Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 18hWhat is Musk’s legal exposure regarding anti-bigamy laws? When do his actions create de facto marriages? His whole personal life is structured abuse that society needs to stop. I think family structure can and should be fluid and chosen. But still, abuse is abuse. 010
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 19hLook forward to the most active lame duck session in a century. All of it horrible. 000
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 21hAnd the murderer kicks back with Trump and his family, playing FIFA on his blood-soaked PlayStation. 000
Reposted by Fritz Swansonpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 159109872346
Reposted by Fritz SwansonMemento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026me tomorrow 142006465
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Re-Encounter the ancient internet by asking Google: “Can you talk like poor mojo’s giant squid?” (Because they stole it all to train Gemini, but whatever). It’s ruefully fun. 000
Reposted by Fritz SwansonWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just a massive human trafficking ring, forcing vulnerable people from place to place, ruining their lives, all to make a buck 332499
Reposted by Fritz SwansonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…robertreich.substack.comSenator Abdul El-SayedHe would be good for Michigan and good for the United States 318166723734
Reposted by Fritz SwansonAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🍏Toxins out of our food 🧑🌾Farmers first, not chemical companies ❌Break up corporate concentration in agriculture 💧Clean water, guaranteed 🍽️School meals that nourish 💸Public dollars should buy public health ⚕️Food as medicine ⚖️Accountability for polluters, not immunity 15472102165
Reposted by Fritz SwansonRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day. 751104893474
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have students write personal essays about whatever’s happened in the last two weeks. I’ve assigned this paper for 20+ years. They always complain that “my life is so boring” and often I just chuckle and encourage them. But yesterday, while editing one of their essays in class, I burst into tears. 120
Reposted by Fritz SwansonJasmine @feistybunnygirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Remember when they kicked an entire girl’s softball team out of the championship game because a player posted a private Snapchat where she was flipping off the camera? It’s funny how they never worry about ruining girl’s futures. 7461461386
Reposted by Fritz SwansonAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it. 539159924459
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ten years ago I led my grad students at Wolverine Press in a letter for letter and line for line resetting of the G gathering of the 1604 Hamlet, based on the Folger library copy. We did it using Caslon 471, because the Elizabethan Pica Roman is lost. These are images of the project. 150
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The bulk of the people near power get their power from people with more power, which makes them deferential to power, and credulous of power. It’s a cultural problem. And it’s why they get duped by stupid shit. This is why wealth concentration is so dangerous. Small groups are easy to dupe. 000
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Chris Hansen’s reaction to PRIMETIME proves the thesis of the movie. 000
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Trump wants to be sued for his propaganda ad so he can get organic reach. 011
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Language affects us. What we read and hear and say matters. We need to treat language much more seriously. AI risk just clarifies the deeper issue. 010
Reposted by Fritz SwansonMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o... 58754861504
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The AI industry that is begging for government regulation (on exactly their terms) so they can settle their prisoner’s dilemma insisted that we elect President Trump (who refuses to regulate them) because Democrats suggested a hint of regulation. We got Iranwargasinflationclimatercrisis as a bonus. 100
Reposted by Fritz SwansonParis Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 1533461491
Reposted by Fritz SwansonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026Murphy: "On April 30 -- a Thursday -- Reynolds makes an $8m donation. On Saturday, they have lunch w/POTUS & tell him they want a change in rules for flavored vapes. The president calls FDA commissioner & HHS sec, & on Tuesday new guidance is issued paving way to the sale of flavored vapes ... " 952383918
Reposted by Fritz SwansonThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026inflicting pain is not the same as winning, which is why there's only one Vietnam 612613
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One of the deepest American flaws is the twin beliefs that violence is always the most sensible and direct approach, followed by always being baffled when violence has negative and complicate consequences. I think it's older than Iraq. Guns in movies did this. A movie gun is just an off switch. 130
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you write a thought down, it becomes a claim. If it’s public, you need to defend it. If you defend it, it turns from thought to identity. Social media has invited billions of people to make trillions of public claims that would have otherwise never been made. Society is thus more brittle. 100
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE. I’m descended from Walter Fitzgibbons, a Norman knight whose line ultimately establishes Clan Hamilton. There is no ethnicity. The Normans are Vikings who invaded France, then England. Then a lot settled in the lowlands of Scotland. 110
Reposted by Fritz SwansonAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026travel ball needs to be banned, the only organized youth sports allowed should be free and available to everyone 2159743
Reposted by Fritz Swansonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026this is a genuinely crazy story 11955271179
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026AI isn’t “thinking”. It’s running through all permutations and exploring all limits at once. It’s just No Face.static.klipy.comNo Face from Spirited Away: Thanksgiving FeastALT: No Face from Spirited Away: Thanksgiving Feast 010
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“We hacked the FBI” has strong Alaric I vibes. 010
Reposted by Fritz SwansonAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026a lot of dodge charger repossessions in the coming months 312853400
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The thread of political change is hard to track. But the cornerstone of conservatism is sexual conservatism. Patriarchal dominance is key. Yet modern Republican politics, especially Gen X, is focused on personal libertarianism. The Venn Diagram is "I can do anything I want so long as you can't." 210
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Even though the old media system was better in some respects to today's algo driven social media hellscape, it doesn't mean the old system was good. But still I would trade the robots for bad human editors every day of the week. The bad human editors were at least constrained by their humanity. 031
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026““When so many people hesitate to have children,” Sussman writes, “what is lost is not simply future taxpayers or consumers. We miss out on the rich relationships that bond us across generations, on the flood of love and tenderness that caring for children, or simply being around them”apple.newsWhat’s Really Behind the Baby Bust? — The New YorkerPeople say they want more children than they’re having. Is modern life stopping them—or have our ideas about a good life changed? 120
Reposted by Fritz SwansonJ. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I get that people are afraid dems will lose but what use are politicians that wont stand up for marginalized people _specifically in this moment_. The scale of what needs to be done requires people with courage not just another spineless politicians. We have hundreds of those right now. To what use? 317547
Reposted by Fritz SwansonDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault. 433129789
Reposted by Fritz SwansonAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In Michigan, we're having to skimp on staples at the grocery store like meat and peanut butter just so we can fill up our gas tank for $5 a gallon and pay our outrageous monopoly utility bills. 22090192599
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026That gigantic bag is emblematic of Trump’s unsustainable approach to labor. Undeveloped work environments demand single workers to exploit themselves to the point of exhaustion. Developed work environments share the load, but demand collaboration and consensus. The Unitary Executive is nonsense. 100
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I know this is an asshole guy. But I am trying to remove productivity arguments from all my persuasions. And I want everyone to try the same. No more “dollar value” or “labor value” arguments. How about human things are good for human reasons. Being healthy makes me feel good, and I am mortal. 030
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There's a package on this porch? Why the fuck not? 000
Reposted by Fritz SwansonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026Trump: "I could've banned fishing. The power of this office is crazy. I could've banned fishing. I think I'm gonna do that." 10283532985
Reposted by Fritz SwansonRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Time for some positive news … 3297166472479
Reposted by Fritz SwansonBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...ballsandstrikes.orgA Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter FraudHis conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds. 408104922655
Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is the republican party. Too distracted by the immediate opportunity for theft to even follow through on the boring work of holding on to power. 000