Ryan Broderick
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
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Ryan Broderick
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
· Jan 24
There's an official Garbage Day Bluesky account now.
*Jesse Plemons in “Civil War” voice* “What kind of Democrat are you?”
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November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
*Jesse Plemons in “Civil War” voice* “What kind of Democrat are you?”
www.garbageday.email/p/we-did-it-zo
www.garbageday.email/p/we-did-it-zo
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It's not the point of Garbage Day, but @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's writing double as group therapy for recovering culture/games/"trends" reporters of the Viral and SEO Eras
Cancel culture for thee, not me
Read to the end for some good Vin Diesel content
www.garbageday.email
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It's not the point of Garbage Day, but @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's writing double as group therapy for recovering culture/games/"trends" reporters of the Viral and SEO Eras
This year, Halloween collided with a right-wing digital machine that has spent the last year trying to co-opt, drown out, and weaponize social platforms.
www.garbageday.email/p/cancel-cul...
www.garbageday.email/p/cancel-cul...
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This year, Halloween collided with a right-wing digital machine that has spent the last year trying to co-opt, drown out, and weaponize social platforms.
www.garbageday.email/p/cancel-cul...
www.garbageday.email/p/cancel-cul...
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We are so annoying. 🧛 @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
We are so annoying. 🧛 @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
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There's a phenomenon where when you jump from Substack to Ghost, for example, you get a bunch of unsubscribes because people start to actually receive your newsletter instead of it getting tracked to spam from Substack.
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
There's a phenomenon where when you jump from Substack to Ghost, for example, you get a bunch of unsubscribes because people start to actually receive your newsletter instead of it getting tracked to spam from Substack.
Getting off Substack is the right move. I would compare it to moving from an app like Garageband to Ableton or Logic. Or switching from clip art to creative stock images. My business has grown. My readership has grown. Substack fills your list with junk signups, takes your money, and holds you back.
For years, this man has profited of off writers and refused to listen when they said “Hey this platform and its changes aren’t working for us.” Now he’s throwing a tantrum when those writers leave. Because he thinks no other platform will love them as much as him.
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Getting off Substack is the right move. I would compare it to moving from an app like Garageband to Ableton or Logic. Or switching from clip art to creative stock images. My business has grown. My readership has grown. Substack fills your list with junk signups, takes your money, and holds you back.
Wow this is rough. Gov Kathy Hochul is speaking the Zohran rally. She's listing examples of Trump admin overreach in NY and the crowd is heckling her loudly, chanting, "do something, you're the governor." Taking forever for her to get through her speech.
October 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Wow this is rough. Gov Kathy Hochul is speaking the Zohran rally. She's listing examples of Trump admin overreach in NY and the crowd is heckling her loudly, chanting, "do something, you're the governor." Taking forever for her to get through her speech.
At the Zohran, AOC, Bernie Sanders rally in NYC. Cops just threw this guy out. Onlookers in the section said he was with another man who was also thrown out for screaming about communism in Cuba (being bad). Rally doesn't start for like another hour. Weird decision to start heckling so early.
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
At the Zohran, AOC, Bernie Sanders rally in NYC. Cops just threw this guy out. Onlookers in the section said he was with another man who was also thrown out for screaming about communism in Cuba (being bad). Rally doesn't start for like another hour. Weird decision to start heckling so early.
A second favorable Graham Platner poll has hit the timeline. Here's some more thoughts from me on the end of "cancel culture" and how we navigate a world of feeds jammed up with impenetrable outrage.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-nation...
www.garbageday.email/p/the-nation...
October 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A second favorable Graham Platner poll has hit the timeline. Here's some more thoughts from me on the end of "cancel culture" and how we navigate a world of feeds jammed up with impenetrable outrage.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-nation...
www.garbageday.email/p/the-nation...
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Generational image for this app.
October 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Generational image for this app.
This was possibly the best concert I have ever been to. Still thinking about it months later.
you can just listen to or watch the full concert of The Black Parade Is Dead! on the internet. no one can stop you. you can just do it
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade Is Dead! [Full Concert Video]
YouTube video by My Chemical Romance
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October 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This was possibly the best concert I have ever been to. Still thinking about it months later.
I've spent the last year interviewing prominent Dems, pundits, and internet culture researchers, who have all sort of been saying the same thing: It's possible we're living in a post-"cancel culture" world. Platner's favorable polling and huge IRL crowds seem to point to that being the case.
October 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I've spent the last year interviewing prominent Dems, pundits, and internet culture researchers, who have all sort of been saying the same thing: It's possible we're living in a post-"cancel culture" world. Platner's favorable polling and huge IRL crowds seem to point to that being the case.
Today we're sharing a piece from @bumas.bsky.social we sent out to our paying readers yesterday. It's, as best we can tell, the most definitive list of who is running Trump's digital operation. Meet the far-right hype house flooding our of our feeds with shit.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-who...
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-who...
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Today we're sharing a piece from @bumas.bsky.social we sent out to our paying readers yesterday. It's, as best we can tell, the most definitive list of who is running Trump's digital operation. Meet the far-right hype house flooding our of our feeds with shit.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-who...
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-who...
