Chris Johnson

@cxj.bsky.social

2066 Followers 350 Following

Writer, mental explorer, internet pioneer. Struggles not to give up. Non-average guy of European ancestry. Provides useful data and insight on occasion. Reposts are not endorsements. "A sprinkle of insightful critique topped with a dash of snark."

Image shows part of screen-printed t-shirt with a black wired computer mouse between 3 orange road construction cones, and the text "TEAM.NET RACING".
Image shows rear of a screen printed t-shirt with the text TEAM.NET RACING and Solo II surrounding image of checkered flag, and a green sports car negotiating 3 orange road construction cones. Car is wedge shaped and has hidden headlights, and is presumed by author to be a Fiat X1/9.
A protestor's sign that reads: "We aren't being governed. We're being looted."
Photo of the illuminated playing field of the 8 Ball Deluxe pinball game.
Photo of Peter Thiel at bottom, text above which reads: Listen, when the people who started the fire start running from the smoke, wake up! Peter Thiel co-founded Palantir -- the company that built the surveillance infrastructure for the CIA, NSA, ICE. He bankrolled Trump twice. He just moved his entire family to Argentina, bought a mansion, enrolled his kids in school. Cited "concerns about America's future." Sir, YOU created this future.
Image of email from Melania to Ghislaine written in a very friendly fashion, and mentioning Jeffrey Epstein, signed "Love, Melania" and date before she met Trump.
Graph showing OPEC production at its lowest point since 2009, even lower than the Covid dip.
A well-used, stained piece of material that says SISU and: courage, stubbornness, tenacity, spirit, resolve… in smaller background lettering.
Screen shot from Twitter/X posted by The Atlantic with text: "Benjamin Netanyahu's long career was built on conflict avoidance - then, October 7 transformed and radicalized him"
Image of President Trump on left and Attorney General Bondi on the right, with labels "the pedophile" on the left and "the law" on the right.
"Melania" movie director Brett Ratner is seen groping a teenaged girl sandwiched between him and Jeffrey Epstein.
„Governments never announce that they have become fascist. They announce that the anti fascists are now enemies of the state.”
A bar chart graph comparing manufacturing, fuel, maintenance, fuel production, and battery manufacturing Green House Gas (GHG) emissions for ICE versus battery vehicles by region in world and by year of production. Battery electric vehicles always have significantly fewer GHG emissions for the total life cycle, including the mining and creation of materials for battery-powered cars.
4 cartoon panels: trees blowing in a hurricane, trees standing in tsunami water, trees shaking in earthquake, all trees cut down in neoliberalism.
Person wearing a t-shirt that reads: "I'm going to stop drinking just as soon as I'm named secretary of defense."
Tight shot of part of crowd protesting on No Kings Day, most dressed in inflatable cartoon-like animal costumes.
Cartoon of woman holding sign which reads: governments never announce that they have become fascist they announce that the anti fascists are now the enemy of the state.
Just text which says: I want to live in a world where flags are lowered for Jane Goodall.
2 glossy black cat sitting near each other staring intently at their opposable thumb servant.
Graph from 1880 to 2000 of percent of people who are left handed. Starts low, begins to grow and by 1950 levels out at about 12% for rest of graph.
Graph showing percent of population that is left handed from 1880 to 2000. Starts low then grows to about 1950 where it levels out at about 12% forever.
Graph showing amount of gain in income experienced by the 90 percent lowest earners, 95th percentile (above $176,000 per year), and executives (above $951,000 per year) as a results of 2017 corporate tax rate cut which was claimed would increase average family's income by $4,000 per year due to "trickle down" economic activity.
Photograph of Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, captioned with Ukraine yellow text which reads "Leader of the Free World".
Billboard that says: DOGE could save $18 billion by canceling Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla subsidies.
Stock market graph showing S&P 500 effectively a near flat line of little change over the past month, while Tesla has declined steeply.
Photo of Mark Zuckerberg with text: "Business News: Facebook founder and convicted pedophile Mark Zuckerberg, dead at 36, says social media sites should not fact-check posts. Zuckerberg, who died of coronavirus and complications from syphilis at his home near Facebook headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska, says it is not Facebook's role to be the arbiter of truth. He is succeeded in death"
Image of text explaining false assertion that LA cut fire budget $23 million when in truth it was increased $50 million.
Mario(?) and 3 bullets on a wall, using tape as the medium.
Sign: "My ducks are absolutely not in a row. I don't even know where some of the are and I'm pretty sure one of them is a pigeon."
Image of landing Spirit Airlines jet with text: "Bankrupt Spirit Airlines worth less than executives' 2023 pay"
Graph showing life expectancy of USA vs. a bunch of other countries versus costs, from 1970 to 2018, and the USA is way worse than the rest.
Photograph of a young Asian woman named Kitty Kuo playing poker.
Photo of plastic water bottle on restaurant table. Label on bottle proclaims "Liquid Chemtrails" at top and says "Warning Contains Dihydrogen Monoxide" below.
Graph showing health care expenditures versus life expectancy for various countries with USA very far more expensive and much lower expectancy over past decades.
Still from a video, reposted with text: "The boss of Enron just got pied by an older lady. Something is starting to happen." Image shows older blonde-looking woman smashing a cream pie of some sort well into the face of an executive on a city street, while a man to each side of the executive react and/or try to stop her or try to avoid the pie themselves.
Multiple boxes of “boxed water is better” brand water.
Headline which praises Silvio Berlusconi on his death, despite all the evil he brought to the country of Italy.
Headline: Inflation has been easing fast, but wild cards lie ahead.
Headline: Why a strong economy is making stock investors jittery.
Headline: Alabama lawmakers decline to create new majority-black congressional district [despite being ordered to do so by SCOTUS]
Shows NYT headline that was watered down in the 3 steps making it look like Biden refused to meet with DeSantis, though truth was hurricane damage prevented the meeting.
Compares critical headline of Kamala Harris [for refusing to do conventional interviews with NYT & other media], but sane washes Donald Trump's eugenics as "fascination with genes".
Headline with red-mark up to identify WHO shot and killed the woman: "A Woman Decidcated to Saving Lines Loses hers in Gaza violence" corrected to "Israeli Forces shot and killed a Palestinian woman dedicated to saving lives"
3 versions of New York Times headline, first showing Israel as the cause of the death, middle removing Israel's mention, and last completely passive voice about a "blast" that killed Palestinians.
A white N95 mask labeled with hand-written red words that state "paid control group".
Girl Scouts posthumously awarded Amerie Jo Garcia 20 of Uvalde, Texas the Bronze Cross for attempting to save life at risk of her own. “Kind of says something about America…”
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #415,574, Chris Johnson ‪@cxj.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 29, 2023"
Map of lower-48 states of USA, showing number of H5N1 herd detections by state. CA:259, UT:13, ID:36, WY:1, CO:64, NM:9, TX:26, OK:4?, KA:4, SD:7, MN:9, IA:13, MI:30, OH:30?, NC:1