Jeff
@jefffreyspies.bsky.social
Wish I’d known I had ADD back then. Part of the problem but doing my best to limit the damage and help when I can. Can tell a hawk from a handsaw in most (many?) environmental conditions.
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Jeff
@jefffreyspies.bsky.social
· Aug 7
Until the revolution. And when the revolution comes, all I can say is that I except I’ll be in the vicinity of a wall
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Feds targeted people in this chat claiming they were “anarchist violent extremists” … this was always the plan with targeting “Antifa” that some lawyers tried to spin as nbd.
semantics arguing about whether Trump can designate a “domestic group” as “terrorists”
When Joe Biden got elected, he issued a new initiative that would declare environmental activists, anti-fascists, etc as “domestic violent extremists.”
Symbols such as “ACAB” as used to “ID extremists”
When Joe Biden got elected, he issued a new initiative that would declare environmental activists, anti-fascists, etc as “domestic violent extremists.”
Symbols such as “ACAB” as used to “ID extremists”
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Feds targeted people in this chat claiming they were “anarchist violent extremists” … this was always the plan with targeting “Antifa” that some lawyers tried to spin as nbd.
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The myth is circulating again that it was more radical otg activists and assimilationist gays ("boots and suits") teaming up that was responsible for queer communities' gains late '60s on.
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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What if the real treasure is the human sized vaginas that envelope us along the way?
November 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
What if the real treasure is the human sized vaginas that envelope us along the way?
@scribblegurl.bsky.social @kathryntewson.bsky.social So since that was awkward, and a giant vagina, I’m going to throw it back, what is the difference between sexual orientation and interest in specific sexual organs?
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
@scribblegurl.bsky.social @kathryntewson.bsky.social So since that was awkward, and a giant vagina, I’m going to throw it back, what is the difference between sexual orientation and interest in specific sexual organs?
Sally Simpson is an incredibly interesting song, as absurd as it might seem I think we under appreciated the nuance and quality of the agreed upon classic rock
November 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Sally Simpson is an incredibly interesting song, as absurd as it might seem I think we under appreciated the nuance and quality of the agreed upon classic rock
@m00psy.bsky.social Just to be clear, Garak is definitely a power bottom, right? I mean, even excluding the time they tried to make him a creepy pedophile obviously he could switch
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
@m00psy.bsky.social Just to be clear, Garak is definitely a power bottom, right? I mean, even excluding the time they tried to make him a creepy pedophile obviously he could switch
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I've said in the past that I don't write for skimmers. If you skip past something and get confused, well Mr. Policeman, I gave you all the words.
So I'm certainly not going to write for scrapers and summarizers either 🤷♀️
So I'm certainly not going to write for scrapers and summarizers either 🤷♀️
Saw a post today that advised writers to stop writing as if a human will read it and start writing for an LLM that will be summarising.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I've said in the past that I don't write for skimmers. If you skip past something and get confused, well Mr. Policeman, I gave you all the words.
So I'm certainly not going to write for scrapers and summarizers either 🤷♀️
So I'm certainly not going to write for scrapers and summarizers either 🤷♀️
Oh fuck off, Sleep On The Floor shouldn’t be allowed on the jukebox after midnight
November 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Oh fuck off, Sleep On The Floor shouldn’t be allowed on the jukebox after midnight
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All this is because Trump wants the headline before he gets his stupid fake made-up-just-for-Trump peace prize from FIFA. It's like if Neville Chamberlain gave up the Sudetenland not to buy time for homefront mobilization but for a Little Orphan Annie decoder ring.
Read my scoop overnight from Kyiv, where US army secretary Dan Driscoll’s brief meeting (he was running late after calls with Vance) with European ambassadors at the US ambassador’s residence in Podil left one feeling “nauseated” and others “shocked.” W/ @henryjfoy.ft.com
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Trump envoys issue ultimatum to Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thursday
Hardline message over US-Russia plan at volatile meeting in Kyiv sparks alarm among European allies
on.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
All this is because Trump wants the headline before he gets his stupid fake made-up-just-for-Trump peace prize from FIFA. It's like if Neville Chamberlain gave up the Sudetenland not to buy time for homefront mobilization but for a Little Orphan Annie decoder ring.
@atherton.bsky.social It all reads like Modern poetry if God wasn’t dead and was actively trying to make it worse
November 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
@atherton.bsky.social It all reads like Modern poetry if God wasn’t dead and was actively trying to make it worse
@atherton.bsky.social Stop making me hate my lore fandoms with your references to the ongoing horror that is reality!
