Austin

good piece, and interesting because (if I'm understanding it correctly) it reflects that both sides of the vibescession argument are half-right. consumer sentiment *is* tracking a material phenomenon, but it's also somewhat irrational because it's detached from real wages

Clippy did this himself lots of times

This guy clearly knows that a funicular is a PAIR of cable inclined elevators and is just posting this as rage bait

Every Will Stancil complaint is like “I just can’t stand how he treats people who substitute three DoorDash screenshots for the BLS CPI like they’re stupid”

I wonder if she says anything relevant immediately after the quote in the caption. One can only wonder

Did Mark Cuban’s kid disown him after transitioning to being FDIC insured or something?

blue sky is supreme because every time you post you get 100 school principals in the replies asking to see you in their office

Anti-brutalism is for empty people who believe a building should give them a soul

“I want Boeing and my scheming second-in-command to collaborate on a rush-job airplane” he’s clearly playing chess in dimensions the human mind cannot comprehend

I have wondered if the New York Times has been acting as handmaidens of fascism because the paper's leaders find it appealing, but now I'm wondering how many people with prominent positions there are just genuinely stupid.

Trump appointees and allies of Elon Musk wanted to use the Treasury Department’s sensitive payment system to block USAID payments, emails show.

if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.

The writing is on the wall; this will be used to cash out the crypto industry www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

You all are talking a big game about resisting the Gulf of Mexico renaming for people who gladly complied when they invented The Southern Ocean two decades ago

The TikTok ban sets an obviously troubling precedence, but then I’ll come across a post like “Without TikTok, how are people ever supposed to learn how to file their taxes” and I suddenly feel less inclined to be concerned

I know Chumbawumba are hard but when they refer to beer as "a lager drink" it's always given me "Niles Crane in a biker bar" vibes.

NFL Sundays are a breath of fresh air on BlueSky offering a brief glimmer of hope for a future where people who have never heard of Jesse Signal post on the site.

My statistical model predicts that, after ruminating on it for 10 years, Americans will realize the horror of the Access Hollywood tape and reject the GOP and Trumpism en masse, leading to a landslide blue wave in midterms. The DNC pays me seven figures a year for these insights

Wake up, babe, David Lynch is playing quarterback for Pitt. Mulholland Drives 🚫 Touchdown Drives ✅ Blue Velvet 🚫 Red Zone ✅

The comparison to Walk Hard has been made a million times already but this feels like a fake behind the scene but they’d do to market Walk Hard

Establishing the run

Cooper Flagg knows a lot of people from the DMV are watching him play GMU and really doesn’t want to be a Wizard

So the unspeakable controversy of the past two days has literally been Jesse Singal having an account? You all need to just have a group chat going. You can add whoever you want; you don’t need your personal little app

I migrated here for the same reasons everyone else did, but when a lot of people panic about “protecting this place from trolls and assholes” I can’t help but think that the social media they’re looking for is an sms group chat

the college football playoff selection show is so good. it's like if the news began with 25 minutes of anchors talking to each other like "i'm looking forward to reporting the news. it will be very interesting to find out what the news will be"

Every year some 70 year old executive decides it's time to make NEW Christmas music, and it ends up sounding like the musical equivalent of not knowing what to do with your hands, followed by a chorus that says "it's Christmas time" twice.

The NBA cup courts are bad because they’re loud but boring. If you’re going to go all in like this, they should be /ugly/

I’ve been pondering whether or not to obey in advance lately; does anyone know a place I can see 100 identical posts a day on the topic for guidance?

Sorry everyone, BlueSky is my fault; I’m a professional focus group participant and I shout “there should be a website that gives you a hug” every time

Who could prefer old Twitter to BlueSky? Who doesn’t prefer a dozen unprompted micro-lectures about politeness over an endless parade of new, entertainingly insane weirdos?

thinking about becoming the first guy to explain alt text to newcomers

I’m nostalgic for the old days of social media of “following my friends” instead of “interacting with users”