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Ryan Broderick

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
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Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Finally got the chic book screenshot...
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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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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I had to check if this was real and oh my god
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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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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Microdramas will not save Hollywood. www.garbageday.email/p/microdrama...
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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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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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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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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 · 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 · 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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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
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 · 10/06/2026
Sonic the Hedgehog:
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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 · 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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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The end goal of AI is not building god or whatever — or even building AI tools that even work. It's stuff this. A proprietary layer of automation that controls and surveils everything we do, owned by the wealthiest of society. They want to freeze the world as it is now and rule over it.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Yep! That's true. Bluesky is actually very good for organizing. Everything else, not so much. www.garbageday.email/p/safe-and-c...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Ah ha! You've fallen for my trap. www.garbageday.email/p/safe-and-c...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Everyone on here is arguing about X and Bluesky again. But no one ever talks about the two major issues with this platform, one cultural and one technical. And until both are solved, people are going to keep arguing about whether its relevant or not! www.garbageday.email/p/safe-and-c...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In 2024, after the first thwarted assassination attempt on Trump, I was on a plane and watched as people reacted in, mostly, horror to the news. This weekend was, uh, not like that... www.garbageday.email/p/go-ahead-s...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Congrats, Silicon Valley, you built an infinite Jerry Springer machine and no one wants to use it anymore because it makes them look like Jerry Springer. Me on the inevitable death of "clipping" and, probably, the entire short-form video industry. www.garbageday.email/p/what-happe...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Is it creepy that there are companies like Chaotic Good Projects out there promising to "simulate trends" with sock puppet accounts. Yes, sure. But, in my experience, they're almost always completely full of shit. www.garbageday.email/p/the-wild-g...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Eliza Mclamb's original piece is worth reading, it's more focused on vibes engineering, which is harder to measure, but worth scrutinizing. www.wordsfromeliza.com/p/fake-fans But again, the only metric she mentions is that Chaotic Good got a TikTok audio to be shared 40,000 times at one point.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is the kind of thing @bumas.bsky.social and I try really hard to quantify and it's not easy. Without follower counts, video view totals, and Spotify streams, this basically means nothing. It's, frankly, a much more interesting story if bands are paying for this and it doesn't actually work.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I thought Justin Bieber's Coachella set pretty was cool! www.garbageday.email/p/was-justin...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The video pivot that started in 2020 has clearly reached the zenith of its stupidity and while old media tries to steer their beleaguered newsrooms towards the last next big thing, the next next big thing is clearly just over the horizon. www.garbageday.email/p/oh-look-we...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Everyone suddenly wants to regulate tech platforms in the US, but no one wants to say the word "monopoly." www.garbageday.email/p/meta-bad-b...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We've been freed from content jail.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
First they claimed it was for misinformation and now they're saying our video, which features non-AI footage of Netanyahu (which is the point of the video) is AI content 🤔🤔🤔
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
TikTok banned a video we made making fun of Benjamin Netanyahu and continues to change the official reason why. www.garbageday.email/p/our-conten...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
TikTok moderation is complete garbage. Every other platform was fine with this, but apparently TrumpTok has such an itchy finger around Israel content they won't even allow a simple video DEBUNKING all the Netanyahu AI stuff from this week. (Sorry for potato quality, Bluesky video is also bad lol.)
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Tried to untangle my feelings on Conner O'Malley (who I love) using AI in his videos (which I think are great). Ultimately, you can only disrupt the system from the inside for so long before it consumes you. www.garbageday.email/p/can-you-us...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Last night's Oscars were fun, as long as you ignore the looming specter of the internet gobbling up Hollywood. And it led me to ask a question that's been nagging me for sometime: What happens, specifically, to acting in a world dictated by short-form video? www.garbageday.email/p/the-death-...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The Timothée Chalamet controversy is actually very weird! (And probably extremely fake.) www.garbageday.email/p/day-17-of-...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Garbage Day Live is coming back to Brooklyn next week. Baby's All Right in Williamsburg. Doors at 6:30pm. Special guest @katienotopoulos.bsky.social! It's going to be very very very fun. We only have a few tickets left, so grab 'em while you can!!! www.eventim.us/wafform.aspx...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
US TikTok is not censoring posts, as best as we can tell from our data. But it does appear to be very stagnant right now. Welcome to normie hell, TikTok! www.garbageday.email/p/exactly-ho...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Meta Ray-Bans are a Cybertruck you wear on your face. www.garbageday.email/p/meta-ray-b...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Prediction markets, like crypto, like AI, are simply just another large-scale expression of COVID trauma among the mangerial class and now they're using them to turn a fucking war into a pyramid scheme they can scam each other into investing in. www.garbageday.email/p/sorry-babe...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Ben inspired us! Today's top section in Garbage Day is a big list of all the indie and subscriber-driven media our team is following and supporting. www.garbageday.email/p/i-love-you... Hopefully a good starting point for anyone who wants to get away from Trump-compromised mainstream media.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
lmaooooooo www.gq.com/story/inside...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Clavicular, Nirvanna The Band The Movie, and the search for "cool" in a world of algorithms. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...
I could throw a million examples at you — and will happily duke it out with you if you email me lol — but it seems to clear to me that pre-deplatforming is, to use Gen Z slang, the new meta. The Clavicular’s and Andrew Tate’s of the world sort of understand this.  But it’s extremely surface level. As platforms police speech less and less, edgelords lose their sheen. While Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is much closer to the blueprint for a post-TV and, soon, post-social media world. The culture that feels the most dangerous, and, thus, exciting to young people, will be what you can’t see online. And the most dangerous thing for platforms is not racist garbage. It’s unmonetizeable content. The “metric” that will matter most going forward will not be the numbers at the bottom of a post or video, but the human beings in a room that left their house to experience something. Which, of course, will be filmed and put back online. You can’t escape the matrix entirely.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The algorithm has invented a new person named Brianna Chickenfry
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Here's @bumas.bsky.social on dark woke. www.garbageday.email/p/an-edgelor...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Clavicular, the Gen Z looksmaxxer who loves meth and hitting himself in the face with a hammer, is too stupid to realize he's ignited a war between two factions of far-right weirdos. www.garbageday.email/p/clavicular...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Here's my take on that big dumb post about AI going viral on X right now. www.garbageday.email/p/a-comfort-...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Clavicular just got dairygooned
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
After two weeks deep inside the Epstein files, I've come to view his operation as something close to an elder abuse scheme. Pitching old oligarchs on the collapse of the global order as a way to fund his sex trafficking operation. www.garbageday.email/p/a-singular...
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