Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerMia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 19/08/2026We 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 263569443
Reposted by Quentin Heilbronerceej @ceej.online · 07/07/2026it 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 1293781
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The single most predictable course of events in human history. 332317
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/06/2026We are so f'ing cooked. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news... 1921752
Reposted by Quentin Heilbronerlindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 11/06/2026the "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. 934860
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026*so one guy can fall asleep ten minutes through a basketball game 000
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text 1295170828
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Elizabeth Warren, come collect your candidate 010
Reposted by Quentin Heilbronerbort @crushbort.bsky.social · 29/05/2026woke 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 142191345
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/05/20261. 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 23996104059
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 18/05/2026every single person who touches this needs to go to jail. 231420282
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Time 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 120
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The hantavirus thing is a reminder that mice and rats are just fuzzy cockroaches but worse 110
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The 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) 000
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerMicah @rincewind.run · 29/03/2026I 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 892940408
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026The patagonia moms in question are objectively more radical than the self-styled revolutionaries who like to sneer at these protests. 41165147
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerBeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Raja 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 213015
Reposted by Quentin Heilbronerare you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Congrats to Raja Krishnamoorthi on his new position as guest contributor to the Chicago Tribune editorial board 8873131
Reposted by Quentin Heilbroner5,000 Epstein Files for Every American Adult @tobellz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Trump is President because the only universal idea in American journalism is "moar content" 11215
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026The 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. 594498942
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 01/03/2026We 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" 426139
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Almost 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. 171960487
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/02/2026For 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. 14638971038
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I 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. 000
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Love how he does these when the market is closed now 000
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026so genuinely: uh, what was Merrick Garland doing with the Epstein files, given uh, it's brought down a royal and multiple Euro politicians/ 802909442
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026So this is just the Harris-Walz font, right? 000
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!) 000
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026a 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. 521110143
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026When 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. 000
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Once you start thinking of most ads as using language aimed at toddlers, you can't unhear it. 110
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The refusal to allow new housing in NY and CA is literally handing electoral votes to Republicans. 011
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026it's also a demand never made of, say, rural people who won't go into the city because they think they'll be murdered. 282209468
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026TikTok shoulda stayed banned for so many reasons 020
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerCraig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 19/01/2026The 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. 621450289
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Peter 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 39331
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerJVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb" 25444271048
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026www.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?nytimes.comOne State, Two Very Different Views of Minneapolis 110
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026<insert Hochul laser-beam eyes photo here> 030
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026If the Obama administration had ordered this done in a small town... 000
Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Go Bills (content you’ll only find here on Bluesky, the official app of sports, naturally) 010
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026I'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. 311971446
Reposted by Quentin HeilbronerBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 27/12/2025I 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. 1069859