Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hey @besttrousers.bsky.social someone solved the vibecession. 81175
Reposted by arushiOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards 465339948
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is a lot of words to say "maybe there's some subgroup with an unusual experience that accounts for the vibecession." Unfortunately, the vibecession is a macro trend that crosses the entire population, and should show up in aggregate measures of people's economic experiences. It doesn't. 7681
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“Voters are just being extremely rational and literal about answering this one particular poll question, and they all happen to agree with me on Trump’s policies” is wishful thinking, I’m afraid. 9713
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It wouldn’t be surprising if his inflation polling was worse than the numbers alone would predict, but WORSE THAN CARTER?? Inflation was 15%!! At some point you’re just describing a break from reality. bsky.app/profile/bart... 251786
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is insane. Inflation is under 4%. We’ve genuinely created a monster here: a public that hallucinates intolerable inflation no matter what the actual figures are. It is a bullet to the head of the entire progressive project *and progressives can’t even be made to care.* 12436540
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If the population believes something that is objectively and empirically false, are you and I obliged to pretend it’s true in order to demonstrate solidarity with the masses? For instance, if people believe in false crime surges, do we need to dignify that? Can we say it’s wrong? 12813
Reposted by arushimikeydoubled @mdlp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is literally the cheat code for cutting through all the bullshit in this era — “Be specific, what exactly are you referring to” “Schools in CA are helping kids transition and hiding from their parents! Wow, I don’t believe that happens - which specific school did that?” Etc etc. 811011
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The groupthink dynamics are worse here than almost anywhere (yes, even much worse than Twitter) because the site is such a monoculture. Once you arrive at the set of opinions that the entire community agrees is correct, you will never be challenged and are encouraged to stop thinking any further. 8838
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Honestly you'd think a community formed by people who fled Twitter would be more concerned about the wild spread of conspiratorial thinking and insular self-validation, but I guess the issue with Nazi Twitter was simply that it was spreading the WRONG conspiracies and validating the WRONG ideas 817418
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Cory Doctorow has no idea what's in the training data for any commercial LLM, but it's something close to "every written word in the English language that has ever been digitized." Models do not ape their training data, that's not how it works. It's a misunderstanding of every relevant concept. 101526
Reposted by arushiJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 18/09/2026the number of times the answer to "where does your belief that <specific misinfo> is true come from?" is "reading Cory Doctorow" is really fucking concerning actually 616515
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Unfortunately, “it can’t be real thinking because it’s just a bunch of mechanically legible processes happening at massive scale” is an argument that rules us out of thinking, too 252029
Reposted by arushiMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026🚨 SCOOP: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a sweeping package of new election laws aimed at protecting ballots, voting equipment, vote-by-mail and the chain of custody ahead of the November election, including new felony penalties for interference. 18083502229
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Every single Democratic candidate for federal office is better than every single Republican. If nothing else, because of who they’ll caucus with, which will decide which bills are brought before the body. Vote blue no matter who. 734845
Reposted by arushiJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves. 873354389539
Reposted by arushiLaura Bogart @ldbogart.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I'm sorry, I legit do not understand why so many people have made Platner this martyr figure for progressivism when he is, by all accounts, just a dude with no political experience or history of activism who also seems deeply shitty and will likely lose? 25555115
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/06/2026We need a recession for educational purposes istg 41081
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Hanging out with Gen Z folks and they’re complaining about the job market - “Yeah, Starbucks pays well, but they’ll only pay for your bachelor’s degree and then they’ll try to move you to something boring like HR” - anyway my Great Recession millennial self wants to walk into traffic 2232123
Reposted by arushijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/05/2026i was asked recently if i thought clarence thomas saw himself as a villain. i said yes and this is a good example. he is totally bloodthirsty and loves the idea of the government executing people. 29455971448
Reposted by arushilowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 09/05/2026the fast food chain white castle is older than italian unification 491941241
Reposted by arushiMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 09/05/2026Now I know an ITALIAN is not trying to claim they have a more established nation— www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmeri... 133127888
Reposted by arushijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling 232183984188
Reposted by arushijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people." 664343863
Reposted by arushiClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Yessssss www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...nytimes.comVirginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups 596227793826
Reposted by arushijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2026honestly i am constantly thinking things like "where are the fathers" these days 523422244
Reposted by arushiPeter Juul @petermjuul.bsky.social · 14/04/2026My latest at Liberal Currents on why Democrats need to learn how to talk about defense: 1558
Reposted by arushiAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will" 514244907029
Reposted by arushiAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis" 619152103808
Reposted by arushiBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 04/03/2026We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court. That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits. Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability. 284100822024
Reposted by arushiMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 03/03/2026I want you all to guess how much Graham Platner’s grandpa’s chair costs 153511118
Reposted by arushiDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026People are underestimating how good AI is now. What if I were to tell you this whole account is run by AI?...Oh, so you hate me even more? 111356
Reposted by arushiAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership" 1436267997041
Reposted by arushiPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!' 832145633859
Reposted by arushiMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 27/02/2026I do think we should probably make Jamelle Bouie be president tbh 1630816
Reposted by arushiMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I think you should all be more normal about Jamelle Bouie. 37170485
Reposted by arushiSara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I am once again asking people to be Normal about Jamelle Bouie. 1493
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/02/2026People don’t really understand the nature of the problem. It’s not lots of little random ankle-biter tweets. That’s annoying but whatever. It’s when hating you becomes this communal pursuit that exists separately from yourself. Like there’s an entire group of people working together to target you. 58104662
Reposted by arushiSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 13/02/2026It kind of gives away the “politics as posting” problem when signing a bill is meaningless, but hosting a podcast is the epitome of reality 1436544
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/02/2026and look, it's fine if you're not super familiar with frederick douglass, most people know less about this stuff than they're willing to admit, it's good to go "whoops! I was wrong!"... but MAYBE YOU SHOULD CONSIDER WHETHER THAT IGNORANCE AFFECTS YOUR ESTIMATION OF WHO IS A RACIST GENOCIDE DENIER 835313
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/02/2026being called a racist genocide denier because I referred to "Indian" tribes, by someone who turns around and claims Frederick Douglass is an illiterate who didn't understand slavery, is such an incredible bit that I'm not sure it would work as fiction. it could only be real. it could only be bluesky 3977072
Reposted by arushiChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views. 1524147904576
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/02/2026The number of people on the left who will not only argue that Epstein was obviously an Israeli agent, but who will treat you as somehow part of the conspiracy if you criticize that view, is, uh, not great 3141637
Reposted by arushiWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/02/2026If you suspect random prominent Jewish people of being agents for Israel, that is literally antisemitism. How is this not obvious 4126117
Reposted by arushiAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Denaturalization as criminal punishment is not a thing in American law, it's unconstitutional under any circumstances. It can only be done in the narrow case of somebody who fraudulently obtained the naturalization itself. Otherwise they are no different from natural-born citizens who commit crimes. 611887552
Reposted by arushiMobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 04/02/2026If I die, I want my remains to be scattered at the US Capitol. Do not cremate me. 432126911178
