Seth Falstein
@sethfalstein.bsky.social
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proud to announce that i have just discovered the most needless thing that has ever existed: a pop-up ai summary of the nfl sunday ticket chat window that's open to all viewers
December 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
proud to announce that i have just discovered the most needless thing that has ever existed: a pop-up ai summary of the nfl sunday ticket chat window that's open to all viewers
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Leo Messi finally wins the one trophy he's pursued his entire life: MLS Cup.
Now officially the GOAT.
Now officially the GOAT.
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Leo Messi finally wins the one trophy he's pursued his entire life: MLS Cup.
Now officially the GOAT.
Now officially the GOAT.
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I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants
May 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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[email protected] brings together Obama’s sense of ‘us’ and Bernie’s honesty about a ‘them’ who profit when we’re divided. In a city where the whole world lives side by side, the closeness of so much difference reminds us how much we share and how empty the politics of fear really are.
October 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
[email protected] brings together Obama’s sense of ‘us’ and Bernie’s honesty about a ‘them’ who profit when we’re divided. In a city where the whole world lives side by side, the closeness of so much difference reminds us how much we share and how empty the politics of fear really are.
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I've never in my life doubted the Seattle Mariners
October 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I've never in my life doubted the Seattle Mariners
When Florida sends its people, they’re not sending their best.
Federal authorities in Los Angeles arrested a 29-year-old Uber driver who appeared to be obsessed with fire in connection with the wildfire that devastated the Pacific Palisades in January, killing 12 people. nyti.ms/42SMJ2L
October 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
When Florida sends its people, they’re not sending their best.
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AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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This whole section really.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This whole section really.
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one of the weirder parts of this wave of total surrender of core civil liberties is there is no fucking reason for it. no world war 2, not even a 9/11. we're just bored and mad
September 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
one of the weirder parts of this wave of total surrender of core civil liberties is there is no fucking reason for it. no world war 2, not even a 9/11. we're just bored and mad
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I'm not "doing nothing" i'm acting as a 'control' for social science experiments.
September 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'm not "doing nothing" i'm acting as a 'control' for social science experiments.
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In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
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Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos
September 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos
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I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
In case it ever comes up: I am categorically opposed to political violence and assassination. It is both morally wrong and almost always ineffective at achieving positive social change. It is, bluntly, a net negative for society.
September 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In case it ever comes up: I am categorically opposed to political violence and assassination. It is both morally wrong and almost always ineffective at achieving positive social change. It is, bluntly, a net negative for society.
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Guy who shrieked about tyranny when they closed Applebees during a pandemic: Mr President sir I saw a homeless man downtown today please send in the 82nd Airborne
September 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Guy who shrieked about tyranny when they closed Applebees during a pandemic: Mr President sir I saw a homeless man downtown today please send in the 82nd Airborne
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"literally the only people who uphold any conservative principles are liberals" is a huge part of the story of how we got here, too — because they'd constantly do it *even at the expense of liberal principles*
September 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"literally the only people who uphold any conservative principles are liberals" is a huge part of the story of how we got here, too — because they'd constantly do it *even at the expense of liberal principles*
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Someone get these absolute crashout crybabies back to Fort Lauderdale before someone gets hurt man god damn
September 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Someone get these absolute crashout crybabies back to Fort Lauderdale before someone gets hurt man god damn
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There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
August 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
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Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
August 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
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There are a whole lot of people in media who hold opinions that they know will ostracize them from liberal polite society and whose entire output is now explaining to liberals to drop their objections to those opinions, not for them obviously, but because "the voters" demand it.
This line of argument, which launders one's own opinions through the "voter" is getting so fucking tedious. You say what you want, man.
August 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There are a whole lot of people in media who hold opinions that they know will ostracize them from liberal polite society and whose entire output is now explaining to liberals to drop their objections to those opinions, not for them obviously, but because "the voters" demand it.