Reposted by Cugel the CleverJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Rhetoric like this is going to do more to ensure that young generations do not take the Holocaust seriously than any actual denier ever could. 520752
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Unpopular opinion: Coca Cola Starlight was liquid ambrosia. 000
Reposted by Cugel the CleverCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just saying... Plague is a disease that is endemic in Asia, the western United States, and other places. We know how to treat it with antibiotics. It is not extraordinarily transmissible. There are 1000 to 2000 cases a year across the world, maybe 10 in the US. 1029082
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My mom and aunt, independently over text: "Hi Cugel, I don't know how often you check your emails, so I just wanted to let you know I sent an article to you." Folks, you could have just texted me the articles. 000
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not to besmirch a legend, but every time I hear "9 to 5", I have flashbacks to working in a grocery store deli for a pittance and with arbitrary scheduling. There are real problems that affect white collar workers that should be addressed, but there's a LOT that's unambiguously better. 030
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What's the credibility of Jacobsen, anyways? The general vibe I've gotten is her work at best embellishes wildly for attention or at worst is outright crankery. 270
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The games that made me. Many more played, some for much longer, but these left their mark. my9games.com/en/s/32093df... 000
Reposted by Cugel the CleverLuke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm not so sure. An inspiring reconstructive agenda would bring competent and creative folks (many of whom are currently underemployed and/or unsatisfactorily employed) rushing in. 4173
Reposted by Cugel the CleverCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language 5951561223
Reposted by Cugel the Cleverryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026Ed is just like an Objective Journalist. openly and blatantly political in ways that are perceived to be uncontroversial, “I don’t take sides” on things that are 726238
Reposted by Cugel the CleverMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026You can just say it’s good that Kamala Harris is campaigning with Abdul El-Sayed and helping Democrats take back the Senate, you don’t need to scrounge for ways to use the news against your factional enemies. 746751
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026At least this niche avoids all the nightmarish issues of vigilantes and communal tribunals filling in for law enforcement and the judiciary... 010
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Beyond scale, I'd be concerned about two other concerns: 1) quality control 2) arbitrary denial of service Both are also problems at the state level, but are mitigated by democratic accountability and institutional safeguards. 110
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The anarchist proclivity to confuse small, local action as being able to pick up the slack when the far-right kills a state program will always amaze me. 110
Reposted by Cugel the CleverAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5953728313400
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Facebook: "Tell us why you hid this ad" Me: "It's an obvious AI-slop fake product." Facebook: "Sorry, that's not one of the available response options." 000
Reposted by Cugel the CleverPeople's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026You know I suddenly actually completely understand why so many people were so reluctant to believe Data was a sentient person with will and agency in TNG. By the time we invent something like him so many of you will have completely fucked your brain thinking a talking toaster is an AI 3524
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My middle school "world studies" teacher got a phone call shortly into the start of class on 9/11. We turned on the news on the classroom TV just in time to witness the second plane hit the tower live. It remains surreal. 001
Reposted by Cugel the CleverOlraca @olraca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Ummm... how did this car get onto the I90 multi use path? Video from a user in the Seattle Cyclist Discord. 3435272
Reposted by Cugel the Cleverm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 10/09/2026posts like this are why I don't like hasan piker even though I don't think he's an anti semite who candidates should be denouncing or whatever. fetterman had progressive support, including from piker himself. take the L, learn the lesson, and move on. 12906
Reposted by Cugel the CleverBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 09/09/2026We could have had a largely fine Connor Lamb but a lot of people, myself included, got bamboozled by Fetterman’s anti-establishment credentials and our distrust of “centrist Dems”. There’s a lesson there about treating outsider candidates with a little more caution than we do. 1966870
Reposted by Cugel the CleverAMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The L8 bus is now the G8 bus! Amazing what a bus lane can do for speed and reliability! Life changing for thousands of bus commuters in our City! 517517
Reposted by Cugel the CleverBrett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"Passion for History" #doomloop #seattle 419950
Reposted by Cugel the CleverNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Unpopular opinion: When someone is factually wrong about something important—eg vaccination—telling them that they’re wrong is treating them with respect. The condescending thing to do is indulge them, act like they have a point, as if the thing you know to be wrong might be at least somewhat right. 561925302
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026"X, Y, and Z, are bad, so marks shouldn't be circumspect about A, which I ASSURE them is good." Just give to a real, reputable charity — not some rando poster posing as a victim (or a proxy for a victim)! 010
Reposted by Cugel the CleverNorthwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 28/08/2026Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud’s non-recall of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was a media stunt that the mass media fell for Two disgruntled constituents had no legally sufficient grounds to start a recall of the Emerald City's chief executive, but Seattle newsrooms rewarded their ploy for…nwprogressive.orgMelinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud’s non-recall of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was a media stunt that the mass media fell forTwo disgruntled constituents had no legally sufficient grounds to start a recall of the Emerald City's chief executive, but Seattle newsrooms rewarded their ploy for publicity with weeks of credulous coverage anyway. 18115
Reposted by Cugel the CleverDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It was extremely malignant how you got called a monster for doubting that the obvious botnet was actually going to help Palestinian families, and I assume that Molly Shah left this site for the same reason that Lyle Lanley left Springfield 381366125
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I (native Minnesotan) use y'all all the time. Not because it's folksy, but because it's the most sensible plural you in the English language. 13122
Reposted by Cugel the CleverMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/08/2026"Sure, this city isn’t near major job markets and doesn't have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency services, but it does have a series of dilapidated ranch houses located between a data center and a second data center that is currently on fire." buff.ly/03WTZvhmcsweeneys.netWhy Aren’t People Moving to This Town with Cheap Housing and Literally Nothing Else“Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency ... 6349100
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Not gonna lie, the Seattle monorail honking is obnoxious as fuck. It has zero conflicting traffic—the point seems to be just to make unnecessarily loud noise. 000
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Gotta say, any actor joining on with the Harry Potter shit in 2026 is hella sus. 010
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I'm infinitely better at Wordle in the pre-dawn hours of the morning when my brain is still enough to find simple words first over more arcane ones. 000
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026static.klipy.comSickos Haha YesALT: Sickos Haha Yes 010
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Responding to a post stating a simple historical fact—the human proclivity for strongmen and violence—and the need to guard against both with "this is super not OK, maybe delete this and log off" is also bizarre. They're deeply offended on behalf of their version of historical humans, I guess? 000
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The need by some to wishcast a better variety of human into our historical record undermines our ability to confront modern presentations of human dysfunction. 100
Reposted by Cugel the CleverScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The Stars & Stripes was operated as an independent newspaper from 1861 until it encountered Pete Hegseth... 10643235
Reposted by Cugel the CleverAlejandra 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. 229114115339
Reposted by Cugel the CleverStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Let me be exceptionally clear: the reason why minorities are consistently better served, across the world, by central and anonymous exams is because they are better served by a fair assessment process, and not one in which they are the victim of either witting or unwitting bias. 752443
Reposted by Cugel the CleverFamilies for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 18/12/2025Encouraging results from San Francisco's speed camera pilot. Speeding reduced 72% at the 15 camera locations. Tickets issued dropping week over week (tldr enforcement works) www.sfmta.com/blog/our-spe... 25819
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Woman shepherding two very small children to a seat on the train: "If you two take both seats, where will I sit?" Small child, mischievously: "Nowhere" 000
Reposted by Cugel the CleverNome @nome.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I think I think i might have a bodyguard 674335642
Reposted by Cugel the CleverJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 12/08/2026If the Democrats really want to run on an anti corruption platform (and i think they should), this means coming out against prediction markets, crypto, and sports betting, all of which are either directly corrupt or facilitate corrupt acts. 261784324
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I wish the incentive structure at my workplace weren't constantly demanding the opposite of this. We've been depending on LLMs to move at lightning speed, but it turns out the inverse of the old adage is true: Fast is slow and slow is fucking rough. 000
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As someone who can't swipe type worth a damn early in the morning, all I want for Christmas from Bluesky is an edit button. 000
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Has Hasan? He's dialed it back since first dismissing the imminent Russian aggression as bloodthirsty Western propaganda, but he's still among those arguing Ukraine must "give peace a try" (cede territory and sovereignty to the invader) www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...reddit.comA pro-russian useful idiot offers Ukraine his precious advice on what to do about russia. He wants Ukraine to "give peace a try" and dismisses the idea that it's a capitulation to russian imperialism.Explore this post and more from the Destiny community 000
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"My country (whose faults I am intimately familiar with) is uniquely and extraordinarily bad compared to other countries (whose faults I am either ignorant of or have bought into propaganda on)" 121
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Should there be a robust defense against cops fabricating DUI evidence? Sure. But I'd suspect the overwhelming majority of their cases are people throwing money at the legal system to avoid the consequences of their antisocial behavior. 000
Cugel the Clever @cugel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026There's apparently a law office in my metro called DUI Heroes. You won't be surprised that these "heroes" are not leading prosecutions against drunk drivers. 100