Jamey
@klocktower.org
GenX leftist anti-racist teacher in Chicago (NBCT, PhD).
Too many hobbies, lately mostly sewing and gaming.
Too many hobbies, lately mostly sewing and gaming.
Peak content.
September 14, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Peak content.
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There’s not a single damned voter in Texas who was gonna vote for Paxton but changed their mind when they found out Talarico was willing to throw trans kids into the volcano
September 12, 2026 at 3:13 AM
There’s not a single damned voter in Texas who was gonna vote for Paxton but changed their mind when they found out Talarico was willing to throw trans kids into the volcano
@iwriteok.bsky.social I kind of just described you as something like “Hank Green, but for history” and I hope you don’t mind.
September 9, 2026 at 2:52 AM
@iwriteok.bsky.social I kind of just described you as something like “Hank Green, but for history” and I hope you don’t mind.
What’s funny is, when the phrase “information wants to be free,” it *was* true. The model for the early Internet was biology: “thought is a virus” was an influential idea, and life finds a way.
But capitalism has crushed that idea. Now, information wants to be monetized.
But capitalism has crushed that idea. Now, information wants to be monetized.
September 9, 2026 at 12:41 AM
What’s funny is, when the phrase “information wants to be free,” it *was* true. The model for the early Internet was biology: “thought is a virus” was an influential idea, and life finds a way.
But capitalism has crushed that idea. Now, information wants to be monetized.
But capitalism has crushed that idea. Now, information wants to be monetized.
Hey, friends,
If this weekend's election is Saxony-Alhalt is the first time you've ever paid any attention to an election in Germany, and it has you worried, I've got you.
I've been following German politics for most of my life (started in the 1980s). Just ask, I'm happy to explain the AfD.
If this weekend's election is Saxony-Alhalt is the first time you've ever paid any attention to an election in Germany, and it has you worried, I've got you.
I've been following German politics for most of my life (started in the 1980s). Just ask, I'm happy to explain the AfD.
September 8, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Hey, friends,
If this weekend's election is Saxony-Alhalt is the first time you've ever paid any attention to an election in Germany, and it has you worried, I've got you.
I've been following German politics for most of my life (started in the 1980s). Just ask, I'm happy to explain the AfD.
If this weekend's election is Saxony-Alhalt is the first time you've ever paid any attention to an election in Germany, and it has you worried, I've got you.
I've been following German politics for most of my life (started in the 1980s). Just ask, I'm happy to explain the AfD.
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According to the FT, Orr is acting as a live-in-landlord-cum-cult-leader to Cambridge students including those under his own supervision, whilst receiving formal complaints about his behaviour, and boasting publicly how the university is a recruiting ground for the party he might be doing crime for
![Among the complaints upheld by the investigator are that Orr allegedly made belittling
remarks to the student, and had demanded an “excessive” and “unreasonable” amount of
written work in an effort to refine a thesis proposal. The report also criticised “at worst
inappropriate and at best thoughtless comments made [by Orr] in the equally
inappropriate context of [Orr’s] own home”. This was in reference to a dinner that the
student, who comes from a Christian, conservative background, had attended at Orr’s
house.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp27scbhcz4sl5eidxkq2l7f/bafkreib46c4cywfrvxjqqr7tx264l67lenpv23ofkmrhapx3lt24ix7unm)
September 4, 2026 at 8:18 AM
According to the FT, Orr is acting as a live-in-landlord-cum-cult-leader to Cambridge students including those under his own supervision, whilst receiving formal complaints about his behaviour, and boasting publicly how the university is a recruiting ground for the party he might be doing crime for
Any of my Chicago homies at the school board president candidates forum?
September 3, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Any of my Chicago homies at the school board president candidates forum?
Damn, there isn't any music in this world that gets my mood up like a chaconne.
(Tonight is date night, and we're watching a Baroque music concert, which just went into a chaconne, and damn, that combination of rhythm and melody is just unparalleled.)
(Tonight is date night, and we're watching a Baroque music concert, which just went into a chaconne, and damn, that combination of rhythm and melody is just unparalleled.)
September 2, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Damn, there isn't any music in this world that gets my mood up like a chaconne.
(Tonight is date night, and we're watching a Baroque music concert, which just went into a chaconne, and damn, that combination of rhythm and melody is just unparalleled.)
(Tonight is date night, and we're watching a Baroque music concert, which just went into a chaconne, and damn, that combination of rhythm and melody is just unparalleled.)
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my sense for why data centers have become heinously unpopular in the space of one year prospect.org/2026/08/31/d...
August 31, 2026 at 1:38 PM
my sense for why data centers have become heinously unpopular in the space of one year prospect.org/2026/08/31/d...
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The predictable Discourse is starting and I'm going to take a strong stand here: you can both want to abolish ICE and laugh really, really hard at Milo Yiannopoulos getting arrested by ICE after a decade of stoking the ethnonationalist hatred that led us to this point
August 28, 2026 at 6:26 PM
The predictable Discourse is starting and I'm going to take a strong stand here: you can both want to abolish ICE and laugh really, really hard at Milo Yiannopoulos getting arrested by ICE after a decade of stoking the ethnonationalist hatred that led us to this point
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Even Trump tries to do something good once in a while.
August 28, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Even Trump tries to do something good once in a while.
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democrats firing with strong messaging in the border state of iowa
fuck missouri
fuck missouri
August 28, 2026 at 2:20 PM
democrats firing with strong messaging in the border state of iowa
fuck missouri
fuck missouri
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Linux turns 35 today. Here's your cake. Enjoy.
August 25, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Linux turns 35 today. Here's your cake. Enjoy.
