I really don’t get this either. Bluesky is here, if institutional and big press press accounts e gaged it would scale up a bunch towards what we used to value out of twitter, without _so much_ overhang/hellscape.
I really don’t get this either. Bluesky is here, if institutional and big press press accounts e gaged it would scale up a bunch towards what we used to value out of twitter, without _so much_ overhang/hellscape.
October 14 is already sacred as Departure Day cc: @sepinwall.bsky.social
“once again” 😮
Seems pretty bad America . . .
Nuke the whole site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
Re the underlying, it really is something how malleable and up for grabs virtually all broad statements of. Skies/principles are. Just meaningless unless tied to context, choices, actions.
Needs more El Yucateco.
It’s like performance art at this point.
Did Carmen SanDiego die in England?
Announcing my new think tank.
cc: sorry @jenettegoldstein.bsky.social you had a good run.
Breaking character: I'm not a good host but I thought this conversation with @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social was very interesting. More than anyone I know, he saw the rise of MAGA early on, including guessing they'd go anti-vax (in 2012). youtu.be/iHM39k_KOcg
What happens if you mention Serial?
This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.
It’s actually quite unstrategic to abandon vulnerable people in your coalition. It doesn’t make you look tough, it makes you look like a coward.
You simply could not have convinced me at age 21 that a US Rep could say this and remain in good standing with their party or voters.
oh my . . .
cc: @jkchase7.bsky.social come get the tea on the abandoned roofless castle!
It's a great photo, tho, easy to miss this angle!
Just finished Andor. Hard to capture what a towering achievement it is, between the raw, human, ground level storytelling and the intricate architecture fitting all this so seamlessly into the unfilled spaces of New Hope and Rogue One. Just remarkable craft.
What are we supposed to do about this new Spinal Tap movie? It’s not as big a challenge as Mike a Buckaroo Banzai Chapter II but still . . .
Purple sure seems to cover a lot of ground ….
In fairness you had Eiffel Tower at your fingertips.
Wow, Elon's really branching out these days
Can't tell if this is a dig on his shows (unfair!) or his career arc (gulp).
"malicious communications" and they weren't even talking about Charlie Kirk
One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
Q. Why is there a special election in the Minnesota House tonight? A. Because the Democrat who held the seat was assassinated in June. www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...
Sorry the rules are clear you can say anything if you put "arguably" in front. Second only to "Critics say . . . " in liberating pundits from accountability/reality.
Deleted post about how can Rolling Stone hold on to @swin24.bsky.social if it can't find a way to keep @sepinwall.bsky.social cause had missed that @swin24.bsky.social is already gone. Jeez.
Yes Barnett it's time, release the tapes!
Sometimes I get asked if there is an equivalent to Roger Ebert today. I tell them yes, there is, but he's in television criticism, and his name is Alan Sepinwall.
Alt text always delivers.
When you can list a Murderers' Row and still not get to Dan Akroyd and Ben Kingsley.
i can't keep track of all these blowhards because i am using that brain space for mountain goats lyrics
“SETEC ASTRONOMY... TOO MANY SECRETS” #RIP
The still and ever brilliant @sepinwall.bsky.social with a really epic close to today’s
I recognize someone on the bottom line--Glitterer--I'm still hip, dammit!
Well we didn’t know then that nazis are protected by the Constitution but the rest of us are not.
This is the internet we need.
1948 by Clyfford Still, 1948 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137663
R.E.M. of course did a great version of "I'm Not Your (Steppin' Stone)" because the band are Monkees fans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6s_...
Why Sally Jenkins, why?
cc: @sixfootblonde.bsky.social
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Omg, I’m glad someone said this, bc I was starting to think this, but also wondered if I was just starting to lose it.
Think was mixing up a little with overlapping Revolution (sort of an Armageddon/Deep Impact situation). Also, turns out Revolution has a richer and more complete Wikipedia than many small countries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolut...
Aha except turns out that was five season! But in fairness they just never really finished the core story.
Falling Skies - a forgotten step in Dr Robbie’s journey.
Let's be real: talking about the "debates" Charlie Kirk did like it was the noblest form of democratic praxis is ridiculous. It was performative trolling, just meant to make his opponents look bad. There was nothing deliberative or good-faith about it. Lots of people do the same thing. But come on.
Ah simpler times, a simpler internet.
Gonna be great when chatbot seconds start egging them on. And explaining how to be even more dramatic and explody!
Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there
"my followers" nick freaking fuentes what absurdity
Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
Our own personal air show going on out there
Yes what was ?
It's amazing how much more honestly David Duke was covered than any of today's racist/nazi/evils. The press didn't have a problem describing his history/views even as he tried to minimize and spin. These guys just keep going up the ladder and still huge chunks of civil society can't just name it.
I call BS, what diplomat wouldn’t celebrate if _anyone_ other than Whitaker showed up at something important?
Remembering Neil Peart , Neil was born today 12th September 1952. "If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum" #music #photography
Overconfident Commanders getting embarrassed by a far more disciplined, prepared team feels like some kind of natural order being restored. (Was a short week tho)
Was it the same guy who did the spider thing and Missing Missy?
Imagine your dad getting murdered by a gun-wielding assassin and then saying something like this. bsky.app/profile/fact...
To me the Supreme Court was never really about common law reasoning or statutory construction anyhow, those cases don't make it past the circuits. If anything proves the truth of our Living Constitution and legal realism first principles it is this lawless, political, audience-of-one court.
Funny day to be at court and see their exhibit on the lessons and legacy of Japanese internment. The past isn’t even past.
Jon Bream’s review of the May 21, 1977, Supertramp show in Saint Paul. Spider John Koerner opened the show and “2,300 young fans” attended. Review appeared in Minneapolis Star May 23, 1977.
If you have nothing to hide, why would you care about the police searching your house?
You were out walking @internetcontrarian.bsky.social ?
@joshtpm.bsky.social writes about this a lot. Short version is be real clear real loud real early and define the choices, define what matters to you and what doesn’t. May not succeed but try and force the press to at least quote/repeat your actual terms, not the gaslighting and cw spin.
So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)
Roethlisberger began the process years ago but Aaron Rodgers has finally fully freed me of any remaining traces of Steelers fandom
I was honestly very surprised by how prescient and smart Robocop was, especially the TV news segments
Similar thought . . . bsky.app/profile/sams...
Like does politics even work anymore, shouldn't it be costly to pick a fight with one of the most beloved and honorable (and pro-troop) people in our nation? Hopefully this stuff erodes support at least at the margins, but does it? charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-like...
Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/
We are numb to a lot but my god that statement. RIP public service, mission, probity.
The fascists want to take your joy. Dont let them. Go have happy moments in spite of them.
I truly hate to hand it to a Krassenstein, but these are tough times.
Literally the only moment of effective resistance from Dems in this entire administration was Chris Van Hollen finding a way to transform one man’s abduction into a national crisis story, and Democrats learned absolutely nothing from it and never tried it again.
Only like the first 120 years of American history to prove it.
Run. For. Everything.
Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.
"One Billion American ants"
If someone tells me to watch Oz I assume they're rich because their parents had HBO in the '90s
Army veteran who has pulled many a Dignified Transfer assignment at Dover AFB seems like a pretty compelling plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging a firearms ban for trangender Americans if it comes.
On the next episode of "there is no amount of low too low for Senate Republicans" . . .
If we had democracy and could choose, this nation would never implement the Senate today. It is so VASTLY more distorting and unrepresentative than in 17 fucking 89.
cc: @internetcontrarian.bsky.social you are not alone
I am probably the only human who loved how 140 characters forced a lean, haiku like style to making a post or argument. Our limitations are a blessing, in many ways. They’re part of the art.
I see the DOD HQ every time I land at National Airport.
Maybe Bowser threaded the needle in an ok way? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
The Department of War Park at the Department of Defense Yards.
DonMt we have to wait for the returns to come in from crucial Waukesha County?
"anti-wind orgs" like Don Quixote?
I hear you. But MPD under DC control is meaningful to me living here. A place to work forward from at least.