Noah
LightNews LightNews
banner
waldville.bsky.social
Noah
@waldville.bsky.social
310 followers 610 following 1.6K posts
Rule of Acquisition #91: Your boss is only worth what they pay you.

I write about movies at waldville.wordpress.com

he/him
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Noah
lukesteuber.com
presented without comment
Offit told me that Kennedy is a "liar" and a "terrible human being." I asked him to explain. "It doesn't matter what I say," Offit said. "He thinks the medical journals are in the pocket of the industry, he thinks that the government is in the pocket of the industry, he thinks I'm in the pocket of industry, and he's wrong." Offit continued: "If he has data showing he's right, then fucking publish it. He can't, because he doesn't have those data." I asked Offit if he saw a way to reverse the public's rising distrust in science. "I don't think there is any way to regain that trust other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost," he said.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
waldville.bsky.social
OU saying loudly and proudly that they are not a place to get an education, but simply somewhere students can buy a fancy piece of paper and learn nothing.
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Reposted by Noah
maxkennerly.bsky.social
"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Noah
bencollins.bsky.social
Strong Floor, No Ceiling is considerably worse than No Rules, Just Right. Can’t believe we’re gonna lose the messaging war to Outback Steakhouse.
November 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
waldville.bsky.social
In my short time working in schools, got a lot of use out of sentiments like this, and also Alex Horne's "All the instructions are in the task."
pookleblinky.bsky.social Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d
"Sorry bud you're gonna have to use your brain on this one" isnt rude enough
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Reposted by Noah
apocalypticanow.bsky.social
Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936

Right: 1936 electoral map
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred. Electoral map of the USA that's almost entirely blue except for New Hampshire and Vermont
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Reposted by Noah
davekarpf.bsky.social
Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Reposted by Noah
stradicat.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Reposted by Noah
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
josiegz.bsky.social Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 1d
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.

spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Reposted by Noah
sethcotlar.bsky.social
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
tedmccormick.bsky.social Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by Noah
techconnectify.bsky.social
I just found a ramen noodle packet with a use by date in 2021 and folks, I am here to tell you they can absolutely go bad.
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Reposted by Noah
chadloder.bsky.social
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Reposted by Noah
atherton.bsky.social
Before there was Loss dot jpg, Loss dot jpg was there
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reposted by Noah
mugrimm.bsky.social
Wicked For Good sounds like a Boston area non profit
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Reposted by Noah
cjzero.bsky.social
top notch mascottin'
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Reposted by Noah
gilduran.com
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Reposted by Noah
kuuga.bsky.social
The microscale fight in Zeztz #11 was really cool!
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Reposted by Noah
cabel.panic.com
"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"

"no problem boss. i'm on it"
an ad for the new series “welcome to derry” with the tagline “go back to where IT all began“, except somehow, they highlighted the word “to“ instead of “it“
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Reposted by Noah
viktorwinetrout.bsky.social
[I turn on the TV and every channel is showing me being burned in effigy] This can't be good
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
waldville.bsky.social
The bit with the drone and the garbage in Pluribus was the best short film of the year
November 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Reposted by Noah
taliajane.bsky.social
I know a lot of footage and commentary is swirling about today but it’s important to convey that the people who gathered outside that ICE garage in lower Manhattan were *so* ten toes down focused.

This person who gets maced and just calmly flips the bird & keeps going is *quintessential.*
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Reposted by Noah
catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Reposted by Noah
biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app
Healthy. Spare. Kidneys. Walking around. Unused.

This is the person in charge of the Center for Disease Control.

In a country driving the vast majority of its citizenry towards abject poverty, they are soft launching the ability to SELL ONE’S ORGANS. This shit is so ghoulish I’m at a loss.
jsweetli.bsky.social Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · Aug 28
New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation.

"There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reposted by Noah
katz.theracket.news
He’s threatening a fake cartel in a country sitting on a ton of oil while freeing an actual narcotrafficking ex-president who he likes. This isn’t hard to understand unless you want to make it hard to understand.
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Reposted by Noah
ygrene.bsky.social
me: *googling symptoms*

webmd: you’re being murdered

murderer: see i told you
November 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM