Oof. 😬

whomst amongst us, tho

id have to figure out how to make a second account, and i cant be bothered :/

also now you're aware of the pitfalls so it's probably for the best

I’m absolutely not to be trusted with sock accounts, or really any additional identities at all

Me. *throws that first stone with the strength of ten because on this issue alone my heart is pure*

throw another one doooooo iiiiiit

Are all men doing this? Or just the Patrick Bateman types?

That's fine. He must feel a bit insecure.

What a doge!

I would walk into the sea

no fucking way lmao

Well, that's embarrassing.

Almost more publicly craven than Ezra Klein.

this is just so embarrassing. I mean, "my takes are just obviously true" so I'm going to spend my time making fake accounts to validate my "obviously true" thinking.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @ifbookspod.bsky.social please talk about this on a patreon episode

Nepo baby caught red handed. 😂😂😂😂😂

what is wrong with people why is this a normal thing people are doing it’s like having an imaginary friend at the work meeting

that would be entertaining AF

Accounts in abundance

To be fair, if Matt Yglesias doesn’t say those things about himself, who the hell will?

Maybe we do need more dumbasses like Yglesias around here because this is the kind of laugh everyone could use right now.

He’s literally going with “I meant to do that.”

He's admitting that he has no credibility anymore.

not only is assuming the above happened *more* mental gymnastics than the below, it is also no less cringe

Holy god. Do they think they won’t find the fake account he’d been using?

No it's this guy

I can't believe I only just realised that "Snrub" is Burns backwards

no, I don’t want no snrub,

And when Smithers said they said “boo-urns” there were actually saying “boo”.

The “Snrub” and Homer trying to pretend to be Burns at the post office are my 2 fav old school simpsons gags

Mr Saiselgy

these people are such insecure losers

Not for nothing, the thing I most associate with Yglesias is his take on the invasion of Iraq (pro, thought it would pressure others in the Middle East toward peace, anyone who disagreed was “unserious”). It’s conspicuously missing from his list…

@parkermolloy.com’s accounting here is basically a list of every pundit you should never take seriously ever again, or at least should take with an entire shaker of salt (note how many of them are still around, still spewing bullshit)

Take particular note of Jeffrey Goldberg’s justification for taking out Saddam: “Richard Holbrooke scolded me for making the suggestion that genocide was reason enough for the international community to act against Saddam.” So, for JG, genocide = international community should intervene. Noted!

For me it was his assertions during the 2020 elxn that climate change was a solved problem, Trump wasn't particularly outside the GOP mainstream and would peacefully concede, and anyone who was concerned about anything was just bored and wanted to pretend they lived in significant times.

I don't think Trump IS Outside the GOP mainstream. Which is why I've been terrified of the GOP for a couple decades.

This was in the runup to "Slow Boring"

Trump isn't particularly outside the GOP mainstream just not in the way Matty meant it

For me it’s his immediate response to Uvalde; trolling about how great America is. Just utterly, 1000% shameless, smugly soulless creep—engagement uber alles

Here is a guy who is fully committed to being gross for clicks, whose only real skill is being able to type fast about anything, like if chatGPT were housed inside a sweaty potato, and yet there are people insisting we’re faulty for not Paying Attention to him

It's honestly inspiring.

Yes it is, I'm I wasn't the only one who noticed that! haha. Good post @threeninjas.bsky.social <3

glad*

?

Oh I was just correcting my typo. I left out the word "glad" in my first response.

Oh right I gotchu bro

Come back @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social! We need you to find his alts!

I most associate him with "invading Iraq is a cool idea"

But I heard John Barron is a yuge fan.

fucking lol, lmao

What's hilarious is that he's trying to say that everyone is misreading it and we are all dumb and he has no alt account 😂

Hard to believe, but this really happened. Just checked.

it's quite possible this is just another troll of people, trolling for attention again. All that idiot ever does.

@kenwhite.bsky.social's Law of Goats applies.

Could I ask what the law of goats is?

He's not playing chess. He's a pigeon, shitting on himself.

I hope they know when they do this autoerotic weird shit they just end up looking like Jeb begging for a little clap.

