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Jason Goldman

@goldman.blue
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Text box aficionado, Escape Hatch Pod employee

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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 10/07/2026
Pretty much
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/03/2026
This is zuck one month after going on Rogan podcast claiming he would never takedown content based on government requests ever again
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 27/03/2026
Loved talking with Charlie. Always will have complicated feelings about the Bird but I continue to see new things (beautiful, terrible) in its history.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 27/03/2026
Kids love Bad Bunny. Asked Siri to play Tití Me Preguntó and she legit said “Now playing titty my pregenta” and no one could recover.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 19/03/2026
Part of a longer rant about Alex Karp, first round hall of fame for motivated reasoning.
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Escape Hatch @escapehatchpod.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Ben explains why we are no longer in control of when this situation ends. @haitch.bsky.social @goldman.blue
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 10/02/2026
7 year old now asks for us to turn off the music in the car as we pull up to drop off lest he be embarrassed
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 01/02/2026
Ok but that’s a banger tweet
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 01/02/2026
7yo: “Did you have stickers back in the 1900s?”
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 30/01/2026
7yo has his first loose tooth and it’s very exciting. But he already had his grown up teeth popped up behind the loose ones and it looks like staring into a sharks mouth rn
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
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Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 26/01/2026
r/xbiking comes through.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 21/01/2026
I’ve played since Vanilla launch. The game both has more depth and is more approachable than ever before. They’ve found a way to continually introduce new things while pruning stuff that got stale. The same core concepts are there but they’ve evolved and the things they’ve always done well
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 21/01/2026
FWIW I think WoW is the most fun it’s ever been
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 21/01/2026
Anyway all of this reminded me of the various Twitter API apocalypses in a number of ways.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 21/01/2026
I suspect this will be true for most of the playerbase. Navigating addons sucks. Having it natively will be a better solution for most users. But the power user part of the playerbase is going to feel incredibly screwed (even if it turns out they can mostly do what they were doing before.)
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 21/01/2026
And a lot of people are very upset that the third party UX addons they were using are now broken either permanently or temporarily. Obviously this makes sense. But I have to tell you. As a casual+ player? Blizz kinda crushed it. The new native UX is just better for me than what we had before.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 21/01/2026
The important point is that folks thought this was the end of all addons and that is very much not the case. But what is also true is that Blizzard wanted to offer natively a lot of the core third party UX enhancements that people were getting from addons.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 21/01/2026
In this latest release, Blizzard has clawed back a number of API hooks, limiting the way addons can work. Now, there is a lot of nuance I won’t unpack here in terms of what Blizzard said they were doing, how it was interpreted by players and addon devs, and what they ended up releasing.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 21/01/2026
For lo these many years there has been a robust third party developer ecosystem for Warcraft. This has enabled a high degree of customization of the player experience. In particular there are add-ons that both assist you to play the game better and allow you to completely replace the default UI.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 21/01/2026
I am a casual+ World of Warcraft player. Yesterday the “pre patch” for the next big expansion of the game dropped, introducing a bunch of new stuff. One of the biggest changes is the so-called AddOn Apocalypse.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 15/01/2026
KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF HER
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 15/01/2026
Listening to the Fellowship of the Rings with the kids for the first time. 5yo: “Why is there so much singing?!” Me: “Baby I’ve been wondering that for 40years”
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 13/01/2026
Opening scene of Industry s4e1 starts with a montage set to New Order’s True Faith. Best news of 2026 thus far.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 12/01/2026
Greatest world builder of all time and then he’s like: “Oh yeah, btw Merry writes a history on weed.” Legend shit.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 12/01/2026
It’s a funny bit of authorial interjection that every character who survives the adventures in Lord of the Rings settles down to write a history or appendix of some sort.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Maybe the FBI will be honest and not cover up, harass witnesses, destroy evidence, and obstruct justice. And maybe my hair will grow back. If the FBI agents do what I think they’re going to do, though, we should know their names, and they should never have another day of peace.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026
they're doing it for gender, imo
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 05/01/2026
The Hobbit film trilogy is kind of mid but Lee Pace as Thranduil is worth it. In this scene he’s really making some choices.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 01/01/2026
It’s going to get better from here. 2026 is our year; I feel it.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 28/12/2025
He can’t be stopped so we’re just trying to contain
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 28/12/2025
Update: he stole $100 from his mom
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 28/12/2025
Update: He nearly cracked a rib jumping off a ladder
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 27/12/2025
He had a friend shatter his wrist in a falling accident right in front of him. And rather than be a deterrent this has convinced him he is invincible.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 27/12/2025
Preview of a future disaster: 7yo: “do cats always land on their feet” Me: “that’s what they say” 7yo: “why” Me: “they’re just good at landing” 7yo: “am I good at landing?” Me: “dude please”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/12/2025
more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
It’s wild to me that there’s a senior government official who posts daily about how they don’t like Black & Brown people on social media and it’s not a scandal. It’s just background noise in the overall awfulness of the Trump administration.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/12/2025
Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 25/12/2025
Nearly died slipping on slime and should I perish this way I need my death to be politicized. Slime is a terrible gift for children. Terrorists give it as gifts and slime manufactures are the new ISIS.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This is what happens when you’re an unrepentant asshole your entire career
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 24/12/2025
And to my fellow Jews. Let’s just be crystal fucking clear. Idgaf if your great great grandfather was the Mayor of Deadwood during the Gold Rush. “Heritage” American will never ever include us.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 24/12/2025
Again this isn’t my interpretation or subtext. It’s the text. Contemporary hate groups and Civil War traitors to United States who rebelled to preserve slavery have GREATER claim to America than those without their ancestry.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 24/12/2025
This is the rationale for why he won’t denounce or exclude neo Nazis. It’s a more explicit rationale for why Confederate statues are to be preserved. He’s not arguing that Confederates are part of Southern heritage. He’s saying they have a greater claim on American than those who came later.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 24/12/2025
Important to read and understand this part of Vance’s July speech at Claremont. His argument about heritage Americans over creedal Americans as the proper standard is going to be a dominant debate at the heart of the next Presidential cycle.
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Jason Goldman @goldman.blue · 24/12/2025
Outer Wilds was a miracle of a game
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech.When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.”

What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
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