Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauBat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 09/10/202675% of voters surveyed said Trump would “definitely” or “probably” steal their lunch if given a chance. Most voters saw this as a negative. But 30% of Trump voters viewed it in a positive light. “If Trump can steal my sandwich, he deserves to eat it” said Republican Herbert Splonge, of Delaware. 063
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We already have proof of concept: it is entirely possible to sell genocide and ethnic cleansing to the British public, and to simply crush any opposition. Whether that could now move on to e.g. black vans and roundups here is another matter, but that shit is well underway in America. So, why not? 29017
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 09/10/2026if you shoot guns enough (I do), you quickly meet this type of guy, who will tell you just how Excited he is for someone to break into his house so he finally has the excuse he needs to dump a mag into them [and this type of guy is unfortunately quite dominant in US gun culture] 44119694
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4093513410582
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauThe Royal Tenenbaums @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don't know, Jim. There's obviously something wrong with him. He's taken off his shoes and socks, and actually, I think he's crying. 043
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073732301
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauHourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 01/09/2026 05516
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026These are some of the dumbest and most delusional motherfuckers on the planet, their brains are cooked by never being told no and they view the human world as a pure financial abstraction, stop giving them more credit than they deserve 477574
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauLouis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026To be frank, I have often found there to be major discrepancies between the stories Americans tell themselves ("Don't Tread On Me") and this culture of workplace docility and authoritarianism. The more obsequious and deferential you are, the more likely you are to get a promotion. 53613
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauLauren Eggert-Crowe @laureneggertcrowe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This quote from @reallandsend.bsky.social was so incisive I had to write it down: "It's about what happens when bourgeois ideology repeatedly converts unequal social and political relations into evidence of individual virtue . . . (continued)" 12411
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026Fixed that for you. 1635069
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/09/2026i feel like we just need to admit to a lot of young people that our systems completely failed them. we let digital tools in the classroom and social media algorithms use them like lab rats and now half of them cannot have a basic, polite human interaction. 451596443
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026Picture being a 9 year old in New York City on 9/11 and 25 years later people are telling you that 9/11 is your fault. 516733
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseau🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This this THIS RIGHT HERE 141378393
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 09/09/2026What works even better at dulling resistance than forever edging a populace with constant low-level aggravation & stress is if you could somehow make them all sick—not so sick they can’t work, just sick enough to collapse at the end of the day Like, I don’t know, contaminated lettuce or something 28110
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 09/09/2026But at least constantly-stressed, constantly-aggravated people are exhausted, & exhausted people don’t have the energy to resist Whether that was the point or merely a fantastic side-benefit for the cool guys who assured us they weren’t like the other industrialists seems an unimportant difference. 410110
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think about this essay a lot. About the low-level stress & aggravation literally everything is now designed to incite & maintain. What this constant emotional histamine response to our digital-logistical environment does to us, how it degrades our days. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...wheresyoured.atNever Forgive ThemIn the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor... 215334
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauAmericans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A truck driver working 40-hour weeks to make $50,000 a year pays about $3,800 in federal income tax. An 8% rate. An investor earning the same $50,000 in long-term capital gains pays $0. Work gets punished. Wealth gets rewarded. This tax code is a scam. 19068752367
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauim nicebat 👼🦇 dead dove do not eat @nicebart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026evergreen 101345437
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 07/09/2026There's a rich scholarship on why facts don't change minds. There's an even richer scholarship on why even when you know the facts it doesn't alter our behaviors.theconversation.comCognitive biases and brain biology help explain why facts don’t change mindsHere are some reasons for the natural human tendency to avoid or reject new information that runs counter to what you already know – and some tips on how to do better. 314349
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseaudamniel spookradski @self.agency · 07/09/2026the biggest “job creator” in america is walmart, a third of whose employees are on public assistance 11079260
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026maybe the greatest example of timeline serendipity i've ever seen and i'm in it and i do not look good lol 231416
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauceej @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 193218904413
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The one trait consistent to EVERYONE on the right is an inability to understand anything until they experience it personally 723110507
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I don't agree with arsonists but firefighters are too aggressive for me. I wish there was a... third way 683615457
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It takes a toll. All this dehumanization I am bombarded with on a regular basis takes a toll. 928929
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying 162964741
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseaulauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/08/2026my all-time favorite baseball quote, the only one i've ever been corny enough to write on a post-it and keep on my monitor at work, is a branch rickey-ism: Luck is the residue of design 1243018
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12/08/2026Ruthie Wilson Gilmore recommends three books every radical should read 1322126
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/ 14851428
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseaupriscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 07/08/2026me on a date 293745561
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A happy, healthy country where people look out for each other out of shared interest in having a decent society has no need for an elite class of horrible spiteful shitheads working constantly to make everyone frightened, angry and resentful. 015940
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It's a real problem that a lot of Democratic elected officials and leaders actively hate their primary electorate. 27994110
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseaumaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 30/07/2026It so insulting to get ads for things that have nothing to do with you. Like, even the software that’s programmed to spy on my every word isn’t willing to pay attention to me?? 1026931
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseaucynthia loves u @lesbiats.bsky.social · 31/08/2025what's the fucking point if we aren't going into our relationships seeking to be more earnest, more vulnerable, & more supportive? i don't want to perform friendship, i want to be friends. i want to show up for people. i want to be close with them. we should strive to love one another more each day. 233878
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauAidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 29/07/2026There is only so much you can kick people before they at least try to fight back, and if the State won't defend their human rights, they obviously will not respect the State, and you simply have to laugh at the pearl-clutching. 13/ 1919
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance. 182673975
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauJohn Feminella @jxf.me · 28/07/2026Hypothesis: The "it's not X, it's Y" pattern that LLMs are so fond of outputting can be traced back to a single, very prevalent phrase in the training data: 637153
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauAndy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 23/07/2026I've made an album of moody, atmospheric music inspired by cult synth movie soundtracks, presented as the lost score to a doomed sci-fi film. Listen to it, read the track titles, and imagine the movie in your head. Available digitally or physically on cassette tape! 🔗 numinalvoid.bandcamp.com 834760
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauTyler K. Stroud @stroudarian.bsky.social · 21/05/2026What you see in the Sun, is the Chicago skyline from the Indiana Dunes beach, across Lake Michigan. You can see it from 50 miles of distance due to a form of superior mirage, because the skyline is seen above where it's actually located. [📷 wesskywalker] 318106201259
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauRDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 17/07/2026This touches on my feelings about friction as something we’re being taught is undesirable, at the very same time we’re facing a lot of problems that require tolerance of high levels of friction and discomfort to fix 1154
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauSarah G. @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026me every time I answer an email 023729
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauTodd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 16/07/2026“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar... 5653832442
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16/07/2026A whole lot of people, at every level, are acting like they’ll never go to prison for their actions, and they’re probably not wrong—bankrupting them up and down the org chart, though… leaving them no guy to turn to for a bailout, a new job, a new grift… 343379
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauJohn Breen @breen.tech · 14/07/2026More people should be familiar with Martin Sostre. This is what we mean when we say the Prairieland case is not new 112157
Reposted by penultimatetommywiseauGarfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 14/07/2026 221165