Guy Finney
@phxroadrunner.bsky.social
Mostly rants about sports. Aussie Footy nut. F1 nut. Weather nut. Cashews too. Certified old fart. Guitar player in the same way an NFL center is an ice skater.
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
Shouldn't use 'Achilles heel' to mean 'salient weakness'. If one thing is your Achilles heel, that means that you are basically perfect at every other thing. If you have several weaknesses of which one is worst you don't have an Achilles heel. You are not Achilles. You are Bob.
What the ever loving... [insert @effinbirds.com image here]
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing Power
What does a power-shifting agenda look like?
donmoynihan.substack.com
"Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating 'exploitable trust' with others." www.wired.com/story/ai-sca...
Rapidly becoming convinced that one major immediate impact of AI diffusion is a massive uptick in the sophistication and scale of scams and hacks. Seeing it everywhere.
Two reasons this has been happening for the past ~50 years: Republicans created a media-political ecosystem that elevates and mainstreams its fringes, creating an ongoing mutation that makes them worse and worse; and Democrats have chosen to accommodate them instead of pushing back harder and harder
Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier are racking up apparent Clean Elections violations as critics say they hope to spoil Democratic chances story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
‘Sham’ Green Party candidates tied to GOP machine as they funnel cash to a mystery company
Sham Green Party candidates in Arizona funneled $1.2M in public funds to a Nevada shell tied to the GOP machine
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ANYWAY. The QAnon/MAHA clinic is returning to the Convention Center and they were struggling to come up with the funds apparently (their words) so the folks at the Convention Center decided to give them the space + advertising for basically free.
OPINION | GOP lawmakers are so scared of voters having a voice in how their tax dollars are spent that they will resort to trickery, deceit, and downright unconstitutional behavior via @azbethlewis.bsky.social
Why Save Our Schools Arizona is suing to stop the GOP's trickery aimed at blocking voucher reforms
HCR2048 lawsuit Arizona vouchers: Save Our Schools sues to stop GOP referral it says would void voter-approved voucher reforms
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Folks in the comments going "He phoned this one in. He phoned that one in." No, buddy. No.
Just some of the iconic corporate logos designed by the legendary SAUL BASS
Update: Lombardo (fake Green Party candidate) got fewer than 500 votes for Governor in yesterdays primary election. #ArizonaElections Nonetheless, she will be on the ballot in November to confuse Independent voters. Election interference takes many shapes. azmirror.com/2026/07/13/r...
A mystery company, a MAGA activist and $1.1M: Inside Risa Lombardo's 'sham' Green Party candidacy
Risa Lombardo campaign finance: Green Party candidate sent 78% of her $1.1M Clean Elections funds to a newly formed Nevada firm
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The #VoterFraud is once again coming from inside the MAGA Republican house.
Ex-felon Neil DeSanti, a GOP activist who has spread Donald Trump's "election fraud" lies, was charged with false voter registration and illegal voting after failing to have his rights restored story via @jimsmall.bsky.social
Individual mayors have spoken. That has no impact on senatorial and national politics. It's an opportunity for dem leadership to be proud and to set a foundation to counter the inevitable negativity that will come in November.
Besides being very low-relevance electorally, this also seems objectively inaccurate