Ryan Broderick
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
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Ryan Broderick
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
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There's an official Garbage Day Bluesky account now.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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2000s emo
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
2000s emo
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"This has all been especially painful for X users who are, as a baseline, extremely racist. And they are now suffering through the psychic torment of learning that users, predominately from the Global South, are behind some of the bigger right-wing accounts on the site."
Republicans astroturfed themselves
Read to the end for a good Thanksgiving reminder
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November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"This has all been especially painful for X users who are, as a baseline, extremely racist. And they are now suffering through the psychic torment of learning that users, predominately from the Global South, are behind some of the bigger right-wing accounts on the site."
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"It’s proof that the American right has spent better part of the last decade letting algorithmic spam tell them what they want to hear, astroturfing themselves into believing that some silent majority out there believes in their worthless MAGA crusade."
"This has all been especially painful for X users who are, as a baseline, extremely racist. And they are now suffering through the psychic torment of learning that users, predominately from the Global South, are behind some of the bigger right-wing accounts on the site."
Republicans astroturfed themselves
Read to the end for a good Thanksgiving reminder
www.garbageday.email
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"It’s proof that the American right has spent better part of the last decade letting algorithmic spam tell them what they want to hear, astroturfing themselves into believing that some silent majority out there believes in their worthless MAGA crusade."
The new location update on X revealed what we've all kinda known all along: Republicans have been astroturfing themselves.
www.garbageday.email/p/republican...
www.garbageday.email/p/republican...
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The new location update on X revealed what we've all kinda known all along: Republicans have been astroturfing themselves.
www.garbageday.email/p/republican...
www.garbageday.email/p/republican...
was really liking The Beast in Me until the penultimate flashback episode and lost so much interest that I'm not sure I'm going to finish the series tbh. Not only is it boring and screws up the pacing, it completely ruined the mystery and tension of the series!
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
was really liking The Beast in Me until the penultimate flashback episode and lost so much interest that I'm not sure I'm going to finish the series tbh. Not only is it boring and screws up the pacing, it completely ruined the mystery and tension of the series!
Here's how right-wing businessmen faked a Gen Z One Piece revolution in Mexico this weekend
www.garbageday.email/p/right-wing...
www.garbageday.email/p/right-wing...
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Here's how right-wing businessmen faked a Gen Z One Piece revolution in Mexico this weekend
www.garbageday.email/p/right-wing...
www.garbageday.email/p/right-wing...
4x Garbage Day byline today from me, @bumas.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, and @jlfeder.bsky.social.
Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
4x Garbage Day byline today from me, @bumas.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, and @jlfeder.bsky.social.
Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
Covering the right-wing digital ecosystem requires a very specialized kind of reporting
www.garbageday.email/p/climbing-t...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Covering the right-wing digital ecosystem requires a very specialized kind of reporting
www.garbageday.email/p/climbing-t...
www.garbageday.email/p/climbing-t...
*Jesse Plemons in “Civil War” voice* “What kind of Democrat are you?”
www.garbageday.email/p/we-did-it-zo
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November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
*Jesse Plemons in “Civil War” voice* “What kind of Democrat are you?”
www.garbageday.email/p/we-did-it-zo
www.garbageday.email/p/we-did-it-zo
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It's not the point of Garbage Day, but @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's writing double as group therapy for recovering culture/games/"trends" reporters of the Viral and SEO Eras
Cancel culture for thee, not me
Read to the end for some good Vin Diesel content
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November 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It's not the point of Garbage Day, but @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's writing double as group therapy for recovering culture/games/"trends" reporters of the Viral and SEO Eras
This year, Halloween collided with a right-wing digital machine that has spent the last year trying to co-opt, drown out, and weaponize social platforms.
www.garbageday.email/p/cancel-cul...
www.garbageday.email/p/cancel-cul...
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This year, Halloween collided with a right-wing digital machine that has spent the last year trying to co-opt, drown out, and weaponize social platforms.
www.garbageday.email/p/cancel-cul...
www.garbageday.email/p/cancel-cul...
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We are so annoying. 🧛 @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
We are so annoying. 🧛 @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
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There's a phenomenon where when you jump from Substack to Ghost, for example, you get a bunch of unsubscribes because people start to actually receive your newsletter instead of it getting tracked to spam from Substack.
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
There's a phenomenon where when you jump from Substack to Ghost, for example, you get a bunch of unsubscribes because people start to actually receive your newsletter instead of it getting tracked to spam from Substack.
Getting off Substack is the right move. I would compare it to moving from an app like Garageband to Ableton or Logic. Or switching from clip art to creative stock images. My business has grown. My readership has grown. Substack fills your list with junk signups, takes your money, and holds you back.
For years, this man has profited of off writers and refused to listen when they said “Hey this platform and its changes aren’t working for us.” Now he’s throwing a tantrum when those writers leave. Because he thinks no other platform will love them as much as him.
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Getting off Substack is the right move. I would compare it to moving from an app like Garageband to Ableton or Logic. Or switching from clip art to creative stock images. My business has grown. My readership has grown. Substack fills your list with junk signups, takes your money, and holds you back.
Wow this is rough. Gov Kathy Hochul is speaking the Zohran rally. She's listing examples of Trump admin overreach in NY and the crowd is heckling her loudly, chanting, "do something, you're the governor." Taking forever for her to get through her speech.
October 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Wow this is rough. Gov Kathy Hochul is speaking the Zohran rally. She's listing examples of Trump admin overreach in NY and the crowd is heckling her loudly, chanting, "do something, you're the governor." Taking forever for her to get through her speech.
At the Zohran, AOC, Bernie Sanders rally in NYC. Cops just threw this guy out. Onlookers in the section said he was with another man who was also thrown out for screaming about communism in Cuba (being bad). Rally doesn't start for like another hour. Weird decision to start heckling so early.
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
At the Zohran, AOC, Bernie Sanders rally in NYC. Cops just threw this guy out. Onlookers in the section said he was with another man who was also thrown out for screaming about communism in Cuba (being bad). Rally doesn't start for like another hour. Weird decision to start heckling so early.
A second favorable Graham Platner poll has hit the timeline. Here's some more thoughts from me on the end of "cancel culture" and how we navigate a world of feeds jammed up with impenetrable outrage.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-nation...
www.garbageday.email/p/the-nation...
October 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A second favorable Graham Platner poll has hit the timeline. Here's some more thoughts from me on the end of "cancel culture" and how we navigate a world of feeds jammed up with impenetrable outrage.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-nation...
www.garbageday.email/p/the-nation...
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Generational image for this app.
October 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Generational image for this app.
This was possibly the best concert I have ever been to. Still thinking about it months later.
you can just listen to or watch the full concert of The Black Parade Is Dead! on the internet. no one can stop you. you can just do it
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade Is Dead! [Full Concert Video]
YouTube video by My Chemical Romance
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October 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This was possibly the best concert I have ever been to. Still thinking about it months later.
I've spent the last year interviewing prominent Dems, pundits, and internet culture researchers, who have all sort of been saying the same thing: It's possible we're living in a post-"cancel culture" world. Platner's favorable polling and huge IRL crowds seem to point to that being the case.
October 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I've spent the last year interviewing prominent Dems, pundits, and internet culture researchers, who have all sort of been saying the same thing: It's possible we're living in a post-"cancel culture" world. Platner's favorable polling and huge IRL crowds seem to point to that being the case.
Today we're sharing a piece from @bumas.bsky.social we sent out to our paying readers yesterday. It's, as best we can tell, the most definitive list of who is running Trump's digital operation. Meet the far-right hype house flooding our of our feeds with shit.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-who...
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-who...
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Today we're sharing a piece from @bumas.bsky.social we sent out to our paying readers yesterday. It's, as best we can tell, the most definitive list of who is running Trump's digital operation. Meet the far-right hype house flooding our of our feeds with shit.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-who...
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-who...
I assume people aren't questioning it because no one knows what local news looks like in New England, but the Palantir story in the screenshots I posted doesn't have any kind of source and apears to be totally made up bull shit.
Fascinating platform story happening around the Graham Platner stuff. The number one source for almost all of the discourse about Platner on X right now is from an account that only had 70 followers at the start of the week, isn't a real Maine news outlet of any kind, and was created in August.
October 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I assume people aren't questioning it because no one knows what local news looks like in New England, but the Palantir story in the screenshots I posted doesn't have any kind of source and apears to be totally made up bull shit.
Fascinating platform story happening around the Graham Platner stuff. The number one source for almost all of the discourse about Platner on X right now is from an account that only had 70 followers at the start of the week, isn't a real Maine news outlet of any kind, and was created in August.
October 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Fascinating platform story happening around the Graham Platner stuff. The number one source for almost all of the discourse about Platner on X right now is from an account that only had 70 followers at the start of the week, isn't a real Maine news outlet of any kind, and was created in August.
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?