Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialDorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort. 1634551148
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket 10097363083
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is part of a lineage in fascist thought that stretches back to the very beginning of their movement and, I would argue, is integral to understanding it. (THREAD) 14315
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom 332655345
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialJason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov day, here's a 20-minute Stanislav Petrov larp I made for Ringling College many years ago: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/11uas...dropbox.comDropbox 1102
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026basically the danger is not that arnold schwarzenegger is going to come back from the future and kill us all but that panicking about future schwarzenegger will cause us to destroy the world. 1346
criscoinferno.bsky.social @criscoinferno.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Right-wingers and fash don't make bad policy because they're dummies who can't see the double standards and hypocrisy. They do it because enforcing hypocrisy in their favor is an expression of strength. They will never make the Surprised Pikachu Face when hypocrisy is pointed out. 100
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialDave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing. 222577323
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas. 230113081300
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026they're going to "scale back" because AI is bottoming out, and then say they did it out of the goodness of their hearts and interest in humankind 121180294
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialDavid J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026One of the big reasons modern sci-fi shows have such short runs is not enough of them happen on spaceships. When your show is set on a spaceship, you can dump a truckload of money into building like three specific sets right at the start, then just re-use them forever – it's very budget conscious! 917923
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026it's important that Moulton running as a transphobe was a loser in a D primary. it's important that Craig running as an anti immigrant goon was a loser in a D primary. it's important that Stevens running as a uber zionist was a loser. 1 218444
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on 193218854410
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It’s becoming an increasingly unavoidable conclusion that a portion of mostly establishment Democrat electeds/pundits/consultants don’t like Democratic voters much and would much prefer to have Republican voters instead, and view their voters’ insistence on being represented as an annoying betrayal. 15599145
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better' 223676717
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras. 36099373823
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026let's start doing it the other way. my latest for the atlantic: "baby boomers are dying at higher rates than younger generations — what are they doing wrong?" 553038
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026anytime people raise concerns about land use for solar projects or anything like that i just want to point out that half the corn we grow in this country gets used to make gasoline slightly worse 261642321
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Does no one else find this an unforgivably stupid question? Emissions reductions won't make a heat wave NOW survivable. Likewise, more homes can have AC, heat pumps while overall cutting greenhouse emissions. This isn't an "either/or", both are needed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comAir conditioning push favoured over emissions cuts in five European nations, survey findsPoll also finds sizeable majorities who believe it should be easier to install air con in homes 722672380
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialcoward @coward.bsky.social · 23/08/2026pain is health leaving the body 237848
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialestarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This added to the belief that criminals are innately different from noncriminals is why people believe surveillance can save us. 0114
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialestarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 20/08/2026You might not know this but it's common for police and the public to believe that police can visually identify "criminals." 23911
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialCassandra Pronouns (she/her) @indiecornwall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The reason that the dem primary voters act this way is because resistance 1 people go: "your plan of having good policy is stupid we need to follow my plan of winning elections" then don't win elections 529915
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account. 229114125336
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026See NYT asked me for an op-ed on the Colorado River water issue. So that's what I told them. And the editors panicked & cancelled the piece. In case we're wondering why "nobody can figure out how to solve this difficult issue." We absolutely can, a lot of our professional talkers are just cowards. 261766450
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required. 205101612136
criscoinferno.bsky.social @criscoinferno.bsky.social · 15/08/2026He killed an extremely specific guy. Not a "random guy." 060
criscoinferno.bsky.social @criscoinferno.bsky.social · 14/08/2026They're literally calling it "Unite The Right"? Surprised that the article doesn't mention the particular history of that phrase, as pertains to far-right mobs. All power to the counter-protesters. Stay safe, and if you can't stay safe, do good. 000
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026the actual order of events from 2020-2024 gets strategically jumbled by reactionary centrists all the time. They love to blame 2024 on wokeness while skipping over the fact that Dems won in 2020. They talk about early COVID Iike it was a failure of Dem policy when Trump was in office. 362026326
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/08/2026we literally stand on the shoulders of giants. towering figures who have exited the world. fierce intellects who believed things like "you can ban or regulate dangerous stuff" and "societies can rein in excesses," and "peace is generally preferable to war and chaos." may as well have been aliens 203090484
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialjeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Kill the puritan in your heart that pipes up with its shrill little voice every time you see something that you find off putting. Ppl publicly sneering at sex in art – including porn & kink – may as well just carry water for Mastercard, PayPal, and the conservative animus rn. I don't respect it 1364118
criscoinferno.bsky.social @criscoinferno.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Douthat does everything that alt-right aspired to do, leading up to the Unite The Right atrocity in 2017. The difference is that he is better at that game (so far). 010
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 09/08/2026 562168368
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialNYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026NYT and media elite club of nepo baby billionaires and perverted old men angry at LGBTQ+, uppity minorities not knowing their place, working class Democrats getting paid a little bit more, climate change activism, woke MeToo making them slightly uncomfortable about their misogyny and sexual assaultsemafor.comThe group chats that changed AmericaA loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right. 07511
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialAdrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Also, the point of the media coverage is to set Mamdani up for a classic double-bind, which is a fundamental feature of all kinds of bigotry. They want to make it so that no matter whether he attends or stays away, he has done the wrong thing. 337292
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective. 1455038927
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialandy™ @andylevy.net · 05/08/2026media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment 3561661276
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialjaen nighly butler @jnb.art · 05/08/2026THE EXQUISITE CORPSE IN MAGGOTS' KEEP remains one of my proudest works. from the cover, to the interiors, as well as the pinup tier pieces i did for the kickstarter. i'm still in love with the character design and their enigmatic charm and naiveté expressed through an unmoving skeletal facade. 34317
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting. 325413890
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.social💀Elaine Lich-glow💀 @elainelithgow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Unironically? I'd set it in the 1800s with Jaws hunting an old whaling ship. Show the horror of industrial whaling and the working conditions on those hellish floating factories, then have Jaws rip it all to shreds while toxic masculine whale hunters try and fail to kill something that fights back. 47912
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026James Carvell being like, "Hasan Piker will not replace me as a completely irrelevant and irritating part of Democratic branding." 49010
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026huh the only fast casual restaurant that's thriving hates AI wonder if that means anything 753782455
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Their plan is to say as little as possible and win by default, which in their mind is the safest path that doesn't alienate anyone. This misses the opportunity to galvanize the public around important issues, and then they throw up their hands about how the voters are ignorant and apathetic 612663436
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialC. A. Bridges @cabridges.bsky.social · 04/06/2024I love Edward Gorey’s theory of art: “Art…is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.” 61386448
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialFeild @feild.work · 23/07/2026There's nothing to "join" in the Democratic Party. It's a brand with products I spend my vote on once a year at the democracy store. Most people's experience of it is an endless stream of texts that read like scams, their reward for donating or signing a petition. No wonder DSA is growing 913866683
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/07/2026The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware. 153256865
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026i wrote about MAGA understnading of time, and how is builds on liberal understandings of time. fascists hack liberal notions of progress, which is one reason why some supposed liberals find fascism congenial. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/maga-time-...everythingishorrible.netMAGA Time, And Why Some Liberals Like ItFascism hijacks the ideology of progress 15014
Reposted by @criscoinferno.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I still think this is basically the best analysis of American foreign policy/military leadership's attitude. 539868
