Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialjoe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026How frightening! We're lucky to live in a free country where the richest business people control every layer of government as well as the media 👍 238446
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203190765447
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialJoe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The White Sox have to retire Munetaka Murakami's number immediately. This is the greatest interview of all time.youtube.comMurakami loving his first clubhouse celebration 😂YouTube video by Bleacher Report 21904196
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialkate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The PM of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu says that “America deserved 9/11” at the UN General Assembly 781056229
criticaltom.bsky.social @criticaltom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's not easy to tangibly improve people's lives in two years though, especially with all the structural barriers. Welp, hopefully someone smarter than me can figure out how to solve that! 150
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!! 152545621
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialthe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too 643639675
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on 8685442215
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026offering a coupon for free money and being shocked at the redemption rate 214017
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay 187113521912
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do 270232863309
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026bookmark for your next fight newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Key... 2446322
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026that’s right the internet started going irreversibly downhill the day Reader died 2065486
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026He puts words together in ways that words have never been put together before. An AI proof man. 451503112
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialOnly Aggro Comments @pilco.bsky.social · 09/09/2026mfw my employer donated to the ballroom fund but I have to hit "i understand" during anti-bribery training. 5861125
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026>The PR narrative is spiraling out of control and people are freaking out, how do we fix this? >Quick, deploy Sam Altman to reveal he was intimately involved in the entire process and to personally reassure everyone they acted with all the integrity and generosity he’s famous for 2073181
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is legalese for “we checked and we absolutely fucking did scrape the chats in question and include them in the training run of the checkpoint that was used to produce the solution” bsky.app/profile/pond... 539675
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is already what we do with hundreds of other issues. If your dad is a flat earther you don't need to flame him every time you see him. But if you're writing an op-ed for the NYT you shouldn't start with, "flat earthers make some good points..." 373552
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I don't think the 'cult deprogramming' argument works for public figures! If you're a regular person, listening empathically to your anti-vaxx aunt is fine. If you're a public official speaking to millions, though, the message has to be "MAHA is killing kids," not "MAHA has some good points." 341730248
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialEd @notdred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work 594733913
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it. 14120733349
criticaltom.bsky.social @criticaltom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026With the right perspective, it would have been meaningless anyways. Did this help? (Hasn't for me yet) 050
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It's honestly kind of impressive that the human brain can do this 151368106
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialLeah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form 349162003297
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 31/08/2026in addition to being a psychotic Zionist and a professional right-wing billionaire toady, Bari Weiss is intensely racist. to her, all Muslims are Osama bin Laden 328920
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 31/08/2026the point is to put AES and 9/11 in as many headlines as possible. even if it's the most innocuous statement imaginable 301675199
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialMJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The fuck kind of pundit brained insanity is this? "You should vote to have your state represented by someone who represents the values of other more backwards states because branding or something." 2352560
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026we are slowly morphing the linguistics of american english to parallel smurf language 745240
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026For far too long, business and tourism have plagued this country. 111671233
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialMichael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A massive flash flood in the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and China's Tibet. Initial report say it may have been caused by a glacial lake rupture. 1491518593
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/202623% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... 271255475
criticaltom.bsky.social @criticaltom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the lesson of Star Trek: Generations and why I maintain it's a great film. Not just because it was the first one I saw in a theatre, as a kid, and.... wait... 020
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help. 72653420
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life? 51157392525
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialGot CTE from Playing Peek a boo @doubledoinkrigged.bsky.social · 24/08/2026 12923146
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026building wire mother for my child 171044149
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialBryan Knowles @brykno.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Part of the Browns' problem, of course, is that in 2025, Shedeur Sanders had a passing DVOA of -59.6%. That is the fifth-worst passing DVOA ever recorded. 89410
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialNatalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I can't believe the amount of recent history revisionism in the UK. Response to Polish immigration was so severe that it successfully led to Brexit. BREXIT. And tanked British economy. This happened last decade, you can just Google it. 11955951354
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialSad About Baseball @danvogfan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026guy who turned the dial on the “make everyone stupid and insane machine” to 11 to facilitate the election of Donald J Trump in 2016 and again in 2024: damn why is my data center in rural Texas being blocked by people who think it’s going to make their kids trans and kill God 396893
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I've always found it strange that trump has no idea what our government is or how it works, but i guess it's not that surprising since he apparently also doesn't know human beings are social creatures who depend on each other 1137223
Reposted by @criticaltom.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/08/2026"how DARE you imply that Donald Trump is screwing his hot blonde aide who is 50 years his junior and basically lives in his bedroom. he would NEVER cheat on his 3rd wife. well except for the time he did with a porn star and then bribed her to keep it quiet" 1651543
