Noah Brand
@noahbrand.bsky.social
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Noah Brand
@noahbrand.bsky.social
· Nov 12
This was an interview with me, posted by Sergio Olmos in late July 2020. It got retweeted by Rachel Maddow, which was validating.
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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
As a househusband, I've gotten "But don't you miss working?" a couple times.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.
But thank you for asking.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.
But thank you for asking.
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
As a househusband, I've gotten "But don't you miss working?" a couple times.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.
But thank you for asking.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.
But thank you for asking.
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I think it's important to recognize they did this exactly to provoke deaths like this. That's why they deployed people here, so they can use it as a justification for escalation. The deaths of these guardsmen were the *goal* of these operations, and they will certainly try to use them.
precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I think it's important to recognize they did this exactly to provoke deaths like this. That's why they deployed people here, so they can use it as a justification for escalation. The deaths of these guardsmen were the *goal* of these operations, and they will certainly try to use them.
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Here's a🧵about the San Francisco Egg Wars of the 1800s. It has bloody gunfights, marauding pirates, a bunch of (literally) batshit deaths & some nasty looking eggs...
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Here's a🧵about the San Francisco Egg Wars of the 1800s. It has bloody gunfights, marauding pirates, a bunch of (literally) batshit deaths & some nasty looking eggs...
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just stopping in here to note how many of my trans masc friends and I have had conversations about how much lonelier the world feels once everyone starts assuming you're a man at first glance, and how much worse it would be without our very genderfucky social circles as a break from it.
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
just stopping in here to note how many of my trans masc friends and I have had conversations about how much lonelier the world feels once everyone starts assuming you're a man at first glance, and how much worse it would be without our very genderfucky social circles as a break from it.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
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Books With Pictures is wonderful, and needs some help.
Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde
Dear friends: I need your help.
I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Books With Pictures is wonderful, and needs some help.
"Show me on this blueprint where there's a single flaw in my airplane design!"
"Well, it didn't fly, and when we started the engine it caught fire and exploded."
"So you admit you can't find a flaw in the design!"
[points at burning wreckage on runway]
"YOU'RE NOT POINTING AT THE BLUEPRINT!"
"Well, it didn't fly, and when we started the engine it caught fire and exploded."
"So you admit you can't find a flaw in the design!"
[points at burning wreckage on runway]
"YOU'RE NOT POINTING AT THE BLUEPRINT!"
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Show me on this blueprint where there's a single flaw in my airplane design!"
"Well, it didn't fly, and when we started the engine it caught fire and exploded."
"So you admit you can't find a flaw in the design!"
[points at burning wreckage on runway]
"YOU'RE NOT POINTING AT THE BLUEPRINT!"
"Well, it didn't fly, and when we started the engine it caught fire and exploded."
"So you admit you can't find a flaw in the design!"
[points at burning wreckage on runway]
"YOU'RE NOT POINTING AT THE BLUEPRINT!"
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
This article is so-so, but it's got one bit, screencapped below, that I think is the purest expression I've yet seen of Trump's appeal to his voters.
They love him solely because we hate him, because he has failed the same moral tests they have.
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
They love him solely because we hate him, because he has failed the same moral tests they have.
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This article is so-so, but it's got one bit, screencapped below, that I think is the purest expression I've yet seen of Trump's appeal to his voters.
They love him solely because we hate him, because he has failed the same moral tests they have.
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
They love him solely because we hate him, because he has failed the same moral tests they have.
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
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Go fund me: Feature remake of Twelve Angry Men, but it is the D.C. Sandwich Toss jury and instead of jurors at each other's throats they have the most unbridled fun that any 12 American adults locked in a room can have short of group sex.
$2M gets it to a streamer. $4M with above-the-line actors.
$2M gets it to a streamer. $4M with above-the-line actors.
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Go fund me: Feature remake of Twelve Angry Men, but it is the D.C. Sandwich Toss jury and instead of jurors at each other's throats they have the most unbridled fun that any 12 American adults locked in a room can have short of group sex.
$2M gets it to a streamer. $4M with above-the-line actors.
$2M gets it to a streamer. $4M with above-the-line actors.
2 cups lentils, 8 cups water. Couple tablespoons of salt. That's your base.
