John the Haterade Baptist
@xtpd.bsky.social
“Woke shitpost pandertron” – he/him
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
I thought about saving "stolen squalor" to use in a novel featuring someone who grew up comfortably middle-class but claims hardscrabble working-class roots, but then I remembered I'd have to write the whole novel first, so I'm just posting it.
December 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I thought about saving "stolen squalor" to use in a novel featuring someone who grew up comfortably middle-class but claims hardscrabble working-class roots, but then I remembered I'd have to write the whole novel first, so I'm just posting it.
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
This more than anything has me convinced he's dying.
Hahaha, Jesus Christ
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump's hand-picked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says.
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This more than anything has me convinced he's dying.
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
There’s maybe like five thousand people in the entire country that care about this, touch grass
not releasing it will, in itself, also detract from their winning streak and make the inevitable leak of the text more of a news event.
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
December 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
There’s maybe like five thousand people in the entire country that care about this, touch grass
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
"No, you dont understand: our columnist was at a party thrown by a notorious child sec trafficker *with lots of other people,* so its fine"
Statement from the NYT, which is useful context, but still feel like you gotta mention it in the column!
December 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"No, you dont understand: our columnist was at a party thrown by a notorious child sec trafficker *with lots of other people,* so its fine"
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
Did you know your washing machine uses as much voltage as 200,000 human brains do in their entire lifetime... every FEMTOSECOND?!
(I know what voltage means. I will block you and curse your family for a thousand generations if you explain to me why I'm horribly wrong)
(I know what voltage means. I will block you and curse your family for a thousand generations if you explain to me why I'm horribly wrong)
It’s true. Every single Bluesky post I write uses about 500watts. My posting is enough to power a small city
Things one says when one's war on reality reaches 'desperate last stand'
December 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Did you know your washing machine uses as much voltage as 200,000 human brains do in their entire lifetime... every FEMTOSECOND?!
(I know what voltage means. I will block you and curse your family for a thousand generations if you explain to me why I'm horribly wrong)
(I know what voltage means. I will block you and curse your family for a thousand generations if you explain to me why I'm horribly wrong)
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
If we're going to do an aesthetic criticism of the white house we could start with what Trump hates about it, it's relative simplicity and modesty.
December 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
If we're going to do an aesthetic criticism of the white house we could start with what Trump hates about it, it's relative simplicity and modesty.
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
I actually think it's even more specific.
The most important quality is never, ever being Owned, in the dril sense.
The thing is that being earnest and devoted to a fallible thing basically always makes you in danger of being Owned.
The most important quality is never, ever being Owned, in the dril sense.
The thing is that being earnest and devoted to a fallible thing basically always makes you in danger of being Owned.
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I actually think it's even more specific.
The most important quality is never, ever being Owned, in the dril sense.
The thing is that being earnest and devoted to a fallible thing basically always makes you in danger of being Owned.
The most important quality is never, ever being Owned, in the dril sense.
The thing is that being earnest and devoted to a fallible thing basically always makes you in danger of being Owned.
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
Bro, do you know how much shit I’ve eaten over people being like “your prediction didn’t come true”, I don’t even at this point I don’t even engage with why that’s right or wrong. I just let them dunk on me.
i think that grace comes from the acceptance that being corncobbed is one of life's unavoidable downsides, and that it doesn't have to be a badge of shame.
December 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Bro, do you know how much shit I’ve eaten over people being like “your prediction didn’t come true”, I don’t even at this point I don’t even engage with why that’s right or wrong. I just let them dunk on me.
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
Imagine a future where Calvin and Hobbes enters the Paramount-Netflix-Warner Brothers-Disney IP katarami and in the 12th Thor movie the Avengers travel the multiverse and assemble a team made up of Elsa, the Animaniacs, Spock, and Hobbes, to fight Darth Vader and Vecna in the Upside Down. Bliss
this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt
December 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Imagine a future where Calvin and Hobbes enters the Paramount-Netflix-Warner Brothers-Disney IP katarami and in the 12th Thor movie the Avengers travel the multiverse and assemble a team made up of Elsa, the Animaniacs, Spock, and Hobbes, to fight Darth Vader and Vecna in the Upside Down. Bliss
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
It's easy to dunk on liberals with something like 'why can't liberalism build anything as interesting as Soviet towers or Mussolini's monuments' but the more interesting question is the opposite, why does everyone with strong opinions on monumental architecture turn out to be politically insane.
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It's easy to dunk on liberals with something like 'why can't liberalism build anything as interesting as Soviet towers or Mussolini's monuments' but the more interesting question is the opposite, why does everyone with strong opinions on monumental architecture turn out to be politically insane.
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
In retrospect McMansion Hell focusing entirely on aesthetic choices instead of how the houses are an extremely inefficient use of their land was a bad sign.
December 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In retrospect McMansion Hell focusing entirely on aesthetic choices instead of how the houses are an extremely inefficient use of their land was a bad sign.
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
I'm confused as a logical leap she makes about halfway through, that ideological unity - defined here is having sufficient toadies to bulldoze a historical building (which, show your work), is inherently successful.
they don't even have plans!
they don't even have plans!
December 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I'm confused as a logical leap she makes about halfway through, that ideological unity - defined here is having sufficient toadies to bulldoze a historical building (which, show your work), is inherently successful.
they don't even have plans!
they don't even have plans!
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
![one of the evrarts portrait with my post that says [most viscerally personally unplesant person you've ever met] i'm going to lead a mass movement of the workers
really though this is unfair, evrart is way less personally unpleasant than a lot of people, he's just a dick to harry and for good reason](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lwyj6wji6wtwx3krr4q47rcp/bafkreifkgk6srh73pm5vjiosrlgebhh6l75lgxth74skx5jx3fjksvmlq4@jpeg)
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
there is, of course, a connection between architectural taste and ideology. i am criticizing her belief, expressed here and elsewhere, that ideology is wholly constituted of architectural taste, and that fascism is preferable to liberalism on those grounds. (there could not be other grounds.)
December 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
there is, of course, a connection between architectural taste and ideology. i am criticizing her belief, expressed here and elsewhere, that ideology is wholly constituted of architectural taste, and that fascism is preferable to liberalism on those grounds. (there could not be other grounds.)
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
it's 2025. how long do we have to live in 2016. how fucking long
December 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
it's 2025. how long do we have to live in 2016. how fucking long
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
one reason we have to bully the yglesiases of the world harder is because there are a bunch of people whose sole reading consists of Posts who are angrily reposting this demanding dem electeds stop being matt yglesias on this issue
New Quinnipiac poll:
57% favor path to legalization for undocs vs 35% who back deporting them
Trump underwater on immigration (44-54) and on deportations (42-55)
Meanwhile DHS's Twitter feed is a white nationalist sewer pit and Gregory Bovino is swaggering around like an occupying general
57% favor path to legalization for undocs vs 35% who back deporting them
Trump underwater on immigration (44-54) and on deportations (42-55)
Meanwhile DHS's Twitter feed is a white nationalist sewer pit and Gregory Bovino is swaggering around like an occupying general
December 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
one reason we have to bully the yglesiases of the world harder is because there are a bunch of people whose sole reading consists of Posts who are angrily reposting this demanding dem electeds stop being matt yglesias on this issue
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
dawg what
Trump has added new plaques under his ‘presidential walk of fame’ in the White House.
On Obama: “Barack Hussein Obama was the first Black President…One of the most divisive political figures in American history.”
On Biden: “Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History...”
On Obama: “Barack Hussein Obama was the first Black President…One of the most divisive political figures in American history.”
On Biden: “Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History...”
December 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
dawg what
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
this sentence is just "after Hitler, our turn" from a blank-eyed aesthete whose entire political program consists of her preferences about what buildings should look like
"Unlike the left and especially unlike liberals, the right has assembled for itself an aesthetic program, an answer to what the future should look like, slopified as it may be. Indeed, like all fascists, its broader program is to aestheticize politics itself." It's a good article.
December 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
this sentence is just "after Hitler, our turn" from a blank-eyed aesthete whose entire political program consists of her preferences about what buildings should look like
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
the annoying thing about this dumb piece is that i think there's actually a decent essay topic buried in it (the architectural aesthetic of authoritarians vs. the [perceived] limited horizons of technocracy) but the writer hates liberals so much that she can't get out of her own way to write it.
December 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
the annoying thing about this dumb piece is that i think there's actually a decent essay topic buried in it (the architectural aesthetic of authoritarians vs. the [perceived] limited horizons of technocracy) but the writer hates liberals so much that she can't get out of her own way to write it.
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
I think there’s some unproductive AI-Luddism (colloquial usage, you know what I mean, don’t be annoying), but also it’s extremely obvious where it came from and AI companies share a large portion of the blame with how they’ve framed things.
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I think there’s some unproductive AI-Luddism (colloquial usage, you know what I mean, don’t be annoying), but also it’s extremely obvious where it came from and AI companies share a large portion of the blame with how they’ve framed things.
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
I think this is an unfair criticism, even though I don’t really like the tiktok divestiture act. Trump has been blatantly violating the terms of the act for the entire term.
Hi Senator, excuse me for jumping in, but... while I agree with you that this is really damaging, I couldn't help but notice YOU VOTED FOR THE FREAKING BILL THAT GAVE TRUMP THIS POWER (which some of us warned you not to do).
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
December 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I think this is an unfair criticism, even though I don’t really like the tiktok divestiture act. Trump has been blatantly violating the terms of the act for the entire term.
Reposted by John the Haterade Baptist
Today I learned, thanks to @matthew.flux.community, that in 2014 Ben Shapiro appeared as a guest on a show run by a neo-Nazi. It was an entirely friendly conversation about how liberal Jews who hate white people, straight people, and Christians took over Hollywood and have brainwashed the nation.
September 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Today I learned, thanks to @matthew.flux.community, that in 2014 Ben Shapiro appeared as a guest on a show run by a neo-Nazi. It was an entirely friendly conversation about how liberal Jews who hate white people, straight people, and Christians took over Hollywood and have brainwashed the nation.