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Michael Hobbes
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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walmsley.bsky.social
slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9h
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction. By Thomas Chatterton Williams Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right under Donald Trump—a malignant response to the progressive left’s oversimplification of American history for their own present-day ends.
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
michaelhobbes.bsky.social
The study does not remotely say that science “leans hard left.” Nor does the fact that academics left the Nazis-and-child-porn website for a different website mean they’re producing biased evidence.

All of the major threats to science in 2026 come from the right.
previously been studied. Here we report on the results of a survey distributed o scientists on Twitter and Bluesky (n = 813). Results overwhelmingly confirm that changes to Twitter have made the social media platform no longer professionally useful or pleasant, and that many scientists have abandoned it in favor of Bluesky. Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter.
February 14, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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drbrake.bsky.social
Matt Walsh says the left believes America has no right to exist because it was built on slavery and all whites share the guilt for this. He says the 1619 Project wants people to believe slavery is "the whole reason America was formed." THESE ARE BOTH OBVIOUS LIES! How is the left to blame for them?
February 14, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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aywarhiannon.bsky.social
I was out of town when crystal shrek hit the towers (Peter’s brain) and was powerless to intervene
February 14, 2026 at 1:05 AM
michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This book is great
wrigleyfield.bsky.social Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 4h
A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN

Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous

It will immiserate so many
aselrod.bsky.social Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.

It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.

The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0

www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
February 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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dangartland.bsky.social
this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema
February 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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samd.bsky.social
call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 20h
She fucking killed an entire family while speeding in her Mercedes SUV and they’re not going to even take her license away??
February 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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tiredgenerally.bsky.social
it is too soon to say the minneapolis protests have been successful but their *successes* have definitely been downstream of the fact that its a bunch of regular people out in the street getting tear gasses and not the black bloc professional protestor guys
February 14, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
I know there’s a stereotype that spending time alone with your pets (especially cats) is sad, so I want to emphasize that I’ve truly never been happier with my personal life than post-divorce. The joy and self-confidence I found in that process was so great I’d do it again.

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skwinnicki.bsky.social SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 3h
So yeah if you’re questioning whether you really want out of an unhealthy situation because you worry you’d be lonely on days like today, just remember that there’s actually love everywhere and that post-divorce life can be so much happier than pre-divorce life!
February 14, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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vijayiyer.bsky.social
Okay then
Steven Pinker ® @sapinker • Follow I have no relationship with Epstein & have taken no funding from him. Our circles have occasionally overlapped: In 02, my lit agent invited me to join a group of east-coast TED speakers Epstein flew to CA. In 14, Krauss seated me next to him at a lunch, & someone snapped a photo. 11:09 PM • Jul 10, 2019 from Provincetown, N C Pinker, Steven <Pinker, Steven> to Lesley Groff Mar 28, 2012 5:47 PM star_border Dear Unfortunately I'm out of town that day, but if Jeffrey is around on Monday the 16th, I'll be back and would be delighted to meet with him. Best, Steve
February 14, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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ewhowe.com
Slate’s first example of this supposed sea-change among Democrats is Rick F*ing Wilson?!

RW is against Trump. Great. But we should never give him an inch of a platform to speak from, because his soul is still poisoned with the stuff that grew Trump in the first place. Like fat-shaming and ableism.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4h
No. This guy isn’t even a Democrat and fat-shaming is not what people mean when they talk about ‘dark woke’ or ‘woke 2’.

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In January, Florida Rep. Randy Fine made a typically bigoted post on X about his colleague in the House of Representatives, Ilhan Omar. The post was in conversation with a specious right-wing conspiracy alleging that Omar's net worth had increased, nefariously, through a variety of unspecified means-perhare cryptically linked back to her Somali heritage. Fine asserted that to "solve all this," Omar ought to be "denaturalized and deported." The ugliness of the comment prompted Rick Wilson-former Republican strategist, he of the magnanimous Lincoln Project-to step forward. In earlier eras of discourse, the Lincoln Project attempted to coalesce an anti-Trump movement by appealing to our better angels; brandishing Sorkin-ish platitudes about the Soul of America. (There is a Lincoln Project-to step forward. In earlier eras of discourse, the Lincoln Project attempted to coalesce an anti-Trump movement by appealing to our better angels; brandishing Sorkin-ish platitudes about the Soul of America. (There is a reason the rganization name-checks the 16th president.) But Wilson took a much different approach here. Rather than addressing the content of Fine's character, Wilson homed in on something else: The congressman is very, very fat. "Hunting you with harpoons and whaleboats would solve all this," said Wilson, parroting Fine's diction. Among the responses threaded below Wilson's retort, one is an edit of promotional materials for a 2011 television adaptation of Moby-Dick. In it, Fine has been photoshopped in place of the whale. It goes without saying that for a very long time, fat-shaming a politician was previously verboten in the liberal playbook. I also do not possess the wherewithal to cast judgement on whether Fine —who has expressed some genuinely bloodthirsty sentiments about Palestinians— deserves to be bullied in ach a way. But what I can say is that, right now, we are in the midst of a marked pivot in the way the Democratic Party interfaces with its opposition. The shift in attitude hasn't been firmly diagrammed; instead, what's going on here is mostly subconscious, like a collective unlocking of forbidden territory.
February 14, 2026 at 7:08 PM
michaelhobbes.bsky.social
No. This guy isn’t even a Democrat and fat-shaming is not what people mean when they talk about ‘dark woke’ or ‘woke 2’.

