Sir O.D. Bastard, OBE

@captainannoying.bsky.social

writer/editor, leftist grouch, UGA shitposter, last white man in America without a podcast. can recite “Midnight Marauders” in its entirety. my wife thinks I’m tolerable in small doses

AI is constantly trying to auto-fill my email responses to be like, “Thank you for the response! Let’s schedule a meeting. I look forward to our discussion,” when I need the email to say, “Shit, I’m sorry I just saw this! I need to die! I get it if you want me dead. I hope there’s no funeral for me”

the difference between progressives and today’s centrists is that progressives’ ultimate goal is a better quality of life for the working class, the poor, the marginalized, the struggling. centrists’ goal is…centrism. it’s not about making anyone’s lives better. it’s just about not rocking the boat

We've said it since he got in: viewed as a nut by one faction, a toady by another, an empty vessel and tool of big money by yet another. And nowhere near a good enough politician to reconcile it. There is one way he'll be the nominee let alone president, and it's not by ballot.

Political Wire post titled 'The Knives Are Out for JD Vance in the GOP'

i mean sure, data centers drive up your power bills and make tons of noise and suck the reservoirs dry, and they’re mostly to support AI that nobody really wants, but on the plus side they’ll make a bunch of tech billionaires even richer! c’mon, man, get with the program!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on data centers: "You have to convince your communities how great these things are. You can't fight it. You have to go with it."

“most reporters were too scared…” yeah if there’s one thing i’ve noticed about the media these days it’s that they’re afraid to say anything negative about trans people. just endless reporting on how awesome trans people are, not once giving anti-trans activists a chance to present their side

Clay Ranck@clayranck.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Benjamin Ryan openly admits that his reporting on trans issues is animated by personal bias against someone who was mean to him online. Ben is not capable of reporting on this issue objectively, and yet the New York Times and other outlets repeatedly let him do just that.

I Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter
X.com
One of the reasons I got serious about reporting about pediatric gender medicine is that when I tweeted in Dec 2022 that it was a shame that researchers were discouraged from studying detransitioning, Alejandra Caraballo brutally attacked me on Twitter.
I was not going to let a bully push me around and lie about me, for one thing. And two, I knew that any field which was guarded so aggressively by activists forbiddng anyone from asking
*reasonable and substantive questions* had to be newsworthy and important.
And I quickly realized that most reporters were too scared of the Caraballos of the world, meaning there was a massive amount of uncovered territory for me as a reporter, so long as I could stand being routinely attacked, maligned, defamed, lied about, excommunicated, and so on.

my wife said “this is you” and showed me an insta reel, and it was pandas rolling around and eating bamboo and falling off of stuff, and there’s a certain type of guy who’d be offended by that but i felt more seen than maybe i ever have

ask the median MAGA voter “are you pro-union?” and they’ll be like EWW! BLECCH! SOCIALISM!! but ask them “do you think blue-collar workers should have more power to bargain with corporations for better pay and benefits” and they’ll be like “where do i sign”

Matthew Stafford: Led Georgia to three straight bowl wins. Guy who looks like Matthew Stafford: Currently leading Georgia as its prime minister.

guy who looks like matt stafford surrounded by microphones