Man, remember a decade ago when every website "pivoted to video" to chase absurdly high metrics, but then it turned out that those metrics were absurd because they were literally fake? And no one ever experienced consequences for that lie that shifted a whole industry? Anyway, let's chase Threads.
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 19h agoSo I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
They have to frame it that way because they can never say that centrists should try to do anything other than moderate themselves further to the right.
Progressive wins by small margins: this is proof that the left doesn't have what it takes Progressive loses by small margins: this is proof that the left doesn't have what it takes
“Earnestness is cringe” is just the mirror image of “cynicism is savvy” and the matching partner to “lol nothing matters” which is the fertile ground for fascism to grow. Hope is cringe. Progress is cringe. Change is cringe. Getting together with other people and imagining something better? Cringe.
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 20h agoi also wonder if part of the backlash was that we've decided obvious earnestness is 'cringe' &, like, look at the world around you. do we like the alterative? getting back to a sane & just world will involve a lot more of things we dismiss as cringe now
they did this, with some success, about Joe Freaking Biden who spent essentially his entire long career as the Median Democrat
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · yesterday"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are
But at least we can say the r-word again
Patrick De Haan@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 21h agoBREAKING: the national average is now at its highest ever level this late in the calendar year, according to GasBuddy data. Meaning the national average has never been above $4/gal after Aug. 12 in any previous year- ever.
i still see reactionaries say we need a “reckoning” over woke 1 and i truly don’t know what they mean at this point. the right is firmly in power and we get 2 articles a week bemoaning the excesses of wokeness. what else are you looking for?
finally reading the Atlantic piece on “Woke 1” and it’s interesting how even in their attempt to list the movement’s sins they struggle to identify anything significant
If a Dem was POTUS there would be family members of crew on Fox every night and it would be front page news with all the national press.
River_Tam@rivertam.bsky.social · 22h agoBig yikes www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Yes, because it’s A GAMBLING APP, NOT A POLLING FIRM. THAT IS HOW GAMBLING WORKS. YOUR “ANALYSIS” HERE IS BASED ON PRETENDING THIS ISN’T JUST PEOPLE GAMBLING, JESUS CHRIST
Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.
Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.
Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.
deadline.com
Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police.
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 2d agoVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
If a book is too dense to read on vacation…don’t. Pick a different book to read that’s easier to track!
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d agoAxios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
We're back to the eternal "Stupid, senile, dishonest, or insane?" question. (Please check all that apply.)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoI'm not convinced Trump knows what a vaccine is or how they are administered. What's he talking about? "They give these massive- you ever look? It looks like a Coca-Cola bottle. They're pumping this massive amount of fluid into a child's body" (dear reader, syringes look nothing like Coke bottles)
When he's not being smuggled out of Air Force One in a catering truck, he's being protected by anti-missile systems and barbed wire as he does the vital work of golfing.
OSINTRadar@osintradar.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump was guarded by an Avenger air defense system while playing golf.
This is what we mean when we say we're living under fascism. You might not feel it in your own personal life every day. But you and all of us are vulnerable at any second to this kind of malicious exercise of fascist power. This isn't freedom.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is insane: Trump's rage and humiliation over the Reflecting Pool now has the White House urging DOJ to undertake new prosecutions *even though the government itself has already determined the person in question is innocent.*
The sun is disappearing because god is angry with us!
NPR@npr.org · 2d agoIt will be visible in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday.
A ton of effort is going to go into pretending taxing rich people doesn’t work just like a lot of work went into immediately ignoring and getting rid of that expanded child tax credit once it was revealed it worked way better than expected
Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 3d agoMassachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.
Our strong, brave, masculine, he-man, testosterone oozing president. Hiding in a catering truck.
Aaron Schaffer@aaronschaffer.com · 2d ago!!!
Why are there action scenes in movies? They don't move the movie along at all it just makes people uncomfortable. We could just skip to the after and show who's dead and stuff if we have to - get back to plot because exposition is the only thing that matters. Plot is king. Plot is god. Plot is all.
As a movie podcaster, this is just straight-up offensive, and shows how little the studios think of us.
So Trump did the Jeff Davis dressed in women’s clothing thing except this time it actually happened and wasn’t just opposition propaganda
"Is Hasan Piker the Attorney General who Republicans confirmed despite him still withholding documents about Donald Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein? Because I oppose that." "No, he's a Twitch streamer who—" "I don't watch Twitch, but I have seen the birthday card Trump gave Epstein."
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2d agoif i were a dem politician asked about hasan piker i would simply say “i will answer your question about the twitch streamer no one has heard of but first i would like to point out the president was best friends with the worlds most notorious child rapist and yall stopped asking him about that”
the only people actually “cancelled” have been the teachers targeted by libs of tiktok and tpusa. claudine gay. every trans kid trying to play an organized sport with their friends
the media don't and never cared about "supporting the troops." it was a weapon they used to hit anti-war politicians whenever they had the temerity to vote against unlimited funding for wars and nothing more. a big joke they all laugh about.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's like a Republican administration actively *not* supporting the troops is simply unfathomable to most media outlets.
Companies should be willing to do anything to attract talent, including paying high wages, offering good benefits, sacrificing shareholder profits, says me.
✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 2d agoi encourage all of you, regardless of your age, to not take this shit advice
Someone watched the Gran Turismo movie.
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d agoSo, this is real, I just checked
