John
@jnguyen.bsky.social
Not a tech bro. Not religious. Not a saint. Likely a sinner.
🌐 Metro Atlanta, GA
🌐 Metro Atlanta, GA
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John
@jnguyen.bsky.social
· Jan 5
Things/people I hate
- Trump
- Sundays
- People who talk too much about politics
- People who don't talk at all about politics
- People who constantly trying to sell me s--t
- People who tell you they're great at multitasking. Well, f--k off. Add that to your list.
- Rain
- Assholes with lists
- Trump
- Sundays
- People who talk too much about politics
- People who don't talk at all about politics
- People who constantly trying to sell me s--t
- People who tell you they're great at multitasking. Well, f--k off. Add that to your list.
- Rain
- Assholes with lists
Our government is encouraging and condoning the execution of protesters in broad daylight now.
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Our government is encouraging and condoning the execution of protesters in broad daylight now.
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I wish folks who I owned dogs would get it through their heads that dogs DON'T understand punitive actions.
All that does is make for an unhappy and less trusting relationship .
Also if it's cold outside for you it's cold for them.
All that does is make for an unhappy and less trusting relationship .
Also if it's cold outside for you it's cold for them.
January 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
I wish folks who I owned dogs would get it through their heads that dogs DON'T understand punitive actions.
All that does is make for an unhappy and less trusting relationship .
Also if it's cold outside for you it's cold for them.
All that does is make for an unhappy and less trusting relationship .
Also if it's cold outside for you it's cold for them.
I've always thought that Bruce Springsteen was a decent person, way back in the 80s when the Reagan Administration was misusing and misinterpreting "Born in the USA" and he asked them to stop. That his music is excellent, too, is an added bonus.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/a...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/a...
Springsteen Denounces ICE Deployments and Renee Good’s Killing
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:32 PM
I've always thought that Bruce Springsteen was a decent person, way back in the 80s when the Reagan Administration was misusing and misinterpreting "Born in the USA" and he asked them to stop. That his music is excellent, too, is an added bonus.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/a...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/a...
Soldiers are called up, ready to be deployed on America's streets, in American neighborhoods, towns, and cities. Those words belong in dystopian novels, not news articles.
January 18, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Soldiers are called up, ready to be deployed on America's streets, in American neighborhoods, towns, and cities. Those words belong in dystopian novels, not news articles.
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Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants
www.al.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood." This is the defining theme of my existence.
m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...
m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...
Quote of the day from George Orwell’s classic novel 1984: 'Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood'
George Orwells famous line from 1984 about wanting to be understood more than loved becomes a lens to explore modern loneliness, work culture, and the hunger for genuine recognition. Tracing Winston S...
m.economictimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:09 AM
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood." This is the defining theme of my existence.
m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...
m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...
I've never claimed to be extraordinary, but in these extraordinary times I choose not to stay on the sidelines and be ordinary.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
Opinion | They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:27 AM
I've never claimed to be extraordinary, but in these extraordinary times I choose not to stay on the sidelines and be ordinary.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
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I wish a Senator or a House member would muster enough courage to do something substantive instead of performative. I had no idea that moral courage was so sorely lacking in our leaders. It is not the US I grew up in, either. How precious those days were, those times that we took it for granted.
the most horrifying aspect of the last 12 months is that nothing matters
nothing is going to stop any of this
and that is not the United States I grew up in
nothing is going to stop any of this
and that is not the United States I grew up in
January 16, 2026 at 3:22 AM
I wish a Senator or a House member would muster enough courage to do something substantive instead of performative. I had no idea that moral courage was so sorely lacking in our leaders. It is not the US I grew up in, either. How precious those days were, those times that we took it for granted.
Damn good "not a haiku."
It's not a haiku
Just 17 syllables
of sappy garbage
- my brother Frank
Just 17 syllables
of sappy garbage
- my brother Frank
January 14, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Damn good "not a haiku."
You stay classy, Mar-a-Lago.
My fellow Americans!
The President if the United States of America!
The President if the United States of America!
January 14, 2026 at 1:18 AM
You stay classy, Mar-a-Lago.
No man. That's not it. If you do something bad it's bad. Own it. Quit feeling victimized. You start to sound like a certain MAGA President.
And what the heck is a reactionary centrist? A centrist is by definition not reactionary. That's why they're called centrists.
And what the heck is a reactionary centrist? A centrist is by definition not reactionary. That's why they're called centrists.
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 11, 2026 at 12:11 AM
No man. That's not it. If you do something bad it's bad. Own it. Quit feeling victimized. You start to sound like a certain MAGA President.
And what the heck is a reactionary centrist? A centrist is by definition not reactionary. That's why they're called centrists.
And what the heck is a reactionary centrist? A centrist is by definition not reactionary. That's why they're called centrists.
The thing about real life is it lacks a good soundtrack and a camera following you as you cross a rain-slicked street with a cigarette in your hand, your long hair billowing in the wind as the camera closes in and you look all serious and tormented and askance at the absurdity of it all.
January 10, 2026 at 12:49 AM
The thing about real life is it lacks a good soundtrack and a camera following you as you cross a rain-slicked street with a cigarette in your hand, your long hair billowing in the wind as the camera closes in and you look all serious and tormented and askance at the absurdity of it all.
I'm less reticent than I used to be in my old age. Maybe not as forgiving. I've earned that right, you know, since life ain't all that forgiving either.
January 9, 2026 at 11:34 PM
I'm less reticent than I used to be in my old age. Maybe not as forgiving. I've earned that right, you know, since life ain't all that forgiving either.
And I'll shit on it if I please.
A proud show of resistance.
January 9, 2026 at 10:59 PM
And I'll shit on it if I please.
"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk."
—John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
—John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
January 8, 2026 at 6:23 PM
"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk."
—John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
—John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
Unless she was holding a detonator to a nuclear bomb, about to blow up an entire city, in what universe is it morally acceptable to try and come up with an excuse to justify the killing of a mother of three in an SUV? The horrors. And the sorrows. Is this who we have become? #reneegood
January 8, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Unless she was holding a detonator to a nuclear bomb, about to blow up an entire city, in what universe is it morally acceptable to try and come up with an excuse to justify the killing of a mother of three in an SUV? The horrors. And the sorrows. Is this who we have become? #reneegood
It's shameful how Republican lawmakers rushed to give tax cuts to wealthy people when they didn't even press for it. They bent over backwards, abandoning all dignity, in the rush to acquiesce. At the same time, to those struggling and in desperate need, they offer only mocking cruelty.
July 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It's shameful how Republican lawmakers rushed to give tax cuts to wealthy people when they didn't even press for it. They bent over backwards, abandoning all dignity, in the rush to acquiesce. At the same time, to those struggling and in desperate need, they offer only mocking cruelty.
I've been calling and writing letters to my Congressman and Senators. As effective as that is (don't roll your eyes now) I feel that is more helpful than just to post my thoughts on here. I've found social media to be neither media nor social. Lately I've seen it more as a detriment to society.
July 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I've been calling and writing letters to my Congressman and Senators. As effective as that is (don't roll your eyes now) I feel that is more helpful than just to post my thoughts on here. I've found social media to be neither media nor social. Lately I've seen it more as a detriment to society.
The main thread that runs through the actions of those in the Trump administration is not just delight in their own respective cruelty, but that such cruelty be inflicted with as much pain and humiliation as possible upon those most vulnerable and defenseless.
July 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The main thread that runs through the actions of those in the Trump administration is not just delight in their own respective cruelty, but that such cruelty be inflicted with as much pain and humiliation as possible upon those most vulnerable and defenseless.
Did these guys all fail their freshman Intro to Psychology course? What "might" could they still be quibbling about? Grandpa has been insane since about 2011.
Fund Managers Worry Trump Might Be "Insane" newrepublic.com/post/193805/...
Fund Managers Worry Trump Might Be "Insane" newrepublic.com/post/193805/...
Fund Managers Worry Trump Might Be “Insane”
Donald Trump’s moves are making people who actually understand the economy very nervous.
newrepublic.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Did these guys all fail their freshman Intro to Psychology course? What "might" could they still be quibbling about? Grandpa has been insane since about 2011.
Fund Managers Worry Trump Might Be "Insane" newrepublic.com/post/193805/...
Fund Managers Worry Trump Might Be "Insane" newrepublic.com/post/193805/...
I've read about cowards and sycophants but I've never seen such cowardly and sycophantic behaviors—live, before my eyes, in vivid Technicolor—as from those who shill for the Trump administration. These people not only lost their minds but all traces of dignity. They seem like meat-oozing automatons.
March 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I've read about cowards and sycophants but I've never seen such cowardly and sycophantic behaviors—live, before my eyes, in vivid Technicolor—as from those who shill for the Trump administration. These people not only lost their minds but all traces of dignity. They seem like meat-oozing automatons.
It's crazy that Waltz or anyone else on his NSA staff, junior or otherwise, could be so nonchalant about simple security practices, that they could add an unauthorized person to their private chat.
March 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's crazy that Waltz or anyone else on his NSA staff, junior or otherwise, could be so nonchalant about simple security practices, that they could add an unauthorized person to their private chat.
You should not willy-nilly add a phone number to a Signal group chat. You should have that number in your Contacts list or know the person's Signal handle. So let's hope whoever added Jeffrey Goldberg to that chat didn't do so by simply entering a phone number. You could enter it wrong, right?
March 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
You should not willy-nilly add a phone number to a Signal group chat. You should have that number in your Contacts list or know the person's Signal handle. So let's hope whoever added Jeffrey Goldberg to that chat didn't do so by simply entering a phone number. You could enter it wrong, right?