Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 21hWhy do people seem to get so stressed out over polls? I'm not going to worry about the preseason games... 010
Reposted by Agronoxryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 12352921369
Reposted by AgronoxChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Someone needs to explain to Trump that the worse Republicans do in the midterms, the better it looks for him. Just goes to show the party is utterly lost without him on the ballot! He’s literally the only Republican who has the juice. (Natalie, if you see this, please print and share.) 702520279
Reposted by AgronoxTomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's quite incredible how enormously lucky the US administration has been in terms of its economic inheritance - this is the kind of capex boom econ nerds have been yelling for since the GFC - and how determined they seem to be to squander it. 523338
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Dave's a PoS, but "The Wrong Kid Died" thing is a reference to the under-watched classic Walk Hard starring John C. Reilly 001
Reposted by Agronoxmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026They're the worst criteria for judging student merit except for all the other ones bsky.app/profile/grim... 51336
Reposted by AgronoxDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026I know we're all supposed to be herding onto the anti-data center bandwagon, but man, I worry a *lot* that it's going to overspill its borders & become a more generalized anti-wind & solar, anti-battery, anti-grid-infrastructure, anti-transmission, anti-anything mega-glonzo that leaves us worse off. 1291030124
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The number of ungrateful dickheads in the replies here is really something to see. Paint.NET is great and I've been using it for years. If AI coding makes it easier to maintain or add features, awesome. 0251
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Democrats need to start treating the mainstream media like the enemy that it is. 000
Reposted by Agronoxmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026i have a theory about why this is the case: it's because they like Trump. They think he's a good President and they want to help him rule us like a king. 411186169
Reposted by AgronoxSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A fundamental problem with liberalism and that many liberals just refuse to hate their enemies. You need to hate them or you won't win. 3387
Reposted by Agronoxmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Have you seen any reporting on how solar power generation in the USA is 5 times higher than it was in 2020 in mainstream outlets? If not, why do you think this is not being widely covered the same way other large technological changes are? 412469596
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 26/08/2026OpenAI: AGI will usher in a new era of boundless prosperity also OpenAI: We're going to need the seniors to die in the streets 000
Reposted by AgronoxDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton 7165572899
Reposted by AgronoxAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Literally nobody, including MAGA, had any ideological commitment or pre-existing policy goal of picking a fight with Canada. This is all happening solely because the crazy old man randomly blurted it out. And that makes it worse. There's nothing to negotiate, no aim to satisfy. He's just insane. 593181611
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Work Will Stancil and JK Rowling in there and you've got a stew goin' 070
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Don't ever forget how bad the US news media is, and don't ever forgive them Biden was never this out of it but got wall to wall coverage as if he was for over a month. Nothing but crickets now though. 020
Reposted by Agronoxmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026NYT wanted to write a story about "moderate Dems go to war with DSA," looked around, and the best they could find was a *proposal* by Third Way to spend $15M against left candidates. The story is not evidence that *Democrats* and the left hate each other... it's evidence that the NYT hates both. 633607691
Reposted by Agronox"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Honestly, filtering for, "the Nazis were bad, Stalin was bad, the correct side won WWII" is the easiest way to filter out 90+% of bad faith interlocutors if only everyone was honest about their views but the fascists and tankies know this and so sometimes falsify their opinions strategically. 121008117
Reposted by AgronoxJake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/? 852853986
Reposted by AgronoxBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 30/07/2026Less than half of China’s electricity came from coal in the first six months of the year for the first time, a symbolic milestone.bloom.bgChina Crosses Energy Milestone as Coal Falls Below 50% of PowerLess than half of China’s electricity came from coal in the first six months of the year for the first time, a symbolic milestone in the country’s shift toward cleaner energy. 315145
Reposted by AgronoxSammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...climatecoloredgoggles.comResearchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health. 16175192809
