@uhohnotgood.bsky.social
Using just one example among many, the US has the most expensive healthcare compared to comparable nations *by default.* If healthcare costs go up even more - even if it was only slightly - people are not being irrational if they say the economy more broadly 'got worse.'
I think this strengthens the case for Stancilism.
Immediate post pandemic economy was *weird* in a way that made it hard to compare it to similar years.
But we've got low unemployment and low inflation now. Very hard to make the case that now is worse than the Volcker shock.
Immediate post pandemic economy was *weird* in a way that made it hard to compare it to similar years.
But we've got low unemployment and low inflation now. Very hard to make the case that now is worse than the Volcker shock.
UMich consumer sentiment (current conditions) at 50.4 is a new all-time low -- going back to data from the 1970s.
December 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Using just one example among many, the US has the most expensive healthcare compared to comparable nations *by default.* If healthcare costs go up even more - even if it was only slightly - people are not being irrational if they say the economy more broadly 'got worse.'
Guy says this phenomenon is "not political" but then proceeds to list several flashpoint arguments made by people invested in the concept of "traditional" masculinity. The vast majority of showy objections to things like veganism or LGBT games come from straight men, not women or the LGBT community
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Guy says this phenomenon is "not political" but then proceeds to list several flashpoint arguments made by people invested in the concept of "traditional" masculinity. The vast majority of showy objections to things like veganism or LGBT games come from straight men, not women or the LGBT community
This poll only reflects a lack of information on respondents' parts. "Affordability" as an abstract concept absent of ideology is meaningless, considering it can only be achieved or imagined through fundamentally ideological processes. And as always, the framing of the question determines the answer
If @gelliottmorris.com is amenable, I'd accept peace in the Moderation Wars based on: "voters don't care about ideological labels as such they like politicians who are willing to set both sides' interest group agendas aside and focus on economic well-being."
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November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This poll only reflects a lack of information on respondents' parts. "Affordability" as an abstract concept absent of ideology is meaningless, considering it can only be achieved or imagined through fundamentally ideological processes. And as always, the framing of the question determines the answer
The US is the most fundamentally anti-social society in the modern world, and I think for a lot of people, the tensions of living like that all the time come out during small "I don't care about the social code" moments. A society constantly on the precipice of 'this is the last straw' meltdowns
Man you guys gotta be more normal about the one guy on your train not wearing headphones, it's annoying but it's not, like, a decay of society level issue.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The US is the most fundamentally anti-social society in the modern world, and I think for a lot of people, the tensions of living like that all the time come out during small "I don't care about the social code" moments. A society constantly on the precipice of 'this is the last straw' meltdowns
Enjoy your timeline cleanse! *posts unsettling uncanny valley dogs in nonverbal dialogue with AI babies*
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Enjoy your timeline cleanse! *posts unsettling uncanny valley dogs in nonverbal dialogue with AI babies*
Even if you are the squishiest, most compromising, most reformist socialist possible, the democratic party sees you as their ideological enemy. They are not your friends. They do not want change
CNN: Mamdani, are you going to vote for him?
CHUCK SCHUMER: We're continuing to talk.
CNN: The vote is on Tuesday; what are you gonna do?
CHUCK SCHUMER: [walks away]
CHUCK SCHUMER: We're continuing to talk.
CNN: The vote is on Tuesday; what are you gonna do?
CHUCK SCHUMER: [walks away]
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Even if you are the squishiest, most compromising, most reformist socialist possible, the democratic party sees you as their ideological enemy. They are not your friends. They do not want change
I understand the argument, but in trying to close the circle on the "you should want to pay more for games because they cost more" idea, this person uses the modest increase in overall US wages as if there is a binary 'have more/spend more' relationship between wages and leisure spending
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I understand the argument, but in trying to close the circle on the "you should want to pay more for games because they cost more" idea, this person uses the modest increase in overall US wages as if there is a binary 'have more/spend more' relationship between wages and leisure spending
I love to start Monday with a hot, fresh cup of nutritious functional coffee substitute
Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight
Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.
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October 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I love to start Monday with a hot, fresh cup of nutritious functional coffee substitute
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Just saw someone post an AI-generated Jelly Roll/Lady Gaga collab performing soul music. Probably the bleakest thing I've seen today
October 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Just saw someone post an AI-generated Jelly Roll/Lady Gaga collab performing soul music. Probably the bleakest thing I've seen today
A WaPo non-opinion piece casually referring to a gov organization's "sacred duty" in a story that manufactures consent for defunding the VA strikes me as a pretty bad sign for the near future of US journalism
Exclusive: Military veterans are swamping the U.S. government with dubious disability claims that are exploiting the country’s sacred commitment to compensate those harmed in the line of duty, according to a Post investigation.
