J. Westerby
@jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social
Everything the Circus thinks is gold is shit.
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Increasingly certain that the big problems in our society are not just that everyone is twelve but also that everything is fandom.
I, too, am sick of hearing about Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza. But that's a side effect of one of the little-examined parts of this story: the medium itself. The incentive structure of newsletters has helped propel journalism into its YouTube drama channel era.
spitfirenews.com/p/olivia-nuz...
spitfirenews.com/p/olivia-nuz...
Nuzzigate is journalism's ‘Bye Sister’
This never-ending media saga mirrors the implosion of beauty YouTube.
spitfirenews.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Increasingly certain that the big problems in our society are not just that everyone is twelve but also that everything is fandom.
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celebrities: fandom
sports: fandom
big tech: fandom
MAGA: fandom
punditry: fandom
streamers: fandom
online activism: fandom - sorry, but it is
we are ruled by bad faith discourse running on the belief system and tactics of stan culture.
sports: fandom
big tech: fandom
MAGA: fandom
punditry: fandom
streamers: fandom
online activism: fandom - sorry, but it is
we are ruled by bad faith discourse running on the belief system and tactics of stan culture.
December 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
celebrities: fandom
sports: fandom
big tech: fandom
MAGA: fandom
punditry: fandom
streamers: fandom
online activism: fandom - sorry, but it is
we are ruled by bad faith discourse running on the belief system and tactics of stan culture.
sports: fandom
big tech: fandom
MAGA: fandom
punditry: fandom
streamers: fandom
online activism: fandom - sorry, but it is
we are ruled by bad faith discourse running on the belief system and tactics of stan culture.
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Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
intertapes.net
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
People tried to create corrupt motives for why Manchin was the way he was but the real answer is that he’s just not a very bright man. Which is saying a lot given his former colleagues.
So Joe Manchin doesn't understand the history of the filibuster - or the metaphorical use of "holy grail"
December 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
People tried to create corrupt motives for why Manchin was the way he was but the real answer is that he’s just not a very bright man. Which is saying a lot given his former colleagues.
There are certain accounts on here that you get the impression they consider themselves the wise ones up on the hill and the rest of us are all just silly children below posting along.
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
There are certain accounts on here that you get the impression they consider themselves the wise ones up on the hill and the rest of us are all just silly children below posting along.
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Moonraker promo (TVQ-10, 1990) : 8s
December 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Moonraker promo (TVQ-10, 1990) : 8s
“I’ll fight like hell to hide that I’ve given up”
December 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“I’ll fight like hell to hide that I’ve given up”
These people are going to hell.
December 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
These people are going to hell.
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looking great, sir
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
looking great, sir
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R U ok?
R U ok with paying 8 to 12 pct more in taxes and possibly losing your standard deduction ?
R U ok with losing access to different curative medications and care because the government can't afford to pay for them, even after taxing all the billionaires 90 pct?
R U ok with losing access to different curative medications and care because the government can't afford to pay for them, even after taxing all the billionaires 90 pct?
December 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
R U ok?
Respect to nightlymoth
Cool people are everywhere. This dude redid the audio for Bob Dylan’s Idiot Wind & posted it on the web. The performance is from a TV concert called Hard Rain. His substack post covers his process & links to the full film.
Idiot Wind - 5/23/1976
Fort Collins, CO
youtu.be/8dxzGAuFITo
#musicsky
Idiot Wind - 5/23/1976
Fort Collins, CO
youtu.be/8dxzGAuFITo
#musicsky
Bob Dylan — Idiot Wind (Hard Rain TV Film, 1976). Audio upgrade to the new copy of the film
From the Hard Rain (1976) CD.
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Respect to nightlymoth
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For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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It’s often said that too many political writers cover politics as if it’s sports. Actually they cover politics as if they are bad at covering sports
lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...
December 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It’s often said that too many political writers cover politics as if it’s sports. Actually they cover politics as if they are bad at covering sports
Twenty years of school and they put you on the dayshift
December 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Twenty years of school and they put you on the dayshift
Come on Bob get back to the Beacon
Telling myself I don’t want to see the Rough and Rowdy set again but I know I’ll be logging in for the presale.
The Never Ending Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour continues!
December 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Come on Bob get back to the Beacon
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now people just get uglier and i have no sense of time
September 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
now people just get uglier and i have no sense of time
And I would send a message to find out if she’s talked but the post office has been stolen and the mailbox is locked
December 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
And I would send a message to find out if she’s talked but the post office has been stolen and the mailbox is locked
God.
Significant statement from Jeffries and House Democratic leaders saying they will vote “present” on the motion to table Al Green’s resolution to impeach President Trump. They say they’re “laser-focused on fighting to lower the high cost of living” plus on health care and corruption.
December 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
God.
The “I’ll be your baby tonight” tier.
December 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The “I’ll be your baby tonight” tier.
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It didn't end with a big title card that said "The End" did it? Am I still in the movie?? oh no
December 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
It didn't end with a big title card that said "The End" did it? Am I still in the movie?? oh no
ZERO. A total zero.
Govs. Shapiro and Cox warn of growing political violence, saying that the shooting of Charlie Kirk exposed a need for dialogue in the U.S. on how to discuss political differences.
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
ZERO. A total zero.
Oh no music discussion on the timeline from non music people
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Oh no music discussion on the timeline from non music people
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as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'
People are dying over who gets to steal from a dude in Iowa who thinks the model who "accidentally" texted him has fallen in love with him.
the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'