Reposted by David CallMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2hi do think it's worth stopping for a moment to recognize how extraordinary and how fucked up it is that this sentence exists. 191211182
Reposted by David CallTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6hYeah the thing about white elite obsession with rule by eugenics is they have to constantly caretake the power required to bend institutions to their will when their eugenics inevitably fail to be great: 315831
Reposted by David CallKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 4hit's wild how we've normalized the fact that the biggest U.S. cable TV "news" network is overt right wing propaganda, and the rest of the press helps them pretend to be legitaxios.comFox News' ratings margin hits widest point as it turns 30Fox News president and executive editor Jay Wallace attributes the brand's durability to consistency in ownership and strategy. 1015743
Reposted by David CallKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 4hdifficult decisions who could have foreseen what could have possibly been done alasvariety.comSkydance CEOs Acknowledge Layoffs Will Be Coming After Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: Read the Full MemoParamount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery have officially merged into Skydance Corp. And the top leaders have notified the new company's staffers that layoffs are in the offing. 2829274
Reposted by David CallMark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 9h'Music-related research will continue and grow within the School of Computer Science.' Neoliberal barbarism knows no bounds.artsprofessional.co.ukUniversity of Nottingham approves plans to close music department - Arts ProfessionalThe University of Nottingham's council has approved a business plan that will see five music degree programmes closed and music-related research absorbed into 33617
David Call @davidscall.bsky.social · 5hi wonder how much of this is downstream of people using speakerphone and facetime on reality tv shows, so that the mic/camera can pickup the full conversation?? 2210
Reposted by David CallTim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 5hNEW: Remember that AI website the Trump admin launched last week? It was built by the National Design Studio, a successor of sorts to DOGE. Some NDS workers, though, are actually on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s GC—himself a former DOGE operative. @telliotter.bsky.social has the story:wired.comA Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government WorkersThe National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel. 14022
Reposted by David CallOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13hLook how easy it is to frame this issue! This handsome writer did it and he’s not very smart www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 7707143
Reposted by David CallMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 5hschumer-jeffries wing of the party has guys in a lab trying to figure out how to seem like you’re doing mamdani stuff without actually doing it 2446
Reposted by David CallMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5hThis article (and Slade's book) are fan fiction. Trumpism isn't a break from Reaganism, it's the intended result, a gov't by, for, and of corruption, lawlessness, racism, and misogyny. That's why Reaganites with power—Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, McConnell—worked hard to empower and entrench Trumpism. 14549143
Reposted by David CallMatt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 5hIf you’re an average college student, the 10-year Treasury hasn’t been this high in your lifetime. It’s at levels not seen since 2002. This is a blow to a generation that is already set to struggle with housing affordability. 821529
Reposted by David CallAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 5hzeteo.com/p/gop-panics...zeteo.com😳 GOP Panics That Racism and Trump’s Election-Rigging Attempts Will Fuel Democratic VictoriesRepublican operatives are in midterms meltdown, with years of gerrymandering and stirring up hatred set to come home to roost. In Maine, Senator Susan Collins met Troy Jackson on the debate stage. 827237
David Call @davidscall.bsky.social · 5hsame thing as the plastic lock boxes everything is behind in drug stores now. hugely inconvenient security theater built to manage a practically nonexistent issue for a completely disconnected executive class 021
Reposted by David CallTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6hSorry but this is peak white guy style. You don’t want to hear it, but this is as good as it gets. 1728919
Reposted by David CallTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6hYes. I saw it with Lower Ed. Similar to challenging any orthodoxy, especially when you’re vulnerable to its collapse. You won’t convince them this is bankrupt. We who can live with the ambiguity of post austerity have to build better incentives for them, without them — and despite them. Sigh. 214826
Reposted by David CallBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23hLafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.nytimes.comInside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations. 152374698
Reposted by David CallRob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 6hELON MUSK: [speaking into watch] what should i say to mark zuckerberg WATCH: hello mark zuckerberg ELON MUSK: no no I’M not mark zuckerberg, i’m elon MARK ZUCKERBERG: [to watch] hello 71165183
Reposted by David CallAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7hobviously the media is a joke but the reason theyre not covering this is because democrats arent making it an issue the media would do it. they would. they’re lazy and they just want to go “the other side is saying this thing, how do you respond?” 1551767
Reposted by David Calltalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 14hMartín Soto, a primary organizer of people detained at Delaney Hall who went on hunger strike to demand their release and to improve conditions, has been released. Soto was detained for more than 9 months, 4 of which were spent in solitary confinement. Via: www.instagram.com/reel/DeLIuSe... 4403136
Reposted by David CallDannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 16hAnd with that the awards show honoring best television shows will no longer be on… television 323058
Reposted by David Callryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7ha “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests 341404239
Reposted by David CallErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 18hThe mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence 3644221375
Reposted by David Callrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20ha little louder for the cheap seats in the back 3047751663
Reposted by David CallPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7hthe speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible. 191135263
Reposted by David CallAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16hI love the Maine accent. Here’s a link to some oral histories taken in the 1950s where a reaaaal Downeaster tells the story of “Tall Barney” Beal, a near-mythological Paul Bunyan-esque man who lived in Jonesport, ME in the mid-19th century Century. media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_object...media.dlib.indiana.edu[United States, Maine and Rhode Island, 1956] - Media Collections Online 610113
Reposted by David Callheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19hsorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan. 5150851191
Reposted by David CallxX_Doctor_Cucumber_Xx @possumdementhe.bsky.social · 23hGenuinely we need to ban golden parachutes. They're presented under the premise that a failure CEO would never be able to work again but we get the same slate of parasites sucking companies dry time and time again, deploying multiple parachutes on top of eight figure salaries. 216023
Reposted by David Calljosh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection 202821982
Reposted by David CallAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear 713041454
Reposted by David CallCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10... 1131435624
Reposted by David CallI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17hWe’re absolutely going to land in a place where “let the police handle immigration enforcement once they’re properly trained” as the response to mass deportation. It’s going to drive me up a wall and I’m going to repeatedly point out how this will only further entrench mass deportation as a policy. 722351
Reposted by David CallMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19hThey will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books. 291134180
Reposted by David CallMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026But they're gonna have to lay off thousands of people who make a fraction of the executives' income in order to be "fiscally responsible" 14330111
Reposted by David CallStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21hOne thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6554331174
Reposted by David CallGD (Mima Spooky Season) @mrgamerdude.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Tim Curry with his GameBoy on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993) 438248
Reposted by David CallDavid Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 21hEva Marie Saint made her feature film debut starring opposite Marlon Brando in ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) and costarred in Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). She’s died at 102, ten years after her husband passed away. They’d been married 65 years! variety.com/2026/film/ne... 36719
Reposted by David CallWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 23hFun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute. 411893359
Reposted by David CallCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 21ha giant.variety.comEva Marie Saint, ‘North by Northwest’ Star, Dies at 102Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, who starred in such memorable classic films as “On the Waterfront” and “North by Northwest,” has died. 214238
Reposted by David CallProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 21h“For entire disciplines, this is existential” 26324
David Call @davidscall.bsky.social · 21hyeah, i enjoy watching football, no need to bring homework into it 010
Reposted by David Callthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22hthis thread is also a deep metaphor for what our collective migration online has done to communication 428739