@[email protected]

Soccer, politics, urbanism, design, culture. (he/him)
Punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human being. - Joe Strummer
I only speak for myself.

[@[email protected] @sdshields]

The problem with being a political party invested in the idea that government is completely ineffectual is that you're inclined to prove it.

[Nathan Newman 🧭 @nathansnewman]

Musk was smart enough to jump early into a niche EV market - and sold a bit under 2% of cars last year.

But he's fundamentally a stupid person in most areas of social and scientific analysis (especially Covid).

[@[email protected] @sdshields]

The media: His detractors say that Mvsk is a standard issue right-wing crank, but we're not convinced.
Mvsk himself:

[@[email protected] @sdshields]

The way no one is taking COVID seriously anymore is absolutely fucked up.

[@[email protected] @sdshields]

This is the takeaway, but please click and scroll to the top. This is a very important thread if you want to understand Bari Weiss's motives.

[@[email protected] @sdshields]

It's always projection.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@alexstamos @DavidSacks @bariweiss You operate a propaganda platform

[thorny (ithinkiplaygames.bsky.social) @thinkiamsad]

modern American culture is a machine optimized to give people paranoid schizophrenia

[@[email protected] @sdshields]

@brianmcg_

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Hate speech on Twitter jumped following Elon Musk’s takeover, The New York Times reports.

Slurs against Black Americans went from an average of 1,282 times a day to 3,876, while slurs against gay men went from 2,506 to 3,964, and antisemitism soared by over 61%.

[@[email protected] @sdshields]

@BereftOfTheDial We're now 40+ minutes in and MT still hasn't tweeted anything remotely interesting. 🥴

[@[email protected] @sdshields]

@feral_brat

[@[email protected] @sdshields]

Love that I saw this and thought, "where'd this happen, Maplewood?" only to discover it was actually Jersey City.

[Stephanie Insley Hershinow @S_Insley_H]

Listening to a dad in this coffee shop explain to a ~4yo that Darth Vader was “a man with a lot of big feelings who didn’t have anyone to help him express them the right way.”

[Timothy Burke @bubbaprog]

It remains extremely frustrating that when Republicans endorse killing gay people that it's not framed as being objectively offensive but merely that it "doesn't sit well with some Democrats"

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Nothing in the world is less surprising and easier to understand than a right-wing billionaire purchasing a media entity and immediately trying to use it to pursue his ideological agenda and class interests.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Qatar World Cup Games To Cut Off Human Sales After 75th Minute https://t.co/ve6bxitCtx

[sheba ⭐ @shebainpdx]

I've met SO many soccer friends #OnHere. I stayed with @ofvoid for my first Chicago away game. I'd never met him IRL, just on here. He seemed nice & didn't tweet like an axe murderer or anything I guess was my rationale. Same with @sdshields and RBNY away. Both FANTASTIC humans.

[@[email protected] @sdshields]

My first hustle was selling dubbed copies of the Star Wars Holiday Special on usenet groups for $25 each while I was in high school.

[Wookieepedia @WookOfficial]

On this day in 1978, The Star Wars Holiday Special aired for the first, and only time. To date, it has never been released again. Have you seen it? What did you think of it? @MarkHamill #StarWars

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices.

Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.