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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 34m

i think it’s noteworthy that a lot of centrist pundits have decided to just take it as a given that jd vance lies constantly and to treat this as almost part of his intellectual program so that only gauche rubes would bother to mention or care about it.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h

SERPICO 2020 let's green light this

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 15h

I was thinking more of a cop falling into Candy Crush

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 15h

Tron 2025 should have been about a guy getting pulled inside a freemium time-waster phone game

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 15h

Also to the extent anything did give the original Tron any cachet at the time it was the idea of immersing a person inside a computer game; the trailers for this were like, what if glowing zappy power-things were zooming around regular life smashing things up, like any and every Marvel movie?

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 16h

Diane Keaton was so cool she singlehandedly turned an otherwise unwatchable Woody Allen movie about Woody Allen having sex into one of the greatest movies of all time.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 20h

This Bluesky is about the Machines

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks Google for sending more robots to read through my email to produce this very useful and informative new feature

Screenshot from Gmail of a "Happening soon" box with a tiny photo of a bottle of orange juice and the message "39 items from Fresh Direct / Expected tomorrow," directly above an email line with the sender "FreshDirect" and the subject line beginning "Your order for Sunday,"

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks Google for sending more robots to read through my email to produce this very useful and informative new feature

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23h

Times headline writers literally do not believe headlines are for saying what the news is; headlines are for showing that the paper is reserving judgment about events and not getting carried away

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23h

This isn’t really a classic both-sides treatment, it’s more the institutional rule that it’s rude and unsophisticated to summarize the facts of a situation in a headline if you can write an archly detached vague understatement instead

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23h

This isn’t really a classic both-sides treatment, it’s more the institutional rule that it’s rude and unsophisticated to summarize the facts of a situation in a headline if you can write an archly detached vague understatement instead

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

“The fact that figures like Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have seemingly done better — or at the very least no worse — than credentialed diplomatic professionals has striking implications for how we think about expertise in foreign policy” hmm also the fact that they take huge foreign bribes—?

Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 1d

In his foreign policy, Trump launches illegal attacks, murders people, and starts pointless and destructive trade wars. Is that what Douthat wants at home? Because he’s already getting it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | Why Can’t Trump’s Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy?

www.nytimes.com

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

LOL nah good night, if they don't care, I don't need to care

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

Like how can we have endless pieces about fucking dissertation plagiarism and not one about "the spokesperson for DHS tells specific, easily-disproven lies constantly to provide cover for serious crimes against the public" how is that not a big deal? Do I have to write this shit myself?!?!?

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

You got an extra "not" in there

Steve @steve5kxc.bsky.social · 1d

Springsteen has never not been cool.

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 2d

This has been one of the biggest things the Trump admin has changed my mind about. I used to be indifferent to billionaires, but I no longer find that an option.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Just gonna note that this blog was published long before Elon Musk climbed the list

Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 2d

My favorite formulation of this one remains @tomscocca.bsky.social 's: hmmdaily.com/2018/10/16/n... so short, yet convincing

No Billionaires

hmmdaily.com

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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 2d

My favorite formulation of this one remains @tomscocca.bsky.social 's: hmmdaily.com/2018/10/16/n... so short, yet convincing

No Billionaires

hmmdaily.com

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Big talk from somebody who only managed to publish maybe like two blogs a day on her fully staffed website

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the full memo.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah the only person dumb enough to believe him saying that about Musk would be Musk

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel is such a devoutly unhinged liar that mentally or morally normal human beings have real trouble grasping that he never, ever means a single thing he says, so it's helpful when he throws in one that's so blatant as to give the whole game away www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Thiel had kinder words about Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to the recordings, calling the entrepreneur, who has recently praised Christianity, one of the “smarter, more thoughtful people,” he knows.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Oh right January 2024, when the news stopped talking about the price of groceries because prices had returned to their normal rate of increase

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus that was like a brainstorming session for finding the worst possible way to lose

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INDIGNITY @indignity.bsky.social · 2d

Facebook friends, it's time for MR WRONG: "I am not a dispenser of Medical Advice or Diagnosis, but if anybody at your next Medical encounter says words to the effect of “How’s it goin’? Be ready to tell ‘em stuff, don’t be shy or polite, lean in!"
www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-cold-medicine/

MR WRONG: Cold medicine

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 181

www.indignity.net

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Wow looks like you can have all kinds of different records and be home watching the playoffs

chadmasterclass.bsky.social @chadmasterclass.bsky.social · 2d

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Look, factually,Johnny Cash did spend a lot of years being uncool, but not less cool than Bruce Springsteen

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