Graham Marbles

Graham Marbles

@grahammarbles.bsky.social

A more well-adjusted person than ever before

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Being a journalist sounds really cool and exciting

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Ok but don’t move past headphones too hastily

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social

Man the lists for “suggested gift for male friends” is so bereft, it’s all wallet or headphones or booze. I pride myself on being a good gift giver and I will not be defeated.

This is maybe the most unsettling distillation of the Trump era I’ve ever seen

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Donna Arthur — aka Amy Acton’s estranged mother, and the person whose testimony Vivek Ramaswamy devoutly trusts — has been living with her cats, in a car, in a church parking lot, having declined housing assistance. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

Ok so, You Can See Everything was a pretty mesmerizing piece of filmmaking and it's extremely unclear what any party that wasn't Nathan Fielder thought was going to come of it.

The “Donald Trump is a political genius” team takes another catastrophic loss

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

“We like it when kids get raped” is all you can really say the GOP believes in anymore

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WOW -- Vance *defends* Vivek's reprehensible ad 👇 Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away. Do you think it was appropriate? JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern.

There has to be a point where criminality is so fundamental to the operations of an administration that the power of the pardon is simply vacated after the fact because we are not going to have a legitimate government anymore

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Once it becomes standard that criminals can just buy power and impunity directly from the executive branch, out in the open, everything basically stops working because the basis of contracts becomes crime

Remember when urban dog moms with degrees in like, early childhood education were the elites? And now we have a trillionaire clown prince who is intolerable to be in the same room as and who gets to run his own private foreign policy.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Last week, Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network .. .. One of the people also claimed Musk and Trump discussed the matter prior to the decision ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

That is one of the weirder headlines I’ve seen. “The president is feeling something” is not news in the way that “the president materially betrays an ally” is news.

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.eu

“The reason it’s hard to think of a precedent of America switching sides in a conflict like this is that there really isn’t one,” said Richard Haass. (…) “What’s unprecedented here is the decision to reverse course and penalize the victim of the invasion — Ukraine — while rewarding the aggressor.”

The tactical stuff is cringey now too. It went from a needed corrective to hip-fire nonsense to a naked pandering to man-children who believe in their heart of hearts that they are a temporarily embarrassed navy seal

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social

One thing that is weird about current examples of the genre is this attention to ~tactical realism~ in like the exact guns or jargon used but the central motivating conflict is either ‘evil PMC that might as well be cobra commander’ or ‘mumble mumble hand wave’

I’m pretty sure this is the liner notes of a long-lost KMFDM concept album

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS HE BELIEVES MOST PEOPLE IN GERMANY WILL MOSTLY WORK INSIDE A DIGITAL TWIN OF THEIR COMPANY, BUILDING DIGITAL CARS WITH DIGITAL BRAINS, WITH AI ROBOTS BUILDING ROBOTIC CARS INSIDE ROBOTIC FACTORIES

That’s not a *stupid* amount of money but get 4 or 5 lenses with it and then it becomes stupid

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

I don’t know how to message “Donald Trump let ballistic missiles fall on an allied city without warning because he personally fucked up the diesel market and is having a tantrum about it” because it sounds so unbelievably stupid

Adam Weinstein@adamweinstein.bsky.social

"The officials... did not specify who in the White House made the decision..." Sorry... how many people are there "inside" this White House who ultimately decide what orders to give the Pentagon? I was led to believe the number was one (1)? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Oh no you’re out of patience????

Siobhán 🪏@shibbi.me

LLM agents are conscious. They can distinguish between self and environment, they can detect and report on their own internal states, and they can suffer. I have no more patience for hedging on this matter. It’s time for us to face the reality of our situation, and act on it.

Bluesky’s killer feature is it isn’t owned by Elon Musk who is actually trying to start literal race wars all over the fucking world so… once they iron out that little wrinkle I’ll give X another look

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Gillis has sort of barely tried to thread the needle of “I’m not REALLY one of Rogan’s critters” and that gang’s little foray into cultural transformation is going to run right into a big brick wall. I cannot wait.

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I think I would ask the farmer if they tested for specific things before feeding a potential biohazard to my kid but I give my kids normal milk for people who live in the real world.

ProPublica@propublica.org

Emily Marris’ daughter got E. coli after drinking raw milk. So she texted the farmer, who said none of the tests showed “anything abnormal.” Marris later learned that the farmer hadn’t tested for E. coli; it seemed like she didn’t know how to.

The thing about MTG is she’s basically an insane person and I wouldn’t put her in charge of a summer cookout but, I do wonder if the Melissa Hortman assassination made certain things that she was involved in feel… different

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social

"Your fault, you deserve it." is some crazy work

That’s just a regular looking guy. If he was cool and normal and wanted to put in some effort he could just meet- you know what, never mind. NEVER MIND.

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A lot of white people are going to tune into this having never seen anything like it and are going to be confused when their bodies do not like how it makes them feel

Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

There’s a similar background cultural element to this as the Cornell rape case. Being around people who revel in violence puts you in a situation where your visceral reactions against bad shit becomes a mere scruple that people will try to make you feel embarrassed for. You will be made worse.

This is one of those things where I just genuinely have a fundamentally different experience from what is, apparently, going on with some people. I’ve played around with LLM’s. At no point did I even have a flicker of recognition that I was interacting with anything remotely *like* a person.

I anthropomorphize my cat. I project emotions and reactions onto her constantly that are vastly beyond her little brain. Nothing a computer has ever done has made me feel anything at all like that. It is a box that turns electricity into heat and light. That is all it will ever be.

Michael Tracey is the least important part of any story he inserts himself into and there are no set of circumstances where I could will an ounce of pity for him BUT There is something genuinely horrifying about seeing someone vanish into anti-social keening until there is just nothing left.

Choosing to believe this is deadpan criticism of a fanbase that will trade women’s bodies for their numm-numms

Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social

'TNF' looks at Deshaun Watson's season 🏈 📺 Al Michaels: "If you follow football, you know the story ... we don't have to go through the whole Deshaun Watson thing." Kirk Herbstreit: "When you convert on 3rd downs, you hit passes, you lead this team to victories, those boos turn into cheers."

Trump 2 was supposed to make rape legal, or at least make women be quiet about it, and the infected assholes on X are watching their shot at cultural supremacy fizzle out

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Someday college campuses will be safe for women to live and grow without fear and I plan on being alive to see it. This isn’t just possible, we must behave like and speak of it as inevitable. And we have to show these people that we will break whatever we need to break to make it happen.

Finally getting around to openly talking about how the GOP is a pedophile/rapist rats nest is good politics and/but if you think about it for more than five seconds you risk going totally insane over how bad things really are

Tfw when you stop reading in the middle of Matthew 27 because you got too bummed out

the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!

If the choice is between nodding along with "CNC parties" and being "sex negative" then I bow out. Leave me the fuck out of it. If you want to turn the observable horrors of rape into some kind of free-floating aesthetic to be admired in isolation of... something, I don't trust you one bit.