Joel
@exadyto.bsky.social
Midwestern Californian. Humanities guy. 🏳️🌈
“In that way, the name acquired a quasi-official status. But not for long.”
“In that way, the name acquired a quasi-official status. But not for long.”
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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This is so incorrect I feel like I'm listening to Trump speak about the economy
Guys, I promise there are lots of place in America where it's perfectly legal to build dwellings that aren't single-family homes. This is a weird urbanist myth. Lots of non-SFH housing gets built! That's good, we should build more, but it hasn't exactly ended demand for detached suburban units.
Will do you have any data to support this argument? You keep saying “people want to live in X” when X is the only type of home that’s *legal to build*
Of course most people will opt in to the type of home that is the only option!
Of course most people will opt in to the type of home that is the only option!
November 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is so incorrect I feel like I'm listening to Trump speak about the economy
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Nobody told me Garak was in Hellraiser?!? I would have watched this movie wayyyy sooner!
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Nobody told me Garak was in Hellraiser?!? I would have watched this movie wayyyy sooner!
My brain thought, “Oh people think that human drivers currently face appropriate consequences”
I feel like the unsaid part here is that everyone upset by this story is implicitly thinking that vehicular manslaughter by autonomous vehicles will go as unpunished as the ones caused by people. But that's not AV makers' fault!
these comments, in context outside of a fucking popcrave snippet, to me, do not seem at all unreasonable, and seem more responsible than most tech CEO comments i've read in recent years on most topics, though every headline on this is deliberately inflammatory.
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
My brain thought, “Oh people think that human drivers currently face appropriate consequences”
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So much of this is a catastrophic that he is rapidly approaching Hoover type numbers and there is so far 0 indication they know what to do after him
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
So much of this is a catastrophic that he is rapidly approaching Hoover type numbers and there is so far 0 indication they know what to do after him
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we are returning to the state in which the framers intended for the legislature, in which the lower chamber and the upper chamber absolutely despise one another
The House has voted unanimously to repeal the provisions in the shutdown package which allow GOP Senators to sue the federal government and get as much as $1 million in damages - because the feds looked at their phone records in the Jan. 6 investigation.
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we are returning to the state in which the framers intended for the legislature, in which the lower chamber and the upper chamber absolutely despise one another
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Nearly 40,000 people died in 2024 from human-controlled cars.
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Nearly 40,000 people died in 2024 from human-controlled cars.
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This website is so stupid and unhinged. "We plan for the inevitability of our cars eventually crashing, rather than just assume all will be fine." Like yeah duh I would be a lot more concerned if they weren't planning for that.
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This website is so stupid and unhinged. "We plan for the inevitability of our cars eventually crashing, rather than just assume all will be fine." Like yeah duh I would be a lot more concerned if they weren't planning for that.
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a bunch of people who i feel should be smarter than this are responding with guillotine emojis and junk like that
if you work in the transportation industry, death is simply inevitable and you have to have a plan
if you work in the transportation industry, death is simply inevitable and you have to have a plan
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
a bunch of people who i feel should be smarter than this are responding with guillotine emojis and junk like that
if you work in the transportation industry, death is simply inevitable and you have to have a plan
if you work in the transportation industry, death is simply inevitable and you have to have a plan
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if you do not think that your multiple ton hunk of metal which you are flinging down the highway at sixty miles per hour will eventually kill someone you are not qualified to work on any such thing
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
if you do not think that your multiple ton hunk of metal which you are flinging down the highway at sixty miles per hour will eventually kill someone you are not qualified to work on any such thing
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Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
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oh so grok is *fucked* fucked
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
oh so grok is *fucked* fucked
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Greg Abbot called CAIR, the largest Muslim civil rights organization, a “terrorist organization” and said Muslims are a “threat to our freedom.”
The normalization of anti-Muslim hate speech is vile.
This bigot should have no place in elected office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
The normalization of anti-Muslim hate speech is vile.
This bigot should have no place in elected office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Texas Governor Declares Muslim Civil Rights Group a ‘Terrorist Organization’
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Greg Abbot called CAIR, the largest Muslim civil rights organization, a “terrorist organization” and said Muslims are a “threat to our freedom.”
The normalization of anti-Muslim hate speech is vile.
This bigot should have no place in elected office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
The normalization of anti-Muslim hate speech is vile.
This bigot should have no place in elected office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
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sometimes I think will just has a fetish for getting into arguments with people
What, precisely, is the crisis? When will it be resolved? People have been talking about housing crises since the 80s. I agree that there’s a long-run upward drift in housing costs; I agree some high-cost metros have real issues. But what are we seeing right now that’s a nationwide crisis?
Stancil being a housing crisis denier is the darnedest thing
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
sometimes I think will just has a fetish for getting into arguments with people
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lmao
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
lmao
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No no no this can’t be right I was told that under Trump cancel culture had been eliminated.
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
No no no this can’t be right I was told that under Trump cancel culture had been eliminated.
I think people have confused “respectability politics” with the most basic principles of any kind of politics at all
every time i hear a criticism of her i go and check her voting record and it’s like, a progressive dem
progressive caucus
votes w aoc on stuff like israel
like this is getting angry at a progressive dem, which within our system is already approaching the boundaries of what’s Possible
progressive caucus
votes w aoc on stuff like israel
like this is getting angry at a progressive dem, which within our system is already approaching the boundaries of what’s Possible
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I think people have confused “respectability politics” with the most basic principles of any kind of politics at all
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Keith, as your crisis PR consultant I advise you to keep. posting. that. shit.
Btw about this from Lizza's reply: Olivia and I lived together for 4+ years (4 b'days, 4 Xmases, 4 anniversaries). That's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration. And her apartment was a writing studio. And I made an f-ton then. What was I supposed to do? Get her a lot of Gift Certificates from Kmart?
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Keith, as your crisis PR consultant I advise you to keep. posting. that. shit.
I love searching “Chair Company Beau is Afraid” and feeling a little less alone
People who love The Chair Company really need to revisit Beau is Afraid while in that headspace.
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I love searching “Chair Company Beau is Afraid” and feeling a little less alone
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really need anyone spitballing they've scrubbed the files or whatever to explain *this* happening just days ago
you do not haul Lauren Boebert into the Situation Room if things are going *well*
there's too much flopsweat and trying to arm wrestle the holdouts for me to believe this was a plan bsky.app/profile/thew...
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
really need anyone spitballing they've scrubbed the files or whatever to explain *this* happening just days ago
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popularists realize that "we will run corruption out of town on a rail" is always a popular message challenge
I don't actually care that much about running to the left. but I need someone who will look me in the eye and say "we will kill the bastards" and none of the centrists have convinced me they'll do that
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
popularists realize that "we will run corruption out of town on a rail" is always a popular message challenge
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“I don’t care what happens now. We had some good times, didn’t we? Big, Beautiful times. I did it my way! Good night and Good Luck! See you in Valhalla!”
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“I don’t care what happens now. We had some good times, didn’t we? Big, Beautiful times. I did it my way! Good night and Good Luck! See you in Valhalla!”