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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow, it's true lol. If you ask the Trump administration's new stupid America.gov chatbot to "play Minecraft" it goes completely insane. Just tried it.

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Silicon Valley created a new, worse version of popularity that everyone just accepted at face value at some point between 2019-2023." The Garbage Day newsletter is talking here about pop music, but I'm gonna hold onto this and apply it everywhere.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of the 14 songs that broke the same record "Choosin' Texas" just broke, nine of them were this century and six were in the last decade. Is a hit song still a hit if it climbs to the top of streaming charts and gets algorithmically stuck there for sixth months?

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 25/09/2026

A grande desaceleração da IA é uma bobagem de marketing e políticos idiotas dos EUA estão caindo nessa manualdousuario.net/desaceleraca...

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 23/09/2026

I downloaded Meta's new AI agent, Muse. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with this stupid thing and I can't imagine being a lame enough person to ever need any of the things it claims it could do for me. www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-b...

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 17/09/2026

My face scrolling my feed when Kash Patel bestiality fuel crisis diarrhea hydrox Ed Sheeran tour

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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social thinks about this basically harder than anyone i know so this conclusion is deeply interesting

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 14/09/2026

Many years ago, there was a yearly internet-themed Halloween costume contest in New York City called Hallowmeme. Our next live show at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn on October 27th is NOT Hallowmeme. But it is a tribute. It’s a night of comedy, music, journalism, and of course, a costume contest.

A pumpkin headed man in black turtleneck dancing with the words Garbage Day Presents: Someone Should Bring Back Hallowmeme
Baby's All Right, October 27th, 7pm. There will be a costume contest.

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 14/09/2026

A cult of losers who think you can turn a computer into god infiltrated the highest levels of San Francisco society and they want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way. www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...

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They want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way

Read to the end for Braden’s Infinite Tour Of Italy

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I had to check if this was real and oh my god

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 11/09/2026

Did you know Hooters gave out 9/11 commemorative pins?

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 03/09/2026

Yes! If I walked into a [MY STORE OF CHOICE] and there were other customers coming up to me telling me I should be shoved into an oven, I wouldn't go back. And yet millions do not bc they want to, but bc they're addicted. Good @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social today: www.garbageday.email/p/if-app-bad...

Which is really the problem with using monthly active users to measure enshittification. Social platforms get compared to physical malls or big box stores often, but that doesn’t really capture what they are. If you walk into a Walmart and it’s completely rundown, yes, you would stop going to that store and it would go out of business. As long as there are other stores left in your town you could still go to, of course. But social platforms monetize negative experiences the same as positive ones. All of these companies — and, apparently, Thelot — believe that if people keep signing up and keep using these apps they’re doing so because they actively want to and enjoy being on them. It couldn’t possibly be that you need to be on them now to run a business or communicate with other people!

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So I was in the Mamdani campaign's Signal group briefly while he was running for mayor. His team shared campaign materials and coordinated access. But I did get a glimpse into how influencers behave with politicians which was uh certainly interesting... www.garbageday.email/p/if-app-bad...

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Reading @garbageday.email newsletter, I would like to applaud the phrase - used to describe microdramas - "Worthless, but addicting audiovisual goonslop."

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Microdramas will not save Hollywood. www.garbageday.email/p/microdrama...

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 24/08/2026

The Lindsay Clancy story has become a neutron bomb of gender discourse, true crime brainrot, MAHA anti-big pharma narratives, and even pulled in the astrology community. But the most overwhelming narrative is the all-out assault from the right wing on mothers. www.garbageday.email/p/right-wing...

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Right-wingers want every woman to be a mom and also hate moms now

Read to the end for a pretty good TikTok

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 24/08/2026

An amateurishly animated movie from China has put new attention onto the question of whether even the worst artistic human creation is preferable to something generated by AI. www.garbageday.email/p/can-chines...

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Can Chinese AI cows be anti-AI?

Read to the end for the Tumblrpillar

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm not sure I like the whole recent streak of "woke 1 was crazy" going around right now tbh www.garbageday.email/p/what-was-w...

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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 22/07/2026

"An entire generation of young creatives were paid to dump terabytes of posts and videos in a black hole, trying to entertain users long enough to be surveilled and train AI. And not only do they have nothing to show for it professionally, they have nothing to show for it creatively, as well."

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I wrote about the lost decade of millennial creativity www.garbageday.email/p/you-get-wh...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Companies think we won't be able to tell but there will be signs everywhere that we can!!

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 10/07/2026

I will NEVER stop laughing about this. also lmao @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social calling him "Kidz Bop Tame Impala"

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Inside Spotify and Kalshi's messy breakup

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There was so much neurotic moral policing when I was a kid in the 90s and 2000s about what people were doing outside of their homes — how they dressed, how they talked, where they went — but after 2020, we've become obsessed with what we think people are doing or not doing at home.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

On how the fear that no one is reading anymore is sorta the same fear that no one is having sex anymore which is really just a fear that, for those of us old enough to remember the before time, the world feels different now in ways we can't really explain www.garbageday.email/p/every-new-...

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/07/2026

You can’t beat the GOP by adopting their tactics because the fight is asymmetrical. You have to come up with something new!

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Couldn't fit this into the piece, but the belief that the left needs its own oaf means that Trump is still dictating the rules of engagement. Believing 1) white working class men are the voters that matter and 2) that they will only vote for themselves is just MAGA with a different coat of paint.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A lot of leftist men were — and seemingly still are — willing to accept Graham Platner's many many faults because they have a sneering, condescending belief that working people in this country are white townie oafs who will only listen to other white townie oafs. www.garbageday.email/p/the-curdli...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

OK so I finally saw both: -Backrooms was technically impressive, prettier, and better paced. Would watch again. -Obsession had a tighter script, better characters, and was scarier. But it suffers from orange sludge lighting and is a meaner, nastier film I don't want to ever watch again.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We spent a month hiding out in a Kalshi clipping Discord. We learned a lot of crazy stuff about how this works, but the craziest is probably the tool they have for manually simulating Kalshi markets — which do not actually reflect the market they're advertising! www.garbageday.email/p/we-spent-a...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

They claim that the anti-trans movement started in 2014 which is just wrong. I've spent the last few years binging a lot of old TV shows and what's very strange about the shows that ran across the 2000s is that many of them start making trans jokes completely out of nowhere between 2005-2007.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The World Cup and, more broadly, just going outside and having fun, is an existential threat to MAGA. www.garbageday.email/p/going-outs...

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 26/06/2026

This week we had @bencollins.bsky.social on our podcast Panic World to talk through his plans for @theonion.com's relaunch of Info Wars. You can listen anywhere you get your podcasts and, also, on YouTube, you want to see our faces say words. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB80...

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Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I wrote about FreddyLA7, the apex predator of World Cup tourists. Is he some kind of fake? Complicated question! More behind the paywall in today's @garbageday.email - link here: www.garbageday.email/p/the-intern...

Was Freddy’s Ronaldo posting calculated for maximum engagement? I don’t think that’s unfair to say. Does that mean he’s a fake? That’s more unfair — not to get philosophical, but if someone is this dedicated to Ronaldo, calling them “not a real Ronaldo fan” feels pretty silly. But either way, it shows that Freddy’s popularity wasn’t more or less organic than anything else you see on X. He wasn’t a nobody who exploded on our feeds, he’s a savvy, hardworking poster who knows to stick with a trend, and got in on a massive trend at the right time.

That might be enough to call him a psyop for a lot of people, though, just like with the whole Geese thing a few months ago. People have finally understood that they shouldn’t take everything that they scroll across at face value. And to build up any sense of collective media literacy for our algorithms, it looks like we’re gonna have to take it one level at a time. Right now we’re at “anything that gets too popular online is a fake/psyop/industry plant” — and it just isn’t that simple.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My guiding principle is that platforms actually don't — or even can't — suppress anything beyond nudity, gore, swears, some hate speech, etc. But I do think they can promote different content and incentivize users to make more of it. Which is what I think is happening on YouTube right now.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The NY Times goyslop piece is dangerously misinformed. "Goyslop" hasn't lost its racist meaning — garbage fed to non-Jews by a shadowy cabal of Jewish elites — it's just that it has spread so far and wide now that kids use it without questioning it. That's bad! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/m...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Good not be more excited about this!!!

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If January 6th was violent projectile vomit then the UFC's Freedom 250 event on the south White House lawn this weekend was the miserable subsequent spew of diarrhea from our sick electoral body. Here's what my weekend in DC was like. www.garbageday.email/p/my-horribl...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Hi there, here's everything I saw on day one of the UFC's Freedom 250 event on the White House lawn. It sucked shit and was boring. Going back tonight for the main event.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Honored to come on and loudly yell about why I think 1997 film Event Horizon is actually a better adaptation of the Backrooms than Backrooms was

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This made me exhale the beautifying cigarette smoke of the soul, thank you @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social www.garbageday.email/p/the-bubble...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Meta and X are both leaning further into a paying-to-get-paid-to-post model. It's something even dumber than digital sharecropping. It's full-on digital feudalism. www.garbageday.email/p/making-you...

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Paying a subscription to use Meta products is patently absurd for the average user. Which Meta obviously knows. From a content perspective, they offer nothing that's worth paying for. These are predatory subscriptions plans clearly aimed at businesses that are dependent on these platforms.

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 19/05/2026

🙌🏻 Trustfnd has partnered with @surf.social so every bundle you create can get a shared content feed, too. Check out the Local Garbage Fire Feed by @davejorgenson.bsky.social, @kattenbarge.bsky.social, and @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social. surf.social/feed/surf%2F...

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Really good analysis from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social on why almost all content now feels and works like porn www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwyB...

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The little known metric that ruined every website

YouTube video by Garbage Day

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Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Russia has ruled a K-pop omegaverse fic to be illegal, sentencing its author to 18 months in a labor camp. So is it worth reading? Get the link I tracked down in today's @garbageday.email and decide for yourself! www.garbageday.email/p/everything...

On May 8th, a Russian woman named Alexandra Kuzyk was sentenced to 18 months in a labor camp for posting gay fan fiction. Even though the fanfic was free, it was found by a court in Yekaterinburg to be illegal pornography. Ever since 2023, when Russia declared the country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group to be an extremist organization, they’ve made multiple efforts to criminalize anything gay on the internet.

Naturally, the biggest question on my mind was, “can I read this criminally gay fanfic?”

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I finally got one of those accounts that just spams X with shitty shortform videos to talk to me about why they do it. www.garbageday.email/p/everything...

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