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Jackie Hovey

@jellenhovey.bsky.social

Mother. Lawyer. Tax Analyst. Writer. Math, history, and language enthusiast. USN Cold War vet. Voluntary Anti-fascist. Domestic terrorist.

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Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · yesterday

“Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California ....” Listen below to Leonard Nimoy’s recording of Ray Bradbury’s powerful 1950 science fiction short story “There Will Come Soft Rains,” set on this very day.

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · last mo.

Listen here to Nimoy’s 1975 recording of Ray Bradbury’s 1950 science fiction short story (and chapter in “The Martian Chronicles”) “There Will Come Soft Rains,” which hauntingly envisioned one potential future arising from unconstrained nuclear testing and arms races. archive.org/details/brad...

A screenshot from the linked Internet Archive page for the 1975 recording, "Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles — There Will Come Soft Rains • Usher II — Read By Leonard Nimoy" It shows the cover of the album, a somewhat abstract-looking painting of a vaguely futuristic-looking white house sitting amidst what looks like a pile of branches. Up in the blue sky, stars and two planets (one red, one green) are visible.
Really Sean Smith@reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 4d ago

Make the emperor a Roomba with cerebrovascular disease and the model attains almost mathematical rigor H/T @haydonmp.bsky.social

Brett Fujioka@brettfujioka.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think that I once opined that there isn't anything analogous in U.S. history to the inter service rivalries in Japan. But I've also said that the current administration is more comparable to Imperial Japan than other Quasi-Totalitarian States. cc: @sharonk.bsky.social @aelkus.bsky.social

Musicology Duck@musicologyduck.bsky.social · 5d ago

and yes i know there are examples outside the Trump administration and i have heard of nominative determinism-- i'm just saying, there's a weird number of examples related to the admin that really underscore how the writers are out of ideas

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 3w ago

BONUS II: A look at Oppenheimer’s papers at the Library of Congress (the drawings and neatly handwritten description in the diary pages in the photo concern the post-war Operation Crossroads atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in July 1946).

Library of Congress@librarycongress.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is the 80th anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, the Trinity test in New Mexico. Did you know the Library has leader of the Manhattan Project and father of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer's papers? More than 300 boxes worth. Read more: blogs.loc.gov/loc/2023/07/...

A small sketch of a nuclear explosion, drawn in one of the diaries in the J. Robert Oppenheimer collection at the Library of Congress.
TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com · 3w ago

And how do we know that Lindsey Graham ‘knew better’ and ‘chose worse’, which is now the central component of his legacy? Because he told us in a tweet that he purposely never deleted. This was the real Lindsey. And he spent the next ten years pretending to be someone else out of selfishness.

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.
Jackie Hovey@jellenhovey.bsky.social · 4w ago

Really, really sad. Let's do better at vetting candidates in the future and avoid those with superficial charm and obvious red flags, shall we? To all of Platner's apologists: fix your bullshit detectors. They're obviously broken. Congratulations to Senator Collins on her upcoming re-election.

Jackie Hovey@jellenhovey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Is Maine so bereft of suitable candidates that this fucking guy is the best they have to offer? That is so sad.

Jeffrey Lewis@armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · last mo.

This new translation of Clausewitz is 🔥. "Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will: each endeavours to throw his adversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance or, where throwing proves taxing, to prevail narrowly on points."

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Jackie Hovey@jellenhovey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

JD Vance - who is so insincere about everything, even his laugh is fake - is trying so hard to channel Ulysses S. Grant with that gray-tinged beard but if he shaved it, he'd call Herbert Hoover to mind

Photo of Ulysses S. Grant, copied from the "List of presidents of the United States" Wikipedia page, showing him with a trimmed beard tinged with gray near his ears, similar to the look JD Vance is currently sporting.Photo of Herbert Hoover, copied from the "List of presidents of the United States" Wikipedia page, showing him with a chubby-cheeked clean-shaven face, similar to how JD Vance would appear if he were to shave his facial hair.