Jeb was honest about being pathetic at least

You don't think this feels like a trolly matty thing all the way down?

📌

He didn't delete it?

you wont be laughing when theres a billion americans

No. He’s just praising himself in the third person.

📌

“China’s large population” hup boy 😬

Umm.. I don't know if your comment is double irony, but MattY consciously posted that from his own account and I kinda like his style there.

lol, wow.

i’m pretty sure he’s just referring to himself in the third person

Still can’t figure out why anyone treats this dipshit like he has anything remotely intelligent to say

@thelouvreof.bsky.social hang it up

thanks for the alt text 😀

Thank you for posting this, it really put a spark of joy in my day.

*cringe*

ROFLMAO

"As a proud Black woman, there is no intellectual I respect more than Matthew Yglesias 😭"

"I was born a poor, black child..." --Navin Johnson

"Unlike Yglesias, at least Navin can tell shit from shinola." - Not Navin Johnson's sock puppet

Joey Mannarino had the funniest one of these

Imagine a lover who looks at you like Yglesias’s sock puppet looks at him.

@mattyglesias.bsky.social lol you absolute fucking loser

Just a totally normal person doing a normal thing.

😂😂😂😂 giving myself a pat on the back because years ago I stopped following him knowing he had nothing productive to say

LOL, he’s cursed

Yglesias couldn't open a can of beer or soda without instructions. He's just a dipshit blogger and his "ideas" should be ridiculed and dismissed outright.

bsky.app/profile/thim...

he'd be first to go on "the traitors"

wtf

My sock puppet account would look like this. 🤣🤣🤣

See this is why he hates bluesky

How desperate do you have to be to create a persona to praise yourself?

Ask John Barron.

🤣

that’s so fucking embarrassing lmao

Also, supply and demand does not apply to housing when housing is used as an investment mechanism by Wall Street and things like STRPs interfere with the "demand" side of the equation.

😂😂. Classic!

so have we figured out what is alt is yet?

MattY and his alt

lol what's up

These people are such cheapskates. They could at least pay people to pretend to follow them.

I wonder if the world is a lot less evil and a lot more sad than it seems. The insecurities are damaging. Hilarious, but rooted in pain. Fear. Stupid cowards should do themselves a favor and quit hiding from the truth. But it's hard to see from where they are. I lived backwards for 20 years or so.

They give morons a bad name.

Are true things obviously true?

dang can't even imagine inviting extra complications like this into your writing life like it's chaotic enough trying to corral my own thoughts

Now I wanna try making a sock puppet that hates me (he said from a parody account)

Borges did that. He wrote a literary review column for the major paper in his home town but under a fake name. That column savaged everything Borges wrote. Later, when found out, he said something like “no one was criticizing me correctly so I decided to do it myself”

Wow, is there somewhere I can read more about this? Amazing

I think I learned this fact in college and sadly don’t have a citation for you. I suspect it’s pretty easy to google although my attempt for ~30 seconds just now didn’t turn up a story about it

He used the pseudonyms F. Bustos, Honorio Bustos Domecq, B. Lynch Davis, and B. Suarez Lynch at various points. I’m not sure which one of those was “the critic” [corrected]

Thank you for tracking this down! 🙏

No problem! I love being asked for more details for stuff I learned a long time ago. Helps me with epistemic confidence levels. If you end up finding a really good online piece about this please share it back to me so I can refresh.

Edgar Allen Poe did the same with a review of his Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. (Kinda late to the party, but I love me some Poe)

Oh that’s fun

What if Matt Y had a secret sockpuppet blog that just had correct opinions

I absolutely love that quote. 🤣

fucking dumbass

How embarrassing.

Matty Yce is so wise, says Matty Yce

terminally lame behavior

his list goes 1. Apple 2. Orange 3. Giraffe 4. Flashlight 5. Poop like everyone for sure signed off on it "police help prevent crime" right after "popular people are popular" made it so I died

When I scroll down this comment section I was expecting limbus company.

You gotta be your own biggest glazer.

if zhuge liang had a sock account, it would be equally hilarious in boosting me

Wait I thought this was the Zhuge Liang sock puppet account

😎👉🏻👉🏻

There was in reality no Zhuge Liang. He was a sock puppet account created by Liu Bei to pretend humility, love of scholarship, and association with a Wise Master like Zhang Jue...

What a simp.

There is still some good in this world.

He still hasn't deleted it. Do we think he's going for the, "No, I was just speaking in the royal third person" defense?

Timeline in perfect alignment

Yuri to cool off

📌

Oh. That’s just…sad

Okay maybe yesterday's main character was right, it is funnier when matty is here

His alter-ago needs to acquaint itself with commas.

How fucking pathetic do you have to be to waste your time having a sockpuppet account like this?

He's enough of a troll that I almost think he did it on purpose to get people to yell at him.

LMAO I can see Matty being a pain piggy

"I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than the man with his hand up my..."

Who the fuck is Matt Yglesias

He is his biggest fan

Matty Glacius

when you think a tautology wins your argument

What a self obsessed bellend.

how much deep thinking does "insisting obviously true things are true" take btw

Wow, lol

I’m aging myself here, but did not know that was a “thing” to the point there’s even a name for it. Don’t judge me. Ijs🤷🏼‍♀️

GOTCHA Matt!

Just twitter being twitter. Probably not his only one either

or, indeed, bluesky

What a Tool

What’s the best imaginable thing someone could say to own up and take responsibility after being exposed in this way?

There's nothing you can say. You have to change your name and move to Belgium.

a lot to unpack there, but is there any credible evidence that police prevent crime?

Nope!

A few papers suggest they can deter crime depending on some factors (this one specifically studies locations of police stations): crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.....

Has anybody noticed what awesome account “Dogs it Matter” is? (Very impressive)

You love to see this shit

And he has the nerve to say that Trans people are the ones who pretend to be another gender.

Hello, fellow females! As an attractive woman, I am used to being treated like a sex doll - I even use it to my advantage if I need to, tee hee! I also can deploy waterworks on command, like all women! They just gush out like ink from a squid when we’re having our emotions.

Absolutely

Being an attractive young woman....

What a fucking dork.

oh wow dis1 new 4me

I haven't seen it before, and there was a time I would show all the deranged thoughts this piece of shit would spew into the void to a coworker that was part of his cult.

I think he blocked me after mentioning him doing this and claimed it was a lie. Like he hadn't forgot to go back and delete the comment.

Lmaaaoooo

My god what a f’ing clown.

😂

Not to mention "obviously true things" like "cops prevent crimes" is so laughably wrong I hope he has someone give him a brain mri to check for bleeding or something

Elon is by far the most pathetic man on earth, but Mattyg sure as fuck is trying to catch up

Why do people do this?

Good job Angus.

Genius tho. Thanks Matty Y!👹

It really is 2017 all over again.

I never heard of this person before. Is he like Jesse Singal, Charlie Kirk, and Steven Crowder? It's hard to tell them apart.

He's a centrist liberal, meaning he found it equally horrific that Biden was a few years older than Trump and that Trump wanted to destroy the world.

??? He was overall pretty supportive of Biden until the debate.

Oh FFS. That's just pathetic.

The windows of his mind are Double Yglesias

"Orange man bad" is the biggest fkn giveaway of all. How can anyone say and pretend to be rational?

I needed this laugh

We can do that? We can have sock puppet accounts? Shit! Now I want one!

Haha what a fucking loser

@thelouvreof.bsky.social

I loathe this pile of crap

This is wonderful. 🧑‍🍳 💋

The only appropriate response to being caught doing this would be to disappear forever, never to return.

OMFG. 😂 I thought it was funny when Stefan Molyneux did this on one of his own YouTube videos, but he’s the kind of low-grade idiot I’d expect it from. To see Matt do the same thing, except pretending to troll himself instead of pretending to be one of his huge fans, is a whole different level!

The sad thing is even though maga knows this happened they don't care, they want, no, they need, to be lied to and they know it.

Yikes... that's so embarrassing. 😭

#BLOCKED

So do sockpuppets work? Should I pretend to be a fan and comment on my novels?

The thing about me is that I’m not a troll, I write from my secret account agreeing with myself while pretending to be someone else

Dr eggman proving again that his worthlessness is only exceeded by his stupidity.

WHO AMONG US... couldn't get a friend to come by and say something nice about us on demand? which is still eyerolly but the fuck, Matty, you have no friends? No one loves you even a little? Dude is journalism Elon Musk?

I'm MattY's biggest hater so this is a good day for me

It's still up lol bsky.app/profile/matt...

Wait, who is this guy? I’m confused lol guessing he’s a Nazi account also running a dummy Nazi account??

Not quite a Nazi. Just an obnoxious “centrist” who frequently launders right wing talking points. I recommend continuing not knowing who he is.

Ahhh, gotcha! Thanks! Going to bury my head on his works lol

Let’s at least give him credit for acknowledging his output is not provocative or thought-provoking in the slightest.

I ended up going with "trolly" 😊

I genuinely can't think of a non-trolly thing to say to him 😃

what a fuckin loser

Sooner or later, you Black Gay Guy your career.

Reminds me of this:

As a Black gay guy, I don’t see what was wrong with his first post??? /sarcasm 😂

Completely agree. And I say that as an atheist black lesbian woman and lifelong Democrat voter. Sent from David Brooks' iPhone

Huh, as a gay Latino man and definit... hey Siri, text Marco. Yeah buddy, wanna go out drinking later? Do you think we can ditch the ball and chain? We'll go somewhere sexy. Let me know. What? Voice dictation? Nah. I only used approved stuff now, LOLZ 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💣🔥💣💣🇺🇸💣🔥 - Sent from Pete Hegseths iPhone

At least Pete might actually know a gay Hispanic man though. Especially after five tequila shots…

The snort I just snorted 😂

One of the greats

What does Pierre Delecto think? 😎

sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that pineapple does belong on pizza

Yglesias would never write that because it's true

Oof

💯

He's done this quite a few times. To the point I'm fairly convinced he does it on purpose.

Done what ?

Humiliation kink?

Is this the part where he shrinks into a corncob?

tfw

Yeah… he will forever be the “sweatshops are good” guy to me. That and the time he said the U.S. economy would be fine if the minimum wage went up to $150/hr overnight.

I’ve enjoyed some Ezra Klein- don’t always agree but he seems thoughtful. I’ve always thought Yglesias wasn’t too good. So what does that say about Ezra and starting vox with Matt?

This website is absolutely free.

That website just requires you to authorise scraping all of your data and posts for grok training

That's a Bsky screencap tho.

Whoops! I thought his nonsense was contained over there

Sadly, no.

I cannot even imagine the depths to which I'd have to sink to think that replying to my own fucking posts on a sock puppet is somehow a good idea

lmao i hate that stupid egg man

Yglesias is really making himself hated

I think you're right! I took a shot at Yglesias for referring to himself in the third person like Trump, but I think you put your finger right on it. Mendacious Matt blew his own cover! hahahahaha

Lol what a complete fraud this guy is @mattyglesias.bsky.social

The irony of claiming you're just a guy spouting truth while intending to lie about who you are...or maybe the guy is just really in love with himself.

6. My racist friends should run the Democrat party

7. Mithos343 is really great

you should run the democratic party

Oh my god. Did he really!???

I would simply vanish

love it😂😆🤣

Lmao

the brain on this guy

Great stuff. I love how he listed the "obviously true thing" of "police help prevent crimes" when every study shows that is not true. And even police forces themselves admit: this is not what their job is

They certainly don't want to be required to do it.

in fact supreme court cases have clearly decided that preventing crime is not an obligation they have at all

yup castle rock v gonzales

He is just a colloidal dipshit with way too high of an opinion of himself it’s hilarious.

Two Yglesii particles per billion is basically guaranteed terminal discourse cancer

As a proud black lady from Wisconsin, I think that Matt is actually very very smart.

At least now we know he doesn't have any people dumb enough to be his fans. Just his own sockpuppets. That's honestly a relief.

