@bicyclekix.bsky.social
Not the most important issue in America by far but this is why the insistence that former politicians be eternally addressed by the title of highest office they ever attained drives me nuts.
"Mr. President" {senator, whatever}. They're not the fucking president anymore. They're just some guy.
"Mr. President" {senator, whatever}. They're not the fucking president anymore. They're just some guy.
Thanks for the explanation - a lot of the best journalists in the US seem to be from elsewhere originally.
As for deference, I recall hearing stories about LBJ and what he did in front of the press corps - definitely showed deference.
As for deference, I recall hearing stories about LBJ and what he did in front of the press corps - definitely showed deference.
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Not the most important issue in America by far but this is why the insistence that former politicians be eternally addressed by the title of highest office they ever attained drives me nuts.
"Mr. President" {senator, whatever}. They're not the fucking president anymore. They're just some guy.
"Mr. President" {senator, whatever}. They're not the fucking president anymore. They're just some guy.
[mid-level donor guy who likes living indoors in a building with a roof voice]
Can I say something?
Can I say something?
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
December 1, 2025 at 6:27 AM
[mid-level donor guy who likes living indoors in a building with a roof voice]
Can I say something?
Can I say something?
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i’m gonna need a blue state to cover this woman’s moving cost and find her a job at a university, just play the brain drain game if this is what the culture was is gonna look like
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
i’m gonna need a blue state to cover this woman’s moving cost and find her a job at a university, just play the brain drain game if this is what the culture was is gonna look like
You do not in fact gotta hand it to Joe Brady, Tony Romo
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
You do not in fact gotta hand it to Joe Brady, Tony Romo
Incredible choice by the @cbssports.bsky.social production team to run that CGI buffalo stampede graphic over footage of the Bills kicker looking dejected after missing an extra point.
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Incredible choice by the @cbssports.bsky.social production team to run that CGI buffalo stampede graphic over footage of the Bills kicker looking dejected after missing an extra point.
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My favorite ludicrous New Yorker style is that they print initialisms in full caps but acronyms (initialisms pronounced as words) in small caps, so in the days of CD-ROMs, they'd write the word like this:
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
My favorite ludicrous New Yorker style is that they print initialisms in full caps but acronyms (initialisms pronounced as words) in small caps, so in the days of CD-ROMs, they'd write the word like this:
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Walking around with a Grade 3 hamstring strain and either not noticing it or deciding to play through it is some of the most Clump Dog Football Man Mindset shit imaginable. Ragnow playing a season with a "fractured throat" was the gold standard for me, there, but now this is. Good luck to this man.
What an unfortunate situation. Frank Ragnow fails his physical.
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Walking around with a Grade 3 hamstring strain and either not noticing it or deciding to play through it is some of the most Clump Dog Football Man Mindset shit imaginable. Ragnow playing a season with a "fractured throat" was the gold standard for me, there, but now this is. Good luck to this man.
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Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
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wonder how much of japanese users still heavily with twitter is down to the 'we're shoving endless right wing bullshit down your throat' tweaks and tunes to what you see being very blatantly focused to an english speaking audience and perhaps other languages being kind of an afterthought
November 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
wonder how much of japanese users still heavily with twitter is down to the 'we're shoving endless right wing bullshit down your throat' tweaks and tunes to what you see being very blatantly focused to an english speaking audience and perhaps other languages being kind of an afterthought
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this is the "charlie kirk coffee cup" thing but for fucking college
which costs like $15,000 a class
and the instructors and students are just expected to sit there for this moron spectacle, to obediently humor this absolute leech
which costs like $15,000 a class
and the instructors and students are just expected to sit there for this moron spectacle, to obediently humor this absolute leech
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
this is the "charlie kirk coffee cup" thing but for fucking college
which costs like $15,000 a class
and the instructors and students are just expected to sit there for this moron spectacle, to obediently humor this absolute leech
which costs like $15,000 a class
and the instructors and students are just expected to sit there for this moron spectacle, to obediently humor this absolute leech
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on some level i want movement conservatism completely stamped out of society just so that we don't have to deal with people like this wasting everyone's time anymore
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
on some level i want movement conservatism completely stamped out of society just so that we don't have to deal with people like this wasting everyone's time anymore
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Now "browsing" means Netflix compiles your recent watch history and feeds you more of the exact same thing. Or Amazon analyzes your buy history and gives you a list of 15 books with basically the same title. You rarely stumble upon something new or different by chance. It's eroding our curiosity.
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Now "browsing" means Netflix compiles your recent watch history and feeds you more of the exact same thing. Or Amazon analyzes your buy history and gives you a list of 15 books with basically the same title. You rarely stumble upon something new or different by chance. It's eroding our curiosity.
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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20 of your finest nuggets my good sir
November 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
20 of your finest nuggets my good sir
The grim men's evening bit about his wife (?) giving him the saddest handjob ever goes from being worst case scenario simply unfunny to being so much darker now. So much of his material is like that. It required a suspension of belief that is no longer tenable.
Yeah. Before the fall, CK's act—and his fandom—rested on the premise that his worst self wasn't his true self. Now it's the opposite, and that's just not interesting as comedy.
He is just generally an alt-right, unrepentantly racist and transphobic piece of shit. He is also a genuinely bad comedian, much in the way that thin-skinned assholes often are 🤷♀️
www.gq.com/story/louis-...
www.gq.com/story/louis-...
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The grim men's evening bit about his wife (?) giving him the saddest handjob ever goes from being worst case scenario simply unfunny to being so much darker now. So much of his material is like that. It required a suspension of belief that is no longer tenable.
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Trump is absolutely going to end up inadvertently rehabilitating Maduro's reputation among Venezuelans long-term, isn't he?
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Trump is absolutely going to end up inadvertently rehabilitating Maduro's reputation among Venezuelans long-term, isn't he?
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Countries don't like writing about how the nice foreigners "liberated" them, even if they absolutely fucking hated the regime overthrown. They want to write about how they liberated themselves or overcame the horrors of the past, however forced and contrived a narrative that has to be.
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Countries don't like writing about how the nice foreigners "liberated" them, even if they absolutely fucking hated the regime overthrown. They want to write about how they liberated themselves or overcame the horrors of the past, however forced and contrived a narrative that has to be.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
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"Why don't kids go outside anymore?!"
Kids outside:
Kids outside:
November 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Why don't kids go outside anymore?!"
Kids outside:
Kids outside:
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in Rififi there’s this beautiful shot of bustling 50s Montmartre at night and the woman next to me audibly gasped when they cut to it and that’s moviemaking baby!!
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
in Rififi there’s this beautiful shot of bustling 50s Montmartre at night and the woman next to me audibly gasped when they cut to it and that’s moviemaking baby!!
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Thanks to the great @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social, here’s the cricket bat speech. Henry has been asked to evaluate a play by a young guy fresh from prison, whom his very leftie wife has sort of adopted as a pet -
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Thanks to the great @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social, here’s the cricket bat speech. Henry has been asked to evaluate a play by a young guy fresh from prison, whom his very leftie wife has sort of adopted as a pet -
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To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
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AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling