sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There’s lot to hate here but tech guys lobbying for favorable opinions from the pope is loser shit. New WPA to makes nerds feel bad about themselves again. 000
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It continues to be extremely odd that the group who most strongly wants the American public to believe things are going well right now is liberal technocrats  011
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026She should do the ol switcheroo again and quit but pretend she was fired for her brave opinions 030
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And yet they say the state of the world is bad and technocrats go on and on as if it’s some great mystery that people feel that way 000
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When there is a disconnect between people’s reported lived experience and the data there is usually an underlying value system at play explaining the contradiction. At some point there is more to gain from interrogating the value system than in continuing to flog the data. 130
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Evidence based policy movement that took hold in the ‘10s was terrible for dems because it made them think they could do policy without having to dirty their hands with politics and that’s just not the case 000
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Someone else might see this and ask what else might be going on to explain the disconnect between the data and people’s experiences but not Will 010
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026really feels like some of these people want Covid to cause cancer because they see it as a just punishment for people who’ve not behavied in what they see as the correct way 160
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This place has the best discourse (not saying much, but still) of any social media site, but it’s so profoundly unfun that it makes it hard to spend time here 020
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dems position themselves as the party that cares about people but their constant chatter about how people are stupid undercuts that claim and there’s no desire to resolve that tension  020
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This way of thinking has infected democratic politics as well and it’s part of why a lot of people find them so off putting 030
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026static.klipy.comAirport Whoopsy: Man Unplugs Something ImportantAlt: Airport Whoopsy: Man Unplugs Something Important 030
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The Sopranos is good not great, like a solid 7.8 show, it’s only because it was one of the first prestige shows that it’s remembered so fondly 000
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Oh you pulled your kid from the bad public school during Covid to send them to the $50k/yr private school and now our kids have ended up at the same college?static.klipy.comAntonio Banderas' Satisfied ReactionAlt: Antonio Banderas' Satisfied Reaction 000
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My kids will have spent their entire K-12 educations at middling to bad (per qualitative parent determinations) city public schools and now that one of them has graduated it’s neat to look back and assess the different decisions parents made 100
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This isn’t a societal problem we need to worry about as the number of parents keeping their kids in bad schools for ideological reasons is tiny. There are exponentially more nice liberal parents who pull their kids from ‘bad’ schools for amorphous reasons so I’ll continue to focus on that group. 160
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sure but improved business processes is something that’s been happening pretty continuously for the last 30+ years and does not require the world-changing press AI has received. As a white collar professionals this disconnect has made me more skeptical rather than less. 010
Reposted by sarahJohn Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The real AI risk is to culture, and therefore to humanity itself, albeit in a slightly different way than is being said.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/reason-v-r...unpopularfront.newsReason v. RuleThe Real AI Risk is to Culture Itself 15519
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Been saying we need to bring back snobbery but an important part of doing snobbery right is not being loud about it and people are now also incapable of that 010
Reposted by sarahKAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Democrats whenever some dumb fool Democrat decides to open their dumb fool mouth to say something both dumb and foolish. 543468
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Acknowledging this is true still seems best for dems to operate as if every poll is at least 2-3% more favorable than voting actuals will be 000
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It’s hard for me to believe that so many liberals still don’t understand that conservatives are happy to do away with many of the foundational civic institutions of our society 040
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It also won’t work because conservatives don’t care about college. Any attempt at major reform to the university system would be an opportunity for them to further diminish it.  120
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026In the ‘10s libs convinced themselves that with solid evidence they’d get good bipartisan policy passed and that never happened because most people are driven by values not data. Anyway a lot of republicans don’t care about test scores because they value obedience over learning. 010
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Started using Threads about six months ago and it pains me to say that it can sometimes be fun in the way old Twitter was 010
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026If getting, keeping, and rising in a job is seen as of highest importance, people will make a lot of moral and ethical trade-offs to maintain that even if theoretically they have a value system that’s different or better than what they do in practice 141
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026One of my kids is off to college in a couple of days and something I’ve been noodling on over the last year is how the children of liberal, upper class parents can end up being valueless and swayed by reactionary politics because of the extreme emphasis placed on careerism  150
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026There are a substantial number of establishment who agree with her 040
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026normal people hate being condescended to, they would much rather be told to go fuck themselves,  but dem institutionalists are addicted to infantilizing people under the guise of empathy  0231
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Exhibit infinity of dems confusing infantilization for empathy. Normal people hate this shit, just treat them like adults 021
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Hard to believe the ‘you’re all going to lose your jobs and we don’t care’ machine isn’t more popular 070
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I would love this tho maybe Minneapolis needs a different selection than The Power Broker (but I’d also be fine with that) 010
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026did we ever get a good answer as to what time of day the after midnight rule ends in the gremlins universe 110
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The extent to which liberals just do not understand human nature or human behavior or people generally is really mind-boggling given how obsessed they are with how smart they are  0180
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Just generally liberals, especially those who are really focused on data, struggle to accept that these are the kinds of issues that motivate people because they see it as silly and not serious or worthy of their time 070
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This is true of modern politics generally which is that in an increasingly complicated landscape people funnel broad sentiment into a few specific issues 010
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026We’ve kind of memory holed how crazy the right was back in the 90s like they were just as crazy as they are now but they just didn’t have a way to proliferate it like they can with social media 000
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This is the rare issue that unites people across the political spectrum so pols who want to be for data centers have to be like extremely compelling and few dem politicians can pull that off 000
sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I’ve met the actual, singular Pete Hegseth and he was wasted and bloviating at the time so I’ll accept no substitutes 151
