DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It feels so good to encounter another person who has read Farenheit 451 as an adult so that you can bond over shared bafflement at Ray Bradbury’d seething disdain for women who get C sections 020
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026youtu.be/oZ39s_pcRFQ?...youtu.beChecks Will Not Be HonoredYouTube video by David Goldie 030
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Guy who lives in DC who fancifully imagines that schools in bible belt shitholes will take GOP efforts to force prayer into schools and through some unknown alchemy turn them into advanced religious studies curricula. 010
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 18/08/2026youtu.be/_Re6pZri8Gw?...youtu.beAll The Food is Poison | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Adult SwimYouTube video by Adult Swim 051
Reposted by DavidReadsASoIaFRobocop (1987) @robocop1987.bsky.social · 01/08/2026When people jerk me off, I kill them! 933387
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Even if I end up liking the movie I’ll be on Wilson’s side because the overwhelming majority of negatice responses to her, including this one from JCO, are troglodytic and misogynistic. As if Wilson, an accomplished classicist, owes Nolan deference for his fucking effect on sales. 071
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Your average Republican believes Sylvester Stallone’s character in the Paramount+ streaming drama “Tulsa King” is a real person and approves of child molestation provided the perpetrator is the victim’s father. 121
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026How it feels trying to get a dang fantasy novel these days 1100
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This is, more or less, what Minima Moralia was diagnosing. 010
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This is actually a tech prototype rollout from netflix. There’s only 20 mins of story/character material in a given episode, but with the new haptic-feedback based trackr system, they play up to 30 mins of the characters doing fortnite dances when it detects u looking at ur phone or folding laundry. 010
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026“perform Gender by working in a sparks factory” is so tasty, I’m very jealous of it. I thought my version of that (alluding to “WPA mural musclemen”) was good but it is thoroughly outclassed. 050
Reposted by DavidReadsASoIaFUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Incorrect. The North-South highway between Johor Bahru and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia has no speed limits for motorcycles, and lane splitting is legal. You can also ride on the hard shoulder, if you don't mind the possibility of a puncture from debris. 6489
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026This is also how he feels when he goes todash 010
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Explanatory power of the search for Consumer ease and comfort [derogatory] unparalleled. 030
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Matt Christman: People wonder why there aren’t modern John Browns. One simple reason is that, today, it’s impossible to believe in God the way John Brown did. Felix Biederman [with an unbelievable amount of vocal fry]: Stephen Miller is like one of those guys who couldn’t get pussy in high-school 220
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Five bags of popcorn. Had me gasping and much more upset than I thought I would be. 020
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 08/06/2026 President Deals has failed to get a deal, something that has only ever happened 72 times in the past 40 days. Ah well, send in the commandos, sir. People will rally around you when they see your rotting bloated ass listlessly standing near a flag-draped coffin in your stupid fucking baseball cap 020
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 07/06/2026This is a really smart move because he can also use it to burnish his tough-on-crime credentials by causing the deaths of some drug-smuggling rapists [US Special Forces operatives]. 020
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Type of shit Conner O’’Malley’s character in rap world would say 081
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I want to buck a discourse trend and say: I don’t think I could make a lot of money by abandoning my ethics and becoming a right-wing grifter. Maybe some of you could, but I couldn’t produce an endless stream of mind-numbing ragebait stuff day in day out. Sounds completely exhausting and miserable. 180
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I’m sorry, what war? There’s a war? We started a war? Because if I recall what Matt Walsh said in the first week of March: 041
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026[“raindrops keep falling on my head” playing accompanied by tingling bicycle chimes] 050
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026If you're a journalist who's capable of asking a followup question you are in the 99.9th percentile of american journalists 030
Reposted by DavidReadsASoIaFPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This will be the tenth time we have secured a peace deal with Iran, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it 110117
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 27/05/2026This is just a David Lynch movie premise. 030
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 27/05/2026How big is God's cock? Is it circumcised? Did any scholasticist monks consider these questions? 020
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Skeleton key for understanding the right-wing fixation on Dudley Doright 030
Reposted by DavidReadsASoIaFSimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026"Why do you mock me, O Lord?" "Homer, that's not God. That's just a waffle that Bart tossed up there." 116443
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Open invitation for any NYT reporter to sit in on the class I'm teaching this summer at my SEC school, or on the coursework taken by newer students in my department. Other things happen here besides the sorority rush events which you people ogle like you're at the fucking primate house. 030
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Perhaps certain lib posters on here are clever and inventive enough to figure out a way that this — like the spinelessness of congressional dems— is actually the fault of the party’s critics and the legions of largely imagined left wing non-voters. I believe in them! 061
Reposted by DavidReadsASoIaFkarl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 20/05/2026That isn’t a correct way to understand it. They were always pro-child rape. “Epstein” is a synecdoche that stands for “Rich Jewish Democrats are working together to punish you and only Trump can stop them.” 2377
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 17/05/2026RIP Felicity Lott, one of the greats www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajvy...youtube.comThe last rose of summerYouTube video by Felicity Lott - Topic 020
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 17/05/2026After a long hiatus I'm back to work on my current audiobook project on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GnH...youtube.comA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Chapter 9 - The TournamentYouTube video by DavidReadsASoIaF 020
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I’m adorno-pilled. I’m negative dialecticsmaxxing. I’m insanely pessimistic and constantly saying shit like “but the universal contains within it the very same individuation,” and the fact that no one wears hats anymore represents the coarsening of the spirit which is so well represented by Balzac. 020
Reposted by DavidReadsASoIaFAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I can't get over how their discourse is just completely stuck in the late 2010s. 915811
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 16/05/2026If you want a picture of the future, imagine people being impressed with the equivalent of vacuous videos where a guy gets people at a rally to say they support banning “dihydrogen monoxide,” as if this makes an incisive point, forever. 040
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Getting legitimately furious at how much this idea sucks. 020
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 15/05/2026An interesting historical tidbit is that in places and times where gun ownership and use were very commonplace, gun safety habits remained appalling. 18th century newspapers filled with accidental shootings, half cocked loaded rifles falling off of mantles and discharging (killing their owner) etc. 130
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 12/05/2026No offense meant towards OP rly but have we not all had enough of engaging with the discourse sludge produced by right wing apes as if it’s anything other than a sneering mockery of language’s ability to convey meaning? 120
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Pretty baffled when I encounter discourse about the state of Dungeons and Dragons online. Surprising amount of anger about a product/format that is effectively free thanks to rampant piracy, and of which most problems can literally be solved with one’s imagination. 010
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Conservatives love to say shit like “you have no idea the fury you have unleashed” before unsuccessfully trying to get jimmy kimmel taken off the air again and unsuccessfully trying to bring a fraudulent criminal prosecution against james comey again 060
DavidReadsASoIaF @davidreadsasoiaf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The lethargic way she performs this ritual is pretty good. “Oh, uh, you know, you guys say he’s bad for the country, and stuff, I think.” She’s practically yawning as she says it! Talk about a vibe shift. 020