Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content." 11355311147
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 01/05/2025"Judging by the evidence, it might appear that people who transition are happier, but what's important is that we don't want them to be." 037575
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you 60151085120
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count." 423107851
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Jacques is in their ouji season (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025As the Met Gala approaches, I want to remind people that the Gala is the primary source of funding for the Met’s Costume Institute. The Costume Institute, despite being a major draw for the museum, is not funded from the same big kitty due to misogyny (fashion is for girls). 428592
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Multiple articles have been written about Bluesky being a dangerous echo chamber while the world’s richest and influential men are having their brains cooked in increasingly extremist group chats 393189383171
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures. 6161521024
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/04/20251) This bullshit is *costing* us a ridiculous amount of money. 2) It never was about "cutting costs;" it was always about control. …I said "THIS WAS ALWAYS ABOUT USING THE RHETORIC OF EFFICIENCY & BUDGET TO GAIN ACCESS & LAY CLAIM TO SENSITIVE DATA & WEAPONIZE IT AGAINST PEOPLE THEY DON'T LIKE."nyti.msWhat Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, TooAn expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year. 335089
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/04/2025The Venn Diagram of Americans who say the government should be run by a business and who also complain bitterly about how every time they call customer service they get put on hold for an hour and then have to talk with "some foreigner who can't speak proper English," is a circle. 11626105
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers. 12697521733
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459... 23291262809
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 10/04/2025It’s amazing that things like cutting FDA funding are never framed as, “I think private companies should be able to profit from having you literally eat shit and you shouldn’t be able to do anything about it” 5732741408
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 06/04/2025If men are depressed and broken because they "have nothing to do", they could try cooking, cleaning, and doing laundry. They could spend more time with their children. They could even buy their own mother a birthday present, instead of expecting their wife, girlfriend or sister to do it for them. 311233
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/04/2025DO NOT MISTAKE EARNESTNESS FOR A THING TO BE AFRAID OF. “Cringe” or s too often simply just the word used to mask the discomfort that comes with being vulnerable! It’s okay to feel vulnerable about being earnest about important issues in the world! 373515696
Susannah Nix 🦄 @susannahnix.bsky.social · 06/04/2025A glorious winery Saturday in the Willamette Valley 060
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! Because you'll procrastinate to avoid doing that thing you used to love before you made it your career! 1250759
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Nobody knew how bad this would be, except for the many people whose warnings I dismissed, but they don’t count. Actually a good distillation of the mindset. Having already unpersoned everyone who understood what was happening, there’s no need to reconsider the belief in one’s inherent superiority. 803855702
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 31/03/2025When did we all just agree that the federal government is bloated and could benefit from cuts? I keep seeing this as a throwaway statement before media outlets criticize Trump, Musk, and DOGE. But it’s transparently false. Many government offices are actually severely understaffed. 1219653
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Same, little pepper, same 94103011812
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025God, I feel old. I just told some young 'uns that Bruce Willis was cast against type in Die Hard. They found this unbelievable, but their phones told them otherwise. Kids, I am older than your phones and possess knowledge that is not on your newfangled Interwebs. Believe me. 1317414
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025More babies in wildflowers. Because I love you. 16689130
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 25/03/2025It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide 36208894146
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025After Trump sent a lynch mob after Congress, not only did the GOP not impeach him, they drove the Members who tried out of the caucus. But a black Dem who stood up, we can’t have that. The Dems don’t lose because they’re too far left, they lose because they stink of weakness. 19825272
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I'm not doomscrolling, I'm just sampling a buffet of farm-to-table panic attacks 441835270
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 27/02/2025INTERVIEWER: You have billions of dollars, and apparently nothing but time on your hands. What's next for you? Philanthropy? BILLIONAIRE: Great question. I am going to devote most of my time to eliminating vaccines and vaccine research. 61202223
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Hypatia L.A. Seneschale @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 20/02/2025A Democrathicc Party to make FDR look like a conservative 111360283
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Humanity will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last techbro. 214139
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them 772169375
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Musk has a moody teenager’s understanding of the world: He constantly mistakes random thoughts for deep philosophical insight and whenever he encounters something he doesn’t comprehend he yells “This makes no sense!” in angry indignation. Really the worst kind of person to hold power. 14868155
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes 10196200215002
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025If you show up to my house in a Cybertruck asking me to pay for a service, I am going to assume you’re ripping me off and also a dipshit. Sorry. 1876007883
Susannah Nix 🦄 @susannahnix.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Some good news for a change: I'm writing again! Or I'm at least trying to, anyway. I think I've finally identified the problem that stalled me out on Nate & Sunny's book. Now I just need to identify a solution. 1160
Susannah Nix 🦄 @susannahnix.bsky.social · 10/02/2025The Superbowl is very much Not My Thing™ but that halftime show was fantastic 070
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs. 691238566774
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Xio Axelrod @xioaxelrod.bsky.social · 10/02/2025It is striking how uncomfortable some people get when Black intellectualism is on display while, at the same time, they have no problem with Black athleticism. It's giving "shut up and dribble." It's giving "I don't want to look in the mirror." 0406
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Unvirtuous Abbey @unvirtuousabbey.bsky.social · 08/02/2025A blessing 4343131
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Every now and then it's nice to pick your head up from your book, reacquaint yourself with the world, take a hard pass and immediately go right back to reading. Balance is important 📚❤️ 111032114
Susannah Nix 🦄 @susannahnix.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Would you rather read about the downfall of civilization or stare at this burbling stream? 0110
Susannah Nix 🦄 @susannahnix.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Every time I come on here, I'm hit by such a towering shitpile of devastating news that I have to close the browser and walk into the woods 2150
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/01/2025The thing about science is that if a phenomenon such as climate science weren’t real, they wouldn’t need an executive order forbidding its study. The better we explain the social processes of science, the clearer it will be to everyone that this EO is an admission that climate change is real. 20981266
Reposted by Susannah Nix 🦄Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/01/2025respect truth in advertising 4556911220