@jwstuntguy
Frmr journo, frmr foreign service, author. Centered at the sum of adjusting to more societies and countries than I’ll wcount. ND. PNW. Poli sci-peasant politics/mass comm/memory. Universal basic food, income, and healthcare for everyone.
The Other logic recognizes that truth is cumulative, outside European American constructs. The validity of an observation lies not in the perfection of a single data point, but in the overwhelming weight of the total design.
The first creates a state of aggressive naivety, where obvious patterns and observation and study are ignored because a single detail can be debated.
There’s a fundamental distinction between a logic designed to prove exoneration (see the new gov’t docs, assassination attempts, systemic/cultural racism/misogyny) and a logic designed to survive reality.
It’s personally been so entertaining reading men lose full minds over this recently.
It’s all spoliation, they don’t care we know, they just don’t want us to see the torture and the cannibalism. (Which many Americans, of course, still practice in a monthly, sometimes weekly, ritual functionally identical to headhunting rituals in Dayak tribes who live in the Borneo-Sarawak jungle.)
If you work in journalism: you cannot use machine learning to upscale a photo and still be telling the truth. It WILL lie, even if you don't intend to tell one.
It can only do what it does by inventing details where none exist, which means it will inherently be misrepresenting reality.
Friendly reminder that over the last 20 years mass shootings are down 22% and school shootings 31% in 2025, per the Gun Violence Archive and the K-12 School Shooting Database. We’ve experienced 22 mass shootings in January when a typical American January sees approx 110 to 170.
No civilized society kills its own citizens, even the worst, and a thriving society interested in progress fights for the rights of its most oppressed. It’s the basic work of being a citizen, wherever we are, because our bodies are always on the line.
Lived in Bangkok in 1976, the year we adopted my sister. Probably shouldn’tve been on surveillance detection routes at 5, but it was a family business and I bore witness. My father worked out of the school. I remember him turn from his desk and say, “You won’t remember this,” so I paid attention.
Speaking strictly as an American, 去他妈的警察, die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar ✊🏼
Been waiting for speech like Carney’s since 1985.
#booksky
A revolution to preserve human dignity doesn’t even need to be successful because it’s an existential issue. The only thing it needs is the clarity that says, we will no longer be what abusive authority asks us to be and we will not become what it asks us to become.
#Iran, no phones or electricity
Minneapolis is my American hometown and I know those sidewalks and homes, so her murder is a special type of heartbreak. Rest in peace, Renee Nicole Good, 37, of Minneapolis. We all lost an ally. She won’t be forgotten.
The fragility is bananas. The illusion of white supremacy and the lengths white supremacy goes to sustain that illusion is the actual story. The issue’s fundamentally rooted in mask and deception.
Anyway lol
Officially ‘Cloud Dancer.’ Never mind folks who tattoo my faith systems on their bodies as souvenirs, the Native energy here is nuts. What is missing from the non-melaninated psyche that won’t simply inhabit itself? Jesus, take racism away, are you good? Are you kind? Do you uplift w/o lowering?
“Do I think the voice in my head is a deity? No, I don’t.”
“Not deity, I mean God.”
is a real interaction I had.
I wake up screaming like everybody else and, granted, there’s a lot going on in my head, but ftr, my inner voice is mostly James Earl Jones telling me he doesn’t have to like me.
What’s uncanny is that their real life selves are so much deeper in uncanny valley than their amusing robot selves.
#booksky
Maybe it’s coincidence, probably not. What fundamental essential piece of the self is absent, and what systems forbid its development, to crave and wear other identity so much.
There’s no argument to be made with those who’ve abandoned fact, logic, and words altogether. #nokings
Thought this was my HS copy of Thoreau, but checked and it’s actually my dad’s 1960 schoolbook, signature of ownership inside 😮
Anyway, Thoreau understood: Inaction is consent, and live your life in such a way. That’s the line. Not saying the generals’ll arrest anyone, but here’s hoping #booksky
That’s because it was case officer meeting an asset to exchange information and Alaska was the safe house.
Mao swam across the Yangtze 😤
