Donny Brooks

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid.

There are major liberal institutions still posting on Elon’s Twitter in December 2024 and NOT engaging here on BlueSky or on Threads.
Knowing that X is shadow banning liberals and people/orgs who post links, WHY?!?!?
And yet not engaging here.

Make it make sense.

Digital malpractice.

I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Korea—the exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Dinesh D'Souza admitting his film "2000 Mules" had a "flaw" is like saying the Titanic had a "mild flotational hinderance"

Quote tweeting the Muppet History account about the Muppet Christmas Carol.

Yikes. This did not age well.

I still Stan “When Love is Gone” and will never apologize for the content of this take.

Taylor is gonna need a tax write off for the value of living RENT FREE IN NATE SILVER’S STUPID HEAD.
Go Taylor!!!

We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

Starting Strong with a Notes app apology. lol.

New York Post headline about me complaining that I used the phrase raw dogging the air

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John Titor tried to warn us.

Stop gaslighting me! I know there’s a hidden Muppets song!!! And it’s Berenstein Bears, dammit!!! Lolololol.

It was also on the Disney Channel version, too. So weird.

Mine is so wholesome and encouraging.

This is a hill I will die on.

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic' Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.

Kat Tenbarge interviewed me about the migration to Bluesky among journalists.

It's easy to see why it's happening.

It's easier to find news, harder to spread disinfo, trolls don't drown out the good content, and links are not deprioritized.

It's a breath of fresh air for journalism to thrive in.

CAN YOU IMAGINE?!?!? lil monkeys riding around like backpacks on their kung fu masters?

Hot take: every class in D&D should have a pet or familiar. Let wizards and rangers continue to have the mechanical advantages of the current rules, but like sorcerers and bards should get a little friend if you want one, too.

This is also a weird trick of math.

It’s not that a lot of people became convinced to vote the other way. It’s that a lot of the people we convinced to turn out in 2008 and 2012 are staying home bc of (voter suppression) and not seeing a real opportunity to vote for their values set.

Hopping Crow as my Familiar please.

Trump can do whatever far right nut job podcast because it’s baked in that a) Trump can say and do crazy and insane things
b) He has far right Teflon because no one believes Trump is actually a Nazi.

But Dems will eat their own if someone did a pro Palestinian or explicitly socialist podcast.

Dems want to be the big tent party but you’re not welcome if you’re too progressive. Liz Cheney? Sure.
But cross the AIPAC purity test line? you’re toast.
SuperPACs of all ilks are poisoning democracy and nowhere is this more true than in Dem coalition where Rule No1 is “Don’t piss off donors.”

The other problem is a lot of the Online Left would have had very tough questions for Harris. To be fair, those questions would have made her a better candidate, but she was unwilling to break from Biden on Israel or other issues, which was a problem.

Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.

Big Pharma is the only reason anyone still dies from HIV: “We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.”