LightNews LightNews
banner
himbobottomus.bsky.social
@himbobottomus.bsky.social
110 followers 160 following 190 posts
went places did things
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted
dly.bsky.social
beef stew is short for beef stewart
January 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
himbobottomus.bsky.social
GET THEIR ASS
Women, it should be noted, have dominated the teaching profession since the nineteenth century not because it’s a misandrist job-protection racket but because early public-education advocates found that they could expand the school system more quickly by hiring women teachers, whom they could pay less than men. One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person’s sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Reposted
newsjennifer.bsky.social
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Reposted
kimkelly.bsky.social
“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...
Teen Vogue's Closure and the Quiet Defunding of Worker Consciousness
Teen Vogue’s shutdown marks more than a media loss. This is a warning about how profit-driven consolidation quietly dismantles worker awareness and voice.
thisislaborwise.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Reposted
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.”

@bloomberg.com $HD
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Reposted
leyawn.bsky.social
schumer asked fetterman to cave and he thought schumer was telling him to go home. just a little morning humor for you ha ha. anyways fuck chuck schumer
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
himbobottomus.bsky.social
watching twin peaks with 90s tv ad youtubes in the commercial breaks. for the original twin peaks experience
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Reposted
cait.bsky.social
WASTING AWAY AGAIN IN MARGARITAVILLE SEARCHING FOR MY LOST SHAKER OF SALT
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Reposted
coreyatad.com
best ending of all time, let's be real
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reposted
emilyhughes.bsky.social
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 2d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Reposted
colincarlson.bsky.social
OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3d
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reposted
ditzkoff.bsky.social
Wow, hard to believe it’s been 25 years since The Golden Girls ended its run. Wait, what-
USA Today push alert: Shocks, regrets, drama: the “Gilmore Girls” cast reminisce for the beloved show’s 25th anniversary
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted
retroblastpod.com
I actually have a pair of shorts with his face with this exact quote on them.

David Lynch was an ally, and an incredible artist with a beautiful mind. I miss him.
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Reposted
maxread.info
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reposted
duncanweldon.bsky.social
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
economist.com The Economist @economist.com · 4d
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB

Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Reposted
nerdjpg.com
The onion is the only outlet telling the truth these days thank you @bencollins.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reposted
diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online
refreshing this until the link drops
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4d
this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Reposted
roanmartigan.bsky.social
I did not know this Lu Xun's quote, but it resonates incredibly with Antonio Machado's most famous poem: masspoetry.org/machado-cull...
Antonio Machado’s “Caminante, no hay camino / Traveler, There Is No Road” & Countee Cullen’s “Yet I Do Marvel” (The Favorite Poem Project) | Mass Poetry
masspoetry.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Reposted
chowleen.bsky.social
Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":

「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」

-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
For Zohran, You teach us how to engage the world in difficult times. May you inspire many and blaze a trail! It’s like a path across the land—it’s not there to begin with, but when lots of people go the same way, it comes into being. —Lu Hsun, “Hometown” From the dedication page of Mamdani, Mahmood, "Neither Settler nor Native : The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities," Harvard University Press, 2020
June 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Reposted
archai.bsky.social
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Reposted
mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.
Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report suggests
Researchers attempt to calculate the number of deaths attributable to the war on terrorism, across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Reposted
leximcmenamin.com
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted
webway.bsky.social
99.9% of people stop patting their lap right before the cat would have come and sat on it
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Reposted
nancycomics.bsky.social
I' LL BE THE HIT OF THE PARTY
NANCY IS GOING TO A COSTUME PARTY DRESSED AS AN EGG
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Reposted
raxkingisdead.bsky.social
sean just said ‘i think if you’re going bald you just have to embrace it. you can’t be combing your hair in increasingly arcane, non-euclidean ways to hide it’
November 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM