nicky woolf

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)

condemning the carceral state to own the libs

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly@rtodkelly.bsky.social

good lord

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@iwriteok.bsky.social

ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

CNN@cnn.com

Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

cnn.comItalian officials slam tourist who ‘mimicked sex acts’ on a statue of Bacchus in Florence | CNNItalian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

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Chris Towers Missed The Playoffs

@cptowers.bsky.social

Very good chance the next James Bond owned at least one blink-182 album, is what you're telling me

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I can see one immediate potential issue there

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com

Sixteen writers -- half French-speaking and half Japanese -- boarded a luxury train in Kyoto on Thursday, faced with the unusual task of collectively writing a novel in under 24 hours. u.afp.com/SCCX

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James Ball

@jamesrball.com

Answers on a postcard to me and @nickywoolf.bsky.social

James Ball@jamesrball.com

Okay I'm now genuinely interested: is Elon /pol/ personified, or is he /b/. Or...is he not actually good enough at posting to be either?

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he's just if /pol/ was a person

Shawn Tiemann@shawnt.bsky.social

It’s a legitimate threat from the richest man in the world but he’s also sooooo fucking lame. Who talks like this lmao

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

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thecause.substack.comThe Digital Dunkirk: Why We Have to Bet on BlueskyJust as Ukraine regrets relying on Elon, we’ll regret relying on X, Meta, and Palantir. But we can’t say we didn’t see it coming.

anthony eden had "SUEZ 4EVA" on his knuckles but later had it removed

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social

Arguably not the most important issue today, but is this the first British prime minister with a tattoo?

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Denny Carter

@dennycarter.bsky.social

Good piece on the importance of Bluesky thecause.substack.com/p/the-digita...

while im on this roll i also want it to be known that i will not be watching hamnet because it's spelled wrong. it's hamblet. i will not elaborate

yes i post suddenly twenty times at 4am once every three or four days why do you ask. totally normal way to post

aight this is some good shit right here

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

some decent shit here too. is this... what is this feeling i feel

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "Maybe you saw that Donald Trump was in Dalton yesterday, oblivious to the collapse of his presidency. A crowd smaller than this one enduring two hours of senile babbling while the price of oil hit its 5 month high"

between this and meta no kings there's a lotta streisand going on today

Ken Tremendous@kentremendous.bsky.social

It's almost like we shouldn't let a small group of the most venal people on earth control the internet

porridge

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

porridge

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social

Uh….. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/u...

my parents always said that after my youngest brother was born they "figured out what was doing it"

James Ball@jamesrball.com

Parents tell older siblings this because they need the reassurance. All youngest children (especially those of us born after long age gaps) know that parents continue having children until they have the good one.

anyway. please enjoy this picture of my dad's bird drinking my coffee

this is absolute nonsense and I'm severely judging anyone who actually believes a production car could do this.

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com

"Flying cars are real!" 🚀 Elon Musk and Tesla showcase the new Roadster.

lol there it is

this is absolute nonsense and I'm severely judging anyone who actually believes a production car could do this.

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com

"Flying cars are real!" 🚀 Elon Musk and Tesla showcase the new Roadster.

tesla says it produced 4700kg of downforce using suction fans. that's like a fucking learjet engine thrust. absolute bollocks.

fake lightweight shell with some fans and gas boosters is my guess. why is everyone falling for this

massive win for the "I dont need my fridge to have firmware" crowd

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

The developer of chatbot Claude warned that rogue 'AI worms' will soon be able to hijack smart devices such as ovens and TVs. ft.trib.al/DQOrsRw

cal.newsGavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxesGov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

ossoff gonna cream this guy *in california*

CalMatters@calmatters.org

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

and by real I mean Appomattox 2: Ammomattox

2app2mattox

ossoff gonna cream this guy *in california*

CalMatters@calmatters.org

I dont actually think it'll play out this way. call me an optimist- and I am ready to be sadly wrong in four weeks - but I think the midterms are going to be such a bloodbath that the maga coalition disintegrates and there's an opportunity for a candidate willing to say "burn all this to the ground"

it's that, or trumpism lays a proper actual no-fooling coup. then shit gets real

ossoff gonna cream this guy *in california*

CalMatters@calmatters.org

it still sounds silly but all it will take is federal troops sent into say illinois and pritzker saying - as he's hinted at already - that state troops and police will get an order that ICE etc are breaking state law and action is ordered. then someone on either side gets an itchy trigger finger

that's how it happens. goons in masks dressed like terrorists raid on the streets, only takes one order to say, rightly, that the state law needs to be enforced. state troopers are told, by someone with fuckin balls, to step in to an ice raid. someone shoots first. that's civil war. it's that easy

ossoff gonna cream this guy *in california*

CalMatters@calmatters.org

thenewworld.co.ukIs Jon Stewart laughing all the way to the White House?Satire has become one of the few sources of political sanity in the US. Now, one of its chief exponents is mulling a run for office

self-serving wildcard Jon Stewart [unlikely but I did write a @thenewworldmag.bsky.social piece making this case www.thenewworld.co.uk/nicky-woolf-...

tldr is: ossoff front runner now but it's another ten or eleven months before shit actually starts to gear up. unless the midterms start an actual civil war in which case we're talking about who's the president of Independent Cascadia when they get invaded by the New Mexico Southwest Alliance

ossoff gonna cream this guy *in california*

CalMatters@calmatters.org

Not in the running: newsom [looks like a snake, bad vibes] shapiro [boring] beshear [I mean. maybe. lot to prove before he can make the big leagues] buttigieg [personally I like him but he wants it too much] harris [there's no way this flies and they know it and it's not happening]

wildcard: chris murphy [honestly could come out of nowhere if he doubles down on the "these people need to go to jail" but I personally dont think he has the juice

ossoff gonna cream this guy *in california*

CalMatters@calmatters.org

ugh I'm gonna have to write the 28 sweepstakes piece. I'll do it after the midterms but for me right now it's: Ossoff [handsome, normcore, angry] AOC [angry, colossal fame, prob actually going for the NY senate seat] pritzker [angry, standup comedian funny, hard as nails when chips go down]

I predict this is going to be a super fun day on the internet when this drops

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold.bsky.social

horror story in five words challenge: “Ross Douthat YA fantasy novel”

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Micah

@rincewind.run

Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social

Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

theguardian.comPalantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contractsFormer Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader who recently joined Palantir, has warned against “mob rule” when it comes to awarding public contracts. Lord Watson, now a senior vice-president at the US tech corporation, warned UK ministers could get themselves “in a lot of trouble” as he was questioned about concerns raised about the government working with his new employer. Continue reading...

"palantir's tom watson" what a fucking embarrassment

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts

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William Gibson

@greatdismal.bsky.social

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

oh my god I was going to joke "he's actually centre-left" and turns out he IS

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu

Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.

politico.euHitler Mussolini wins local electionPeruvian voters pick their new mayor, despite his unusual name.

Freddy Got Fingered

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social

Is there a work of art that was created well before the current era that you feel explains Trump and MAGA and everything better than anything contemporary? For me it’s Assassins (1990) but I’m curious if other people have one.

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C.A. Pinkham

@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

Ossoff and El-Sayed took different tacks tonight vs their opponents—El-Sayed was more of a subtext of “you dumb fucking racist jackass” while Ossoff’s was more “if you fell down at a gas station I’d toss a lit match on you”—and I don’t think either of those is a bad choice tbh

"Suck it, bitches. Peace out!"

Timothy Burke@bubbaprog.xyz

KLF IS GONNA ROCK YA

lot of arsenal fans have a similarly strange time finding out what "gooners" are online

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