We're in the darkest timeline
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We're in the darkest timeline
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
Hannah's
Yeah, Liz started the whole thing
LMAO, it does
Yeah, it was very much a whoever wins, we all lose scenario
Dang, dude sounds like he's got no idea how the world actually works
I don't know if he still is, but he was communications director for Prostasia, an org that thinks that the way to keep pedophiles from offending is to boost the idea of virtuous non-offending pedophiles. It was a whole dumpster fire a few years ago.
Ooof, that's exactly the sort of take that politicizes mask wearing and makes everything worse
I think this take is probably going to turn out to be right bsky.app/profile/hann...
How does Berlatsky even still have a following after everyone found out about how he supports that super sketchy virtuous pedophile org?
Just left a comment to help protect against wildfires by not canceling the Roadless Rule. More information in the article in the thread, and you can act using the link in the first skeet.
They seem kind of militia-coded to me from the trailer, but it's probably extremely dumb
Should I hate watch this or nah?
This looks like complete trash, but what’s fascinating is it’s 100% accurate in portraying how some self-declared extremism experts see themselves. (Not a compliment.)
These Kinds of People don't really seem to want to talk about how postviral syndromes from flu were absolutely a thing before 2020, probably bc it would embarrass them for not paying exactly the same kind of rapt attention they do to PASC.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
We can't say that any one storm is a direct result of climate change, but we can say that we're getting hit by a heck of a lot more severe hurricanes than we used to. That's also why changing everything about how we handle hurricanes in Florida after Andrew turned out to be a prescient decision.
I got sidetracked talking about the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, but the point I was getting at about talking about trends over time is that in the first quarter of this century we've had as many 150mph+ storms hit the continental US as we had in the entire previous century.
Right, and he's only ever photographed without it when he sweats it off golfing
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has pledged to fight Donald Trump tooth and nail over the federalization of the New York City. But Leightyn Winkel-Carruthers, a Bushwick microdistiller who usually supports Democrats, says that such a confrontational approach leaves him deeply uneasy.
“Google is your friend [links Elise Stefanik’s Facebook page]”
I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.
“In 2017, O’Hanlon was captured at Trump’s first inauguration festivities in DC decked out in his full Eagle Scouts uniform. The photographer who took the photo wrote on his personal website of ‘the Boy Scout kid that looked like a Brownshirt.’”
Most profitable movies of 2025 so far look like Sinners, Weapons, Materialists, & Minecraft. Nearly all them were not expected slam dunk hits with huge marketing campaigns. In case of Sinners, there was a weird insider whisper campaign to torpedo it before release! www.vulture.com/article/is-s...
The key takeaway is Netflix’s bragged about algorithm that spies on every click you make gives them more data about audiences than ever existed in cinema history. But it has not led to their biggest hits. K-pop DH was made fully separate from Netflix & has crushed their $320 million Electric State.
Look at this in an article on biggest fumble of 2025, Sony licensing K-pop Demon Hunters wholesale to Netflix, which could’ve been a giant lifeline to theaters and Sony and despite insane demand for it, won’t because of Netflix’s current strategy to end theatrical. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Right now there’s a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. It’s mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people want…
I keep imagining an Always Sunny episode titled "The Gang Sets Monetary Policy"
Underrated here is Bone-petite, which is exactly how a racist moron who thinks everything is spelled as it sounds would spell Bon Appetit
Jimmy's repeating religious right anti-LGBTQ talking points outright, eh
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
Funniest possible outcome is him being released from the hospital with a clean bill of health, then immediately tripping down a flight of stairs and dying on camera.
The Tropical Wave watched by NHC for development is over 3,400 miles away from South Florida. In a day or two, it will enter an area that may let it develop into a depression/storm.
I am vocally anti-AI in most circumstances (I can think of a few, very specific good uses but otherwise, can it) so that’s my bias… but also? I collect hilariously wrong results.
Them: AI will save us. AI:
Those "road closures" near Walter Reed are, in fact, permanent security gates, like you see at any military facility. Here's what they look like, and a post from a local confirming some of the gates are not staffed 24/7. It's possible the president is seriously ill, but I'm not sure this is related.
The US has only had one president born after 1946. (Obama, 1961). This country has *never* had a president who wasn’t alive at same the same time as people who were or had been enslaved.
Incidentally, the argument Hemingway made that sending Bonus Army vets to the Keys during hurricane season was murder is a disturbing parallel to Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump putting immigrants in tents in the Everglades during hurricane season. It's attempted murder even when the attempt fails.
When I say that every hurricane policy is written in blood, and deaths in natural disasters are largely political choices, that's what I mean. The 1935 Hemingway essay could have just as easily been written about Katrina or any number of other storms, with just the details changed.
Exactly! That event was one of the key events that led scientists to determine that covid is airborne, even.
I didn't know until I read the Library of Congress caption on the photo just now that Ernest Hemingway wrote an essay titled "Who Murdered the Vets?" about the failures of the government that led to their deaths. You can read a pdf at the link below. www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/files...
Here's the famous photo of the evacuation train that was sent too late to rescue WPA workers in the Keys, and was swept off the tracks by storm surge before it reached them. Hundreds of veterans who had been part of the Bonus Army died because the train wasn't sent in time.
Here's a contemporaneous report on the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pa...
Yeah, the only way he wouldn't call and ramble would be if his face was so stitched up he couldn't talk without pulling stitches
On the 90th anniversary of the strongest hurricane to ever hit the US, this NWS infographic is a good example of why it's not helpful to talk about rapid intensification of any given storm as evidence of climate change. Trends over time are more useful than looking at storms in isolation.
One of the great character actors. The screen always lit up when he walked on. There was a kindness about him mixed with humor that you can't fake. Just one of those greats who always made every film or TV show he was in better.
I fully believe Trump happened because of gridlock. People just don’t believe the government is capable of anything, good or bad!
I feel like the insistence that voters are just really upset about crime, given this reality, is instructive for the notion that they just really care about high prices
Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.
The Flint Dibble and Graham Hancock debate on Joe Rogan was pretty much the only time that taking a pseudoscientist up on an offer to debate actually worked in favor of the actual expert, and Graham Hancock has been obsessed ever since because he lost a bunch of fans who discovered he's a crank.
This rings true to things I’ve witnessed and read. We cannot blame individuals for systematic failures but we should be able to acknowledge group based status behaviors as reinforcing those systemic failures.
One interesting crossover of this that I’ve seen: mom influencers who film car content from pick-up lines. It’s a whole genre, complete with subgenres.
That's not a stain, it's his arm casting a shadow on his shirt
Yeah, even when he got taken to the hospital with covid, the press was closer and didn't have such grainy photos
It's weird that he doesn't have makeup on in any of the proof of life photos, right?
Ok, insane theory time: Trump had a stroke and pulled a reverse-Fetterman. He now holds increasingly progressive views alongside bouts of depression. His team is hiding him and distracting him with golf as they panic and try to remind him of his old ways.
Unless it was on his face and he's being super vain about waiting until stitches come out and he can cover the scar with makeup, it wouldn't make sense to disappear when he could just put on a hat to hide a bandage.
so what if the reason they aren't letting Trump talk is that he had a Fetterman stroke and now he is woke
Yeah, it's reminding me of the Kate Middleton stuff where efforts to get people to stop talking about it just made it more obvious that something was going on.
It's also possible Trump is totally fine and just disappeared for inscrtuable Trump type reasons but I think that grows less likely with every passing day
Pretty reasonable after he saw how the media treated Biden after he was raspy and stuttery.
Its impossible to know what is happening exactly with Missing Trump but a reasonable interpretation of the available info is he had a stroke or mini stroke and is slurring his speech and doesn't want to be seen in public in that condition.
Bluesky: the niche website for literate people
it's so frustrating because the contention is always "libs wanted a hugbox without criticism on it" which totally elides the actual objection people have to vichy twitter, which is its a machine where an evil billionaire controls which of your posts other people get to see bsky.app/profile/wack...
never get sick of seeing the self-own of someone posting something negative about bluesky while simultaneously censoring its name because they site you're posting on instead algorithmically buries any post or account that mentions one of its competitors
It was genuinely funny to see the EiC of that new liberal newsletter arguing that twitter is actually better for publicity by posting a screenshot in which her twitter post had less interaction and she couldn't even link to the substack because the algorithm sends it to the shadow realm
And that would probably be why the company decided to do a rebrand since boomers are dying out
I've said this before and it bears repeating: One way we'll know if and when a real machine intelligence happens is that it will create art that is an artifact of its own intelligence, not ours, and it likely to be absolutely incomprehensible to us human on first approach. How cool with that be.