November 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM
@atherton.bsky.social Stop making me hate my lore fandoms with your references to the ongoing horror that is reality!
Kinda weird night, which is the best I have currently
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Kinda weird night, which is the best I have currently
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November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Science Illustration internships (2) at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. $700/week, relocation funds for travel to and from SERC; and onsite dormitory housing available. Anticipated start date 02/26 but can vary; duration is 11 weeks. Location Edgewater, MD.
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And I wann hear MORE people
I think I’m awesome and delightful and a singular voice
But I also think that about most people
We need a chorus we NEED multiple voice
Not superstars or weird daddy kinks
Tell me about people who hav kindness with TEETH
I think I’m awesome and delightful and a singular voice
But I also think that about most people
We need a chorus we NEED multiple voice
Not superstars or weird daddy kinks
Tell me about people who hav kindness with TEETH
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
And I wann hear MORE people
I think I’m awesome and delightful and a singular voice
But I also think that about most people
We need a chorus we NEED multiple voice
Not superstars or weird daddy kinks
Tell me about people who hav kindness with TEETH
I think I’m awesome and delightful and a singular voice
But I also think that about most people
We need a chorus we NEED multiple voice
Not superstars or weird daddy kinks
Tell me about people who hav kindness with TEETH
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writers, what were you thinking, today could have been Monday, Marjorie Mamdani Monday!
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 AM
writers, what were you thinking, today could have been Monday, Marjorie Mamdani Monday!
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As a rep on the Dallas Police Oversight Board, I've said on camera two separate times that ICE is a menace to our community and its loathsome agents aren't public servants. No one has batted an eye. Council members, the press, the police department, residents. Everybody shrugs and is like, "yeah."
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
As a rep on the Dallas Police Oversight Board, I've said on camera two separate times that ICE is a menace to our community and its loathsome agents aren't public servants. No one has batted an eye. Council members, the press, the police department, residents. Everybody shrugs and is like, "yeah."
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Almost no one has ever grappled with the actual substance of Lincoln's theory of the Union lol
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Almost no one has ever grappled with the actual substance of Lincoln's theory of the Union lol
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and as per lincoln, the states have no existence except as part of the union! the union precedes the states!
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
and as per lincoln, the states have no existence except as part of the union! the union precedes the states!
@jazzpomegranate.com Do you realize how many translations there are of Spleen?
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
@jazzpomegranate.com Do you realize how many translations there are of Spleen?
We’ve basically just been debating if the world is flat a generation now, maybe making it explicit is good?
I think it’s bad that ai allows people to pretend to live in completely separate realities so they don’t have to process news and events that make them uncomfortable. I think that is bad for the health of society!
Trump supporters are also making shitty AI videos of Trump arresting Mamdani in the Oval Office.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
We’ve basically just been debating if the world is flat a generation now, maybe making it explicit is good?
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With today’s third Rocky statue being installed in Philly, there are almost as many Rocky statues as there are monuments to actual historic women anywhere in Philadelphia.
www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/stor...
www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/stor...
The (Few) Monuments to Women in Philadelphia - Association for Public Art
A look at some of the few existing monuments and memorials to women in Philadelphia and their backstories.
www.associationforpublicart.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
With today’s third Rocky statue being installed in Philly, there are almost as many Rocky statues as there are monuments to actual historic women anywhere in Philadelphia.
www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/stor...
www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/stor...
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But also, the _reason_ Mamdani could do this is because of the skill set someone like him has to learn being part of our communities. He is able to *perform* the "model minority" role, but is not interested in, and not aspiring to, whiteness. This combination is a hack that breaks media & power.
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
But also, the _reason_ Mamdani could do this is because of the skill set someone like him has to learn being part of our communities. He is able to *perform* the "model minority" role, but is not interested in, and not aspiring to, whiteness. This combination is a hack that breaks media & power.
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(terrorists are forcing us to have sex and have mandated that we orgasm simultaneously) cum with me if you want to live
November 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
(terrorists are forcing us to have sex and have mandated that we orgasm simultaneously) cum with me if you want to live
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Mamdani has secured the Cursed Chalice of Governing. He's going to do a lot of stuff like this. The test for demsocs in office in America, imo, is if they also build long term power outside their own networks to change the grounds on which they and future leaders can govern.
Ok, pretty funny of Zohran’s people to put out the absolute model of the sort of statement that drives Bluesky absolutely *insane* to be studiously ignored On Here because of the source
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Mamdani has secured the Cursed Chalice of Governing. He's going to do a lot of stuff like this. The test for demsocs in office in America, imo, is if they also build long term power outside their own networks to change the grounds on which they and future leaders can govern.