scott dagostino
@scottdagostino.ca
Gay Irish-Canadian AuADHD Buddhist journalist.
Chaotic good.
JEDI consultant with Breakfast Culture.
He/him.
Chaotic good.
JEDI consultant with Breakfast Culture.
He/him.
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scott dagostino
@scottdagostino.ca
· Nov 28
I was foolishly invited to a swanky business awards dinner Tuesday night where I mingled with the Great and the Good and found myself chatting with a proud Trump voter. Look at me, all patient and understanding of the other side! Here’s a little thread of my adventure in reasoning 👇🏼
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Good night, sweet prince.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Good night, sweet prince.
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Udo Kier in Swan Song turned out to be one of my favorite Udo performances and is a beautiful and funny meditation on death if you’re in the market for an Udo you might not have caught.
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Udo Kier in Swan Song turned out to be one of my favorite Udo performances and is a beautiful and funny meditation on death if you’re in the market for an Udo you might not have caught.
The great Quentin Crisp said the secret to a great life is to create and maintain your own unique and incomparable style and man, was Udo Kier ever a brilliant example of that. So thrillingly sinister onscreen yet, by all accounts, one of the kindest men 💙 RIP
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The great Quentin Crisp said the secret to a great life is to create and maintain your own unique and incomparable style and man, was Udo Kier ever a brilliant example of that. So thrillingly sinister onscreen yet, by all accounts, one of the kindest men 💙 RIP
Before and after 2020, the DEI work of @breakfastculture.bsky.social was partly about getting talented Black women onto executive boards. Good for them, good for company profits, a win-win. But the vicious backlash from Trump’s legion of angry whites — and liberal cowardice — has led to this thread👇🏼
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Before and after 2020, the DEI work of @breakfastculture.bsky.social was partly about getting talented Black women onto executive boards. Good for them, good for company profits, a win-win. But the vicious backlash from Trump’s legion of angry whites — and liberal cowardice — has led to this thread👇🏼
THE LUMBERJACK BREAKFAST!!! 🪚
THREE EGGS! ALL THE MEAT!
HOME FRIES! TOOOOAAAST!
and 💖 two fluffy pancakes 💖
THREE EGGS! ALL THE MEAT!
HOME FRIES! TOOOOAAAST!
and 💖 two fluffy pancakes 💖
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
THE LUMBERJACK BREAKFAST!!! 🪚
THREE EGGS! ALL THE MEAT!
HOME FRIES! TOOOOAAAST!
and 💖 two fluffy pancakes 💖
THREE EGGS! ALL THE MEAT!
HOME FRIES! TOOOOAAAST!
and 💖 two fluffy pancakes 💖
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Pro tip: if a child ever walks up to you and says “do you know who you look like?” Run away as fast as you can.
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Pro tip: if a child ever walks up to you and says “do you know who you look like?” Run away as fast as you can.
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Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
I do this too and, well, tomorrow is another day 😐
every day i wake up and think ok today i’m going to try super hard not to go insane
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I do this too and, well, tomorrow is another day 😐
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"Look, I don't care for Elon's politics, but I *have* to stay on X — it's where my customers are!"
This makes sense if you run a haberdashery in rural Nigeria, or a pawn shop on the edge of Tarnogskii Gorodok, 600km north of Moscow.
This makes sense if you run a haberdashery in rural Nigeria, or a pawn shop on the edge of Tarnogskii Gorodok, 600km north of Moscow.
Twitter implemented a new feature last night that displayed the country an account is in. So many of the ‘America First’ accounts were from foreign countries that they had to disable the feature within hours. 🙄
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Look, I don't care for Elon's politics, but I *have* to stay on X — it's where my customers are!"
This makes sense if you run a haberdashery in rural Nigeria, or a pawn shop on the edge of Tarnogskii Gorodok, 600km north of Moscow.
This makes sense if you run a haberdashery in rural Nigeria, or a pawn shop on the edge of Tarnogskii Gorodok, 600km north of Moscow.
3,200 people losing their jobs because America is running out of beef 😬
Tyson Foods to close Nebraska plant as it faces $600 million loss in beef business
Tyson's announcement to close a Nebraska plant comes as beef prices surge in cost.
yhoo.it
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
3,200 people losing their jobs because America is running out of beef 😬
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
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DOGE was a failure if the goal was saving money. It was a huge success if the goal was giving a bunch of techbro adjacent people unfettered access to govt data in ways that, thus far, are evading the Privacy Act.
