smith @protanope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the end of Civil Rights law seems a bit more important than NHJ or bringing coffee somewhere www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...nytimes.comJustice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases (Gift Article)Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated. 001
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Day late, dollar short @nytimes.com Thank you @404media.co for breaking this 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 10/09/2026these obviously AI-generated videos at the Liz Phair concert deserve a 0.0 Pitchfork rating. 010
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Every sentence jaw-dropping. There is no fix for this. ICE is evil. The country that allows it to continue must be judged as well. 020
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 22/08/2026This is extremely good on TAH, and how he’s laundering ideas, and serving as “the last black person I talked to” cloakinginequity.com/2026/08/19/t...cloakinginequity.comHe Picked a Fight With Black America. I’m Here to Finish It.Liberals keep reaching out asking me to read Tyler Austin Harper. Not one liberal. Not one conversation. It has happened enough the past few days that I have started wondering why. Why has Tyler be… 010
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 21/08/2026exactly. i do not need to see Cofnas another time in my life 010
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Bluesky is reaching an edge on LLMs/AI. both pro & con. not even understanding what other people are tying to say. Really dire vibes. 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 21/08/2026like so much else, no one is arguing the same thing when they say they hate or find useful LLM/AI, as everyone is defining it differently & everyone is uninterested in how someone else is defining it, and just want to push how they think. complete discourse & cognitive breakdown just as LLMs want. 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 20/08/2026in past lives I have been born under every sign except Capricorn. Unless it’s a crispy New Year. 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Dems need to take this chance-of-a-lifetime & abolish not just ICE but everything Reps have done since Reagan Remake 21st c 🇺🇸 politics. Well past time & only thing that offers hope & chance to keep this level of support 26-27: investigations into everything 28-29: tear it down; new states, courts 021
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 17/08/2026newto(n) isn’t a journalist looking to uncover the truth he’s a marketing executive running SEO his friends are podcasters doing the same It’s wild this is the best protection folks think we can do 100
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 17/08/2026jesus christ: Sky & beans & Mace; his friends: no data, no data; gods: like old Ulysses in Ithaca? friends: I dare say her sleeves do brace. sky: how be your 👉👈 wordplay…quite gay? mace: I’d do’t again in heartbeat, not fey. sky: u meant to say…”anyway”? mace: **maces everything in her way.** 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 16/08/2026“A double space after a sentence-ending period isn’t needed,” they said. “Double-spacing is redundant in the modern age, a hold-over from typewriting days.” 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 15/08/2026‘At a certain point, when the torture became unbearable, she begged her captors to stage an escape attempt and to shoot her in the process. They refused, because, she recalled, “Yevdokimov said I had to suffer.”’ 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 15/08/2026happening now: ‘When she lost consciousness, he revived her by shoving a cotton ball doused in ammonia up her nose. “Afterward,” she went on, “they chained me up overnight in a narrow standing cell with my arms raised.”’ 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The day she was taken prisoner, on a battlefield near the village of Petrivske, she was raped by a Russian soldier. Three had initially approached her. “You have to understand,” one of them told her. “We’ve been in the field for three months.” Russia’s New Gulag www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comInside Russia’s New GulagHuman-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell in the new Gulag. 100
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 15/08/2026the end of Haitian temporary protected status so dire. may all in the executive branch rot, spit-roasted, over slow fires 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 15/08/2026this is such a weird thing to say, isn’t it? the reason it’s a bit in here is because Sky made these trip-ups part of his persona on here? posts literal messages he sent to people? many many many people are lonely so it’s not like he’s alone in feeling that. So what gives? 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“Trump Isn’t a Threat to Our Democracy. Hysteria Is.” By Samuel Moyn and David Priestland Aug. 11, 2017 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The situation in Avenal is outrageous, and unfortunately the NYTimes article, like so many of the other previous articles by other outlets, doesn’t at all do a good job of explaining all of what is actually happening. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...nytimes.comThey Were Voted Out. They Refuse to Leave. Now What?Avenal, Calif., a city in the rural Central Valley, has become an unlikely example of election denialism months after a recall election. 100
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Folks. Racist white-militia central, Salem OR, is (metaphorically) bringing weapons to city meetings about Data Centers Do we think that’s because Salem citizens are right abt something fundamental (unlikely!) or because the subject is being used to weaponise dumbasses (of which Salem has many)? 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 07/08/2026alas so many BlueSky takes based off inability to understand that Xwitter (despite being owned by one of the worst people ever) is not 100% devoid of sarcasm. 110
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I think his hottest & worst take might be being absolutlely batshit insane about hating Kat Abu, honestly ? 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Greg Araki make a fucking good movie for once? Is this a thing? Making shit movies with great people? Oh nvmd I guess it’s a thing. 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Really enjoyed The Invite. Though lol perhaps less and less the more I think about how it’s basically Esther Perel girlbossing her b.s. throughout western society and now getting to be portrayed by Penelope Cruz. 100
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 24/07/2026this is such a funny use of bots, as horndogs for Bernadette Peters 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Pablo Torre may be finding out, but man, listeners who don’t already know the ins & outs, aren’t finding out anything. 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 19/07/2026oooh…10am?! wow. annoying post. why are he & Athul feeling need to say how much $ they make (or did/could make), while claiming moral high-ground? we all have reading comprehension & see the larger point of the article. yet they feel hit & howl. “we could outsource more childcare”? obnoxious. 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Nolan using IMAX maximally but also not caring about focus as much as many others …. discuss? 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 18/07/2026i’ve seen dozens of new ways that men can run away and get on boats today. it’s a classic move. let this be a lesson about interpreting the classics. 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 18/07/2026quite the movie. but movies aren’t reactions to twitter art—and reactions to art—is not supposed to be so constrained huge loss of culture: how we’re limited now. happening bc Musk: what we’re living through is his stupidity xwitter “classicists” (racists, shitheels) have made it all worse 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 18/07/2026correct. not sure what the point is here. he’s terrible, evils, etc, and definitely reflects basic truths about the usa…. but the way to fight against this sort of thing….is to actually fucking fight. like, just do it. Supreme Court must die. DC & PR (and more) states 000
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 18/07/2026David French is an anti-abortion republican who knows lawfare; yes he is anti-Trump, but he is bad; he just knows how to speak progressive language b/c ‘Harvard’ law & his (relatively early) anti-Trump stance in that world Use him as an anti-Trumper; but he is Not Good and Do Not Give Him Attention 010
smith @protanope.bsky.social · 16/07/2026folks this is shite. the irish national team did’nt meet with trump even once and they are incredibly mid.. 000
![Sky posting:
look, i know that "sky [] fumbles everyone" is one of the site's favorite recurring bits, and im gonna be honest that i can look back and laugh at a lot of them
but i'm also gonna say that the last two weeks have been really fucking hard and having to come home and do them, alone, has sucked.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p37yvgssptkspdoanixz2fhh/bafkreihs5egfewpwfgoehajyitduamma36hqphazpliy4vk5knibnasdoa)
