Reposted by Andrew RaffElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026this moist kidult shit is exhausting. snobs are an important keystone species, and if we're not allowed to hunt bad taste, the environment is degraded for everyone 312121
Reposted by Andrew RaffGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...doomsdayscenario.coIt's the accountability, stupid.Doing crime 621071373
Reposted by Andrew RaffKate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 23/09/2026As someone who uses a lot of spreadsheets , power BI reports, and data visualization software in my day job.. I can confidently say that the ephemeral, liminal things that can’t be reduced to a metric , KPI or OKR are in fact the most important in your org and ALSO in life. 34910
Reposted by Andrew RaffAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Delighted to announce that along with fellow ALOTT5MA alumni @mattmarcotte.bsky.social @adamhcutler.bsky.social @andrewraff.com and more, we will be smithing a new @learnedleague.com minileague on THE EGOT beginning on or about August 30, 2027. 053
Reposted by Andrew RaffMark X @markmx.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Pour one out for the product attorneys who mapped the properties of a secure exclave to a global patchwork of recording statutes. And who will have to explain how an exclave works to a judge. 13110
Andrew Raff @andrewraff.com · 09/09/2026Good to see Apple Watch catching up to Garmin in judging your health and training quality. 000
Andrew Raff @andrewraff.com · 05/09/2026This dialect quiz is disturbingly accurate mydialect.us/quiz-standard.… 010
Andrew Raff @andrewraff.com · 05/09/2026Trump’s “understanding” of how the world works would be hilarious if he wasn’t POTUS and the entire Republican party wasn’t dedicated to trying to convert his words into a combination of policy and religion. 000
Reposted by Andrew RaffMicah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them 7353331054
Reposted by Andrew RaffSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A reporter should hold up a map of the Great Lakes with numbers on them and ask Trump which one he's just purported to rename. 1054265796
Reposted by Andrew RaffGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/08/2026If you're in NYC, please take two minutes to tell @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social that we need a 2 year moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools for students and teachers! Summer's almost over - we gotta get this done! heymamdani.fyiheymamdani.fyiContact the Mayor - NYC Mayor's OfficeSend a message to NYC mayor on the web. You can also get links to media contacts and submit FOIL requests. 313752
Reposted by Andrew RaffMarc Hirsh @spacecitymarc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This should be part of every Democrat's campaign strategy this fall. 113542
Reposted by Andrew RaffHeidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Think about this whenever JD Vance or some other blowhard insists that ppl who don't have kids of their own have no stake in, or care for, the future. 13111
Andrew Raff @andrewraff.com · 25/08/2026In a time when we have so many examples of how to be a Bad Person loudly and publicly, Dolly Parton was a shining example of how to leave a positive impact on the world. 010
Reposted by Andrew RaffTiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 25/08/2026So many things to choose to do with your one wild and precious life. Living so you’re remembered for your kindness is the only goal worth anything. 28220
Reposted by Andrew RaffGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026let's do UBI for her, she'd want us to 82018526
Reposted by Andrew RaffWill Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton dying feels as inexplicable and impossible as it felt when David Bowie died, or Prince died. Surely moreso. 4779
Reposted by Andrew RaffRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026She wrote a handful of the greatest songs ever written, and the first thing so many people think of is not those towering achievements, but how good a person she was and how many people’s lives she improved 122171498
Reposted by Andrew RaffDaniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The link for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, truly one of the great humanitarian projects of modern times. The donation page is currently sluggish, which I can only hope means they're being crushed with support. In a good, but sad way. imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 05621
Reposted by Andrew RaffKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago. 219239455929
Reposted by Andrew RaffMitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton is, was and always will be the personification of what is right about America. I do not often make predictions. I predict that her legacy of music, acting, philanthropy and activism will age extremely well. May her memory be for a blessing. A woman of valor. A price above rubies. 115628
Reposted by Andrew RaffEvil John 2: John By Dawn @johnryanwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026She didn't die. She sailed West, to the Undying Lands and remained Galadriy'all. 61424295
Reposted by Andrew RaffDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Great performer, great lady and, perhaps, when all is said and done, one of our greatest citizens. 161316148
Reposted by Andrew RaffMike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/08/2026If you missed it the first time around, I highly recommend listening Jad Abumrad's podcast series "Dolly Parton's America." www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...wnycstudios.orgDolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | PodcastsThe story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars. 421875
Reposted by Andrew RaffMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026haven't been hit this hard since Carrie Fisher passed. Carrie and Dolly, two queens who forged their own paths and were always in on the joke and always, always cared. they didn't think caring was uncool, ever. Peerless artists too. RIP to Dolly, a legendary person, in addition to everything else. 💔 659162
Reposted by Andrew RaffKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/08/2026Over at the newsletter I wrote about Mark Ruffalo's showdown with Paramount:karlbode.comThe Hulk Hates Fascist Media ConsolidationActor Mark Ruffalo has been instrumental in getting people to finally care about media consolidation in the age of dipshit authoritarianism. 717341
Reposted by Andrew RaffDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026In my opinion, a failure to understand the white-hot rage so many people feel about ICE's campaign of terror and oppression is what has taken some establishment Dems by surprise in their primaries. Abolish ICE and Nuremberg 2.0 is basically the floor for what the Dem electorate is demanding. 241416303
Reposted by Andrew RaffElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Lawyer: I can argue either side of that, actually. 58411
Reposted by Andrew RaffSteve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 17/08/2026lawyers in 2026 learning that words sent to a website are discoverable 124992
Reposted by Andrew Raffpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Bauhaus Milhaus 56103102124
Reposted by Andrew RaffBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026They were too stupid to understand the source of American hegemony and memed each other into thinking they lived in a failed state because there wasn't enough bravado in our imperialism. Took less than a year to wreck the whole edifice. Incredible 233846642
Reposted by Andrew Raffjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 04/08/2026has anyone unpacked christopher nolan casting a trans person to be the distraction sacrifice for a trojan horse to enter, and then destroy, civilization 281419213
Reposted by Andrew RaffJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This whole essay is fantastic and if you're a liberal Jew living in the year 2026 it will make you feel less insane, this paragraph in particular jewishcurrents.org/the-shame-of... 324756
Reposted by Andrew RaffSarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It’s in this hot AF part of the summer, surrounded by wildfire smoke from thousands of miles away, unable to eat lettuce that I find myself thinking maybe we should’ve made some different decisions. 4764158
Reposted by Andrew RaffAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/07/2026New in PN: Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction "Almost everything about how the modern GOP operates — its aversion to solving problems, its destruction of norms that used to allow the institution to operate, its embrace of chaos and dysfunction — can be at least partly attributed to McConnell."publicnotice.coMitch McConnell's legacy of destructionHe may have found Trump distasteful, but no one did more to protect him. 1283026860
Reposted by Andrew RaffT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution Cops are great 1228250
Reposted by Andrew RaffShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them 61107152297
Reposted by Andrew RaffCathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Live your life in a way where that doesn't happen. 1348
Reposted by Andrew RaffPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12/07/2026When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive. 10465811215
Reposted by Andrew RaffAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I am volunteering to serve as Guest Parliamentarian for the Maine Democratic Party Convention. Why me? 🦞served as counsel to a state party and designed procedures for similar proceedings 🦞no connection to any of the candidates 🦞can steam or boil lobster 🦞have stuff to return to LL Bean anyway 1949753
Reposted by Andrew RaffAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 09/07/2026I believe that a working-class-coded progressive white dude with no problematic tattoos and who also is not a rapist both exists and could make a great senate candidate. But just to be safe, maybe we shouldn't let men run at all. shootmenintospace.comshootmenintospace.comSHOOT MEN INTO SPACE — A Very Serious Proposal 2654462
Reposted by Andrew RaffKevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 07/07/2026“Currently struggling to play as a cohesive team” does kind of describe the US right now 0192
Reposted by Andrew RaffJames Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 07/07/2026“Belgium is dunking the ball into the goal like the net’s full of mayonnaise!” —me, if I were a soccer announcer 353747
Reposted by Andrew RaffBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026That the U.S. appears to have completely visibly given up after a catastrophic own goal fuck up is a little on the nose. 1938874849
Reposted by Andrew RaffAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 07/07/2026this is knicks game 3 all over again isn’t it the trump curse lives! 5087788