Maybe the most helpful piece I've read about understanding American political discourse in 2025

Congrats to the Seattle Nintendos

they just announced this is the last baseball game ever

I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

Escaping from the airtight vessel known as New Jersey to see how this is

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

Hard to really get into horror movie season when it's 83⁰ and humid outside, but Lord I am trying

Who's writing middle-aged millennials better than @somers.bsky.social?

In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain. Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵

lmao this dolt is beyond parody. yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

If I have to use AI tools at work, I might as well use them to force an AI influencer to recite Taylor Holmes's 1915 recording of Rudyard Kipling's "Boots."

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"We created the ambiguously menacing creative consulting firm from William Gibson's novel 'Don't Create the Ambiguously Menacing Creative Consulting Firm'"

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

If Isaac Chotiner asks you about your friendship with Henry Kissinger, you are already dead.

The whole back half of the interview gets even weirder when you realize Star Wars doesn't refer to the Strategic Defense Initiative Star Wars but to Star Wars Star Wars

dudes rock

Bookmarking this excellent @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social piece www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

Just incredible schadenfreude happening here

ah, well

hayao miyazaki refusing to go to the american premiere of howl until he found out bacall was gonna be there at which point he adjusted his tie & vanished in a cloud of dust headed for manhattan is possibly the most relatable thing dude has ever done

25th U.S. Poet Laureate, first Asian American to hold this honor. A big hell yeah for Arthur Sze today! www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

on that shit that got me forgetting how to use a zipper and then realizing it's part of god's plan

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

It does feel like our traditional conception of the political spectrum is not useful in analyzing people whose politics are basically meme-fried brainrot 4chan nihilism lolz

Found this flipping through posters in a vintage store, and it seems to be signed by Miyazaki. Best 40 bucks I ever spent

I am saying this with love but some of you all need to figure out a thing to do when you are anxious that isn't posting

The ruling class is so inoculated from harm most of the time that they’re able to see men like Kirk as entertainers, their message as entertainment, the real and immeasurable suffering they cause as proof of talent. The reality they create shouldn’t affect them, so they weep when it does.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually

Bought myself a new job present and wowow it's been a second since I had a really good bourbon

THEY'RE CALLED MECHA, COOP. REAL WACKADOO STUFF THE BOYS BACK AT LANGLEY HAVE BEEN COOKING UP. ENORMOUS ROBOT BODIES THAT'LL WIN THE NEXT TEN WARS. BUT HERES THE KICKER: THEY CAN ONLY BE DRIVEN BY MALNOURISHED TEENAGE LESBIANS. TRANSGENDERS TOO IF THEY'RE MALNOURISHED ENOUGH.

SHAGGY: like zoinks, scoob, what're you reading? SCOOBY: *halfway through underworld* ron rerillo eeheehee

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them: They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

Bluesky growth discourse

It Happened To Me: Had to Revise My Opinion Because the Full Article Turned Out to Be More Nuanced Than the Viral Screenshot

Whoever came up with "blow chunks" was basically the Shakespeare of the 20th century. The language will never do better than that.

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A fucking real one

Ratat∞uille

Let's goooooooooo

For years I’ve been unsure whether the Wikipedia page on crucifixion having a section called “Crucifixion in Anime” was real or a weird dream. I just remembered I can look up the edits and there’s a whole argument about it