscript, or discourse.
The Latin phrase "hic multa desiderantur" translates to "here many things are wanting" or "here many things are missing".
It is commonly used to indicate a gap, omission, or incompleteness in a text, manuscript, or discourse.
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The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen before
Strange Cosmic Blast May Be First-Ever Superkilonova Observed
The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen before
www.scientificamerican.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen before
Anything aged in a bourbon barrel tastes better.
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Anything aged in a bourbon barrel tastes better.
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1st Movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto as performed by cellist Jacqueline Du Pre with Daniel Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic in 1967. 🎶🎧🗃️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...
ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO, JACQUELINE DU PRE
YouTube video by Allan Marshall
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December 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
1st Movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto as performed by cellist Jacqueline Du Pre with Daniel Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic in 1967. 🎶🎧🗃️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...
Compare also to Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
December 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Compare also to Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
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We already know these things but thanks anyway.
December 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
We already know these things but thanks anyway.
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Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
Michael Cimino’s multi Academy Award winning war drama “THE DEER HUNTER” starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Cazale and Chuck Aspegren premiered #OnThisDay in 1978 at the National Theatre in Los Angeles
🎬 Universal Pictures
🎬 Universal Pictures
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Good morning to everyone who didn’t extort a corrupt sporting body into creating a fake medal for them because they’re still in their fee-fees about getting repeatedly spurned by the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Good morning to everyone who didn’t extort a corrupt sporting body into creating a fake medal for them because they’re still in their fee-fees about getting repeatedly spurned by the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
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“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“What have I done!” 🤡
All I want for Christmas is a war crimes tribunal.
December 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
All I want for Christmas is a war crimes tribunal.
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Former #CDC leaders worry this week's #ACIP meeting will lean heavily into theoretical risks of vaccines without acknowledging the significant and scientifically established benefits of them, in the process sowing more doubt about the importance of immunizations. www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/a...
CDC’s vaccine advisory panel faces a crisis of its own making
“ACIP has drifted toward inflating speculative risks while downplaying well-established vaccine benefits,” write former CDC officials Demetre Daskalakis, Daniel Jernigan, and Debra Houry.
www.statnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Former #CDC leaders worry this week's #ACIP meeting will lean heavily into theoretical risks of vaccines without acknowledging the significant and scientifically established benefits of them, in the process sowing more doubt about the importance of immunizations. www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/a...
George Will is an old-school conservative.
GEORGE WILL: “.. The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.”
@postopinions.bsky.social
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@postopinions.bsky.social
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December 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
George Will is an old-school conservative.
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Randy Rainbow absolutely clowning RFK Jr. is both peak comedy and tragedy. A neoclassical American Tragedy? 🇺🇸🎭
Here’s to living in a timeline so unhinged we need a musical parody (though it’s not much of a stretch) to make sense of it! For now we laugh, we’ll save the panic for a little later 😅
Here’s to living in a timeline so unhinged we need a musical parody (though it’s not much of a stretch) to make sense of it! For now we laugh, we’ll save the panic for a little later 😅
RFK! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
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December 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Randy Rainbow absolutely clowning RFK Jr. is both peak comedy and tragedy. A neoclassical American Tragedy? 🇺🇸🎭
Here’s to living in a timeline so unhinged we need a musical parody (though it’s not much of a stretch) to make sense of it! For now we laugh, we’ll save the panic for a little later 😅
Here’s to living in a timeline so unhinged we need a musical parody (though it’s not much of a stretch) to make sense of it! For now we laugh, we’ll save the panic for a little later 😅
“Größenwahn" is the German word for megalomania or delusions of grandeur. It is used to describe an obsessive desire for power, or a grandiose and often unrealistic belief in one's own importance and abilities.
“.. What started as a 500-seat ballroom connected to the East Wing grew to 650 seats. Next, he wanted a 999-seat ballroom, then room for 1,350.” 🤡
@nytimes.com @lukebroadwater.bsky.social
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November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“Größenwahn" is the German word for megalomania or delusions of grandeur. It is used to describe an obsessive desire for power, or a grandiose and often unrealistic belief in one's own importance and abilities.
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My periodic reminder that Sarah Palin (quite correctly) called for Rahm Emmanuel to be fired when he used the "R" word.
And my periodic reminder that maybe a political reporter wants to ask her what should happen when Trump uses it.
Like any reporter.
And my periodic reminder that maybe a political reporter wants to ask her what should happen when Trump uses it.
Like any reporter.
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My periodic reminder that Sarah Palin (quite correctly) called for Rahm Emmanuel to be fired when he used the "R" word.
And my periodic reminder that maybe a political reporter wants to ask her what should happen when Trump uses it.
Like any reporter.
And my periodic reminder that maybe a political reporter wants to ask her what should happen when Trump uses it.
Like any reporter.
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The nation’s immune system has been compromised.
US CDC: a public health agency in critical condition
For almost 80 years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been
the nation's immune system, detecting threats early, coordinating rapid responses,
and safeguarding population hea...
www.thelancet.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The nation’s immune system has been compromised.
My favorite scene in any movie ever!
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My favorite scene in any movie ever!
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The OG Simon's Cat film!
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The OG Simon's Cat film!
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I want a dog
2 actually
but they are
empaths that absorb
I feel so much
would it be cruel
could they handle it
could they handle me
cats give zero fucks
they carry on
dogs plead for mercy in their eyes
god that would break me
2 actually
but they are
empaths that absorb
I feel so much
would it be cruel
could they handle it
could they handle me
cats give zero fucks
they carry on
dogs plead for mercy in their eyes
god that would break me
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I want a dog
2 actually
but they are
empaths that absorb
I feel so much
would it be cruel
could they handle it
could they handle me
cats give zero fucks
they carry on
dogs plead for mercy in their eyes
god that would break me
2 actually
but they are
empaths that absorb
I feel so much
would it be cruel
could they handle it
could they handle me
cats give zero fucks
they carry on
dogs plead for mercy in their eyes
god that would break me
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That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM