tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
Conspiracy theorizing is fundamentally narcissistic-- "pay attention to me! I alone of the millions of observers know the hidden truth"-- but it gets a bit more đ when AI is involved
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Conspiracy theorizing is fundamentally narcissistic-- "pay attention to me! I alone of the millions of observers know the hidden truth"-- but it gets a bit more đ when AI is involved
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
[soeaking at the emergency town meeting] I don't get why everyone is so concerned that all the dinosaurs broke out of Dinosaur Park. dinosaurs are cool and would be my friend
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
what the fuck. why is there a terrifying derp bird. this is so fucked up
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
my wife turned into a pillar of the community. sorry to hear about yours though.
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
[shaking fist] YAAAAAKKKKKUUUUUUUUUUBBB!!!!!
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
the funniest thing when Donald Trump dies will be all the Fox News people lamenting he died "so young"
Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) reposted
I will never forget saying to a group of professional JD Vance loyalists shortly after the 2024 election that his fortunes largely depend on how Trump is perceived by voters after another 4 years and some of them got legitimately mad at me lol thehill.com/homenews/adm...
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reposted
Hi, it's me, Slackbot. Donald Trump is dead. Employees do NOT have the rest of the day off
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
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tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
Hi, it's me, Slackbot. Donald Trump is dead. Employees do NOT have the rest of the day off
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
Easy to be flippant about this blowhard's opinions but they and the feds have descended on bar areas and gentrifying neighborhoods in droves. This is just straight up making shit up.
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
NiN 2025 tour light show is insane
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
also it was just such a high stakes yet lazy lie. who does that
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
I tend to find that it's never a good sign when some online figure develops into a labyrinthine personal mythos
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
The leeching will continue until the children improve
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
www.npr.org/2024/08/15/g...
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
this is an absolutely insane statement from OpenAI. why would you be like "yeah we've learned it sometimes helps people commit suicide"
Nikki McCann RamĂrez (@nikkimcr.bsky.social) reposted
Trump lays out how his invasions of major Democratic cities in order to tackle "crime" is actually just the GOP midterm strategy.
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
pretty rare for someone to inflame basically the entire right and attract an unbelievable amount of invective from literal billionaires, then just kind of flame out just as hard on the left/liberal axis. that's talent
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
what you are all missing is that as an influencer, Taylor Lorenz's posts are innately virtuous, and free of bourgeois conceptions of "ethics"
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
she's already been caught red handed lying about professional ethics once before
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes what?
hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social) reposted
In its alleged fight against antisemitism, the Trump administration has relied on two groups with murky fundersâone of which is in Israel. Here's my deep dive @thebaffler.com into Canary Mission and Betar, two extreme Zionist groups at the heart of Trump's crackdown. thebaffler.com/latest/for-b...
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
what is? who?
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
who is
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
Tom's Mom
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm Tom
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
wrong
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
"what if you had to bend over to get the reacharound"
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
I was slightly misled phys.org/news/2025-08...
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
THEY SOLD THE FUCKING SPACE SHUTTLE???
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
Ozempic Face here is really riding high on doing a $30 chargeback to someone's OnlyFans
hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social) reposted
With all due respect to the New York Times, the only reason anyone outside the movement knows Kevin DeAnna writes under the pseudonym is me. I outed him in 2020. You can read on his central role in the alt-right here: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha... www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
for sale baby shoes. comes with baby
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
excuse me, what about my testicles?
hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social) reposted
Yeah, Iâm a right-winger. I believe in power, tradition, hegemony, and hierarchy. Men these days have the testicular fortitude of a gnat. And I am going to FUCKING CHAIN MYSELF while SOBBING to a CRACKER BARREL for being woke.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted
Game on.
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
I have no insight here, but if I was forced to speculate with a gun to my head, I'd guess they're dragnetting for feds to take credit
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
from what I saw MPD was being pretty active supporting feds- a block away they pulled this car over for no apparent reason (got very excited during the very comprehensive search until they realized they'd found a paintball gun)
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
How else are they gonna play stickball?
amanda moore đ˘ (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) reposted
FBI agents assist(?) MPD in conducting an arrest at 10 and U in DC. Bystanders say itâs for marijuana.
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
like the tech stack was built for-us-by-us by bully capitalism! it is naive to believe you can defang it!
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
I guess, if you wanted to view technology very abstractly and ideally, you could give a six year old a little handheld computer to introduce them to the technology they will use throughout their life. But a cell phone?? Connected to the modern internet/tech ecosystem??? Are you fucking kidding me
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
SABTF Trooper SABTF Shield Trooper SABTF Gunner SABTF Shotgun Sergeant SABTF Technician SABTF Elite SABTF Gardener
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
SATBF is honestly a great villain acronym
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
we should start calling the feds and troops in DC "crisis actors"
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
dell you lying piece of shit you wanted a chicken fried steak before
Thee BlackSkyđ¨đžâđł (@xavierbeloved.bsky.social) reposted
This important cuz they gon come for our HBCUs next
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
hey, hold on that for a second- we've got one more joining via zoom
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
hey guys, thank you all for joining me at this deposition. now if you would, please put your right hands on the bible and repeat after me: "I never witnessed Donald Trump in any inappropriate setting in any way"
Alex Zalben (@azalben.bsky.social) reposted
I know there's a lot of controversy about the Cracker Barrel logo, so I worked up a new option that should be good with everyone... The barrel is back, but it's now guarded by Scubble, The Cracker Goblin. I also worked up a new slogan for the company!
Gore Vidal Sassoon (@jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social) reposted
Counterpoint: no it doesnât you fuckin moron
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
looks like he was playing golf and only applied makeup to the part thats uncovered tbh
George Pearkes (@peark.es) reposted
The framing Bloomberg ran with on the Intel story is absolutely ridiculous. Iâm not sure if it was the reporters or the editor but I chose the latter for some feedback. Embarrassing stuff.
Evan Greer (@evangreer.bsky.social) reposted
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social) reposted
Ed's got a significant scoop here, an under-the-hood look at GPT5 that suggests why it feels like such a step back to users. The incompetence from OpenAI here is truly remarkable.
Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social) reposted
Hereâs what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social
hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social) reposted
It genuinely amazes me that Rod Dreherâwho is of the people who helped mainstream "Camp of the Saints" in the United States, taking it out of the domain of niche white nationalist blogs and to major pubsâdoesn't see any connection to between it and what we're dealing with today.
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
Protest in Columbia Heights DC against Trump takeover
Alex Koma (@alexkoma.bsky.social) reposted
Video of a scary scene in Adams Morgan last night is making the rounds on DC listservs. The feds (presumably ICE) seemed to be making immigration/traffic stops. When protesters started shouting, one pointed his Taser at them until other protesters tried to deescalate things...
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
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tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
I wasn't disagreeing!
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
stuck in a loop of not reading a book for a month then having to reread 30 pages to remember what's going on and forgetting to continue reading the book
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah i think the thing you're neglecting to mention here is those weirdos are running the US federal government
The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted
It was a horrifying tale that spread fear around a Colorado state park: An attacker stabbed a wildlife ranger and ran away, prompting a manhunt and an evacuation of the park. But in reality, the ranger had injured himself and orchestrated an âelaborate hoaxâ claiming there was an attacker.
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
in retrospect, it is just completely incredible that Donald Trump didn't have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit trying to grab Jessica Rabbit's tits
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
Not terrorism unless it spreads to a Tesla in the lot.
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
weird, just got a silver alert about some senile guy wandering in DC
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
If you asked Rufo he'd say he's shaping a narrative and its effectiveness is all that matters lol
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
Yeah, if anything, the Chris Rufos of the world are basically telling brands "catering to conservatives is really bad idea, they will backstab you for clout"
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
I'm noticing a lot of tech guys with no connection to AI development or research referring to the AI field as "we". like, they're trying to steal AI valor. lol
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
These guys have crawled up their own ass so far they think the echo is crowds clapping.
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
the reason those on here are making fun of me is because I am being Gang Stalked by the Park Slope DSA
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
as a show of almost obscene magnanimity, no less
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
I really do think my favorite little thing you can do in Rogue Trader is order your guards to pelt orphans with treats
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
Taylor Lorenz watching TikTok at full volume in the movie theater to support woke rights
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think a mute is gonna get you out of this one andy
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
its a really striking example of Commander Tom would kick his army's ass
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
what do you mean they're firing little wood sticks at us
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
Very few liberals in DC would be owning a rifle or shotgun, this seems much more like an invite to right wingers from other states
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
It is hard to see this as anything but trying to make a Rittenhouse thing happen in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)
"but the 5% will take over!" www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent
tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent
oh cool these were all automatically set to yes even though I disabled activity data on the account level