Reposted by Agronoxmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026If there's one thing Trump has usefully revealed it's that the gatekeepers in the media who supposedly had so much reverence for Support The Troops and Dead Soldiers etc when those things were being deployed to hurt Democrats were just liars and never cared about this even a little. 201109231
Reposted by AgronoxGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/07/2026Donald Trump is suffering from dementia. Someone needs to step in before it's too late. 35658431508
Reposted by AgronoxBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I would honestly make a case for a gaokao system in the United States at this point. Straightforward single-exam entry is problematic for any number of reasons, but superior to the current U.S. system in both fairness and social impact. 2246338
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Good stuff from Matt Levine today re: prediction markets 010
Reposted by Agronoxmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The Constitutional Crisis started in 2000. You've been living through it your entire adult life. The reason politics feels hopeless is by design — conservatives broke our democratic form of government to guarantee that the people cannot act against them and are continuing to break it. 522730650
Reposted by Agronoxmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The pool and the county fair or whatever are a reminder that the real power and competence in the conservative movement are the media and the supreme court who usually are able to cover us for Trump's fuckups but sometimes can't when physical reality intrudes. 151132212
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 12/06/2026So you have SK Hynix, which wants a US listing but doesn't particularly need the money, and SK Square, which owns over $100 billion of Hynix, trades at a massive discount to NAV, and (at least in theory) wants to close that gap. 1/2 120
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This is really interesting to me, because it seems deranged in a very human way 020
Reposted by Agronoxmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Staying on Twitter is not bad because it enriches Musk (he loses money on the site) or because it tacitly endorses his ownership (who cares) but because IT IS A BRAINWASHING MACHINE. You are not immune. More importantly your presence there encourages others to stay there due to network effects. 211420315
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Is an IPO going well when a broker you haven't had money with for over a decade sends you an email pitching it? 030
Reposted by Agronoxthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 01/06/2026god if you want to know why people aren't bothered by platner being a scumbag it's because on the defining moral issue of our time he's on the right side and Schumer's standing with Benzalel Smotrich. 1311713
Reposted by AgronoxSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 29/05/2026JCPOA might be the most vindicated foreign policy of all time tbh 251628240
Reposted by AgronoxBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026it is very bad to have a society in which cheats and grifters *openly* prosper. 241493290
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Sorry for posting, but, Animal Crackers--on the rare occasions when Nabisco, a consumer food company, deigns to make them--seem almost satirically infantile, as if the entire snacking project has now moved well beyond mere nostalgia into elaborate, pathological psychological regression. 061
Reposted by AgronoxEd Bradford @fullcarry.net · 22/05/2026Dramatic shift in Fed's anticipated rate path now vs before the war using 3-month SOFR futures 1539
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 16/05/2026It's also important to note here that AOC *is actually a Democrat* and Sanders isn't. 040
Reposted by AgronoxGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14/05/2026there are a lot of trump voters we aren’t ever going to convert and what we need to do is make them feel like the suckers they are and withdraw from electoral politics entirely 332498435
Reposted by Agronoxcapitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Biden presided over likely the greatest expansion in US manufacturing in history and our public intellectuals decided not to notice it. People's lives were materially getting better. Wages rose because labor was in such short supply. 16611115
Reposted by AgronoxTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 08/05/2026here we go again, the new york times calling an increase of 115k jobs under Trump "solid" while it called similar or considerably bigger gains under Biden "disappointing" or "weak" 9435451070
Reposted by AgronoxLaurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026“Voters are blameless and pure and it is 100% on the campaign to win them over” is a view that political campaigns have to hold, but the rest of society absolutely should not. 411601239
Reposted by AgronoxMatt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining. 11679801579
Agronox @agronox.bsky.social · 04/04/2026I would love to hear this song on TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNQ...youtube.comTchaikovsky - Swan Lake (Swan Theme)YouTube video by pianushko 000
Reposted by AgronoxRandom Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 31/03/2026They've got a nimble little two-step with this stuff: liberals who criticize Israel are being antisemitic, but conservatives who are being antisemitic are just criticizing Israel 138866
