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Adam Bumas
@bumas.bsky.social
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Pronounced "BYOO-muss". He/They. adambumas.01 on Signal.

Head of Research and Assistant Editor, @garbageday.email. Researcher, @panicworld.com. Other research and journalism elsewhere.

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Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · Mar 5
I'm pleased to announce my new position as Head of Research at @garbageday.email! Making sense of the internet is only becoming more important, and I'm proud (mostly) to do it for a living.
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(Boston accent) Ack Raydahz
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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You're nowhere close to the first person to inadvertently show feet and suffer the consequences. DM me (or come on our show @panicworld.com) and I can fill you in you in on the sordid history.
jeffhorwitz.bsky.social Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 15d
FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE AND MY FEET: A MYSTERY

My wife wanted to sell a mirror, so I listed it on Facebook Marketplace this weekend. I neglected to wear shoes for the photo.

I have since received seven offers: two for the mirror, and five for acts involving my feet. I'm now curious what's going on.
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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movies have given us so much technical information about water
The Weight of Water The Shape of Water Avatar: The Way of Water The Chronology of Water
October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Every month, we write about the most popular content around the internet. For the first time, I'm proud to say that we're on our own list! @panicworld.com was Patreon's fastest-growing podcast last month.
Despite this, there’s one source of news about the shooting that’s gotten a lot of attention in September: Us, apparently. According to Graphtreon, Panic World was the fastest-growing Patreon in September for the “podcast” category, with over 1,300 new subscribers this month. Our own reckoning puts as as number 12 across the whole website — first place, of course, goes to a porn game with over 3,300 new Patrons — but we’ve never even come close to making our own lists before, so we think we’ve earned the brag.
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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John Pork calling to the faraway towns
September 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Your delivery’s here.
September 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Chat, are we back (writing for @wired.com)?

The Kirk fallout shows there's a massive deficit in understanding what it means to be Very Online, which is a problem because if you're reading this, you are too.

www.wired.com/story/no-one...
No One Knows What ‘Terminally Online’ Means Anymore
The memes and online footprint of Charlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson don’t place him neatly in a box, though many are still trying.
www.wired.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Today's @garbageday.email reminds you that facts don't care about your feelings.

www.garbageday.email/p/nate-silve...
Also, Adam wanted me to mention here that about 5-10% of the most popular posts on Bluesky — 1,000 likes or more — are actually just cartoon erotica. Which no one seems to mention when they talk about the influence of the platform.
September 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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So I'm not a huge Movie News poster but Lizard Music was one of my favorite books as a kid - @danielpinkwater.bsky.social was the best kind of bad influence - and I'm surprised how much The Rock as The Chicken Man makes sense to me.
everyfilmnow.bsky.social Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · Sep 8
Dwayne Johnson reunites with director Benny Safdie for the film adaptation of ‘LIZARD MUSIC.’

The story follows a lonely boy discovering a secret broadcast of musical lizards, embarking on a surreal adventure with the eccentric Chicken Man (Johnson) and his chicken.

#BennySafdie #DwayneJohnson
September 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Was listing to All Things Considered this evening on @npr.org on my physical radio and heard my colleague @bumas.bsky.social in this story! Super rad!!! www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
'AI slop' videos may be annoying, but they're racking up views — and ad money
Critics say that "slop" videos made with generative AI are often repetitive or useless. But they get millions of views — and platforms are grappling with what to do about them.
www.npr.org
September 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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bbno$ is short for bedford-nostrand avenues
August 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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My latest for @garbageday.email: Trump's takeover of Washington is all thanks to dumb Truth Social posts and Big Balls - that's the whole point. Welcome to the age of LOLgislation.

www.garbageday.email/p/the-uncann...
This is the latest in a long series of what I’ll call LOLgislation. There was no specific bill or political movement to take federal control of Washington, but Trump posted about it and all of a sudden it was happening. The agenda has been dictated entirely via public comments on social media, pretty much the easiest possible thing to dismiss as not being serious. But when you’re the President, everything you say has to be taken seriously, even — no, especially — if you’re using social media as frivolously as it’s designed for.
August 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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🧠: Vivziepop producing the Homestuck animated show makes total sense as her blank check from Hazbin Hotel

🌌: Toby Fox playing John in the Homestuck animated show makes total sense as his blank check from playing John in “The Baby Is You”
August 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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2025 now has its second movie named after the hero starting with EL that probably would make more money with a more descriptive title.

