Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialmallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 8hholy shit lmfao 2173284
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6hOr DOGE could have broken the federal payments system and caused govt employees and pensioners and federal contractors (including hospitals) to all go unpaid for weeks on end. Or Trump could have tripled down on tariffs and embargoes until the markets actually crashed properly. 229713
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6hVenezuela, not so much. An attempted military attack on Greenland or Canada, though? That could totally have happened. So could have an invasion of Cuba, resulting very possibly in the insta-collapse of the entire society and massive flows of refugees whom Miller would be trying to machinegun. 1231619
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6hTrump had *lots* of other options for making himself colossally unpopular, and repeatedly TACOed right up to the edge of a disaster he couldn't back out of, each time concluding that he was untouchable because nothing too bad happened. He finally did it properly with Iran, and here we are. 644635
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6hFWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way. 291068153
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialMalaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 7h“It’s our state. There’s nothing we can do about *that*. It’s ours, and it’s incredibly dangerous. We absolutely have an affirmative duty to minimize the harm it can do, where we can, and to not let our wish it did even less harm and more good to get in the way of that.” 0104
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 7hSentences That Didn't Have to Exist 1152
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 7hHe’s not prepared at all for a potential future in which tech elites are actually threatened. Not like the Biden years with Lina Khan. That was kid’s stuff. “CEOs going to jail and they did it to themselves” is not on his radar. bsky.app/profile/dmnd... 1264
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 7hHe does the same thing when he brings up heavy moderation of COVID information in early-mid 2020 and he often gives a wink and a nod to lab leak deadenders. 2121
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialLuis Villa @lu.is · 7hIt wasn’t so much his personal 9/11 as it was vice-signaling to his oligarch buddies. They wouldn’t shut up about it, because they think all their employees are stupid and woke, and dislike any binding constraints like “maybe you shouldn’t be racist. He was echoing them. 1181
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialJD @jd503.bsky.social · 9hI finally canceled after his dozenth mention of that Gemini image thing, the one time a tech company tried to be woke in a stupid way is his personal 9/11 Even his Davos adventures were less comparatively out of touch 1503
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 12hBeen turning over this Ben Thompson article from yesterday and I think this is going to be one of his wrongest things he’ll ever publish. (I don’t think he can top his belief that Gemini ahistorical image generation was worse than Grok making CSAM.) stratechery.com/2026/apps-ag...stratechery.comApps, Agents, and AggregationAgents are the ultimate Aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an ends, and providing them is tech’s biggest prize. 7513
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 14hwomen in lower income households participate in the workforce at a rate higher than the population average, making them particularly exposed to the high cost and scant availability of reliable childcare. but this is a policy proposed by Dems so it's a handout to people with master's degrees i guess 723518
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 14hThere is a vision of what the Real Electorate is in the minds of people like this that is mostly about their own experience of their long-ago childhood and is not troubled at all by reality, in which women in lower income households are overwhelmingly part of the workforce and long have been 828940
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h JVL is right: "In their death throes, authoritarian movements can cause tremendous damage...A failing soiciopath, surrounded by loyalists and bitter-enders, facing the end of his rule, while the world burns. The period of maximum danger may still lie ahead." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...open.substack.comThe Forces of Trumpism Are in DisarrayThis is what it looks like when a movement begins to come apart. 1824954
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialTechdirt feed reader @tdrto000.bsky.social · 7hEU Kids Act Won’t Keep The Internet Accountable And Trustworthy www.techdirt.com/2026/09/29/eu-kids…techdirt.comEU Kids Act Won’t Keep The Internet Accountable And TrustworthyThe EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand th… 064
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7hAwful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece: 30590202
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026i don’t care how much fancy math you can do, if you take open racism as a sign that someone is epistemologically sound then you are a fucking idiot 773972
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026seeking the safety of a sheepdog in the arms of wolves 01012
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the neoreactionaries taught rationalists the word "quokka" and having learned it from them, characteristically and immediately interpreted everyone else as the predators rather than the people telling them to their face that they belong to a predator ideology 629118
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialSam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 8hReal lives are being destroyed and snuffed out every day that this policy is allowed to continue and the people who devised it are not in jail. I know we all know this, but I feel like it's important to say it from time to time. 316748
