Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialJohn Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think any phenomenon that has a noticeable change in trend or direction in roughly 2010-2012 should be considered to be phone or SM-related until proven otherwise (as a lay heuristic, not as replacement for actual data and analysis) 1333
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh yeah, that's my point, I will be fucking thrilled as long as we're not setting new records for GOP margins in Miami-Dade for the tenth time in a row. 081
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media... 13393118
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialWannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026there is no opinion so strange, absurd, or nonsensical that someone, somewhere, doesn’t hold it with 100% dead seriousness 1835
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026that said, it is bad when people are not embarrassed to say horrifying reactionary shit in public 11192
florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I talked to a coworker yesterday and discovered that they have only ever played one video game, and that was overwatch, and they did so quite intensely but never played anything else. Thats such a funny game to have as your only video game. 000
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So we've now discovered the magic new technology of ::checks notes:: patriarchy...in allowing wealthy male elites to seem super-productive by also appropriating the cognitive labor of women who remain mostly uncredited. 🎉 Everything is Gender, Exhibit Eleventeen Billion. 126720
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026basic summary of the essay: 759953
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialTheo Landsman @ordinalandsman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026A lot of people on here also struggle with the inverse, if your political orbit is suddenly filled with people with dogged intensity and clarity of purpose and all of the losers and posers who used to make it harder to do things have showed their true colors, you are losing very badly. 0345
florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I hope no one minds if I steal the "text elemental" framing. 030
florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Sometimes I think its not great that we've all cognitively offloaded say, navigation, but it sure is much quicker and easier to get around unfamiliar places now. It's that phenomenon on steroids and the impacts are hard to predict. 010
florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Clearly "deliverism" had flaws as a political strategy, but it beats the hell out of doing the opposite and claiming you delivered. 000
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026and now these trumpheads are crying crocodile tears about the terror they've unleashed on the american body politic. the coup party "party of coups" is having a big sad that their opponents are also now coup-curious. sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. you stupid fucking children. 29920148
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialAmateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026they got you with Gandalf's trick on Beorn with the 12 dwarves (and a hobbit), lol 0631
florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just gonna note that this is essentially a confession 010
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialPMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"whoever pays the most gets the water" is an understandably unpopular idea but it is significantly better than "whoever's great-great-grandpappy was the first white man to farm the land gets the water" 0293
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/09/2026I believe that all people should be free to live and work where they want to, irrespective of legal and cultural borders. This includes people who I personally do not want to hang out with. 1125824
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026in fact much of the time its better that you don't 214218
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026oh fuck off, this whole 'if only you had learnt an incredibly time-consuming skillset you have no particular interest in to do this one task that took ten minutes' bullshit is increasingly weak. I wish for automation to *do the things I don't want to do.*. Is that a hard fucking concept? 1723
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialClear Shakespeare @clearshakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Pete Hagueseth 1543
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 18/09/2026dudes rock www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...nytimes.comCan Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished? (Gift Article)The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go. 5732108
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialSophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm a Meta-Effective Altruist™️ I believe that Effective Altruism needs to be redistributed from where it is least effective (Silicon Valley sex cultists) to where it would be most effective (British pensioners who leave their life savings to the Donkey Sanctuary). 952767
florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Most of it is insane, but he does have a pretty aggressive rhetorical style and will simply never stop keeping up his end of the conversation, so all the most insane people have found someone to fight with who will reliably fight back instead of blocking. 010
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialSunsette / Cynthia Skye @sunderedmarches.com · 28/08/2026He is offended and insecure at the fact that someone¹ might be² morally his superior. He must remove any evidence it was there and trample the benefactor underfoot. ¹ basically everyone ² is 1433
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/09/2026To be clear - I don’t think this is a sign that voters understand second order effects, I think they’re looking at Trump and going “that guy is clearly full of shit”, which is way worse for him 867959
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialJón Frímann @jonfr500.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The most interesting thing about this. It doesn't seems to have gone into the thought of this people that not everything is connected to the internet and things can be disconnected from the internet too. 051
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The reason why online discourse places so much value on saying the right things rather than doing the right things is because if you're exclusively online, the only thing you can do is say (poast) the right things 07210
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialEd @notdred.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I for one am grateful to the Trump administration for (a) quickly decarbonizing our economy and (b) enabling the world’s greatest reenactment of the plot of “Dune” 219321
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Fortunately actual politicians don’t really care about niche website posts by non-voters with untreated anxiety disorders 418811
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now. 501157156
florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The shady Russian is named *Kremlev*?! Can we get some new writers? These ones are hacks and I'm sick of it. 010
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialBrittany @sameoldstory.co · 13/09/2026You can tell this is true because of how people talk about boycotts they’re in. Nobody is interested in how/if it’s actually impacting the companies, it’s all about feeling dirty for having slipped up once or judging people who didn’t commit to the cause and are still shopping on Amazon or whatever 2504
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialKent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026No Democratic legislature has ever voted to restrict trans rights. It is entirely a GOP project. That these two maps match is no coincidence. 0201
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialDEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 12/09/2026at some point we gotta collectively remember that individual senators are basically not agents in any government, and that they matter primarily in terms of which caucus drives the chamber 331
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialComing Up Violets 🎨commissions open🖌️ @comingupviolets.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That’s a good disclaimer, since we are all clearly seeing each new thing and thinking, “ok what fresh new f**ery is this?” 071
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Also, worth noting that at the time I could have a dinner made of oreos and surge, play Ultima Online until 3am, wake up bright-eyed and guilt-free, and with a plan to do it all again the next night. Someone should bring that back, too. 1040014
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialKeith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Doesn't help that around the time a tech guy starts to gain breakthrough levels of notoriety into being a household name, is usually around the same time the brainworms start to set in. 1301
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialSiobhán @shibbi.me · 10/09/2026Tweak: maximalist copyright sucks because, being maximalist and therefore untenable, it tends to accumulate unprincipled exceptions. 0433
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialChris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Sometimes it seems like actual investment capital is so concentrated in the USA these days that we're recapitulating the failures of central planning without either a formal central committee or an ideological aversion to markets. 2385
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026i hate these stupid fucking morons so much 51937
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialWannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026the median jewish-american zionist is sincere in their preference for a liberal solution, they’re just usually lying *to themselves* about the reality of what Israel actually is, which is, while not great, still a very different viewpoint than “mamdani is hamas” 06311
florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Reading this stuff from 2026, the tone is uncomfortably familiar tbh. 000
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I'm constantly frustrated that people always seem to lean into the "it's all fake" or "we're months away from the sky robots eating your children", both of which are very substantially deranged and deflect a ton of attention away from the real harms and benefits that society needs to be focusing on 6312
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialноваясара @skc703.bsky.social · 07/09/2026oh ok so everything is just going to be stupid forever i see 0443
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialMilitary Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026There is a huge mass of apathetic voters *loud correct ding* Who can be rallied around an egalitarian/progressive/socialist cause *ear shatteringly loud incorrect buzzer* 132748
florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I have said before that tightening the definition of fraud in advertising would be surprisingly close to a silver bullet to a whole host of our problems. And by tightening I mean "put your most curmudgeonly pensioner in charge of deciding what is a scam" 131
florian23.bsky.social @florian23.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"Social media mobilizes habitual nonvoters to turn out for fascists" Might be the skeleton key to understanding politics post 2016. Will Stancil is probably exactly right about this unfortunately. 082
Reposted by @florian23.bsky.socialpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims 14066901070