Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 4hThe thing is that we have lots of historical examples of new communication media drastically reconfiguring politics. It's not a unprecedented phenomenon 1362
Reposted by FyodorWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Who was president in 2020? Was the president's response to the emergency generally regarded as calming and effective? Was there general tranquility on the streets? 1233724
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026youtube.comLast Action Hero Best Scenes - Now You Turn 360 On Me?YouTube video by FilmScout 011
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Will is creating an abundance of bad replies from people who weren't adults sixteen years ago. 090
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There are all sorts of non-sentiment metrics that we can use to see if people are actually struggling badly. Things like eating out or expensive gifts or travel or nice hotels. These things all cratered in 2008. They all show people doing generally fine today. 030
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 28/09/20263000 people a day were dying from something that no one could see! We were trapped in our homes for more than a year. The president was telling people to drink bleach and doing deranged press conferences where he complained that people were exaggerating it to make him look bad. Also riots! 413117
Reposted by FyodorAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Is there a man in America whose inner child wouldn’t be healed by Kyle Chandler saying “great arm, kid” #LantersHBO #Lanterns 1241
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Kyle Chandler is so awesome and cool as the younger Hal. They should have just had that be the show rather than doing the epilogue of his career. 110
Reposted by FyodorSara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Union soldier clocks on to construction of whiteness: 26512
Reposted by FyodorNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“The Democrat campaigning in Texas shouldn’t be trying to get Republican votes” ok we need the election to happen now because some of you people aren’t making it to November 17110
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The responses from you people are psychotic. Trump won Texas by thirteen points. There is no path to winning Texas without some of his voters. This is the most anodyne of pitches to them. Grow up. 0111
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So I do think that they'll have a maybe 2018ish year, but here is the reason I'm not extremely optimistic. 1. Many more Americans are cooked by right wing media than in 2018. They're just not responsive to real world events. If you talk to some of these people, it's very different than ten years 1/2 4152
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A lot of these guys really were smart at some point but they have completely destroyed their brains with drugs and social media. If you listened to Karp, Thiel, Musk, Andreesen talk fifteen years ago they did sound like intelligent even thoughtful people but now sound completely deranged. 1927320
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It is true that these attacks should not be used to stifle criticism of Israel but it is also true that in Canada that the rhetoric against Israel veers into antisemitism in a way that is distinctly worse than in the US. 001
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My viral take is that part of what we are fighting over is an inability to separate practical from normative statements. There is a lot of advice that is good for maximizing your chances of getting hired that people are reading as approval of you not getting hired for arbitrary reasons. 140
Reposted by FyodorBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Circus owner: alright let’s hear it Musician: do do doo doo do do doo doo do do doo do do doo doo doo dooo do dooo! Doo doo do dooo! Doo do deh do do do doo Circus owner: this is tremendous, this is the jingle we’ve been looking for 1230826
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My father worked for someone who believed that tall people breathed better air several feet up and would only hire very tall people for management positions. 1224
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think that people are way over indexing Republican funding and strategy decisions and internal rumblings as showing some kind of secret information about the electorate. I don't think they have information better than the public polls. It is more likely the president is going to red states 1/2 121
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026THE LOOP: Sep 24 ✅ 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 www.britannica.com/games/loopbritannica.comThe Loop, a daily picture puzzle game | BritannicaEverything is connected: Arrange the pictures in a circle so that all links make sense. You have five tries to get it right. 000
Reposted by FyodorMeatwad Ron: Summer of Ron @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There is this weird obsession on Bluesky, in particular, to insist that Long COVID or COVID-related sequelae are the answer to everything, but as this Tufts study states: “Our primary analysis ends in 2019” It’s not COVID. These death rates have nothing to do with COVID. Jesus christ, people 1014720
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Republicans are going to need something new in 2028 and someone is going to recognize that a red brown alliance with antisemitism as the glue is there for the taking. 140
Reposted by FyodorMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Can folks please report this fake Matt? Thanks! 1816019
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think that your kid failing the algebra standardized test after getting an A in Algebra should at least be an invitation to investigate further rather than just reflexively dismissing the standardized tests as BS. That was an example where her ideological dislike of standardized testing 1/2 181
Reposted by FyodorStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them. 471830300
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026How old are your kids George? You can fill in a lot of gaps when they're coloring and learning to read. By fourth or fifth grade they really need to be learning things at school and you can't replace seven hours a day of insufficient learning in your extra time. 120
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The more I think about it, what happened with her daughter was in some way the least bad scenario. The kid still really wanted to learn. It was entirely plausible that her daughter just became an indifferent student with no real drive to do well. 040
