how about a fellowship for people who would never use the phrase "impactful content"

George Washington is a funny reference point to use in an argument that a president should hold power indefinitely

quintessential fox news chyron. zero notes. ht @ndrew.bsky.social

On X, Mamdani roundly condemned an act of antisemitic vandalism, which should be very reassuring to anyone who was genuinely worried he won’t stand up for the city’s Jewish communities. Feel like he should post it here too?

YouTube publicly decries Biden pressuring it to censor, then quietly does this at Trump's behest: theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing today

ah yes, a victim of online lies. definitely not a leading exponent of them who rode them to a vast online audience and a seat in congress

Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania. The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown. 🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

meanwhile over on x, things are going about as expected

As the cold reality of Cuomo’s defeat sets in, this is a moment for centrists to ask themselves: Have we lost touch with the common voter? Get out and spend time in the tattoo parlors and dispensaries. The drag shows, community gardens and outsider art galleries where Real New Yorkers congregate

a pretty solid way to win almost every group, for that matter. it’s wild that more dems don’t try it

this is gonna devastate mamdani about as badly as that NYT column did nick fuentes

Election Night bombshell. Literally no one saw this coming

Nation's Young Men Honestly Just Making This Shit Up as They Go Along

All three winning candidates in the major races are active on Bluesky: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, @abigailspanberger.com & @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City

a strong belief i have is that it is ok to occasionally be wrong about things, even in public, as long as you're open to changing your mind in the face of compelling arguments or evidence. but i could be wrong about that

so we've proven you can indict a ham sandwich tosser, but can you convict him? so far all we can say for sure is that the attempt to do so is comedy gold

Conservative billionaires: Pro-Trump in the streets, anti-tariff in the sheets (of lobbying cash they're shelling out, yeah sorry this joke started off sounding better in my head than it turned out) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I am OK with 841 people blocking me on Bluesky in a single day for daring to suggest that people overuse mass block lists on this site. I will be a bit more concerned if it turns out Bluesky's updated algorithm uses that as a signal to downgrade my posts for everyone.

lol, welp

"It looks like this message is in Greek"

half the replies in reddit’s “geography” sub are wonky, historically literate and enlightening and the other half are dumb dad-puns and honestly i’m here for both

Ok I am logging off but *not* because the anti-anti-blocklisters have cowed me into submission!! It’s just that I have a crick in my neck from too much time spent arguing with strangers on my phone

Over on X, there's a massive flame war between the "Hitler had some good points" and "you do not in fact gotta hand it to Hitler" factions of the online right

Excited to inevitably get put on someone’s People Who Whine About Blocklists blocklist

Ideal Bluesky equilibrium is that *you* use blocklists very sparingly or not at all, but you *appear* on lots of blocklists that insane people have made and subscribe to so that they disappear for you.

Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform. Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.

OK, yes, my 10yo just beat me at foosball, but it was only because he blatantly cheated by not having any wine with dinner.

what’s the record for the most potential world-series winning walkoffs foiled by forceouts at home plate in a single game?

Schneider facing Snell is a matchup of two very basebally looking fellows

Thanks to Facebook's dumb AI "memories" tool for reminding me that I've been posting about dumb AI tools for at least 13 years as of today

concerning futurism.com/artificial-i...

i think this is the best description of Threads i've seen yet and of course it's by @katienotopoulos.bsky.social

A 61-year-old Tennessee man posted a liberal meme on Facebook after Charlie Kirk's death. A conservative sheriff had him arrested. Bail was set at $2 million. He spent nearly 40 days in jail before charges were dropped. Now he's planning to sue. Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

I mostly agree with Will here, but I doubt the threat here is anywhere near illegal. What's needed is more news orgs like ProPublica, which disregards the threat -- and publishes it. I used to tell folks who got aggressive during interviews that threats are always on the record.

Vibes are an underrated aspect of free speech. The First Amendment hasn't changed, but the vibes from this administration are that the gov't has the power to chill press freedom via threats. And so I'd expect these kinds of casual threats to continue until or unless courts emphatically quash them.

Once again, the average earnest X post is indistinguishable from satire

that certainly is one way to start an encylopedia entry for george floyd

ME, READING THIS: God have mercy on our souls LENNY, MY AI BIBLE BUDDY: That's a great point — God really *is* known for showing mercy, even when we may not deserve it. In fact,

i know nobody wants to say "shitcanned" on linkedin but the britishism "i've been made redundant" is the most hangdog possible euphemism because it makes it seem like it's the worker's fault for having no distinct value to add to the world rather than the company's fault for mismanaging its business

wake up babe, a new way of saying "we just put 14,000 people out of a job" just dropped

True Freudian slips are not that common in my experience, but in the past 24 hours I have inadvertently referred to the company behind GME as "GameStock" and griped that Grokipedia articles are a slog to read because they're "interminably wrong"

for whatever it's worth their article on the jugalbandi was wholesale ripped from Wikipedia's, citations and all

Elon Musk appears to have just launched Grokipedia, billed as an AI-powered rival to Wikipedia, which he accuses of liberal bias. Grokipedia's entry on "gender," for instance, starts by defining it as a "male or female" binary. Story: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... cc @techmeme.com

New: Elon Musk appears to have just launched "Grokipedia," billed as a more right-leaning rival to Wikipedia: grokipedia.com Story to come. If you try it out, I'd be interested to hear what you find.

The number of Matryoshka dolls you have to open in order to find the original basis for the claim that TikTok is rigging the FYP algo to favor Mamdani is almost as wild as what the "evidence" for it turns out to be.

Good to see the country moving on from identity politics