Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Eric Schmitt was questioning Jack Smith the right way. by Ezra Klein 2988364
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they are stealing billions from us in order to build data centers in our backyards in order to run machines designed to take our jobs and ultimately enslave us 10624168
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026Today in "absolutely not" 25811135
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Trump joining the AI culture war on the side of AI has been my favorite thing recently. Putting the stans in a tough spot being on the same side as the world's worst person 517912
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialvanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026its called the gulf of intelligence now 1052578
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing. 181986358
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case. 412097714
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7879021407
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialNorm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026An urgent must read from the best historian on the founding and the constitution. Today, the lawless Supreme Court took another step toward creating an authoritarian dictator who will use his power to distort elections. Democracy, the plain language of the constitution mean nothing to Roberts et al 1014175
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just putting this out there. If Democrats win the midterms, we need a full-court press to reverse the damage Russell Vought and RFK Jr. have caused. No half-measures will do. Put on your big boy pants and get to work. www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comTrump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back.If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused. 25537188
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026BRB Putting my "You're paying for Trump's corruption" Post-it notes on every gas pump I can find 18113
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's disgusting watching people buying into the "Tucker Carlson is making sense?!" bullshit and it's probably time to wrap our heads around the fact that the people susceptible to this are unconsciously fascist curious and just need the ugly delivered to them in an "acceptable" package 23828199
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026MAN WHO LOST HIS FATHER'S FORTUNE IN HAWK TUAH COIN ALMOST READY TO TURN BACK ON TRUMP & GOP 2767
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Pretty impressive data viz 741695
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 13850712288
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialGolgariGlenRoss @golgariglenross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026 2738189
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026It's generally been my opinion that the dudes complaining about "DEI" are signaling their work is not up to task, I've been winning awards the whole time they've been whining and sure, they will tell you it's because I'm "woke" or whatever, but that's the pathetic mewling of losers right there 281400140
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026Turns out people would much rather see Lupita Nyong’o acting than someone like Kid Rock performing. 229723
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026plenty of 20th century examples by my 19th century-pilled mind goes immediately to the railroads, which were HUGELY DISRUPTIVE and deeply enmeshed in politics in ways quite analogous to silicon valley and AI 47153691
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialElizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026OK, if this is going to blow up my notifications this much I'm going to fess up and say that I have, in fact, written the book about these guys, and it's even a pretty good book if I may say so myself. www.amazon.com/Neoreaction-...amazon.comNeoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-RightNeoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right - Kindle edition by Sandifer, Elizabeth, Graham, Jack. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right. 10603112
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialElizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen. 4429421011
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028 26390921476
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The FBI’s new recruits are practicing bestiality the right way. by Ezra Klein 301167175
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialmichael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Barber CEO: You Risk Falling Behind If You Don't Get A Haircut "Right Now" Industry Experts Foresee Future In Which Everyone Receives Multiple Haircuts Every Day Today Your Hair, Tomorrow The World: Barbers Say They Are On Track To Build A Pair Of Scissors So Big, It Could End Life As We Know It 142235646
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We're TIRED of being called RACIST for saying RACIST SHIT ALL THE TIME! 742633473
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026“you can be fired for literally quoting this man’s actual bigoted words verbatim” is uh a problem if you’re trying to paint him as the right‘s version of MLK 41835182
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Have to say preferred the "Homophobic Republican Outed as Gay" days as there were a lot fewer of them than there are Nazis in today's GOP. 27321
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026People who can't help but slobber all over the robot slop knobs love to create these false equivalencies, but the reality is, AI is best thought of not as some tech evolution (e.g. horse-and-buggy to car) but as tech-ghouls thieving the fruits/value of labor and claiming it all for themselves. 427142
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Once again we see that Vance and the GOP's preferred media narrative for 2028 will be that JD Vance is an anti-Israel, anti-Iran War dove and the Democrat is pro-Israel and pro-War, despite Vance being one of the main guys in the administration that actually, you know, started the war. 922734
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/09/2026I started translating the announcement into plain English, but got too depressed to continue before I even reached the most pernicious parts in the "full letter" linked. 712759
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me 365228746
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialAbra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"The Transformers do not endorse the views of the President" okay, great, yeah, it's very normal that you had to say that. This is an ordinary world where things make sense. It's normal that I'd wake up to an official statement from cartoon robots denouncing the man who has the nuclear codes. 4848511479
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialandy vs. @im-all-id.me · 10/09/2026Answering all my doctor's questions with "that's a great question" 181203194
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/09/2026in terms of optimal impact, the time to make a big outlandish promise is like four or five days before the election, not two months before 1192966198
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ever think about how Republicans wailed and moaned about liberal media bias for decades and now Democrats have copious examples of a media double standard against them and they largely just take it? 17542110
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 07/09/2026Yep; the best framings of it I’ve seen have treated MAHA as a hostile wellness-industry takeover of the health sector. Any strategic response that fails to take on wellness firms’ economic power will founder. 7978131
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialspaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Mississippi getting renamed Amerimericerica. 3837
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust what Big Tech says in its promises to a local community. 522523499
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Trump is your mom who sends you a rabbits on a trampoline video and when you respond that it’s Ai says, “Whatever, it’s still cute.” But with killing people. 1838
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Now write the tandem piece about what is happening to public university funding & immigration policy in Canada, the UK, Germany, etc. These high-profile hirings are good headlines. The real story is no other country is coming to save higher ed & scientific research right now, including Canada.ft.comCanada poaches 48 US-based top academicsTrump administration’s assault on universities boosts Ottawa’s efforts to attract top research talent 924861
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialElizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 28/08/2026Look, we need to release everybody out of immigration detention, but someone’s gotta get out last. 28713
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I have seven invitations from student groups to talk about A.I. They know what I think about A.I. That's why they asked me. They aren't feeling it, y'all. 192487469
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialkeven-pittsinger.bsky.social @keven-pittsinger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Linux turns 35 today. Here's your cake. Enjoy. 721714314
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I think people might give Jeffries more benefit of the doubt on meeting with Kushner if not for years of Biden era reassurances that there’s a method to the party’s careful approach to holding Trump to account. Fair or not, people are a little salty about anything that smacks of too much compromise. 3628638
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialRoy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The inability to grasp this simple fact of life is why we have so many downpunchers and ladder-pullers. 2274
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Let’s face it: knife monkeys are here to stay. They’re not going away, and the knife monkey training facilities are being built whether you like it or not. Now we all have to figure out how to live with knife monkeys. 25115
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialDown Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It's Time For The Left To Have A Conversation That Has Already Happened Multiple Times But I Didn't Care Then 203082557
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026if you tell me "A is a bully on social media(/in print, in whatever specific scenario) but very pleasant elsewhere" you are roughly 50x likelier to convince me that they have the additional vice of cowardice than you are to convince me that they have a hidden virtue of kindness 704049810
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19/08/2026not saying federal immigration enforcement in any form should disappear tomorrow but if you leave this entity intact, and tinker at the edges and give them a stern talking to, however well meaning you are, you’re leaving these weapons and this orgy of abuses and masked thuggery intact for the next… 381351354
Reposted by @procrastinusrex.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026A possible romantic relationship between a president and one of his aides isn’t something the public needs to know about. by Ken Starr and Newt Gingrich 742931637
