Reposted by Clint PopetzBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Literal No Kings. Either Article I means something or it doesn't. 750499
Reposted by Clint PopetzTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here. 111120168
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I did some reporting at one point on the death penalty, and if you are thinking “this is insane, none of this makes sense, how did we get into to this absurd situation?” welcome to almost every death penalty case. It will break your heart and your brain, every time. 010
Reposted by Clint PopetzJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice? 102965353
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We always knew that LOC was not a good metric and that more features were not necessarily a good thing, but it used to be that one had to do work to prove those points by negative example and now… Maybe we’ll see a new “Small is Beautiful” movement toward focused tools that avoid scope creep. 000
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026<me reading an Ursula K. Le Guin novel decades after it was published> Oh! <glances around, reflects> Oh. 030
Reposted by Clint PopetzBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Shout it from the rooftops 227727
Reposted by Clint PopetzKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026OK news agencies and broadcasters with a presence in the White House Briefing Room, and indeed the WHCA: your test has arrived. It is not hard to pass. You just need to not attend WH Briefings for as long as this rule is in force. That’s it. Does your commitment to a free press mean anything or not? 20368112
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Man these are the screams of my childhood and they are so good! 010
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Here’s a fun way to wake up at 6am on a Saturday. Have someone use a tool hosted by @immuniweb.bsky.social to flood your prod servers 70k+ times across 20+ hosts from mult ips simultaneously probing for vulnerabilities for a few mins. After blocking them, ask for an explanation, receive a shrug. 210
Reposted by Clint PopetzBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government. 7258111131
Reposted by Clint PopetzLifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky 291853502
Reposted by Clint PopetzDimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡 3867672314
Reposted by Clint PopetzMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The Gloria Steinem foundation posted today, "Gloria was a proud New Yorker since the 1960s. Whenever she was asked why she didn’t drive, she’d reply: 'Because adventure starts the moment I leave my door.'” i feel that so hard 159974
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This type of thing is all over sandwich boards and flyers in Toronto and it’s sickening but also helps me put places on the “never gonna eat there” shitlist. 050
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Live shot of me at Service Ontario for two hours today. To be fair, the person who helped me at the end of the wait was super nice and I left smiling. Still though.static.klipy.comBeetlejuice: Michael Keaton in the Waiting RoomAlt: Beetlejuice: Michael Keaton in the Waiting Room seeing he’s 9 trillion numbers away from being seen 110
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Or she’s ascended to a higher form and is getting ready to open up a can of whoopass. 110
Reposted by Clint Popetzjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs. 171146173124
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026As a midwesterner now living in Toronto I have very much missed kick-ass thunderstorms, so tonight is a delight. Breathtaking. 000
Reposted by Clint PopetzShameka ❤️🏀 @shameka23.bsky.social · 22/08/2026How much do you think this fine will be? Tash went IN on the men who keep throwing these green dildos 😭😂 #WNBA 161722410
Reposted by Clint PopetzOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/ 5763132016
Reposted by Clint PopetzBoo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 08/08/2026It is sobering to contemplate that in fewer than five years, the directives of about half a dozen very wealthy men have effectively ruined the most effective research tools ever devised by human civilization. 403002833
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Cool Machine arrived today and I said “oh yeah, I had planned to re-read the first two before it got here” and was a little sad at first to have to set it aside, but now I’m an hour into Harlem Shuffle and it’s just so damn good, all over again. Thanks @colsonwhitehead.com! 230
Reposted by Clint PopetzNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Matt Damon at the end of The Odyssey [getting in his boat]: I Odyssey about a girl. 251469168
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Everything is going to hell in a handbasket but I am getting invoiced for a different geek squad or antivirus purchase at least once a day and _never_ paying the invoices and GETTING AWAY WITH IT. 000
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The availability of coding agents at their current fluency is a real challenge to those of us who've been programming for decades and for whom productivity is a core part of our identity. As a borderline workaholic for most of my life, this represents a new and real threat to my work life balance. 010
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18 010
Reposted by Clint PopetzEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Spontaneity is a key ingredient of joy and it’s very difficult to feel much joy watching sports anymore because every time something happens, you have to stop and wait while a bunch of fucking lawyers look at monitors for five minutes to decide whether or not the thing you saw happen, happened 828854
Reposted by Clint PopetzMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/06/2026Nu bai Tubarões 131740148
Reposted by Clint PopetzDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/06/2026"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines. 104129892965
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I do not follow basketball but New York is my favorite city (not that I can afford to live there) and Texas is…Texas. So..go kicks!, and I guess wemby is now bad but I don’t have a way to watch the game so I’m not sure why. I am discourse-maxing. 010
Reposted by Clint PopetzKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The thing I don’t get about graham platner is that every aspect of your personal life and history is going to cause scandal and deeply compromise the causes in which you say you believe why not just be a weird asshole as a private citizen instead of a political candidate??? 151175101
Reposted by Clint PopetzCecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 20/05/2026I’m on Amtrak and the conductor just made the best quiet car announcement I’ve heard yet: “This is the quiet car. If you’re going to feel some kind of way when people shush you, then you should not sit in the quiet car.” 191892309
Reposted by Clint PopetzJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Marco plays with Markwayne, Tulsi plays with Pete Pete plays with Donald, Donald is happy again Susie plays with Russell, Bobby plays with Scott Stephen builds a bonfire, JD plays with it 129930
Reposted by Clint Popetzmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 03/05/2026i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged 2297661517
Reposted by Clint Popetzpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes. 67105331640
Reposted by Clint PopetzKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/04/2026"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?" 6662221353
Clint Popetz @cpopetz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026There is nothing that can bring me back to Catholicism, but things like this make me less embarrassed about the shitty religion I inherited and abandoned. 010
Reposted by Clint Popetzjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/04/2026yeah it is critical that dems win the senate 14176501141
Reposted by Clint Popetzderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke." 230134132559
Reposted by Clint PopetzNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The threat itself is an impeachable offense. Don’t let it slide. 122848696
Reposted by Clint PopetzMike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 07/04/2026I'm officially calling for the Cabinet to remove Trump from office under the 25th Amendment. If they can't, Congress must return from recess today and begin impeachment proceedings. Read my full statement below. quigley.house.gov/media-center...quigley.house.govQuigley Calls for Trump's Removal Under 25th AmendmentToday, Chicago Congressman Mike Quigley (IL-05) called for Donald Trump's removal from the office of the President, following his post threatening Iran that "a whole civilization will die tonight": 621179273
