Alex McKnight

Plus another 24 between the Bay and ONT both ways as well!

My newest Substack piece! I finally talk politics, throw down a hot take, and also talk about why I almost never do that anymore.

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The Ghost of Christmas Present, from ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’

Toxic Masculinity is OUT!
Ghost of Christmas Present Masculinity is IN!

- Loud laughs
- Roasted meats and spiced drinks
- Hospitality to strangers
- Living in the moment
- Singing in public
- Body positivity
- Emotional generosity
- Sick robes

If you’re not white, or you have friends or loved ones who aren’t white, or you’re not a total sociopath and therefore care about fellow humans who aren’t white, you need to understand this regime thinks not being white is inherently suspect, and lots of your fellow Americans are fine with that.

this is the best single-image encapsulation of how modern conservatism works

And Tatis does the same a few innings later!

The KKK of the 1920s is probably the most American organization to have ever existed; a for-profit fraternal organization, a multi-level marketing scheme founded by a defrocked minister to piggyback off of a popular movie, eventually torn apart by internecine infighting and a national sex scandal.

Chino Hills mentioned 🔥

I mean, for my money, it's hard to beat wishing the haters and losers a happy 9/11.

Couldn't hurt to try tbh

2025 continues to be the Year of the Hater, inexorably.

Rare to see good news in 2025, awesome to see!

I think Coffeezilla is another good example of this.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

Advice to live by!

This is all very funny but it also demonstrates a real fucking bleak turn for health and wellness stuff where it’s moved from “here are things you can do to make yourself healthier” to “if you do not do these things and get the expected results you are defective” which is basically govt policy now

That one quote from a bank executive celebrating being able to use slurs at work again lives rent free in my head. So many elites are willing to burn the world in order to avoid being held accountable for doing stuff that won't make them happy anyway.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country

It’s so funny how every time one of these guys ruins their life doing violence for the fascist cause all their heroes are like “actually he’s a trans communist and a federal agent.”

Once a day I put on peaceful videos of the forest for my cat. Occasionally a bird flies by and chirps, but it's otherwise dead silence. Every one of those videos is louder than this clip.

ICE detainees tear down a wall in uprising at N.J. detention facility, lawyer says Delaney Hall is the facility where Newark Ras Baraka was arrested in May.

Holy shit a bunch of ICE prisoners who weren't getting fed broke down a fence and escaped this fucking rips

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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It is amazing how devoted these people are to making life notably shitter for everyone.

There is no benefit, no hidden bonus to the Trump administration. Everyone's life just gets more shit as they break everything.

Felt the same doing my biannual state employee ethics training last month, detailing how as a member of a public agency, accepting any gift can create a perception of unfair bias in my decision making. Almost felt sarcastic in the current climate.

thinking about how the last bit of Democratic messaging before this moment was “TACO Trump”

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Already spotted one in the wild lol