John O'Laughlin
@olaugh.bsky.social
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compulsions (fun): music, scrabble, running
compulsions (other): politics, urbanism
compulsions (fun): music, scrabble, running
compulsions (other): politics, urbanism
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Are You There, God? It’s Me, Bank of America
December 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Bank of America
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Remember, his children’s grandparents are refugees. When I say this man’s a piece of shit, it’s impossible to overstate the depth of my sincerity.
Zuck continues to back away from causes he previously championed. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Zuckerberg Cut Ties With Pro-Immigration Organization He Founded
Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy has cut ties with the pro-immigration advocacy group that he founded more than a decade ago, a move that parallels other sweeping changes he’s made to his company’s poli...
www.bloomberg.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Remember, his children’s grandparents are refugees. When I say this man’s a piece of shit, it’s impossible to overstate the depth of my sincerity.
i feel like the grok prompts they used to redact this are going to end up being the smoking gun
Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
i feel like the grok prompts they used to redact this are going to end up being the smoking gun
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I think it's funny that Yglesias uses the term "clout chasing" without any apparent consideration of what that actually translates to when it's a national politician
Yglesias referring to Senator Van Hollen as a "safe seat clout-chaser" is so despicable. VH took a stand to prevent Abrego García - an innocent man - from being disappeared into CECOT for life.
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I think it's funny that Yglesias uses the term "clout chasing" without any apparent consideration of what that actually translates to when it's a national politician
I wouldn't be in your shoes if the Sweet Lord Jesus come down and asked me himself.
December 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I wouldn't be in your shoes if the Sweet Lord Jesus come down and asked me himself.
til that 23 might be the earliest meme number. it predates skidoo and '23 skidoo'. anyway someone had to explain 23 skidoo to the united states senate after the titanic sank, cringe af
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
til that 23 might be the earliest meme number. it predates skidoo and '23 skidoo'. anyway someone had to explain 23 skidoo to the united states senate after the titanic sank, cringe af
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Incredible things happening on Facebook dot com
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Incredible things happening on Facebook dot com
Large fraction of celebrity deaths remind me of when their name was referenced by MF DOOM and how he’s gone too
December 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Large fraction of celebrity deaths remind me of when their name was referenced by MF DOOM and how he’s gone too
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I can't think of a more demoralising belief, if you're broadly on the left, than believing centuries of popular struggle did nothing other than to make things worse. A right wing psyop wouldn't be more effective than what these people have come to believe
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I can't think of a more demoralising belief, if you're broadly on the left, than believing centuries of popular struggle did nothing other than to make things worse. A right wing psyop wouldn't be more effective than what these people have come to believe
thinking about watching The Favourite (2018) and searched my brain for what i know olivia colman from and i'm afraid i don't have a better answer than "numberwang"
December 9, 2025 at 6:07 AM
thinking about watching The Favourite (2018) and searched my brain for what i know olivia colman from and i'm afraid i don't have a better answer than "numberwang"
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Ezra Klein even like "well we can agree 'birth tourism' is a problem," and no, I cannot. My group texts are about sports and kids.
December 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Ezra Klein even like "well we can agree 'birth tourism' is a problem," and no, I cannot. My group texts are about sports and kids.
my take on "my favorite things" is schnitzel with noodles stands alone in the S Tier
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
my take on "my favorite things" is schnitzel with noodles stands alone in the S Tier
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no wonder g_d was pissed when they ate that fruit
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
no wonder g_d was pissed when they ate that fruit
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Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
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What a goddamn legend. Every big tough conservative masculinity guy has been crying about how terrifying cities are to live in for the past two years and now Trump wants to move back to NYC
Reporter to Trump: Would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani mayoralty?
Trump: "I would. I really would. Especially after the meeting, absolutely."
Trump: "I would. I really would. Especially after the meeting, absolutely."
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
What a goddamn legend. Every big tough conservative masculinity guy has been crying about how terrifying cities are to live in for the past two years and now Trump wants to move back to NYC
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Elon Musk’s MechaHitler is a longtermist e/acc that hates children
I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Elon Musk’s MechaHitler is a longtermist e/acc that hates children
perhaps notable that gemini 3 pro is currently shorting googl in alpha arena
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
perhaps notable that gemini 3 pro is currently shorting googl in alpha arena
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
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San Diego has 2x the population of Helsinki and about 270 people died in traffic related fatalities in 2024
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
San Diego has 2x the population of Helsinki and about 270 people died in traffic related fatalities in 2024
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the more times i see this the more I think it belongs in a textbook about using woke language to reactionary ends
"I'm a rando who prefers to believe that everything is a conspiracy and am happy to tell women that I know better than she does how their literal job works" That a news org makes an editorial decision you wouldn't (or I wouldn't) doesn't mean someone is killing a story on behalf of a powerful person
"I write for the New York Times, and I can assure you that we've never buried stories on behalf of powerful people, many of those powerful people being part of NYT management. We only publish what's fit to print, like Zohran's application to Columbia that was leaked by a white nationalist"
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
the more times i see this the more I think it belongs in a textbook about using woke language to reactionary ends
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Man I resent the idea that New York needs to be unpleasant to live in to be authentic so much, it’s pervasive and it holds the city back in so many ways
left NIMBYism is a study in cognitive dissonance and paradoxes:
the homes are simultaneously vacant yet full of rich people
the homes are simultaneously “luxury” yet “shitholes”
the homes are simultaneously vacant yet full of rich people
the homes are simultaneously “luxury” yet “shitholes”
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Man I resent the idea that New York needs to be unpleasant to live in to be authentic so much, it’s pervasive and it holds the city back in so many ways
To be clear, Slava Ukraini, but geez what a tough break for the name of your country to literally mean borderlands. Your country’s name is Old Slavic for “disputed territory”
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
To be clear, Slava Ukraini, but geez what a tough break for the name of your country to literally mean borderlands. Your country’s name is Old Slavic for “disputed territory”