lexmyers.bsky.social @lexmyers.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times Richard Thompson Sleater-Kinney Reggie Watts Bob Dylan Prince 011
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days. 46481551926
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.” 215100542037
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization 217153272844
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialLewis Muirhead @bringthenoise.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise 212124243
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialthotwheelsracer.bsky.social @thotwheelsracer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Has anyone made the ‘it’s only autism if it’s from the paracetamol region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling neurodivergence’ joke yet? 718320
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/08/2025Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it 37789581069
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/05/2025Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech. 501985705
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialBradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025the clearest proof Jackie Robinson was one of the most consequential people in history is that nearly a century after he started playing baseball, cowards are still working tirelessly to shut him up 3143441160
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 19/01/2025In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours. 7972231102
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 20/01/2025why did nobody tell me curtis yarvin was in twin peaks 518515
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialInternet Archive @archive.org · 10/01/2025Who captured these historic 1960s San Francisco snapshots? 📷 Abandoned for years in a storage unit, these unseen photos are finally seeing the light of day, but the photographer's identity remains a mystery. Can you help solve it? 🕵️♀️ Join the search: blog.archive.org/2025/01/10/e... 7613155
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/01/2025Once again, we need anti-SLAPP laws in every state and a federal anti-SLAPP law. You shouldn't be able to sue a publisher because you disagree with the framing of their accurate story. 683659751
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Finally read that WSJ article from last week and this confirms everything I suspected. 1414472909
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY 10837224819393
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/12/2024An expression of corporate ideology is how they keep remaking the literally perfect Chuck Jones version of THE GRINCH THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS to "update" and "modernize" it instead of trying to make any new children's entertainment in the same style as the extremely successful original. 1626546589
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 27/11/2024I must not dunk. Dunks are the time-killer Dunks are the little stress that bring on social alienation I will ignore bad takes I will allow them to pass, or block them And when they are off my feed I will read things that matter And where the takes have gone there will be nothing Only I will remain 501611510
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialMark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved. We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness. 1269502037320
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/11/2024What’s happened is that the social media consensus changed, in large part because liberals assumed public opinion is an expression of first principles and not merely a reflection of what people are hearing from their social and parasocial networks, and never bothered to actually promote their ideas 827516
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024LW and her parents are one of three families whose challenge against TN's ban will be heard at SCOTUS on December 4. What Casey says is true--she's a badass and I'm so thankful for her family's fight on behalf of thousands of teens like her. 341066
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces. all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second. 6341081022
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/10/2024Can’t overstate how dangerous it is that vaccine denial has completely captured one of the two major parties. We’re an election or two from unraveling one of humanity’s greatest achievements. The potential long tail damage is millions of preventable deaths. Just absolutely bonkers. 813432959
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialBouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2024In current-year it is really tough to be the particular flavour of neurospicy where you care a lot—A LOT—about whether or not something is true. 0182
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2024It’s so weird that the Klan can clearly hear what Trump and Vance are saying while so much of the corporate media somehow can’t. 692365695
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialThe Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 29/08/2024At this point, doing trust and safety work at Twitter is pretty much like being a fire inspector in hell. 1119422
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/08/2024Normal people: Wow, those gymnasts got really high up and flipped around a lot. Additional normal people: I'm not into the Olympics. MAGA: I demand Kamala Harris comment on an Algerian athlete in a relatively obscure sport who is not trans, but for the purpose of me getting angry let's say she is. 17921124
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialBerny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 02/08/2024Principled free speech absolutist Elon Musk has patterned X around his ideological commitments, which means a term used by an outgroup, a term he personally finds icky, gets tendentiously cast as harmful, whereas he’s hospitable toward an *actually hateful* term his allies frequently use. 426257
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialBony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 17/07/2024Public librarian here. Please do what you can to help keep these fuckers away from power. 📚 311968
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/04/2024Live Free AND Die 2743978
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/03/2024You must consume “Western Civilization died” the way you consume your tantruming toddler’s “I HATE YOU” — a miserable, emotionally unregulated yawp from an incontinent. “I hear that you’re upset, Elon,” you might say. Or “it’s ok to be sad.” 53806109
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.social🏳️⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 11/02/2024I've heard there was green eggs and ham served by a man named Sam I Am but you don't really care for new things, do you? Well, it goes like this: the goat, the boat, the cardboard box, and the clever fox, the dogged Sam asking would you, could you? 21578195
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/01/2024You see other people on social media making points and you think you also have to Make A Point. This leads to some of the worst posts of all time. It's ok to just goof around instead 261302229
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialJosh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 16/01/2024This is my last ever story on Substack, for reasons that will become really obvious when you read the post. The site is a giant garbage fire. Please read and share widely: despite the attention rightly given to Substack's Nazi problem, they're just the tip of a terrible iceberg.badnewsletter.substack.comAll the garbage I found on Substack in 1 hourSubstack has a huge role in the active promotion of disinformation 17538270
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/01/2024She is no true Trekkie. 771247128
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialSandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 01/01/2024When the enormity of the world's horrors makes you feel helpless, narrow your focus. Find one stranger and scold them for posting a recipe while kids are dying. Call out a new mom for not adding alt text to a baby photo. Critique a selfie. Correct a joke. Show people you care more than them. 10981562168
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialNotorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 01/01/2024MICKEY JUST STOP. MICKEYYY 131603430
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialan appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 27/12/2023this year, I have had to explain trans people and the idiom "learning the ropes" to a seven year old trans people took like 30 seconds, "learning the ropes" took days of the most annoying follow-up questions you could possibly imagine, including watching videos about 19th century sailing 352139564
lexmyers.bsky.social @lexmyers.bsky.social · 26/12/2023If you were visited by 3 ghosts on Christmas Eve, who would you want them to be? 020
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 10/12/2023Free speech absolutist promises to file more SLAPP suits over speech he doesn't like. 21783124
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/12/2023There’s a vision of free speech where you say “you can’t let the government stop the Nazis from marching.” Then there’s the vision of free speech that says “if I’m not marching with the Nazis I’m letting down free speech.” Techbros seem prone to the latter. 672099476
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialRon Sullivan @chefronsullivan.bsky.social · 10/12/2023These dogs look like the villains in a movie where a golden retriever wins a snowboarding tournament 7948391171
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialkilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 06/12/2023hi it’s me the host of the hard men podcast and today I’m very upset about taylo- stop laughing. why are you laughing 831701295
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialKevin Baum @kevinbaum013.bsky.social · 07/11/2023Happy third anniversary of the funniest political moment of all time. 412502656
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialMissing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 07/11/2023How can a Texas high school put on a production of “Oklahoma!”? School productions should be based on the state assigned at birth. 8607111
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 05/11/2023The election you should be focusing on takes place on Tuesday. You can probably vote for the school board, the library board, maybe sheriff, local officials and offices that shape your community. Do you have a plan to vote? 461100568
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialMalixe (pronounced like 'malice' with an 'x'.) @malixe.bsky.social · 16/10/2023Just putting this here so I can find it again. You should too. 011
Reposted by @lexmyers.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/10/2023In retrospect it was a pretty on-the-nose critique of American culture generally that the AI robot that doesn't know how to do anything besides how to confidently lie convinced so many people that it was superpassing human intelligence. 15838196
