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Chris Johnson

@ectowombat

Unitarian Universalist, humanist, lefty. Interests include linguistics and other cognitive sciences. Probably mostly reskeets. he/him/his

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If the wife be aloof, oh buddy, oof

12.03.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

on the bright side i can't imagine losing a democratic primary against ilhan omar as an ICE lawyer is much work at all

12.03.2026 02:13 πŸ‘ 2359 πŸ” 261 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 3

The trustees deciding to appoint a new permanent, not-interim Ohio State University president with zero input from faculty, staff, and students is bad, regardless of whom they picked. Bellamkonda is going to have an uphill battle to win the trust of all the people who had no say in his selection.

12.03.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Red Flag Alert - Anti-Trans Genocide in the USA - #3 | Lemkin Institute

The Lemkin Institute has issued a *THIRD* trans genocide warning, noting the next stage is widespread containment - and this was before the 4th Circuit ruled today that states can essentially do whatever they want to make trans people "appreciate their sex".
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

11.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 1286 πŸ” 760 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 64
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If you visit the Twin City Model Railroad Museum in Saint Paul, you can see a miniature model train set inside of an actual model train set!

12.03.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people

12.03.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 4797 πŸ” 496 πŸ’¬ 243 πŸ“Œ 169

Thomas Massie’s primary opponent.

12.03.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

At least a couple allegations so far.

12.03.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He’s trying to unseat Thomas Massie in the primary.

12.03.2026 01:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Contact Us Contact the Governor's office.

And all Ohioans, tell Gov. DeWine to veto SB 63: governor.ohio.gov/contact

11.03.2026 23:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People in Ohio's 25th District: I've generally liked Bill DeMora (the Democratic incumbent) over the years, but he cosponsored SB 63, a ban on ranked choice voting which is now on the governor's desk. If you're angry about that, he does have a challenger in primary who looks pretty good.

11.03.2026 23:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

11.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 13042 πŸ” 3349 πŸ’¬ 144 πŸ“Œ 244

(And there is no shortage of those.)

11.03.2026 05:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, possibly Star Trek’s single worst crime against the field of biology.

11.03.2026 05:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Brain struggles getting strugglier.

10.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
You hit your head pretty hard are you okay?
Pandamic? War? Economic collapse?
What are you talking about? Get up we gotta get ready for the gala!

You hit your head pretty hard are you okay? Pandamic? War? Economic collapse? What are you talking about? Get up we gotta get ready for the gala!

10.03.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 297 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 8

sloppelganger

- Ingrid Burrington

Mint it

10.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 177 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, this is essentially one of those 8 wars.

If you β€œend a war” between Israel and Iran and then decide to restart it a few months later, can you really count that?

10.03.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
professional looking dude, neat hair, glasses, shirt, using a computer at a desk, the image on the screen is him using a computer, and so on and so on, inwards as far as the eye can see. a plant is behind the computer.

professional looking dude, neat hair, glasses, shirt, using a computer at a desk, the image on the screen is him using a computer, and so on and so on, inwards as far as the eye can see. a plant is behind the computer.

byte, magazine, cover (1979) archive.org/details/byte...

03.03.2026 05:13 πŸ‘ 352 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

10.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 8071 πŸ” 1717 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 157

People think Palestine is a cheat code to winning an argument no matter what but it doesn’t work like that. β€œBut Palestine!β€œ is a perfectly valid reason to oppose selling F-35s to the IDF. But you can’t just whip that out for whether Spider-Man could beat Squirtle at Chinese Checkers.

10.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 429 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1

Picking tomatoes in a community garden is not the same as getting paid $2/box of strawberries in 96 degree heat for 10 hours a day.

10.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 257 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 1
A very concerned looking dog. He is black and white and brown all over, in his faux fur bed.

A very concerned looking dog. He is black and white and brown all over, in his faux fur bed.

I just started the Dinosaurs show and they were making dinosaur fighting noises and I looked over to see this. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this face before.

09.03.2026 02:34 πŸ‘ 2125 πŸ” 111 πŸ’¬ 75 πŸ“Œ 11

societies typically talk about human cognition as working similarly to whatever is seen as the latest and greatest technology. that’s why we currently describe the brain as a roguelike deckbuilding game about characters making their way up a spire

10.03.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 805 πŸ” 209 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3
A bright red cardinal sits on top of the Sideview mirror of a car

A bright red cardinal sits on top of the Sideview mirror of a car

The Cardinal jumps down to look at himself in the mirror

The Cardinal jumps down to look at himself in the mirror

The cardinal begins furiously attacking his reflection in the mirror

The cardinal begins furiously attacking his reflection in the mirror

β€œLook at that bird”

A Play In Three Acts

10.03.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 1099 πŸ” 274 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 11

No need to pay for my posts, space is what my girlfriend said she needs

10.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hegel can write that in the I that is We and the We that is I, "consciousness leaves behind the colorful semblance of the sensation of the here-and-now and the empty night of the supersensible Beyond and steps out into the spiritual day of presence." which makes me mad about all his other sentences

10.03.2026 03:06 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

05.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 8544 πŸ” 2073 πŸ’¬ 98 πŸ“Œ 95

I like Kes - particularly her interactions with the Doctor - but they had no idea what to do with her and basically everything got better after she left.

10.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0