Just Some Guy
@utopianparallax.bsky.social
software developer & butlerian jihad advocate | dad-coded curmudgeon | episcopalian | he/him | ⚓️ 🏳️🌈 ☭ 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ | @justsomeguy@jorts.horse
Impossible to overstate the extent to which the people who own and operate this app hate the people who use it.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky'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."
You guys, nominating the person who earned the most votes is now an “ideological purity test.”
"I feel like companies and banks are finding more ways to nickle-and-dime people" Agree: 76% Neutral: 18% Disagree: 6% Focaldata / July 20, 2026
Congrats again to the White House Correspondents Association!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
AdImpact's graphic of the MI-SEN spending through the end of July. I think we need some campaign finance reform in this country
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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JUST IN: The House Ethics Committee has recommended a censure of GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina following “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers.”
"The users of Bluesky, the app, are not the same as the people building on AT Protocol, & the goals of a company founded to push forward the ideas of open & interoperable social standards are not necessarily aligned w/the things all those users might need or want." www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...
Bluesky’s new CEO wants to grow it all
Bluesky is many different things in a trenchcoat.
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Bitch I pay $36k a year in federal taxes and get... what, exactly? Kicked in the nuts by Donald Trump's eternal war on price stability? Eat shit!
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Speaking of "underlying health issues", this newspaper is a cancer on our society.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
I know he gets away with this because of Americas's collective investment in the narrative that the real story of the pandemic is that everyone took infinity psychic and cognitive damage from staying home for a few weeks, but this is a sick fucking lie.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d agoI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Me: (sobbing) If only the Left would stop calling the far right racist, we could’ve avoided all this unpleasantness
“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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You guys ever eat dinner? Dinner heads rise up.
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w agoThe use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
Obviously, no he didn't, because everything these tech morons say is a lie or a wild exaggeration, but still, just imagine what kind of a moral cretin you'd have you be to say something like this.
worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2w agoextremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.
Huh, kind of like everything else he's promised was a year away!
Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · 2w ago’A year ago, Elon Musk said the company's robotaxi network would expand at a "hyper-exponential rate" and be available to half the US population by the end of 2025. On Wednesday's earnings call, he struck a more guarded tone around a slower-than-expected rollout.‘ www.reuters.com/business/aut...
The Odyssey is a nice example of the problem with every effort to "understand" Trumpers. There's nothing to "understand" here: this man has no idea what happens in Homer's epic, he's an arrogant dimwit with a made-up version in his head that he uses as an excuse to be weird and racist. That's it.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2w agoMatt Walsh complains that Nolan brought his obsession with nonlinear story telling to the Odyssey, undercutting the original's narrative. The defenders of western civilisation, folks.
Every year, there are more middle school boys named Brayden. The rate of Brayden acceleration is unsustainable. Our most reliable models anticipate a critical massive Braydens as early as 2030 if preventative action is not taken.
Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoAbout 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to hang out in the middle east while he starts the same war every day. when a missile blasts you into pieces he'll say your last words were "we must build a new ballroom in the white house" before your body is even cold. good luck soldier
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"
It's no comfort that a majority of the people who are virulently anti-trans today will be lying about this fact in a few short years.
The internet is dead. “In total, more than 50 percent of web traffic is now nonhuman, Cloudflare said. Between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to websites of businesses in industries like finance, publishing and retail dropped nearly 40 percent, it added.”
kate conger@kateconger.com · 2w agoI wrote about what's happening to the web now that everything is A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
Jonathan Cain is the (third) husband of pastor Paula White-Cain, Trump's "spiritual advisor".
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump critic Bruce Springsteen was attacked by a fellow musician for making his opposition to the president a fixture of his shows.
All the anti-trans hysteria of the last decade was a direct attempt to distract from Me Too and the Epstein class. This needs to be stated more explicitly.
"Brixton Poindexter, 18, has sharp fangs, hisses when exposed to sunlight, and has never had a friend he didn't know by a chan handle. And, [presumably] like every other person born between 2004 and 2014, he idolizes Roy Co—"
