Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 9hThere 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... 9658541708
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12hThey quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 10594842325
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14hIt’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work. 211167189
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthSpooktembAeryn 🧛🦇 @femgirlgaming.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Alan Moore did not fucking miss 5862268
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 12h"Eventually, all our graves go unattended." The secret is, this frees you to do pretty much whatever you want. 051
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is the kind of thing you can't unsee, and if there were any justice, it would haunt Pete Ricketts for the rest of his life. 050
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...) 1039065
Reposted by Christopher Farnsworthjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026i don’t care how much fancy math you can do, if you take open racism as a sign that someone is epistemologically sound then you are a fucking idiot 774772
Reposted by Christopher Farnsworththe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...music.youtube.comSongs In The Key Of Life - The EPEP • Stevie Wonder 532045648
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not sure if it's worse or better that they can't even get their conspiracy theories straight. 100
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthFred Van Lente @fredvanlente.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hire Taylor! He's awesome. 11311
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You can measure my coffee intake by the amount of posting I do while futzing about on the computer in the morning. 120
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hey, speaking of books: happy pub day to @maureenjohnsonbooks.com and THE VELVET KNIFE! 130
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthWilliam Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 29/09/2026These are apocalyptic numbers for Republicans in Ohio 610111
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Agree with this! I get more readers for my books from Bluesky than I did in my (ugh) decade-plus on Twitter. And I find more stuff to read here than I ever did there. 3272
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bluesky, the app for books 643577
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Presidential disapproval +26 in latest YouGov poll. 1101
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The brother of the Trump-appointed Forest Service director started a wildfire on state land near their ranch that burned more than 5,600 acres. www.hcn.org/articles/ran...hcn.orgRanch manager tied to top Trump appointee started 5,600-acre Idaho wildfire - High Country NewsA state investigation shines light on the unpermitted fire, which cost nearly $950,000 to contain. 096
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience. 823729531
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthDBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This tidbit was in the article. 🎈💥 ? "Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors."finance.yahoo.comMark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock RallyZuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday. 28593206
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Comics nerds: If you’re in the Boise-Meridian area, you should visit Collector’s Outpost. They’ve upped the comic shop game considerably. 141
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Got around to watching NORMAL with Bob Odenkirk which is like someone said, “What if we made a movie entirely out of Chekov’s guns?” 120
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11141701434
Reposted by Christopher Farnsworthjon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comYou Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine MaxwellIdeapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. 181226536
Reposted by Christopher Farnsworthryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 12352831359
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Happy National Comic Book Day. 414841
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m at that point in the cycle where I want to give away half the books in my library so I can have room for more books. 351
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t. 962096
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Born and raised Idahoan here and it would be quite a thing if the state elected someone other than the Republican ever again. 170
Reposted by Christopher Farnsworthdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026in your next zoom interview have not only a cup of ice coffee but seven or eight different cups of various beverages just off camera and casually drink from each of them throughout the interview the drinks should have fancy straws or colorful parasols or large pieces of fruit on the edge of the cup 1192746303
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS. 4713524
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthAl Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026popsci.comAsteroid named after ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic‘I just hope this isn’t the asteroid that winds up destroying the Earth.’ 1584408662
Reposted by Christopher Farnsworthigreja cuntolica lacrostolica @cuntolicismo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026slugomaxxing 011
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I didn’t realize it was possible to eat a snack alone in a car menacingly until I saw Hugo Weaving on the latest episode of SLOW HORSES. 150
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthDanny Page @danny.page · 25/09/2026"turns out we need to have windows that open" - the company with the highest market cap in the world, for some reason 422050
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthLavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A reminder that we're always open to shelfies submissions! Some of our favourites have been random send-ins (got a great one on Sendak coming up from one of those!) WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHELVES IT'S NOT WEIRD UR WEIRDshelfies.beehiiv.comShare your shelfWe'd love to see your shelfie. Here are the guidelines. 082
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I am cleaning up my desktop, and it's fascinating what Past Chris decided he needed to preserve. 150
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Gift link: From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...nytimes.comFrom 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle (Gift Article)It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare. 274
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o... 58854721498
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026lol lol lol lol lol lol lol 913438925
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthChris @cjthered.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Also - for reasons not really understood yet - the shingles vaccine appears to reduce dementia risk. By a lot. Honestly you could call it a dementia vaccine that also prevents shingles and not be very wrong. sciencedaily.com/releases/202...sciencedaily.comShingles vaccine linked to 24% lower dementia riskOlder adults who received the Shingrix shingles vaccine were 24% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over four years in a study of more than 500,000 people. Researchers estimate the difference c... 217678
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi. 51757246
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Videos Show ICE Agents Mistakenly Detaining U.S. Citizen www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...nytimes.comVideo: Videos Show ICE Agents Mistakenly Detaining U.S. CitizenFederal immigration agents in Evanston, Ill., mistakenly detained a U.S. citizen, who was later released after he identified himself. 011
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New fave: saw her at Weird Al this weekend. She was having the best time; looked almost as happy I was to be there. paytonrosemusic.com/biopaytonrosemusic.comPayton Rose - BioBio. Payton Rose, a rock artist from Charlotte, NC 010
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthPaulina Ganucheau @paulinaganucheau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Her guy. His gal. (My variant for @xtop.bsky.social's new Rip Kirby run for @madcavestudios.com!) 010019
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthAlexandra (Alex) Duggan @alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I keep updating this story, so bear with me. I just spoke to the former Chicago U.S. ATT, who told me: “I never said publicly who I believe did it … (But) It’s not this character who killed himself in 1982.” 1269
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthAl Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026nytimes.comWeird Al Never Grew Up. Neither Did These Fans (or Their Dads). (Gift Article)Sons and fathers bond at the accordion-wielding pop parodist’s concerts. 581454168
Reposted by Christopher FarnsworthJessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Running Scared (1986). A go-to comfort watch, one of the great Chicago movies, and Baby Joe Pantoliano as a punk hood! 181109
Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I will never understand what leads Democrats to believe they're dealing with a rational bargaining partner when they're dealing with Trump. 150