Joe Tambien
@joetambien.bsky.social
Just a regular guy who is all out of bubble gum.
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Before there was AI, there were Hallmark greeting cards.
Peter Coviello’s passionate takedown of New York Times is one for the ages. Personal, honest, and brilliantly written.
If you haven’t already read it, make time in your day for a beautiful long read.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
If you haven’t already read it, make time in your day for a beautiful long read.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Peter Coviello’s passionate takedown of New York Times is one for the ages. Personal, honest, and brilliantly written.
If you haven’t already read it, make time in your day for a beautiful long read.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
If you haven’t already read it, make time in your day for a beautiful long read.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Polanski’s sincerity, empathy and intelligence radiates so strongly throughout this interview. I have never seen a politician, so comfortable in their own skin, or with their own beliefs. He leaves his condescending interviewer, Trevor Phillips, utterly flat-footed.
news.sky.com/video/zack-p...
news.sky.com/video/zack-p...
Zack Polanski: Starmer 'not a man I would be willing to work with'
But the leader of the Green Party says he would work with someone like Nadia Whittome if she was leading the Labour party.
news.sky.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Polanski’s sincerity, empathy and intelligence radiates so strongly throughout this interview. I have never seen a politician, so comfortable in their own skin, or with their own beliefs. He leaves his condescending interviewer, Trevor Phillips, utterly flat-footed.
news.sky.com/video/zack-p...
news.sky.com/video/zack-p...
Before there was AI, there were Hallmark greeting cards.
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Before there was AI, there were Hallmark greeting cards.
They’re eating the pets, they’re raping the Hobbits!
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
They’re eating the pets, they’re raping the Hobbits!
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Ontario government should double down and release the unedited video so that everyone can see it. Use the Streisand Effect to their advantage:
youtube.com/shorts/Mj6N-...
youtube.com/shorts/Mj6N-...
Ronald Reagan on Tariffs
YouTube video by Pitchfork Economics
youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The Ontario government should double down and release the unedited video so that everyone can see it. Use the Streisand Effect to their advantage:
youtube.com/shorts/Mj6N-...
youtube.com/shorts/Mj6N-...
This really is the dividing line between Democrats and Republicans in the US, and between Liberals and Conservatives in Canada.
It’s the difference between governance and partisanship.
It’s the difference between governance and partisanship.
AOC: I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care. I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This really is the dividing line between Democrats and Republicans in the US, and between Liberals and Conservatives in Canada.
It’s the difference between governance and partisanship.
It’s the difference between governance and partisanship.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Blue Rodeo’s album “Five Days in July” changed my life. Especially its signature song, “Five Days in May”.
Here’s hoping it will change yours too!
This a live version:
youtu.be/Mo6chkg8GVk
Here’s hoping it will change yours too!
This a live version:
youtu.be/Mo6chkg8GVk
October 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Blue Rodeo’s album “Five Days in July” changed my life. Especially its signature song, “Five Days in May”.
Here’s hoping it will change yours too!
This a live version:
youtu.be/Mo6chkg8GVk
Here’s hoping it will change yours too!
This a live version:
youtu.be/Mo6chkg8GVk
October 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is a stunningly good read. I was a lifelong Atlantic reader until I stopped cold turkey this year. No clicks since.
And I’ve had a lifelong version to Chait, who has been harder to avoid as he pops around from platform to platform.
Rashid, on the other hand, has a sharp eye and a sharp pen.
And I’ve had a lifelong version to Chait, who has been harder to avoid as he pops around from platform to platform.
Rashid, on the other hand, has a sharp eye and a sharp pen.
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is a stunningly good read. I was a lifelong Atlantic reader until I stopped cold turkey this year. No clicks since.
And I’ve had a lifelong version to Chait, who has been harder to avoid as he pops around from platform to platform.
Rashid, on the other hand, has a sharp eye and a sharp pen.
And I’ve had a lifelong version to Chait, who has been harder to avoid as he pops around from platform to platform.
Rashid, on the other hand, has a sharp eye and a sharp pen.
😘
Periodic reminder not to let folks bring dogshit to the potluck.
(Disclosure: Not my words; I only reformatted it to be shareable on social media.)
(Disclosure: Not my words; I only reformatted it to be shareable on social media.)
October 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
😘
One of the simplest and most heartfelt explanations of institutional racism that I’ve ever heard.
"Here I am, this middle-aged black man, I'm in my best suit. I actually argued the case at the Supreme Court that we were trying to implement. I've got all these degrees and awards. And I'm still required to laugh at my own humiliation."
Bryan Stevenson with @katiecouric.bsky.social
Bryan Stevenson with @katiecouric.bsky.social
The Exhausting Reality of Being a Black Lawyer - Bryan Stevenson's Truth
YouTube video by Katie Couric
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
One of the simplest and most heartfelt explanations of institutional racism that I’ve ever heard.
Why doesn’t he call it by its generic name?
Epsteinaminophen
Epsteinaminophen
"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
They Pump So Much Stuff Into Those Beautiful Little Babies
So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Why doesn’t he call it by its generic name?
Epsteinaminophen
Epsteinaminophen
Everyone has their own rebellion
September 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Everyone has their own rebellion
Everyone has their own rebellion
They can sell or short stock, they can cancel streaming packages on Disney+, Hulu, ESPN (etc.), they can decide to not go to Disneyland/Disney World, they can sell their Disney timeshares (DVC), they can stop buying Disney DVDs, games, or music, or not buy Disney merchandise, etc. LOTS to be done. 👍
September 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Everyone has their own rebellion
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One thing that helps me a lot is thinking of my mind as a camera with a lens that can zoom WAY in or WAY out. Whenever you find yourself paralyzed by useless stress, zooming out toward the cosmic or in toward the infinitely moment-mindful is both healthy and wise.
It's ALL reality.
It's ALL reality.
September 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
One thing that helps me a lot is thinking of my mind as a camera with a lens that can zoom WAY in or WAY out. Whenever you find yourself paralyzed by useless stress, zooming out toward the cosmic or in toward the infinitely moment-mindful is both healthy and wise.
It's ALL reality.
It's ALL reality.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
You need to live broadcast and post to warn, guide and advise your citizens - moment by moment. They need to know what you are doing to protect them and what, exactly, they should do too.
Otherwise they’ll fight back anyway they can, and Trump will have the war he wants.
You need to live broadcast and post to warn, guide and advise your citizens - moment by moment. They need to know what you are doing to protect them and what, exactly, they should do too.
Otherwise they’ll fight back anyway they can, and Trump will have the war he wants.
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
You need to live broadcast and post to warn, guide and advise your citizens - moment by moment. They need to know what you are doing to protect them and what, exactly, they should do too.
Otherwise they’ll fight back anyway they can, and Trump will have the war he wants.
You need to live broadcast and post to warn, guide and advise your citizens - moment by moment. They need to know what you are doing to protect them and what, exactly, they should do too.
Otherwise they’ll fight back anyway they can, and Trump will have the war he wants.
September 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
20, 20, 24 hours to go
I wanna be ‘sedatious’
Nothin' to do, nowhere to go, oh
I wanna be ‘sedatious’
I wanna be ‘sedatious’
Nothin' to do, nowhere to go, oh
I wanna be ‘sedatious’
July 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
20, 20, 24 hours to go
I wanna be ‘sedatious’
Nothin' to do, nowhere to go, oh
I wanna be ‘sedatious’
I wanna be ‘sedatious’
Nothin' to do, nowhere to go, oh
I wanna be ‘sedatious’
Republican are outraged by the very idea of people getting healthcare… because they don’t deserve it.
Try explaining this to any other developed nation.
Try explaining this to any other developed nation.
July 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Republican are outraged by the very idea of people getting healthcare… because they don’t deserve it.
Try explaining this to any other developed nation.
Try explaining this to any other developed nation.
This is the plot of every dire movie from the 80s 90s and aughts.
Grok went off-the-rails antisemitic last week. This week, it’s another dangerously unreliable toy for the Department of Defense. Insane levels of incompetence, sabotage, or more of this administration’s increasingly frenzied dance on kompromat strings?
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Pentagon Will Use Elon Musk's AI Software Grok
Grok, which was slammed last week for its antisemitic answers to user questions, is now in contract with the federal government.
www.forbes.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is the plot of every dire movie from the 80s 90s and aughts.
I would love to hear from ‘Wall Steeters’ about what things they will have to forgo in this new era of class warfare.
What are the exact things that you won’t be able to buy? Make me a list and read it out loud.
What are the exact things that you won’t be able to buy? Make me a list and read it out loud.
The billionaire class was freaking out this morning on CNBC:
" They're taking Wall Streeters and making them walk out onto the ice in the east river, And, and then they fall through."
"I mean there is a class warfare that's going on."
" They're taking Wall Streeters and making them walk out onto the ice in the east river, And, and then they fall through."
"I mean there is a class warfare that's going on."
June 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I would love to hear from ‘Wall Steeters’ about what things they will have to forgo in this new era of class warfare.
What are the exact things that you won’t be able to buy? Make me a list and read it out loud.
What are the exact things that you won’t be able to buy? Make me a list and read it out loud.
I was in Chile in 1986, and this is probably the best analogy for the current state of affairs.
The things that were routine there - tear gas, riot police, rounding up citizens for nothing more than gathering… well, it simply never would have occurred to me that this was the future of the USA.
The things that were routine there - tear gas, riot police, rounding up citizens for nothing more than gathering… well, it simply never would have occurred to me that this was the future of the USA.
A leading expert on strongman rule asks whether the US is veering towards Pinochet's Chile, where the military inflicted violence on the population at the behest of an authoritarian leader. A moral test looms for those who take orders from Trump and Hegseth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o...
Opinion | Trump Wants You to Get Used to This
www.nytimes.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I was in Chile in 1986, and this is probably the best analogy for the current state of affairs.
The things that were routine there - tear gas, riot police, rounding up citizens for nothing more than gathering… well, it simply never would have occurred to me that this was the future of the USA.
The things that were routine there - tear gas, riot police, rounding up citizens for nothing more than gathering… well, it simply never would have occurred to me that this was the future of the USA.