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
DOGE was a failure if the goal was saving money. It was a huge success if the goal was giving a bunch of techbro adjacent people unfettered access to govt data in ways that, thus far, are evading the Privacy Act.
People love how the 5’7” Oscar Isaac has no issue standing alongside the 6’5” Jacob Elordi. Not every movie star has been this comfortable 😃
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
People love how the 5’7” Oscar Isaac has no issue standing alongside the 6’5” Jacob Elordi. Not every movie star has been this comfortable 😃
Watching Tim Cook lick Trump’s boots this year really destroyed the enthusiasm Apple held in our home 👎🏼
it's wild to think that about one CEO ago ago, people were looking at Google and Apple as brands they wore in their personal lives as badges of honour and in the space of less time than it takes a cicada to mature the consensus is now that they are the enemy of public safety
it is absolutely the tech companies fault that people now assume they’re doing something evil and sneaky even when they actually aren’t (regarding the latest Google kerfuffle)
like, no kidding that people have zero willingness to cut big tech the benefit of the doubt anymore
like, no kidding that people have zero willingness to cut big tech the benefit of the doubt anymore
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Watching Tim Cook lick Trump’s boots this year really destroyed the enthusiasm Apple held in our home 👎🏼
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Those dogs did NOT approve of that robot dog, 🤭. #MiamiBookFair
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Those dogs did NOT approve of that robot dog, 🤭. #MiamiBookFair
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No PM, who swept to power as women abandoned his main opponent, should want this headline.
PM Goldman Sachs has very bad political instincts.
"Mark Carney, backing away from a key international priority of his Liberal predecessors, says his government does not have a feminist foreign policy."
PM Goldman Sachs has very bad political instincts.
"Mark Carney, backing away from a key international priority of his Liberal predecessors, says his government does not have a feminist foreign policy."
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
No PM, who swept to power as women abandoned his main opponent, should want this headline.
PM Goldman Sachs has very bad political instincts.
"Mark Carney, backing away from a key international priority of his Liberal predecessors, says his government does not have a feminist foreign policy."
PM Goldman Sachs has very bad political instincts.
"Mark Carney, backing away from a key international priority of his Liberal predecessors, says his government does not have a feminist foreign policy."
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Notice how hostile psyops and regime change attempts always boost right wingers? You never see attempts to weaken a country by installing left wing governments.
It's almost as if right wing ideology corrupts and debases any nation it's allowed into
It's almost as if right wing ideology corrupts and debases any nation it's allowed into
Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Notice how hostile psyops and regime change attempts always boost right wingers? You never see attempts to weaken a country by installing left wing governments.
It's almost as if right wing ideology corrupts and debases any nation it's allowed into
It's almost as if right wing ideology corrupts and debases any nation it's allowed into
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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Guessing Elon introduced this feature with the intent of doxxing his political opponents and didn't think it would expose operations like this.
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Guessing Elon introduced this feature with the intent of doxxing his political opponents and didn't think it would expose operations like this.
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Rix Road, the season finale of Andor Season 1, was released three years ago today.
F the Empire. All of them.
F the Empire. All of them.
Andor | Maarva Andor’s Monologue | Disney+
YouTube video by Star Wars
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November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Rix Road, the season finale of Andor Season 1, was released three years ago today.
F the Empire. All of them.
F the Empire. All of them.
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
Conservatives insist that government is bloated and useless but they are very wrong (projecting, in fact) because government does this 👇🏼
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Conservatives insist that government is bloated and useless but they are very wrong (projecting, in fact) because government does this 👇🏼
“A dozen AI raters, workers who check an AI’s responses for accuracy and groundedness, told the Guardian that, after becoming aware of the way chatbots and image generators function and just how wrong their output can be, they have begun urging their friends and family not to use generative AI…”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“A dozen AI raters, workers who check an AI’s responses for accuracy and groundedness, told the Guardian that, after becoming aware of the way chatbots and image generators function and just how wrong their output can be, they have begun urging their friends and family not to use generative AI…”