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Daniel José Older
@djolder.bsky.social
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Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
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People complain about when someone gets exposed as terrible and then that one vindicated guy goes "SEE I ALWAYS HATED THAT SHMO" and that guy never actually bothered me until these two weirdo smug ass posts
Aaron Rupar: I was right Keith Olbermann: cough cough Both with screen grabs of their own posts warning about Olivia Nuzzi
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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{TW: suicide} It's right up there with "Yet no merely mechanical object has ever talked somebody into suicide before. That is evidence of an extraordinary new power, no?" From a ghastly and breathless defense of AI in, of course, the NYT.
"the authors mention one of AI's first casualties, a man known as Pierre who died by suicide in 2023 after consulting a chatbot for therapy. Bender and Hanna cite his death as a typical example of hype, revealing the chatbot's useless was as a therapeutic tool. Yet no merely mechanical object has ever talked somebody into suicide before. That is evidence of an extraordinary new power, no?"
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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A movie that takes place where you're from.
The Town movie poster (two nun masks robbing a bank) "welcome to the bank robbery capital of America"
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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And I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know
Hey, I ought to leave young thing alone
But ain't no sunshine when she's gone
Pope eating that mic
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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For the first time, a US politician used the platform of the oval office to call out Israeli genocide and US complicity in that genocide, and centrists are confused about why folks have more grace for him than they do for someone who enthusiastically and materially supported that genocide.
A post: "Leftists believe campaigning against a fascist with the Cheneys is an unforgivable sin, but holding a grinning photo-op with said fascist is the best thing ever"
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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"sir this job is way too exciting! We need some way to mitigate the thrill!"
"I have an idea"
A truck door labeled New England Boring Contractors
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Obscene levels of obfuscation. The problem is not "Epstein criticism", the problem is he was getting predation advice from a sex trafficking pedophile. This is extremely not complicated.
Headline: Summers to step back from public commitments amid Epstein criticism.
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Ah the rare double phallic names cold opening
An opening paragraph to an article containing the names Cock van den Berg and Dick Mol.
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Lmaooooo a good time we have been threatened with
New York Post on Mamdani cabinet: The Socialist Network
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I'm available for developmental edits on full and partial manuscripts for a limited time! Full details here:

open.substack.com/pub/danieljo...
A type writer with the text: developmental manuscript edits available for a limited time
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Mamdani font: let's fucking goooooo
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Mamdani template: OH for fucks sake who cares
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Lmaooooooooo la biblioteca
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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"He understood, as all prophets do, that to protect the soul you must sometimes disappear. His silence was not a collapse but a covenant. A pact with himself that his spirit would not be auctioned. In that choice he offered us a lesson: that vulnerability is not weakness but witness, that to tremble and still create is to testify."
October 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Everything about this story opened up for me when I realized it had to begin with White Tiger serenading a bodega cat.
Ava Ayala recites Tiger Tiger to a bodega cat in a page from White Tiger: Reborn
September 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Watching Predator and THIS MEME IS FROM THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES??!! AND IT'S CARL WEATHERS AND ARNOLD? was this known?? I did not know this.
Muscular Black arm and muscular white arm gripping each other meme
September 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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This line is from a recent book review and I admit that I don't fully grasp what the reviewer is trying to say here but I think I hate it? The word 'that' in the final sentence is italicized.
"This is also one of those novels in which the narrator is an outsider and a loner who happens to resemble, one person comments, Francoise Hardy, widely acknowledged to be one of the great beauties of the 20th century. Looking like that can buff the edges off any anxiety a reader might feel for the character's prospects."
September 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The NYT also ate that shit up and has been writing manufactured consent puff pieces about how bad crime was in DC until the feds invaded so please stfu
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/business/media/trump-benny-johnson.html
September 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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The "legend" they don't want to tear down is the recruitment numbers from successful copaganda
"Authorities acknowledged that the finding will likely shock many who grew up as Buford Pusser fans and watched 1973’s “Walking Tall,” which immortalized him as a tough but fair sheriff with zero tolerance for crime. The movie was remade in 2004, and many officers joined law enforcement because of his story, according to Mark Davidson, the district attorney for Tennessee’s 25th judicial district." With this highlighted: "many officers joined law enforcement because of his story"
August 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Literally why not both gif
“This case is not about tearing down a legend. It is about giving dignity and closure to Pauline and her family and ensuring that the truth is not buried with time,” Davidson said in a news conference streamed online.
August 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Me: If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages Bro: I realize this is a bit ironic, but I strongly urge you to review this AI summary of the issue re environmental impact of AI, specifically in the light of Google’s recent announcement in this context Me: The face eating cheetah told you it doesn't eat faces! Fantastic news for faces! Everyone take off your face armor and Let us rejoice!
August 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Brittany just sent me this one lolol
August 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Lucy from Peanuts holding the football so she can fuck up Charlie Brown's whole life yet again
August 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM