Quinn Norton
@quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu
Journalist and essayist. USian in the EU. Migrated before it was cool.
One of the very early terminally online. Long time internet punching bag.
Background image from Occupy Oakland.
In dark times one must carry a candle.
One of the very early terminally online. Long time internet punching bag.
Background image from Occupy Oakland.
In dark times one must carry a candle.
I so want to be out there working the problem as best I can right now, but I'm so frickin' sick. It's driving me nuts.
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I so want to be out there working the problem as best I can right now, but I'm so frickin' sick. It's driving me nuts.
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Absolutely. Trotting out Megyn Kelly to say "it's not child rape if the victim is a young-looking 15-year-old" is just step one of the upcoming rehabilitation of serial sexual predator Donald Trump.
Get ready for an avalanche of grotesque justifications & victim-blaming. It's coming.
Get ready for an avalanche of grotesque justifications & victim-blaming. It's coming.
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Absolutely. Trotting out Megyn Kelly to say "it's not child rape if the victim is a young-looking 15-year-old" is just step one of the upcoming rehabilitation of serial sexual predator Donald Trump.
Get ready for an avalanche of grotesque justifications & victim-blaming. It's coming.
Get ready for an avalanche of grotesque justifications & victim-blaming. It's coming.
The two genders of French museum: FRENCH IS THE BESTEST BEST LOOK AT ALL OUR SHINY SHIT and Oops we may have done a bit of colonialism and slavery whoopsie but it's fine now right? 😬
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The two genders of French museum: FRENCH IS THE BESTEST BEST LOOK AT ALL OUR SHINY SHIT and Oops we may have done a bit of colonialism and slavery whoopsie but it's fine now right? 😬
I need you people to get ready to accept the fact that even with confirmation of sex crimes with Epstein, Trump will not lose MAGA.
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I need you people to get ready to accept the fact that even with confirmation of sex crimes with Epstein, Trump will not lose MAGA.
I just have to point out that you can't get insurance if you have anything wrong with you, cancer, sure, but even acid reflux.
We seriously have Republicans talking about going back to the “good old days” of high-risk pools, which just meant that people with preexisting conditions like cancer couldn’t get health insurance.
Tom Emmer: "You're gonna have to create high risk pools again. Just go back where Minnesota was before the ACA."
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I just have to point out that you can't get insurance if you have anything wrong with you, cancer, sure, but even acid reflux.
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shocked.
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
shocked.
My partner is kinda thinking some climate change, maybe enough to drown Florida, that might be ok. (Asshole French gonna French 😂)
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My partner is kinda thinking some climate change, maybe enough to drown Florida, that might be ok. (Asshole French gonna French 😂)
I would have told you last week that the least cool social media network is Mastodon, but after suspending Sarah Kendzior for using a Johnny Cash lyric, this is officially the land of uptight Karens.
I'm thinking of posting some Johnny Cash lyrics, can anyone point me to how I export my data first, just in case?
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I would have told you last week that the least cool social media network is Mastodon, but after suspending Sarah Kendzior for using a Johnny Cash lyric, this is officially the land of uptight Karens.
I'm thinking of posting some Johnny Cash lyrics, can anyone point me to how I export my data first, just in case?
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I'm thinking of posting some Johnny Cash lyrics, can anyone point me to how I export my data first, just in case?
What the hell is this nonsense about suspending Sarah Kendzior?
Is this some clever way of trying to get us to federate? Ban really good people, maybe people will run their own bsky server?
Is this some clever way of trying to get us to federate? Ban really good people, maybe people will run their own bsky server?
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
What the hell is this nonsense about suspending Sarah Kendzior?
Is this some clever way of trying to get us to federate? Ban really good people, maybe people will run their own bsky server?
Is this some clever way of trying to get us to federate? Ban really good people, maybe people will run their own bsky server?
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In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
I'm coming around to the idea that the faster Democrats are wiped out and put in the dustbin of history, the faster a real opposition to Trump and fascism can be built.
