Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I think of this post far too often when reading about US news. 415823 158
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15/10/2026this is not the first time i have said this, but there’s a strain of extreme consumerism in a lot of young(ish) american leftism that’s genuinely unrecognizable to me compared to the crustier old anarchists and communists i have known well 301016107 1K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialJeremy SKRIB DOONamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 05/10/2026“Why is there a correlation between population density and Democratic vote share?” 0669 66
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialrev. 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 191427227 1.4K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026Mass lesbian bar masking story is getting Oberlin cafeteria levels of coverage, meaning it will define reactionary and reactionary-fearing centrist politics for the next 15 years 482275230 2.3K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This idea seems to be the most infectious because it activates the same neurosis that every apocalyptic or millenarian cult does. The world is going to end, and only I and my special group of people in the know can maybe stop it. (Also, you should give me money and have sex with me.) 397288 972
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026literal Anti-Virtue Movement 2685 68
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026people don’t want to admit how accurate right wing criticisms of hypocrisy are 41636 163
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 11/09/2026At the risk of starting Discourse, this media dynamic is exactly how the myth of "Dems made Tim Walz stop calling the GOP weird" got accepted as ironclad fact. 5429109 429
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.social21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Baudrillard simulacrum hyperreality semiotics signified and signifier etc etc 1522 52
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialKevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026#ShareGoodNewsToo 27517 75
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Thirty-four days before she reported to prison, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes gave Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim access to document her every move. That turned into a three-year project, and A24 will release the resulting documentary this October. 1441222154 1.2K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on 193218794408 21.9K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialsamuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 03/09/2026“In the first half of 2026, China’s shift towards electric vehicles displaced the equivalent of the UK’s entire oil consumption over a six-month period.”theguardian.comChina’s falling emissions amid Iran war spark hope of decarbonisation watershedOil consumption plummets and EV sales soar as analysts say demand may not fully return even if crude price falls 03116 31
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialWildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive. 414228632 4.2K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026What the border checkpoint looks like now 1358 35
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 26/08/2026the very best bit about this guy is, after hoovering up a bunch of idiot silicon valley money, then leveraging himself to the tits, he went to bloodless new york to get more money and was immediately sussed out as an idiot and sent home empty handed 461938205 1.9K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026people don't quite believe it—even when you quote musk verbatim it's like, "If he were an open fascist it'd be a huge deal. it isn't a huge deal, so he can't be an open fascist" 719633 196
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*. 4935081021 3.5K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Are there no prisons? And the Union workhouses? 55628102 628
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialan appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026one of the worst trends over the past few years is the thinkpiece right deciding that "illiberalism" is equivalent to "any argument I don't like" 418519 185
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialMatt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Where indeed? 07111 71
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialBen K. @benjaminkabak.com · 18/08/2026Murders in NYC are down nearly 25% this year, and it is never on the cover of The New York Post. What a bunch of frauds. 510720 107
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 17/08/2026been on a kick of books on disease and nothing will make you pro-vaccine faster than reading the total anguish of people suffering the worst sicknesses imaginable with no hope of recovery. Yet people are so blindsided by social media now that they voluntarily expose themselves to those same diseases 1045053 450
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This is ALWAYS THE CLUE. Our journalistic class is (mostly) self-aware enough not to publish stories that are pure bigotry and resentment, but some stories give people a facially-plausible pretext to indulge in bigotry and resentment. You notice that these stories tend to get covered A LOT. 825931 259
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026There was a lengthy article in the New York Times yesterday about how men who had lived almost their entire lives in America were being shipped to foreign prisons with no due process and held in conditions so severe they almost died from hunger striking, and it didn’t even make a ripple. 23917195 917
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialJason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I remember when Bill Clinton—a FORMER president—met Obama’s sitting AG on an airplane and it was a massive scandal. Now, here’s Trump’s new AG just doing Trump political rallies like it’s NBD. 14245691424 4.6K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The problem here is that they have got it precisely backwards. They want this stuff to be something that had major negative societal repercussions - a kind of Cultural Revolution in America. In fact the defining feature of the period was how *superficial,* how *weightless* these commitments were. 433731 337
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/08/2026whenever i’m outside the city and people find out where i live they ask me ‘what’s it like with zohran as mayor’ in this wistful voice like they’ve been trapped underground and no longer know what the sun looks like 171263153 1.3K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialAward-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026There were 85,000 reported car crashes in New York City last year, which comes out to 232 per day. Driving a car is a risk, which people just choose not to think about 2352 35
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialWerner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Ross Douthat only had a job because the NYT needs conservative columnists who aren't ridiculous on their face and there's barely any who aren't bark at the moon loonies. He's an uninteresting, inconsequential, unimportant person totally unworthy of all of this commentary. Please make it stop. 082 8
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialJosephine Riesman @josie.zone · 07/08/2026Bruce Willis's character in TWELVE MONKEYS... Clive Owen's in CHILDREN OF MEN... Harrison Ford's in BLADE RUNNER... All canonically Millennials 27871152 871
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialIan Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Biden made the right decision with problematic execution pulling out of Afghanistan and he was savaged for it daily. Trump makes one of the worst strategic decisions in U.S. history with catastrophic consequences and somehow the reaction seems milder. Am I wrong about that? 1292302455 2.3K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialJosephine Riesman @josie.zone · 06/08/2026I really have to use this response more often in conversations 014125 141
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Do these people ever stop to think "Here is an edgy idea based on some informal impressions, which happens to add fuel to an agenda I have. I wonder if it's possible that I'm being misled by my own biases, rather than accurately describing the world?" 14947 94
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialRiver_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The Dylan Mulvaney thing was in 2023 715914 159
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Turns out war is options trading by other means 7619102 619
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026a lot of what the right does nowadays is create an emotional support system for bigots. bigotry will offend and alienate people in your life, so the right looks provides a counterweight that lavishes you with praise. 81261189 1.3K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialVibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026When I talk about social media being brain poison, this is what I mean. This is the same mania that took hold of Rowling and Musk and Nate Silver and many others. It doesn’t always manifest in one way. And this is someone who studied social media, specifically! It can happen to anyone. 732345 323
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialRowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 30/07/2026“People are so angry it’s making them stupid” theory undefeated 0225 22
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back. 5553911355 5.4K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026again think about the choices that are made in the media to cover Mamdani's call for Netanyahu's arrest as if it is extremist hate speech or an incitement to violence in context of both the domestic popularity and international elite consensus around the issue. 131429310 1.4K
Reposted by @loydchristmas.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/07/2026Cooked 525059 250
