Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
If you make me take my phone out at the store to buy toothpaste I am going use it to buy toothpaste online
Me reading headline: Aww what a fun surprise Me reading paragraph 2: What thousand-year hex has been placed on these poor souls www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...
An entire political movement obsessed with "debate" but whenever faced with actual debate resorts to hollow bitching about the media
The most radicalizing thing about this era is listening to the most powerful people in the world speak about any subject whatsoever. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-ec...
"The recent U.S. mortality crisis reveals a weakening—and growing inequality—in the conversion of aggregate resources into longevity gains." www.nber.org/papers/w35470
There's relatively bipartisan agreement on voter ID laws, but on nearly everything else Republicans have lost their minds. - 6 out of 10 think the 2020 election was stolen. - 8 out of 10 think undocumented immigrants are deciding elections - 8 out of 10 think mail-in ballot fraud is widespread
Thanks to years of bad faith Republican attacks, three-quarters of Americans now support voter ID requirements. www.reuters.com/world/trumps...
How the fuck am I supposed do this at a restaurant www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
Wild how the Times lets you get away with libel as long as it's in the Opinion section www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/o...
Today marks 10 years since the launch of Pokemon Go, the last full week of optimism in America
Like what are these even supposed to be Debra, use your eyes and brain
What is is about being a right-wing celebrity that makes you incapable of clocking obvious AI slop
Just finished season 1 of this show and it is absolutely buckwild (complimentary) www.imdb.com/title/tt1733...
This is cope. It was, in fact, *incredibly* radical and subversive to be an out gay person for most of American history. Casting yourself as a pick-me and publicly shaming other LGBT people for Doing Activism Wrong is not going to make the bigots like you. You are doing the bigots' work for them.
Right before the buzzer for Pride month www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
You do not have to reach for cultural explanations for the lack of AC in Europe. It didn't used to be hot and now it is hot!
Another brainpan-tumbleweeds banger from the least essential columnist in America www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Hard to overstate just how much of the Brexit campaign was based on lies. Looking back it’s a sad case study of a country voting to immiserate itself due to the mendacity of right-wing politicians and tabloids. But it’s almost never framed that way in UK media. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Ok so it turns out the article is some of the worst sponcon engagement bait I’ve ever seen and I completely fell for it
Yes. "The far right is a bunch of odious freaks" is good political messaging and true on the merits. People should start saying it!