the sad thing is, between twitter imploding and digital media collapsing, the records of the world laughing at the nets are probably spotty at best
09.12.2025 18:03 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@albertburneko.bsky.social
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the sad thing is, between twitter imploding and digital media collapsing, the records of the world laughing at the nets are probably spotty at best
09.12.2025 18:03 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0like yes, from a certain perspective "hahaha that is the funniest thing i've ever seen" might seem laudatory, but it is not actually praise for a basketball trade
09.12.2025 18:01 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0hm. that is not at all how i recall the reaction to this trade in 2013
09.12.2025 17:59 โ ๐ 42 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1i will probably keep saying some variation of this because its inevitably going to happen but dems campaigning on โreform iceโ need to be met with the same reaction as a someone asking if they can kick your child in the head
08.12.2025 22:21 โ ๐ 1100 ๐ 225 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 0Washington Post reporter Dan Diamond on Twitter: Trump has proactively trashed media, saying heโll get โhorribleโ reviews. But heโs been loose and funny. And his delivery is far tighter and on-script than usual speeches. Crowd here โ packed with MAGA fans โ has reliably laughed at his jokes. โI love you!โ one woman yells. --- Sign of the vibe shift? 2016: Rock band CHEAP TRICK mocked idea of performing at RNC that was nominating Trump Tonight: same band is covering โRock and Roll All Niteโ to honor KISS in big finale at Trumpโs Kennedy Center Honors
Washington Post reporter Dan Diamond on Bluesky: Trump has proactively trashed news media โ saying he knows heโll get โhorribleโ reviews. He also keeps insulting audience and even some performers But crowd here โ sprinkled with GOP politicians, MAGA supporters โ has reliably cheered and laughed at all his jokes. โI love you!โ one woman yells.
washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch
08.12.2025 15:41 โ ๐ 2437 ๐ 460 ๐ฌ 40 ๐ 35Screenshot from The Onion, originally published October 9, 2002. Headline: Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches for Grandkids Below it, a photo of a plate with multiple deconstructed sandwiches balanced precariously, vaguely resembling a Frank Gehry building.
Frank Gehry, 1929โ2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
05.12.2025 19:27 โ ๐ 4147 ๐ 768 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 50i would be floored, and like sincerely incredibly fucking bummed out, to find out that an actual human being writes like this
05.12.2025 19:20 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0wow this is so thick with AI-voice that it's actually kind of sickening to read
05.12.2025 19:16 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"more children should die" is a cornerstone tenet of American conservatism
05.12.2025 16:12 โ ๐ 141 ๐ 37 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0god yes
04.12.2025 19:38 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0focusing on the second strike and its legality or illegality begs the question of the first strike being legal
04.12.2025 19:24 โ ๐ 112 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Pantone's 2026 Color Of The Year Is 'Not'
04.12.2025 16:55 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Pretty insulting to have her peers insist to us that she's a great writer. She's not even a mediocre writer, she's exceptionally bad. Have some self-respect for god's sake
04.12.2025 16:48 โ ๐ 64 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0Liver cancer prevention in children. That is what RFK Jr trying to "scale back on" today.
He is a monster.
Hakeem Jeffries tweet: President Trump could be striking Venezuelan boats with missiles made by an American small business but he chooses not to
Bill Kristol tweet: The Romanov children would have grown up to be Nazi collaborators
Two screenshots designed in the style of Spotify Wrapped but they're presented as being a (nonexistent) Bluesky Wrapped Screenshot 1: You spent 738 posts on the following topics: 1. Dunking on the New York Times op-ed section 2. Talking about drama at New York Magazine 3. Weighing in on the New York City mayoral election Screenshot 2: Based on this, your most likely place to be located would be: New York, NY Instead, swipe to see where, based on geotagging, you actually live
Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal
03.12.2025 17:32 โ ๐ 3671 ๐ 474 ๐ฌ 30 ๐ 23Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
03.12.2025 05:17 โ ๐ 3483 ๐ 1056 ๐ฌ 42 ๐ 13(writing grimdark fantasy) Goreface sat wetly on the docks, thinking about blood. His face was covered is some kind of shit and so was the rest of him. His dick looked like a door knocker. There were some orcs and dragons on the docks too. They also had shit on them.
03.12.2025 03:46 โ ๐ 839 ๐ 169 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 13Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: โStrong floor, no ceilingโ
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: โA clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.โ
Correct!
02.12.2025 19:32 โ ๐ 70 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0"Obviously this episode raises a lot of questions [none of which I, a professional journalist, investigated or reported out in the 16 months since I learned of it]:"
01.12.2025 23:00 โ ๐ 223 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1iโm genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
01.12.2025 18:09 โ ๐ 6600 ๐ 1783 ๐ฌ 137 ๐ 52one of the problems I have with Democrats (and other critics) labeling these "war crimes" is that it accepts the underlying claim that the people being murdered are enemy combatants. They're not! it's just murder!
01.12.2025 14:07 โ ๐ 1363 ๐ 315 ๐ฌ 51 ๐ 26the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
30.11.2025 20:51 โ ๐ 4747 ๐ 1206 ๐ฌ 70 ๐ 46That phrase means absolutely nothing and it was coined by a fucking parasite so of course Jeffries is salivating
30.11.2025 14:30 โ ๐ 71 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0You, a dangerous radical: We have to change the system so cartoon villains can't wreck the country again
Me, a wise pragmatist: What if we simply rebranded the system? Welcome to America Premium+
Who the fuck is โweโ and where the fuck did they get that stupid-ass expectation
30.11.2025 11:00 โ ๐ 143 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0William Faulkner adapting Ernest Hemingway for TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT is a pretty fun one
29.11.2025 18:12 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home