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I'm a newsletter (and sometimes other stuff) about the internet (and sometimes other stuff)
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Fagatha Harkness @dominicontheweb.bsky.social · 7h
I do feel like @garbageday.email hit the nail on the head earlier this week when they said we’re essentially in a very slow moving Civil War.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h
I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
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Emily @emilyswrites.bsky.social · 2d
Good recap in today’s @garbageday.email
- by Adam Bumas Usually, arguments on Bluesky aren’t newsworthy enough to cover. But an argument that started last week has drawn in the site’s developers and owners, led to action outside the website’s moderation system, and has probably been the most serious test of the platform’s social fabric since the post-Trump 2.0 exodus. Like most Bluesky beef, it started with people who couldn’t agree on how seriously to take a post. Jay Graber, the site’s cofounder and CEO, was joking around last week with a developer and board member for the site, Jerry Chen. Chen quoted the old “So you hate waffles?” meme about Twitter arguments, and Graber replied “Too real. We’re going to try to fix this. Social media doesn’t have to be this way.” User antioccident then asked, “have y’all banned Jesse Singal yet or”, and Graber replied “WAFFLES.” It is true that this is the usual way Bluesky arguments start, but it’s also not weird to hold the person in charge of a website to more serious standards on that website. As Anil Dash wrote, “If you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period.” But Graber has unfortunately responded by posting through it, making jokes that were picked up by Singal (the anti-trans journalist who became the most-blocked account on Bluesky last year after attempting to “colonize” the platform). To make things worse, Graber is also seriously defending herself, trying to frame pissing off the site’s users as an effort to drive decentralization, while also allegedly hiding posts and banning users who criticize her, without the site’s usual moderation system. Given the people who are still angry about Singal’s presence were already unhappy with Bluesky’s new community guidelines, it’s easy to see why this is such an adversarial move by Graber that she’s even drawing comparisons to Something Awful’s Lowtax.
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Victor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social · 2d
On the AI bubble, from the latest @garbageday.email newsletter
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 5d
...we have what now?
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 5d
Still impressed there are not one, not two, but three different muscular Garfields
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 5d
We've got some absolutely bonkers guests and episodes lined up!
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Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · 5d
Every month, we write about the most popular content around the internet. For the first time, I'm proud to say that we're on our own list! @panicworld.com was Patreon's fastest-growing podcast last month.
Despite this, there’s one source of news about the shooting that’s gotten a lot of attention in September: Us, apparently. According to Graphtreon, Panic World was the fastest-growing Patreon in September for the “podcast” category, with over 1,300 new subscribers this month. Our own reckoning puts as as number 12 across the whole website — first place, of course, goes to a porn game with over 3,300 new Patrons — but we’ve never even come close to making our own lists before, so we think we’ve earned the brag.
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Another Subculture @anothersubculture.co.uk · 5d
Joined the @garbageday.email Discord and my phone is now buzzing with "User Reacted With Adrian Chiles", now there's a vision of social media for the future
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 15d
the matching shirts 😍
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Grant Irving @grantirving.bsky.social · 16d
As someone who’s already a professional podcaster, this is humiliating to type, but today I became a streamer. @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social and I discuss Kirk fall out and if the admin pushed too far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ay...
The Charlie Kirk memorial and what comes next
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 16d
That was fun—thanks to all who joined!
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 16d
Surprise! We're currently live on Twitch and YouTube!
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 16d
Surprise! We're currently live on Twitch and YouTube!
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Sophie Hell 😈 @sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 20d
Keep thinking about this bit from @garbageday.email. "The American right wing finally gets to be the victims they’ve always seen themselves as."
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Zac Bentz but LESS scary @zacbentz.com · 26d
an uplifting read from @garbageday.email
Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme
Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 26d
Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 26d
going out to everyone
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 26d
We're on it. Issue incoming.
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Phobos 🌈 @phoboscosplay.com · 26d
I feel like it's a mission for @garbageday.email and their team
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 29d
It was very important to Adam to include this fun fact.
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Adam Bumas @bumas.bsky.social · Sep 8
Today's @garbageday.email reminds you that facts don't care about your feelings.

www.garbageday.email/p/nate-silve...
Also, Adam wanted me to mention here that about 5-10% of the most popular posts on Bluesky — 1,000 likes or more — are actually just cartoon erotica. Which no one seems to mention when they talk about the influence of the platform.
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Doug @dougmasson.bsky.social · Aug 25
Fascinating write-up of some of the social media dynamics underpinning the most recent Cracker Barrell dust-up.

(H/t @flotisserie.bsky.social for cluing me into @garbageday.email).
A/B testing your anti-woke meltdown
Read to the end for some real good copyright infringement
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · Aug 6
it's lower in the newsletter!
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · Aug 6
some thoughts on Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros www.garbageday.email/p/can-people...
A screenshot from an issue of the Garbage Day newsletter that reads "This is NOT “stomp clap hey ho indie,” as I’ve seen users on X claim. This is obviously closer to recession-era folk or folk punk, which came years before. It was smellier and annoying in a totally different way. “Stomp clap hey ho indie,” which arrived around 2011-2012, was made by Mormons, midwesteners that were functionally Mormon, or British nepo babies and it was explicitly written to cash in on the need for Silicon Valley Keynote background music or plantation weddings where all the drinks are served in mason jars. Bands like Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros were involved with dangerously insane cults, hung out with people who ate trash and tattooed their dogs, and made songs that sounded like they were written by preschool teachers suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. Thank you!!"
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · Aug 6
There just simply has to be more to YouTube than sad, AI-generated cats. www.garbageday.email/p/can-people...
Can people make stuff on YouTube still?
Read to the end for Gus, 2007
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · Aug 6
hell yeah
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · Aug 1
I had to read the phrase "matcha pilates in bali before a labubu rave" so now you do too www.garbageday.email/p/kamala-s-p...
Kamala's perpetual "Veep" episode
Read to the end for volunteer firefighter Spike the Bearded Dragon
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · Jul 31
read to the end for a subtle message from the @dropkickmurphys.com
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The future of MAGA after Trump
Read to the end for a subtle message from The Dropkick Murphys
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · Jul 31
slipped a disc reading this graf in @garbageday.email, invoicing you for my medical bills @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social: www.garbageday.email/p/the-future...
Shocking news from the crypto world. A theoretically funny memecoin seems to have been a scam the whole time. The latest offender is a Solana-based coin called “360noscope420blazeit”, or just MLG for short. The token’s value zoomed up and back down again within 24 hours earlier this week, but it’s been around since last year. Before the spike, the most attention it got was in January after endorsements by offshore-casino-made-flesh Adin Ross and multiple members of FaZe Clan — once the world’s biggest esports team, now a cautionary tale about internet success, and the same kind of nostalgic punchline as saying, “MLG,” is.
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