Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 6hWhen Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it 341303288
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialChris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 21hWe’ve had so many “Any Other Presidency Would Be Ended By This” statements that it feels banal to point out, but suggesting the deaths of millions of people by a foreign power would be a fine cost because they’re politically inconvenient should end a presidency in any functioning democracy. 421149
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position 412649550
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that. 31974570
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialmcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of 6161992385
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious. 5162411722
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house 362340424
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119115662873
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"biden is sooo mad at netanyahu he's going to stop funding the genocide any day now, probably" is a tactic they tried every couple of weeks while he was in office. there's no rescuing his legacy here sorry 362507366
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable 251840351
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Finally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be 353356414
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 01/10/2026it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals 533148555
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026listen everyone, i’m getting sick of all the criticism. this is my first blender project. i’m still figuring out how pivot points work. i am also aware that at frame 860 he teleports to fairfax along the x-axis. i’m working on it 303784357
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them. 441720334
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo 442786386
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialChris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 27/09/2026Dipshit writing for a fascist rag that pushed for this moment at every step of the way cannot fathom how we got here 114915
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialwarrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026All serious like I’m making an actual point: when are democrats gonna go back to lip service and pablum instead of making concrete promises 211625197
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026hi we're a website you have used for 20 years, we have no idea if you are over 18, send us a selfie. let us connect to your camera. can we get a booty pic with panties on and one without them on? can we also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position 3469631800
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not 7065721333
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation 201852293
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat 9678371311
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world 434437786
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game. 361730397
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow 344709971
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 21/09/2026when the republicans are weak, the establishment dems will weaken themselves also so as to not win by too much. if they had future sight and knew which policies would result in a resounding victory and which would result in a nailbiter, they'd pick the nailbiter policies every time 81439173
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project. 41281309
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialthe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too 643642675
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here 111112081903
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“Abolish ICE” was immediately met with eye rolling condescension and after events proved that policy correct, and support *among Democrats* for it exploded to like 80%, it didn’t move party leaders at all. How is this tenable 382913354
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There’s a bizarre contrarianism in the Democratic Party, where, if an idea catches on with the base it’s treated as presumptively unreasonable forever. Not even an effort to *appear* to be supportive. Politicians used to pander! 634027510
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialTommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756... 203668884
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on 193218934413
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job 3779191987
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialclyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 30/08/2026(pointing at 1980 on the graph and just saying 'reagan again') 15675211
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialKaty // Genderpunk 2026 @katysaint.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his balls? "No!" Says Lil Jon, "It belongs to the windows! To the walls!" 2835871161
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialChris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad" 966791389
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten. 401203354087
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Working on a piece for the newsletter, this is a data point - smart people keep shrugging and saying “communities don’t like data centers because of ‘vibes’” etc when it’s really that people are in fact smart enough to know they are bad faith neighbors. It is *entirely rational* not to trust them. 2423531008
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 27/08/2026this is quite literally the exact opposite of the legal argument that the platforms themselves have used to argue that they are not, in fact, illegal gambling apps which, damn, kinda puts the platforms in a no-win scenario here, huh? 416246
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/08/2026the democrats would rather lose perpetually than win on the left, and they would rather lose than win too big and have people expect them to do things. their incompetence will always be proportional to the ease of victory 373088505
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialPatrick @cleverturnip.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Painting the GOP as still holding on to a reasonable core that opposes trump, two months before a midterm where the outrageously unpopular president is not on the ballot. Masterclass in messaging, now we know why she's won every presidential campaign she attempted 3937137
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It is frustrating trying to be an honest, considerate, hardworking person, when many signs indicate it is much more lucrative right now to be a liar and a grifter with no moral core or ethical framework for daily life. I just hope these people eventually get what they deserve. 533234662
