Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 4hI get gifted shampoo/conditioner twin packs and I will always run out of shampoo before I'm even 1/4 of the way through the conditioner so I've just got a little shameful collection of backlogged conditioner bottles. 000
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 18hIt's just people trying to suppress their own shame for still being there by saying it's actually somehow your fault they can't quit because you didn't invent a cool enough alternative for them to make the transition completely painless. 1231
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Probably worth considering what the people behind our domestic data center buildup might intend for them as a backup plan post-bubble. 010
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I'm pretty sure that even today if you recite "I will never vote for Newsom" three times into a mirror a vote scolder will appear and try to explain "okay but if it was him or a Republican you'd have to, right?" 020
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026So grindset oriented you look at your own leisure time and go "but what's in it for me?" 050
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think for a lot of these people the simpler explanation is that there's no long-term planning. They just want to hurt people today and even if you could give them all the Ghost of Christmas Future treatment showing them that it would 100% ruin their own lives someday they wouldn't change a thing. 050
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Best case scenario would be for conservative voters exclusively to be convinced that they've got it sewn up without needing to vote anymore while everyone else keeps turning out. 020
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There's an assymetry in how conservatives wishing ill on blue cities/states is treated as noise while liberals/leftists will scold themselves if anyone is caught wishing ill on red areas because some number of non-conservatives also live there and I don't think this arrangement is sustainable. 0214
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Dems love to use the excuse of "Oh no can't do that it would cut into all the important legislating we intend to do" regardless of how infinitesimally thin it is these days. 0240
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Except this is like the fourth or fifth time he's promised checks to people and so far in his term zero checks have gone out so even the greediest dope has to realize this promise is also going to evaporate. 023
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The downside of the Lucas approach is once he changes something you will never see a legally available rerelease of the old version again. 010
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Even if millions of people have heard of something that still leaves billions who haven't. 001
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A "Collector's Edition" without the game is just a Box of Miscellaneous Crap. 010
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Some combination of his failing brain and the people around him curating his own personal alternative reality has completely convinced him that the closing of the Strait was actually his idea and we're doing it on purpose and it's a good thing. Things can only get funnier. 000
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The US in particular having passed up so many opportunities to walk toward the future with some dignity is now in the "getting dragged kicking and screaming" phase because the decline of oil was always going to happen one way or another 050
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't think knowledge would make these guys any more cautious when they're drowning in egotism. "Yeah that happened to those other guys but I'm build different." 010
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There does seem to be a lot of overlap though between the centrist-leftist divide and the accommodationalist-oppositionalist one. 020
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you want the Dem electorate to stop turning to sketchy candidates with a million red flags because they're just THAT sick of putting their trust in an establishment that keeps failing them, that race specifically is non-negotiable. You have to win it. 000
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Once again, if establishment Dems flub the Maine race after having commandeered it despite both strong national headwinds and Collins-specific scandals dragging her down, they're never gonna hear the end of it from the Platner people. 100
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026By "stalkers" he means the centrist Dems having apoplectic fits over Piker and trying to tank the race over it. 000
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'd like to remind people that the Jeffries/Kushner meeting was attempted in secret (and leaked by Kushner's people because they knew it would embarrass Jeffries), and also Kushner is Just Some Guy. He has no official governmental role. 010
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026People spent months "lesser-evil"-ing this guy in response to people saying he sucks and they'd never support him under any circumstances and it's well past time to admit the latter group was correct the whole time. 020
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I legit did not think we would break through this floor but I'm pleased to be wrong. 020
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm gonna need triangulating Dems to start actually tracking down and interviewing these hypothetical swing voters who only switch sides when Dems betray a vulnerable minority because I've never seen one and they should be easy to find if there's supposedly more of them than the people betrayed. 0282
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It's a bold stylistic choice to do a big budget superhero film using only shadow puppetry. 1250
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Liberal iterated prisoner's dilemma particant: "I'm going to defect and that's that, but you better not. That would be extremely selfish and nasty of you, and whatever happens to us both will be your fault. Logically you should cooperate so at least one of us won't suffer." 0192
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It's not too hard to find people vocally angry with Talarico right now so if there's significantly more people with opposite feelings where are they? Shouldn't be hard to spotlight some. 170
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"He's clearly gaining votes..." Okay so is this person going to produce one of these alleged voters who's only come around on Talarico recently? Have they even personally met one? 170
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My argument for Sealed is that pre-Tempest sets were not ever designed for draft but Sealed has been a part of the game its entire existence. 000
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The people who came before who used bluster as a strategy and thought there would be no consequences will never understand that the actual consequence is that someone believed them and then that idiot wound up in their shoes. 030
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We really ought to consider that whole entombing-the-supplicants-with-their-pharaoh idea. 4492
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"It's just the thin end of the wedge digging into the back of your neck what's everybody freaking out about?" 0331
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Like others have said the guy has never understood business in any capacity beyond screwing the other guy. He does not and has never comprehended the concept of a mutually beneficial transaction. 0141
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Like with WaPo both outcomes are acceptable to the people in charge, though. They're not gonna lose sleep over their investments in propaganda going belly-up because killing a piece of legacy media is still a consolation prize. 181
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Mind-boggling sums of national wealth spent to achieve less than nothing. It only makes you madder at the people who balk at the miniscule price tags of modest social programs. 020
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Wait, does he attribute the left-liberal opposition to AI to clownish fears of Skynet rather than the tech being annoying, costly, unethical, and bad for communities and the environment? That's adorable. 010
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026What we've seen is that while some Dem voters have responded to this by further retreating into a fantasy that their leaders must be planning or doing secret good deeds offscreen, a lot more people are coming around to a proper "throw the bums out" party revolt which is the only real path. 143724
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This was the case with Palestinians as well. People do not understand that their calls for "self-sacrifice" are impossible to meet because the sacrifice being made is of an entire group of people and no individual has the right to say "yeah sure sacrifice all of us it's fine." 0311
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026All the flippant arguments about self-sacrifice from people who know they'll never be in a similar situation also fail to grasp that there's no way for individuals to jump on the grenade here. No one has the moral authority to permit an assault on their whole community. 2441
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Vote scolders have been doing their thing for so many electoral cycles without consequence (for them) that I think they just have no clue how much anger and resentment and bad blood they're rapidly accruing. 020
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026He has openly admitted to using alts to block evade. It's flagrantly against the rules but he will never be punished for it and he knows it. 1211
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Maybe a world where politicians/candidates and the media are completely hostile toward one another isn't the ideal world, but it's definitely the game theory equilibrium world media have unintentionally fumbled their way into. 010
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I really think vote scolders do not realize the fire they're playing with. People are being pushed past their breaking points and trotting out these crappy old lesser evil talking points is starting to cause permanent ruptures in the coalition. 071
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I've always been an Autumn guy. Shame it keeps shrinking and now lasts about 2-3 weeks a year. 140
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I remember very early on there were people trashing the guy based solely on the vibes of being a very loudly religious dude and I guess all those people get to take a victory lap if they want it. I also don't expect the next Dem trying to run in that lane will get a free pass. 190
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Thing is these guys don't wanna hustle to win. Winning is not even at the top of the list. They want to schmooze and attend functions and get a big donor check cut to their campaign that they can funnel into good-paying consultancy jobs for their friends/kids/friends' kids/kids' friends. 060
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Got a few of them mad enough to go "actually I am more important and furthermore other human beings aren't real to me!" 040
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Counter that we should rename the state of Pennsylvania to the state of America. 000
Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's getting harder to believe that people who support "grand bargains" and capitulation as means to defuse hot button issues that somehow never work actually ever believed their own arguments and weren't always just trying to weaken the defenses from inside to help Republicans win. 3321
