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Zanne@zanne.bsky.social · 2d ago

billionaire pedophile who controls the world: Hey, dummies, those t*@nnies are forcing you to pronouns and women's sports and you should k*ll them about it dummies: Yes, Sir!

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · 3d ago

They'll be like "I heard there's a powerful ring of pedophiles who are influencing the country" and you'll tell them "I mean yeah that's what the Epstein files are about" and they'll say "no I'm pretty sure this has to do with The Queers actually"

tittyinfinity The US is crazy bc like so many people have intense conspiracy theories about the government like "I think there's a secret elite group of people who control everything" and you can tell them "actually you're not completely wrong, it's just not a secret group of people, it's a bunch of rich people and lobbyists who are doing it all out in the open" and they'll be like "hmmn I don't think it's THOSE people though. I prefer my racist & antisemitic theories" tittyinfinity They'll be like "I heard there's a powerful ring of pedophiles who are influencing the country" and you'll tell them "I mean yeah that's what the Epstein files are about" and they'll say "no I'm pretty sure this has to do with The Queers actually" Conspiracy theory no one will ever accept: What if the people secretly controlling the world are the same people obviously controlling the world?
m l c@emelsi.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's a combination of him slowly realizing that "national security" is a password that will make everyone let you do whatever you want, combined with a child's desire to build a fort and talk about how cool and impressive it is

J. Offir, PhD@joffirphd.bsky.social · 3d ago

Why does it feel like Trump is trying to fortify DC as his own personal seige protection & tactical assembly area? He's doing it in broad daylight, yet no one talks about possible conflict motives. "Mr. Trump said the arch would be 'a top grade Military... 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7d ago

This. With CBS, which is more plausible: 1) The things they’ve consistently said for years are what they believe. It looks like they’re messing up because they’re wrong and messing up. 2) They’re geniuses with the discipline to play a character in public in a clever bankshot to fail on purpose

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 7d ago

a lot of people think that faillison hired bari weiss to deliberately destroy CBS news and i think all of you need to consider the possibility that he hired her because he genuinely thought she would be successful.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last wk.

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Ms. Rachel post: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it. "If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last wk.

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened. Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. Ed was in …
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last wk.

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened. Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me. And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability. I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation. When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic: لا شكر على واجب "La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty. That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human. Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
Mr. Friendly,@birdrespecter.bsky.social · last wk.

Learning that the first “whistleblower” who started this panic only worked at Anthropic for ~six weeks and created his socials days before he made that post. A second “whistleblower” Joe Benton left Anthropic to go work for an AI safety nonprofit that Dario Amodei partnered with days later. Lol

Mr. Friendly,@birdrespecter.bsky.social · last wk.

Either is possible, but if I were a betting man I’d guess the closest thing to a doomsday scenario is the fact that these companies have been virtually the only growth vectors for the U.S. economy for some time and if/when a collapse comes, we’ll have to reckon with that

Mr. Friendly,@birdrespecter.bsky.social · last wk.

Either frontier AI labs have created a doomsday scenario that we’re months away from (which they’ve been saying for years and we have little evidence of) or they’re wildly unprofitable and can no longer subsidize AI compute, which we actually have pretty good evidence of

Top AI leaders unite to warn the technology is advancing too fast — The Washington Post

Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, long at odds with each other, found common ground in calling for a slowdown in the advancement of AI amid mounting fears about its dangers.

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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last wk.

Ahmed Soliman has been held by Equatoguinean police for two days now. His US lawyers tell me they still don’t know where he is, but they believe he and another third-country national taken with him are alive, and that they are being denied food and water.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2w ago

AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...

m l c@emelsi.bsky.social · last wk.

in fairness, people's memories of that day are conflicting. multiple old classmates later said I walked into our US history class, saw the TV, and said "this was al Qaeda" my memory was someone telling me "a plane hit the world trade center" and me going "what's the world trade center"

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 2w ago

she deleted this once she realized that based on the time difference she was implying that schoolchildren in Scotland knew about 9/11 before it happened

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 2w ago

she deleted this once she realized that based on the time difference she was implying that schoolchildren in Scotland knew about 9/11 before it happened

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w ago

A helpful key here for understanding what wingnuttery is and how it works, here. I 100% guarantee you this did not happen and that the boys she’s talking about - she later clarified they were “Pakistani” - do not exist. And yet, I can also assure you Eve is *absolutely convinced* she saw this.

Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow X.com On 9/11, school was dismissed at noon. My mother came to collect me because the school bus wasn't running. We went home and watched the television all day and all night. The next day I returned to school. Everyone was sad except a certain group of young boys in the corner of my form class. They were celebrating like it was the greatest day of their lives. I will never forget.
jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.

WATTERS & EL-SAYED. Watters: Do you think men should play women's sports? El-Sayed: I'm running for U.S. Senate. It's insane. I'm out here trying to take on the health care crisis and big pharma, and you're asking me about who gets to play what sports. It's silly. People can't take you seriously.

El-Sayed: You don't want to talk about gas prices. You don't want to talk about groceries....You want to bring up all this culture war Watters: Do you think men should play in women's sports? El-Sayed: I'm running for U.S. Senate. It's insane. I'm out here trying to take on the health care crisis and big pharma, and you're asking me about who gets to play what sports. It's silly. People can't take you seriously. FOX NEWS LIVE MEN IN WOMEN'S SPORTS? TEXT JESSE @ (929) 286-7479
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ive been saying for a while now, that the fear and disgust of disability and aging and death is driving the technofascists' apocalyptical thinking, in addition to their extreme eugenicist thinking. They truly believe they and they alone deserve to survive and thrive in this world.

Thiel’s philosophical assumptions might sound bizarre to outsiders, but they appear to be widely shared among the tech elite. “A.I. and its capabilities represent something analogous to the Second Coming,” Jeremy Nixon, a founder of an A.I. hub called A.G.I. House, said in May. The technology, some tech titans believe, will allow humans — at least some humans — to escape the bounds of earth and even perhaps the inevitability of death. It represents liberation from hopelessness and decay.
Holly Brewer@earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 2w ago

It makes the tech oligarch’s attempts to privilege the generative AI simulacra, and imagine almost a world for them, instead of humans, all the more eerie.

Crip Dyke@cripdyke.bsky.social · last wk.

Will, if you actually believed in Dems' triangulation strategy, you would embrace this. The entire point is to sacrifice trans voters to gain cis centrists who fear Dems are in the pocket of Big Trans. Our outrage is their claim to credibility. Why don't you support Acton calling trans girls "men"?

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.

I'll confess I'm shocked by this: seeing a respected progressive voice openly argue that it's better to defeat Democrats who have been flaky on trans rights than to secure Democratic control of the US Senate and US House. Unbelievably foolish, short-sighted, self-sabotaging nonsense.

djdubd.bsky.social@djdubd.bsky.social · last wk.

She's correct, and some people can think further than the next midterm election or the next quarterly profit to identify the path which our country has been on and correctly state that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for an evil which will further your own demise.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.

I'll confess I'm shocked by this: seeing a respected progressive voice openly argue that it's better to defeat Democrats who have been flaky on trans rights than to secure Democratic control of the US Senate and US House. Unbelievably foolish, short-sighted, self-sabotaging nonsense.

Cai@annenotation.bsky.social · last wk.

Transgender politics have been failing badly and need to copy strategies that have worked instead of buckling down on strategies that fail.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.

I'll confess I'm shocked by this: seeing a respected progressive voice openly argue that it's better to defeat Democrats who have been flaky on trans rights than to secure Democratic control of the US Senate and US House. Unbelievably foolish, short-sighted, self-sabotaging nonsense.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last wk.

Thanks to those who explained that AI more powerful than what exists—so powerful it takes over the world and destroys humanity—runs entirely on a single phone with no remote connections to servers. I guess data center construction will stop now, since they’re so unnecessary for development or usage.

Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · 2w ago

Guys, "Y'all means all" is already a slogan Texan queers use. You could have just used that. This shit is so easy. And yet, you've once more fucked it into the sun.

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2w ago

“youre goddam right im for them just like im for all texans” wouldve gone hard as a rebuttal had talarico not just spent the last 3 days tripping over himself to move right on this issue congrats to the talarico team for painting yourselves into a very predictable corner

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 2w ago

She did the thing

How to Make Strudel Like Magda Goebbels

“There is no yeast in strudel. You’re not trying to facilitate the rise of anything. Say this on record.”

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown@enbrown.bsky.social · 2w ago

it's still so weird to me to hear conservatives talking about nutritional yeast and gut microbiomes, or teaching people to make arugula salads and to replace the tuna in tuna salad with chickpeas reason.com/2026/09/07/r...

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · 2w ago

“wealth has its own deranging effects. It almost inevitably turns you into a supremacist” @naomiaklein.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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