@brianjstubbs.bsky.social
i may be like losing oxygen to my brain here but i think my deepest fear is that if the medium really is the message, then maybe the message is that as a culture we’ve chosen engagement and a brand of viral conflict over any hope of resolution
13.09.2025 00:03 — 👍 280 🔁 30 💬 9 📌 2
Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous
12.09.2025 23:34 — 👍 2438 🔁 556 💬 49 📌 47
Happy Friday Bluesky 🌼
If you’re looking for a good distraction this weekend, I highly recommend this movie.
@stephenking.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
youtu.be/FrFlaw5QQyg?...
it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)
12.09.2025 14:37 — 👍 2335 🔁 687 💬 21 📌 40No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
28.02.2025 19:10 — 👍 12078 🔁 2238 💬 120 📌 127The generation that beat the Russians only to let them ass rape them in the Oval nursing home. narcissism and dementia will define the Boomers forever
01.03.2025 00:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
BMFS
24.11.2024 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
the play where Alabama's touchdown was called back for a penalty that did not exist
rigged. game is rigged
24.11.2024 03:12 — 👍 62 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 5First Bluesky
24.11.2024 06:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I found you! Was trying to get your number
24.11.2024 06:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stutsman showing out the Logie’s hat on the broadcast is hilarious NIL
NB for football fans that’s the bar where the Liberty to OU holder got worked by the cauliflower ear guy in the bathroom.
One man admitted he voted for Trump without knowing it was Obamacare that allowed his mother with stage 4 cancer to get treatment.
This is what happens when misinformation wins out over facts.
Lots of mostly maga free posts and comments but still a flood of anxiety inducing content here. Key to stay on the craziness, but we could all use a little more on the inspiring or good feel side. Here’s one - my photos of my favorite human bean - hanging at my next exhibit in Austin. Willie love.
20.11.2024 23:07 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0it’s prob not but it *feels* like the whole ballgame as far as i’m concerned. hard to look at this and not feel like we’re cooked
20.11.2024 00:57 — 👍 92 🔁 11 💬 11 📌 0
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...
14.11.2024 12:16 — 👍 15599 🔁 1981 💬 381 📌 114
Big screams and shouts as Michael Fojtasek from Olamaie in Austin is announced for the next one star #foodsky #michelinguidetx
12.11.2024 02:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
i can take full 100% credit for this, right? is that ok? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
11.11.2024 20:35 — 👍 126 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 3
As I was preparing to write this story, I visited some of the most vile corners of the internet. I’ve monitored these spaces for years, and yet this time, I was struck by how little distance there was between them and what X has become. It is impossible to ignore: The difference between X and a known hateful site such as Gab are people like myself. The majority of users are no doubt creators, businesses, journalists, celebrities, political junkies, sports fans, and other perfectly normal people who hold their nose and cling to the site. We are the human shield of respectability that keeps Musk’s disastrous $44 billion investment from being little more than an algorithmically powered Stormfront.
The justifications—the lure of the community, the (now-limited) ability to bear witness to news in real time, and of the reach of one’s audience of followers—feel particularly weak today. X’s cultural impact is still real, but its promotional use is nonexistent. (A recent post linking to a story of mine generated 289,000 impressions and 12,900 interactions, but only 948 link clicks—a click rate of roughly 0.00328027682 percent.) NPR, which left the platform in April 2023, reported almost negligible declines in traffic referrals after abandoning the site.
Continuing to post on X has been indefensible for some time. But now, more than ever, there is no good justification for adding one’s name to X’s list of active users. To leave the platform, some have argued, is to cede an important ideological battleground to the right. I’ve been sympathetic to this line of thinking, but the battle, on this particular platform, is lost. As long as Musk owns the site, its architecture will favor his political allies. If you see posting to X as a fight, then know it is not a fair one. For example: In October, Musk shared a fake screenshot of an Atlantic article, manipulated to show a fake headline—his post, which he never deleted, garnered more than 18 million views. The Atlantic’s X post debunking Musk’s claim received just 28,000 views. Musk is unfathomably rich. He’s used that money to purchase a platform, take it private, and effectively turn it into a megaphone for the world’s loudest racists. Now he’s attempting to use it to elect a corrupt, election-denying felon to the presidency.
To stay on X is not an explicit endorsement of this behavior, but it does help enable it. I’m not at all suggesting—as Musk has previously alleged—that the site be shut down or that Musk should be silenced. But there’s no need to stick around and listen. Why allow Musk to appear even slightly more credible by lending our names, our brands, and our movements to a platform that makes the world more dangerous for real people? To my dismay, I’ve hid from these questions for too long. Now that I’ve confronted them, I have no good answers.
i am of course a lil bit conflicted about leaving X (not bc of my followers but bc the job is to reach people and i think filter bubbles can have real effects too) but i think what Musk has done changes the calculus and i laid that case out here
11.11.2024 20:57 — 👍 1452 🔁 281 💬 60 📌 31
This was published by @cwarzel.bsky.social right before the election, but is very prescient + provides great context for (sigh) "DOGE"
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
So much good in this world. Proud to know you Turk. Congrats
14.11.2024 23:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m happy to see a chronological timeline.
14.11.2024 07:06 — 👍 6736 🔁 613 💬 78 📌 51Testing. Testing. If a chicken and half lays and egg and a half for a day and a half, how long does it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds off a dill pickle?
Enquiring minds want to know.
(A favorite line of my pal Harry Anderson who I miss every day.)