Maybe Ella McCay also gets abducted by aliens, how the fuck should we know?
August 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Bit of a longshot, but @smallbu.bsky.social, I’m an internet culture journalist. Would I be able to speak to you about getting Baman Piderman back?
August 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Tom Lehrer. Words fail.
July 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I wrote about DashCon 2 in yesterday’s @garbageday.email newsletter and it made me wish I had attended www.garbageday.email/p/the-legacy...
The legacy of DashCon
Read to the end for Goose and his watermelon
www.garbageday.email
July 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Last night was the first night of Garbage Day's 3-night residency at Baby's All Right in Brooklyn and it was a blast. You can buy tickets to nights #2 and #3 by clicking the links below!

wl.seetickets.us/event/garbag...

wl.seetickets.us/event/garbag...

See you there!
July 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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What do nu metal icon Fred Durst and grain mesh cereal Chex have in common? They were both the focus of online voting brigades in the pre-Boaty McBoatface era! This and next week on IFTI we have @bumas.bsky.social to talk about Austin TX's waste management rebranding. shows.acast.com/im-from-the-...
July 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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("chicken jockey!" voice): temporary secretary!
June 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The best thing about Elio is the "playpen Mass Effect" vibe all the alien stuff has. Similar sensibilities but cuddlier and cuter. Even the bad guys look like Reapers with cartoon meanie faces!
The villain of Elio, who looks a lot like a cartoonier version of the Reapers from Mass Effect A bunch of aliens from Elio.
June 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Seen this symbol around? For today's issue of @garbageday.email, I tracked its history and spoke to its creator!

www.garbageday.email/p/the-cure-t...
The cure to male loneliness
Read to the end for an imposter
www.garbageday.email
June 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I’m the best interior designer in the John Wick universe. Every time a client wants something other than “Art deco/industrial/neon” they turn up shot 6 times and stabbed 17 times.
June 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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THAT'S NANCY MCGUNNELL'S MUSIC!
englelaird.bsky.social Carl Engle-Laird @englelaird.bsky.social · May 15
Huddle up, folks. I’m going to publish @jonbois.bsky.social ’s debut novel, 50007: AN AMERICAN FOOTBALL ODYSSEY
Screenshot of a deal announcement on Publishers Marketplace. The announcement reads: 50007 By Jon Bois Imprint: Tor Sportswriter, documentary filmmaker, and executive producer Jon Bois’s 50007: An American Football Ofyssry, about the future history of football, from the perspective of a sentient space probe, to Carl Engle-Laird at Tor, in a good deal, in a pre-empty, by Kate McKean at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency
May 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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@pxmolina.bsky.social found his art had been put into an AI image model, changed just enough to avoid copyright strikes, and put on YouTube. His fate may be all of ours soon. My latest for @garbageday.email!

www.garbageday.email/p/just-the-r...
But the companies that make these AI models don’t want an even hand, they want a fist. The Copyright Office report cites official comments from companies like Meta and Andreessen Horowitz, saying any regulation of AI training will stifle innovation and growth, as some of the many arguments it’s taking into account. And it goes beyond the scope of the report to mention how these companies have been, as you might put it, impressively shameless in attempting to influence the Trump administration. Andreessen Horowitz founder and America’s most expensive egg, Marc Andreessen, personally helped start Elon Musk’s Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE). And, more recently, Meta’s champion friend haver Mark Zuckerberg moved to Washington days after Musk started to lose favor with the White House.
May 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM