dr. nick
@drsicknellers.bsky.social
Footy enthusiast, CFB sicko, occasional academic
Democracy died in darkness.
@ruthmarcus.bsky.social, who worked at the Washington Post for more than 40 years, resigned after Jeff Bezos restricted the Opinions section to focus on “personal liberties and free markets.” The Post’s mass layoffs are another sign of decline, she writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2-K-gu
How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
February 4, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Democracy died in darkness.
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we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
Aged like fine wine, this
January 20, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Aged like fine wine, this
Leicester City levels of turnaround for Indiana. A story that transcends the sport. We only get a couple of these in a lifetime. Enjoy it folks.
January 20, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Leicester City levels of turnaround for Indiana. A story that transcends the sport. We only get a couple of these in a lifetime. Enjoy it folks.
Don’t do it, universe. Let us have this.
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Don’t do it, universe. Let us have this.
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Pretty sure Miami DBs could sweep the leg Karate Kid style and the refs would just shrug
January 20, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Pretty sure Miami DBs could sweep the leg Karate Kid style and the refs would just shrug
Running the AC. It is January 10th. Florida you’ve always been wild but come on man.
January 10, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Running the AC. It is January 10th. Florida you’ve always been wild but come on man.
President Trump will welcome authoritarian leader who ordered dismemberment of journalist and coddle him with presents. Fixed that for you @nytimes.com.
President Trump will welcome Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to the White House on Tuesday. The president is offering the crown prince fighter jets, a nuclear agreement and other deals. Here's what to know.
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
President Trump will welcome authoritarian leader who ordered dismemberment of journalist and coddle him with presents. Fixed that for you @nytimes.com.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?
MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement
STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement
MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement
STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?
MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement
STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement
MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement
STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement
Is it Dab-over at Clemson?
September 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Is it Dab-over at Clemson?
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Just a reminder - you don't *have* to post anything
September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a reminder - you don't *have* to post anything
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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
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They believed no big news would happen, because Nick Castellanos hadn't hit a home run in a while. But they were all of them deceived, for another Castellanos was made
August 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
They believed no big news would happen, because Nick Castellanos hadn't hit a home run in a while. But they were all of them deceived, for another Castellanos was made
🥹🥹🥹
Florida State legends Peter Warrick and Dalvin Cook were on the sidelines for Tommy Castellanos' first TD as a Seminole 🔥
August 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
🥹🥹🥹
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"These devastating reductions will result in an estimated 18 million children losing access to free school meals." good Lord
As our kids head back to school, it’s important to help raise up the impact of this administration on them. Thanks @neapresident.bsky.social #momsky time.com/7308619/trum...
Trump’s Tax Bill Will Starve Public Schools. Kids are Next
An estimated 18 million kids could lose access to free school meals because of Trump's tax bill.
time.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"These devastating reductions will result in an estimated 18 million children losing access to free school meals." good Lord
Obviously this is part of a long running rise in anti-intellectualism, but I will never understand how things like cancer research became a partisan issue. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research. www.wired.com/story/how-tr...
How Trump Killed Cancer Research
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.
www.wired.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Obviously this is part of a long running rise in anti-intellectualism, but I will never understand how things like cancer research became a partisan issue. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Whew…doesn’t get much worse than that
July 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Whew…doesn’t get much worse than that
Nah we still out here
During the past decade, the study of English and history at the collegiate level has fallen by a full third. What’s going on?
The End of the English Major
Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Nah we still out here
Reading this as “less tethered to reality”
xAI updated Grok to be more ‘politically incorrect’ www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
xAI updated Grok to be more ‘politically incorrect’
After a wild weekend, Elon Musk is playing woke-a-mole with his own chatbot.
www.theverge.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Reading this as “less tethered to reality”
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NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
By Anas Baba
By Anas Baba
Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
n.pr
July 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.
By Anas Baba
By Anas Baba
good for them and would love to see more bands do this.
Deerhoof are leaving Spotify over CEO Daniel Ek's investment in an AI military startup: "We don’t want our music killing people. We don’t want our success being tied to AI battle tech."
Deerhoof Leaving Spotify Over CEO's Investment In AI Military Startup
In addition to being the CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek is also the chairman of Helsing, a German defense technology company that develops AI software designed to enhance military weapons and equipment. Ea...
www.stereogum.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
good for them and would love to see more bands do this.
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
How do sycophants like this sleep at night? Say things like this with a straight face? I’m no saint but I can’t imagine being this morally bankrupt.
Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents
June 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
How do sycophants like this sleep at night? Say things like this with a straight face? I’m no saint but I can’t imagine being this morally bankrupt.
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time