Also, as someone who caught chicken pox at a church event, the way people act like churches are magical force fields preventing the spread of viruses is just completely disconnected from reality.
Sounds about right
You cannot tell me that being on X is not bad for you when it turns Senators who had the clearest view on the 2024 election to COVID school closer guys. And again imagine people in 1948 saying that Britons spent too much time in bomb shelters during the Blitz.
Seems bad that a senator doesn't understand that bars and liquor stores stayed open so already overwhelmed ERs didn't get swamped by people having alcohol withdrawal seizures, and that indoor church services stopped because singing is extremely high risk for spreading respiratory viruses.
It's ridiculous that five years on, people still don't understand that bars and liquor stores stayed open so already overwhelmed hospitals didn't have ERs full of people having seizures from alcohol withdrawal. They didn't stay open just for funsies.
ironic that a senator from so far out in the pacific is primarily interested in representing The Atlantic
Looking at the Hugo stats (again) and the thing that’s just struck me is how few people vote. Not even nominate, vote! Less than a quarter of those with the requisite membership, in best novel. Cannot fathom having the ability to do so and not using it.
And political appointees in foreign service jobs don't have to know anything about anything but schmoozing rich people
Now that you mention it, everything is unsettlingly beige
Petition to ban Rahm Emanuel
Also the whole sugar versus corn syrup thing with Coke, where most of the difference comes from glass versus plastic bottles
Why is a berenstein bear pointing at the dragon?
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. That’s traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
It's so obviously a trojan horse to kill women's sports, because they're using all the same talking points that were used to kill women's sports early in the 20th century, but people would rather be anti-trans bigots than actually defend women's sports.
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
if you mentally replace “Bluesky” with “anyone who doesn’t like me”, this whole category of post becomes much clearer
I just remember being a kid and dumping a ridiculous amount of pepper on my Cracker Barrel biscuits and gravy so I could actually taste something. And dumping a ridiculous amount of pepper on my Cracker Barrel chicken and dumplings. It's the only restaurant where I'd routinely add pepper.
The Venn diagram between people who are Very Concerned about women's sports now, and people who spent half a century complaining about Title IX discriminating against men is pretty darn close to a circle, and it drives me batty that so many people don't see it.
In the same way you saw white people get rid of public pools just to avoid swimming with Black people, it's fairly clear that women's sports are being degraded as a sacrifice for targeting trans athletes in sports.
The 1970s brought a backlash to civil rights. The 1980s brought a backlash to feminism. Anytime you read about transgender rights being rolled back, it's pretty easy to see how transgender people are squarely in the "fill the pool with concrete" phase. www.marketplace.org/story/2021/0...
this is actually perfect.
Not about this specific case exactly but I’ve long believed that the racist animus aimed at cities overwhelms a secondary motivation — people projecting their own regrets onto the city to redeem some of their choices.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Yeah, that's what makes the nostalgia especially ridiculous
I feel like I'm losing my mind, because Cracker Barrel has always been that mediocre place to go with visiting relatives because at least it's not Olive Garden again or getting dragged to the fake Amish restaurant with even worse food that tourists inexplicably love.
Okay, I'm about to bang on my big ol' "ITS ABOUT CARS" drum, but Cracker Barrel was developed as an idea - and placed, at interstate offramps - to improve gasoline sales! The whole sales pitch is selling nostalgia for a world that it destroys! Gah!
I am particularly vexed with women transphobes of a certain age who believe themselves to be only moderately transphobic and who cisplain that they've always respected me personally but that I have to be made to use the gents because of a new generation of young trans people who are not like me.
There was literally an article in my local paper about how they weren't going to need freezer trucks because the morgue at the former medical examiners office was still functional and could be reopened to store bodies that didn't fit in hospital morgues
The utility company came and installed a pole to wire the trucks into the grid because they realized nobody was claiming the bodies because the next of kin was hospitalized/dead too.