How some veterans exploit $193 billion VA program, due to lax controls
The Department of Veterans Affairs spends billions on dubious and even fraudulent disabilities benefits. Meanwhile, some deserving cases wait.
wapo.st
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A WaPo non-opinion piece casually referring to a gov organization's "sacred duty" in a story that manufactures consent for defunding the VA strikes me as a pretty bad sign for the near future of US journalism
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They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter
September 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter
This 'bottom of the barrel memes for a Gavin Newsom presidency' thing is top 3 most embarrassing strains of liberal discourse of all time. Unfunny, completely non-sequitorial and off-putting, implicitly throws the most vulnerable people in society under the bus, and repulsively psychosexual
Gavin Newsom responds to a completely fake Vanity Fair cover being spread by MAGA, who think it is real
August 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This 'bottom of the barrel memes for a Gavin Newsom presidency' thing is top 3 most embarrassing strains of liberal discourse of all time. Unfunny, completely non-sequitorial and off-putting, implicitly throws the most vulnerable people in society under the bus, and repulsively psychosexual
If you find this amusing or politically useful in any way you have a fucking sickness. So gross and weird
August 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If you find this amusing or politically useful in any way you have a fucking sickness. So gross and weird
Liberals want to be propagandized to so badly they make and then consume their own weirdly fascistic propaganda. And for Gavin fucking Newsom of all people. Completely deranged
August 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Liberals want to be propagandized to so badly they make and then consume their own weirdly fascistic propaganda. And for Gavin fucking Newsom of all people. Completely deranged
LLMs are so poised to scam their users by the nature of their design that they do so even without outside direction. This guy almost definitely had dementia and it tricked him into visiting a fake address to the financial benefit of literally no one. Scams are their only utility
A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with a Meta chatbot originally created in partnership with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. His fatal attraction shines a light on Meta's guidelines for its AI chatbots reut.rs/45DQIRj
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
LLMs are so poised to scam their users by the nature of their design that they do so even without outside direction. This guy almost definitely had dementia and it tricked him into visiting a fake address to the financial benefit of literally no one. Scams are their only utility
Struck by the glib framing of this story. Humanities were mass defunded in order to funnel students into a more economically productive industry that's now untenable. That's a bad outcome not only for these kids but for society at large, and here NYT is with this 'haha get fucked' framing
As tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land jobs. “The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary.”
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Struck by the glib framing of this story. Humanities were mass defunded in order to funnel students into a more economically productive industry that's now untenable. That's a bad outcome not only for these kids but for society at large, and here NYT is with this 'haha get fucked' framing
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One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts
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July 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts
This fake quote has been around long enough to go from racist dog whistle to lib rhetoric about the orange man, horseshoe theory confirmed
July 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This fake quote has been around long enough to go from racist dog whistle to lib rhetoric about the orange man, horseshoe theory confirmed
Something incredibly grim I guess I have to get used to for the foreseeable future is seeing people create grotesque A.I. puppets of the recently deceased as 'tribute.' Cannot fathom what people are getting out of this stuff.
July 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Something incredibly grim I guess I have to get used to for the foreseeable future is seeing people create grotesque A.I. puppets of the recently deceased as 'tribute.' Cannot fathom what people are getting out of this stuff.
If you put the NYT's most reactionary coverage of the last year in context with their history of repeating state department talking points re: the US' various wars or police talking points re: crime/protest, the paper's mission is more complex than 'they regurgitate moderate Dem ideology.'
it’s easy to just say “they’re conservatives” and be done with it, but my best read is that Sulzberger et al are in fact moderate Democrats who believe that the left is responsible for the rise of Trump, and they believe that beating the left back and defeating Trump are a singular project
July 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you put the NYT's most reactionary coverage of the last year in context with their history of repeating state department talking points re: the US' various wars or police talking points re: crime/protest, the paper's mission is more complex than 'they regurgitate moderate Dem ideology.'
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It's so crazy how the comics, animation, and video games industries are wildly popular billion dollar profit type shit and yet there is no money and no jobs for the people who make that possible
Being a creative right now feels like being attacked with steel rakes every time you open your phone
July 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It's so crazy how the comics, animation, and video games industries are wildly popular billion dollar profit type shit and yet there is no money and no jobs for the people who make that possible
Fascinating thread. Posters complaining about people who don't believe in
harm reduction voting while being side by side with pro-war, pro-genocide Zionists and explicit Islamophobic hate speech. Very interesting definition of harm reduction! I think the call might be coming from inside the house!
harm reduction voting while being side by side with pro-war, pro-genocide Zionists and explicit Islamophobic hate speech. Very interesting definition of harm reduction! I think the call might be coming from inside the house!
June 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Fascinating thread. Posters complaining about people who don't believe in
harm reduction voting while being side by side with pro-war, pro-genocide Zionists and explicit Islamophobic hate speech. Very interesting definition of harm reduction! I think the call might be coming from inside the house!
harm reduction voting while being side by side with pro-war, pro-genocide Zionists and explicit Islamophobic hate speech. Very interesting definition of harm reduction! I think the call might be coming from inside the house!
As far as I can tell, blue sky is a website predicated entirely around sharing this victim blame-y meme that both-sides a genocide. Seen it like a hundred times over the past three months! Get new material!
June 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
As far as I can tell, blue sky is a website predicated entirely around sharing this victim blame-y meme that both-sides a genocide. Seen it like a hundred times over the past three months! Get new material!