|
Andrew Kurjata
@akurjata.ca
[ View ] |
It's wild that Trump has been more disciplined at staying off of Twitter than 98 per cent of journalists.
0 replies 1 reposts 5 likes
|
|
Laef@laef.bsky.social |
38 followers 62 following 69 posts
i run VoteMate.org. aspiring to be a journalist and no longer be a software dev
|
|
Andrew Kurjata
@akurjata.ca
[ View ] |
It's wild that Trump has been more disciplined at staying off of Twitter than 98 per cent of journalists.
0 replies 1 reposts 5 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If sloth not friend, why sloth friend shaped?
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
My impression from the debate was Biden was at his best/least-bad when he was angry about Trump. Focusing on doing that as much as possible (be it Biden or Harris that delivers the message) would be really, really good.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
As best I can tell, anytime Trump gets himself in the news that normies consume, people remember how much they hate him and his voting intention numbers sink (or Biden's rise). Making the DNC all about Trump would be a good idea. Making it all horse-racw between a bunch of governors seems less so?
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Thicc Semper Tyrannis
@scriban.bsky.social
[ View ] |
NYT says their performance on Threads today was an aberration, & not indicative of deeper problems they've had with social media. Unfortunately, that hasn't satisfied many observers whose concerns are growing louder. The stakes are too high. For the good of the news, the Times should step aside
12 replies 235 reposts 982 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
"Biden stepped down so late. Does that indicate a lack of confidence in your ability to lead, or even win this election?" And, anytime they run out of questions, it'll be: "Do you think Biden should have stepped down sooner?"
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Just reupping www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
10 replies 88 reposts 217 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Less of an "Import your old Twitter" and more of a "Decide what you want your social feeds to be and contain".
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I follow a couple accounts that post and repost a lot, so it's honestly not that empty for me? I feel like it's a good opportunity to branch out a little and follow some accounts you wouldn't otherwise (probably by scrolling the Discover feed and seeing what resonates)!
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Obviously they shouldn't delete the records until they've mailed every debtor a letter, signed by Joe Biden, explaining that he's forgiven their debt "despite what the corrupt Republican Supreme Court says", and asking them to write back and tell him what they'll spend their money on now
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It'd be a broadly popular move, and Biden could have a moment where he leans into a microphone and says something like "What happened to your $10k student loan debt? Guess Sleepy Joe just forgot about it."
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Thinking of other @mtsw.bsky.social style trolling Biden could do with the immunity decision. Could he instruct his Education Secretary to just erase all student loans and delete the files, then pardon the Secretary and staff?
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
[ View ] |
/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
40 replies 894 reposts 2791 likes
|
Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
[ View ] |
throughout the Trump immunity decision, the Court champions the idea of an unfettered, uninhibited President. the darkest part of the opinion isn’t that it paves the way for an authoritarian leader, it’s that it yearns for one
15 replies 167 reposts 909 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I'm guessing most of these people hate Harris because she's a Black woman who's proximate to power. Which explains why they like Michelle Obama: her husband's no longer the sitting president and, as Bouie's pointed out, she's not seeking office.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Seems like everyone suggesting Michelle Obama is doing so because they need to not appear racist after saying Harris should step aside for (waves hand) unlikeableness, but none of them can think of any other Black women. Kind of damning.
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
They get to say "I told you so" so rarely. If Biden loses on election night, they'll get to say it again, and if he wins, well, this victory lap will be carefully swept under the rug
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A major factor in the panic we're seeing from the Times et al regarding Biden right now is that reporters and pundits who made Biden's age a key factor in the first place, rightly it wrongly, are now taking a victory lap
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
@robjackel.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I saw that debate, panicked at what I saw, realized Trump could really win, instantly donated money to my Senator's reelection campaign, called the Biden office to volunteer, and got a dozen voter registration forms to sign up my neighbors. Uncle Joe needs our help!
2 replies 3 reposts 27 likes
|
John Dellaporta
@johndellaporta.bsky.social
[ View ] |
A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
71 replies 1223 reposts 3770 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I'm waiting on 700 words from Maureen Dowd to help me make up my mind
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
He needs to highlight that more. Before he goes on stage for the next debate, his team need to whisper a new horrifying leaked fact about Trump to whip him into a fervor. Not for him to quote on stage, but just to make him angry.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If Congressional Democrats aren't going to start doing show trials looking into Supreme Court corruption and bad jurisprudence, is there anything Biden can do? Form a Presidential Commission on Judicial Misconduct with televised hearings, perhaps?
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
if Biden wants to stay in the race he needs to do this. Just flood the zone with media appearences and get people used to stammering old guy Biden as something that's normal (or ideally a better version where he's not stammering old guy). Hiding out won't work.
15 replies 44 reposts 255 likes
|
Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Oh OK January 6 was legal, everyone storm Mar A Lago and burn it to the ground and make sure you get the room where Trump was holding the nuclear secrets to sell because he's not going to jail for that either
9 replies 63 reposts 298 likes
|
|
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
the Gang of Six doing a solid for their fascist footsoldiers. Impunity for the J6 insurrectionists will embolden the next attempt at overthrowing the government.
8 replies 60 reposts 187 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Good work from the Times' photo editor: Juxtaposing the Supreme Court's ruling with the reality of January 6th People need to be reminded what J6 was like
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Hopefully this is a wakeup call for the Biden team. They need Biden to be angry, fired up, and calling him "convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump" every chance he has
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com
[ View ] |
President Biden and former president Donald Trump traded barbs over Trump’s felony conviction in his New York hush money trial during Thursday's debate.
Biden addressed Trump’s case directly by saying Trump had sex with a porn star while his wife was pregnant. wapo.st/4eICoud
11 replies 20 reposts 123 likes
|
|
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Joe Brandon, sir. I will serve if called upon to fix your comms shop
0 replies 5 reposts 77 likes
|
b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
[ View ] |
they are letting trump monologue and finish his statements and cutting off biden
30 replies 116 reposts 653 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Arguably, Picard would have been better with seven seasons. Sticking to the original idea of only bringing one or two TNG characters back per season would have saved us so much of the season 3 pain
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
But I remember Brew from the last time I used Mac (2020) and I doubt it's improved since, so that keeps me at bay
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I'm about at the state of Linux Beard where I switch to macOS because it syncs with my phone
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It's me, I'm some nerd
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If you're having trouble with your computer and you feel like technology hates you, just remember: There's some nerd out there running Linux who has it worse
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
[ View ] |
one of the things i am fascinated by in a “i’m disturbed” way is the proliferation of absolutely rabid, jim crow-style anti-black racism among some subset of young white people. it’s a kind of burning hatred and disgust that i like, never experienced growing up
43 replies 55 reposts 621 likes
|
|
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Create some drama around it maybe, promise a "major announcement about Donald Trump's security clearences" to air live on TV tomorrow and then spend the first 10 minutes bragging about the economy before saying you're suspending it until he's sentenced (letting you do the same stunt again after)
6 replies 38 reposts 299 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Nothing against @caseynewton.bsky.social's work here. I'm just pretty sure at this point that none of the solutions OpenAI is suggesting (or technical solutions in general) will pan out, and really OpenAI is just proposing them as a way of deflecting real, workable action (whatever that might be)
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
How do you stop banks from getting robbed? Jesse James has some ideas.
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Same deal with newer Star Trek. Discovery's Harry Mudd episodes and the recent time bug episode stand out, while a lot of the serialised overarching story episodes do not. Strange New Worlds mostly works *because* most of the episodes are self-contained.
0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes
|
Tim Onion
@bencollins.bsky.social
[ View ] |
We've seen places like Defector, Dropout, 404, Aftermath work and we were heartened by it. Media can work, but you can't expect it to be this infinite growth nightmare, and these places proved it. We're gonna use those good lessons and apply them here, lucky to already have a thing people love.
9 replies 9 reposts 179 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Listening to a Scheduling Error in E Minor
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I'm trying to genericize the trademark
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
When Apple's being clever about its anti-competitiveness, it makes sure it's still possible for you to use non-Apple offerings with Apple offerings... But only if you're tech-saavy enough.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If Musk is smart (big "if" there), he'll just do a death-by-a-thousand-cuts exercise over five years to make the superchargers just incredibly inconvenient or seemingly impossible (but not technically impossible!) for non-Tesla owners.
1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Laef
@laef.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Overcast for iOS and Podcast Republic for Android. In both cases, beyond their generally slick design and longer feature lists (especially Podcast Republic, which has settings for *everything*), I chose them because they support having multiple playlists.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Tim Onion
@bencollins.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Figured it out thanks
126 replies 797 reposts 5527 likes
|
|
Tim Onion
@bencollins.bsky.social
[ View ] |
NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO. We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and will share the wealth with staff. Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want. Get excited.
765 replies 2096 reposts 9882 likes
|
executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Tom Cotton is too cowardly to speak on the true issue: Sending The National Guard to Paramount Studios to make them make Star Trek seasons 23 episodes long again
17 replies 63 reposts 452 likes