slate.com/news-and-pol...
In January, Florida Rep. Randy Fine made a typically bigoted post on X about his colleague in the House of Representatives, Ilhan Omar. The post was in conversation with a specious right-wing conspiracy alleging that Omar's net worth had increased, nefariously, through a variety of unspecified means-perhare cryptically linked back to her Somali heritage. Fine asserted that to "solve all this," Omar ought to be "denaturalized and deported." The ugliness of the comment prompted Rick Wilson-former Republican strategist, he of the magnanimous Lincoln Project-to step forward. In earlier eras of discourse, the Lincoln Project attempted to coalesce an anti-Trump movement by appealing to our better angels; brandishing Sorkin-ish platitudes about the Soul of America. (There is a Lincoln Project-to step forward. In earlier eras of discourse, the Lincoln Project attempted to coalesce an anti-Trump movement by appealing to our better angels; brandishing Sorkin-ish platitudes about the Soul of America. (There is a reason the rganization name-checks the 16th president.) But Wilson took a much different approach here. Rather than addressing the content of Fine's character, Wilson homed in on something else: The congressman is very, very fat. "Hunting you with harpoons and whaleboats would solve all this," said Wilson, parroting Fine's diction. Among the responses threaded below Wilson's retort, one is an edit of promotional materials for a 2011 television adaptation of Moby-Dick. In it, Fine has been photoshopped in place of the whale. It goes without saying that for a very long time, fat-shaming a politician was previously verboten in the liberal playbook. I also do not possess the wherewithal to cast judgement on whether Fine —who has expressed some genuinely bloodthirsty sentiments about Palestinians— deserves to be bullied in ach a way. But what I can say is that, right now, we are in the midst of a marked pivot in the way the Democratic Party interfaces with its opposition. The shift in attitude hasn't been firmly diagrammed; instead, what's going on here is mostly subconscious, like a collective unlocking of forbidden territory.
February 14, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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70sbachchan.bsky.social
*chefs kiss
February 14, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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katz.theracket.news
Ahahahahhahauahhahahhaha
In its campaign over the past year, the MAGA movement has squandered what might have been a reasonable position. David
February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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matthewhodson.bsky.social
The Women’s Institute was pressured to exclude trans women by the threat of litigation brought and paid for by JKR’s legal fund.
So now the newly trans-hostile WI groups are haemorrhaging members and many groups are folding, closing opportunities for all women.
Well done JK and the GCs, eh?
‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban
Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters younger women from joining
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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rincewind.run
may those of you who so desire have a Mike in your life
megannicolett.bsky.social megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social · 4h
if you’re seeing this it was meant to find you today
a screenshot from Ricki Lake with the chyron “wants to tell his valentine crush she has “bodacious bazongas”
February 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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politiburb.bsky.social
One of the funniest things I've seen on this site in some time
February 14, 2026 at 4:59 AM
michaelhobbes.bsky.social
The absolute glory of the Burbank airport
February 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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ritholtz.bsky.social
Not a fan of the "spending scolds"; they take a valid premise — "Live within your means" — and extrapolate it to a foolish extreme.

Genre example: I never read "The Millionaire Next Door," but it's demolished by @ifbookspod.bsky.social

Worth checking out...

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The Millionaire Next Door
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 02/05/2026 · 1h 11m
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February 14, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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deadcarl.bsky.social
It’s very easy to criticize people on the left for overstating something or misusing it without doing this kind of false equivalence.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9h
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction. By Thomas Chatterton Williams Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right under Donald Trump—a malignant response to the progressive left’s oversimplification of American history for their own present-day ends.
February 14, 2026 at 5:52 PM
michaelhobbes.bsky.social
New response to any criticism of my podcasts just dropped
"They hate to see two woke bitches winning."
February 14, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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mattbh.com
This is so spot on
Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
February 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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frogsgent.bsky.social
.....I beg your pardon??????
February 14, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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February 14, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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schwappek.bsky.social
Didn't think you were THIS jacked 🥵
February 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM