Alexander Williams
@floatinginwaves.bsky.social
Living in God’s own country and now trying this website as well. Same as handle as on Elon’s Twitter. Interested In news and comedy. He/him
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It’s not even politics as vacation, it’s politics as sport. Telling Klein you think it’s morally wrong to want to bring back Jim Crow is like telling David Beckham or LeBron James that it’s wrong to play for a different sports team. They‘re in entertainment playing a game.
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the future is accusations of being premature anti-postliberals
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
the future is accusations of being premature anti-postliberals
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Everyone is dunking on poor Noah Smith for getting lost and frustrated at Heathrow Airport and blaming him, which is victim-blaming and I am quite disappointed in all of you. Put the blame squarely where it belongs: on whoever failed to pin his name and destination to his sweater-vest.
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Everyone is dunking on poor Noah Smith for getting lost and frustrated at Heathrow Airport and blaming him, which is victim-blaming and I am quite disappointed in all of you. Put the blame squarely where it belongs: on whoever failed to pin his name and destination to his sweater-vest.
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If there's one thing you're always seeing in literary history it's husbands giving their wives credit for stuff they wrote
Meanwhile, on twitter, did you know that Mary Shelley never could have written Frankenstein (which is about magnets as you know) because her boyfriend was really into magnets?
In fact, when you think about it, that's why women in general don't write great literature (chicks aren't into magnets).
In fact, when you think about it, that's why women in general don't write great literature (chicks aren't into magnets).
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If there's one thing you're always seeing in literary history it's husbands giving their wives credit for stuff they wrote
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John Fetterman Has Too Much Gender
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
John Fetterman Has Too Much Gender
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it's sort of fascinating where and when exactly these people draw the lines. they're for the european far right parties but fear it at home
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
it's sort of fascinating where and when exactly these people draw the lines. they're for the european far right parties but fear it at home
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No one is obliged to rush to the aid of the BBC, and certainly I think a lot of its defenders should be more sympathetic to why a lot of people won’t spare the energy to do so, but there’s no timeline in which its absence doesn’t result in this country’s information environment getting even worse.
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
No one is obliged to rush to the aid of the BBC, and certainly I think a lot of its defenders should be more sympathetic to why a lot of people won’t spare the energy to do so, but there’s no timeline in which its absence doesn’t result in this country’s information environment getting even worse.
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Oops, all gender!
![Instagram caption from NPR of their interview with John Fetterman
In his new book, "Unfettered," Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized his party for losing the support of working class men, writing that President Trump appealed to them more because "he wasn't afraid to comment on things the left told us we were no longer allowed to have commonsense opinions on."
Fetterman also writes, “if men are forced to choose between picking their party or keeping their balls, most men are going to choose their balls.”
“I think there's been a disconnection,” he told "All Things Considered" host Scott Detrow. “It's just this idea and just being perceived as more anti-man […] And it's just a lot different kinds of energy that comes out from.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5fkaj7zmtrdz6o4az3vvlxbf/bafkreiadfrhld7ftk53pgpl2aaafm74uz2qivzeudf3nkmykvcx643fl7i@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Oops, all gender!
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I’m sorry but this whole Noah Smith Heathrow situation is so fucking funny. Centrist thought leader with PhD from University of Michigan struggles to navigate basic airport transfer, blames it on the relative economic decline of Western Europe
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I’m sorry but this whole Noah Smith Heathrow situation is so fucking funny. Centrist thought leader with PhD from University of Michigan struggles to navigate basic airport transfer, blames it on the relative economic decline of Western Europe
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Does it feel to anyone else like JCI is getting desperate?
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Does it feel to anyone else like JCI is getting desperate?
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Part of Schumer's work is ensuring that he will have 51 or more senators in 2027. Will he refuse to endorse and help candidates whom he doesn't like? This is especially relevant if, say, Abdul El-Sayed wins the Michigan primary.
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Part of Schumer's work is ensuring that he will have 51 or more senators in 2027. Will he refuse to endorse and help candidates whom he doesn't like? This is especially relevant if, say, Abdul El-Sayed wins the Michigan primary.
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Happy retirement Michael D. We’ve been very lucky to have him (and the dogs!) during the last 14 years. As someone who became a citizen during his term of office, he’s the kind of President who reminds you why it’s good to live in a republic.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Happy retirement Michael D. We’ve been very lucky to have him (and the dogs!) during the last 14 years. As someone who became a citizen during his term of office, he’s the kind of President who reminds you why it’s good to live in a republic.
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OK. Here's the thing. You just can't put on a jacket and pretend to be a security patrol in the UK. It's actually illegal. Who the actual F are these "Essex Spartans"? Government has laws and rules and they need to enforce them.
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
OK. Here's the thing. You just can't put on a jacket and pretend to be a security patrol in the UK. It's actually illegal. Who the actual F are these "Essex Spartans"? Government has laws and rules and they need to enforce them.
I don’t want to get into all the BBC issues but I feel like if you can describe trans people as fascist whilst working as a BBC presenter with no issues then by definition trans people do not have power over you.
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I don’t want to get into all the BBC issues but I feel like if you can describe trans people as fascist whilst working as a BBC presenter with no issues then by definition trans people do not have power over you.
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They should just open the movie with Bond doing Bond things and breeze past it. Literally no one needs this to be a connected universe, and no one could force it into being one as it is.
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
They should just open the movie with Bond doing Bond things and breeze past it. Literally no one needs this to be a connected universe, and no one could force it into being one as it is.
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just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
August 12, 2023 at 6:04 PM
just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
I really loathe this man so much
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I really loathe this man so much
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this sh*t is insane
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
this sh*t is insane
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this is not "everyone is twelve" theory. this is the slightly rarer but typically much more consequential "no one knows what lawyers do" theory
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
this is not "everyone is twelve" theory. this is the slightly rarer but typically much more consequential "no one knows what lawyers do" theory
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Men born in New York City can’t cook. All they know is build skyscraper, kill Malcolm X, be bisexual eat hot chips and lie.
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Men born in New York City can’t cook. All they know is build skyscraper, kill Malcolm X, be bisexual eat hot chips and lie.
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"JAMES BOND" IS NOT A CODENAME. HE ALREADY HAS A CODENAME. IT IS 007. RESIST THE URGE TO CANONISE STUFF. CANONISATION IS THE MIND KILLER. CANONISATION IS AMERICAN
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"JAMES BOND" IS NOT A CODENAME. HE ALREADY HAS A CODENAME. IT IS 007. RESIST THE URGE TO CANONISE STUFF. CANONISATION IS THE MIND KILLER. CANONISATION IS AMERICAN
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter