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Jeff Johnston

@koeselitz

he/him | db programmer | New Mexican | piano, accordion, &c | bi, monogamous, married | medievalist: Dante; Farabi | now leading study groups on: Bach’s Matthew Passion; Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives

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they ARE our thing. let’s take them back

07.03.2026 09:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

every person in this is depraved, evil, needs to be put in prison for the rest of their lives and must suffer for these crimes against humanity

07.03.2026 06:21 👍 1869 🔁 304 💬 29 📌 3

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

07.03.2026 05:03 👍 1588 🔁 342 💬 44 📌 26

"after crushing her he sat back down" this is wild

07.03.2026 06:43 👍 56 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 0

I feel like it would just take one Pokémon looking at Pikachu and asking “why doesn’t he need to live in the ball?” to lead to some fuckin changes in that society

07.03.2026 05:58 👍 699 🔁 89 💬 22 📌 5

Given the obvious portents for Republicans, seems that this election is going to be riddled with fake Democrats and the billionaires that fund them.

06.03.2026 00:55 👍 343 🔁 123 💬 14 📌 5
Leonard Cohen - Democracy (Official Live in London 2008)
Leonard Cohen - Democracy (Official Live in London 2008) YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO

Democracy is coming to the USA www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifwt...

07.03.2026 06:58 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I've mentioned that I stand by all queer people, and that includes the large gay men who talk about being large gay men over and over again but y'know.

Bears repeating.

12.05.2025 12:57 👍 735 🔁 171 💬 38 📌 7

Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.

07.03.2026 05:56 👍 615 🔁 258 💬 23 📌 7

Imagine the world's greatest boomerang user missing for the first time.

The now-enraged kangaroo is sprinting toward him, pecs flexing in anger, and his last thought is "holy shit it comes back!"

25.03.2025 21:02 👍 42 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

History repeats as farce, even when the thing repeating was itself a farce. We are beyond all reason or care, & we must pray that a moment of sanity & humanity emerges

07.03.2026 07:06 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

We refused to formally apologize for Iran Air 655 and even after paying a settlement under a Democratic president would only agree a deal that did not admit liability, so probably slim

06.03.2026 19:41 👍 36 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
the “stop trying to make fetch happen” scene from Mean Girls, except it’s famed “screenlife” pioneer Timur Bekmambetov’s face in frame one

Timur: “I made another screenlife movie!”

Regina George: “Timur, stop trying to make screenlife happen. It's not going to happen.”

the “stop trying to make fetch happen” scene from Mean Girls, except it’s famed “screenlife” pioneer Timur Bekmambetov’s face in frame one Timur: “I made another screenlife movie!” Regina George: “Timur, stop trying to make screenlife happen. It's not going to happen.”

oh cool, I get to use this extremely niche meme I made

07.03.2026 04:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
07.03.2026 04:09 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 👍 11403 🔁 2447 💬 286 📌 152

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon

At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me

07.03.2026 02:41 👍 1194 🔁 525 💬 20 📌 38
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More US states weigh bypassing bar exam to license lawyers Connecticut and New Mexico have joined the growing list of states offering or considering lawyer licensing pathways that don’t require a traditional bar exam, amid concerns that public service lawyers...

Connecticut and New Mexico have joined the growing list of states offering or considering lawyer licensing pathways that don’t require a traditional bar exam, amid concerns that public service lawyers and attorneys in rural areas are ​in scarce supply reut.rs/40aNH8E

05.03.2026 01:58 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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"Workers of the World, Unite!" - A portrait of Karl Marx, surrounded by verses from the Koran supporting the oppressed. Artist: Hassan Musa. Sudan, 2012.

06.03.2026 15:34 👍 200 🔁 55 💬 0 📌 2

BCBS forces me to renew “prior authorization” every three years, too. ugh

06.03.2026 19:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Too often, people dismiss the Jewish diaspora from Arab countries by blaming Israel and Zionism for why they became hostile to Jews. But it doesn’t stop that hostility being real or antisemitic.

06.03.2026 19:06 👍 54 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 0

Believing that someone is dead, but not being sure, is EXTREMELY DIFFERENT from KNOWING someone is dead, but not being sure who they are!

The fact that this press release doesn’t seem at all interested in clarifying which it means is very unnerving — particularly imagining the family reading this.

06.03.2026 19:50 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And even if it should’ve been “presumed” - which seems very likely! - there’s still the huge question of what’s being presumed.

In the headline & first sentence they’re “believed to be” dead - so they might be alive. After that, they’re CERTAINLY dead, but they’re “believed to be” a certain person.

06.03.2026 19:48 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

he is not built for any kind of serious political role, he is built for sitting on a beach drinking pina coladas

06.03.2026 19:07 👍 70 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0

The Green New Deal could never

06.03.2026 19:09 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

it turns out that other people aren't npcs or bots

06.03.2026 14:41 👍 122 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 0
ICE Contracts - Distributed Denial of Secrets Details on ICE contracts with over 6,000 different entities ranging from private businesses to government agencies and even dozens of universities. Some of the notable firms include Anduril, HBGary,…

ICE Contracts (17 MB)

Details on ICE contracts with over 6,000 different entities. Some of the notable firms include Anduril, HBGary, L3Harris, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir and Raytheon.

ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...

Help us keep publishing: donorbox.com/ddosecrets

01.03.2026 19:02 👍 440 🔁 228 💬 4 📌 17
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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

06.03.2026 12:29 👍 9310 🔁 4469 💬 535 📌 613

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

06.03.2026 01:27 👍 7094 🔁 959 💬 267 📌 135
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Everyone in this country has gone insane | Opinion Not a Single Voice of Reason to Be Found Among the Pundits, Politicians and General Public, Who All Run to the Shelters on an Hourly Basis but Smile When They Emerge, Praising the Iran War and the Ble...

Bleakly funny that Gideon Levy wouldn't be allowed to write for an American newspaper due to how critical he is of Israel in his column at an Israeli newspapepr

05.03.2026 16:38 👍 199 🔁 31 💬 3 📌 3
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My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you.
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Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

06.03.2026 01:05 👍 20219 🔁 4278 💬 755 📌 1117