Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 2hI’ve been using this analogy every time people talk about it being too late to “put the genie back in the bottle” and I’m surprised how few people know about it 000
Reposted by AlexJessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 4hi don't think you should be allowed to call your business a speakeasy if it has a yelp page 296890
Reposted by AlexBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years. 252079767
Reposted by AlexRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else 548326839
Reposted by AlexNathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That Bannon says that about Newsom should be the kiss of death for his nomination prospects. Definition of an acceptable nominee is someone who is Steve Bannon's worst nightmare. 22682160
Reposted by AlexKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AI will never be able to make art. Thanks. 1095604801
Reposted by Alexmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 4990911671
Reposted by Alex🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026there has never been a “computer did it” defense. why is there one now. 744254
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Guess that helicopter commute bill is looking pretty steep 000
Reposted by Alexjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US 3053821099
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Meta using disabled veterans to manipulate people into being cool with the pervert glasses is fucking sickening 030
Reposted by AlexGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I want to ride the everyone mocks Seth Moulton train until the end of the line 73387473
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Very excited for the sudden rapid success of @mapquest.com, but the lack of transit option combined with the poor bike routing makes it pretty much unusable for me 0112
Reposted by AlexKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/202614 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion! 303109251844
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I start orientation for law school tomorrow morning, and they’ve asked us to brief Terry v. Ohio for the first day. I’m working on it but it keeps pissing me off 000
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026My flight has been delayed 2 hours and I’m ready to commit crimes 110
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I will never pay for tsa precheck. I will never pay for global entry. I will not pay the government a bribe to remove an obstacle they put in place and refuse to improve upon 020
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I hate how stupid things work in the country I live in 000
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Undervalued sign that this is a scam country is the fact that you can only use the more efficient and accurate passport scanners that every EU country uses by default if you pay for global entry 010
Reposted by AlexGore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 15/08/2026[me to Gavrilo Princip after he shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand] bro you just shot that guy at random 420615
Reposted by AlexGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026And it's not just e-bikes. We are seeing cycling broadly being attacked in the U.S. and the biggest brands in the country are pretty much...silent on the issue. 234623
Reposted by AlexGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Bike brands are pivoting to gravel and MTB in part because it's become absolutely hellish to ride recreationally on the road in the U.S. But at the same time, there's really no advocacy from the bike industry towards safer streets. And to be clear, I'm talking about the biggest brands here. 839233
Reposted by AlexGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I'm not the first person to say this, but the bike industry in the U.S. is really missing a huge opportunity by not aggressively defending and promoting e-bikes. I think this is largely the result of it being an industry built on recreational cycling and not transit riding. 131650213
Reposted by AlexHegelian vs. Predator @telemark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The Rockies exist. The Appalachians wait. 1161
Reposted by AlexAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Those mountains are older than the concept of trees and bones and you WILL respect them 442565553
Reposted by AlexKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam" 183142602641
Reposted by AlexMicah @rincewind.run · 11/08/2026*shouting until I am hoarse* LAND DOESN'T VOTE 533117413
Reposted by Alexmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The politics of asking normal people to pay for their share of the cost of providing high quality public services will get easier if we start with taxing the ultra-wealthy at higher levels, even if the revenue that raises won't be enough. 13933151
Reposted by AlexOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I want El-Sayed to win for a lot of reasons but id be lying if i said getting the “sure it works in New York and California but it can’t work in middle America” people to shut the fuck up wasn’t high on my list. 783881412
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry,” goes so fucking hard 020
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This will never stop working because the entire finance industry would have to give up a chance at reliable gains during the week. The could stand on principle, but it would mean potentially missing out on profits that everyone else is making. Once that happens, they lose clients to the competition 000
Reposted by AlexGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 30/07/2026it’s legitimately fucking offensive to me as a taxpayer that this entire administration is run by people whose only goal in life is to be on television 923179628
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I have some friends who still subscribe to the Atlantic. Briefly scanning over their recent headlines, I struggle to understand what value this is adding to their lives. It’s such bog standard hatred sloppily filtered through the “thoughtful and nuanced” lens 010
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I got a musubi kit recently so I now have a whole new dimension of things to be extremely annoying about 010
Reposted by AlexBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I’m really worried that bond investors are going to suddenly decide to notice we’re in a debt crisis the second the next Dem takes office 2161689
Reposted by AlexBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I don't think you should worry about sounding like AI when you write. I don't think you should worry about AI, period, especially with that molotov cocktail just sitting in your hand. The lighter clicks. The data center beckons. A soft summer breeze tousles your hair as if to say: Attaboy. 9696102
Reposted by AlexThe Opinionated Lab 𓅄 @opinionatedlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026“The DSA will destroy the Democratic Party!” Meanwhile… 23389101556
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 29/07/2026General take on the Wilson review: She makes some broadly good points about the differences in characterization between the poem and the movie. She’s right about the specific characters she criticizes as being flattened or outright changed. She’s also right about the specific omissions the movie… 100
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Has anyone asked Emily Wilson what she thinks of O Brother Where Art Thou? 120
Reposted by AlexDefector @defector.com · 28/07/2026LeBron James should just take the train to his new job: defector.com/lebron-james...defector.comLeBron James Should Just Take The Train To His New Job | DefectorLeBron James is coming to Philadelphia, a fact anyone who lives in Philly would have learned from interacting with strangers on the street, no matter their interest in basketball. This is salient… 3041146
Reposted by AlexJordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 27/07/2026Lol fuck off that’s cool as hell 622675430
Reposted by Alexolivianicolai.bsky.social @olivianicolai.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Remember during Covid when they relaxed open container laws so you could grab a cocktail and walk around and it was completely fine and the world did not end 1992859
Reposted by Alexjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2026not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...dannykatch.substack.comWe used to be able to buy things in this countryLocking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy 28459491011
Reposted by Alexlowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money 373711557
Reposted by AlexHagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him 138126292819
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This makes sense when you remember how much of post-war American politics was rich assholes driving themselves insane trying to claw back every single reform passed 020
