Reposted by Wade in TarnationVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If we could figure out some quality or feature that was common to all the states where this happened or, conversely, common to all the states where this did not happen, that might help suggest a strategy to correct and/or prevent this 16632124
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026dem dark money is officially going full dark woke now that blood is in the water 0140
Reposted by Wade in TarnationAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz 854308470
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oh ho ho, Mr. Smith, I have messages here indicating you walk'd tuah Hawks game in Atlanta, isn't that right? [Extremely loud incorrect buzzer] 082
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026when I'm in a shooting myself in the foot contest and my opponent is Ken Paxtonstatic.klipy.comSquidward's Shocked ReactionALT: Squidward's Shocked Reaction 291
Reposted by Wade in TarnationLazear-ly Departed @lazear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"No Santa in Israel, pal" is a top 10 Biden banger. Right up there with "don't play with me jack, at least 3". 09813
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026oddly this is a wonderful explanation for Median Voter Mind. even on the Lib-Left Poasters Purgatory Website, most people log in to chat about anything but politics, unlike you dear reader. 0194
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026historians and political scientists now believe that the United States simplified their political system in the early 21st century, replacing factional coalitions with a biannual referendum on gasoline. This "car juice economy" held strong until being replaced by Funko Pops due to electrification. 1102
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Star Wars is cool, please buy the merch" 0100
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I like to think I am comfortably within the small and tight-nit bluesky community of "liberals who can be normal about stuff" and man, we have been eating this week. 2152
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Underdiscussed funny aspect of the Soe Noire Lesbian Bar Meltdown is that we accidentally discovered The Wokest Person Of All Time is just holding it down in Greenfield, Massachusetts 180
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026can't believe people are calling classic Tumblr jokes AI slop. We used to make our slop by hand. 2150
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 21/09/2026checking in on /r/teachers, was able to find a single positive thread among the cataloguing of the collapse of the education system 428928
Reposted by Wade in TarnationSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Me when someone from N*w Y*rk tells me what my state's institutions should do 3645
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 21/09/2026chungo actually very emotionally fulfilled by hunter gatherer lifestyle, no interest in modern comforts like shelter and weird rock with storyteller inside 4192
Reposted by Wade in TarnationWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There aren’t a lot of incentives for pundits to admit that they were consequentially wrong and we should appreciate the ones willing to admit they were imo 52273
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 21/09/2026not to set everyone's baseline expectations even lower but I'm pretty sure like 20-30% of median voters believe the NFL is part of the US government and the president personally decides things 4222
Reposted by Wade in Tarnationthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Bluesky is the most learned group ever assembled of smart, funny people who will read a headline and then talk for two days about only the headline 543283388
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 19/09/2026see the beauty of college football over professional football is that no matter who is playing, there's always like an 8% chance they will do a Worst Cleveland Browns Fuckups Completion [HD] without warning 1101
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Donald Trump, welcome to LessWrong. Your Aella polycule sweater is arriving in the mail. 181
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The best time to get gas was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. 1113
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 17/09/2026you say this until you find out the US used 85% of it's strategic kinetic penetrators at the Aella birthday party to neutralize fluffers 1133
Reposted by Wade in TarnationWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Lots of people think Taylor Lorenz is paid off by social media but I think the relationship is closer to a Chaos cultist: she worships Phone, works tirelessly to spread the influence of Phone and weaken the veil between the real world and it’s domain, and in exchange she is given boons by it. 2446659
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 16/09/2026coming back to bluesky has been a breath of fresh air. for a while there before I got off, the deranged weirdo population of Twitter had become entirely "a guy is doing gooner race science on SpongeBob" whereas bluesky has the 2010s era "a person enthusiastically refusing to read is very mad at you" 1806
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It's a little weird how, on a website of Politics Enthusiasts, we regularly have discourse driven entirely by people inexplicably deciding that the only politicians that tell the truth about their feelings are underdog Democrats ducking a controversial issue 1100
Reposted by Wade in TarnationSickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 13/09/2026CALL??? WELL CALL 📞 UP THE GOLDEN BEARS THEY WON. 0212
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 11/09/2026losing my mind. he's talking about sex, not gender, and specifically a comment he made in 2021 saying that the four most common intersex chromosomal variations (X, XXY, XYY, XXXY) are recognized as separate sexes by some scientists. He is not calling transgender people genetic abnormalities. 3221
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If you downgrade the ai doomer scenario from "AI nukes everyone" to "1000s of malicious AI agents escape containment and wreck our ability to use networked computers over the course of a few weeks, killing hundreds of millions of people from supply and electricity disruption" 10% seems reasonable 3514
Reposted by Wade in TarnationMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10/09/2026a whole bunch of you do not understand this place is like 27 standard deviations beyond the US electorate and poast accordingly 1534034
Reposted by Wade in TarnationVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’ve had a premonition of a thousand annoying takes First off, Talarico has permission to say any goddamn thing he wants to beat Paxton, it ain’t a lie if you tell it to a hog Second, this is a non-statement unless you believe trans girls playing sports endangers safety or fairness 1825439
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026as difficult as things can be, we are t-minus 2 days to the glory and spleandor of California Golden Bears football 190
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026how it feels to wake up every day to a new sky marchini chart that sure makes it look like the bottom's about to fall outstatic.klipy.comGreen Truck Crash Test with Retractable PoleALT: Green Truck Crash Test with Retractable Pole 51608
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 02/09/2026not to push back on the narrative a bit but Arday would have been like a 3 day story if he had merely fabricated all of his research, the story was kept alive by Arday having also told approximately 9 billion bonkers lies about every aspect of his life. 370
Reposted by Wade in TarnationBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026G.R.E.A.M (Glonzo Rules Everything Around Me) 929331
Reposted by Wade in TarnationCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026it is a matter of national security that Rockstar accelerate the release of GTA VI to Election Day we need to keep low-engagement voters inside and at home 1717
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 27/08/2026fuck it sure why not. Rename the country trumpistan. 071
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 26/08/2026you almost have to wonder if not having to answer a million questions about whatever dumbass statements the DSA puts out is a net positive for her candidacy 0201
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 25/08/2026You Just Created 1,000,000 Dolly Partons 1737
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 22/08/2026figure since we are already dunking on this wildly baseless attack I'd mention that "is bad to trans women" is often employed against anyone, including trans women, for the crime of disagreeing on Bluesky, even if you didn't know the person was trans. 319319
Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.social · 21/08/2026you cannot stop glonzo, you can only choose how you will wage war upon him 218215
Reposted by Wade in TarnationWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I would say that of the things that ‘woke 1’ actually resulted in being made into policy this might legitimately be one of the worst 1234935