Noah @waldville.bsky.social · 23mIt's a similar thing to inventing increasingly convoluted hypotheticals to justify using a slur. Like, why do you want to say that word so badly? 210
Reposted by NoahMicah @rincewind.run · 3hwhat I hope this thread makes clear is two things: 1. expanding the court has real problems, and these are valid concerns 2. there are no good options left, and this is the best of the bad ones unless we want to accept a conservative supermajority for the rest of our lives 1654761
Reposted by NoahJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16hAll governments that rely on these “Tech Bros” for their critical infrastructure will eventually find themselves at their mercy. 14313122
Reposted by NoahJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 23hAaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public. 69139375248
Reposted by NoahColleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 20hThis 1000%. I was reading at age 4 and very advanced by age 8-10. We don't think about subject matter vs reading level enough. (In case you are wondering, I was one of those kids who read the encyclopedia.) 36723
Reposted by NoahGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I know normies don't understand why advocates get so fired up about this kind of safe streets messaging. It's because we see what's happening in places like Toronto, where the government is literally stripping away life-saving infrastructure. Where the signal being sent is: Your lives don't matter. 320358
Reposted by Noahvibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 14/10/2026i treat people who were gamergaters in the early days but now no longer the same way i will treat ex-Trump supporters. like yeah, you might have been young or naive and i'm glad you're out of that realm now. but there was never anything redeemable there at the core, and you need to understand that. 3563
Reposted by NoahDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026This is why ppl get angry when "moderate" dems say they won't impeach this motherfucker again. If his actively flouting the tripartite system that's literally intended to keep him in check does not rise to the level of "Blatant Constitutional Crisis Requiring Extraordinary Measures" then what does? 6606180
Reposted by Noahjoe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026the drunken false starts into her very correct answer hit like a truck 014837
Reposted by NoahNash @radiodeadair.com · 14/10/2026Can it pass right now? Nah. But damn if just introducing it won't make members of both parties pee their pants. 8358103
Noah @waldville.bsky.social · 13/10/20261. This is stupid fear mongering boosterism, but 2. Do you need the strongest newest most pollutingist computers on the planet to run these things or can they run on a washer-dryer? It can't be both. 000
Reposted by NoahSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The White Sox blow a 2-0 series lead in the ALCS and the Chicago pope immediately gets cancer 869692
Reposted by Noahm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 13/10/2026proof that racism makes you hopelessly stupid 1033127255
Reposted by NoahNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The Israeli political consensus is that it is essential for the State of Israel to continue to deny self-government or self-determination to 33% of its population indefinitely, and virtually no mainstream American analysis will even engage with this. 7648165
Noah @waldville.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Haven't read that one, but there's some crossover between those two for sure. I also haven't read Lindsay Ellis' novels, but if I recall what I've heard correctly, they're also playing with the cultural impact of Transformers?? 000
Reposted by NoahRev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 15/08/2025every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing 70132144942
Reposted by Noah#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them. 393959772
Reposted by NoahBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I love watching those "how to improve your company logo" Reels and also understand how a fixation on unity, balance and readability can lead to something Worse 7403
Reposted by NoahPanic Restaurant (Permanent Deltarune Brain Edition) @panicrestaurant.northsky.social · 13/10/2026Every other day there's a new mega man battle network b-plot happening in real life 3634411333
Reposted by Noaheerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 13/10/2026That semi-conspiracy-theory about oligarchs banding together to make owning your own PC hardware a thing of the past is looking truer and truer all the time 35514
Reposted by NoahIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/10/2026I'm glad he wrote this down! It could be incredibly ironic some day 391563191
Reposted by Noahandré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026let ms. rachel run dem strategy and actually i am so serious 336372
Reposted by NoahMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13/10/2026The judge who signed off on the Omar warrant should be impeached. 101459236
Reposted by NoahBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/10/2026There’s some quote, I think from Seth Rogan, that says that it’s fine to cross lines in comedy but people want to understand that you’re aware a line exists and have an awareness and deliberateness to it, and I think that’s the reason people like Mel Brooks are so funny and dipshit stand ups aren’t 422702260
Noah @waldville.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Far from its worst sin, but in The Bride!, a character says something like "Maybe The Bride will inspire women to become doctors or astronauts." The movie is set in 1936. Also, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, just two years after Yuri Gagarin. 060
Reposted by NoahJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you understand that political antisemitism was not just the hatred of the Jew qua Jew, but an entire worldview in which the Jew stands in for border-crossing cosmopolitan ideologies that threaten the nation-state, then you understand why the Israeli right had to reinvent it from first principles. 161008219
Reposted by NoahWill Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Pure neoliberal nonsense. Klobuchar sees this as an electoral event—a scandal that raises questions for voters—not a crime. 182
Reposted by NoahPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes! 8570541791
Reposted by NoahMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦♂️ 552171489
Reposted by NoahMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026They need to start calling them people and not migrants, because too many people think migrants aren’t human. 7458110
Reposted by NoahTallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026(The top left hole has two pigeons) #critterposting 151775503
Reposted by NoahRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every AI generated event poster is incredibly ugly, but I do think it's interesting that that LLMs have essentially created a house style for flyers, especially one so maximalist and ugly and in contravention of of all convention and best practices established in graphic design over centuries. 1058073
Reposted by NoahJason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 11/10/2026The last half of this quote wasn't circulating nearly as much yesterday, but it's actually the clincher. God bless this brilliant, gifted, absolutely deranged man. 12064606
Reposted by NoahGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 11/10/2026Today in "whoops, linguists were a tiny bit kidding about the whole novel sentences thing, sometimes a phrase actually has coincidentally been said already" 521452
Reposted by NoahSargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 20/01/2026The RAM situation is v funny to me whenever someone as much as implies that we might have to conditionally limit consumption in some circumstances, for the environment, the powers that be go hard no. however, for AI, it is both good and acceptable that no one will be able to buy a computer this year 1106
Reposted by Noaheerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 11/10/2026I mean, no, the reason cops are disproportionately likely to say they believe rates of false allegations are higher than they are is because cops are disproportionately likely to do things that would make them the subject of allegations that are true 171471292
Reposted by NoahXander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Nobody is more punk than babies. The food is vegetarian mush, and it's absolutely everywhere. No matter where they live, they're effectively squatting. They sleep all day and stay up late. They're completely broke. Their music is mostly screaming and amateur drumming. It's so cool. 328068
Reposted by NoahSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10/10/2026LETTERMAN: In fact Digger is doing so poorly that Tom Cruise has been using the empty theaters to hide Shelly Miscavige. [big bass sting from the band, scattered laughs, some "ooohs"] Have you seen Shelly Miscavige lately, Paul? SHAFFER [smiling]: Not recently, Dave. 6809148
Reposted by NoahMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. 337611341
Reposted by Noahmaud @peloriemate.net · 10/10/2026i got so many people calling this tweet fakeposting back when i made it but since this is bluesky and things have less reach on here im just going to post the photo 258208585229
Reposted by NoahLlewellyn @llewellynrose.bsky.social · 10/10/2026just made myself cough from laughing 7960244
Reposted by NoahUmar Ali @speedfreak01.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This isn't easy for me to say, but Sushi is in trouble right now. We're doing everything we can for her, but she needs your support. Please donate if you can, and share if you can't. Thank you. gofund.me/a5d60fe83gofund.meDonate to Sushi's Heart Treatment, organized by Umar AliHi, I'm Umar, and Sushi is my cat. Recently, Sushi has had trouble breathing… Umar Ali needs your support for Sushi's Heart Treatment 1083177
Reposted by Noahbarefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026but anyway, this is why these dipshits also don't understand why people make art and write and do not want to be absolved of the creative process through the use of generative AI. their compasses are fucking broken. I wouldn't follow them *anywhere*. 021
Reposted by NoahRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course 613424640
Noah @waldville.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'm sure in some realms of academia there are actual reasons to use "postliterate," but I feel like most people use it when they're too embarrassed to use "illiterate." 000
Reposted by NoahEmily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Disclosure Day was basically this, and people (wrongly) hated it!! 1112413