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Tom Scocca

@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 19h
The solution to people doing illegal things en masse is to pass even more laws to say those things are illegal
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rufo from Day One has been like “Here’s how I’m going to draw libs and the media into racist premises on my terms” and it works anyway
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Who could have foreseen that the "EXCLUSIVE: We have discovered that migrants are, in fact, eating cats in Ohio" guy would support a bigoted point of view while talking to the bigot he does a podcast with
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Expressing surprise that the racist propagandist Chris Rufo said something less than colorblind in the podcast he cohosts with a notorious fascist publisher
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely reassuring to learn that they got to work on trading away a young franchise cornerstone without bothering to come up with a theory of what the trade was supposed to do for the team www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/10/deta...
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Details On The Yankees' Deadline Pursuit Of Adley Rutschman
The Orioles wanted a significant four-player package from New York in exchange for Rutschman's services. MLB Trade Rumors has the details.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Correct!
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To be fair, it definitely has boosted productivity in the "shoplifting" sector
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Replacing jobs by making everyone waste more time doing the thing badly that the people with the jobs used to handle
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ohhhh you used AI to help you do the piece, you don't say
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Putting yourself out there as an economics writer and saying self-checkout increases efficiency
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh, AI is going to be like self-checkout! Why didn't you say so sooner?
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Still reeling from the reminder that "*Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily*" was posted BEFORE the Access Hollywood tape dropped www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN
It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 02/10/2026
"In 2016 Farrar was still figuring his life out, earning money as a freelancer by writing for places like Deadspin, The Daily Dot and Vice. Many of the outlets he worked with are now gone and Farrar’s work scrubbed from the internet." www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN
It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everybody complains about how the writers are out of control now and that's reasonable but in 1989 they had the Giants play the A's in the World Series and there was an earthquake
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Me under Trump 1 but for the Vice drug mule story
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UncleofJamiroquai @jessefarrar.com · 01/10/2026
It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN
It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The texts on the poster didn't say anything that a layperson could possibly have read as incriminating, so it seemed like the whole play was to make a big, fleeting "We have conclusive evidence" gesture without letting anyone absorb what the evidence was supposed to be
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The thing to bear in mind when she goes in on novels being mechanically churned out is that her Wikipedia page has a "Productivity" section
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CARTOON MOVE: Moving the fence out to protect the bad pitchers. ORNITHOLOGICALLY CORRECT MOVE: Tearing the upper-deck seating out to protect the bad franchise management.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🤔 “Moreover, at least half of the class was more agile, more reflective and clearer during oral exams than they were in their papers”
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A lot of media personalities seem mixed up about the difference between a senator making an easily disproven criminal accusation under the shelter of the Speech and Debate Clause and an ordinary person choosing to repeat that disproven criminal accusation in public!
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ bsky.app/profile/cram...
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Through eight years in Baltimore, Mike Elias is now 73 games under .500
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Buddy you couldn't even get into the bar you were sent to write about so you padded out the story by vamping about how people who mask on the subway have personality defects
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I try to be scrupulously fair, to seek out a variety of voices and opinions, and to take the time to understand the points of view of the people I write about. I keep my word and protect my sources. I
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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 27/09/2026
its also inaccurate. dental hygienists wear surgicals
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Correct!
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Never gets old, seeing which opinions are off limits to objective journalists and which opinions get published in news stories in the omniscient voice
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is every bit as fragile, judgmental, and hostile as anything anyone said in the Globe piece!
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Patrons were required to wear KN95 or better masks, the face coverings ubiquitous during the heights of Covid-19, and which most of the country had left long ago to dental hygienists and [Highlighting begins] people who don’t want anyone to sit next to them on the train. [Highlighting ends]
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To reframe the literal violence of throwing a body to the ground by following it with a mime-show of urnination, transforming aggression and conflict into performance and spectacle, is in some sense the most "sportsmanlike conduct," and its very relationship to the artifice of the game is what requi
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lots of conflation of “I can’t understand” with “Nobody can understand”
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Are machines becoming just like humans?” keeps being a skill issue posing as an existential conundrum
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When pundits or media personalities announce they were totally wrong about something, or about lots of things, that doesn't mean they admit their judgment is defective and nobody needs to listen to them anymore, it means what they say now is extra valid and important to hear
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Stopped even paying attention after McNair didn't get it
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You did read the books, right
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Have the courage of your convictions
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you're going to argue that major prizes are "deforming and hollowing out literary culture" because of the demographics and chosen topics of the winners, you need to go ahead and name exactly which books wrongly beat which books
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Some pretty uncharitable and less than realistic readings going on out there today!
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Bobbi Wickham @bobbiwickham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The technical stuff about how he is blending the two genres is really interesting too!
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Amrit Singh was working phone support for a trail-cam company and wondering why none of the music he was working on felt quite right, till he started chatting with the rural American customers on the line about what they were listening to www.cnn.com/2026/09/19/e...
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The border-busting birth of Punjabi country music | CNN
The fertile plains of Punjab are a world apart from the Appalachian Mountains, to which country music traces its roots. But as artists Assassyn and Jaggseer have discovered, the two cultures aren’t so...
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Please rate your customer service experience with the very nice person who called up and instantly resolved your problem after you filed a government complaint after two months of refusal and runaround from our customer service department
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"'We've also been singing on the tractors and in the fields,' he said. 'The work of the farmer is the same in Punjab as it is in America as it is in Canada.'" www.cnn.com/2026/09/19/e...
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The border-busting birth of Punjabi country music | CNN
The fertile plains of Punjab are a world apart from the Appalachian Mountains, to which country music traces its roots. But as artists Assassyn and Jaggseer have discovered, the two cultures aren’t so...
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Amrit Singh was working phone support for a trail-cam company and wondering why none of the music he was working on felt quite right, till he started chatting with the rural American customers on the line about what they were listening to www.cnn.com/2026/09/19/e...
cnn.com
The border-busting birth of Punjabi country music | CNN
The fertile plains of Punjab are a world apart from the Appalachian Mountains, to which country music traces its roots. But as artists Assassyn and Jaggseer have discovered, the two cultures aren’t so...
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INDIGNITY @indignity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Facebook friends, here is Indignity Vol. 6, No. 73, MR WRONG: Happy Enough Birthday to Me www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-nat...
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MR WRONG: Natal gazing
Indignity Vol. 6, No. 73
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
People who call the polio vaccine a "fraud" are not "skeptics" toward vaccines, they are people with fixed views toward vaccines! (The name for that fixed view is "denial.")
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Right, so that screenshot of the famous person saying the obnoxious quote? The screenshot with the awkward zoom and crop that leaves no visible sourcing?
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Striking how the LLM totally craters on the instruction to not be obvious about the significance of an object, just harping oafishly on how insignificant and unnoticeable the object is
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
People seem to think when they yank the cord it calls Superman
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Incredibly helpful to a manager to know exactly what you're gonna get every fifth day all year long
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