Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerPMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 3hThe more chauvinistic we are about our cosmopolitanism, the more cosmopolitanism *becomes* "authentic." It's a self-solving problem if you allow it to be. 28511
Reposted by Normalcy Enjoyer🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 3hi guess you can if you open in a browser, and, so, looooooollllmorewrong.lolI’m Huffing Computer Duster Because AI Will Reverse My Brain DamageSome Silicon Valley researchers have reportedly begun smoking cigarettes to demonstrate their confidence that AI will cure cancer. I respect the impulse, but it betrays a lack of ambition. Since Monda... 1419440
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerMike Rifer @thelifeofrifer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026One thing that unites both the online Left and the GOP is that they both have contrived a caricature view of the Democratic Party that is utterly detached from reality. 0136
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending 502949804
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026NEW podcast w @katemac.bsky.social On Politics of Techno-optimism. open.spotify.com/episode/4AVR... Why are some technological solutions getting enormous attention & money (eg. AI or escaping to Mars or capture carbon) while genuine technological revolutions like solar & batteries get blocked. 3309
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6hI cannot recommend this @johnkroman.bsky.social post enough: the pandemic-era trends in violence, both the rise and fall, track local government employment... and NOT of the police (which stay relatively stable). Fewer coaches, counselors, etc.? More violence. More of them? Less violence.johnkroman.substack.comHow Prevention Reduced Crime and How To Get More of ItPrevention is the third rail of Abundance. Let's fix that. 14816
Reposted by Normalcy Enjoyerryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12hboy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market 582217446
Reposted by Normalcy Enjoyerryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/10/2026ICE technology is a dead man walking 1874885
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12hlowkey might be even better just to keep the business in place as it is to give NASA their own revenue stream could be sick plus funding a public Mars mission with his old company is an extra cherry on top of the "fuck you" cake 3816
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12h"Starlink gets turned into universal basic Wi-Fi after Elon's assets are forfeited" is an abundance vision i can get behind 637445
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14hThis bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it 474079660
Reposted by Normalcy Enjoyerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2026farritor and kliger are the two who i want to see in orange jumpsuits being hauled off to prison 432968530
Normalcy Enjoyer @johnydoelucky2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Hey Chief this is great, can you chase down and smack all those extortionate pedalcabs in Central Park next Worst tourist trap in NYC is listening to some blowhard on those pedal cabs mutter through the worst NYC trivia while pedaling you away from your destination for $9 a minute 130
Reposted by Normalcy Enjoyeramy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 13/10/2026since we’re doing this discourse again here’s why im no longer on twitter 215682744
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerSemafor @semafor.com · 13/10/2026Home of the Brave is nearly doubling its billboard campaign in Michigan, Ohio, and Iowa, adding $1 million in new billboards on top of the $1.25 million the group already spent. Read more from Burgess Everett: www.semafor.com/article/10/1...semafor.comExclusive: More anti-Trump billboards hit the heartlandHome of the Brave is nearly doubling its billboard campaign in Michigan, Ohio, and Iowa. 175
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026political compass of which part of this offends you most 2253
Reposted by Normalcy Enjoyerryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/10/2026the combination of the Obama-Biden "look forwards, not backwards" approach to white collar crime plus Trump's vindictive punishment of anyone who pisses him off is a real bad one 9584105
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849. 131249443
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026GPT-4 was the undisputed best model in the world for a full year and we all debated whether anyone could catch up or if OpenAI had some secret formula that nobody else knew about. Now there are are 19 AI models that can run on a modern smartphone that are better than GPT-4! 720330
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerMicah @rincewind.run · 12/10/2026"I will not touch anything with ai-generated code" is going to mean, in pretty short order, "I will not touch software" this is just functionally what software development is now and it's only going to accelerate from here 601151113
Normalcy Enjoyer @johnydoelucky2.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Check into Xbox streaming maybe? I'm not sure if the connection would be reliable enough, the game gets really high speed, twitch reaction at times, but might be worth looking into You can stream onto any device like phones or even to an older Xbox one 100
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/10/2026All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions. 241979364
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Attack on Pearl Harbor raises questions about the Japanese Empire's commitment to peace in the Pacific 952074
Normalcy Enjoyer @johnydoelucky2.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Had the displeasure of seeing Rob Schneider ""stand-up"" with a group in 2022 and was baffled by both how much of his set was just regurgitated RW Facebook slop and how much the audience still fucking loved it An in-person conservative safe space, if you will 180
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie. 251170432
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Turns out that Trump's announcement of an "energy ceasefire" in the Russia-Ukraine war was bullshit. Turns out that major media will keep falling for it every time. 1529574
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives. 311637284
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026no amnesty 542582
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Elon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.nytimes.comInside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history. 591240466
Reposted by Normalcy Enjoyer• @ourapartment.bsky.social · 12/10/2026you would think the mainstream press would be interested in the fact that “repeal the 19th” is increasingly common within GOP circles. 32118
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 12/10/2026“I hate abortion pills because the Nazis used them in extermination camps, which I am neutral to positive about” 2162272
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Most people are incentivized towards competence as a means of improving their material conditions, but the wealthy aren't. Their incentives are entirely emotional: status preservation, positional dominance, alleviating boredom, etc. It's no surprise they typically regress into spoiled children. 837584
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026if you are a political opponent of donald trump, he will encourage his followers to kill you. if you are a political ally of donald trump who ever disagrees with him, he will encourage his followers to kill you. for some reason we can't speak about this plainly 4494111
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026every elected official they interview in this article, except derrick van orden who they lead with for some reason, had their death threats instigated & encouraged by donald trump. the country doesn't have an incivility problem, it has a maga death cult problem 9872201
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerKevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I'm losing my mind, the Kansas City Star literally did a review of other litigious Kansas doctors and found that none of them charged Marshall's insane 18% interestkansascity.comMarshall charged 18% on medical bills — more than other Kansas doctors who suedIn reviewing thousands of court documents, the Star found no other medical providers that charged annual interest at 18% or any other specified rate above 12%. 7471116
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerJooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff 6668632172
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerEmma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is frustrating because there is a substantive critique of Zohran to be made, which is that he has been unable or unwilling to stop the NYPD from protecting ICE and brutalizing protesters. But instead of figuring out a disciplined way to pressure him to firing Tisch we get this optics nightmare. 1687
Reposted by Normalcy Enjoyerwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 11/10/2026“One former staffer who recently spent several months in the office and whose role in normal circumstances would have them regularly interact with the senator said they did not interview with, meet with, or even speak to Fetterman a single time.” 0228
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerPhil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 11/10/2026This opening by Bob Smietana is perfection! A must read! 21531197
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerDavid Nir @davidnir.com · 10/10/2026Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe. 402244561
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerAndy in ATL @4letterword4nerd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Races where your vote has maximum impact. 17936
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerSamantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 11/10/2026Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comChristian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says reportResearch challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity 107917
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative. 403094824
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerBetter Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026All around the world, Conservatives are consistently shit at climate math - grossly overstating the costs of climate action and grossly understating the costs of climate change. 23211
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerNicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026As of September, Germany's solar generation has already surpassed 2025 total output Jan-Sep 2025: 79 TWh Jan-Sep 2026: 91 TWh (+15% yoy) 2025 total: 90 TWh Since 2021, solar generation in Germany has doubled and will make up around 20% of Germany's power this year. 15120
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerCalMatters @calmatters.org · 11/10/2026Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.cal.newsGavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxesGov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too. 4021986845
Reposted by Normalcy EnjoyerMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Low-hanging fruit for reporters and Dem trackers: ask a Republican running for office, "what would you do if you were in a car with your child and men in hoodies charged at you with guns drawn?" Follow up with "do you think it's reasonable for a parent in that situation to use lethal force?" 261819422
Reposted by Normalcy Enjoyer👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The Telegraph figured it out? The Telegraph?! 5722142