I've never heard 'colloidal' as an intensifier, but I love it

💚👍😂

thanks - i may have fun now - who knew - I had to google him

😲

Wait, do we really have a Matt Y shame label like the Jesse Signal one? If so, where might someone be able to add it to their collection of subbed moderation lists?

the labeller is for.shame.wtf

…welp

the domain doesn't resolve to a website, but it has valid atproto dns records. search for the domain in bluesky

Ah, okay. Thanks

Yes, unique. See how it could fit tho...and the 'sound' of it is fitting for Matty.

Not part of the solution, and somehow akin to jello. 🤭 I’m guessing.

I read "colonial" first 😄

Yes Matt Yglesias is a dipshit but your second point is incorrect. David Weisburd, Larry Sherman and Jerry Ratcliffe have built careers on an alleged correlation between police presence and crime prevention

But they benefit immensely from people believing that is the case so they keep pushing that narrative.

There are studies that show specific police initiatives can deter crimes - that is, temporarily increasing the presence of cops in a certain area has yielded less crime. As an aggregate, abstract concept, however, yes, there's no indications that policing deters crime trends overall.

Yeah sure, a cop can deter some types of crime in their immediate vicinity. But the studies I read also found that it merely shifted criminal activity elsewhere. Temporarily. For a net zero impact.

Not to belittle your argument, but the average taxpayer does not give a damn about what a study says, they care about what they perceive, which is a crime generally doesn’t get committed when a cop is present.

simultaneity bias ftw

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec... It's important to note that meta analyses typically don't find such an effect - though, the temporary nature of decreasing crime with these initiatives shows it doesn't really do much in aggregate.

Thanks for giving me somebody to block and promptly forget whenever existed. :-)

“All great thinkers have had sock puppets. Socrates, Thomas Aquinas, Newton, Einstein. They all posted praise from multiple accounts. Gutenberg invented the printing press for Luther to do anonymous trolls.” - Niels Bohr.

ah for sure - I love this - I'd love to read Niels Bohr's trolls - mind-bending.💚😂💖

I might be missing the joke but Newton actually did this! NEWTON: I never even heard of this dumb loser Leibniz NEWTON: You tell 'em, Newton! He's a big dumb plagiarizer and he smells! We're an independent committee of disinterested scholars and we wrote a whole report about it!

Also Plato literally used his dead teacher Socrates to agree with everything he ever said. His whole attitude was "Soc didn't believe in writing, so who you gonna believe? That guy, or me who writes things down?"

Wow, Matt Matting so hard he forgot to pretend he was supposed to be someone else Matting.

"I've been a hack."

@polphilpod.bsky.social christmas has come early friend!!

Please tell me this means he will quit the internet

Whoops!😁

ahaha what a fuckin loser. i needed this

I have very little faith in humanity but the idea of anyone becoming a fan of these contrarian dorks always stretched believability tbh

He could have used the correct account, and I'd still know it's him. I can hear that post in Yglesias-voice.

The best way to get to 1 Billion Americans is by cloning yourself through alt- accounts on social media

What a Dork

"thinker"? That's fucking hilarious...

“That is a normal sock puppet, find a new slant!”

Paging @thelouvreof.bsky.social a new masterpiece to hang on the wall.

Anybody with data or experience want to talk about why this is a thing? We have seen this with multiple big accounts now. He's clearly a big enough account we would assume he would get engagement naturally. Do early posts seed engagement and/or steer the reactions in a particular direction?

Yes- www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Knew it.

I think I learned about this in a great book called “Because Internet,” which is about the linguistics of the Internet. Highly recommend.

Is this for real?

omg, I was *just* thinking of the time Ted Cruz liked a pornographic tweet on 9/11. This is so perfect.

I am repeatedly impressed by how much Matt Yglesias sucks shit.

He can't even suck well.

I have no idea who the fuck that is but that's funny lmao

Smartest Liberal

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

🤣👏🤣👏🤣👏🤣

Who is Matt Yglesias and why is he so disliked? Legit curious.

📌

I gotta be honest, I'm not certain this is a failed sockpupoet because I would not put it past Yggy to think this is a normal way for someone to talk about themselves

Ghosts of Stuart Smalley

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

insta block

Also, as per usual, Matty left out the #1 take for which he is most famous. slate.com/business/201...