Michael Hobbes

Michael Hobbes

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

192,941 Followers 1,707 Following 8,275 Posts Joined Apr 2023
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This took me way too long to figure out

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3 hours ago

in a just, more New Jersey centric society, this guy WHO LIVES IN MAINE would have been banned from online after he invoked Princeton as an example of a place where white liberals supported immigration but never encountered immigrants in real life

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Christopher F. Rufo A @realchrisrufo • 2h
We have successfully frozen their brand-"critical race theory"-into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category.
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Christopher F. Rufo X
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Replying to @realchrisrufo and @ConceptualJames
The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.
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Chris Rufo famously laid out the plan in a pair of tweets in 2021, but it never would’ve succeeded without enthusiastic support from the centrist wing of the Opinionati, who sanitized and amplified the RW talking point that the Left™ had “gone too far.”

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8 hours ago

Karl Marx did not spend ten years living in the British Library for the modern Left to negatively polarize itself against the concept of graphs.

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6 hours ago
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I have found a second Beekeeping Himbo on youtube

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7 hours ago

Sports betting remains illegal in California and voters rejected legalization attempts at the ballot two separate times!

www.foxsports.com/stories/bett...

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8 hours ago
@ruinedpicnic

[walking by a river and I see a beaver wearing a t-shirt]

me: I don't even know what to say about this

beaver: maybe this isn't about you
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9 hours ago

Fun fact: Tim Walz has not gone along with sports betting. Sports betting is illegal in Minnesota, even at tribal casinos.

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1 day ago

Many such cases!

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9 hours ago

He's talking about me, I'm a liberal who thought ubiquitous sports gambling would be awesome and good. I'm staring at the ground in shame rn

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9 hours ago

this person analyzes American politics for a living

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10 hours ago
James Talarico represents Christianity’s past, not its future
The Texas Democrat’s support for transgender rights helps explain why liberal Christianity is dying.
March 13, 2026 at 7:15 a.m. EDTToday at 7:15 a.m. EDT

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Couching your hatred of trans people and Christian love in a faux objective analysis in WaPo

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10 hours ago

I do not like the conflation of the Jewish people and the Jewish State here.

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10 hours ago

Aside from how wrong and racist this article is, O’Neill can’t even bring himself to have a position on the war itself. He just reflexively attacks people opposed to it, however powerless they are

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11 hours ago

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

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10 hours ago

Gen Z vs Millennial ideas of success

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21 hours ago

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

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1 day ago

42 people. millions of trans people are being tortured by their governments because of 42 people.

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1 day ago

oh fuck off

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A recently published study from a team of researchers in Europe attempts to measure the degree to which X’s algorithm is poisoning the brains of those who continue to use it. The study, which took place in 2023, randomly assigned around 5,000 X users to view either their algorithmic or chronological feeds over a seven-week period, and then measured the effects on users’ political attitudes and online behavior.

For anyone who does not have a vested interest in the financial success of X, the findings are pretty grim. The researchers found that the “For you” tab shifted users’ political opinions toward more conservative positions on certain issues—for example, the then-ongoing criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They found that the algorithmic feed increased user engagement, promoted conservative-coded political content, and demoted posts from traditional news sources, which appeared in users’ algorithmic feeds 58.1% less often than they did in users’ chronological feeds. Finally, and maybe most troublingly, the researchers found that these effects were asymmetric—that although turning the algorithm on changed users’ views, turning it off did not move views in the other direction. After the study, the chronological feeds of participants the study exposed to the algorithm contained 60% more posts from conservative accounts and 28% more posts from conservative political activists, relative to the chronological feeds of study participants who did not use the algorithmic feed. The researchers attribute these results to the types of accounts that users encountered in the “For you” tab and eventually chose to follow, thus adding those accounts to their chronological feeds, too. 

In other words, once the X algorithm moves you to the right, you probably stay there. And if you use the X algorithm long enough, even on those occasions when you decide to peruse the “Following” tab, you will probably see more conservative-coded content than you would have if you had never checked out the “For you” tab in the first place.

I know we all understood that the post-Musk version of Twitter featured more right-wing slop, but this academic study of the algorithm's effects is pretty astonishing: Just 7 weeks of using the "For you" feed made X users more sympathetic to Trump www.fastcompany.com/91507338/x-a...

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Book an Appointment with Mr Goon

I found the world's most unfortunate name for a wrist doctor

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2 days ago

I've definitely seen AI art that looks real but I've never seen AI art that is good. This video is generic as hell and the song is obnoxious.

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2 days ago
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Tilly Norwood | Take The Lead (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Tilly Norwood

looks and sounds like shit

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2 days ago

As I have said repeatedly, the only move the anti-trans side has is pretending that they've found a scandal, then describe the way medicine (or medical research) works in every other field but trans care in breathless, scandalized tones.

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2 days ago

This is exactly what I'm saying! The most important interventions are going to be confronting misinformation. Expanding access won't make a difference if parents don't want to get their kids vaccinated.

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3 days ago

It's been discussed more in the context of the Manosphere, but: A consequence of being fully submerged in the Trump-era for over a decade is that an entire generation of reactionary-minded men (mostly) have come of age in a social landscape where shamelessness & cruelty are aspirational traits.

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My fav wackadoodle argument from this one is Clarence Thomas saying Trump should be able to levy taxes like this bc in ye olde england the king could levy taxes. Doesn’t stop at all to think about why that’s problematic. Amazing stuff, 10/10, no notes

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3 days ago
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Just once I'd love for one of these MAGA dupes to admit the fault with getting duped by the lowest-rent con man of the century lies with them.

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