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pulled the video so you don't have to go to X
we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men
we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men
August 27, 2026 at 1:34 AM
pulled the video so you don't have to go to X
we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men
we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men
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Kind of funny that belief in free markets can't survive in a free marketplace of ideas, but there you have it.
August 26, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Kind of funny that belief in free markets can't survive in a free marketplace of ideas, but there you have it.
This is a really good read. All my comrades should read it, because Moxon does a really great job of framing it. And then all my comrades should send it to the Evelyns and boomer moms in their lives.
Calls to abolish our carceral state are dangerous and unrealistic? OK, let’s talk about our carceral state. ICE has a quota of 2,000 arrests a day. Over a year, that maths out to 0.2% of the entire U.S. population.
www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too...
www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too...
Soon You Too Will Be A Commie
Accepting a bully's framing won't save you a beating. Why solidarity is the best way out.
www.the-reframe.com
August 26, 2026 at 11:20 AM
This is a really good read. All my comrades should read it, because Moxon does a really great job of framing it. And then all my comrades should send it to the Evelyns and boomer moms in their lives.
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“This is Evergreen State all over again!” I wail at the news that a white supremacist has been suspended, from my office on a campus where you can’t screen a documentary or host a talk about the history of Palestine
August 23, 2026 at 1:22 PM
“This is Evergreen State all over again!” I wail at the news that a white supremacist has been suspended, from my office on a campus where you can’t screen a documentary or host a talk about the history of Palestine
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The attempt by transphobes to proclaim their position as 'biological reality' was always a grim mirror of the "race realist" position. The Idea that social relations are sharply overdetermined by biology acts as a blank cheque for discrimination and persecution. TERFs are showing their true colours.
August 23, 2026 at 10:29 AM
The attempt by transphobes to proclaim their position as 'biological reality' was always a grim mirror of the "race realist" position. The Idea that social relations are sharply overdetermined by biology acts as a blank cheque for discrimination and persecution. TERFs are showing their true colours.
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Will anyone acknowledge how revealing it is about the underpinnings of "gender critical" ideology that they're all coming out to bat for the self-described "race realist"?
August 23, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Will anyone acknowledge how revealing it is about the underpinnings of "gender critical" ideology that they're all coming out to bat for the self-described "race realist"?
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According to the right, if you teach that racism is an actual problem that needs to be studied and addressed, that is a bad thing.
But if you teach that racism is an actual *solution* that needs to be taught and encouraged, well, that is a good thing, a very good thing indeed.
But if you teach that racism is an actual *solution* that needs to be taught and encouraged, well, that is a good thing, a very good thing indeed.
August 23, 2026 at 1:36 PM
According to the right, if you teach that racism is an actual problem that needs to be studied and addressed, that is a bad thing.
But if you teach that racism is an actual *solution* that needs to be taught and encouraged, well, that is a good thing, a very good thing indeed.
But if you teach that racism is an actual *solution* that needs to be taught and encouraged, well, that is a good thing, a very good thing indeed.
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LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
August 23, 2026 at 12:19 PM
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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I'll add that while Everett OnlineLib may hate DSAers, to Evelyn, who knows what grass feels like, "DSA" doesn't mean "tankies", it means "AOC", and she's polling well
August 22, 2026 at 11:39 AM
I'll add that while Everett OnlineLib may hate DSAers, to Evelyn, who knows what grass feels like, "DSA" doesn't mean "tankies", it means "AOC", and she's polling well
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It’s remarkable how much of 2026 politics can be fairly reduced to the interests of Southern plantation owners. Not all of it, not by a damn stretch.
But the entire DLC movement was founded to oppose “the Left” (workers owning the means of production) and “Black folks wanting rights.” Explicitly.
But the entire DLC movement was founded to oppose “the Left” (workers owning the means of production) and “Black folks wanting rights.” Explicitly.
August 19, 2026 at 2:06 PM
It’s remarkable how much of 2026 politics can be fairly reduced to the interests of Southern plantation owners. Not all of it, not by a damn stretch.
But the entire DLC movement was founded to oppose “the Left” (workers owning the means of production) and “Black folks wanting rights.” Explicitly.
But the entire DLC movement was founded to oppose “the Left” (workers owning the means of production) and “Black folks wanting rights.” Explicitly.
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Evidence is already accruing that spending time on Twitter pulls ppl to the right, bc the algorithm feeds you horrible stuff.
And again: academics are likely more vulnerable, bc they convince themselves they are less.
And again: academics are likely more vulnerable, bc they convince themselves they are less.
A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly
Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.
theconversation.com
August 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Evidence is already accruing that spending time on Twitter pulls ppl to the right, bc the algorithm feeds you horrible stuff.
And again: academics are likely more vulnerable, bc they convince themselves they are less.
And again: academics are likely more vulnerable, bc they convince themselves they are less.
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US spends unlimited money on wars; next-generation blackboards in China🇨🇳. Different choices define different futures
USA: no $ for that; we spent $ on shock gloves to torture children in concentration camps..China’s doing this for their kids, and we’re putting the Ten Commandments in public schools
USA: no $ for that; we spent $ on shock gloves to torture children in concentration camps..China’s doing this for their kids, and we’re putting the Ten Commandments in public schools
August 18, 2026 at 3:54 PM
US spends unlimited money on wars; next-generation blackboards in China🇨🇳. Different choices define different futures
USA: no $ for that; we spent $ on shock gloves to torture children in concentration camps..China’s doing this for their kids, and we’re putting the Ten Commandments in public schools
USA: no $ for that; we spent $ on shock gloves to torture children in concentration camps..China’s doing this for their kids, and we’re putting the Ten Commandments in public schools