Reposted by ShananigansMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager 214104811658
Reposted by ShananigansCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious. 42318593
Reposted by ShananigansGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.” 244357996
Reposted by ShananigansRob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Guys. Where are the posts reminding us not to speak ill of the dead? I'm not seeing them for some reason. 172395446
Reposted by ShananigansDr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Dear Everyone That Doesn’t Do Anything To Prevent That Mild™️ Thing We Don’t Talk About, Your brain is not spare. You will need it. Do something today to protect it. Kind Regards Doc B 322373
Reposted by ShananigansShani 🫧🧙🏽♀️ @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026www.instagram.com/p/DbCJF4Dtf4... 2356142439
Reposted by Shananiganslaperry2.bsky.social @laperry2.bsky.social · 21/07/2026www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...worseonpurpose.comYour Cookware Got Worse On PurposeOne buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying. 511294459
Reposted by ShananigansBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026theonion.comReport: That’s Enough Soccer For NowWASHINGTON—Saying the nation had enjoyed a perfectly adequate amount of dribbling, passing, and loud chanting, a new report published Tuesday confirmed that was enough soccer for now. “Welp, that was ... 554245578
Reposted by ShananigansKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026Being a woman rocks because if you use AI you’re stupid and if you don’t use AI you’re dumb 473287695
Reposted by ShananigansKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/07/2026My latest: I don’t respect America at 250. The only thing I can think of is how America is still a young, spoiled brat of a nation that no one is able to discipline. Foreign writers have been commenting on the US's developmental problems for centuries. karenattiah.substack.com/p/america-ne...karenattiah.substack.comAmerica Needs to Grow the Fuck UpOnce you understand the moral psychology of America's immaturity, everything about America's 250th birthday makes sense. 441172334
Reposted by ShananigansRoberto José Andrade Franco @randradefranco.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Wanted to write a story of community during a World Cup game. Show its past, present, culture, and aspirations. That's why I went to Woodburn, a town full of farmworkers in Oregon, were 62% of residents are Latino. www.espn.com/soccer/story...espn.comHow Mexico's World Cup run brought a small Oregon town to lifeThe World Cup melds communities, cultures, homelands, and those left behind. In Woodburn, OR, soccer is more than just a game. 68829
Reposted by ShananigansLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup: 2338651525
Reposted by ShananigansKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Your brain was never designed to doomscroll this much. 22911295
Reposted by ShananigansJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/ 7455241988
Reposted by ShananigansHelena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/06/2026[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602, 6180471719
Reposted by ShananigansMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings) 211119371993
Reposted by ShananigansKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I keep saying this but the 90s were also the era in kid culture in which we watched diverse groups of kids from around the world could come together, learn things, and save the world from climate destruction, corporate greed, and intergalactic colonizer aliens. 291183121
Reposted by ShananigansKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/05/2026My latest. America is giving dying mall vibes. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...open.substack.comAmerica is giving dying mall vibesOn the dangers of social and political nostalgia. 861917382
Reposted by ShananigansJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/04/2026The conservative justices talk all this shit about how they are mere faithful "interpreters" of laws that Congress passes. They are lying, but they are never lying harder than when, as here, their response to Congress passing a law they don't PERSONALLY like is "nah, we know better."ballsandstrikes.orgSix Conservative Activists Killed the Voting Rights ActThe Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it. 9718167
Reposted by ShananigansOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...bostonreview.netA Year of Magical ThinkingElite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people. 492364780
Reposted by ShananigansTexas Chainsaw Writing Workshop @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying 6695963544
Reposted by ShananigansKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work. 1824323710793
Reposted by ShananigansEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/04/2026So fucking funny to sell this to big businesses and world governments 342239505
Reposted by Shananiganstern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 06/03/2026"This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?" Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth Plummeting. 📉 It is a hideous scandal that they can publish a chart as obvious as this and not even mention the words 'covid infections'. 12439186
Reposted by ShananigansThe Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 02/03/2026Artist Gillian Levine recently wrote and illustrated a comic sharing reasons to continue masking in 2026. She kindly gave us permission to republish it. 😷 Read the full comic at The Sick Times: bit.ly/4rVqQdp 4202128
Reposted by ShananigansRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 05/03/2026same as it ever wasssstheonion.comThis War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’tGeorge W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more. 114026
Reposted by ShananigansDa(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social · 25/02/2026“Almost 5 years after the WHO acknowledged that COVID was airborne, many people — including public health officials and infection prevention physicians — still do not openly acknowledge that breathing infectious aerosols is the main way to catch and spread COVID.” montrealgazette.com/opinion/lett...montrealgazette.comLetter of the day: Let's clear the air on respiratory infections"Handwashing helps prevent gastrointestinal infections but will not protect your child and you from leaving the emergency department with influenza or COVID." 19853
Reposted by ShananigansJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it 982932399
Reposted by ShananigansSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 09/02/2026I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them 102248615812
Shananigans @16shananigans.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I’m from the Seattle area and was a big Seahawks fan back in the day. I can no longer watch the NFL in good conscience, so I typically don’t. But if Jason Myers doesn’t win Super Bowl 60 MVP, I swear to god…… 😤 000
Reposted by ShananigansSickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 09/02/2026PSA: SEAHAWKS KICKER JASON MYERS IS NOW ON THE SUPER BOWL MVP BALLOT VOTE NOW ON YOUR PHONES www.nfl.com/super-bowl/m... 451195434
Reposted by ShananigansAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 09/02/2026So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh 18670701596
Reposted by ShananigansElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026How the fuck much did that awful Dunkin commercial cost? 93133676
Reposted by ShananigansChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 27/01/2026For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game. 15886392158
Reposted by ShananigansElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on. 4844101507
Reposted by ShananigansMarc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 12/01/2026From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well. 14996094612
Reposted by ShananigansJeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread: 928291263
Reposted by ShananigansChristine Galea @chrisgalea.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Nikki Glaser roasting CBS on CBS is iconic #GoldenGlobes 8459122
Reposted by ShananigansJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 05/01/2026three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal 373864955
Reposted by ShananigansTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all. 3896532296
Reposted by ShananigansMichael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 31/12/2025The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today. 122130394238
Reposted by ShananigansJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comHey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funnyCritics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite. 493792943
Reposted by ShananigansKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Bagel is obviously a huge part of my special Night Thoughts. She passed between recording and air, & Hulu was kind enough to let us add a dedication to her at the end, to include her in all the marketing (bottom left of poster) & give her an actual credit on the special. Bagel forever and ever. 59115951
Reposted by ShananigansRick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/12/2025It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9 817228205907
Reposted by ShananigansMordy Oberstein @mordyoberstein.bsky.social · 16/12/2025For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right. 3741918533
Reposted by ShananigansHarriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫 246228688266
Reposted by ShananigansDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Did not expect to be demanding something needs to be *more* Orwellian 3047943