Reporter: If they block ACA subsidies, will you vote against government funding in January?
Shaheen: That’s certainly an option
Shaheen: That’s certainly an option
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I'm coming around to the idea that the faster Democrats are wiped out and put in the dustbin of history, the faster a real opposition to Trump and fascism can be built.
So healthcare is going to partially collapse and return to the bad ol days of people dying in the streets because they can't access care. Well, no. The dying of preventable causes in the street never went away. Just some more middle class people got access to doctors.
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
So healthcare is going to partially collapse and return to the bad ol days of people dying in the streets because they can't access care. Well, no. The dying of preventable causes in the street never went away. Just some more middle class people got access to doctors.
Well... With the exception of a large fracking outfit. They probably know when they're going to start working. 😂
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Well... With the exception of a large fracking outfit. They probably know when they're going to start working. 😂
My partner and I put something on to fall asleep to. We did not manage to fall sleep. Today was rough. 🫠
Anyway, fantastic work from the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Anyway, fantastic work from the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Missing Kayaker
What happened to Ryan Borgwardt?
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
My partner and I put something on to fall asleep to. We did not manage to fall sleep. Today was rough. 🫠
Anyway, fantastic work from the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Anyway, fantastic work from the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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![Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic7wdqg4w6qfevbqzzq4esd6237pojsnpwsrbb7gaxsxobqaiwazm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This shit is why everyone hates the Democrats.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This shit is why everyone hates the Democrats.
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Trump’s funding cuts to international efforts to end the global threats of malaria, TB and HIV, will result in millions of preventable deaths.
Each death is someone’s son or daughter, husband, wife, parent or friend.
Each death is someone’s son or daughter, husband, wife, parent or friend.
When Trump’s aid cuts robbed them of HIV drugs, these people died
Special Report: Three people have died at just one community centre on the outskirts of Senegal’s capital, Dakar, following US aid cuts to HIV care. Rachel Schraer meets the women fighting to stop mor...
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Trump’s funding cuts to international efforts to end the global threats of malaria, TB and HIV, will result in millions of preventable deaths.
Each death is someone’s son or daughter, husband, wife, parent or friend.
Each death is someone’s son or daughter, husband, wife, parent or friend.
Too real.
Dealer: alright everyone ante up
Chuck Schumer: I fold
Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet
Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏
Chuck Schumer: I fold
Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet
Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Too real.
Every pol is gangster until the holidays get cancelled.
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Every pol is gangster until the holidays get cancelled.
Are we *absolutely sure* Starmer isn't secretly working for Farage?
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Are we *absolutely sure* Starmer isn't secretly working for Farage?
I literally thought this was some new Trump hell until I got to "Leicester"
What the hell are you doing, Britain?
We used to be friends.
What the hell are you doing, Britain?
We used to be friends.
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I literally thought this was some new Trump hell until I got to "Leicester"
What the hell are you doing, Britain?
We used to be friends.
What the hell are you doing, Britain?
We used to be friends.
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Perhaps try reading this, written by Sharon Begley in 2021 before she died, as a counter to all the "Oh, Watson wasn't really sexist or racist. His denigration of Franklin was a bit to show that biology was fun, and hey, he went to Africa!" hagiographies.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Perhaps try reading this, written by Sharon Begley in 2021 before she died, as a counter to all the "Oh, Watson wasn't really sexist or racist. His denigration of Franklin was a bit to show that biology was fun, and hey, he went to Africa!" hagiographies.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
Gavin Newsom seems to be determined to find out if you can shit post your way into the presidency.
*This is distinct from what Trump did, which is merely posting shit until he became president.
*This is distinct from what Trump did, which is merely posting shit until he became president.
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Gavin Newsom seems to be determined to find out if you can shit post your way into the presidency.
*This is distinct from what Trump did, which is merely posting shit until he became president.
*This is distinct from what Trump did, which is merely posting shit until he became president.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!