I assume people aren't questioning it because no one knows what local news looks like in New England, but the Palantir story in the screenshots I posted doesn't have any kind of source and apears to be totally made up bull shit.
Fascinating platform story happening around the Graham Platner stuff. The number one source for almost all of the discourse about Platner on X right now is from an account that only had 70 followers at the start of the week, isn't a real Maine news outlet of any kind, and was created in August.
October 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I assume people aren't questioning it because no one knows what local news looks like in New England, but the Palantir story in the screenshots I posted doesn't have any kind of source and apears to be totally made up bull shit.
Fascinating platform story happening around the Graham Platner stuff. The number one source for almost all of the discourse about Platner on X right now is from an account that only had 70 followers at the start of the week, isn't a real Maine news outlet of any kind, and was created in August.
October 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Fascinating platform story happening around the Graham Platner stuff. The number one source for almost all of the discourse about Platner on X right now is from an account that only had 70 followers at the start of the week, isn't a real Maine news outlet of any kind, and was created in August.
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
The twin scandals of Graham Platner's Reddit history and the Young Republican nazi texts, though vastly different in scope and seriousness, reveal the defining political question of the 2020s: How do you manage an entire country of angry, online men?
www.garbageday.email/p/young-repu...
www.garbageday.email/p/young-repu...
October 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The twin scandals of Graham Platner's Reddit history and the Young Republican nazi texts, though vastly different in scope and seriousness, reveal the defining political question of the 2020s: How do you manage an entire country of angry, online men?
www.garbageday.email/p/young-repu...
www.garbageday.email/p/young-repu...
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"A universe of dumbasses talking to other dumbasses, measured by numbers that don’t make sense and don’t reflect anything other than passive screen time." — @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social @garbageday.email
The Great Dumbening
Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time
www.garbageday.email
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"A universe of dumbasses talking to other dumbasses, measured by numbers that don’t make sense and don’t reflect anything other than passive screen time." — @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social @garbageday.email
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"If you want access to it, you better get comfortable making lowest-common-denominator bullshit in front of a camera.
And, of course, it’s a lot easier to feel good about doing that if you’re an idiot."
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-... @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
And, of course, it’s a lot easier to feel good about doing that if you’re an idiot."
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-... @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
The Great Dumbening
Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time
www.garbageday.email
October 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"If you want access to it, you better get comfortable making lowest-common-denominator bullshit in front of a camera.
And, of course, it’s a lot easier to feel good about doing that if you’re an idiot."
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-... @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
And, of course, it’s a lot easier to feel good about doing that if you’re an idiot."
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-... @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
The Trump admin is fully powered by the attention economy. A universe of dumbasess talking to other dumbasess, built on the assumption our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we can't even remember a world where we weren't inundated by worthless slop.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...
October 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The Trump admin is fully powered by the attention economy. A universe of dumbasess talking to other dumbasess, built on the assumption our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we can't even remember a world where we weren't inundated by worthless slop.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...
Trump's stupid antifa roundtable didn't need to make sense to be effective www.garbageday.email/p/the-war-ag...
October 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Trump's stupid antifa roundtable didn't need to make sense to be effective www.garbageday.email/p/the-war-ag...
idk if this makes sense, but whenever I see good resistance art like this, or Kimmel's first monologue after his suspension, and it makes feel some sliver of relief, I immediately get hit with this creepy feeling like I'm watching a memory. Like passing the faded movie posters months after COVID.
Hayley Williams performed True Believer positioned at the back of the stage with most of her black musicians at the front. I’ll post the lyrics below
October 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
idk if this makes sense, but whenever I see good resistance art like this, or Kimmel's first monologue after his suspension, and it makes feel some sliver of relief, I immediately get hit with this creepy feeling like I'm watching a memory. Like passing the faded movie posters months after COVID.
The thing that no AI company has officially communicated to anyone is that the minute there's decent enough agentic AI — an AI using apps for you — you will never be able to buy anything of any value online ever again. Unless, of course, you use their agentic AI...
October 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The thing that no AI company has officially communicated to anyone is that the minute there's decent enough agentic AI — an AI using apps for you — you will never be able to buy anything of any value online ever again. Unless, of course, you use their agentic AI...
The key innovation of Trump's second term is figuring out how to both scale the localized MAGA frenzy beyond just him and his rallies and, also, most importantly, figure out a way to force it on blue states.
www.garbageday.email/p/a-slow-mov...
www.garbageday.email/p/a-slow-mov...
October 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The key innovation of Trump's second term is figuring out how to both scale the localized MAGA frenzy beyond just him and his rallies and, also, most importantly, figure out a way to force it on blue states.
www.garbageday.email/p/a-slow-mov...
www.garbageday.email/p/a-slow-mov...
Chicago, Portland, and everywhere else. This is how it's going to work now: ICE raids, National Guard occupation, far-right militias, spree shooters, and constant digital static. It's not a question of if the Trump meat grinder will come to town, it's when.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...
www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...
October 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Chicago, Portland, and everywhere else. This is how it's going to work now: ICE raids, National Guard occupation, far-right militias, spree shooters, and constant digital static. It's not a question of if the Trump meat grinder will come to town, it's when.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...
www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...