One of the things I really like about bluesky is that there’s a collection of horrible people who have prominent media positions who I felt like it was important to pay attention to. It turns out they were not.
Mostly people nominally on the left, but who possess and promote reactionary positions of all kinds. Yglesias. Breunig. Most of the columnists for major outlets tbh. And the exceptions are either here or get shared here.
Turns out you can go a month without seeing anyone sharing an Yglesias post. A year without Bruenig. I haven’t seen a Greenwald post or tweet in my recent memory at all. Yall still share Taibbi too often.
This in reaction to a good thread, I reposted earlier. About one of those writers. Let’s not even mention the name and move on. I’m cooking a beautiful dinner of a porterhouse steak, grilled asparagus, and homemade gnocchi, finished in brown butter and sage.
Trader Joe’s USED to sell frozen grilled asparagus! It was delicious, my favorite frozen vegetable. Then they discontinued it for unknown reasons. I’m still trying to get over it > a year later.
I’m sure the real deal, as in directly off the grill like what David is doing, must be AMAZING
A couple heavy duty pans that won't warp & don't have non-stick (the high grill heat will ruin it) especially if you can have one perforated & one solid make a whole lot of things including vegetables & shrimp etc a lot easier to cook on grills. Long handles get in the way of closing the grill lid.
You give me hope. I'm a #Post refugee and was dreading the possibility of this place being another x-lookalike dumpster fire. I left a couple years ago. It's not, at least so far. 🤞🏼
An added bonus? That dinner sounds divinely motivating. Thx!
Every now and then I am really tempted to subscribe to that mute feed that labels any screenshot taken from Twitter, because boy howdy that is just about always something toxic.
One time Neocon was in a word puzzle my friend and I both play. She didn’t know what it meant and I said, “You know, like Max Boot” to which she replied, “what’s a max boot?”
His work on Snowden was so focused on Snowden the person and Snowden's sensational and hyperbolic claims that it effectively buried what should have been the legitimately scandalous details (e.g international data sharing agreements with allied countries to circumvent domestic spying prohibitions)
Instead we got "the NSA is spying on your computer in *real time*" and bullshit like that which frankly made it sound like *Snowden* didn't know what he had either.
Same! And I had completely forgotten who those folks were until that thread today. My goodness how quickly they vanish from the mind when their takes aren't on the timeline every few days.
