Reposted by WatDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 9hIt's so weird, because--and I know I'm a broken record on this--I was told in no uncertain terms this would not be happening, by one of the NYT's brightest stars. 1850850
Reposted by WatWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me. 11169171765
Reposted by WatMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic. 622982672
Reposted by WatRiki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct Just as a point of reference, this was the old Dr. Annie Andrews [Dem-SC] before she decided some of us were expendable. Liked Andrews ver 1.0 a LOT better. [hat tip Erin Reed] 1436
Reposted by WatDC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026ONE TYPE OF PERSON ON SOCIAL MEDIA: I don’t like AI THE OTHER TYPE OF PERSON ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Pretty naïve of you to say that when it just zip zorped the gringle in less than seven kleebs. SEVEN. KLEEBS. 1060293
Reposted by WatBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I can't tell you how nothing Keisha Lance Bottom's whole campaign here has been. She is just chilling. Being in the moment. Buying zero ads. Practicing self-care. Maybe in Turks and Caicos for the last two weeks? Who can say. 281899
Reposted by WatCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls. 12899639
Reposted by Watsynapsid (Scary) @synapsid.wtf · 07/10/2026fixation on politeness over all else is a red flag for pretty much anything ever tbqh 111412
Reposted by Watsynapsid (Scary) @synapsid.wtf · 07/10/2026the existence of the Rude label was a bigger red flag for what these people running the show are like than i think ppl could've even realized at the time 821330
Reposted by Watrob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the grandparents rights thing is so good because you have to be such an unbelievable shithead to not be considered a babysitting option, let alone be severed from contact. 323818
Reposted by Watgrimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The fact Kara Swisher is now monetizing her critiques of Elon Musk after literally being foundational to his work and actively ignoring all the insane gross shit he was doing and saying for years to give the tech press the inspiration slop they wanted is part of why we're here. 548783
Reposted by Watkwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the luddites were right and good and are proven more correct every day. we should all learn from their tactics. we are nowhere near as extreme as we should be. these people want to destroy humanity and creativity and they are the enemy of a healthy society. 14616
Reposted by Watbob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Today’s gonna be a banner day for saying heinous shit about Palestinians and then hand waving it with a “to be sure…” 091
Reposted by WatI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026People don’t want to take it seriously but they’re literally working backwards from whatever will support white supremacy and it keeps working because a lot of people are quite sure they can make white supremacy work in their favor. 10532120
Reposted by WatDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Thinking back to a year ago, when Ezra Klein did a podcast with Ross Douthat & said that to be competitive Democrats should run anti-abortion candidates in Ohio & Kansas. 36956160
Reposted by Watneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026while i'm here: if a dog barks, it's not choosing to bark because it's a dog. it is, nevertheless, barking because it's a dog. bsky.app/profile/muff... 1322
Reposted by WatJack @jtenroon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Stop pretending SCOTUS justices are not politicians, and stop pretending like the law is an opaque thing only lawyers are allowed to talk about. Law is crafted and criticized by citizens. I don't need a JD to see that Kagan sucks 05010
Reposted by WatJack @jtenroon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026hm seems a little bit like her fault. I promise you won't die if you say elena kagan did a bad thing 2557
Reposted by WatCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Whenever someone says 'agents make me more productive' I quickly realize that I'm talking to someone who aspires to be middle management, in charge of a bunch of Digital Jenny McCarthys, and I feel like their soul must have left their body years ago and left behind an empty, joyless void. 1474299
Reposted by WatMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager 214104441652
Reposted by WatGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026i don’t really give a shit about straining to interpret trump’s meandering, word salad horseshit, he’s the president of the united states, if he’s being misinterpreted, that’s his problem 371666203
Reposted by WatMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base 2526429908
Reposted by WatSteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber." 171994329
Reposted by WatThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"But landlords would lose money" I don't care. "But vax-hesitant people would feel discriminated against" I don't care. "But jilted Trump voters would feel unwelcome" I don't care. "But people who like ai would be mad" I don't care. "But that's not fair to the rich" I don't care. 14688150
Reposted by Watmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election) 412721722
Reposted by WatMicah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026there’s one true answer but it’s the correct one five minutes after game of thrones - the last true monoculture show - ended, we all collectively agreed not to talk about it again, and house of the dragon/knight of the seven kingdoms haven’t recaptured a fraction of that cultural presence 942401236
Reposted by WatReturn of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Always freaks me out that meidastouch and the bulwark have gained so much traction in “liberal” spaces. Just a collection of the most ghoulish neocons and GOP rejects to ever live infesting lib brains like a plague. Like the editor in chief of meidas, I shit you not, named his son “Ronald Reagan”. 213422
Reposted by Watmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former 423359711
Reposted by WatLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026I don’t understand why people just jump to the conclusion that voters are the root of electoral outcomes but don’t consider that the people who control the most sophisticated ‘info’ output & surveillance networks on the globe have figured out how to reliably subvert the democratic process by now 33685168
Reposted by WatBaseball GIFs @baseballgifs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026when you thought you were the greatest baseball player of this generation, but Ray Kerr exists 0568
Reposted by Watbort @crushbort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026if you deleted every account on here with “professor,” “economics,” or “political science” in their bio the average IQ would shoot up so fast everyone would get the bends 115810
Reposted by WatBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 308122392245
Reposted by Watclyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026'everyone's mad about my article arguing that we can't have a conversation about restorative justice when everyone is busy braying for the head of a guy who has faced no justice and done no restoration' 'what would it even look like' gotta be honest it would look like him paying her a years salary 6313
Reposted by WatOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 10141581264
Reposted by Watcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026it's really fucked that I've had so many people say "thank you for calling out the bad article defending the rapist, I wanted to say something but didn't want to get dogpiled for criticizing a youtube man" very safe and normal website we have here 181291131
Reposted by Watsamantha is the spectre haunting europe 👻👻👻 @commiesamantha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026personally i also just don't think it's good or healthy to care so much about a video guy on youtube that you feel betrayed and conflicted by revelations like this. there's not a single creator i watch or listen to i wouldn't stop in a heartbeat if they turned out to be a rapist actually 1620938
Reposted by WatAndrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Tony Romo drove drunk. He doesn't deny it. In fact he plead no contest and has taken ownership of his actions and publicly acknowledged his struggles with pain medication and now alcohol. For that he got canned by CBS while the NFL suspends players ~4-6 games for domestic violence. The NFL sucks 1562874476
Reposted by WatMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media 1002544520
Wat @wat21.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We’d be clowning this fool in the group chat until he was too embarrassed to send a screenshot of his chatbot convo or he just left it 000
Wat @wat21.bsky.social · 02/10/2026At the end of the day, the people that have been posting about how anti-AI everyone is and how irrational they are being these past few weeks are mostly mediocre white dudes who are upset because they don’t think they people should be judging them for using a chatbot. 000
Wat @wat21.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Good one baby boy! The people that disagree with you are Fox News grandpas, Reaganites, and chemtrail believers. Yep. Definitely can’t be that mommy’s smart boy got scammed and is too dumb to know it or too ashamed to admit it. It’s ok man. We know the chatbot is making you dumber. Thinking is hard 000
Wat @wat21.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is what you post when you are definitely, definitely, not mad about it. 000
Wat @wat21.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh sure you have baby boy. You can go ahead and detail that for me too. I’ll wait. You don’t know me or what I do for a living, but rest assured, it is far more noble and moral than working at a hedge fund. Surely it can’t be true, I thought these people would a better use for their Friday night 100
Wat @wat21.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The difference between this guy and the vape store manager is that the vape store manager brings joy to people’s lives 000
Wat @wat21.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh I hit the nail didn’t I? You’ve got maybe a little too dependent on your chatbot and don’t like people thinking you are a dumbass. Too bad baby boy, we are there. And if you really work at a hedge fund in ESG (lmao), you are already a clown so go ahead and put the red nose and big shoes on bro 100
Wat @wat21.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Before he says it, that reference was literally on purpose lol 000
Wat @wat21.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Do I need to pull up the MIT study about how you are frying your brain like an egg? Because yeah dude, you aren’t getting dumber! 100