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Maybe it's just that people here dont have kids or have younger kids but you should try convincing a fourteen year old to spend an extra two hours a day on something their peers and the other adults in their environment don't care about.Maybe you will succeed but I wouldn't bet their future on it. 0181
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026better public schools you vote for politicians and policies that will support those schools. Your obligation to your kid is to maximize their chances of success.3/ 071
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026want to pretend that school quality isn't real - they want to see it as a kind of bourgeois snobbery but it's the environment where your kids spend half their waking hours. The idea that that environment and the people who inhabit it, are not powerfully formative, is deranged. If you want 2/ 1132
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I think that people are greatly overestimating parents' ability, particularly as the kid gets older, to motivate them. This might work when they're five. If your kid at 13 is surrounded by kids that don't care about academic accomplishment you will not be able to get them to do so. People on here 1/ 1133
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Welcome to Bluesky where Jews praying in a synagogue on their holiest day deserve to be shot because of the actions of other Jews five thousand miles away. 22810
Reposted by Fyodorcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"I hope people read my thread and respond to what I said and not whatever they made up in their head," I said, posting on the Responding To Whatever You Made Up In Your Head website 212319266
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I don't know how to fix America's schools. I don't know how to unwind the effects of racism and inequality. But I can tell you for sure that you as a parent cannot fix a dysfunctional or poorly performing school. You cannot make the teachers better or fix the resource problems. If you send your 1/2 1101
Reposted by FyodorSuper Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Not sure who needs to hear this but if your public school sucks, your obligation is to leave if you have the means. 716210
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hypocrisy allegations are the weakest and most conflict free form of criticisms! It's just pathetic. Trump is a deranged petty tyrant. Call him that! Not this "oh can you imagine what the Republicans would say if *I * nuked Copenhagen " 000
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Like pre woke if had a guy who went around masturbating in front of women, even if he apologized you would still think that guy was a freak. You wouldn't want him at your house. You would be too worried that he'd whip it out again. 052
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The inability police this stuff is poisonous. The fact that so many people on the left dealy in woo anti corporate/pharma paranoia is why antivax has been so successful breaking sentiment through. Indulging in anti trade demogoguery is why the Democrats can't mobilize really resistance to the 1/2 1163
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I can tell you that Canadians aren't just paying attention to Canada but the absence of anyone in the American political system to really protest this extraordinary betrayal of what had been our closest ally and treading partner. It's absolutely despicable to see Democrats saying "nuking Manitoba 1/ 29016
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I will say in partial defense is that the facts on the ground have changed drastically during the last two years that people who formed their opinions two years ago might have opinions that were reasonable based on what was happening at the time. I was an AI skeptic until last year. But the 1/2 1142
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026data processing or generating text outputs or organizing information. Lots of people are thinking of ways to disagregate that stuff so they can fire fifty percent of their staff. 2/2 1201
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Some of this is underestimating what AI does but a lot of it misunderstanding how much human intellectual output is mechanical mental tasks or can be broken down as such. I hear people say "a computer can never replace a lawyer's judgment " and maybe that's so but how much of your job is that vs 1/ 1302
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There is less distance than you think between "we must respect and pander to people's crazed views on the economy or data centers even if they are wrong " and we"must respect and lender people's crazed views on integration or transgender kids in youth sports even if they are wrong." 1112
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There is less distance than you think between "we must respect and pander to people's crazed views on the economy or data centers even if they are wrong " and we"must respect and lender people's crazed views on integration or transgender kids in youth sports even if they are wrong." 1112
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Roe was repealed on the votes of moderate Republicans like Cory Gardner and Susan Collins who were not pro life on the trail but gave their parties control and went along with them when it was necessary . If pro life Republicans had sat out thos elections they would never have succeeded 0172
Reposted by FyodorFyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I sound like a crazy person saying it but Trump's abuses of the purse aren't even him "acting like a King" because British Kings historically couldn't do this. They overthrew Charles II for this kind of stuff. It's just naked despotism. 3504
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The time for changing the party's composition is during the primaries. By all means fight them in the primaries. But the idea that you should let an even worse Republican win as an object lesson is insane. How did this work for Nader voters in 2000. Good? 1144
Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Anti abortion and anti LGBT groups, who are deadly serious about holding power always endorse moderate Republicans over Democrats, correctly understanding them to be better than Republicans for their purposes. Our enemies understand these basic realities of American politics. 715615
