Sign in

Bill Imperiale

@billimp.bsky.social
436 followers 991 following 51 posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was dreaming of this!! I have always wanted a Watermelon version. It says sold out — is that just a placeholder for going on sale tomorrow?
000
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We all pronounce it “BLOO-skie,” right?
010
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
DIGGER is perfect. Everyone should see it. Full stop.
000
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
taber @kvetch.gay · 29/09/2026
I wrote this down in my notebook in the center of its own page and underlined it twice
0445
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is so cute! The footage is so charming. What camera does this? I love it!
112
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 10/07/2026
We asked the meteorologist whether he might abide us playing him 30 seconds of the iconic track, with him telling us what it shook up. "Please do," he answered.
1121
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 05/07/2026
Holy shit. This hits comically hard. youtu.be/KYrMwxrZ2TU
youtu.be
Right v. Wrong
YouTube video by Saul4Democracy
1102
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In what way? Not denying that it’s true at all, just worried because I had maybe intended to get this via Amazon until I saw your reply.
120
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I think I’ve figured out that any car I buy should ideally have CarPlay and lots of buttons: none of that touchscreen, homespun nonsense. Anyway, time to take a big sip of coffee and see if a Rivian might be right for me…
010
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Why not? (Genuinely asking, if that needs to be said! Like: moral positioning against Amazon as a company, or have there actually been reports of issues with Apple products sold by Amazon?)
100
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
doing a “husband’s run” (early morning grocery run for a missing breakfast item, because i get to wander the store and get whatever else i want) but committing the “husband’s folly” (forgetting the one item i was asked to get, eggs)
222852294
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
i can think of maybe a handful—like, five—people who have saved more human lives than bill foege. he deserves a couple minutes of your time to read about and remember.
en.wikipedia.org
William Foege - Wikipedia
10463149
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
580395358671
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Whoa! You’re right! Thank you for the introduction! My mind is blown and I have to hear more, haha.
010
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
WHAT. incredible.
000
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy holidays! This brings me joy, like all your work. 🙏🎁🎄
100
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Charredasperity (commissions open) @charredasperity.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Evangelion title card that says "And tiny tim... who did (not) die."
61210508
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I love this. Bizarre!
110
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
100%! I had a front row seat to this as someone who is immunocompromised and was once a big fan. It was like watching his opinions and personality just jettison themselves into orbit immediately when COVID hit.
030
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
And this is as a person that is relatively well informed about how these things work! And biased to like Apple’s offerings. So frustrating.
000
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I am repeatedly astounded by how stupid Siri can be.
120
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 10 Steam codes for Simogo Legacy Collection from @simogo.com. Giveaway closes on December 6th at 6 PM PT Game is available now for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and Steam simogo.com/work/simogol...
13314500
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 21/11/2025
logging into bluesky dot app
the "I just want you to stop saying odd shit" meme from true detective
1377082
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/11/2025
"Here’s the kicker: We even got them to agree not to pass the healthcare subsidies that we’ve been working for. You know, the ones average Americans rely on. Here’s how we did it: We asked, then they said, 'No way,' and then we said, 'Okay.' That’s how you win." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gre...
mcsweeneys.net
Great News: We Got Them to Agree to Their Own Deal
“Eight senators in the Democratic caucus broke with the party late Sunday to vote with Republicans and advance legislation to end the government sh...
222660
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
31118593518084
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Wow! I’m so glad. I was so worried that Year Walk and DEVICE 6 would disappear as the original versions aged into obsolescence. Folks deserve to see these great games.
010
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register
229186184699
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I bought @panic.com's Nova a few months ago because it is great for my occasional html-ing and css-ing, and I would rather step on a rake than use VSCode or something like that. Nova is a genuine mac-assed app and it is *on sale for the next two weeks*. If you've been on the fence, now is the time.
2102
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
ceej @ceej.online · 25/09/2025
my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”
a bald stick figure in a chair with his arms out in front like he’s typing on a keyboard, and he’s got the biggest angry frown imaginable and eyebrows that express frustrated bemusement
226114331272
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Didn’t the original Virtual Boy have a lenticular display or something that would send different images to each eye for a faux-3D effect? I wonder how they will accomplish that with this. Or if it truly will just be a 2D Labo-like thing.
010
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Connor @thatconnorguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
BRO! THYE BROUGHT BACK THE MAGSAFE BATTERY PACK!?!?!
031
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
That koozie is too cool! I love it! (And I’m jealous of your chill Sunday plans. Enjoy!)
000
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
defector.com
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
17770583888
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Hah, I wish! I assume not. But I’d love a silly memetic political ad for him in this vein…!
000
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Good for him! My hopes are high for him. I feel guilty, though, for having briefly thought, “Oh!! ‘The grilling guy’ is challenging Susan Collins!”
000
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
STAT @statnews.com · 18/08/2025
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...
statnews.com
Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
131282517
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This was a courageous thing to write! Thank you for sharing this. A lot of readers benefit from seeing their experiences mirrored like this, I think. 🙏
010
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Wow, good for them! I remember the original RedOctane from the mid 2000s. I think they made my DDR accessories — what a flashback.
110
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 31/07/2025
Obsessed with this photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos guy.
photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos meme guy
160119782278
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.
6652911349
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Imagine being part of a floundering political establishment at historic lows in favorability, seeing this guy's absolutely infectuous energy, and deciding to try to stop it through an array of embarrassing media appearances and editorial blunders.
8088581538
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/07/2025
I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
theguardian.com
Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan
With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani
98126593610
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
💗
2443
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
My partner and I just said the same thing! We saw approximately, oh, a 1,000 on our block tonight. So nice and a welcome return after so long!!
000
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. 

A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. 

And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. 

To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- 
Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- 

A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different.

Q:  They're not really. 

A: Those are like different genres. 

Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. 

A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
19186962850
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Adam Smith @asmith83.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
but what do you really think brad lander hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...
6460361253
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Well put by @mmasnick.bsky.social. www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/c...
The “bubble” framing also fundamentally misunderstands what most people want from social media. When you go to a knitting circle, are you disappointed that most people there want to talk about knitting? When you join a book club, do you complain that everyone seems interested in books? Pundits and politicians may want to broadcast to the largest possible audience, but most people are looking for community, not maximum reach.

Most people aren’t looking for a debating arena. They want to talk with people they like about topics they care about—whether that’s knitting, local politics, or professional interests.

This becomes impossible when the platform owner has hung out a shingle for Nazis, and your attempts to discuss your hobbies get drowned out by fascist propaganda algorithmically pushed into your timeline. That’s not “diverse discourse”—it’s just a bad user experience.
111314417
Bill Imperiale @billimp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My wife and I are so happy your post inspired us to see this! What a great film. Just plain fun.
120
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Huxley @huxleymorgan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Black and white image of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, smoking a cigarette. "The world is not divided between east and west. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
3235268694
Reposted by Bill Imperiale
Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/06/2025
THIS PRECISELY
115122