Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
If you're wondering where the fuck they get these weirdos, "Amanda holds a B.A. in history from Yale and an M.Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge." This is the chattering class. This is the ruling elite. This is how their rotted brains work.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3h agoIf I had a terminal illness, my My Make A Wish request would be to sit in on an editorial meeting at this magazine www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
lmfao The Atlantic is seriously running an article where you should not have another kid because one sibling may sexually abuse the other.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3h ago"What's the most unhinged argument we can make to criticize people for doing something that doesn't affect us in any way? No bad ideas, let's get some concepts on the whiteboard."
it’s crazy how so much of the right wing cultural push is just ‘let’s all pretend we never learned how bad/complex all this stuff is and go back to the way things were when we were ignorant’ ngl I get why it’s powerful messaging but it really is the death of knowledge/growth/expertise
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4h agoI'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
If I had a terminal illness, my My Make A Wish request would be to sit in on an editorial meeting at this magazine www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
I've seen a lot of things where people are like, "RFK is just promoting healthy eating," and it's amazing what branding can do, because as far as I've seen, the main dietary things that RFK has pushed are the importance of eating fast food fried in a particular animal fat and drinking raw milk.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4h agoI'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
We ended up cutting it, but there is a section toward the beginning of the book where Greg says his sister's epilepsy was caused by the smallpox vaccine.
Luck Be a Lady@luckbealady.bsky.social · 4h agoI was so excited to listen to this one. We read this in my old book club years ago, and I remember being put off by this guy, thinking he sounded too good to be true. I also recall that the woman who suggested we read this book was a vaccine skeptic. 😬
I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Pretty obvious I am working through some of my former-development-worker trauma with this one
If Books Could Kill@ifbookspod.bsky.social · 5h agoEpisode 54: Three Cups of Tea One man's mission to build schools, fight terrorism and promote peace, one private jet reimbursement at a time.
Miller is a piece of shit. But be cautious about calling family photos of nude toddlers "CSAM." I've written about lives ruined over allegations that turned out to be harmless photos of kids taking a bath or running naked through the house. Moreno is already calling for prosecutions, here.
Max Miller’s lawyer admits to accidentally releasing ‘private images’ of daughter
Lawyers for ex-wife Emily Moreno said possible “Child Sexual Abuse Material” was included in a trove of documents the Ohio lawmaker publicly posted.
politico.com
Oh hell yes @ifbookspod.bsky.social did Three Cups of Tea, where we learned that “don’t be an asshole” was so much better tactical advice than the entire counterinsurgency manual that a conman figured it out before David Petraeus did.
Three Cups of Tea
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · August 5 · 1h 52m
podcasts.apple.com
What is wild about the revisionism is the centrist types seem to only remember how much lockdown sucked. But even if you were vaccinated, that first bout of Covid was a nightmare for most of us. How do people forget that? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/the-...
The great Covid bait and switch - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I find it fascinating how the entire Covid epidemic has undergone some sort of almost Orwellian historical revisionism, and not merely among the right wing, although they are of course by far the wors...
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
"Why is every woman perimenopausal?? It must be the vaccines!" - a 54 year old
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterdayCat Power is antivax
These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Hank Green should not use LLMs in his work. Working scientists have specific use cases for LLMs, but science communicators like Hank and I do not. They add more vulnerability than value in our field. I laid out some history and background to walk you through the reasons why.
Hank Green, Science, History, and Misinformation — aeta
aeta.mataroa.blog
WNBA (the org) courted this. They could have nipped this in the bud, but instead they placated anti-trans activists, so now bigots have glomed onto them. If you don't tell them their opinions are vile and are unwelcome, they will destroy you or leech on you forever. just ask amnesty international
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d agoriley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos
lmao this is a truly world class Take she isn’t even talking just video games here, this is a blanket ban on sports, board games, cards, darts, all of it
Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 3d agoThis may sound radical but "games are shit" is actually the median opinion of every Gamer.
sorry but “this candidate prioritizes [special interest group] over voters” is a pretty normal part of political messaging, and just declaring that it’s suddenly bigoted if the interest group in question is Israel isn’t tenable.
Charles Gaba ✡️@charlesgaba.com · 4d agoI’ve known @jeremymoss.bsky.social for 20 years. He’s one of the finest, most dedicated public servants Michigan has ever had. This is a disgustingly, blatantly antisemitic attack by one of his primary opponents.
1.1% of the country is muslim 1% of the country is trans both have double the poverty rate of the average american apparently these 1% can take over the entire country but the 1% that holds ~37% of the total wealth aren't doing anything worth looking into
Brendan Gutenschwager@bgonthescene.bsky.social · 3d agoJake Lang unveils a banner at Cedar Point Shores Waterpark in Ohio reading “Stop Muslim Takeover of Democrat Party!!” and calling for the deportation of American-born U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed
They will tell you in the very same interview that Fauci killed millions of people and also that he and other public health officials wildly exaggerated the danger of Covid to hurt Trump. Two egregious and completely contradictory lies.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr: We had the highest death rate from covid of any nation on earth BASH: That's not accurate RFK Jr: What I said was accurate BASH: There are other countries that had higher RFK Jr: When Fauci was mismanaging the pandemic, he was doing it under the Biden administration
I like how one of the “gotchas” is comparing Burlington to NYCs fatal overdose rate, but when Burlington effectively decriminalized Buprenorphine and leaned into harm reduction its OD rate was ~1/2 of the rest of VT -is that not a better apples to apples comparison? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35068616/
CommunityStat: A Public Health Intervention to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths in Burlington, Vermont, 2017-2020 - PubMed
From 2017 to early 2020, the US city of Burlington, Vermont led a county-wide effort to reduce opioid overdose deaths by concentrating on the widespread, low-barrier distribution of medications for op...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
"I was unavoidably moved before I saw it was the work of a group I don't like... and now let me use free association to tell you about 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 group I don't like"
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d agoIt was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
When pressed on how to keep schools open, Nate Silver suggested hazard pay but couldn't seem to figure out what happens when you run out of people who are willing to get sick and possibly die at work. So much punditry really boils down to a guy going "oh no not like that."
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is what I mean when I talk about the Fantasy of the Optional Pandemic, where the virus was erased from the equation and mitigation measures were always portrayed as an avoidable choice. Headlines about what actually happened are never even acknowledged.
in the middle of an article about trump's cuts to food stamps (universally opposed by democrats) causing pain for low income americans: ayfkm
