I’m 56 years old. Which means I’m about to endure my fourth cycle of twenty-something year old dudes discovering the weight room and Ayn Rand shit like they’ve just unlocked Enlightenment itself and by god I’m fucking so tired of it. And now they have podcasts.
Over at Bluesky Jack Dorsey just shared a podcast promoting RFK jr and Julian Assange, so like, yeah... he still sucks ass and Bluesky is just Twitter 2.0
"In a year in which more than half the world goes to the polls, acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood asks whether democracy is fragile and easily destroyed or flexible and resilient. This animated monologue is the first of four films examining the state of government, representation, rights and freedom"
My 13yr old: What is that?
Me: It's Bluesky.
Her: Is that some ancient thing?
Me: Nope, hot new thing. Want an invite?
Her: Ew. Looks crusty for old people.
Me: Fine, no invite for you. I'm going to skeet this.
Her: You're going to what?
Me: You heard me. Skeet.
Her: [AUDIBLE EYE ROLL]
Me: Fine. I'll just toot this on the elephant app.
Her: [CONFUSED STARE]
Me: You know. Mastodon.
Her: I don't know what you're talking about.
Me: You need to get off TipTop.
Her: It's TIKTOK!
Me: Crusty!
“Love has never been a popular movement and no one’s ever wanted really to be free. The world is held together, really it is, held together, by the love of and the passion of very few people.”
I just watch guitar, fitness and space science videos there. That's it - and I police my feed and watch history judiciously.
And it still suggests Jordan Peterson, Crypto Tech bros, Joe Rogan, white guys ranting in trucks about immigrants and communists, Koch funded professors, and weird white supremacy guys with caliper mindsets non-stop. I click "Do Not Recommend This Channel" twenty times a day but the stream keeps flowing.
Me (GenX) just asked by a Boomer "Why do you hate the suburbs so much?"
"The suburbs in the late 70s and 80s did things to the adolescent mind. Things you can't come back from. It was the grid formatted and freshly-mowed-lawn scented actualized heat death of culture neatly stored in parent's locked liquor cabinets. It's airless existence mocking all karmic civilizational laws — superpositionally located as both the zenith and nadir of the 20th century American imperial project."
Pierre Poilievre caught attention last week when he said, “The electrician who captures lightning from the sky to illuminate this room is not ordinary.”
Left unchecked, this ploy to court the working class could win him the next election. David Moscrop writes.
