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Desert dweller. Technology maker. Think about-er.
Desert dweller. Technology maker. Think about-er.
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They should raise taxes on billionaires the way Charlie Sheen’s drug dealer cut his crack weaker and weaker each time, it’ll take them so long to notice and eventually they’ll be weaned off having billions of dollars
December 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
They should raise taxes on billionaires the way Charlie Sheen’s drug dealer cut his crack weaker and weaker each time, it’ll take them so long to notice and eventually they’ll be weaned off having billions of dollars
Narrator: It's not
December 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Narrator: It's not
Yeah but is 54yrs old based 🤔
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Yeah but is 54yrs old based 🤔
Forgive my stalking but this is a helluva bracket. Think you aced it
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Forgive my stalking but this is a helluva bracket. Think you aced it
I did not know about the silver spoon either but reading this wiki suddenly makes it all make sense...
Like, there's clearly a 100% chance Matt Yglesias can recite his daddy's entire wikipedia entry by heart and a 90% chance he will do so on a first date
Like, there's clearly a 100% chance Matt Yglesias can recite his daddy's entire wikipedia entry by heart and a 90% chance he will do so on a first date
December 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I did not know about the silver spoon either but reading this wiki suddenly makes it all make sense...
Like, there's clearly a 100% chance Matt Yglesias can recite his daddy's entire wikipedia entry by heart and a 90% chance he will do so on a first date
Like, there's clearly a 100% chance Matt Yglesias can recite his daddy's entire wikipedia entry by heart and a 90% chance he will do so on a first date
So...
What if Bouie wasn't making the same old savvy Dem argument...
What if instead, he was making a rebuttal to the savvy, brain-fried pundit dorks on X who truly believe X is where ALL of the ideas really come from?
What if...you and Bouie are making the *same point* from different angles?
What if Bouie wasn't making the same old savvy Dem argument...
What if instead, he was making a rebuttal to the savvy, brain-fried pundit dorks on X who truly believe X is where ALL of the ideas really come from?
What if...you and Bouie are making the *same point* from different angles?
December 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
So...
What if Bouie wasn't making the same old savvy Dem argument...
What if instead, he was making a rebuttal to the savvy, brain-fried pundit dorks on X who truly believe X is where ALL of the ideas really come from?
What if...you and Bouie are making the *same point* from different angles?
What if Bouie wasn't making the same old savvy Dem argument...
What if instead, he was making a rebuttal to the savvy, brain-fried pundit dorks on X who truly believe X is where ALL of the ideas really come from?
What if...you and Bouie are making the *same point* from different angles?
No. Of course you're not saying that.
Because that would be the other side of the same coin - another "savvy" but oversimplified model of how the public gets their ideas.
And you strenuously disagree with that kind of thinking...
Right, Will?
Because that would be the other side of the same coin - another "savvy" but oversimplified model of how the public gets their ideas.
And you strenuously disagree with that kind of thinking...
Right, Will?
December 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
No. Of course you're not saying that.
Because that would be the other side of the same coin - another "savvy" but oversimplified model of how the public gets their ideas.
And you strenuously disagree with that kind of thinking...
Right, Will?
Because that would be the other side of the same coin - another "savvy" but oversimplified model of how the public gets their ideas.
And you strenuously disagree with that kind of thinking...
Right, Will?
I read your thread and you don't disagree as strenuously as advertised.
You disagree with putting all eggs in the total viewership basket while ignoring the viewership of social elites with asymmetrical influence.
But you're not saying put all your eggs in the elite viewership basket, right?
You disagree with putting all eggs in the total viewership basket while ignoring the viewership of social elites with asymmetrical influence.
But you're not saying put all your eggs in the elite viewership basket, right?
December 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I read your thread and you don't disagree as strenuously as advertised.
You disagree with putting all eggs in the total viewership basket while ignoring the viewership of social elites with asymmetrical influence.
But you're not saying put all your eggs in the elite viewership basket, right?
You disagree with putting all eggs in the total viewership basket while ignoring the viewership of social elites with asymmetrical influence.
But you're not saying put all your eggs in the elite viewership basket, right?
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Ok it was like 4 skeets later but still.
Twitter *was* a big deal in 2016...2020... 2024 even!
2025 is *not* those times.
And yes, TikTok cannot play that role, but thats because that role cannot be played on a social platform in the world of 2025.
bsky.app/profile/whst...
Twitter *was* a big deal in 2016...2020... 2024 even!
2025 is *not* those times.
And yes, TikTok cannot play that role, but thats because that role cannot be played on a social platform in the world of 2025.
bsky.app/profile/whst...
That doesn’t mean Twitter serves the same role now - it clearly doesn’t, although it’s frying a lot of brains with some pretty shocking effects in the real world. But places like TikTok can’t play the same role because elites don’t use them and there’s no true discourse.
December 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Ok it was like 4 skeets later but still.
Twitter *was* a big deal in 2016...2020... 2024 even!
2025 is *not* those times.
And yes, TikTok cannot play that role, but thats because that role cannot be played on a social platform in the world of 2025.
bsky.app/profile/whst...
Twitter *was* a big deal in 2016...2020... 2024 even!
2025 is *not* those times.
And yes, TikTok cannot play that role, but thats because that role cannot be played on a social platform in the world of 2025.
bsky.app/profile/whst...
And sorry, there's True Discourse® on X now?
Really?
Really?
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 AM
And sorry, there's True Discourse® on X now?
Really?
Really?
Ok it was like 4 skeets later but still.
Twitter *was* a big deal in 2016...2020... 2024 even!
2025 is *not* those times.
And yes, TikTok cannot play that role, but thats because that role cannot be played on a social platform in the world of 2025.
bsky.app/profile/whst...
Twitter *was* a big deal in 2016...2020... 2024 even!
2025 is *not* those times.
And yes, TikTok cannot play that role, but thats because that role cannot be played on a social platform in the world of 2025.
bsky.app/profile/whst...
That doesn’t mean Twitter serves the same role now - it clearly doesn’t, although it’s frying a lot of brains with some pretty shocking effects in the real world. But places like TikTok can’t play the same role because elites don’t use them and there’s no true discourse.
December 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Ok it was like 4 skeets later but still.
Twitter *was* a big deal in 2016...2020... 2024 even!
2025 is *not* those times.
And yes, TikTok cannot play that role, but thats because that role cannot be played on a social platform in the world of 2025.
bsky.app/profile/whst...
Twitter *was* a big deal in 2016...2020... 2024 even!
2025 is *not* those times.
And yes, TikTok cannot play that role, but thats because that role cannot be played on a social platform in the world of 2025.
bsky.app/profile/whst...
I'm here for the dicking around, and the Futurama profile pics.
December 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I'm here for the dicking around, and the Futurama profile pics.
Disagree with your read. Rorschach is subjective (no "right" answer).
This aint that. Closer to reading comprehension or critical thinking test, but it wasn't a test.
Dude had a rebuttal to pundit dorks on X. But he didn't start with "Dear pundit dorks on X"
Readers grasped that or they didn't.
This aint that. Closer to reading comprehension or critical thinking test, but it wasn't a test.
Dude had a rebuttal to pundit dorks on X. But he didn't start with "Dear pundit dorks on X"
Readers grasped that or they didn't.
December 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Disagree with your read. Rorschach is subjective (no "right" answer).
This aint that. Closer to reading comprehension or critical thinking test, but it wasn't a test.
Dude had a rebuttal to pundit dorks on X. But he didn't start with "Dear pundit dorks on X"
Readers grasped that or they didn't.
This aint that. Closer to reading comprehension or critical thinking test, but it wasn't a test.
Dude had a rebuttal to pundit dorks on X. But he didn't start with "Dear pundit dorks on X"
Readers grasped that or they didn't.
Nah... speaking as a member of his sizable platform, knowing what he talks about, how he talks, and generally liking him, it would be hella goofy for me to assume he's firing shots at my no-name ass and feel hurt about it
December 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Nah... speaking as a member of his sizable platform, knowing what he talks about, how he talks, and generally liking him, it would be hella goofy for me to assume he's firing shots at my no-name ass and feel hurt about it
Yeah he's not talking to normal people like us.
He was responding to "influencers" on X who recently said (for the umpteenth time) you're not serious about influence if you're not on X...
And he is basically saying "funny that those guys on X aren't on the platforms that matter for influence"
He was responding to "influencers" on X who recently said (for the umpteenth time) you're not serious about influence if you're not on X...
And he is basically saying "funny that those guys on X aren't on the platforms that matter for influence"
December 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Yeah he's not talking to normal people like us.
He was responding to "influencers" on X who recently said (for the umpteenth time) you're not serious about influence if you're not on X...
And he is basically saying "funny that those guys on X aren't on the platforms that matter for influence"
He was responding to "influencers" on X who recently said (for the umpteenth time) you're not serious about influence if you're not on X...
And he is basically saying "funny that those guys on X aren't on the platforms that matter for influence"
Yeah but what was he responding to?
People just chilling on bsky living their lives?
Or dudes on X going out of their way to say you're not "serious" if you're not on X?
Based on the bsky vibes of the day (and his thread) he's talking about the latter.
Stand down man.
Nice profile pic btw
People just chilling on bsky living their lives?
Or dudes on X going out of their way to say you're not "serious" if you're not on X?
Based on the bsky vibes of the day (and his thread) he's talking about the latter.
Stand down man.
Nice profile pic btw
December 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Yeah but what was he responding to?
People just chilling on bsky living their lives?
Or dudes on X going out of their way to say you're not "serious" if you're not on X?
Based on the bsky vibes of the day (and his thread) he's talking about the latter.
Stand down man.
Nice profile pic btw
People just chilling on bsky living their lives?
Or dudes on X going out of their way to say you're not "serious" if you're not on X?
Based on the bsky vibes of the day (and his thread) he's talking about the latter.
Stand down man.
Nice profile pic btw
Dicking around = playing, wasting time
Banal = unoriginal, boring
I don't think he called anyone _a_ dick.
Also his point - big social platforms are big - is pretty boring.
Don't feel bad.
Banal = unoriginal, boring
I don't think he called anyone _a_ dick.
Also his point - big social platforms are big - is pretty boring.
Don't feel bad.
December 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Dicking around = playing, wasting time
Banal = unoriginal, boring
I don't think he called anyone _a_ dick.
Also his point - big social platforms are big - is pretty boring.
Don't feel bad.
Banal = unoriginal, boring
I don't think he called anyone _a_ dick.
Also his point - big social platforms are big - is pretty boring.
Don't feel bad.