Reposted by BoomstickHawk @mdg650hawk.bsky.social · 16hyoutu.be/ELDNx-2npp0youtu.beRide or Die Since 1984. I Couldn't Be More Disappointed in MetallicaYouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk 3163
Reposted by BoomstickRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Fox is garbage. 38993032622
Reposted by Boomstick🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's like if Benghazi was what Republicans pretended it was, but times about 12. 71037213
Reposted by BoomstickAngrySwede @christianmalmgren.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Absolutely accurate. "Putin abandons the laws of war he was not following. Why this was inevitable for Russia" Since when did Russia ever abide by the UN charter or the Geneva convention? 512127
Reposted by BoomstickJohn Carpenter's dEF0G 🌁 @defrog.bsky.social · 09/10/2026With the new "NSmarties AI Interactive Platform", you'll be able to hallucinate all kinds of threats to national security in otherwise normal everyday activities – just like the govt, kids! 033
Reposted by BoomstickEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating. 18167531966
Reposted by BoomstickAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026Trump has some sort of large contraption around his waist again today that makes him look vaguely like a centaur while he stands 2881496297
Reposted by BoomstickKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Pete Hegseth says there needs to be serious consequences for people who commit crimes, just jotting that down for future reference. 962832423
Reposted by BoomstickDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/10/2026this is on the one hand a totally insane thing to say, but it's interesting to see it as kind of a legacy kludge from fusionists past, where the "communists want to remake the social world" was part of what kept the cons in coalition with the hawks and the libertarians 2752980
Reposted by BoomstickStephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I just can't believe this can be happening. How is it that the police are not rounding up "AI" plagiarists, including the owners of the platforms selling the stolen material? These advanced plagiarism machines are wrecking the creative industries. 02314
Reposted by BoomstickJarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It’s all about consumer choice: @meganjherbert.bsky.social with today’s #cartoon to help Choose Your Own Apocalypse 222
Reposted by BoomstickHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 07/10/2026Natalie is going to pull all sorts of muscles keeping this headline from her boss. 710316
Boomstick @boomsticktastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Giving off some serious Exorcist III / Legion vibes, I'm in! 2270
Reposted by BoomstickDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If zelesnky is so corrupt, why did we buy Donald, not him? 2469886
Reposted by BoomstickNiao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Beijing once again proving it doesn’t understand then Streisand effect. They didn’t have to remind people there’s a genocide and forced labour going on in XJ but they did by saying ‘we totally didn’t’ 1166
Reposted by Boomstickjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973725437
Reposted by BoomstickBratKnits @bratknits.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Can we just not with this? The Departed was a shitty fucking remake of a Hong Kong action flick Infernal Affairs painted over with Whitey Bulger and bad accents. Watch the original, it's better and doesn't have hate crime commiting trash Wahlberg in it. 163
Reposted by BoomstickPatti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 03/10/2026NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound) DAY 02 OCTOBER 2026 WHEN A SEXUAL ABUSER AND PEDOPHILE SPEAKS Cornell 7...Facts don't lie The RAPISTS have been identified EVIDENCE IN PLACE Write an essay that's all Cornell wanted NO BRING THEM TO TRIAL Here you haveTrump, he feels bad It's Shameful America 4113590
Reposted by BoomstickJules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Vance tried to come for Angie Nixon telling her to go back where she came from. Does he remember that his wife is the daughter of Indian immigrants from Andhra Pradesh, India? Can’t escape that fact couch boy! #Pinks 24569311
Reposted by BoomstickPatrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One of the most gutting things - maybe the most gutting thing to me - of the past decade+ had been my collapse of belief that most people are trying to act from good motivations. 2431
Reposted by BoomstickPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The disheartening part is that if gas was $2, for whatever reason, they'd all be fine with fascism. 1531748
Reposted by BoomstickLiberal Librarian, Son of Cuban Immigrants 🟦 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026No really. Get off of social media for a while. Calm your mind with reading and music. Don't be terminally online. Because it will be, well, terminal. 1191
Reposted by BoomstickMeta is the Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 02/10/2026Europe needs this now. And it needs to streamline the classification, investigation, and enforcement processes together to start approaching the big tech's extensity problem holistically, not piecemeal. insights.priva.cat/p/how-big-te...insights.priva.catHow Big Tech Becomes UngovernableBig Tech companies like Google, SpaceX, and Meta aren't just monopolies—they're becoming ungovernable through tech extensivity. Why €4B in fines went uncollected. 0145
Reposted by BoomstickBrian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Shocking, but the military vehicles amassed in Shenzhen did seem to be a sign. The memory of Tiananmen has had a constraining effect--both on authorities in terms of military escalation and on protesters in terms of escalating violence to what might prompt a military interventionenglish.kyodonews.netDocuments show China weighed military action in Hong Kong in 2014Documents seen by Kyodo News have revealed that high-ranking Chinese military officials in November 2014 considered military intervention to suppress a pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, raising que... 02810
Reposted by BoomstickCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571842058
Reposted by BoomstickFuturism @futurism.com · 25/09/2026"Does it matter?"trib.alNvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children's Minds to AI Is a Price He's Willing to PayThanks to AI, it won't matter if students can do multiplication, or even remember their own home address, tech billionaire Jensen Huang said. 64020
Reposted by BoomstickMike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026For years we've heard that Biden created a "Ministry of Truth," which didn't actually happen. But, I still hear people talking about it. But then Trump directed his FCC boss to be a literal Minister of Truth and the story disappeared within a day or two. What are we even doing here? 6585172
Reposted by BoomstickAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026New @jamestalarico.bsky.social ad just dropped. 58968671937
Reposted by BoomstickRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Conservative commentator Ann Coulter: “Republicans are about to be completely wiped out in the midterms. This is going to be a bloodbath like we haven’t seen before.” 5328552
Reposted by BoomstickBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28/09/2026Across China, tax officials have gone into overdrive to boost receipts from the country’s richest people and biggest companies: bloom.bg/4ylDpSH 9212823
Reposted by BoomstickNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’ve been saying this for years: the difference between (western) billionaires and (eastern) oligarchs is that the billionaires enjoy complete impunity, whereas the oligarchs do not. This is the financial dimension of that. 13110
Reposted by BoomstickPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well, see, "tangible outcomes" has never been a thing Trump is particularly good at. 5436
Reposted by BoomstickRazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And to add insult to injury, Nury here sells a wholesale lie, claiming that the "majority of protestors were let free with cautions"; the truth is over 10000 people were arrested, including peaceful protestors, street medics, legal observers and journalists. [Shakes head sadly] 061
Reposted by BoomstickRazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What Nury the failson omits here is key to understanding why the comparison falls apart , the UK man was caught on camera throwing a water bottle, many were convicted in HK with circumstantial evidence such as the color of their clothing and/or the location of their arrest. 3111
Reposted by Boomstickkerry ✨ @kschwenky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026‘Messaging sucks’ says messenger who sucks 428338
Reposted by BoomstickRuth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026AI is being used to plan mass shootings and nudify our children and help me understand how saying no to the whole damn thing isn’t the immediate reaction. 324590
Reposted by BoomstickRoel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Meta wil niet dat je deze video ziet. Ik herhaal: Meta wil níet dat je deze video ziet. 341039523
Reposted by BoomstickMatthew Brooker @mbrooker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026British Prime Minister Andy Burnham implored President Donald Trump to bring up the case of imprisoned Hong Kong dissident Jimmy Lai at a Thursday summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, according to two people familiar with the situation. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comBritish PM asks Trump to bring up Jimmy Lai with XiThe British delegation said the Hong Kong dissident could live in the United Kingdom, a person familiar with the situation said. 063
Reposted by BoomstickChina Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 23/09/2026Translation: “Eventually, We All Learned to Keep Quiet” "When someone is unhappy with something they think is unreasonable or unfair, they ought to be allowed to ask, 'Why?' What’s scary is if society reaches the point where no one dares to ask why."chinadigitaltimes.netTranslation: “Eventually, We All Learned to Keep Quiet”In mid-September, a man was arrested for stabbing and wounding an unknown number of women outside a hotpot restaurant in the GOGO Xintiandi shopping plaza in 056
Reposted by BoomstickYTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“If he is not freed imminently we may see this remarkable man die in prison, simply for his views — for believing in a democratic Hong Kong — and for his work — for founding, owning and running a successful newspaper” -- lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher, KC.dominotheory.comHong Kong Is Torturing Jimmy Lai - Domino TheoryThe 78-year-old political prisoner is held in what is effectively solitary confinement, in roasting heat. The health of Jimmy Lai is deteriorating. 063
Reposted by BoomstickYTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Thinking about Jimmy Lai and other Hong Kong political prisoners who have been in solitary confinement for YEARS now. 😢 1127
Reposted by BoomstickYTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yet another reason to hate/not use AI. "We might expect AIs built in China, such as DeepSeek, to produce pro-government responses because they’ve been ordered to do so. But these responses were also found in US-based models including Claude and ChatGPT." 044
Reposted by BoomstickBloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 23/09/2026Despite years of failed efforts, Trump officials still don’t seem to get that Washington can’t force China to reorganize its economybloom.bgThe US Is Badly Losing Its Trade War With ChinaXi Jinping’s arrival at the White House on Thursday will be the first Chinese state visit to the United States since 2015. It thus makes for the perfect time to judge the radical changes to US-China trade policy that President Donald Trump unleashed in 2018. After eight years of historically high tariffs, export controls, industrial policy, and more, we can conclude the policy has been a failure by its own objectives. 1143
