Bill

No. 14. King of Kings by Scott Anderson. I read this a while ago. The human insights into the players in the Iranian Revolution are interesting. But I left feeling like I had a *worse* understanding of *why* the Revolution occurred (though I think this was the point).

Actually pretty shocked by Pelosi here

You could imagine he became racist against Arabs because of Sirhan Sirhan, but he actually doesn’t believe Sirhan Sirhan killed his father! He got this way for pure love of the racism game

a second millennium prize has hit the stochastic parrot

the story of how sports betting became legal is odd. instead of directly banning sports betting, Congress passed a law requiring states to ban sports betting, which the Supreme Court held (doctrinally correctly) is unconstitutional. but Congress clearly had the power to directly ban sports betting

I’m shocked that this actually got genuinely unpopular takes

brother musk

it's amazing to get a job where you can just write the same thing for fifteen years and make probably like $200k a year doing it

I’m not really convinced that Netanyahu losing is better on net. the Israeli opposition is like 90 percent as bad as him, but will get some international goodwill

We’re in the beginning of real AI employment effects :(

Evidently me thinking NYT headlines dont matter outside neurotic obsessives on Bluesky is unpopular among neurotic obsessives on Bluesky.

the part of rich men north of richmond where he starts complaining about fat people eating fudge rounds is so fucking funny

Everyone is so happy here in São Paulo. Lula won, fascism lost!!!

Of course the NYT is platforming the procedural concerns of the fascists while not ontextualizing the fact that they blatantly tried to steal the election by SHUTTING DOWN PUBLIC TRANSIT

Trying to figure out a non-problematic way to work Lula into the Kink’s Lola song but coming up empty

If we banned people with gambling debt from voting in the US, every election would go blue

If you hear conservative coping about the vote getting extended—both Lula and Bolsonaro requested voting extensions

Solidarity forever

Don’t worry, you can always restore your honor

ALL YOU FASCISTS BOUND TO LOSE

i hate how people use the word “start-up.“ it’s insane to continue to call OpenAI and Anthropic ”start-ups”

death to the fascist idea in the americas

Lula is everywhere

if you're interested, please go to the groupchat: bsky.app/chat/15eAJXe

what's the brazilian equivalent of battle hymn of the republic

fuck now i want to plan a competing Bluesky Philly happy hour. if you're a sicko (laudatory/derogatory) and want to meet other sickos (laudatory/derogatory), drop a reply

this may remind you of masking discourse (you have committed social murder by going to a bar in 2026). in fact, it often comes from the same people

best hope for getting back on track (gradual generational accretion of political progress). 2024 made it look like this had reversed, but I think Gen Z’s flirtation with the right may be seen as a post-Covid fluke

The press actually does know how to ask him questions, it’s just that it’s usually women who ask them, and then he insults and threatens them and refuses to answer

i hope i'm wrong! i hope you all get to dunk on me! please, you have my permission to dunk on me if we get to mid-january and nothing bad has happened! i welcome it

This is a fair counterpoint.

a coup can't happen. that would be illegal.