Gareth Watkins
@garethwatkins.bsky.social
Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New Statesman, Tribune, Vulture, MEL, New Socialist. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
NYT editors be like:
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
NYT editors be like:
seeing a lot of lols on the tl right now, but I think we need to go harder: I'm bringing back the ROFLcopter
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
seeing a lot of lols on the tl right now, but I think we need to go harder: I'm bringing back the ROFLcopter
Patton Oswalt was banned because people pointed out that this was equal to, if not worse, than what Sarah Kendzior said, but also because Bluesky's mods are the most useless people alive.
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Patton Oswalt was banned because people pointed out that this was equal to, if not worse, than what Sarah Kendzior said, but also because Bluesky's mods are the most useless people alive.
Interesting questions we could get in Pluribus: What sacrifices are acceptable when building a better world? Are there ways of existing beyond individualism? How do we know that resistance to building a better world is principled or misanthropic?
What we will inevitably get:
What we will inevitably get:
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Interesting questions we could get in Pluribus: What sacrifices are acceptable when building a better world? Are there ways of existing beyond individualism? How do we know that resistance to building a better world is principled or misanthropic?
What we will inevitably get:
What we will inevitably get:
Me enjoying Pluribus before the inevitable 'better things aren't possible' message.
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Me enjoying Pluribus before the inevitable 'better things aren't possible' message.
And me for some reason.
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
And me for some reason.
What the hell was happening in the full thread?
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
What the hell was happening in the full thread?
If you are a) conversant in stablecoins and VPNs and b) convinced that Starmer will be out by the New Year then you could make a bit of money on Polymarket because this prediction market is being driven by dumb Americans.
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
If you are a) conversant in stablecoins and VPNs and b) convinced that Starmer will be out by the New Year then you could make a bit of money on Polymarket because this prediction market is being driven by dumb Americans.
This may be something that I write an essay about - Musk is talking about post-scarcity, post-carceral futures, his peer Alexander Karp is talking about a future in which nobody works. If you only knew this about them you'd think they were utopian socialists, but they're as far from that as possible
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This may be something that I write an essay about - Musk is talking about post-scarcity, post-carceral futures, his peer Alexander Karp is talking about a future in which nobody works. If you only knew this about them you'd think they were utopian socialists, but they're as far from that as possible
You are sentenced to be followed around by V.I.NCENT from Disney's The Black Hole (1979).
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You are sentenced to be followed around by V.I.NCENT from Disney's The Black Hole (1979).
I computed how good ROSALIA's Berghain is and these are the results.
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I computed how good ROSALIA's Berghain is and these are the results.
He just stole this idea from Iain M. Banks' Culture books without acknowledging what Banks tells us time and time again is the reason that the Culture is able to function as a post-scarcity society: Communism.
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
He just stole this idea from Iain M. Banks' Culture books without acknowledging what Banks tells us time and time again is the reason that the Culture is able to function as a post-scarcity society: Communism.
And it has that slow, right? Is this it?
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
And it has that slow, right? Is this it?
Uh, I think this is good?
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Uh, I think this is good?
One of its key features is 'no'.
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
One of its key features is 'no'.
From the secret evil pedo chat:
leEpicMemelord420: there saying that i don't come off as human 😥
Eggman1488: i got you fren
leEpicMemelord420: thank you fren ❤️
leEpicMemelord420: there saying that i don't come off as human 😥
Eggman1488: i got you fren
leEpicMemelord420: thank you fren ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
From the secret evil pedo chat:
leEpicMemelord420: there saying that i don't come off as human 😥
Eggman1488: i got you fren
leEpicMemelord420: thank you fren ❤️
leEpicMemelord420: there saying that i don't come off as human 😥
Eggman1488: i got you fren
leEpicMemelord420: thank you fren ❤️
