Lmao John Oliver was a deep dive on why people need to leave Twitter. Holy shit. Too perfect.

Congratulations everyone

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John Oliver made an extremely solid case for leaving Twitter tonight. I wonder if anyone of note still there will finally realize it’s time.

i got covered in multiple media outlets for a thread initially posted to like 8k followers only on this website, even forcing journalists at least one outlet that wanted to interview me to create an account because it's impossible to contact me anywhere else i think it can be done

I'm sorry, main character auditions are closed for the day! Everyone still waiting in line should come back tomorrow.

it's so so so so weird and unsettling considering the actual emails AGHHHHH

the SVU rerun tonight is the pizzagate one and even before the opening credits it was extremely weird for "general today" and also "today today" and i don't remember this one so idk where it's going but i bet it will be even weirder

At some point we have to face the sad truth that this array of Administration miscreants are living their HS fantasies. Under what other circumstances would a group of athletes welcome this guy into a locker room celebration?

every time the X vs. Bluesky discourse comes up the conversation eventually gets here and i'm amazed that it finds a way to continue afterwards

we're not snowed in enough to be rehashing why we avoid the nazi poison site that has a CSAM generator native to the platform

I don't let my social media platforms define what kind of loser I am

Kash Patel celebrated the US hockey team's victory the right way. by Ezra Klein

omg i met my husband and later changed my career trajectory because of a message board

great news

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X is unsafe for many people, period. I wouldn't post on there any sooner than I'd walk into a Klan convention. Literally not even an option.

the 12 or so hours at the start of a major snowstorm were the most magical time to be in new york city, in part because traffic almost vanished. truly shocking how quiet the city felt.

“Do you judge everyone who willingly gets manipulated by Elon musk?” Yes? Is this a bit

I’m here for reliable news, sports, and discourse that isn’t dominated by bots and chuds who have to pay to get people to read their posts.

this is the whole thing

we have watched, in real time, people *being seduced by or blundering into Nazi discourse* as a result of staying on X. There may be an argument for public figures staying on there for reach, it is a bad sign for private figures to do so.

if the choice is 'people being annoying from the center-left' and 'literal Nazis' you shouldn't pick the literal Nazi site *run by a Nazi.* this isn't hard!

"The fight is lost, man."

its also no longer accessible without an account AFAIK so it can't even serve as a default source of critical disaster comms and politicians' announcements

it’s wild that for all the titans in the fossil record, blue whales - who are with us right here and now - are, as far as we know, the largest animals that have ever lived

excellent point about how insidious this rhetoric is, like in order to have a presence anywhere you have to be exposed to its UCG to a degree where you can participate it's a moral carcinogen

Deliveristas ending their shift and about to head home over the Williamsburg Bridge, though the blizzard. One of them, Salvador,tells me he’s happy for the cutoff by the city. “This is more dangerous than last snowstorm, harder to move in,” he tells me in Spanish.

if this is jay bhattacharya, he was so persistent in covid disinfo and iirc there was a group of doctors that had a label with a number and he was one of them so much counterdisinfo was unpacking coordinated medical/science info, like iirc dailywire claimed the ICL study was retracted or something

most bsky discontent waves seem to have overt or tacit "i can't generate engagement profits the way i want to" vibes this is why we don't have "blogs for fun" or anything for fun, because monetization consumed the humanity of it

(……one of the more useful things journalists do, I think, is help people understand who to be mad at, and why)

"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..." www.wsj.com/world/africa...

regular not terminally online people DO NOT KNOW we have concentration camps or that trump wasn't exonerated re: epstein or literally anything. the news is lying to them and i'm scared about it 24/7 attempts to discourage bluesky use unsettle me for that reason everyone knows twitter is censored

bluesky's strength is that information is (AFAIK) not suppressed, and when a story breaks, it's findable easily and chronologically. bluesky is the only big-ish site that is not censored to the point of being fucking useless that is INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. people DO NOT KNOW what's happening

these people don't believe their own lies and no one tells them that. this math is simple, and this is on its face a lie

the year is 2026. the most important person in politics is the guy from Home Alone, the most important person in media is the guy from Fear Factor, and the most important person in technology is the owner of MechaHitler. what we need now, more than ever, is to defeat the left

People keep talking about if Bluesky is “relevant” or if it has reach or whatever, I don’t care I’m here to have fun, do what u want

Brooklyn 8:37 PM

Merrimack, NH: "Testing of a groundwater sample from a well near the warehouse [site of proposed Trump prison camp] in 2021 found PFOA present at 109 parts per trillion. That’s far higher than the state standard for PFOA in drinking water of 12 parts per trillion..." www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

Bluesky has not failed--it's literally just a website. The left, the progressive movement, and American civil society have failed to organize a boycott of the neo-Nazi propaganda website that's central to political media. That's not on Bluesky.

I will admit Bluesky can be kinda annoying at times, and one of those times is when relatively prominent people come on here solely to insult the entire userbase over some silly drama

Twitter is owned by a fascist who deliberately manipulates the algorithms to promote far right messages. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

Kash Patel says he now has a lead that Savannah Guthrie's mom is being held at either the NCAA Final Four or the Masters golf tournament, plans to personally investigate.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

I know it’s naïve to even suggest comparisons anymore, but can you imagine the FBI director in any other administration taking a luxury jet overseas to party at the Olympics while presumed assassins are being shot at the president’s house.

this is the Purge of online discourse. for the next 15.5 hours, all takes are legal

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

the year is 2030. a doctor gravely informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people who felt bad for a monkey bought polyester plushies that shed millions of microplastics in the laundry that were were eventually consumed by the fish that you ate

Remember when he was preparing to buy Twitter and many of us were saying, but what about the racism?, and most people were indignantly insisting, "he's not racist!" Just like with Trump. And now here we are.

Energy industry experts talking sincerely about space-based data centres as if they're a real thing: