Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Back in my day the reason we made Eng students take humanities courses was to prove that they weren’t functionally illiterate. Where did this civic virtue stuff come from lol 010
Reposted by WinterinkSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Fundamentally the best comparison for Pierre is probably someone like Nikki Haley (especially given that like, being neoconservative on Venezuela was quite literally in the 2025 CPC platform, lmao) 2342
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Europe being the continent of rentiers is like the origin story for much of world history. 010
Reposted by WinterinkSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026for a banal example, the fact that anthropic will simultaneously publish long diatribes about the risks of AI surveillance and then contract out Claude for Palantir to resell to CBP is psychotic, and there is no reason why i should take any of their moral protests seriously while they do that. 639266
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 08/09/2026JJ to Marc Carney, basically the Dean of Davos: “Do you think this guy understands leverage?” 000
Reposted by WinterinkQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... 381556448
Reposted by WinterinkColleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Wow. We couldn't reach a deal with the country that we already have a deal with. So tariffs are increasing, including on some things that already had tariffs despite the earlier agreement? Well, who's to say which side is to blame. Probably one of those "both sides" things I hear so much about. 2334
Reposted by WinterinkDanielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Sorry, but we’re going to have to lock the word genocide away now. People simply cannot be trusted with it. 1014922
Reposted by WinterinkPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026An ER nurse who divorced her cop husband after they simultaneously discovered he was sleeping with an EMT and she was sneaking around with a fireman 889613
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Anti-AI people: AI can only produce slop! You can’t do research with it, it’s all propoganda! Actual Mathematician: I just used it to disprove a famous 300-year-old conjecture 110
Reposted by WinterinkWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Increasingly think we need a ‘modernity is actually good’ political tendency. the right is putatively pro-industry and economic growth but thinks science is gay and wants to throw out vaccines for essential oils, the left putatively believes science but also embraces crank degrowth NIMBYism 621192164
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 12/07/2026What exactly is the point of Warren anymore? Her economic team that staffed Bidenworld was a massive failure, Fight Club almost tanked the chances of winning the senate this cycle with Plat, and now she can’t even say “The evil guy debased himself” Nothing left but vanity. 020
Reposted by WinterinkMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12/07/2026“He was a warmonger but he was fun at dinner parties.” Just stop. 1460968
Reposted by WinterinkM☿th @monroetempleton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026the term 'dead cat' gets thrown about a lot, but Farage's by-election is a pure deadcatting (the by-election to draw attention away from the guilty-as-sin sleaze scandal) 1202
Reposted by WinterinkNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Anyway, I think this is kind of downstream of my theory that a lot of these folks who are defending Platner are a) bitter that they’re not working in like real newsrooms and b) know the path forward is to find some sort of heterodox backer, like a less crazy version of the guy who bankrolled Dreher. 21659
Reposted by WinterinkBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/07/2026In a way, anything can be The News 763134227
Reposted by Winterinkthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 09/07/2026good fucking riddance 720431
Reposted by Winterink"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The cherry on the sundae is that she's a policy wonk for Heritage, so getting this sort of coverage is part of her job, but it also speaks to how the NYT's culture pieces are basically, 'journalist interviews their friend in the same elite circles.' 322660537
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Man, Bluesky is really on a heater this week. All of these stories feel like grand finale Stupid News Season beats. Stuff that should be happening August 20, yet we’re only 1 week into July! Can’t wait to see what the rest of this summer has in store. 000
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 07/07/2026If Binface is returned will it be enough to break the spell? 000
Reposted by WinterinkMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If only there had been signs. Like a giant Nazi tattoo. 1151850
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Not a lie, a well sourced rumour, and it’s nowhere near as damaging to any of their brands as supporting Platner will be. 100
Reposted by WinterinkGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 06/07/2026SCOTUS shadow docket-ass ruling, honestly incredible 917723
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This whole thing is very blackpilling. Even many reasonable Americans are very happy to join in on this when it is in service of an outcome they would like. 000
Reposted by WinterinkKaty // Genderpunk 2026 @katysaint.bsky.social · 04/07/2026This is, I believe, the connoisseur's 4th of July dril tweet 32614543
Reposted by WinterinkHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 04/07/2026RIP to all the catholics excommunicated by the pope for their heresy but im different. and better. maybe even better than the pope 335087796
Reposted by WinterinkHeadquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Trump: I see my two beautiful sons sitting there. I think I'm going to give one medal of honor to myself, one to them, and we'll have a threesome. 216625188
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Everyday I wake up, read the news, and mutter "Yup. That's me. Your probably wondering how I ended-up in this situation", then turn-on social media and the doubt instantly goes away. Just P-Zombies everywhere you look. What are we even doing here? 000
Reposted by WinterinkRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Barring changes to the Court you will see another go at birthright citizenship within 10 years. 24572104
Reposted by WinterinkDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026If Rs win in 2028 and replace Sotomayor, it's gone. I don't know why a bloc of left-wing voters convince themselves "the court shouldn't matter, you can't blackmail me" but that happens every decade and a half for some reason 611168220
Reposted by Winterinkcyberbuffalo (formerly brunch) @cyberbuffalo.party · 27/06/2026time to post my absolutely favorite meme 294199990
Reposted by WinterinkDead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Guy who thinks he’s clever for reinventing Schmitt 1444
Reposted by WinterinkNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026One thing I learned when I was just out of college and watching 6-8 hours of Fox News a day for my research job at Media Matters: Ingesting hours of propaganda on a daily basis changes you, no matter how smart you think you are. If you don't notice the changes, that just makes you an easier mark. 273722820
Reposted by WinterinkToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 17/06/2026me: am i going a bit far, calling musk a 'classic fascist' with the same core values as hitler? musk: i am concerned about the ethnic purity of the german people 121335299
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Oh yes the classic Catholic priority of knowing “how a husband treats his wife” the first thing that comes to my mind too, and not weird at all 010
Reposted by WinterinkMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Dress rehearsal for the big one. 232246209
Reposted by WinterinkMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 14/06/2026This is essentially a kind of leftist defeatism imo. 813416
Reposted by WinterinkMark Histed @markhisted.org · 11/06/2026Neuroscientist here, who has talked about the US losing science ground to other countries: The biggest problem for generating future cures for brain diseases is the ongoing utter destruction of US basic neuroscience. It’s not about regulation. 16540159
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 11/06/2026We don't shame Zuck for his Baby Back Ribs stream anymore. 000
Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 11/06/2026"This is the first I'm hearing about that, she certainly seems like she would vote for someone like that" 000
Reposted by WinterinkMelissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This is actually the secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord 544569863
Reposted by WinterinkMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 04/06/2026The Pod Johns needed to get their coke dealer elected to public office by any means necessary 312415
Reposted by WinterinkMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026To prove racial gerrymandering, a plaintiff has to draw race-blind districts that are just as favorable to Republicans. But that's impossible to do because Republicans uniformly select racists as their candidates and Black voters won't vote for racists. So racial gerrymandering is always allowed. 21959254
Reposted by WinterinkLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Their new girlfriend is women 1518198983117
Reposted by WinterinkAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/05/2026Trump skipped his son’s wedding then did nothing all weekend but post A true poster 2825856651
Reposted by WinterinkMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Taylor Lorenz has been an insanity study conducted by Poaster's University. The study is now complete, we thank you for your time 610010
