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Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · Jun 8

Gotta get Shams on here

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Jun 8

I've made this point multiple times before but if Bluesky wants to grow, the things they need aren't opinion pundits but accounts that publish new information. That's breaking news reporters, politicians and stuff like official organization accounts that publish official statements.

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · Jun 5

Last week, @rhodesben.bsky.social and I did a Munk Debates against Kevin Roberts and Kellyanne Conway on whether Trump is leading America into a new golden age.

We won. This is from my closing statement.

There’s nothing golden about a movement that bathes in gratuitous cruelty.

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Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · May 29

Yeah I also took it as a bridge between cynical spy and rebel alliance, for both Andor’s character and the Rebellion as an organization.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · May 28

Most political commentators are too polite to say this, but Trump won because of his appeal to the most important voting bloc: morons. If the Democrats want to win again the answer isn’t becoming more left or more right, it’s coming up with dumb policies that morons like

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Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · May 24

Brock is going to fuck Geodude

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Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · May 23

Broken escalators are always temporarily stairs to me. Sorry for the convenience

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Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · May 23

That’s right

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · May 16

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · May 5

Waiting for an Animorphs reference before I pin it down

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Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · May 4

Anecdotally, I basically fell off of Marvel once the TV shows became too much to keep up with. After losing the completionist streak the movies lost a lot of their appeal too

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · May 3

Geez: www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · May 1

Luka tonight.

The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters

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Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · Apr 28

Had a similar experience this weekend. Was fully prepared to say it holds up surprisingly well in the face of lots of current IP slop but Ewan McGregor and the costume design are basically the only things that aren’t terrible.

JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · Apr 28

Went and saw Revenge of the Sith at the cinema tonight. I'm prime target for nostalgia, I was 13 when it came out, a huge SW fan.

It's irredeemably bad. I simply cannot understand the revisionism around it. My goodness.

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Daniel Thompson @dr-thompson.bsky.social · Apr 27

When I tell you I have NEVER seen a closer call on a buzzer beater 🤯🤯🤯 #NBASky #SkyHoops

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Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · Apr 27

Steph Curry is so goddamn good

Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · Apr 27

I have occasionally checked back in on Twitter and it’s amazing how completely different the feeds on these two apps are. People reading and discussing entirely disparate topics.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Apr 26

If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think.

Vichy Twitter not only changes what you read in the algorithmic tabs (which 99% of users use), it changes what you say by burying posts and topics that don't help Musk and Trump.

George Pearkes @peark.es · Apr 26

Just listened to this weeks episode of Offline (Crooked Media) and it was absolutely wild to hear the house and admit that they had not heard anything about Chris Van Holland or Corey Booker or the protest we’ve seen so far in April on Twitter.

Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · Apr 26

I think Marvel just obscured the inevitability that streaming entertainment has just really diminished the audience for theatrical movies. It may not be that movies are doing something wrong they can fix, there’s just not as much demand.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 24

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · Apr 24

This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail

“[DOGE staffers] went into the system and they killed off people,” Glasgow told The Daily Beast. “About 4 million people, they marked them as dead. But they’re not sure if those people were supposed to be marked as dead, so they’re sending us an email saying, ‘If these people come into the office with their identification, you can reinstate them.’”

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Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · Apr 11

Civil War was a fine movie but its politics were too vague. wouldve been way better if Jesse Plemmons turned to the camera & said "i am not a cool guy" & then specified he doesn't support liberal democracy

Drew 🇺🇦 @generallybad.bsky.social · Apr 11

More fodder for my view that Stancilism is directionally correct but depends on everyone taking a good economy for granted. We might soon be in an environment where it's actually good that Democrats are pathologically compelled to focus on kitchen table issues.

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · Apr 11

Useful when thinking about “Dems need to be better at comms.” If events are clear-cut, people figure it out: