If we are lucky, America may yet do the same in 15, maybe 10 years.
If we are lucky, America may yet do the same in 15, maybe 10 years.
Democracy enjoyers be like: we made a trade deal with key trade partners and are reducing the cost of living. Also, we have pulled roughly 14 million citizens out poverty.
tbh one thing that i am basically more or less convinced of is that social liberalism is not actually that present in the UK
say what you will about the state of US politics, it's sort of bleak that centrist liberals in the US are more capable of standing up for trans people than what is supposed to be a left-socialist/populist party
It reveals the lie “the Democrats are a right wing party compared to Europe”
it's cool that Keir Starmer is going to be Labour's version of Hollande
Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
These people are insane lmao
I'm sure it'll be only for the 'good' veterans. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Military families aren’t qualitatively any safer to fly than other American families, so what gives? Oh, I’m being told there’s a political movement in America dedicated to destroying republican citizenship and it demands constant ethnic, religious, gender, & caste hierarchies.
Veterans have an obligation to reject this kind of chum being tossed into the water. Republics don’t lay down laurels for eternity, soldiers just want to go home. Warriors demand this trash and mere garrison states provide it. The U.S. can be better. It’s a superpower to reject putrid nostalgia.
There is a lot in this that might sound familiar to observers of UK politics, and opens up questions about how far YIMBY driven policies might generate new market distortions in a quixotic effort to eliminate past ones.
BELICHICK: how win football game college how, losing game now why CHATGPT: I recommend running the ball BELICHICK: no we lose yard why you do no wrong wrong CHATGPT: you're completely right - and I want to thank you for your honest feedback
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
My fewwo amewicans, a twagedy has stwuk owr bewovved pwesident
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
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lotta headlines this AM *TRUMP’S LA TROOP DEPLOYMENT VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW, JUDGE RULES
If Labour goes "lol no chance" towards Polanski, it would just repeat the same mistakes it made towards Farage, Corbyn and Boris Johnson.
At a time when figures like Johnson or Farage can develop teflon for a time among voters they need, someone like Polanski can flourish too. The hypnotism stuff alone won't knock him out, and unhinged right wing tabloid attacks will help construct a martyr narrative among liberals and the left
Well, you know this is going to suck…
So much attention paid in the UK to Danish Social Democrats struggling to hold on to 22% on polls and almost none to Swedish Social Democrats dominating at 34%
Though you could argue there are equal risks of the US sliding towards the 1920s warlord period in China
US sliding towards 1930s-style autocracy, warns Ray Dalio - on.ft.com/4282S3C
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
An analysis of Grok's responses to 41 political questions in May and July shows it shifted to the right on 50%+ of them, often aligning with Elon Musk's views (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
AI stethoscope can not in fact detect heart problems in 15 seconds if it's wrong 2/3 of the time, you clown.
There IS a machine that can detect heart problems in mere seconds and it's called an EKG and it was invented in 1895 you fucking clowns
we had a long weekend dreaming of a world without that putrid malevolent POS and it was glorious don’t forget that feeling mes amis
One of my Supreme Court reform takes is they should be completely barred from taking any outside income (incl. publishing deals) and it should be particularly frowned upon, normatively, to be writing books. Memoirs are for writing after you retire, not five years into a lifetime appointment.
"Computer science isn't political!", they said. "I'm just going to develop AI products for startup cash and to draw cute girls", they said. "You're over reacting and making everything political", they said. We need ethics training in engineering.
Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
Sorry to ruin people’s fun, but:
Silicon Valley promises to reinvent defense. But behind the hype, Jonathan Panter argues, the business model looks familiar.
free Dem slogan idea: "50 for 50 hospital plan" - plan to construct 50 new, state of the art hospitals, one in all 50 states, to help make up for the hospitals Trump is closing that can't be reopened
“Boots on the ground aren’t necessary”
US war with China would be so funny because the first strike would involve (depending on fleet deployment) one or both of: - container ship doing a perfect handbrake-turn drift into the suez - the lake that feeds the panama canal ceases to exist
tiling window manager user that can use it without googling documentation
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
Prez passing away trades
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
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")
My favorite sign at the Boston Labor Day parade today: “End this ICE Age”
Graham Greene (1952-2025)
None of these guys ever talked this way when MAGA ran off to Parlor and Truth Social
Last week I posted a short thread about social media traffic/engagement and how @bsky.app has skyrocketed to driving a significant chunk of traffic to ACASignups.net in less than a year. Here's an updated visualization of how dramatic the fall of Twitter/X & the rise of Bluesky has been over time:
Since going all-in on Bluesky my newsletter has grown faster than it has in years, even though I have maybe 1/6 of the followers I had on the bird site ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ cassidoo.co/newsletter
ditto with The Handbasket. without “blueskyism” i would not have a successful independent journalism outlet. turns out you don’t need to battle nazis to reach people.
If you're a dem pol and you are openly agreeing with sean trende on anything, you need to a) resign immediately b) publicly list your entire staff so they can be blackballed from any future employment in dem politics c) commit seppuku
Even with Mississippi IP addresses blocked on BlueSky, we STILL get more engagement here than we do on Threads or Facebook and more than we did on X before we left it.
"Blueskyism" helped the Mississippi Free Press overcome algorithmic suppression on other platforms (Facebook, Threads) and ride out plummeting engagement on Twitter following Musk's X takeover. Thank God we took our eggs out of the X basket when we did.
Pederasty with Italian futurist characteristics
i think it's very funny that none of these guys actually have a clue on how to ideologically reproduce reactionary thought
Mofo’s literally discussing catholic school lmfao
I would have been dead in the water without Bluesky. Twitter was my main referral source and it was dead for me before I even got into writing about the "Trump Musk Payments crisis". Keep on subscribing though www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
dot eth says it all
the thing about public school is that it is the only type of school that teaches kids how to live in the real world. but we're ruining that.
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COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
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i've had this on my hard drive for literal years at this point, my time has come
You know I would pay for Style reporting piece where Silver gives someone access to his Bluesky account for a week and we find out that he's on crack
brb figuring out how to harness the way we live rent free in a bunch of podcast bros heads to provide affordable housing to the masses
What?
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
I love how we all found out that Nate Silver is a non functioning alcoholic with a crippling gambling addiction and people are still supposed to take him seriously
What if we were to offer Nate Silver inside information on the ponies?
I think about Nate Silver once every four years. He wakes up thinking about us every day. 💅💅💅
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
It is beyond wild to me that there is zero coverage of "Workers over Billionaires" rallies anywhere on The New York Times or The Washington Post right now. This is a colossal failure in journalism. Mainstream media can't just pretend that hundreds of thousands of protesters don't exist
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giving a subset of users here a stroke by arguing that Bluesky is Taiwan for normal lefties
tbh there's a subset of X/Twitter that basically view Bluesky as the last refuge of the woke/Warrenites which is just a very funny mindset to have
Tbh my biggest lesson from social media is that smart people do think that they are immune from all sorts of thinking traps
So there’s a thing I’ve noticed repeatedly from people who are still on X, The Everything App - they’re constantly making weird accusations about Bluesky that don’t make any sense if you’re on here, and I think it’s a sign they’re deeply insecure about posting to X, The Everything App.
“Blueskyism” Rent free lmao
gauff v. osaka is emotional terrorism
The number of CEOs dismissed this year for inappropriate behavior has to be all time highs
I've been grinding on my dissertation lately, but the third part in my series about attempts to abolish the Marine Corps is finally out. This one covers the 1864 Congressional resolution regarding folding the Marine Corps into the Army along. open.substack.com/pub/bafriedm...
When I try to attract friends to Bluesky, the response is “I’m kinda over the whole Twitter thing” which scans pretty clearly as “I want video.”
“Jonathan Howard, a neurologist and psychiatrist in New York City, received an email from YouTube on Friday night, which stated that Vinay Prasad, who is the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, had demanded the removal of six videos of himself from Howard’s YouTube channel.”
trump has set up the US to experience a mass death heat wave event in the coming years by: 1. destroying the labor base that normally does this work 2. destroying (what little) federal oversight (esp for landlords) exists 3. by making the cost of AC, both units and electricity, skyrocket.
This is an absolutely wild and totally disturbing story about Chuck Schumer and his imaginary voter friends. John Oliver on Chuck Schumer and the Baileys
One of my minor conspiracy theories is that Labour are delaying the choice of a new Archbishop of Canterbury because all the likely options would speak out against the government’s racism.
this is the guy that the modern right wing considers one of their finest intellectuals
I can’t believe how bad the UK government is at doing what it thinks it’s trying to do.
Interesting thread here where Adam presents evidence that Trump has been having mini-strokes x.com/adamscochran...
There we go! You can read the whole thing here without logging into twitter bsky.app/profile/araf...
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
Rappers would have their whole careers ended for stealing lines or biting someone’s style once upon a time.
This is why I found it so funny the ivys and snob schools rolled over so fast and got double fucked for doing it. These are the same people getting duped putting 50 grand in a shoebox. Rich and priveleged Americans are the easiest people to scam and bully because they've never deal with it before.
dawg what are we doing here
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
India's current geopolitical free agent status also foreshadows where the EU is heading if/when Russian ceases to be such an acute threat and if/when the US continues down a path of isolationist populism or even internal armed conflict set by Donald Trump
A large swathe of US defence infrastructure in Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico hasn't recently had its defences upgraded and would got hammered in a drone strike campaign