Reposted by Pierce PresleyTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 4hThis is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 2979792134
Reposted by Pierce PresleyNeugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 22hChildren's Hospital of L.A. is doing a card drive, for every card submitted to a kid in Hospital that can't trick or treat or celebrate Halloween, they get a $1 donation. The Cards are FREE to send online & it's a good thing to do to make a kid's Halloween great. secure1.chla.org/site/SPageNa...secure1.chla.orgSend a Halloween card to a child in the hospital!You can help a child in the hospital have a spook-tacular Halloween. Send a special card before the deadline. 03119
Reposted by Pierce PresleyJournal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a... 7387127
Reposted by Pierce Presleymaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 160176574374
Reposted by Pierce PresleyRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence. 4035461246
Reposted by Pierce PresleyNekrởtzar @nekrotzar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I feel like this must have been done but I haven’t seen it. 616713
Reposted by Pierce PresleyGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lots of talk about defending "Western civilization" these days, so here's Richard Wright on what it means to be Western: 14582131
Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Same, but I feel like I had to escape on a floatplane with some dude and his pet snake. 000
Reposted by Pierce PresleyT.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts." 151595324
Reposted by Pierce Presley💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Please share. #Pinks 321485685
Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Short, smart read on reading economic indicators in an age of monopoly. dylanratigan.substack.com/p/the-tech-m...dylanratigan.substack.comThe Tech-Monopolies Choking America OutWatching the stock market and declaring the economy healthy is like watching the growing python and declare that everything inside its coils must be thriving. 000
Reposted by Pierce PresleyBiggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Should be reposted every month.... 338109623829
Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This thread. Hazing happens when leaders accept it, and stops when leaders won't tolerate it. 010
Reposted by Pierce PresleyDark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If it's any consolation, while someone who writes a plan like "The fastest way to get across a minefield is by running" may succeed without stepping on a mine, anyone who does this once and succeeds will think they've discovered "one weird trick" and just keep doing it until they step on a mine. 2161
Reposted by Pierce Presleybrian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure. 51657487
Reposted by Pierce PresleyCyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/202633 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings. 361604460
Reposted by Pierce PresleyDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational. 5843256
Reposted by Pierce PresleyMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026After blathering on about Fox News' negative space with @gregsargent.bsky.social, @sulliview.bsky.social, @janecoaston.bsky.social, and @johnfugelsang.bsky.social I've finally written out a proper piece laying out the concept. 217637
Reposted by Pierce PresleyMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026IT IS TIME. buff.ly/pykYN6fbuff.lyIt’s Decorative Gourd Season, MotherfuckersFor the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads. 6450191
Reposted by Pierce PresleyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026JD Vance: "The message is don't give power to the crazy people who started these problems in the first place. If you're frustrated about high prices, you have every reason to be." 4101747284
Reposted by Pierce PresleyThe Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-… 305118713
Reposted by Pierce PresleyGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard! 1347831230
Reposted by Pierce PresleyDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Any news organization that broadcasts the DHS version of events without a tremendous disclaimer is doing their audience a terrible disservice. presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...presswatchers.orgDHS's pack of liars | Press WatchJournalists should not believe anything the Department of Homeland Security says 7365103
Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You cannot successfully negotiate in good faith with people who operate in bad faith. Also, when they show you who they are, believe them. 0356
Reposted by Pierce PresleyImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886332303
Reposted by Pierce PresleyFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026Why talk about how nuts the AI rationalist sex cult is, and not just focus on the (very real) risks and harms of AI? Well, when we're discussing "who should get to regulate AI, and how," I think it's VERY relevant to talk about the antisocial, unsettling ways many people running US AI think. 281227265
Reposted by Pierce PresleyEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway 1623671114
Reposted by Pierce PresleyBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth. 8454128
Reposted by Pierce PresleyBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations. 129594
Reposted by Pierce PresleyNome @nome.bsky.social · 01/07/2026God, what an exhausting time to have pattern recognition and more than a six month memory. 121260313
Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Louder for the shitheads sleeping in the back row! 010
Reposted by Pierce PresleySenator Mazie K. Hirono @hirono.senate.gov · 17/09/2026This is exactly why we need to pass the WARRIOR Act. Pete Hegseth continues raising the hurdles to prevent women from serving our country. They keep clearing them. Women meet and exceed these standards, but it’s Hegseth who refuses to accept it. thewarhorse.org/hegseth-mari...thewarhorse.orgHegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder for Women in Combat Roles. Most Female Marines Are PassingData shows almost all Marine females serving in combat roles have met or exceeded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new physical fitness standard. 03019
Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Thoughtful, germane, well argued, and, IMO, correct. 020
Reposted by Pierce PresleyDamon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 16/09/2026An amazing speech by Lexington, KY city council member Emma Curtis on the damage done to the community by the recent cuts to the local paper: kiesow.net/how-to-talk-...kiesow.netHow to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barley newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '... 46223
Reposted by Pierce PresleyMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated. 840119072847
Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican, knew the costs of war as well as any man. 000
Reposted by Pierce PresleyMad Doctor Mookie @mookiebean.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BREAKING: The Riverbottom Nightmare Band will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran. 2407
Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This guy wrote a stellar book on the interwoven strands of TESCREAL. More Everything Forever is essential to understanding the current moment in tech, politics and culture. 100
Reposted by Pierce PresleySahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026CBO analysis: The Iran war has cost the U.S. $38 billion as of August 1. That’s >$246 million per day, on average. CBO says the war has raised inflation and global energy prices, citing reduced traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and says it’ll raise interest rates on treasuries. 37534292
Reposted by Pierce PresleyEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Heat stroke causes severe impaired judgment & confusion, which is why it's important for parents, teachers, coaches, outdoor crew supervisors, drill sergeants, & others to be vigilant in watching for signs of heat stroke in people they supervise. It's hard to recognize heat stroke in yourself.billfrist.substack.comWe Taught a Generation to Stop, Drop, and Roll. We Never Did the Same for Heat.Extreme weather is reshaping the school day. Our schools need to change with it. 215446
Reposted by Pierce PresleyEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When I say I've been working on this debunking for *years* that includes academic publications. Here's a quick thread: 224575
Reposted by Pierce PresleyEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Here's the thing. We do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them. No common cause with TESCREALists, no platforming their nonsense as if it had any value, no picking up the Overton window and carrying it over to them. 1018849
Reposted by Pierce PresleySpectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks. 9467951762
Reposted by Pierce PresleyChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The last voice at Ground Zero today belonged to Catholic Michael Massaroli, whose father was killed in the North Tower 25 years ago. “I’ve had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters. That’s wrong.” 224958
Reposted by Pierce PresleyMarlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...variety.comLilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk. 99115084255
Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This shouldn't be a courageous statement; it should be commonplace. 041
Reposted by Pierce PresleyCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I've said this in the past a few times, and it bears repeating: I'm convinced that most of the tech industry are sociopaths. There is no industry more committed to rationalizing mass destruction, and in our current environment, that's saying something. 712711574