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Quentin Heilbroner

@quentinnyc.bsky.social
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Democratic campaign professional and fan of pro-human cities. We’ll see if I ever use this at all. Views mine.

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We shouldn't discount the fact that at least part of the data center backlash (and by extension the broader techlash) is because people feel like the tech industry has not given them anything cool, inspiring, beautiful, or useful in a long time
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Touch Grass Coalition grows
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ceej @ceej.online · 07/07/2026
it really is astonishing how much of this sneering obsession with macho posturing is just warmed-over trumpism, down to the assemblage of an insular fantasy world where twitter bon mots pass for strategic wins in a forever war against the tide of a culture that’s largely moved on
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The single most predictable course of events in human history.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/06/2026
We are so f'ing cooked. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
the "are transplants and bandwagoners allowed to enjoy the knicks" thing is so utterly stupid because what's happening in the city is so far beyond basketball. it's millions of people celebrating the vibrancy and diversity of our city, in unity. this is for anyone who genuinely loves new york city.
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
*so one guy can fall asleep ten minutes through a basketball game
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Elizabeth Warren, come collect your candidate
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
woke 1 made the mistake of making people think it was problematic to make fun of healing crystals and astrology. woke 2 must be focused on the destruction of white shamanism
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
every single person who touches this needs to go to jail.
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Time for a take so hot I had to log back onto social media during a vacation for it: Paris feels much less pedestrian-friendly than several US cities, and I’m not just talking about New York
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The hantavirus thing is a reminder that mice and rats are just fuzzy cockroaches but worse
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
In personal news, I beat Duolingo
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The real April Fool’s joke here is actually believing that this is all there is to the world (Life is still mostly good and you all need to touch grass)
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/03/2026
I am so tired of being told that because I live in a coastal city I don’t count as a Real American and it is especially grating coming from my own party
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The patagonia moms in question are objectively more radical than the self-styled revolutionaries who like to sneer at these protests.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Raja Krishnamoorthi must be seething. He spent his entire House career fundraising for this seat, followed and unfollowed everyone on here, and yelled at staffers for not speeding. He STILL lost. Deserved
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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Congrats to Raja Krishnamoorthi on his new position as guest contributor to the Chicago Tribune editorial board
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5,000 Epstein Files for Every American Adult @tobellz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Trump is President because the only universal idea in American journalism is "moar content"
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
ONE GOOD THING HAPPENED THIS WEEK!
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
We should in fact maintain strict vigilance about "is it that you're against the bad stuff Israel is doing, or is it that you're a fucking antisemite???" The Platner candidacy, at this point, seems pretty expressly premised on "no we shouldn't"
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Almost certainly true, and another opportunity to remember that Netanyahu would willingly trade away the safety of every Jew on earth to save his own political career and avoid going to prison for his crimes.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
For the many Platner fans here, Peters is a white supremacist, Holocast denying / antisemetic, virulently anti-trans anti-gay right-wing influencer. There's no lack of people making similar points that Platner could be reading and promoting who are not nazis.
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I am very AI-skeptical, but the idea that this is all fake and will disappear in a few years is copium on a level seldom seen since last November.
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Love how he does these when the market is closed now
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
so genuinely: uh, what was Merrick Garland doing with the Epstein files, given uh, it's brought down a royal and multiple Euro politicians/
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
So this is just the Harris-Walz font, right?
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
. @demgovs.org really coming through for all of us JBP/CRJ fans (there are dozens of us!)
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
a very persistent thing on here is poster a: untrue claim about a political figure - often a justly dislikable or objectionable one poster b: correction of untrue claim poster a: oh so you support them it's part of the general comprehension collapse but it's a distinct dynamic.
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
When this is all over, we should rename Penn Station the Sherrill-Hochul Intermodal Terminal. That way, if Trump complains, we can say we still named it after him.
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Once you start thinking of most ads as using language aimed at toddlers, you can't unhear it.
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The refusal to allow new housing in NY and CA is literally handing electoral votes to Republicans.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
it's also a demand never made of, say, rural people who won't go into the city because they think they'll be murdered.
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
TikTok shoulda stayed banned for so many reasons
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The civility police lose their minds when you accurately describe a racist person as a “racist” but this is nothing. Imagine if a Democrat talked about red states like this.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Peter Pomerantsev called his book about the information environment of Putin's Russia "Nothing is True & Everything is Possible" to convey how important turning it into an unnavigable morass of lies was to consolidating autocracy there, precisely because it made cynicism the main rational response
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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
"Here’s an example that Google’s Josh Woodward, VP of the Gemini app, Google Labs, and AI Studio, shared in a blog post about how Personal Intelligence can work. Google also put together a similar example in a video that I’ve embedded below:

For example, we needed new tires for our 2019 Honda minivan two weeks ago. Standing in line at the shop, I realized I didn’t know the tire size. I asked Gemini. These days any chatbot can find these tire specs, but Gemini went further. It suggested different options: one for daily driving and another for all-weather conditions, referencing our family road trips to Oklahoma found in Google Photos. It then neatly pulled ratings and prices for each. As I got to the counter, I needed our license plate. Instead of searching for it or losing my spot in line to walk back to the parking lot, I asked Gemini. It pulled the seven-digit number from a picture in Photos and also helped me identify the van’s specific trim by searching Gmail. Just like that, we were set."

https://www.theverge.com/news/861576/google-gemini-ai-personal-intelligence-gmail-search-youtube-photos
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u... It's infuriating how "we asked a bunch of people who live hundreds of miles from a city about said city, and many of them are afraid of it because of what they saw on TV" is still a thing we're doing. Do MPLS residents themselves not matter?
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One State, Two Very Different Views of Minneapolis
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The past year, basically uninterrupted:
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
<insert Hochul laser-beam eyes photo here>
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
If the Obama administration had ordered this done in a small town...
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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Go Bills (content you’ll only find here on Bluesky, the official app of sports, naturally)
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 27/12/2025
I think that this belief is more common than any of us would like to admit and it is also extremely fucking wrong. This is why it’s important to learn about the rest of the world.
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