new pope! *crowd goes wild* American pope! *crowd boos* woke for an American! *crowd goes wild* bad on protecting abusive priests! *crowd boos* hates JD Vance! *crowd goes wild*

Posted a thing. open.substack.com/pub/sahar/p/...

I love the concept of reviewing the reviews. More things like this please! Super handy

Remember clubhouse?

Seems bad!

Voters are more interesting, cross pressured, and idiosyncratic than simple “your demographic is determinative” narratives would have you believe

This engineers review of The Power Broker is incredible (and buried in Amazon comments) “This book is a great blueprint on how to get things done, but it's a hatchet job on Moses regarding the Cross Bronx.” www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review...

🔥🔥🔥 In general, if you hear a group described as believing something obviously ridiculous, you should consider the possibility that you’re being lied to. 🔥🔥🔥 Evergreen wisdom www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The fuck is wrong with people? (Not Rahaeli, she’s great)

I think it’s good that the dictator lost power.

Congratulations to the people of Syria. Eveyone deserves peace, safety, and freedom

There’s a guy here on the subway who has a well worn leather holster for his tape measure and I am Loving It

Facebook seems determined that I *must* be into pokemon (and also ... Dragon Ball Z?). It keeps suggesting engagement bait pokemon reels, pages, memes, etc. Not sure whether to keep ignoring them, or just give in and encourage it because at least the suggested slop won't give me brain worms 🤔

Found this on the streets of Brooklyn today. Made me smile. Side note — time to build me more biceps! Now that I have a positive cartoon role model.

via @failbettergames.bsky.social I give you --- The Saga of Gedge, a prefect at Eton college circa 1883, who had unrelentingly correct opinions about things according to the archived minutes of the Eton society. www.tumblr.com/oodlenoodler...

This is the best semi-guide I've found for what to expect: goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/enacting-t...

A mentor of mine describing Trots as a virus: “they enter the hit new movement. They infiltrate. They find the best people and recruit them for their group. They shift the movement’s messaging to theirs. Then they get out, after grabbing all they can” Anyway here’s a story about “environmentalists”

There’s a vast media and activist empire on the right. It attacks democrats. There’s a vast activist and media empire on the left. It attacks democrats. 🙃

House prices go up: oh no housing is too expensive! House prices go down: oh no the real estate market is crashing! 🤡

Someone teach me to shitpost

[someone who spent the last few months loudly saying they weren't voting for the Democratic nominee] Sorry everyone, just been really down about the election recently.

smashing that subscribe button

Remember this?

Making a list of Bad Takes on the election that I have no patience for. Would love to hear yours. I have, um, MANY so far

If you're still online to go insane today, STAY ONLINE. If you stay online until 8pm, they HAVE to let you go insane.

these are smart strategic people and if you want to make a difference without talking to strangers this is the way to go!

🎺🎺🎺 There are two weeks left until Election Day. And we have good news. You can and should use the power of 🔥posting 🔥to get Kamala elected. Here’s how you can do it, and why it works. (Reskeet liberally please)

Okay folks I'm about to do a tweetstorm for Keyboards for Kamala. ( @davekarpf.bsky.social and @laraputnam.bsky.social and @mattbh.com and @levin.bsky.social and @josh.levinger.net and @davidcsloane.bsky.social and @laurenmiller.bsky.social please take note and maybe spread the word?)

if you want a hands-on online orientation to using keyboards for kamala and the fine art of online persuasion they have a zoom www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

For those who really truly won’t (or can’t for disability reasons) Here’s a great resource: keyboards for Kamala. www.forkamala.fyi

Phonebank. At the very least if you really do care about this issue follow Keyboards for Kamala's advice on how to talk to potential voters:

“It’s not Jill Stein’s fault that David Duke endorsed her,” you say, to which I reply

I’ve gained a fair deal of new followers recently who may mistake me for a full time metascientist. For y’all, I work on understanding how technology impacts large scale societal processes and what needs to be done to promote evidence based interventions. Read this: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The fancy bodega is taking forever to make me a basic sandwich and I have to assume it’s a wicked plot to get me to peruse their wares while I wait

All credit to @sayhar.bsky.social who, I forgot, is sometimes on here

My friend made this guide for online support for Harris - Walz, based on how much time folks have to spare playbook.forkamala.fyi

Wheeeee. 42,259

Socialism as an invasive species that crowds out indigenous american lefty theory. (Veblenism, Pragmatism, Georgism, anti monopoly, even DuBois to some extent)

Wholesome

Could you imagine?

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless.”

look if we yell at each other hard enough maybe we can distract ourselves from all the terrible shit that’ll happen has it worked for anyone yet? no, of course not but it might work for us

A beautiful moment. Ada responds downthread!

I keep seeing people today say "these labeler implosions just prove that Bluesky needs a T&S team". Folks: Bluesky has a T&S team. @aaron.bsky.team runs it. They've gotten incredibly fast at handling issues. I've seen sub-5-minute responses on some of my reports.

Strangely puzzling we stop at kilo for distance. We could have petameters

Gunmen shot up a synagogue in Dagestan. You may remember Dagestan from when a mob encircled a flight from Israel and demanded to know "where the Jews are!" (and you may remember *that* incident from a certain lefty journalist questioning whether it was antisemitic or just targeting "zionists").

This is very important

Just remembered Superdickery, the website that was just an archive of comic book covers with Superman being a dick. My most sincerely millennial position is that online was the closest it’s ever been to perfect when there were just a zillion timesucks like that.