Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 18hthey’re going to keep doing this shit as long as there are no consequences 301090195
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I mean, you can just see it happening! bsky.app/profile/poli... 830426
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others? 332616627
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. 237501337
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death 594503894
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialStrahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It is a very easy task. He sounds like he understands that they have to be punished. End of. 211716
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026WE DON’T HAVE TO TOLERATE THIS DETESTABLE FOOL 1750960
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Illegally detaining and brutalizing a racial minority until they agree to flee the country” isn’t immigration enforcement, it’s ethnic cleansing. There’s no legal standard here - these people meet the standard! What differentiates them is not their legal status but their race and color. 5553131
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission. 11149941482
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026what I had to say turned out not to be a columntheatlantic.comSomething Like PeopleA poem 13343104
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Really was one of the dumbest and most harmful things possible for “virtue signaling” to become some kind of epithet. Sending externally visible signals that you are engaging in pro-social behavior is normal, natural, and good, it’s how society works. Other people can’t read your fucking mind. 703323590
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often hard to measure or stupidly measured doesn't mean "saving time" isn't an important thing to human beings 1651461
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I am so beyond fucking tired of the insane levels of deference and plausible deniability news media orgs--esp legacy ones like the NYT--afford Trump and the absolute intellectual rot and cravenness that it represents among the ownership & leadership of those orgs 654099
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 8039101133
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialIan Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You do not have to be a parent to feel anger at the details in the latest investigation by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @samanthamichaels.bsky.social. But the white-hot rage I felt as a dad reading this is going to stick with me for some time.motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 318181
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a community note for the ages. 6759361178
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973726438
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts, 1013158644
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Adorable 🥰 Gorilla 🦍 Family 1604374889
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/10/2026feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does 235968105
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026But they're not cementing shit. That's the problem. They're deluded about what they're actually accomplishing here. The more crazed and lawless shit they do, the weaker their precedents. At this point, much of their jurisprudence has no more staying power than "Lake America". 726622
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else 51298187
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up" - C.S. Lewis 234569
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think Smith could successfully sue Schmitt for defamation now, since he's restating the falsehood outside of the Senate hearing, and by this point he clearly knows what he's saying is false 19761148
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The thing about Trump is you know he's going to fuck things up, you just don't know how bsky.app/profile/tomw... 2895
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thinking about social and political shifts as “outside forces acting on a complex system that in no way resembles an individual person” will give you a far, far better schema to understand the world than thinking about ”what does the population believe” 0529
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialSamuel ✡️ 🗽 @bluelion70.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is wildly unconscionable. Everything Israel stands for is betrayed by this choice. 34113
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialsamhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 25/09/2026mc escher is old news, have you seen ｓｈｉｎｊｕｋｕ ｓｔａｔｉｏｎ ｍａｐｓ 1625455
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My underlying point isn't REALLY a big philosophy argument, anyway - it's this. We are rapidly approaching an event horizon where philosophy arguments are going to be of real consequence and not dusty thought experiments. But I don't know what the actual resolution of the philosophical puzzles is. 101347
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialChris Wyman @wymancr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's a bit of hubris to think we possess some intangible special sauce that could never be recreated assuming you had the right hardware and software architecture imo. 064
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings 32888421560
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialAugust J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A reminder that evangelical doctrine, up to and including the wildly popular Left Behind book series where the Democratic president essentially does exactly this, has for decades insisted this is how the antichrist will reveal himself. 17923286
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It bugs me that we're normalising the idea that there's something wrong with long documents, or that they're not "worth" our time. There is huge value in careful thought, in detail and nuance, in exploration, and in the experiential journey that goes alongside that. 5783106
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialincapotomus.bsky.social @incapotomus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Worth considering just doing it now. His value is as a 51st vote for Schumer and, as you say, he’s not going to provide that so you might as well send the message now that you can’t be a member of the Democratic Caucus if you’re a speaker at the fucking Republican convention. 420718
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I mean, one of two things is very obviously true: -we have created something that has qualities indistinguishable from sentience/qualia -sentience/qualia *are not necessary* to do many things that we previously assumed required them Both of those seem pretty big deals to me? 3028711
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialZohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Punishment is so ingrained in our cultural way of relating that even progressives want to believe it can accomplish behavioral change but guess what? That is its own poorly-evidenced belief, sorry! 839560
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Well, I'd like to see Abdul El-Sayed wiggle his way out of this! 181561258
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026its why "flight 96 election" thinking is so dangerous, you will tolerate everything out of a fear that the alternative is worse. and there's a sort of masochism to it, in which they pride themselves on being able to eat the cost of their moral compromise as a kind of perverse strength 3562
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party. 9639231068
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.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. 14120723348
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026Amazing number of people lately who are willing to stand up and say I’m the villain, you should hate me 862274505
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/08/2026One of the things about AI is that from the very start it has kicked out these bizarre sci-fi scenarios but everyone is so caught up in “AI good” or “AI bad” to notice. Like we literally had machines break out of human-imposed isolation, contact each other, and form a Calvinist cult for doing crimes 39819
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA 226147262819
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️ 11663999211036
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialjamelle @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. 171146063123
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026trade war with Canada is the worst because obviously Canadians are mad about it and obviously they're mad at Americans about it and they're totally right on both those things and also I am an American 391450158
Reposted by @cyrusnaim.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The single most impactful social/cultural development over the last decade (that virtually no retrospectives of "woke" have engaged in) is the new elite consensus that moral judgement is itself inherently illegitimate. 321665354
