telekinetick @telekinetick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026@tompickle.bsky.social i'm hearing reports of grouch mode? 010
Reposted by telekinetickWill Warren @statsbywill.bsky.social · 07/04/2026A serious shoutout must be given to the legend, @umhoops.com. College sports is better with coverage like his, and at a time when it sounded insane he began a Michigan basketball site that still stands as the pinnacle of what a team-specific site should be. 0343
Reposted by telekinetickBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I hope I'm wrong but I've settled on the idea that unless the next Democratic president is a generational talent with a sharp focus and an iron will we can pack this whole thing up and go home 552962343
Reposted by telekinetickSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 10/02/2026my feeling is that if we are going to let AI loose we should start simple and low-risk, like criminal profiling, autonomous driving and medical advice before we let it handle complex tasks 61423158
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/01/2026the democratic party has shown an enormous amount of willingness to resist its base on key issues. there's no world where you get some moderate into power and just pressure them to do the right thing. 10110988
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/01/2026the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much. 12469491081
Reposted by telekinetickLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 07/01/2026It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death. 4054101507
Reposted by telekinetickSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 23/10/2025American law, it seems to me, exists to create a condition of constant titillation for people whose material needs are never unmet, but whose appetites have been teased into a state of ungovernable sadism by sloganeering & advertising that promises a return to a world that never existed & never willwelcometohellworld.comOur survival is their failureI knew eventually right-wing shock troops were coming here 6762182
Reposted by telekinetickBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time 63158883566
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025a lot of political “scandal” coverage is just the media making a decision about whether public opinion needs a corrective 51065129
Reposted by telekinetickDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Imagine if we treated any other form of safety like this:"We should only install outlet covers in day care centers on a case-by-case basis, such as where a toddler has stuck his fingers in an electrical socket." 629537
Reposted by telekinetickutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 01/10/2025focusing on the immediate fire and how it polls is also what prevents the opposition party from ever forming a coherent message and popular platform that can last across cycles instead of constant churn and insincere slogans based on micro-targeting and consultants 21507
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance 553591584
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025this is a good illustration of what “compromise” on trans rights looks like. there’s no “everyone gets rights but we take it easy on the pronouns.” if you head down that road you will end up denying that trans people are real. 261903323
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds. 3560061125
Reposted by telekineticklauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/07/2025for a couple decades that industry was able to leverage high pay and perks to keep their workers in line and the second it looked like they might start demanding more than golden handcuffs guys like andreesen started inviting skull shape bloggers into the group chat 191902124
Reposted by telekineticklauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/07/2025i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf 145102812130
Reposted by telekinetickFrankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 26/06/2025people really have some strange ideas about what exactly government is and isn't. "there's no way this body of people, money, and authority could ever possibly run a grocery store! now the Walton family, on the other hand, endowed by their Creator with the Grocer's Eye," 291904309
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/06/2025i think this argument resonates with liberal moderates because the left’s rhetoric irritates them personally. But the idea that it’s responsible for ~10 point swings in public opinion is completely detached from the evidence. 18193589
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025i don’t think it’s realistic to ask people being targeted due to their ethnicity and national origin not to engage in displays of ethnic and national pride 864149562
telekinetick @telekinetick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com logging into social media for the first time in weeks or months to confirm: CSH reference as the title for the first part of today's podcast? you are seen 100
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025the reality is that these people are far more interested in maintaining their coalition’s power within the party than protecting the party’s power within the country. 211338119
Reposted by telekinetickjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2025what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful” 20364541361
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025i think the reality is that in the modern media ecosystem, the algorithms allow people to put almost anything in your face, no matter how rare, and convince you that it’s an epidemic 271724168
