Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 1hIt is very disorienting to live in a society that is collectively losing its goddamned mind. I suppose lots of people have always known this. But feeling it is, for me, a rather new experience. 110
Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 2hJFC. One of those posts where I really start to question the life choices, or indeed the broad cultural choices, that have led me to the point where this presents itself as a "leftist" position I'm supposed to engage with 120
Reposted by Glenn MackinAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 4hFox News "reported that the raid followed a criminal fraud investigation into the Minnesota lawmaker's paperwork, filled out by her late father when she was a child." www.usnews.com/news/world/a...usnews.com 48130
Reposted by Glenn MackinChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent. 8562213
Reposted by Glenn MackinJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The best bath 2678992
Reposted by Glenn MackinCatherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Yesterday was one of those rare and beautiful autumn days where the sun shone and there was barely a breath of wind. Unfortunately today normal service has resumed with wind and rain aplenty #Shetland 420121
Reposted by Glenn MackinDan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 08/10/2026Yeah, so this "leaked" audio is from a radio interview that came out in March of 2026. You know what to do with this account.dscc.orgQUICK CLIPS: Tafoya Tells Minnesotans to “Take One Less Trip to Starbucks” and to “Just Try to be Patriots” as Gas Prices Skyrocket - DSCC 1135
Reposted by Glenn MackinCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out. Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.public-inspection.federalregister.gov 6329152
Reposted by Glenn MackinCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is incredible. I tell people that France is the place for me because of the cheese and wine and cigarettes and art and bad attitude but it's also because this kind of behavior is French as hell too. 1362491
Reposted by Glenn Mackingreyhoundfanatic.bsky.social @greyhoundfanatic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We're dog-sitting best boy Rip for the next five days! Expect to see a video or two of him rooing over the course of his stay! 1546222
Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I've thought that for a while too. In many cases, I'm not at all clear what people mean by it 010
Reposted by Glenn MackinJames A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I've seen some important critiques of this argument, to which I'm very sympathetic, but I'm going to leave them to the experts who raised them. Instead, I'm interested in how this intersects with a reading I'm teaching today that includes discussion of Rachel Louise Carson, a marine biologist. 1144
Reposted by Glenn MackinSimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Take her away, boys." "I thought you said the law was powerless." "Powerless to help you, not punish you." 21009266
Reposted by Glenn MackinMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides. 6548291129
Reposted by Glenn MackinKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying. 843127815
Reposted by Glenn MackinDanielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The thing I've been mulling: for every horrifying sexual assault story you hear, there are 100 stories that don't quite reach the level of "report this to the police immediately" but still are traumatic, still have long, long effects. 1/ 319538
Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The "minor tweak" also ends up targeting things like music degrees at Juilliard. He is just such an uninformed pos 000
Reposted by Glenn MackinFrog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Hurry!” said Frog. “We will run and catch it.” “No!” shouted Toad. “I cannot do that.” “Why not?” asked Frog. “Because,” wailed Toad, “running after my list in not one of the things that I wrote on my list of things to do!” 422126
Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Christ, that Altman cover: My eyes have rolled so far back in my head that I'm not sure I'll ever be able to see again. 010
Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026That's a very good way of putting it. The entirety of the "justification" of this level of investment is a set of religious-speculative claims about what it might do sometime in the future. 030
Reposted by Glenn MackinDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Donald Trump will never be on a ballot again. People across the political spectrum are just gonna have to make peace with that. 320613
Reposted by Glenn MackinOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 10041591265
Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A lot of people are saying that aspirin doses are a major concern to swing voters this year 3635
Reposted by Glenn MackinMalaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If Trump had a single person who loved him more than they love the power that they gain from being near him, they would get him the care he needed years ago. But not a single person loves him enough. That’s it; that’s his legacy. 2212
Reposted by Glenn MackinDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The line for the Phoebe Bridgers concert in Detroit! All one line for some reason 2845
Reposted by Glenn MackinMark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026First no taco trucks on every corner, now this. 13813
Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm from a borderland region in southern Ohio. My mom taught in a school that was very definitely Appalachian (out in the boonies, as we said at the time). But where I lived really wasn't (more straightforwardly suburban). Anyway, I never use the word "holler," except perhaps ironically 020
Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Oooh, you absolutely need to do more fashion-posting! 1130
Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I will say, more seriously, that the prospect of riding my bike to work in pre-dawn darkness is not terribly enticing (I know riding home in post-sunset darkness isn't fun either, but my schedule is such that this basically never happens for me) 010
Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We should just get rid of clock time altogether 120
Reposted by Glenn MackinDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Thank you once again Politico for providing a canonical example of when not to grant anonymity. 241110147
Reposted by Glenn MackinDana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Next Wednesday evening, Oct. 7, I'm talking to @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social at Old First Church in Brooklyn about her new book, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature. The ticket includes a copy of the book. Come out if you're so inclined! www.emilyrcwilson.com/appearances/...emilyrcwilson.comOld First Reformed Church with Dana Stevens (Brooklyn, NY USA) — Emily WilsonEmily Wilson presents Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea, in conversation with Dana StevensWednesday October 7th, 2026 @ 7:00PM - 8:30PM Wilson will discuss her new book, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys... 58619
Reposted by Glenn MackinKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket. 401427286
Reposted by Glenn MackinFrog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Frog and Toad sat on the porch, feeling sad together. 016120
Reposted by Glenn MackinJay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 02/10/2026Having had my 20-year-old daughter Robyn killed in part because of unprotected bicycle infrastructure the protected bicycle lanes should stay! These save lives... 22810
Reposted by Glenn MackinKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026This is a good @billmckibben.bsky.social post - and this specific part is extremely important and touches on a tension right deep at the heart of all this It is worth repeating this point persistently, because it has been forgotten in so many spaces billmckibben.substack.com/p/reform-or-... 33315
Reposted by Glenn MackinAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s interesting to me that no one ever follows up on this. Do you think you have superior genetics? If so why? And i think it’s because everyone knows what it means so it would be uncomfortable to ask 1560847
Reposted by Glenn Mackinwheatles @wheatles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh god, they did @brainmage.bsky.social's poem. 04020
Reposted by Glenn MackinElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next. 571620265
Reposted by Glenn MackinPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/06/2024What about this one? A news anchor found out her license info had been illegally pulled up 3,800 times over 10 years by curious and horny cops. The city settled for $33,000 www.inforum.com/news/tv-news...inforum.comTV news anchor, who claims police snooped on her license data more than 3,800 times, reaches settlementST. PAUL-After a Twin Cities TV anchor said St. Paul officers looked up her private driver's license information for non-law enforcement purposes, the city council agreed Wednesday, Jan. 3, to settle ... 411624
Reposted by Glenn MackinJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I wrote about the Trump administration attempting to deport an anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew to Israel, and what it says about the conditions of Jewish identity imposed by the administration's "anti-antisemitism" campaign. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/01/t...religiondispatches.orgTrump Admin Trying to Deport Anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew “Home” to IsraelThe Trump administration is trying to deport Yehonatan Ovadia, a Satmar Hasidic religious teacher in Rockland County, New York. His alleged offense: taking part in a 2023 protest against an Israeli fl... 317485
Reposted by Glenn MackinAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru... 382253483