Reposted by Alex ZajacBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026Ellison is hardly unique in both treasuring his privacy while insisting that any private domain carved out by normal people will turn into a place where we indulge our most sinful impulses. 1344
Reposted by Alex ZajacSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?” 991620454
Reposted by Alex Zajacpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 167123872643
Reposted by Alex ZajacDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Old enough to remember when Trump did this to Lindsey Graham in 2015 www.politico.com/story/2015/0...politico.comDonald Trump gives out Lindsey Graham's cellphone number"When it comes to the Donald, nothing surprises me anymore," Graham says. 829978
Reposted by Alex Zajacderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026some pilots are part of the furry community 765300593
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026they do not like mamdani and try to push stories to embarrass and undermine him! very easy to contrast this to politicians who the new york times does not dislike! 122615
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026getting Flock out of your hometown will mean nothing if what replaces it is just like Axon Cameras With No Pesky Auditable Trail Of Who Is Accessing Them 419428
Reposted by Alex ZajacMicah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026“this person is bad so their work was always bad” is also a really dangerous view to take because it leads to - unconscious or not - a bias towards “but I do like this other person’s work, ergo they must be a good person” which, as we have seen over and over, is simply not true 4160252172
Reposted by Alex ZajacMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The important thing to remember about teenagers is that they're idiots and we don't need to treat their opinions as well-formed or important, but instead given a lot of grace because their brains are raw in the middle. 737232
Reposted by Alex ZajacKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Arte Moreno bought the Angels in 2003 (the year after they won the Series) for $184 million. He then spent 23 years running them into the ground, let the stadium decay, wasted Trout and Ohtani, and sold for $4 billion. And the owners are crying poverty and threatening to kill baseball next year. 382131586
Reposted by Alex ZajacPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026it’s deeply embarrassing that they keep trying to come up with a comprehensive definition of “wokeness” when the actual definition is “lib shit that annoys me” 372994325
Reposted by Alex ZajacMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I'd just gotten used to "who was president in 2020?" as the defining political question of the era, not sure I'm ready for "who is president in 2026?" to join the fray 501642321
Reposted by Alex ZajacNormal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I recently interviewed a traveller from an antique land. Their experience in arid environments with sizable, defunct monumental sculpture (sans torso) stuck with me. While they didn't get the position, here's three key takeaways they taught me about the fleeting nature of earthly power 👇 8762187
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Mike Rogers just held a rally where he hugged Donald Trump, embraced him on stage. Did any of you hear about that? The media wants you to think that Rogers' association with the President is less relevant for the public to be informed about than Abdul El-Sayed's association with a Twitch streamer. 141474328
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026pretty illustrative to compare Milo Yiannopoulos's record with jews to the much flimsier allegations against Hasan Piker. I don't really recall the "DO YOU DENOUNCE HIM" shit when Milo spoke at the RNC in 2016! 327946
Reposted by Alex ZajacHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“Stories written by AI meet our editorial standards. However the job of deciding which AI stories to run could only be done by me, Paul Gigot.” I don’t think so bro 31366
Reposted by Alex ZajacMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Look, are we the laughing stock of the world? Yes. Are we losing a war we should’ve never started? Yes. Is all our food poison now? Yes. Are all the jobs going away? Yes. But the important thing is a blue-haired college student I made up in my head feels bad about memes. 4364941266
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The thing that sparked the 2022 tech layoffs and RTO push wasn't anything on balance sheets or payrolls, it was the twisted tech oligarchs sharing in their grouptexts those videos of 20-something women project managers working from the poolside as if it was a personal affront to them. 7712108
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026one thing that's endlessly fascinating to me is how California Republicans are still convinced that gas tax slopulism is a winning issue despite the gas tax being put up to a referendum and repeal losing by 13 points. 315817
Reposted by Alex ZajacAri Cohn @aricohn.com · 18/08/2026"The Epidemic of Social Epidemicization" by Ari Cohn Where's my book deal and $75,000 a pop speaking fee? I should call Jonathan Haidt's agent. 3261
Reposted by Alex ZajacBrian Lynch @brianmichaellynch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Donkey Kong's arch enemy should be Monkey Kong who is a donkey 623731634
Reposted by Alex ZajacKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/08/2026RIP THE LEGEND JONNY TOHM (1941-1883) 365 Careers 19 Victoryies 1.1111111 Average Sports 50-50-50 First Man to be in Ocean 4X World Player (200, 300, 300, 300) First Woman to Vote (1920) America's Most Beautiful Tree (1978) Longest Career (1) Pitched All of It (100) 2025226
Reposted by Alex ZajacA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The world’s highest IQ score carries the same authority as the highest score in Donkey Kong at a local Dave & Busters. 2694150404
Reposted by Alex ZajacMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026it’s always 2 dumb bitches telling eachother "exactlyyyy" 332781205
Reposted by Alex Zajacbort @crushbort.bsky.social · 14/08/2026sorry to them but this is such a funny before and after 201302109
Reposted by Alex ZajacAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026their operation gently smeared me as a “terrorist sympathizer” for reporting something they didn’t like, but yes they are super responsive to me and many others 452600275
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026i mean it's just an objective fact that they find elected officials plotting to violently overthrow our system of government to be less objectionable than, say, the president of harvard having sloppy citations in her phd thesis 151502351
Reposted by Alex ZajacBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I like that the threshold for being a wife guy is that you say one time “I have a wife” because I guess that’s definitionally true 3079244
Reposted by Alex ZajacAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026People voted for authoritarianism because they wanted lower inflation and now they have authoritarianism and even more inflation. (no lessons will be learned) blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/affordabil...blog.fiftyplusone.newsAffordability concerns are even more important to voters than in 2024Inflation continues to dominate the issue landscape, and drag down the president 462344440
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is exactly why the bosses all pushed so hard to get Biden out and Trump back in. Workers fighting over a shrinking pool of jobs lets the bosses exploit and abuse them 10425121
Reposted by Alex ZajacPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026To paraphrase "1984," the future is the Austin Powers "Swedish Penis Pump" bit shoved in your face, forever. 410312
Reposted by Alex ZajacMike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/08/2026Of all the opinions to have, imagine thinking the one you need to share publicly is "NYC is better when there's garbage everywhere" and "having garbage bins will ruin the neighborhood and my psyche" 2422332
Reposted by Alex ZajacJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Trump has managed to finally be directly, personally at fault for a bunch of ugly economic & social indicators that voters (usually irrationally) blame presidents for. 4749149
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/07/2026This makes people's attachment to the individuals who have won out at this tournament feel insane. The average American Politics Fan sees some US Senator just start showing up on their TV and doesn't realize their entire career was contingent on a City Council retirement that happened in 1998 31347
Reposted by Alex Zajacderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Putting up trade barriers for things made with forced labor is good, but this is likely an attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court's ruling on Trump's tariffs. Trump has also slashed funding for watchdogs like WRC, which hampers our ability to know when there are labor abuses in our supply chains. 291604238
Reposted by Alex Zajacryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/07/2026here’s my offer, The Atlantic magazine, I will read the next “reactionary pretends to give honest advice to Democrats” take if you let me write a piece where I, a DSA member, pretend to give honest advice to Republicans 833984538
Reposted by Alex ZajacSara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years. 11113271794
Reposted by Alex ZajacNational Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 19/07/2026I think I have a new slogan for the firm 220635
Reposted by Alex ZajacHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dont-take-...hamiltonnolan.comDon't Take Advice From Your EnemiesThe most useless genre on earth. 7848118
Reposted by Alex ZajacHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14/07/2026This is fantastic example of how Beltway reporters become twisted by the clubbiness of power in DC. She thinks this is a charming anecdote. 431679309
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The key difference is that they wanted Biden to lose and they want Trump to win. They see themselves as helpers in Trump's plot to enslave us bsky.app/profile/kevi... 115221
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026see they like Trump and want to help him. By contrast they didn't like Obama and did not want to help him. It explains why they will (I'm pretty sure) air Trump's Thursday speech and did not air Obama's 2014 speech. 742982
Reposted by Alex ZajacMichael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026At first glance, I always think these are from The Onion. 101295
Reposted by Alex Zajacmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The story here is not this stupid movie – which will never get made and never come out – but how the Tilly Norwood people keep getting these credulous articles placed in national news sources despite zero demonstration of any success or demand for this. 964514822
Reposted by Alex ZajacJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Nice argument, but it’s too late. I’ve already depicted myself as the calm under pressure, cheerful, and suave Pico Lopes while you are the shocked and fearful Lionel Messi 045178
Reposted by Alex ZajacGian D’Oh @giandoh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026“Yeah Ma, I’m not loving the carpentry thing but I’m kinda killing it as an influencer…. A shirt? Yeah of course I’m wearing a shirt.” 131588285
Alex Zajac @alexanderzajac.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Culver's shrimp: The pinnacle of luxury apparently 020
