Reposted by TravicissitudesThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1hThe rural man loves two things above all else: 1) Limited government that stays out of our business 2) The ability to point the limited government like a gun at a neighbor who doesn’t mow their lawn with the fanatical zeal of a retiree with a riding mower and no hobbies who hates his wife 219228
Reposted by Travicissitudes Chris “OH NO! DISASTER! WHAT A BAD IDEA!” Dobbertean @bracketdobber.net · 3hIs this bad? Seems kinda bad! 113940
Reposted by TravicissitudesCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 7hThere is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 8551861538
Reposted by Travicissitudesamy brown @amybrown.xyz · 7hremember to block @m-tracey.bsky.social and move on. there is nothing you can say to him that will be crueler than his lonely little life 2056198
Reposted by Travicissitudesshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19hi thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better 112148361
Reposted by TravicissitudesPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 19hThe “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo 432654372
Reposted by TravicissitudesOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal 15773155
Reposted by TravicissitudesIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise. 52579756
Reposted by Travicissitudessouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again) 13749197
Reposted by TravicissitudesDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms 9894253
Reposted by TravicissitudesPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I talk about this a lot in "Lost Worlds" - the world didn't begin with people alive today, and it won't end with people today. Apocalypticism is a wonderful way of making it so you don't have to think about the real long-term consequences of your actions. If it's all going to end, why think further? 623845
Reposted by TravicissitudesWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In the interest of transparency, my patron is Drogmœth, Lord Of Strife, and I am granted boons for advancing his agenda on this plane. I don’t believe this impacts my reporting, but I believe in full disclosure. 211611
Reposted by TravicissitudesFederal Bureau Of Controlling The Run @swolecialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026one of the disconcerting things about all this is finding out how many people appear to be desperately seeking someone to do their thinking for them. i sincerely don't get it. 617520
Reposted by TravicissitudesMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026People are also upset about non-economic things that get expressed in economic terms, like the fact that everything seems wildly out of control and we have a maniac in charge of the country 151115131
Reposted by TravicissitudesDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...donmoynihan.substack.comDOGE vs. Civic TechAs DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure 19792259
Reposted by TravicissitudesCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026Hey I don’t think it’s a good thing that Bernie Sanders keeps talking to this guy 858279
Reposted by Travicissitudesceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026over the next few years you are going to see kids posting infinite variations of “millennials always wait until the end of the transaction to scan their card 🙄” and it is your sacred duty to not let that turn you into a turbochud 811447142
Reposted by Travicissitudes#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong. 2347241056
Reposted by TravicissitudesCannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The institutions involved here—businesses, universities, law firms, etc—need to take a hard look at their leadership in the wake of such a massive strategic miscalculation. To paraphrase Anton Chigurh: If the leaders you followed brought you to this, of what use are those leaders? 612428
Reposted by Travicissitudesmore mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026remember how people debated if the dog in Good Boy was an actor? and its owner went, No of course not, he just follows instructions well. this is like that except Tilly Norwood hasn't been in a movie and the owner is saying, Yes of course, because it follows instructions well, and then it doesn't 527023
Reposted by TravicissitudesSean Aitchison @sean8urson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the latter is usually worse and harder 062
Reposted by Travicissitudescait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it 222304646
Reposted by TravicissitudesBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cookies do enhance my user experience but the only place that actually says that is on the computer where it doesn’t 321820
Travicissitudes @leitko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026To be clear, blaming the Iran war is *their* explanation. They still believe the fascist domestic policy is good and would be popular. They are already trying to frame the narrative for why they're going to lose in November. 000
Reposted by TravicissitudesI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026The reason they keep running the same play is they keep getting exactly what they want. 417355
Reposted by Travicissitudesrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted 191428227
Reposted by TravicissitudesPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about all these genAI fuckwits like Jensen Huang constantly announcing in public that they don't know basic life skills, is that they are billionaires. They have outsourced *every single* hassle in life. They then attribute their soft babylike life to genAI and not their wealth. 2537135
Reposted by TravicissitudesPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is an instructive situation - if you hadn’t clocked taylor lorenz as a grifter and a hack long ago, you need to hone your moron radar 382260212
Reposted by TravicissitudesLiv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's remarkable how many times i've seen a Professional Take Haver on the internet go insane as a result of online criticism that starts off unreasonable but becomes increasingly more reasonable as it makes them lose their mind 222608171
Reposted by Travicissitudesmivven @ghostsghouls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It cannot be overstated how much Bret does not make an argument in this column. He does not list a single worthy book he thinks was excluded. He clearly has not read the vast majority of the books. His entire critique is just “these books are written by women and minorities, which is bad”. 231012178
Reposted by Travicissitudeswkash917 @wkash917.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Putting today's AI Investment boom in historic perspective...and its impact on electronics prices. www.wsj.com/economy/the-... 021
Reposted by TravicissitudesAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188053851
Reposted by TravicissitudesTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh. 322234585
Reposted by TravicissitudesJess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There's a type of fine artist who especially exists in academics, who hates narrative in art. They believe that any art that's trying to tell a story is a kind of propaganda. That shit is wild to me. Telling each other stories is one of the most ancient things we do. 1012612
Reposted by TravicissitudesDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Read this: is is from the chair of outside advisors of the Iowa civics center imposed on campus. He thinks he is describing current faculty but he is perfectly describing himself and his fellow travelers 23698121
Reposted by TravicissitudesRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades 554903877
Reposted by TravicissitudesMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026Regulators should shut this down before it leads to a wave of predictable, preventable deaths by suicide. 25908131
Reposted by TravicissitudesGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"briefly detained" a process that required hospitalization afterward 47118
Reposted by TravicissitudesPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Not being able to buy your way out of ads is almost the ultimate in enshittification of television. 19416
Reposted by TravicissitudesJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment. 161668342
Reposted by Travicissitudesrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026being properly open-minded doesn’t mean shrugging every time you encounter a fucked up viewpoint and saying you guess it takes all kinds. it means interrogating the viewpoints you encounter and deciding whether they’re fucked up. being thoughtful and interested but ultimately making a firm call 349655
Reposted by Travicissitudesryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/09/2026in addition to devaluing one of the great human virtues, the premise isn’t even true! curiosity for its own sake, love of learning, wide reading and experience, these are super useful in the job market!! 1044151
Reposted by TravicissitudesConor @ernekid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Purging the Consultant class is the biggest challenge facing the left. 2549
Reposted by TravicissitudesRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 17/09/2026This piece on how companies (and yes, this applies to higher education) getting rid of middle managers may backfire is well worth your time to read. If the positions are viewed as being too risky to take, there goes your leadership pipeline. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca... 610825
Reposted by TravicissitudesMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole." 12457561513
Reposted by TravicissitudesBen Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you're a young director working in horror or horror adjacent topics with even a small online following Hollywood wants to hear from you right now. This is like when Nirvana got huge and every weird band was suddenly on a label. 1133
Reposted by TravicissitudesTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s amazing how the media cooperates to make some issues salient and completely ignores others. We went from North Carolina being protested against for an anti-trans bathroom bill in 2016 to now every politician being asked their position on a dozen or so athletes in ALL of K-16. 11942302
Reposted by TravicissitudesComic Book Yeti @comicbookyeti.com · 20/09/2026Josh Johnson is doing more right now to promote comics with a guerrilla styled social media campaign going city to city than any amount of big ad expenditure ever could. There are so many lessons to learn here. 26917
Reposted by TravicissitudesFr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle. 214107553035
Reposted by TravicissitudesClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women 6138743684