Alex Ithymia
@spitehouseyimby.bsky.social
I want more spite houses because I think they're funny
📍 Daly City, CA
📍 Daly City, CA
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We're genuinely not yet ready to talk about Obama's direct culpability in voters' disillusionment with the Democratic party
Well, a lot of us are, but a significant portion of Dems are not, and that's gonna have to change if they expect to retain any of their incoming gains
Well, a lot of us are, but a significant portion of Dems are not, and that's gonna have to change if they expect to retain any of their incoming gains
The Obama response to the financial crisis was “what if we give tech companies infinite money” and they gave us Quibi, the fed didn’t even seize any houses when it owned a few million of them, massive bag fumble
December 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
We're genuinely not yet ready to talk about Obama's direct culpability in voters' disillusionment with the Democratic party
Well, a lot of us are, but a significant portion of Dems are not, and that's gonna have to change if they expect to retain any of their incoming gains
Well, a lot of us are, but a significant portion of Dems are not, and that's gonna have to change if they expect to retain any of their incoming gains
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its important to love and honor our savior George Micheal, who wants us to be happy and have sex in public
December 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
its important to love and honor our savior George Micheal, who wants us to be happy and have sex in public
Fuelgrannie
December 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Fuelgrannie
A lot of people in the replies are mistaking their naïveté for virtue. The reality is that after covid we now have a low-trust, post-shame "society". Do you really think every dog in Target or whatever is actually a "service dog"? Get real.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A lot of people in the replies are mistaking their naïveté for virtue. The reality is that after covid we now have a low-trust, post-shame "society". Do you really think every dog in Target or whatever is actually a "service dog"? Get real.
I've had just about enough of "golikehellmachine"
December 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I've had just about enough of "golikehellmachine"
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This is a good example of how well-off senior staff at progressive nonprofits will reflexively advocate for their own class interests as suburban car owners but launder that position by sock puppeting low-income Black and brown people.
The California ACLU is staunchly opposed to the ignition interlock device program and is a big reason that it has not been expanded. Despite the fact that California heavily subsidizes the cost for low-income drunk drivers, the ACLU says that the program is a form of "racialized wealth extraction."
December 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is a good example of how well-off senior staff at progressive nonprofits will reflexively advocate for their own class interests as suburban car owners but launder that position by sock puppeting low-income Black and brown people.
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A heelturn I could have done without tbh
Activist and former quarterback Colin Kaepernick visited Largo High School to launch an AI tool designed to help students create their own graphic novels.
Colin Kaepernick launches AI storytelling tool at Prince George's County high school
Former quarterback and activist Colin Kaepernick visited Largo High School to launch an AI tool designed to help students create their own graphic novels. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.
www.nbcwashington.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
A heelturn I could have done without tbh
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Switched my location to the US to read something and now I'm getting Instagram adverts for bulletproof classroom doors. Beyond parody.
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Switched my location to the US to read something and now I'm getting Instagram adverts for bulletproof classroom doors. Beyond parody.
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This is a city on Robo-Taxis. (Don't let it happen to yours.)
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is a city on Robo-Taxis. (Don't let it happen to yours.)
Me when someone's explaining the rules of a tabletop board game
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Me when someone's explaining the rules of a tabletop board game
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I should really write about this in more length but I have been increasingly bummed out by people's reactions to robotaxis, like "well, at least they're safer than human drivers". Even if that were true (it's, at best, complicated) it's such an impoverished view of what is possible. (cont'd) /
incidentally, this is precisely what everybody said would happen with robotaxis, huge numbers of empty vehicles clogging up streets.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I should really write about this in more length but I have been increasingly bummed out by people's reactions to robotaxis, like "well, at least they're safer than human drivers". Even if that were true (it's, at best, complicated) it's such an impoverished view of what is possible. (cont'd) /
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That's wild. And completely unconnected to the fact that if you so much as suggest that speeding is dangerous you get one thousand American Replies containing the phrase "flow of traffic"
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
That's wild. And completely unconnected to the fact that if you so much as suggest that speeding is dangerous you get one thousand American Replies containing the phrase "flow of traffic"
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People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
People are really upset about the end of the Penny huh
I just kind of think all these people should, after a fair trial in which they are zealously represented before a jury of their peers, be eaten
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
People are really upset about the end of the Penny huh
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They all deserve our rage, but when it’s the side thats supposed to be fighting for you that doesn’t? That’s why we still know Benedict Arnold’s name but hardly any of Washington’s other generals.
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
They all deserve our rage, but when it’s the side thats supposed to be fighting for you that doesn’t? That’s why we still know Benedict Arnold’s name but hardly any of Washington’s other generals.
Pretty soon I'm gonna have to start blocking people who spout that "Murc's Law" nonsense
sometimes i feel like the republican party is a big tornado that is coming to kill me. and the democratic party is the rickety shed that i'm hiding in. and i say "we should really fix this shed, because it's not doing much." and people say "what? why aren't you criticizing the tornado instead?!"
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Pretty soon I'm gonna have to start blocking people who spout that "Murc's Law" nonsense
Last Jewish Republican in congress iirc
thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Last Jewish Republican in congress iirc
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It’s fun that every type of idiot converges on this opinion about housing policy.
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It’s fun that every type of idiot converges on this opinion about housing policy.
(after unfollowing someone on Bluesky) It's a small town. I'll probably see ya 'round.
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
(after unfollowing someone on Bluesky) It's a small town. I'll probably see ya 'round.
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Spare a thought for centrist dem consultants this morning.
They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.
They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Spare a thought for centrist dem consultants this morning.
They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.
They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.
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I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them
You're a white man using a black dude as his pfp, have some shame man
November 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
You're a white man using a black dude as his pfp, have some shame man
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Happy 15th anniversary of everything that was wrong with Obama-era liberalism
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Happy 15th anniversary of everything that was wrong with Obama-era liberalism
How did I not have Matt Yglesias blocked?
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
How did I not have Matt Yglesias blocked?