The™ Colin Williams
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Paperboy/prof in PGH 🤘🏻 Nazis bad, metal good
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The™ Colin Williams
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· Nov 16
Whipped up this starter pack of Pittsburgh journos last night. By all means suggest additions and use as is helpful
go.bsky.app/P559uGc
go.bsky.app/P559uGc
Whoa!
Pittsburgh journalists vote to end country's longest strike and notify the PG they are returning to work - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh’s most momentous gathering since the formation of a strike picket line more than three years ago began last week in the manner of all big strike meetings – with the a...
www.unionprogress.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Whoa!
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"She does not own a car." In a way, this is actually quite funny, but mostly, the people who write this stuff would go apoplectic if anyone judged their life the way they judged other people's.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"She does not own a car." In a way, this is actually quite funny, but mostly, the people who write this stuff would go apoplectic if anyone judged their life the way they judged other people's.
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What is really going on in this society that elected Donald Trump president a second time?
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
Unterstützung von Donald Trump: Die Irrtümer über Donald Trumps Rückhalt
Rechtsruck, multiethnische Koalition, Held einfacher Leute: Trump gilt als fest verankert. Doch diese Überzeugung beruht auf drei großen Missverständnissen.
www.zeit.de
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What is really going on in this society that elected Donald Trump president a second time?
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
Lots of good music this year. This new Chat Pile x Hayden Pedigo collab is super heavy and full of beautiful textures.
In The Earth Again, by Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
11 track album
chatpile.bandcamp.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Lots of good music this year. This new Chat Pile x Hayden Pedigo collab is super heavy and full of beautiful textures.
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idk what that means but it doesn’t sound good bsky.app/profile/carl...
* WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER HASSETT: THERE COULD BE A LITTLE BIT OF ALMOST QUIET TIME IN THE LABOR MARKET
@reuters.com #QuietTime
@reuters.com #QuietTime
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
idk what that means but it doesn’t sound good bsky.app/profile/carl...
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“I saw the pure terror in my parent’s eyes. Dad’s shaky voice while he was calling firefighters and standing there and seeing terrifying results of the strike just 50 meters from us,” Liza said, about the moment of strike.
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“I saw the pure terror in my parent’s eyes. Dad’s shaky voice while he was calling firefighters and standing there and seeing terrifying results of the strike just 50 meters from us,” Liza said, about the moment of strike.
Enshittification of Metroid?! Can't we have one nice thing?
Oof. 😢
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Enshittification of Metroid?! Can't we have one nice thing?
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True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
People who violate professional ethics like this don't deserve journalism jobs, let alone soft-focus NYT profiles.
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
People who violate professional ethics like this don't deserve journalism jobs, let alone soft-focus NYT profiles.
99% tax on wealth over $100m
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
99% tax on wealth over $100m
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You’ll never find a better distillation of how technology and capitalism fit together in the 21st century.
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
You’ll never find a better distillation of how technology and capitalism fit together in the 21st century.
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Leaf blowers are a scourge and they must be destroyed.
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Leaf blowers are a scourge and they must be destroyed.
Discouraging, among other things, that he sent this email with a misused "its"
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Discouraging, among other things, that he sent this email with a misused "its"
Feelin this classic today
The World Is Too Much With Us
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares he...
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Feelin this classic today
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
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The PA General Assembly has finally adopted a state budget. When a budget is so late, it’s tempting to just celebrate. And while this budget contains a major achievement—a 2nd year of school funding—there's much that we can’t celebrate.
Here are our top takeaways:
pennpolicy.org/research_pub...
Here are our top takeaways:
pennpolicy.org/research_pub...
Statement on the 2025–2026 Pennsylvania State Budget
Pennsylvania schools, social service providers, and local governments are grateful today that the General Assembly is poised to adopt a state budget for the fiscal year that began on July 1, 2025. …
pennpolicy.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The PA General Assembly has finally adopted a state budget. When a budget is so late, it’s tempting to just celebrate. And while this budget contains a major achievement—a 2nd year of school funding—there's much that we can’t celebrate.
Here are our top takeaways:
pennpolicy.org/research_pub...
Here are our top takeaways:
pennpolicy.org/research_pub...
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I genuinely believe this is a huge part of the LLM worship; half of these people are functionally illiterate
Putting aside all the horrible shit in them: I cannot believe the global elite composes emails like fucking horses who somehow learned to crudely type. My emails read like Shakespeare compared to the lowercased, unpunctuated screeds written to the worlds biggest pedophile. Fucking write like adults!
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I genuinely believe this is a huge part of the LLM worship; half of these people are functionally illiterate
One thing the new Epstein emails prove is these creeps are barely literate.
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
One thing the new Epstein emails prove is these creeps are barely literate.
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Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
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Beards: something no American warriors have sported while decimating an enemy.
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Beards: something no American warriors have sported while decimating an enemy.
The agony, the ecstasy of discovering your novel idea is a short story
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The agony, the ecstasy of discovering your novel idea is a short story
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I may know the evil emperor's profane secrets to eternal unlife, yes, but to learn them you will have to buy my new book
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I may know the evil emperor's profane secrets to eternal unlife, yes, but to learn them you will have to buy my new book
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Literally nothing this week vis a vis Schumer and legislative strategy will change that we're just going to end up here again in Feb 2026, literally nothing is 'resolved'
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Literally nothing this week vis a vis Schumer and legislative strategy will change that we're just going to end up here again in Feb 2026, literally nothing is 'resolved'
Dark roast coffee: not even once
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Dark roast coffee: not even once