Reposted by EILyixura @yixura.bsky.social · 26/09/2026tarot reader: so for your one card reading you drew the 1/1 signed holofoil reversed Tower. it's worth about $5000 graded me: so that's good? tarot reader: no, you're mega ultra fucked 1599250
Reposted by EILcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23hwell officer, my bin labeled "NOT MY DRUGS" has you asking a lot of questions already answered by the bin 371668145
Reposted by EILAdrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This made me laugh. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... 211221
Reposted by EILOh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Someone asked Becky Hammon if she sees similarities between the Fever's top No. 1 picks and what the Aces had with Kelsey Plum, Jackie Young and A'ja Wilson. Her response: "No" 😂 Then A'ja said she loved KM but she was No. 1 and KM was No. 2 🤣 416147
Reposted by EILKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sophie Cunningham is -13 in 12 minutes. Please remember that when she is released at the end of the year and claims it was for her political views. 161030146
Reposted by EILBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 01/10/2026For me, the act of writing is how I learn what I’m writing about. I don’t know why people want to outsource that.* 627834
Reposted by EILThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's easy - and correct! - to focus on just how ghoulish and profane this view of human creativity is. But even if you're the most cynical capitalist on earth, the evidence that people would enjoy entirely dehumanised content, at anything like a scale that would justify this hype, is extremely thin! 387979
Reposted by EILThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal. 211478228
Reposted by EILLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I always ask if people think hearing a digital piano programmed to play a concerto is the same as hearing my dad — who’s been playing for 79 years and still practices hours a day — do it. And funnily enough no one has ever agreed that it is. 1150679
Reposted by EILCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should. 101391242
Reposted by EILdave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 25/05/2026(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh 224391921
Reposted by EILDanielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I report on this for a decade and someone just…tweets it out. 31079
Reposted by EILwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 01/10/2026“what is the information diet of politicians” is an increasingly urgent question 236378
Reposted by EILillinirunner.bsky.social @illinirunner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I feel like this is an un-tapped tourism promotion opportunity by Maine. "Come to Maine! And tell John Roberts he sucks shit!". 225022
Reposted by EILJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 1525346805
EIL @emipsaloquitur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Don't love the dude on the court but gotta hand it to him off of it. 000
Reposted by EILAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 01/10/2026Entire generation of tech nerds never realized that talking to the computer on star trek was a narrative device and it is very rare that anyone wants to so this except necessary hands free situations 25637129
Reposted by EILMicah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable 251829347
Reposted by EILdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026do people still actually brag about their IQ in the year 2026 is this some common public discourse today that i have just been blithely unaware of like that texas song 10797242
Reposted by EILDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine. 462214777
Reposted by EILKevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Bizarre framing to not note in the hed / dek that the bill includes voter ID requirements 710634
Reposted by EILJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11946781162
Reposted by EILCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/09/2026Ah I see the JCO coin flip has landed on "no" today 271295115
Reposted by EILae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026one of the most important things you should learn from arguing online and other places is that the way to be open-minded is not to be more accepting of the outgroup -- rather you should be more willing to consider that the ingroup are clowns 239361
Reposted by EILGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026one great thing about Mamdani's brand of cheerful competence is how ridiculous it makes his conservative critics look, like nobody is buying that the Mr Rogers dude who filled all the potholes is a wild eyed America hating extremist 771485
Reposted by EILmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks 462014495
Reposted by EILIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14480331972
Reposted by EILMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I think one of the most important parts about learning a language is learning how to explain your own culture, which is part of why I tried to explain the concept of Medieval Times in Spanish to my friend in Colombia today 2988151
Reposted by EILrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026until chicago pope i don’t think i ever truly understood that the pope is like a guy 25113979
Reposted by EILLauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I was told there was nothing more sacred to these people than women's sports. 013317
Reposted by EILTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Even if Smith had been in Atlanta, there really was nothing to Schmitt’s false accusation that he met Willis that day than that he happened to be in one the nation’s biggest cities?! 3091287
Reposted by EILJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/09/2026Getting ratioed on Musk’s site as a hard-right senator takes some real skill 371228125
Reposted by EILBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 274128262111
Reposted by EILMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026oh my fucking god, you have to watch this. eric schmitt just made himself the main character. 971938237
Reposted by EILJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026Jack Smith adopting the sort of bewildered deadpan affect of Coach Beard in 'Ted Lasso' throughout this clip might be the comic performance of the year 281067131
Reposted by EILJUCIFER🗑 @jucifer.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026so often you'll see ppl say about incarcerated folx, "well that's why it's called punishment" meanwhile this story is not an outlier 0197
Reposted by EILNome @nome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I apologize to the author of every literary or movie scumbag I ever called unrealistically shitty. 69012
Reposted by EILmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/07/2026PROTIP: Before responding to a post online, press “X” to equip EYEBALLS to perform the READ action to check if ten people have already said the same exact unfunny non-joke 291938217
Reposted by EILJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doingslate.comIt Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage. 151041261
Reposted by EILNE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/09/2026bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here 241360245
Reposted by EILColin @colin-fraser.net · 29/09/2026Another day working in AI Safety at a frontier lab. Everyone asks me if they can use the model without it hacking into the UN. Buddy, they won’t even let me use the model without it hacking into the UN. 635241
Reposted by EILNosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for 3443101212
Reposted by EILJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 28/09/2026we've gone from fake photo of shark swimming on a flooded highway to actual video of shark swimming on a flooded street. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...usatoday.com'Is that a shark?' Shark spotted swimming through nor'easter-flooded streetA New Jersey resident captured video of a shark swimming through floodwaters in his Surf City neighborhood as a strong nor'easter swept through the region. 2113
Reposted by EILMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/09/2026I haven't had anything to add re: Cornell, because I don't think anyone wants to use this space to reckon with the fact that none of these systems are meant to help you, unless you are a university seeking to minimize your legal exposure. It's not fair to ask strangers to reckon with that here. 658186
Reposted by EILMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 28/09/2026reaching a point where everyone is simply too stupid to do strategic ambiguity 635242
Reposted by EILRyan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives. 263944742