Reposted by J HartyAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 16/10/2026politics aside, if you bought into 'musk is a supergenius' stuff at all you were a fool (if you were a person whose job it was to pay attention and have opinions for money, not everyone pays attention of course) 932118 0
Reposted by J HartyDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 8039121131 0
Reposted by J HartyDiedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!” 914107707 0
Reposted by J HartyMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The script is a miracle of structure, economy, wit, and detail that never lets the work show. Gilroy's take on working musicians feels so honest, & Pedro Pascal is so graceful. What he does in the last 10 minutes...Oscar folks, you might wanna give him the spot you were holding for whatsisname. 3704 0
Reposted by J HartyKate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I reposted an old interview I did with Bong Joon Ho about PARASITE from 2019 today and this quote hit like a wrecking ball: "I think maybe there is no borderline between countries now because we all live in the same country, it’s called capitalism." 212835 0
Reposted by J Harty[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026good God, 90% of the enjoyment that comes from collecting vinyl records and/or other recorded media comes from what you experience and discover by associating with and talking to other subcultural weirdos 0143 0
Reposted by J HartyShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ronaldo is the living embodiment of the uncle who sits in a chair drinking beer criticizing the kids playing football and then when they get mad and ask him to prove he can do it better he reluctantly schools them then goes back to drinking beer and complaining about their game 41409 0
Reposted by J HartyPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's really really difficult to see what's happening to you from inside your own life. You can't tell that you're being coarsened until you leave an environment that is key to making you more coarse. That's my experience at least. 535363 0
Reposted by J HartyMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026By the time I was in my early thirties, I knew that if I wanted (and needed professionally) to keep up with movies, TV, and theater, AND I liked to read, that music was just gonna sort of go on without me. It's one reason that I will never mock someone for unfamiliarity with a piece of pop culture. 51845 0
Reposted by J HartyMeghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Quite the baseball sky at Fenway tonight: 0915 0
Reposted by J HartyMicah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026genuinely I think we would be in a better place, morally, as a society if all of these fraudsters were in jail and people saw that there were consequences for behaving in such a flagrantly antisocial manner rather than endlessly lucrative rewards 131037101 0
Reposted by J Hartyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot” 639106091976 0
Reposted by J HartyScaryKate DoubleBOOOO @sarakatew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@sannewman.bsky.social what a dream! 31108 0
Reposted by J HartyPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"To experience a crisis is to inhabit a world that is temporarily up for grabs." - William Davies 38423 0
Reposted by J HartyMicah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing 222088428 0
Reposted by J HartyDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026One of the contestants on Sewing Bee has just said "I'm going to stop doing this because it's just going to stress me out". I did not know this was an option for anything ever. A revelation. 3779 0
Reposted by J HartyPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Some of you on here simply never know who you should ACTUALLY be mad at and instead spend your time punching down. You should ALWAYS punch up but some of you seem afraid to do so. 10827170 0
Reposted by J HartyViktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day the boys are back in town 1030259 0
Reposted by J HartyAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Students often come to me ashamed, saying they don’t know why so much is going wrong (health, injuries, family), that they feel cursed & fear teachers will think they’re lying. When I say it’s normal, everyone is having crises b/c mind & body r worn down by world crisis, they’re so relieved they cry 219039 0
Reposted by J Harty[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 09/09/2026these people individually + collectively lack the capacity for creating and curating meaningful culture and it continuously pushes them in the direction of envious, narcissistic sabotage of those who are capable of creating and curating meaningful culture 4487 0
Reposted by J HartyMicah @rincewind.run · 08/09/2026it's basically impossible to not be a huge asshole, personally, if you work in republican politics 726727 0
Reposted by J Hartyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026"this republican politician is a total piece of shit" is like a dog bites man story at this point www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...nytimes.comRoger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished. 722931632 0
J Harty @jharty42.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"If you've got a spare half a million you could knock it down and start rebuilding" 000 0
Reposted by J HartyNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026For single digit billionaires, this year’s Labor Day hits different. Here, they explain in their own words. 762960 0
