Tony Baloney
@twotone.bsky.social
I'm just here to fart around.
(He/Him) 🇵🇸
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This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.
The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.
"Dad works too much" films are an economic indicator.
December 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"Dad works too much" films are an economic indicator.
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Israel is raining bombs on Gaza again, including the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, making a complete ass out of anyone still sincerely claiming there is a “ceasefire”.
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Israel is raining bombs on Gaza again, including the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, making a complete ass out of anyone still sincerely claiming there is a “ceasefire”.
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Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
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Dandadan is a trip sometimes. It's taken several classic anime/manga formulas and mixed them together. The result is something familiar, yet unique.
It's also just a joy to watch.
It's also just a joy to watch.
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Dandadan is a trip sometimes. It's taken several classic anime/manga formulas and mixed them together. The result is something familiar, yet unique.
It's also just a joy to watch.
It's also just a joy to watch.
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they invented a technology that makes you worse at your job while convincing you you’re better at it. also your boss has to believe you’re better at it or else the entire economy explodes. they made the sophon from three body problem in real life
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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October 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
they invented a technology that makes you worse at your job while convincing you you’re better at it. also your boss has to believe you’re better at it or else the entire economy explodes. they made the sophon from three body problem in real life
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Conservatives think that lefties are paid to protest because they know all their protests are funded by dark money billionaires and don’t think anyone else would ever do it unless they were paid.
October 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Conservatives think that lefties are paid to protest because they know all their protests are funded by dark money billionaires and don’t think anyone else would ever do it unless they were paid.
I wanna conquer the world
Give all the idiots a brand-new religion
Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness, and toil
Promote equality in all of my decisions
🤟
Give all the idiots a brand-new religion
Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness, and toil
Promote equality in all of my decisions
🤟
October 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I wanna conquer the world
Give all the idiots a brand-new religion
Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness, and toil
Promote equality in all of my decisions
🤟
Give all the idiots a brand-new religion
Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness, and toil
Promote equality in all of my decisions
🤟
The Protomen are finally releasing Act III—I can't believe it.
I guess it's a little appropriate, considering the themes of Acts I and II, and you know...
*gestures at everything*
I guess it's a little appropriate, considering the themes of Acts I and II, and you know...
*gestures at everything*
October 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Protomen are finally releasing Act III—I can't believe it.
I guess it's a little appropriate, considering the themes of Acts I and II, and you know...
*gestures at everything*
I guess it's a little appropriate, considering the themes of Acts I and II, and you know...
*gestures at everything*
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a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
Watching the new Superman, and I gotta say, I dig it.
September 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Watching the new Superman, and I gotta say, I dig it.
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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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Its actually breathtaking how bluesky has not fallen on the right side of a single massive moderation issue. Not ONE TIME have they made the right choice.
September 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Its actually breathtaking how bluesky has not fallen on the right side of a single massive moderation issue. Not ONE TIME have they made the right choice.
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From an Atlantic editor.
I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
September 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
From an Atlantic editor.
I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
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there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
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"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure
September 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure
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The idea that there is a "Left" in American politics is an absurd right wing fantasy, which of course is politically useful to them, but unfortunately it's also useful to centrist media figures who need it to be true for their somber above-it-all commentary to make sense
September 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The idea that there is a "Left" in American politics is an absurd right wing fantasy, which of course is politically useful to them, but unfortunately it's also useful to centrist media figures who need it to be true for their somber above-it-all commentary to make sense
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And round and round it goes.
September 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
And round and round it goes.
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I don't think it's cruel or "too soon" to suggest that we actually remember Kirk for who he was. As Voltaire wrote, "The living deserve our respect. The dead deserve only the truth."
September 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I don't think it's cruel or "too soon" to suggest that we actually remember Kirk for who he was. As Voltaire wrote, "The living deserve our respect. The dead deserve only the truth."