Noah Brand
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Noah Brand
@noahbrand.bsky.social
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Pronouns: male. Persona: genially pedantic. Misses: the internet circa 2005.
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This was an interview with me, posted by Sergio Olmos in late July 2020. It got retweeted by Rachel Maddow, which was validating.
I once bought a "Lager & Lime" flavored condom in England.
50s-60s Lois Lane is such a fucking bizarre character.

It's like there was an editorial meeting where a bunch of dudes tried to imagine what personality traits a woman might have, got as far as "stupid" and figured that was plenty.
I am also (probably) alive because of the ACA, and I defend it on that basis.

"Obamacare was a sellout half-measure that doesn't do anything meaningful!"

"Okay, but I consider my existence meaningful."
this dickhead didn’t post this to bsky, but fuck you @talsmith.bsky.social . this legislation saved my life. condescending piece of shit.
VERY difficult not to read that signature on the marginal notes as "Horny Dorian".
As a Portland protestor of many years' experience, I endorse this message.
I think people legitimately don’t understand how much Portland A: hates being told what to do and B: loves any excuse to get fucking weird about it
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
As ever, they believe that the only job of the police is to shoot people.
Catholicism 🤝 Fitness culture
"Sin is only purged from
the body through suffering"
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An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
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To repeat it: the reason why Young Republicans are talking about loving Hitler and FedSoc judges are destroying the jurisprudence is because *they've never in their lives seen someone suffer for promoting those polices*. Not Newt, not Rush Limbaugh, not Scalia or Thomas, no one!
i mean it that we won't see a meaningful change in the GOP until folks like this spend the rest of their days in misery, and their kids reject them when they've reached the age. anything less and they'll think their gambits worth it!
It's interesting that they're explicitly trying to make themselves look cool by assaulting Americans. White Americans, even!

It seems in keeping with the fundamental promise of Trump 2.0, that he will indiscriminately harm people who Fox News viewers dislike.
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Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
www.nytimes.com
Okay, people, before we step on each other to prove who can be the most shocked and offended by Grant Morrison saying something bonkers, let's remember who Grant is.

This is the same person who once tried to reverse the cancellation of a comic book by using magical fanboy jizz.

AND IT WORKED.
Morrison invoking AI alike to "God" indicates a severe misunderstanding of how AI appropriates the work of thousands, including their own, and someone needs to rectify their understanding ASAP.

But also it's a severe disservice to their colleagues anyway to use it and justify it like this.
You know who ELSE wanted to build the largest possible triumphal arch?

That's right, I'm talking about Albert Speer.

Like it wasn't already obvious whose homework they're copying from...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germani...
Germania (city) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I've been working all year with protest organizers, and I can assure you that nobody, and I mean nobody, is a professional or has any signs of professionalism.
Actual kids would have spent three years perfecting ways of discreetly sneaking into the movie theater to check this stuff out, but I get it, it's a family strip.
That was an educational moment for young me. "Hey kids, corporate power makes the decisions behind the things you enjoy!"
You ever see the documentary TREKKIES?

Remember the "Spinerfem" lady who is in a committed relationship with Brent Spiner, and sometimes stares off at the hillside where she thinks he lives?

There are A LOT of people like that. Always have been. They're the ones loving their LLMs.
Damn hipsters were antifascist before it was cool.

In fairness, "antifa hipsters" is a whole demographic here in Portland, but still.
I love that he's down to having to use a blackboard. This dude used to have, like, a competent production team.
On a similar note, I don't think Jack the Ripper existed.

I think it's more likely that Victorian newspapers thought they saw a signal in the constant background noise of East End sex worker murders, and the public imagination seized on it and canonized it.
I know that, once the magazine was acquired by Warner Brothers, they would sometimes have parodies of big Warner blockbusters ready the day the movie came out.
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In 20 years, someone will make a fucking HILARIOUS espionage comedy set at Mar-A-Lago. A mixture of the worst spies in the world, and a few actual professionals who are constantly bored and annoyed.

"I spent months perfecting my background cover, and they didn't even CHECK it!"
I feel like most of them would be names we wouldn't recognize. Some asshole car dealer who was also a GOP committee head at the state level in 1975. Sideburns and a polyester tie, saying "Just don't let that little weasel anywhere near the convention" over his fourth bourbon.