jack (they/them)
@uhhuhthem.bsky.social
hey it's jack from the internet. I post at this username on mastodon and I humbly suggest that you come find me there before our corporate overlords make this site hell too ♡
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The Romans conquering and digesting Ancient Greece really is a case of my favorite historical phenomenon, "the homophobic gays have defeated the gay homophobes"
February 9, 2026 at 10:17 PM
The Romans conquering and digesting Ancient Greece really is a case of my favorite historical phenomenon, "the homophobic gays have defeated the gay homophobes"
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I've said this before, but it makes me insane that in an age of human civilization when the ultra-rich have hoarded over half of all wealth, the go-to visual shorthand for depictions of gluttony is still "fat"
February 12, 2026 at 2:55 AM
I've said this before, but it makes me insane that in an age of human civilization when the ultra-rich have hoarded over half of all wealth, the go-to visual shorthand for depictions of gluttony is still "fat"
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What the last two centuries have taught us is that capitalism is a system which exists to create and maintain oligarchy, with an oligarch defined as one who steals/hoards resources on a grand scale while blatantly transgressing social norms in the most disgusting ways imaginable to prove their power
February 13, 2026 at 9:34 PM
What the last two centuries have taught us is that capitalism is a system which exists to create and maintain oligarchy, with an oligarch defined as one who steals/hoards resources on a grand scale while blatantly transgressing social norms in the most disgusting ways imaginable to prove their power
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Renee Good's last words
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
Always read @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/renee-good...
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
Always read @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/renee-good...
Renee Good's last words
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
www.laura-bassett.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Renee Good's last words
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
Always read @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/renee-good...
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
Always read @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/renee-good...
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When juries started refusing to indict or convict activists on bogus charges, DHS shifted very quickly to shooting activists in the face. That is not a coincidence.
January 9, 2026 at 10:22 PM
When juries started refusing to indict or convict activists on bogus charges, DHS shifted very quickly to shooting activists in the face. That is not a coincidence.
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This is probably going to demand a depressing amount of repetition, but here goes.
If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.
If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.
The victim has been identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a US citizen and the mother of a small child.
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
This is probably going to demand a depressing amount of repetition, but here goes.
If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.
If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.
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Oh, it goes deeper than that. The Christmas tree is actually a folk memory of the two trees of Valinor, whose pure light was captured in the Silmarils (Silmaril -> ilmaril -> irmarel -> ermarel -> ornamel > ornament)
a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Oh, it goes deeper than that. The Christmas tree is actually a folk memory of the two trees of Valinor, whose pure light was captured in the Silmarils (Silmaril -> ilmaril -> irmarel -> ermarel -> ornamel > ornament)
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There's no evidence that Rob and Michele Reiner's son Nick is undergoing a gender transition, despite claims circulating on social media. Here's how the baseless rumor spread. 👇
www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
Unraveling baseless rumor Rob and Michele Reiner's son Nick is transgender
Nick Reiner, who is suspected in the deaths of his parents, was arrested on a murder charge, Los Angeles police said.
www.snopes.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
There's no evidence that Rob and Michele Reiner's son Nick is undergoing a gender transition, despite claims circulating on social media. Here's how the baseless rumor spread. 👇
www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
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Midnight. A light flickers on in the darkness. Coils of smoke hang in the projector's glow. The movie is about to begin, and the theater waits in breathless silence.
BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
August 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Midnight. A light flickers on in the darkness. Coils of smoke hang in the projector's glow. The movie is about to begin, and the theater waits in breathless silence.
BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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They asked a Google AI for Ed engineer “how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. ‘The professors themselves,’ he said, would be responsible for figuring that out.”
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
They asked a Google AI for Ed engineer “how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. ‘The professors themselves,’ he said, would be responsible for figuring that out.”
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.
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Jeffrey Epstein doesn’t exist in a vacuum. He implicates the ruling class, the way they do business, and the whole capitalist system.
www.jphilll.com/p/epstein-im...
www.jphilll.com/p/epstein-im...
Epstein Implicates Everyone
The entire ruling class and the capitalist system are guilty
www.jphilll.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Jeffrey Epstein doesn’t exist in a vacuum. He implicates the ruling class, the way they do business, and the whole capitalist system.
www.jphilll.com/p/epstein-im...
www.jphilll.com/p/epstein-im...
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"American prisons are full of earnest attempts at redemption."
From blues to gospel, country to rap, people have been making music behind bars for decades.
Here’s why we should all tune in.
Here’s why we should all tune in.
Redemption Songs: The Forgotten History of American Prison Music
From blues to gospel, country to rap, people have been making music behind bars for decades. Here’s why we should all tune in.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
"American prisons are full of earnest attempts at redemption."
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"If [Grace] Pinson's legal tenacity makes her unusual, the harm she has suffered in federal prison does not. Life in prison is relentlessly dangerous, and for transgender people especially so. ... Not only are they at risk for extortion and assault, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse."
Over years and hundreds of handwritten pages of filings, Grace Pinson jumped over legal hurdles, all the way to trial. Fewer than 1% of federal prisoner civil rights claims reach that stage without an attorney, a luxury almost no one in prison can afford.
The Ballad of Grace Pinson
A trans woman’s legal battle reveals the failures of a landmark prison rape law.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM
"If [Grace] Pinson's legal tenacity makes her unusual, the harm she has suffered in federal prison does not. Life in prison is relentlessly dangerous, and for transgender people especially so. ... Not only are they at risk for extortion and assault, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse."
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Law enforcement have a lot of tools when it comes to accessing your personal information, which is why the sites and apps you use need to know the law– and when to push back.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data
How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data
Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But,
www.eff.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Law enforcement have a lot of tools when it comes to accessing your personal information, which is why the sites and apps you use need to know the law– and when to push back.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data
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"The prisoners who missed their habeas deadlines have sometimes forfeited powerful claims. ... [W]hile the law guarantees that indigent death row inmates have a court-appointed attorney in federal habeas corpus proceedings, it does not stipulate that the attorney must be competent."
11 yrs ago, @themarshallproject.org launched our brand-new website with part 1 of a @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social investigation & our first Life Inside piece, by John J. Lennon. Since then, we've published >2,600 pieces. And still, so much work to do. www.themarshallproject.org/2014/11/15/d...
Death by Deadline, Part One
How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"The prisoners who missed their habeas deadlines have sometimes forfeited powerful claims. ... [W]hile the law guarantees that indigent death row inmates have a court-appointed attorney in federal habeas corpus proceedings, it does not stipulate that the attorney must be competent."
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"[P]rison journalism is often thwarted by both threatened and actual retaliation against journalists and their sources ... [W]hen retaliation doesn't work, censorious officials often take steps to restrict, burden, or even altogether ban communication between the press and incarcerated people."
This week, Inquest launched our Defending Prison Journalism series with an article on the perils faced by incarcerated journalists, and what must be done to protect them. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
"[P]rison journalism is often thwarted by both threatened and actual retaliation against journalists and their sources ... [W]hen retaliation doesn't work, censorious officials often take steps to restrict, burden, or even altogether ban communication between the press and incarcerated people."
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Dans une semaine exactement aura lieu la première sortie officielle du Front Antifasciste Populaire! Notre collectif répète depuis longtemps que la lutte antifasciste doit investir les milieux de vie et de travail. C'est ce que cherche à faire le Front Pop!!! www.facebook.com/events/24876...
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Dans une semaine exactement aura lieu la première sortie officielle du Front Antifasciste Populaire! Notre collectif répète depuis longtemps que la lutte antifasciste doit investir les milieux de vie et de travail. C'est ce que cherche à faire le Front Pop!!! www.facebook.com/events/24876...
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"As gusts topped 100 miles per hour and seawater surged inland, houses never built for such conditions floated away or crumbled. ... [P]eople crawled through the windows of flooding houses and waded in darkness and howling winds toward their neighbors, only to find their homes gone, too."
Warming seas, driven by climate change, are strengthening storms like the ones that ravaged Alaska Native communities along the state’s western coast in October.
Entire villages were destroyed & survivors were evacuated by air.
Tim Lydon reports.
Entire villages were destroyed & survivors were evacuated by air.
Tim Lydon reports.
As Storms Displace Thousands in Rural Alaska, Federal Cuts Put Even More Communities in Peril
Warming seas, driven by climate change, are strengthening storms like the ones that ravaged Alaska Native communities along the state’s western coast in October.
inthesetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
"As gusts topped 100 miles per hour and seawater surged inland, houses never built for such conditions floated away or crumbled. ... [P]eople crawled through the windows of flooding houses and waded in darkness and howling winds toward their neighbors, only to find their homes gone, too."
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@nlg.org Director of Mass Defense, Xavier de Janon, and members of the DFW Support Committee speak about the Prairieland Case and the Trump administrations ongoing threats against the left and "Antifa"
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
@nlg.org Director of Mass Defense, Xavier de Janon, and members of the DFW Support Committee speak about the Prairieland Case and the Trump administrations ongoing threats against the left and "Antifa"
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...
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We need regulation on unlicensed therapy bots like yesterday.
I had a 45 year old rideshare driver tell me recently that he uses AI for therapy.
I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.”
He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok.
Chat, are we cooked?
I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.”
He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok.
Chat, are we cooked?
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
We need regulation on unlicensed therapy bots like yesterday.
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"More than 5 million U.S. citizens are unable to vote in elections because of felony convictions. ... [T]he U.S. is one of just a handful of countries that restricts voting after someone has completed their sentences."
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"More than 5 million U.S. citizens are unable to vote in elections because of felony convictions. ... [T]he U.S. is one of just a handful of countries that restricts voting after someone has completed their sentences."
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if you see that AI-generated video going around, of some NYPD officer telling an ICE officer what he’s doing is against the law, one straightforward way to tell it’s AI is this will literally never happen
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
if you see that AI-generated video going around, of some NYPD officer telling an ICE officer what he’s doing is against the law, one straightforward way to tell it’s AI is this will literally never happen