Something about post-blogger social media CEOs that makes them so terminally bad at posting that users either abandon ship or have no choice but to turn the site into Stormfront.

Even in a world like professional gambling this is the rule. Mid-tier poker grinders can bop along just fine on talent and study. The high stakes crushers are making 60% of their income based solely on their ability to get an invite to exclusive games where they make the donators laugh.

Suddenly completely remorseless for ghosting someone who gave me a full breakdown of "Taylor's cryptic cyphers she's been leaving in her songs for years"

Generational talent.

I clicked the hashtag and now I'm gonna get fired.

I'll never trust an election again because 901 didn't make it past round 2 of Fat Bear Week

This shit is so ahistorical and vile. Baltimore's population and politics were unsettled by the '68 riots in the wake of MLK's assassination, but the subsequent white flight came after they'd spent DECADES redlining black communities (including using a literal highway to crack neighborhoods).

Can't imagine a more cursed podcast duo than Ross Douthat and Hasan Piker. NYT Columnist and Twitch Streamer are just two different kinds of rapidly advancing brain disease.

People act like black metal is the scary music, but late 90's emo guys would threaten to murder you just for being a little forgetful.

feds are asleep, form bioregional co-operatives

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

His body and entire existence are just "I don't know what to do with my hands."

"Tokenization of real estate on the Blockchain" is going to be the phrase that forces me to write a manifesto.

One of the realest.

Every tortured justification for not leaving X boils down to someone being addicted to a certain level of engagement. Yes, you are Very Smart Leftist, but you also have two different kinds of Attention Deficit Disorder.

I know the malignancy of capitalism is constantly peaking because now I've been forced to feel empathy for Taylor Swift.

Can't wait to get booted from all my group chats for reposting the sperm whale thing 500 times over the next month. Sometimes things are good.

I don't understand young people.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

loling at the idea of the rapture people quietly cleaning up the notes they wrote for the people left behind and putting them in the recycle bin

pausing while scrawling my core animating motivation on a single bullet to consider the phrasing that will most effectively rally my ideological enemies

The bsky tier list just further proves that the second dumbest segment of the population is the median liberal.

Sometimes I read Bat Mitzvah as Bat Mitzvah

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

Sometimes there are good things. Fat Bear Week is a good thing. It's your civic duty to show up to the polls. explore.org/fat-bear-week

I don't necessarily like that I'm turning into a poaster, but it's probably the kind brain aneurysm I deserve.

Moral decisions have nothing to do with public opinion. Interracial marriage didn't poll above 50% until 1997. Absolute ghouls.

Wait...if he was just some guy...and I'm just some guy...and *you're* just some guy...

Every random guy doing the Run The Jewels pose in pictures is the lowest charisma human you've ever seen.

Every time he says “Buffalo Wild Wings” I change it to Blue Cow Ice Cream @melissingout.bsky.social @zacheryw.bsky.social

Yes, I unfollowed someone for defending Alex Garland's "Civil War"

The fact that a narrative metaphor accurately portrays a certain reality does not, in and of itself, make it intellectually or artistically compelling. This is the crux of every argument I've had about movies that are bad despite their compelling sociopolitical perspective.

"I'll see you in Valhalla" is the funniest shit that man could have said.

Some rando on twitter said this a year ago. Can you imagine???

Finally a good news bulletin.

This Benjamin Netanyahu fellow seems like he might not be completely sincere about wanting an end to hostilities

Mandatory mental health first aid trainings are the leading cause of suicidality in middle aged men who are me.

When I say I'm my generation's George Costanza, I mean that I both know where all the good public restrooms are, and blew it with my equivalent of Marisa Tomei.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

We need a full Eric Adams series @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social

Saying you identify with Russ Cohle is the same as saying you identify with Holden Caulfield. You clearly missed the entire point and just need to grow the fuck up.

No matter how long your filmography as an actor, two movies about white water rafting is a lot.

Thread. I've had a few really interesting conversations with Linguistics folks who know Chomsky's academic work inside and out, but have never engaged with his political research and activism despite it becoming his dominant output. They have no idea he's self-described as a libertarian socialist.

this vs urge to self annihilate.

Spelling Bee is woke

The feed about to get annoying

Many responses to this read as "sure it works, but we all still believe in the basic premise that some people should be excluded, right?"

My deepest hates are reserved for the rotting corpses of Dobson, Robertson, Falwell and everyone created in their image. So many years of life ripped away from me, certain members of my family, and so, so many friends because these grifters decided their weaknesses could only be girded with blood.

I had 3rd degree internet access via the family my mom and I lived with when I was in high school. Several of my friends had 4th degree access through me. They would come over to use AIM on the family's computer while I read in the basement. My best friend's screen name was grLsGeTnKed