Alex McKnight
@alexnmcknight.bsky.social
Author of "The Mid(dle...ing) Millennial" on Substack:
alexmcknight.substack.com
Just a chill guy.
alexmcknight.substack.com
Just a chill guy.
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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July 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
My newest Substack piece! I finally talk politics, throw down a hot take, and also talk about why I almost never do that anymore.
alexmcknight.substack.com/p/why-is-thi...
alexmcknight.substack.com/p/why-is-thi...
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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
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
July 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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
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
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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.
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
July 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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.
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this is the best single-image encapsulation of how modern conservatism works
Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.
July 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
this is the best single-image encapsulation of how modern conservatism works
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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.
TIL - one reason for the KKK’s explosive growth in the early 1920s was that it was a multi-level marketing organization
June 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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.
2025 continues to be the Year of the Hater, inexorably.
Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.
June 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
2025 continues to be the Year of the Hater, inexorably.
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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”
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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”
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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
June 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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
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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.
also of course this is also gender, because a key part of this is "you cannot keep raping Stanford grads" driving tech elites completely insane and ditto for media elites and Me Too
June 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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.
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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.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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.
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administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country
A State Dept. cable says the Trump administration might add up to 36 countries — most in Africa — to a list of 21 countries on which it imposed a full or partial travel ban this month. Citizens can't get visas to the US. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
June 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country
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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.”
June 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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.”
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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.
Nope! More large vehicles to fuck up the roads
Notice how the birdsong is louder than the crowd
Notice how the birdsong is louder than the crowd
June 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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.
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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
www.nj.com/essex/2025/0...
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
www.nj.com/essex/2025/0...
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.
www.nj.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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
www.nj.com/essex/2025/0...
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
www.nj.com/essex/2025/0...
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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.
There is no benefit, no hidden bonus to the Trump administration. Everyone's life just gets more shit as they break everything.
June 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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.
There is no benefit, no hidden bonus to the Trump administration. Everyone's life just gets more shit as they break everything.
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thinking about how the last bit of Democratic messaging before this moment was “TACO Trump”
June 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
thinking about how the last bit of Democratic messaging before this moment was “TACO Trump”
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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.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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.
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"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."
Giant data centers are taking over the U.S. — and angering local residents
Giant data centers are taking over the U.S. — and angering local residents
There's controversy over a possible new data center in rural Davis, West Virginia. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with journalist Dan Parks.
www.npr.org
May 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."
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really full force struck by how dystopian America is now, where the government and corporations can ignore the law at will but if a regular person fails to conform at any juncture the powers of the state are basically authorized to kill you and your kids
A University of Buffalo graduate was chased across the stage by police at Sunday's commencement ceremony for carrying a prohibited item while he tried to collect his diploma: a baby.
University of Buffalo grad chased by police as he runs across stage holding his baby
The student has since apologized to graduation officials and will still receive his degree, the school said. The baby still has some credits to complete.
nbcnews.to
May 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
really full force struck by how dystopian America is now, where the government and corporations can ignore the law at will but if a regular person fails to conform at any juncture the powers of the state are basically authorized to kill you and your kids
My newest Substack piece is up! This time, it's a reflection on the loss of my father one year later.
open.substack.com/pub/alexmckn...
open.substack.com/pub/alexmckn...
May 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
My newest Substack piece is up! This time, it's a reflection on the loss of my father one year later.
open.substack.com/pub/alexmckn...
open.substack.com/pub/alexmckn...
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lol why would they admit what time the change was made. who the fuck else is up at 3 am crying about white genocide in south africa
xAI says employee made unauthorized changes causing unprompted “white genocide” responses… no indication of who that employee might be or what is happening to them
May 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
lol why would they admit what time the change was made. who the fuck else is up at 3 am crying about white genocide in south africa