Reposted by The E-TRAINThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 17hSometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 16195561627
Reposted by The E-TRAINWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19hkinda perfect encapsulation of why 'nepo babies' in acting or entertainment directly are basically a non-issue (being a movie star is actually sorta meritocratic in that if you don't have the juice it doesn't matter how much money you have) but a huge deal in actual media ownership 1022623
Reposted by The E-TRAINMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 21hYes, that Russ Vought.Tthe force behind Project 2025. The one who secretly bragged to rich donors that age-verification laws were a backdoor censorship to get around the First Amendment. 39048
Reposted by The E-TRAINMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Let your sanctions for contempt leave your enemies verklempt when you are losing control of the political party of your success. 413322
Reposted by The E-TRAINmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former 423340705
Reposted by The E-TRAIN☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 07/09/2024post a meme made by you 013324
The E-TRAIN @erickblasco.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Everyone obviously knows about Mamdani, but Silwa's hilarious here. No wonder this oddball with a reprehensible political past is still relevant in NYC, and especially as a GOP member who didn't go full MAGA. Wanting to use the sticker to get on the subway instead of an OMNY card is a great bit! 020
Reposted by The E-TRAINmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i think this is true, the oligarchs are aware of this, and its why there's so much interest from in both exerting top-down control of LLMs and bottom-up corruption of them (by filling the internet - and therefore their training data - with fake propaganda) 312712
Reposted by The E-TRAINmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's fascinating to learn how many more kids die in ATV accidents every year than in e-bike accidents, then observing that there is a moral panic about kids riding e-bikes but not about kids riding ATVs. 591096162
Reposted by The E-TRAINjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973711438
Reposted by The E-TRAINthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz 362700433
Reposted by The E-TRAINDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 259184564879
Reposted by The E-TRAINJeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What's especially bad is that if Claude has moral standing then Anthropic is committing crimes against humanity by experimenting on a sentient being. 2287
Reposted by The E-TRAINTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120073119
Reposted by The E-TRAINCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571692054
Reposted by The E-TRAINBen K. @benjaminkabak.com · 30/09/2026I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn... 291206266
Reposted by The E-TRAINTremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline. 9886274
Reposted by The E-TRAINBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Absolutely embarrassing stuff 2253762
Reposted by The E-TRAINmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It seems to me like the policy case for making coaches sit out a year before switching schools is *much* stronger than the case for making transfer players do the same? A coach leaving for more money is far more disruptive! But as a society we valorize the old rich white guys and detest the players 517812
Reposted by The E-TRAINFinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026META AVOIDS BILLIONS IN FEDERAL TAXES BY CLASSIFYING ITS DATA CENTRES AS EXPERIMENTAL - NYT 0127
Reposted by The E-TRAINabdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026you can see re: the ruling on the NYC pied-a-terre tax vs the upcoming Medicaid changes - who is not expected to prove things to the government/who the government is expected to do the leg work for vs. who is expected to prove and document everything to the government 012644
Reposted by The E-TRAINHolly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026now here is a level set 413415
Reposted by The E-TRAINHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this is probably 50% pandering 50% "if i can save even one child from seed oils, even at the cost of my business, it was worth it. i believe this because as a small restaurant owner i am criminally insane" 2363
Reposted by The E-TRAINryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents 382473528
Reposted by The E-TRAINcatren parker dot come @jon-snow-420.bsky.social · 28/09/2026bold of mike flanagan to give carrie a huge unwieldy boner 391131160
The E-TRAIN @erickblasco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Cant believe he made something so powerful about the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection 120
The E-TRAIN @erickblasco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026omg I just got an ad for the fucking yacht collection 110
The E-TRAIN @erickblasco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Glanced across this pic too quickly and thought why is Mamdani talking to Rob Lowe and Weyoun? 000
Reposted by The E-TRAINMike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman. 149122432051
Reposted by The E-TRAINPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I received an EXCELLENT education at City College where I received my MA in Sociology. And I was debt free. I attended PT while working FT. I'm a ride or die for the CUNY system. Once again, one of the best parts of NYC. 734332
Reposted by The E-TRAINPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded. 23994182
The E-TRAIN @erickblasco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thought Whalefall was like Moonfall where a whale crashes into the Earth 021
Reposted by The E-TRAINRob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 26/09/2026I'll be at NYCC Booth 3560 next month, come get a really stupid sketch drawn badly by yours truly 253534
Reposted by The E-TRAINRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the game between South Alabama and Kentucky shows up abbreviated as a War of 1812 rematch 421386181
The E-TRAIN @erickblasco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026X too. A Gracie's Corner song used "X-Factor" as the X word lol 000
Reposted by The E-TRAINryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 12252981370
The E-TRAIN @erickblasco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I was looking to spend my life's savings on a few nights aboard a luxury yacht and was happy to learn that Ritz-Carlton was an option. The ad worked 110
Reposted by The E-TRAINMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org. 11973091624
Reposted by The E-TRAINJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It would be funny if it happened before he had a chance to sign all the pardons, and then JD Vance goes on to secure the 2028 GOP nomination by prosecuting Rubio and Hegseth for all the crimes. 1324
Reposted by The E-TRAINJohn Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Good morning with good news: Full-electric vehicles were 51% of Uruguay's auto sales in August, with EV sales up 171%, compared to August 2025! Plug-in hybrids were 5% of sales, so EVs were 56% of auto sales. EVs surged from 5% to 50% in just 2.5 years! cleantechnica.com/2026/09/24/u... #energysky 39219
Reposted by The E-TRAINmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026not an accident or a fuck up — part of the conservative plot to destroy universities and higher education generally 949894
Reposted by The E-TRAINOccam's Machete @eddiestats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I maintain everything we've lived/are living thru is predicated on the #ArabSpring thats the moment the Ps that Be realized social media had the potential to usher them the F off the stage of history & they need to get a handle on it everything since has been a Info-Pipeline war 410923
Reposted by The E-TRAINe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨 411447550
