Elai @elai.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Professor and journalist: “lmao who cares about the truth” Embarrassing, disqualifying Just say you’re a partisan polemicist that’s fine no dishonor in that really but let’s keep it a buck shall we 040
Elai @elai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Yeah man for sure. The only thing in between AI execs and “getting Marie Atoinette’d” is some intrepid Bluesky journalist The absolute self-importance of these guys 130
Elai @elai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Rick Rubin is completely correct Punk rock was the vibe coding of music - you really don’t have to have much technical skill, you can just jam three chords, so what’s left over is your creative intent and imagination. Cool! 000
Elai @elai.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Getting mad at Ken Jennings for playing the NYT Spelling Bee is maybe the most loser shit behavior I’ve ever seen 131
Elai @elai.bsky.social · 26/06/2026These people don’t want the future to get any better. They would rather do “mutual aid” forever than actually develop. This kind of Loserism is somehow offensive to both doctrinaire capitalists AND communists alike 020
Reposted by Elailowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 22/06/2026“trying to grow my own food” when you live in an apartment in los angeles is just hilarious tryhard grifter shit 5687869
Reposted by Elaiderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/04/2026how it feels to say "sprezzatura" 404140811558
Reposted by ElaiDead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade What did he know? 4057191296
Elai @elai.bsky.social · 21/04/2026regarding airport discourse yes it's very stupid to be overly neurotic about many things if you're a little wealthy this is good and applicable advice to many people if you're broke too bad tho but you already knew that 010
Reposted by ElaiCadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 20/04/2026but it’s my right as an american to have infrastructure that undergirds my life to never be seen nor heard nor be thought about ever unless it possibly inconveniences me in some way 0121
Elai @elai.bsky.social · 20/04/2026There is such a lack of positive political visions out there that people come to their opinions via: I hate these motherfuckers -> I believe the direct polar opposite of whatever they believe Totally diseased epistemics but can you really blame them? 010
Elai @elai.bsky.social · 20/04/2026please don't lobotomize yourself about data centers even if you think it's for a good cause 0486
Reposted by Elairyan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/04/2026this is important to get your head around the basic shape of water use out West. farmers get the overwhelming majority of it--far more than all industry and cities put together--and pay almost nothing for it 924451
Reposted by ElaiNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong? 16251111134
Reposted by Elaimolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 23/12/2025just for context, this appears to be a report that was generated based on a tip submitted online through a form on the FBI’s website. anyone can submit a tip. it’s illegal to submit false tips, sure, but “the president dropped my dead baby in lake michigan” sounds like someone who needs help. 24815126
Reposted by ElaiLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Firing Kimmel is impotent and scary. We win by playing those facts against each other 341153
Reposted by Elaipost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18/09/2025they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them. 3088222872
Reposted by ElaiSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 15/09/2025This is a very real distillation of why Charles Entertainment Kirk matters so much not just to pigs like Gutfeld but to worms like Ezra Klein. It's quite simple: They've heard of him, so he's real, in a way Hortman, trans people, Black people, immigrants, me, and/or you are not. 20856188
Reposted by ElaiJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I mean... minnesotareformer.com/briefs/haged... 7456261531
Reposted by ElaiWarren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Unbelievably grim account of what happens after you are hit by a car in California. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...sfstandard.comGriffin Gaffney on what happens when you get hit by a car in San FranciscoThe Standard’s CEO tells the story of a near-death experience — and the endless complications that followed. 1616963
Reposted by ElaiBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025The basketball dildo affair is honestly one of the most menacing things going on right now. It's portrayed as a joke, but it really has the vibe of raptors testing fences. 29771171
Elai @elai.bsky.social · 07/08/2025say what you will about OpenAI, this attitude just shows a tremendous lack of imagination 010
Reposted by Elaisarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 01/08/2025let me throw some fuel on the fire that is the discourse about boys getting laid!!! current-day manopshere content is not good at getting boys laid and that's an effect of the incentives at play. you cannot build an audience of resentful little virgins if you succeed at helping them to have sex 745421935
Reposted by Elaiamy brown @amybrown.xyz · 04/08/2025CONTENT ADVISORY: PLEASE BE WARNED THAT THE DEADLINE FOR ALL POSTS ABOUT "AMERICAN EAGLE" AND "SYDNEY SWEENEY" HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE FOUND IN VIOLATION YOU WILL BE FINED 1500 CLOUT POINTS AND A LABUBU. 102154220
Reposted by Elaithe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 01/08/2025a fundamental problem with the conservative movement is that because they do not know how literally anything works and resent being asked to learn, they see absolutely everything as a conspiracy *they* need to capture and use like the libs obviously are 1146594
Reposted by ElaiBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025This is an object lesson in the importance of force and violence in politics. ICE is able to flaunt the law because they're willing to use both. Until members of Congress start showing up with breaching teams and armed security, the law is irrelevant. Just a piece of paper. 471457449
Reposted by ElaiMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I don't think Ian is saying the Democratic Party needs a white paper on how dudes can get their Ds wet, but it is objectively a bad situation that teenage boys googling "how to get girls to like me" are three clicks away from the Turner Diaries 501498113
Reposted by ElaiQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/07/2025On the flip side weather forecasting will be amazing in 2028 when all those FLOPs get repurposed from woke gradient descent to based and trad Navier-Stokes solvers where they belong 814023
Reposted by ElaiMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/07/2025If you've been skeptical about the possibility of a Epstein conspiracy, as I have, I encourage you to read this incredible piece of reporting from CBS. They present fairly compelling evidence that someone doctored the Epstein jail footage and Trump AGs Bondi and Barr and FBI lied about it.cbsnews.comCBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepanciesA CBS News investigation found discrepancies between the government's description of the Jeffrey Epstein jail video and what the video shows. 661240466
Reposted by Elaiutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/07/2025After 9/11, we successfully transformed the southern border from an ailing region to one that was floated by injecting half of its GDP with DHS funds for CBP and ICE. A major component was convincing Mexicans to police other Mexicans and now they’re all MAGA. I think the money can be very persuasive 314212
Reposted by Elaiutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/07/2025Once again we find ourselves laughing at a police state that is unafraid to dangle $50K payment packages in front of anyone desperate enough to take it. Once again, this is how you lock-in an economy to the financial flows of the security state turned against its own population. 828756
Reposted by Elairyan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/07/2025Trump has a lot of quislings in the academy and such, but a lot of very powerful institutions simply can't believe what is happening. they stand there like a jacklighted deer going "buhh? guhh?" while MAGA draws a bead on their forehead bsky.app/profile/unav... 291401217
Elai @elai.bsky.social · 26/07/2025novel class theory where the lumpenproletariat consists of people that play and spend money on mobile games 030
Reposted by ElaiSubscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025NYU should petition the Ivy League to let them replace Columbia. Shooters shoot. 3565333
Reposted by ElaiChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them 60782461823
Reposted by ElaiChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12/07/2025The floods ripped through Texas on July 4. On July 5, FEMA received 3000 calls from survivors. 1% were unanswered. That night, Trump/Noem fired the people who answer the calls. On July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls. 65% unanswered. July 7: 85%. Sick.nytimes.comFEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show 22827661268