Reposted by J HartyMicah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026there’s a lot more nuance to it but as a basic principle you could do a lot worse than unions good, billionaires bad happy Labor Day, everyone 447183 0
Reposted by J HartyKevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I pity the fool that only values education in so far as it will earn you a specific wage. 19712 0
Reposted by J HartyfuturedadOfTwo🙋🏻♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 11/04/2026Lynyrd Skynyrd was all like “lord knows i can’t change” and then immediately changed tempos 211058218 0
Reposted by J Hartyjab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 01/09/2026i always love it when sports surprise the people who play them and there's just a moment when you can see the kid wide-eyed and peeking through years of seeing everything 228336 0
Reposted by J HartyThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/08/2026Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.” 368197734806 0
Reposted by J HartyAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 30/08/2026occasionally british journalists let slip that most of their "colleagues" are just running propaganda (in both news and opinion) for various right wing rich people causes and then go back to defending their profession to the death 517540 0
Reposted by J HartyWannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026it is incredibly noticeable here that the pretty much explicit position of cottle is “black people’s opinions don’t count, they need to accept what Real America says” 121124229 0
Reposted by J Harty🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 29/08/2026who fucking gives a shit 2591685 0
Reposted by J HartyBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Imagine when people online get angry at Ryan Goslings bam bam from the Flintstones movie for being woke, imagine them making an AI version true to historical Bedrock 942912 0
Reposted by J HartyPOGtastic @pogtastic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I frequently tell people that the Marine Corps did not get me to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, but it did teach me what I didn't want to do with my life. My email job (literally, I do almost all of my job through LKML and an internal mailing list) is just fine thanks 1983 0
Reposted by J HartyAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This is one of those things that is genuinely hard to overstate: rural life in America is, in many ways, as globalized and homogenized as urban life, if not considerably more so. And that's largely down to the construction of a pan-"rural" identity dominated by a basically suburban group 3910136 0
Reposted by J HartyAnil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them. 6256091618 0
Reposted by J HartySardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21/08/2026"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." Samuel Beckett, 1969 Vogue Interview 410826 0
Reposted by J HartyAndy Richter @andyrichter.co · 18/08/2026If you guys are looking for a waiting room that’s always full of old women listening to Armenian Instagram reels at top volume, there’s a physical therapy clinic in Eagle Rock that really delivers 2477636 0
Reposted by J HartyLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Writing an article or essay is so fucking easy. If it is hard for you or you dread it enough to use AI I suggest you remove from your to-do list “writing articles and essays.” I do not, for example, enter golf tourneys or work at a mechanic’s shop because I am not good at those and don’t like them. 9841128 0
Reposted by J HartySarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 16/08/2026"We are the daughters of the witches you couldn't burn" quote goes hard etc But statistically speaking? We're largely the offspring of the people who accused their neighbors of being witches. The people who believed those accusations. People who were mostly fine with the burning, hanging, etc. 311132173 0
Reposted by J HartyJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Anti-immigration movements in Europe and the US either don't realize it or don't care, but the day that South-to-North immigration ends is the day Europe and the US have locked in the decline those movements are obsessed with. And not just due to the demographic impact that pro-natalists fixate on. 47317 0
Reposted by J HartyJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"A poem is never finished, only abandoned" applies to more than just poetry. 1182 0
Reposted by J HartyAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I think “I am the protagonist of life” is the main psychological appeal of this kind of conspiracism. You risked nothing, you did nothing, and other real people are suffering the things you’re pretending to think are bad, but in the end you’re the great hero for surviving your imagination. 1376081 0
Reposted by J HartyMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/08/2026To be clear, no writer on pop culture gave me, as a young reader, a greater education in how to develop an engaging argumentative voice--one's own voice, not an imitation. I still think about her pieces all the time, although not as holy writ. So that was written with love. Mostly. 61383 0
Reposted by J HartyTodd Zolecki @toddzolecki.bsky.social · 02/08/2026They’re going to try to fix this infield. It’s a little wet. 0191 0
Reposted by J HartyJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 02/08/2026becoming a parent has turned out to be a great excuse to learn the entire alphabet. sometimes he’ll ask me what a letter is and i’m like well shit, bubba. let’s find out together 354006414 0
