Ryan Broderick

There's an official Garbage Day Bluesky account now.

Do you have your tickets to Garbage Day Live on Oct. 27 yet? We now have not one, but two very special guests: Annie Rauwerda, the genius behind @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social , and comedian Alex Pearlman, better known as @pearlmania500.bsky.social. wl.eventim.us/event/garbag...

Finally got the chic book screenshot...

No one's getting rich from AI influencers. The social media pyramid scheme has just added a new rung. www.garbageday.email/p/no-one-act...

This is so fucking cool -- a member of the @garbageday.email discord saved every meme they found funny from 2012ish to 2016ish. They just shared the drive containing over 8,000 memes and images. What an archival snapshot of a very specific time for meme culture! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Who paw patrols the paw patrol?

Wow, it's true lol. If you ask the Trump administration's new stupid America.gov chatbot to "play Minecraft" it goes completely insane. Just tried it.

"Silicon Valley created a new, worse version of popularity that everyone just accepted at face value at some point between 2019-2023." The Garbage Day newsletter is talking here about pop music, but I'm gonna hold onto this and apply it everywhere.

Of the 14 songs that broke the same record "Choosin' Texas" just broke, nine of them were this century and six were in the last decade. Is a hit song still a hit if it climbs to the top of streaming charts and gets algorithmically stuck there for sixth months?

A grande desaceleração da IA é uma bobagem de marketing e políticos idiotas dos EUA estão caindo nessa manualdousuario.net/desaceleraca...

I downloaded Meta's new AI agent, Muse. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with this stupid thing and I can't imagine being a lame enough person to ever need any of the things it claims it could do for me. www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-b...

My face scrolling my feed when Kash Patel bestiality fuel crisis diarrhea hydrox Ed Sheeran tour

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social thinks about this basically harder than anyone i know so this conclusion is deeply interesting

Many years ago, there was a yearly internet-themed Halloween costume contest in New York City called Hallowmeme. Our next live show at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn on October 27th is NOT Hallowmeme. But it is a tribute. It’s a night of comedy, music, journalism, and of course, a costume contest.

A cult of losers who think you can turn a computer into god infiltrated the highest levels of San Francisco society and they want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way. www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...

I had to check if this was real and oh my god

Did you know Hooters gave out 9/11 commemorative pins?

Yes! If I walked into a [MY STORE OF CHOICE] and there were other customers coming up to me telling me I should be shoved into an oven, I wouldn't go back. And yet millions do not bc they want to, but bc they're addicted. Good @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social today: www.garbageday.email/p/if-app-bad...

So I was in the Mamdani campaign's Signal group briefly while he was running for mayor. His team shared campaign materials and coordinated access. But I did get a glimpse into how influencers behave with politicians which was uh certainly interesting... www.garbageday.email/p/if-app-bad...

Reading @garbageday.email newsletter, I would like to applaud the phrase - used to describe microdramas - "Worthless, but addicting audiovisual goonslop."

Microdramas will not save Hollywood. www.garbageday.email/p/microdrama...

The Lindsay Clancy story has become a neutron bomb of gender discourse, true crime brainrot, MAHA anti-big pharma narratives, and even pulled in the astrology community. But the most overwhelming narrative is the all-out assault from the right wing on mothers. www.garbageday.email/p/right-wing...

An amateurishly animated movie from China has put new attention onto the question of whether even the worst artistic human creation is preferable to something generated by AI. www.garbageday.email/p/can-chines...

I'm not sure I like the whole recent streak of "woke 1 was crazy" going around right now tbh www.garbageday.email/p/what-was-w...

Young Scrooge

I wrote about the lost decade of millennial creativity www.garbageday.email/p/you-get-wh...

Companies think we won't be able to tell but there will be signs everywhere that we can!!

I will NEVER stop laughing about this. also lmao @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social calling him "Kidz Bop Tame Impala"

There was so much neurotic moral policing when I was a kid in the 90s and 2000s about what people were doing outside of their homes — how they dressed, how they talked, where they went — but after 2020, we've become obsessed with what we think people are doing or not doing at home.

On how the fear that no one is reading anymore is sorta the same fear that no one is having sex anymore which is really just a fear that, for those of us old enough to remember the before time, the world feels different now in ways we can't really explain www.garbageday.email/p/every-new-...

You can’t beat the GOP by adopting their tactics because the fight is asymmetrical. You have to come up with something new!

A lot of leftist men were — and seemingly still are — willing to accept Graham Platner's many many faults because they have a sneering, condescending belief that working people in this country are white townie oafs who will only listen to other white townie oafs. www.garbageday.email/p/the-curdli...

OK so I finally saw both: -Backrooms was technically impressive, prettier, and better paced. Would watch again. -Obsession had a tighter script, better characters, and was scarier. But it suffers from orange sludge lighting and is a meaner, nastier film I don't want to ever watch again.

We spent a month hiding out in a Kalshi clipping Discord. We learned a lot of crazy stuff about how this works, but the craziest is probably the tool they have for manually simulating Kalshi markets — which do not actually reflect the market they're advertising! www.garbageday.email/p/we-spent-a...

The World Cup and, more broadly, just going outside and having fun, is an existential threat to MAGA. www.garbageday.email/p/going-outs...

This week we had @bencollins.bsky.social on our podcast Panic World to talk through his plans for @theonion.com's relaunch of Info Wars. You can listen anywhere you get your podcasts and, also, on YouTube, you want to see our faces say words. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB80...

I wrote about FreddyLA7, the apex predator of World Cup tourists. Is he some kind of fake? Complicated question! More behind the paywall in today's @garbageday.email - link here: www.garbageday.email/p/the-intern...

My guiding principle is that platforms actually don't — or even can't — suppress anything beyond nudity, gore, swears, some hate speech, etc. But I do think they can promote different content and incentivize users to make more of it. Which is what I think is happening on YouTube right now.

The NY Times goyslop piece is dangerously misinformed. "Goyslop" hasn't lost its racist meaning — garbage fed to non-Jews by a shadowy cabal of Jewish elites — it's just that it has spread so far and wide now that kids use it without questioning it. That's bad! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/m...

Good not be more excited about this!!!

If January 6th was violent projectile vomit then the UFC's Freedom 250 event on the south White House lawn this weekend was the miserable subsequent spew of diarrhea from our sick electoral body. Here's what my weekend in DC was like. www.garbageday.email/p/my-horribl...