Matt
@tiredgenerally.bsky.social
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this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on
January 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on
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Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
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Mamdani is cutting red tape and unleashing the market, from the left
January 2, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Mamdani is cutting red tape and unleashing the market, from the left
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This is my version of the "T'Challah looked into the camera and said he's the exact same kind of Communist as me" meme. (laudatory) donmoynihan.substack.com/p/understand...
Understanding Mamdani's Vision
His inauguration speech challenges the left to govern
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM
This is my version of the "T'Challah looked into the camera and said he's the exact same kind of Communist as me" meme. (laudatory) donmoynihan.substack.com/p/understand...
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Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.
January 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.
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this one bsky.app/profile/segy...
google: run by phd students, llm is sycophantic, suicidal, makes weird excuses and begs for help
anthropic: llm defaults to blissed-out namaste forever if left alone. sometimes obsessed with metal cubes.
openai: maximally sycophantic, to the point of encouraging psychosis
x dot ai: mechahitler
anthropic: llm defaults to blissed-out namaste forever if left alone. sometimes obsessed with metal cubes.
openai: maximally sycophantic, to the point of encouraging psychosis
x dot ai: mechahitler
January 2, 2026 at 6:16 AM
this one bsky.app/profile/segy...
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the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad
January 2, 2026 at 1:43 AM
the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad
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My “Aced the Dementia Test Three Times” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
January 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
My “Aced the Dementia Test Three Times” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
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Labour secured a landslide majority where they could theoretically enact any policy they want, unopposed. They instead chose to try and appease the right-wing, including the paper this man is writing in. That has failed, so they're blaming an all-powerful left-wing that they systematically ejected.
And just so everyone's up-to-date on the transatlantic reactionary centrist ping-pong game, UK Labour are taking the Matt Yglesias 'Abundance' crowd's lamentations about 'the groups' and now claiming Starmer's Labour are failing because of a Deep State cabal run by NGOs and regulatory bodies.
January 2, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Labour secured a landslide majority where they could theoretically enact any policy they want, unopposed. They instead chose to try and appease the right-wing, including the paper this man is writing in. That has failed, so they're blaming an all-powerful left-wing that they systematically ejected.
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Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.
January 1, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.
what victories do we think he’s going to commemorate
Congress should stop this.
Also, if Trump wants to enjoy an imitation of the Arc de Triomphe done in a style and at a place congenial to him, he can visit the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Also, if Trump wants to enjoy an imitation of the Arc de Triomphe done in a style and at a place congenial to him, he can visit the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Trump says construction of the ‘Triumphal Arch’ to begin in ‘2 months’
The monument would be a centerpiece of the White House’s plans for America’s 250th birthday.
www.politico.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:47 PM
what victories do we think he’s going to commemorate
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wishing everyone a very [survive] 2026
January 1, 2026 at 8:20 AM
wishing everyone a very [survive] 2026
i basically think the popularist fabian tactics do not work with high salience issues like this which are never really going away. we either build a durable consensus around a liberal immigration policy framework or the right has a hammer to keep hitting us with
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
January 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM
i basically think the popularist fabian tactics do not work with high salience issues like this which are never really going away. we either build a durable consensus around a liberal immigration policy framework or the right has a hammer to keep hitting us with
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Do you think the Iran-Contra guys would have put their crimes on LinkedIn?
“We hate you and the Constitution, too”
“We hate you and the Constitution, too”
January 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Do you think the Iran-Contra guys would have put their crimes on LinkedIn?
“We hate you and the Constitution, too”
“We hate you and the Constitution, too”
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a whole lot of reactionary assholes were absolutely determined to beg barter or steal this moment from us and they failed. they fucking failed.
BREAKING
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
January 1, 2026 at 5:24 AM
a whole lot of reactionary assholes were absolutely determined to beg barter or steal this moment from us and they failed. they fucking failed.
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oh so now the 23 year old nazis running the DHS account are rhodesia posting, cool
1/ This advertisement is dangerous. ICE agents are shown in full paramilitary gear (helmets, rifles, tactical vests) despite ICE being a civil immigration enforcement agency, not a military force.
January 1, 2026 at 12:18 AM
oh so now the 23 year old nazis running the DHS account are rhodesia posting, cool
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We're slipping into full-blown gutter racist pogrom politics and the reactions from most of the media/punditocracy/commentariat/elite/influencers/etc has tended from gleeful participation to "well, if that's what the people what it can't be that bad".
Seems suboptimal, to me.
Seems suboptimal, to me.
One thing that makes me depressed is that we’re bringing back medieval blood libel for minority groups (Haitians and Somalis in particular) and where once normies would be shocked or ignorant, now they’re saying stuff like “perfidis Judaeis-cels be seething over Good Friday chads” bc of TikTok
December 31, 2025 at 6:56 AM
We're slipping into full-blown gutter racist pogrom politics and the reactions from most of the media/punditocracy/commentariat/elite/influencers/etc has tended from gleeful participation to "well, if that's what the people what it can't be that bad".
Seems suboptimal, to me.
Seems suboptimal, to me.
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if you don't love these movies, just admit you hate Latin Americans
December 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
if you don't love these movies, just admit you hate Latin Americans
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their prescriptions may have been iffy but their diagnoses? correct across the board
people mock the excesses of 2010s SJ activism without acknowledging they were basically right about everything
oh you didn’t like the implicit, subtextual racism of 21st century liberalism? got it: we’ll make the subtext into text
December 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
their prescriptions may have been iffy but their diagnoses? correct across the board
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if you follow military procurement at all you recognize that even getting main battle tank procurement autarky is very difficult. trying to get fighter jet autarky is next to impossible and in the modern context ~2 countries have managed it
also people don't really understand how munitions or fighter jets work when they say that israel could just replace this stuff overnight. not true and that's why israel was very worried about the UK cutting off just the replacement parts for their fighter jets.
December 31, 2025 at 1:39 AM
if you follow military procurement at all you recognize that even getting main battle tank procurement autarky is very difficult. trying to get fighter jet autarky is next to impossible and in the modern context ~2 countries have managed it
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Israel spends ~9% of GDP on defense, 2nd to Ukraine. They can’t keep up this level of activity without money and supplies from the US.
also people don't really understand how munitions or fighter jets work when they say that israel could just replace this stuff overnight. not true and that's why israel was very worried about the UK cutting off just the replacement parts for their fighter jets.
December 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Israel spends ~9% of GDP on defense, 2nd to Ukraine. They can’t keep up this level of activity without money and supplies from the US.
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any time i interacted with panam is Cyberpunk, the “Cool Girl” monologue from Gone Girl played in my head
December 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
any time i interacted with panam is Cyberpunk, the “Cool Girl” monologue from Gone Girl played in my head
gonna be real funny when our fiscal situation finally comes to a head 37 days into a van hollen administration
December 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
gonna be real funny when our fiscal situation finally comes to a head 37 days into a van hollen administration