Chris Packham
@bleedbuild.bsky.social
If you are from the UK, I guarantee I'm not the Chris Packham you're looking for
✅ Deck Verified • Copyeditor and occasional writer • Brooklyn via Kansas City • he/him
✅ Deck Verified • Copyeditor and occasional writer • Brooklyn via Kansas City • he/him
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A big part of this is editors' baked in need for novelty. They do not find it exciting to publish the same true and necessary thing once it's already been covered, despite the problem in question still being a threat.
Godzilla is rampaging? We already did that last week.
Godzilla is rampaging? We already did that last week.
Being right about trump was boring, tedious, partisan, ideological. Being wrong about trump? Heterodox, contrarian, free thinking.
January 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
A big part of this is editors' baked in need for novelty. They do not find it exciting to publish the same true and necessary thing once it's already been covered, despite the problem in question still being a threat.
Godzilla is rampaging? We already did that last week.
Godzilla is rampaging? We already did that last week.
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Sure. But but it was way better for your career, and the esteem of many of your highly placed professional peers, to be wrong about this and so many people were. They’re doing great btw www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
Opinion | The Resistance Libs Were Right
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Sure. But but it was way better for your career, and the esteem of many of your highly placed professional peers, to be wrong about this and so many people were. They’re doing great btw www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
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new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up
January 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up
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We're going to tell stories to our grandkids one day about the NYT's essential role in bringing about the Fourth Reich and with it, WWIII, in the most maniacally stupid way conceivable.
January 13, 2026 at 2:53 AM
We're going to tell stories to our grandkids one day about the NYT's essential role in bringing about the Fourth Reich and with it, WWIII, in the most maniacally stupid way conceivable.
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Harris doesn't even have the courage to call a fascist a fascist. Turns out it's bc her politics are fascism with a more professional veneer.
January 13, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Harris doesn't even have the courage to call a fascist a fascist. Turns out it's bc her politics are fascism with a more professional veneer.
I don't understand the calculus of left-wing politicians posting on X the Everything App
January 13, 2026 at 11:16 AM
I don't understand the calculus of left-wing politicians posting on X the Everything App
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one of the biggest things i learned from 2020 is that times of great upheaval present brief moments where anything appears possible. as soon as those moment appear, opportunist centrists will immediately begin to dilute the movement’s demands to pablum. this is that moment
January 13, 2026 at 5:40 AM
one of the biggest things i learned from 2020 is that times of great upheaval present brief moments where anything appears possible. as soon as those moment appear, opportunist centrists will immediately begin to dilute the movement’s demands to pablum. this is that moment
They've all landed on a consensus "do nothing" strategy: More professional development for pigs
.@PabloReports: Would you vote for any funding increases for ICE?
Warren: Not without more restrictions. This is an agency that is out of control. If we don’t get some restrictions in place, they’re going to put more American citizens at risk.
Warren: Not without more restrictions. This is an agency that is out of control. If we don’t get some restrictions in place, they’re going to put more American citizens at risk.
January 13, 2026 at 9:44 AM
They've all landed on a consensus "do nothing" strategy: More professional development for pigs
He did this SO QUICKLY
Eric Adams, former NYC mayor, launched a memecoin (cryptocurrency) today. He marketed it as an “NYC Token” and used media appearances and his social media to promote it.
Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
January 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
He did this SO QUICKLY
By the end of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Robert Culp goes full Austin Powers
January 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
By the end of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Robert Culp goes full Austin Powers
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The moderate voter I am imagining in my head happens to have the exact same beliefs as those espoused by me in my role as Dipshit Emeritus at the Moron Institute for Jackoffs
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
The moderate voter I am imagining in my head happens to have the exact same beliefs as those espoused by me in my role as Dipshit Emeritus at the Moron Institute for Jackoffs
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One of my favorite corny tropes about neocon rich people is just how fucking badass they feel casually throwing out the R word like they're the hardest motherfuckers at the board meeting.
January 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
One of my favorite corny tropes about neocon rich people is just how fucking badass they feel casually throwing out the R word like they're the hardest motherfuckers at the board meeting.
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Powell will be the straw that broke the camels back for certain. Now let me just take a comically large drink of water and….
January 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Powell will be the straw that broke the camels back for certain. Now let me just take a comically large drink of water and….
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As I keep saying, this is the year where a few prestige films by white directors get to compete to live in the shadow of this movie when awards season is over.
I swear ‘Sinners’ was totally snubbed at the Golden Globes 😡 How in the world…??
a group of people are standing in a dark room with a lantern .
ALT: a group of people are standing in a dark room with a lantern .
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January 12, 2026 at 5:08 PM
As I keep saying, this is the year where a few prestige films by white directors get to compete to live in the shadow of this movie when awards season is over.
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ICE going door to door is exactly why Anne Frank was hiding in an attic.
January 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
ICE going door to door is exactly why Anne Frank was hiding in an attic.
I'm like 30% through "The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789" by Robert Darnton. It treats France in this period as an information society similar to our own, which it is, sometimes shockingly.
The point it makes is that there were smaller-scale popular uprisings throughout the 18th century...
The point it makes is that there were smaller-scale popular uprisings throughout the 18th century...
January 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I'm like 30% through "The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789" by Robert Darnton. It treats France in this period as an information society similar to our own, which it is, sometimes shockingly.
The point it makes is that there were smaller-scale popular uprisings throughout the 18th century...
The point it makes is that there were smaller-scale popular uprisings throughout the 18th century...
And not for nothing, but the anti-CSAM columnist continues posting his garbage takes on the world’s largest CSAM website
I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history.
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
January 12, 2026 at 4:08 PM
And not for nothing, but the anti-CSAM columnist continues posting his garbage takes on the world’s largest CSAM website
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Democrats officially going all in on the mealy mouthed “ICE needs training” narrative.
No. ABOLISH ICE.
No. ABOLISH ICE.
WARNER: It used to take 5 to 6 months to get trained. They've now lowered the training period to 47 days. Why 47 days? Because Donald Trump's the 47th president. Tell me that's a rational approach
KERNEN: I'm not taking that bait
WARNER: Joe! You can't pick your facts
KERNEN: I'm not taking that bait
WARNER: Joe! You can't pick your facts
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Democrats officially going all in on the mealy mouthed “ICE needs training” narrative.
No. ABOLISH ICE.
No. ABOLISH ICE.
I literally want the AI bubble to pop and the entire economy to collapse so RAM prices will come down
January 12, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I literally want the AI bubble to pop and the entire economy to collapse so RAM prices will come down
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netflix, when a series is good and popular:
fucking cancelled
January 11, 2026 at 9:42 PM
netflix, when a series is good and popular:
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“Thanks for saving Hollywood with all the money you made. So take this and we’ll give it to another film made by white people that’s not anywhere as good.”
January 12, 2026 at 2:46 AM
“Thanks for saving Hollywood with all the money you made. So take this and we’ll give it to another film made by white people that’s not anywhere as good.”
There's a shot of an open heart with tachycardia in the S2 premiere of The Pitt (described as a "bag of worms") and I have no idea how the effects crew did it. Like, was that an actual animatronic prop, or a digital effect? Anyway, gross!
January 12, 2026 at 10:17 AM
There's a shot of an open heart with tachycardia in the S2 premiere of The Pitt (described as a "bag of worms") and I have no idea how the effects crew did it. Like, was that an actual animatronic prop, or a digital effect? Anyway, gross!
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we should be no kinder in our assessment of Schumer and Jeffries abject uselessness in this moment than history has been in its judgment of Neville Chamberlain (a figure so reviled that maga hasn’t even bothered trying to launder his rep and valorize his accommodation of nazism)
January 12, 2026 at 1:28 AM
we should be no kinder in our assessment of Schumer and Jeffries abject uselessness in this moment than history has been in its judgment of Neville Chamberlain (a figure so reviled that maga hasn’t even bothered trying to launder his rep and valorize his accommodation of nazism)
The classic Napoleonic blunder: Invading Minneapolis in winter
January 11, 2026 at 11:42 PM
The classic Napoleonic blunder: Invading Minneapolis in winter