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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 25/09/2026
I promise this is a better use of your money than all the other subscriptions you're currently paying for and not using
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 08/09/2026
Doing some old-fashioned link blogging unimportantbird.com/posts/2026/0...
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Post-holiday links
Heath deaths, agrarian populists, and the end of a blogging institution.
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this is excellent
stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable. (You probably won’t even get the kudos of looking like a cool ally, because you’re still ultimately talking about Harry Potter. Sorry about that.)
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Damn that’s crazy but you can’t be racist against the computer. Yeah. No I hear you but. Yeah it’s because it’s not a person it’s the computer.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The media relentlessly promotes the narrative that progressives are too mean to anti-vaxxers and we must bring them around with compassion. This isn't true and isn't helping. The more public sympathy you show them, the more empowered they are in their beliefs. www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/s...
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Today @tynan.unimportantbird.com reports from a protest against one of our nation's many concentration camps in McCook, Nebraska. "We just felt so helpless," Deborah told me. "How can we help these people? We don't know who they are. We see on the news that families are being separated..."
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Protesting a concentration camp in Nebraska
Estamos aquí por ustedes
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 05/08/2026
I’m playing Shadow of the Colossus and feeling bad about it. I keeping saying “sorry buddy” out loud every time I kill a colossus
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 29/07/2026
Scientist falsifies hypothesis, film at 11
Fauci’s diary shows he thought Covid could be man-made. Now he’s telling Congress it was ‘molecularly impossible’
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 29/07/2026
In the spirit of transparency, I want to share a statement about the role of AI in my writing process: I would rather cave in my face with a brick than use it
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 27/07/2026
I say this as someone who has been way less hot on Nolan's film than a lot of people I know but: That review from Emily Wilson is genuinely awful. We're talking a step or two away from cinema sins level criticism here
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 27/07/2026
thinking about how much time alfred must spend scraping guano off the batmobile
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 23/07/2026
I'm hesitant to declare that an individual text I'm predisposed to hate signals the downfall of civilization (cause that feels like right-wing nonsense most of the time) but Angry Birds 3 starring MrBeast sure seems like it could only be the product of a dying empire
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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Panel 1: Shenne (this is how I'll reference the girl version of Shen from now on) is making a comically pouty crybaby hands with her hands raised and saying "oooo I can't even draw a stick figure"

Panel 2: She's now doing raptor hands and continuing to make the pouty face in profile view, saying "ooooo if I draw something, it's gonna be BAD!"

Panel 3: Shenne faces you directly, the front of her body shaded apart from her eyes and teeth, which form a disgusted expression as she says "WHO THE HELL CARES?? DON'T YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANNA SAY TO THE WORLD???"

Panel 4: Shenne, still with a disgusted expression, says "here, loser" and throws a pencil at you.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/07/2026
here’s my offer, The Atlantic magazine, I will read the next “reactionary pretends to give honest advice to Democrats” take if you let me write a piece where I, a DSA member, pretend to give honest advice to Republicans
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mr. Shit Head the Little Worm Who Sucks got 15% less racist. I profiled him for the fifth time to see how cool he is now.
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 20/07/2026
Solrad kindly let me ramble at length about truth and fiction in the context of Joe Sacco's latest book. give it a read!
I want to be careful here: The Once and Future Riot is not some nihilistic post-truth diatribe that declares reality unknowable or unimportant. Sacco still believes in the processes of journalism, as flawed as they are; he dedicates the book to “the hardworking rural journalists of India” and praises the work of multiple local reporters in the acknowledgements, including his guide Piyush. But Sacco doesn’t want you to forget that they — and he — are constantly being gaslit about the circumstances of the riot. The book puts its readers in the same uncomfortable position as the journalists: Like Sacco, you can never be completely sure who is telling the truth and whether it’s the whole truth. It’s an artistic strategy that forces readers to question whether the violent scenes that Sacco illustrates are, in fact, distortions of memory.
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 19/07/2026
the odyssey was a genuine spectacle. but i was left wondering: if you took away Nolan's budget and IMAX and gave him a shitty camera, could he still make a good movie?
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A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 17/07/2026
driving three hours to see the odyssey in 70mm is simultaneously the most film bro coded thing I've ever done and also so mild compared to some of the travel itineraries I've heard about
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 17/07/2026
the Aeneid produced by the Asylum
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Rise and grind
4 panel momo comic:

Panel 1: momo in bed. We see the sun has risen through the bedroom window. Text reads “I wake up”

Panel 2: momo behind his table. There’s a coffee pot and a pink cup of coffee on it. Text reads “pour myself a little coffee”

Panel 3: he’s in a chair behind the table with an opened laptop and a glass of water. It says “check my little emails”

Panel 4: we see he left his house. Door still a little bit open. Text: “ignore them a little bit” as momo gleefully goes to play outside rather than answering his work duties
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 16/07/2026
Looks like Scalawag magazine got duped into publishing something from a pretty well-known AI scammer. I'm glad they quickly unpublished it. But the editors seemingly didn't do a single google search to check on this new contributor's credentials?
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 13/07/2026
turns out the cure for male loneliness might be invasive species control
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Someone should write a story about a curséd device, lusted after as a transformative source of power, that renders its users unnaturally youthful long beyond their time
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/07/2026
The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.
thepinknews.com
Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'
Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 12/07/2026
donate to Wikipedia also this is the funniest shit
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404 Media @404media.co · 11/07/2026
“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 10/07/2026
I don't care how often I see this, I'm still not going to buy the panopticon shades
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 09/07/2026
No reason gay Jesus couldn't also be shredded. People forget that he rolled that boulder away from the entrance to his tomb all by himself
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is not remotely a “shocking breach of journalistic ethics.” She told him not to come to her house, he came anyway, let himself in and (allegedly) raped her. The texts don’t change the basic parameters of the story.
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 09/07/2026
The primary villain in The Atlantic's massive cover story on the "end of reading" is short form video and the internet, but the author didn't forget to make a little dig at comics (because of course)
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 09/07/2026
Non-zero chance that Platner resurfaces six months from now on Joe Rogan as part of a right-wing pivot. It's basically a law of nature for these dudes
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026
one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 09/07/2026
The actual breach of journalistic ethics here is Ryan Grim framing this as an important scoop. Jesus
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"she asked for it"
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 08/07/2026
say what you will about ants, those guys have the grindset
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
idk if it's possible to understate the amount of damage done by rfk jr and the forces he represents
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Long past time for any left-of-center person still actively using twitter to admit that it melts your brain. Platner should erase any lingering doubt. Twitter Platner supporters (who ran the gamut of left-of-center ideologies) assured everyone they were the normal ones and it blew up horribly.
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 08/07/2026
America's mayor www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/nyc...
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Mamdani announces NYC's first-ever city-funded pet food pantry
The new initiative accompanies free and low-cost spay and neuter services in all five boroughs.
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 08/07/2026
Why are all the readily available audiobook recordings of Dune full cast productions? I don't want to listen to 14 different people read the book! I just want one good narrator
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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My wife and I just saw Mitch McConnell and he's looking great.
Out of the Shadows #9 (1953). A couple is in their home and they are horrified when a skeleton in a wheelchair opens the door and comes inside.
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 08/07/2026
I was thinking about rewatching Logan because it's been a while. But I picked up Old Man Logan first and good lord it's terrible
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 07/07/2026
There's two layers to this: Bad managers using AI to confirm their terrible decisions. But also using the *threat* of AI to discipline their employee (e.g., be a compliant little worker or we'll automate your job into nonexistence!)
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 07/07/2026
More and more convinced that the only actual utility of generative AI is to empower and validate the dumbest boss you've ever had futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire
AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.
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tynan @tynan.unimportantbird.com · 06/07/2026
I for one am completely shocked that trying to rehabilitate gruff macho masculinity as a political strategy turned out to be a mistake
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 24/10/2025
the thing that fascinates me abt platner is that he seemingly thought he could just run without any of this shit coming up and looking really fucking bad on paper
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.
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Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her
The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
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Llewellyn @llewellynrose.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
no borders and no region locked dvd bluray players
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Wrong holiday dip shit
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