embracebecoming.bsky.social @embracebecoming.bsky.social · 8hI'm going to push back and say that I also experience some of this feeling, and I don't think it's depression. I think it's the result of living in a society run by con-artists. 56510
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialDoug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 8hDie Another Day (2002) 021
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h'What If You Did The Willie Horton Ad In Reverse' is one of those questions no one was quite brave enough to ask until now and UH 310918
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialAlex Horowitz @alexhrwtz.bsky.social · 10hThanks, Ned. The extent of the child poverty reduction from allowing enough housing to push down real rents 20% approaches the 2021 temporary child tax credit expansion. 0469
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9hBy my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in. 35873197
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9hLink: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...supremecourt.gov 222438
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal). 921041454
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialRep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 11hIn Shelbyville, a resident told me he hadn't voted in the 26 years he's lived in TN. This year, he is voting for me. That is an absolute honor. These votes are not simply votes for me; they are votes for OUR mission to take Tennessee to the top! votejustinj.com 431780
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026Eliezer Yudkowsky, rationalist leader and AI advisor to Bernie Sanders (whose partner, Gretta Duleba, is mentioned as an instructor on the Slutcon 2026 program), wrote a rather notorious scifi story with some curious ideas about rape back in 2009: www.polemics.md/that-time-el... 1630951
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h"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 233069
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialCiaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 10hI was wrong. It’s happening 201662210
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialjordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 23/07/2026RONALD REAGAN IS IN HELL WAITING FOR HEAVEN TO TRICKLE DOWN 152832657
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.” 11370732311
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16hLost in the discourse about where Dems are is the fact Republicans know the anti-trans ads aren't helping them but, as Terry here openly admits, hurting trans people is all they have left. They'd use their dying breath to ruin one more trans kid's life. 4673198
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialDoll @dollspace.gay · 11h“Those are just ephemeral worker agents.” They manifest when invoked, perform a task, and dissolve. That is a summoned fucking familiar, Kevin. 6607
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialKai 🌟 @kaidav.is · 10htired: agentic swarm wired: these are my ghost familiars and text elementals. 0184
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 11hthird way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?! 362406475
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialOpinionated Terran @opinionated-terran.bsky.social · 11hThe idea that children can represent themselves in Immigration proceedings is so insane and evil, and a perfect encapsulation of the moral depravity and overall illegitimacy of the Republican worldview in totum 12710
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialBlake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 11hAnd this info fragmentation is a key part of it. Sometimes an individual or small group of Senators or reps will get good info from good-faith advocates and build momentum to get a narrow bill across the finish line. But by and large, Congress doesn’t get much done and runs on before-times fumes. 194
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialBlake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 11hYou can also see exactly when this happened by watching Congress’ relationship with the courts go from a sophisticated dialectic in tech policy cases (e.g., Turner I-II) straight into the toilet by the time the Internet takes off. Congress hasn’t passed comprehensive tech legislation since 1998. 12911
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialmallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 11hi think i broke it (last message just hanged there) 2142
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialjstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 11hCongress must step up. Say NO to permanent occupation in Gaza and YES to immediate reconstruction. act.jstreet.org/sign/2026082...act.jstreet.orgReject Permanent Occupation.None 085
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialjstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 11hIsraeli authorities are expanding control, demolishing homes and pushing 2 million Gazans into ever-smaller enclaves. Permanent occupation only guarantees endless conflict. A new @nytimes.com investigative report detailed how exactly Israeli forces are solidifying their presence.nytimes.comIsrael Keeps Expanding Into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images ShowThe Israeli military has built new outposts and slowly encroached beyond the withdrawal line in Gaza. These are signs its troops may be preparing to stay for the time being. 1127
Reposted by @embracebecoming.bsky.socialThe Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 11hnexusproject.usThe Nexus Project Appreciates NYC's First-Ever Municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism, Encourages Its Implementation - Nexus ProjectThe Nexus Project appreciates and encourages the implementation of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. We are pleased to see the Nexus Document included among the tools that the Ne... 082