No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer

You, a dangerous radical: We have to change the system so cartoon villains can't wreck the country again Me, a wise pragmatist: What if we simply rebranded the system? Welcome to America Premium+

I’m sorry he hung a WHAT now (gift) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."

Just walked across the street to smell a pile of Christmas trees

My wokest opinion is that constitutive luck is the only reason anyone is particularly good or successful at anything. No one chooses their own kindergarten teacher

i know there are a lot of insane epstein stories out there right now but i promise you guys this one is EXTRA NUTS

It didn’t go far enough. It never went far enough.

they're going to try to build almost 15,000 units of housing on the land that amazon wanted to have for a campus 🥲 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/n...

a story from 2019. that's a long-term win 🥲 www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/n...

going on twitter now is like the dark world part of link to the past, where the shape of things is roughly the same only now instead of the friendly villagers there's some demihuman freak snarling at you going "welcome to the village of assholes!! we hate you!!" also the trees shoot bombs now

somebody finally wrote the perfect distillation of how "masculinity but make it centrist liberal" guys insist men cannot be fulfilled unless they get something a *little* extra special over women, as a treat

Come for the withering drags, stay for Mark Peterson’s beautiful, poetic photos of the defeat party

Between the widespread 996 culture in AI startups and now this, it’s clear mental health does not register as a material concern for the founders working on these technologies

The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch on Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches

[Exit Clown.]

is this three hops theory going to be used with the epstein files

Here’s what they actually thought: they’ll just go after the left wing Bad Jews (who aren’t really Jews so it’s ok) but we’re the Good Jews so it will be fine. joelhs.bsky.social/post/3m4gzansohs2a

Looks like University of Pennsylvania got phished today 😲 This email appears to have been sent to all alumni just now.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

they build an ai christ and when he says christlike things they reply "no not like that" and tweak his model to lean more rightwing

“A society can become so obsessed with the self that an individual life no longer matters.” Speaking as someone living with type 1, this piece is spot on nymag.com/intelligence...

Respect to the greatest opening credits sequence in HBO history:

The Vanishing Man, 2014 by Paolo Ventura www.instagram.com/paolo.ventura/

Scientists have invented a procedure that makes you 30% hotter but 60% stupider. Records indicate that large portions of the population have elected to undergo the surgery, though exact counts are hard to know because lots of people on Perfect 10 Sex Planet don’t remember how math goes

this is worth seven minutes of your time. i've never been prouder to give somebody my vote

I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...

Milkshake duck is back and he’s better than ever

New Petey single just dropped open.spotify.com/album/2bnSoa...

Enough time has passed that I can definitively say that the “everyone is 12 now” post is THE load bearing post of Bluesky. The hall of famer Bluesky post. It commands respect even from Bluesky skeptics and haters

"What will be your first post as mayor?" @katie-drummond.bsky.social's extremely funny (and fascinating) interview with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way: I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Is politics weighing on you? Does it ever make you feel alone, like "everyone" is on board with awful things and "no one" cares (or close)? Then you should go to a No Kings protest. That feeling isn't uncommon, but it's a trick. Go be around some of the many people who agree with you. You'll see.

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

We have frogs everywhere. #NoKings

oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

My doctor’s office has the best content moderation policy

Just saw a guy walking through Union Square with a giant inflatable banana

This is so far beside the point but it’s “thought police” with no hyphen, you sound like T. Herman Zweibel

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

This man spent $7m on a fake Hawaiian war god statue and that alone should get him mocked at every public appearance

“mansion boy” eh? pretty rich from a guy who used to live here

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

The idea that any journalist at CBS News would feel free to open up to Bari Weiss about what’s “broken or substandard” could only have come from the mind of… Bari Weiss

Really great newsletter from @danmall.bsky.social today about where he finds time to read ~all those books~

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

Had to look up some proper Latin for a bit yesterday and I have never searched so carefully in my life

the freud-lover-cum-ai-hater has entered the chat

Anthropic sponsoring Bella Freud’s podcast is quite the rich text, very curious to hear what @patblanchfield.bsky.social thinks about their “keep thinking” schtick open.spotify.com/episode/1LXT...