What I usually do is take a pound of ground chorizo, brown that in a pan with a chopped onion, then it goes into the pot along with some frozen spinach. The chorizo does most of the seasoning for you. Cheap and nutritious.
What I usually do is take a pound of ground chorizo, brown that in a pan with a chopped onion, then it goes into the pot along with some frozen spinach. The chorizo does most of the seasoning for you. Cheap and nutritious.
IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING
do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
2 cups lentils, 8 cups water. Couple tablespoons of salt. That's your base.
What I usually do is take a pound of ground chorizo, brown that in a pan with a chopped onion, then it goes into the pot along with some frozen spinach. The chorizo does most of the seasoning for you. Cheap and nutritious.
What I usually do is take a pound of ground chorizo, brown that in a pan with a chopped onion, then it goes into the pot along with some frozen spinach. The chorizo does most of the seasoning for you. Cheap and nutritious.
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
This whole thread is a Halloween delight.
Currently luxuriating in photographer Larry Racioppo's pictures of Halloween in Brooklyn in the 1970s, which are absolutely lovely and giving me a total flashback to my childhood (thread) #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This whole thread is a Halloween delight.
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I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
October 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
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I've been thinking about Matt Furie a lot during this period of political frog realignment, so I made this comic dedicated to him.
October 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I've been thinking about Matt Furie a lot during this period of political frog realignment, so I made this comic dedicated to him.
An interesting and informative thread on how women formed part of the basis of Western fandom, which immediately preceded science fiction fandom.
The accepted wisdom is that Hugo Gernsback invented sf fandom in the Science Fiction League & in the pages of AMAZING STORIES, and that (per Wikipedia) “a wide variety of Western modern organized fannish subcultures originated with science fiction fandom.”
LIES! ALL LIES!
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LIES! ALL LIES!
1/
October 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
An interesting and informative thread on how women formed part of the basis of Western fandom, which immediately preceded science fiction fandom.
Thread. The divide in America isn't by state, it's urban vs. rural; the way our government is shaped creates the illusion of state differences.
a tweet i saw that really opened my third eye said basically that there's no such thing as red states and blue states, there's just states where the big city/ies that everyone else hates are a big enough portion of the population to dominate politics and states where they aren't
I mean, this is the whole problem, isn't it? A party rooted in the liberal, cosmopolitan parts of the country can't win outside of them, but you also can't not have a party rooted in those regions because that's a huge and influential part of the country.
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Thread. The divide in America isn't by state, it's urban vs. rural; the way our government is shaped creates the illusion of state differences.
I am also (probably) alive because of the ACA, and I defend it on that basis.
"Obamacare was a sellout half-measure that doesn't do anything meaningful!"
"Okay, but I consider my existence meaningful."
"Obamacare was a sellout half-measure that doesn't do anything meaningful!"
"Okay, but I consider my existence meaningful."
this dickhead didn’t post this to bsky, but fuck you @talsmith.bsky.social . this legislation saved my life. condescending piece of shit.
October 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I am also (probably) alive because of the ACA, and I defend it on that basis.
"Obamacare was a sellout half-measure that doesn't do anything meaningful!"
"Okay, but I consider my existence meaningful."
"Obamacare was a sellout half-measure that doesn't do anything meaningful!"
"Okay, but I consider my existence meaningful."
As a Portland protestor of many years' experience, I endorse this message.
I think people legitimately don’t understand how much Portland A: hates being told what to do and B: loves any excuse to get fucking weird about it
October 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
As a Portland protestor of many years' experience, I endorse this message.
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
October 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
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To repeat it: the reason why Young Republicans are talking about loving Hitler and FedSoc judges are destroying the jurisprudence is because *they've never in their lives seen someone suffer for promoting those polices*. Not Newt, not Rush Limbaugh, not Scalia or Thomas, no one!
i mean it that we won't see a meaningful change in the GOP until folks like this spend the rest of their days in misery, and their kids reject them when they've reached the age. anything less and they'll think their gambits worth it!
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
To repeat it: the reason why Young Republicans are talking about loving Hitler and FedSoc judges are destroying the jurisprudence is because *they've never in their lives seen someone suffer for promoting those polices*. Not Newt, not Rush Limbaugh, not Scalia or Thomas, no one!