eli @e1b.bsky.social · 22htbqh, between this and the negative polarization of self-identified liberals and socialists with respect to each other, I've been off the site for the past few wks. a bit conceited to say it but, we should be better than this 030
Reposted by eliMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I understand why they're doing this, but fuck them. These mayors can't guarantee the safety of their own citizens from ICE, and they sure as hell can't guarantee the safety of Canadian visitors. Also, North Dakota, where 2/3 of voters voted for Trump, wants foreigners to come back? Fuck them twice.globalnews.caU.S. mayors ask Canadians to reconsider U.S. travel boycott - Winnipeg | Globalnews.caSome American mayors are trying to encourage Canadians to reconsider boycotting travel across the border. 2549297
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it actually sucks that we are ruled over by chuds who don't value, like. not even guile, just cleverness 150
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ever witness kids watching obvious brainrot and thinking, "man, they really should be playing vidja games instead" 1102
Reposted by eliDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"As an elder, this feels like Nazi Germany in 1933. What are you gonna do next? Kill me because I’m elderly?” This is a real thing a person said about a plan to reroute a bus and make it safer for people to bike. People are not okay.nypost.comExclusive | Hipster NYC neighborhoods to get gentrified transit makeover at cost of seniors: ‘Feels like Nazi Germany’“It’s like people of a certain age are no longer welcome in Brooklyn.” 1568267
Reposted by eliMicah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026I think there is a lot of pessimism because it feels like these assholes can never be fully defeated and that’s true, they’ll be back but right now, in this exact moment, the bottom really is falling out for them 281139103
Reposted by eliYen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There's an essay to be written about how the re-appropriation of ill-gotten wealth has been one of the biggest, but also most underrated, accomplishments of Taiwan's democratic transition, and that it is also something that the US can emulate. 7549105
Reposted by elijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter. 39867231671
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 17/09/2026getting fundraising texts for Bruce Blakeman now, there's no hope for ot anymore is there 000
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026fucking chud flag that every post office that flies an American flag must display fell off ...hard to hold back sometimes 120
Reposted by elithe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 16/09/2026hasn't Spanberger always been weirdly good on this? I suspect she's got trans family or a close friend. 5637
Reposted by eliWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ah, well I suppose we should simply trust you. It's not like the media has deliberately avoided covering the mental and physical decline of Republicans before. We can trust the press corpse. 36210
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026we knew this about these guys years and years ago too! and yet here we are, somehow they appear to be in charge??? 130
Reposted by eliNick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Folks I apologize. I’d like to rescind the first post in this thread, as I’ve just been reminded it can only good happen. 32397
Reposted by eliThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What do we figure this does to an already D+10 environment? 1912815
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 15/09/2026just a complete lack of any stones, that this freaking guy was apparently able to browbeat them. disgraceful. 030
Reposted by elirev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026tfw it can only good happen 82107
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 14/09/2026it does sort of feel like we've all of a sudden lost our sense of urgency a little bit. maybe I've been a bit out of it the past few wks but of late there's been too much intraparty recriminations and not enough of the usual righteous anger directed at our bumbling yet dangerous oppressors 031
Reposted by eliHenry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026An incredible piece of Simpsons history uploaded to YouTube today: The Tracy Ullman short “Family Therapy” was repurposed as a theatrical short before 1989’s The War of the Roses—released 9 days before the Xmas special. This 35mm film scan has an original opening I’ve not seen before!youtu.beThe Simpsons Family Therapy (1989} -35mm - Flat - Mono - UHDYouTube video by The Scan Man Gallery 10304117
Reposted by elisarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026creative commons, like fair use, hasn't been rigorously tested in court partly because no one with test-it-in-court money uses it. every time a corp tramples the law without pushback, law-trampling becomes standard practice. A24 could set a genuinely harmful precedent here and no one has noticed. 261970
Reposted by elisarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026qntm had to laboriously scrape out and reimagine every hint of name-brand SCP stuff from the published version of Antimemetics Division last year specifically because the CC license is basically an automatic no-go in today's IP-frenzied media industry. and lest we forget, A24 is an IP company now.thewrap.comA24 Expands Strategy From Arthouse Gems to More Commercial FilmsA24 is shying away from the auteur films that made them successful to more commercial fare such as action and IP projects. 365764
Reposted by elisarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026hey why is no one talking about the licensing situation with this A24/SCP thing? are they releasing it under the same cc-by-sa license every SCP project is required to have? are they betting creative commons won't hold up in court? seems like the kind of question a journalist should look into idkdeadline.comSCP Foundation Movie Coming To Theaters In 2027 With A24 DistributingAn SCP Foundation movie is coming to theaters in 2027 via A24. Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios announced the project earlier this year. 312550936
Reposted by eliWaschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 12/09/2026if you're not keen on El-Sayed for whatever reason, first of all, get over yourself, but second of all, imagine how bad it would be to have a swing-state GOP senator in Trump's ear telling him to nuke Tehran 2599
Reposted by eliMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026When “accepting the largest foreign emolument in American history while monetizing the presidency through your son-in-law & children ” is the Christian Laettner of unpunished crimes in a presidency, you know that our constitutional order has completely failed. 723380
Reposted by eliClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026the fact that they were all screaming about how disrespectful it was to the victims to let the Muslim mayor attend, and then the Muslim mayor was the only one who fucking respected the victims I don't really believe in hell but I KNOW it is not hot enough 32330495
Reposted by eliEvangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 24 Storyboards 0145
Reposted by elilastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Re Houthis gaining the coast in Yemen, my understanding is it's generally not good for imperial powers when they and their allies can no longer project sufficient force to control key trade routes. Can historians confirm? Cos if so I worry that perhaps the Iran war may have been a mistake for the US 1937942
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I am not sure there would be any coming back from that, and frankly, we should not be acting as if /this/ time the Bond Vigilantes are finally, *finally* For Real, We Promise. It should not even be part of the freaking conversation! The entire god damn governing system is on the line! 1162
Reposted by eliZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is going to lead to extremely stupid places. Trump can't overthrow an electoral wave this massive but he can most certainly break his own legitimacy trying to. And cause plenty of chaos both along the way and afterward. He was always going to try shit like this. It's *why* he's illegitimate. 532889
Reposted by eliNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026One of the many reasons you shouldn't base your opinions and moral judgements about the world on electoral strategy is that it leads to people reverse-engineering theories of electoral strategy entirely to backfill justifications for their moral beliefs. 460988
Reposted by elijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026is “Duel of the Fates” one of the best compositions john williams has ever produced? 93172243
Reposted by eliFred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Folks, he had a stroke last year. It is the overwhelmingly likely explanation. 58214
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Inveterate fascist and piece of human excrement (but I repeat myself) Pat Buchanan's website is down. Anybody check on'm recently? buchanan.org/buchanan.org 110
Reposted by eliChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Another Trump scandal that Democrats in Congress need to be actively staffing up for, specifically, right now. Give Jamie Raskin a bazooka 18915
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 11/09/2026i can't decide thesoundofvinyl.us/collections/...thesoundofvinyl.usJazz & Classics - End of Summer Sale - The Sound Of VinylSearch thousands of albums across every genre and decade, including color vinyl, limited editions, box sets, and more! 110
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 10/09/2026and sometimes you just end up surprised that a person you thought you knew was deep in it 140
Reposted by elithe scary jokes @thescaryjokes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026dems really need to start responding to "trans people in sports" questions like theyre being asked to weigh in on the war on christmas or satanic messages in disney movies. it is an asinine manufactured non-issue & it's embarrassing for any "progressive" to act like it isnt 28921
Reposted by elirattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I get why, but it honestly feels like this site has become more neurotic as of late, and that even in comparison to Q1 2026. I feel like early 2025 was, even with the dark shadows, far more fun here. A lot of interesting people left and never really returned. 061
Reposted by eli🇨🇦NG 呙徐楠PhD @powerguo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is just tone deaf. The people who radicalized the public (and the dem base) against Silicon Valley are the people who run it, by losing their minds when the Biden administration applied a modicum of regulation against it 514121
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 08/09/2026this is how I find out Meredith made chief at the end lol. welp, nobody’s fault but mine haha 000
Reposted by eliMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The CommuniGrater is the best form/function concept I have seen since the ThinkGeek days. 1726
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