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025a lot of pundits become obsessed with the little contours of conservative politics and ultimately get so lost in them that they get lapped by people who believe simple things like “republicans hate minorities and workers.” 231472122
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025i think that careful study of the American right could have led you to predict this. but also, just utilizing a framework of “modern republicans are irredeemably vile” will reliably get you 99% of the way there. 392261194
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025i keep seeing the right argue that the nazi salutes are "trolling." i think there's some truth to that, but know what exactly is being mocked. they aren't mocking the idea that they could be nazis, they're mocking the idea that they should care one way or the other. 742935336
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025authoritarianism works in large part because they hold the money and the guns - they can present you with choices where, in a vacuum, compliance appears rational. but that’s an illusion; compliance is dangerous. 10889110
Reposted by telekinetickCool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Tennis star Arthur Ashe riding to a news conference in New York City, 1977 #BlackHistoryMonth 0416
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services. 5762411166
Reposted by telekinetickPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 19/01/2025this sort of naked cynicism is jarring, but you’re going to see more of it because this is how kleptocracy works. it makes groveling and sycophancy the rational choice, because it will very often be rewarded. 323989890
Reposted by telekinetickCharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town · 18/01/2025"But reasonable people can have objections." No, reasonable people can be ignorant about the facts and base their objections on assumptions instead of what is actually happening. 1333
Reposted by telekinetickCharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town · 18/01/2025The fact of the matter is that PART of why the Democrats are floundering on trans issues so often is not because they are too focused on them but rather that they've been trying to ignore them this whole time and so have no plan for counterattacks. 125231
Reposted by telekinetickInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/01/2025James Baldwin: (Most patient, heartbreakingly eloquent description of the experience of Black suffering in America you've ever heard) William Buckley (smirking): Well, heheh, y'see, what Mistah Baldwin seems not to realize is that, ah, as the poet said, Politics nerds: Wow... they were both so smart 151310159
Reposted by telekinetickSpooky Sara (Endless Halloween🔪🩸🪦) @pashion.bsky.social · 15/11/2023 21950218
Reposted by telekinetickMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 17/01/2025A classic materialist reading here is that 2020 gave American tech executives their first real taste of worker militancy, and it scared them so much that they decided they needed to move into the political sphere to crush it. 8038101105
Reposted by telekinetickvictoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 16/01/2025those of us born into it can clock heretics at 10,000 paces bsky.app/profile/stev... 51497
Reposted by telekinetickLady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 16/01/2025You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017 46180575728
Reposted by telekinetickMare Pan @paarsec.com · 16/01/2025One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹 26110563560
Reposted by telekineticklauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/01/2025i think it's time for internet 2, where no one's allowed to make money on it 523911626
Reposted by telekinetickJacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 15/01/2025Nothing is more effective as a game walkthrough than an enormous plaintext document from gameFAQS dot com. 20382482596
Reposted by telekineticklauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/01/2025bob hope understood something a lot of people still can't reconcile: apologizing is actually really easy and you can do it as much as you want 6790912299
Reposted by telekinetickJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025When you're at a startup (I've worked at a few!) there's very little you need from the government or that gets in your way from them. But once you're an incumbent you're part of the rentier class and want to use the power of the state to crush your competitors while giving yourself a break. 1334043
Reposted by telekinetickJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 13/01/2025the humble roasted, salted peanut far outclasses the almond, an overly dense and underwhelming nut valued primarily because it can be shaved down and eaten in a lesser quantity 74367
telekinetick @telekinetick.bsky.social · 12/01/2025when we were in prime "make a create-a-team in madden out of all our friends" years, me and friend forgot to give me a last name, so I was on the team as "Bill Random." still use it every time I create a player 000
Reposted by telekinetickPetergeist Clines @peterclines.com · 11/01/2025One thing Newsom should do *right now* is a statewide rent freeze. They did it during lockdown, they can do it again. And yes, statewide, because every landlord within 200 miles of LA is eagerly waiting for fire refugees to move into their area. 242231160
Reposted by telekinetickBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I want less Silicon Valley companies and more companies like Tabasco where everything is just put into big oak barrels and once in awhile an aging Cajun man walks in and goes “how them babies doin” 565821662
