How long until the right-wing blogosphere blames it on lefty trans woke pronouns or something.
October 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
How long until the right-wing blogosphere blames it on lefty trans woke pronouns or something.
A really awful word to hear during the middle of sex would be “blogosphere”
August 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A really awful word to hear during the middle of sex would be “blogosphere”
The blogosphere + Google Reader was Good, Actually
February 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The blogosphere + Google Reader was Good, Actually
Is it weird that I’m still friends with about half a dozen women from the early 2000’s blogosphere?
March 31, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Is it weird that I’m still friends with about half a dozen women from the early 2000’s blogosphere?
Killing Google Reader effectively killed the blogosphere
March 5, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Killing Google Reader effectively killed the blogosphere
remember how sometimes the blogosphere would be abuzz
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
remember how sometimes the blogosphere would be abuzz
they don't talk about "blogosphere" or "netizens" anymore we're all just hapless companions of shit
March 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
they don't talk about "blogosphere" or "netizens" anymore we're all just hapless companions of shit
Really sad news, one of the best citizens of our blogosphere community.
Oh no; this is horrible. He was one of the best of us.
Rest in power, Kevin.
Rest in power, Kevin.
Health Update - Kevin Drum
With a heavy heart, I have to tell you that after a long battle with cancer my husband Kevin Drum passed away on Friday, March 7, 2025. No public memorial services are planned. In lieu of flowers, ple...
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March 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Really sad news, one of the best citizens of our blogosphere community.
Sending this back to the liberal blogosphere of 20 years ago just to watch the chaos unfold
Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous.
www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...
www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...
Stand With Trans Americans
You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous.
www.thebulwark.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Sending this back to the liberal blogosphere of 20 years ago just to watch the chaos unfold
one of the funniest things i ever saw in the heyday of the feminist blogosphere was a serious response to the concept that everyone eventually becomes disabled saying "actually not everyone becomes disabled, because some people die violently very young. it happens everyday"
September 23, 2026 at 9:10 PM
one of the funniest things i ever saw in the heyday of the feminist blogosphere was a serious response to the concept that everyone eventually becomes disabled saying "actually not everyone becomes disabled, because some people die violently very young. it happens everyday"
One thing I *am* convinced of is that Bluesky right now is better than just about any other social media site in the past.
The blogosphere was even better, but the blogosphere always needed to be tied together and Bluesky is fulfilling that connecting function as the blogosphere resurrects itself.
The blogosphere was even better, but the blogosphere always needed to be tied together and Bluesky is fulfilling that connecting function as the blogosphere resurrects itself.
old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing
My pleases-nobody sense of Return To Twitter Discourse is that the place can never return to what it was, and can never return to the idealized past version we imagine either, nor can that idealized past version be constructed anywhere else because it was always romantic self-regarding bullshit
December 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
One thing I *am* convinced of is that Bluesky right now is better than just about any other social media site in the past.
The blogosphere was even better, but the blogosphere always needed to be tied together and Bluesky is fulfilling that connecting function as the blogosphere resurrects itself.
The blogosphere was even better, but the blogosphere always needed to be tied together and Bluesky is fulfilling that connecting function as the blogosphere resurrects itself.
Good thread. I fully agree that Bluesky today serves the same purpose as the 2002-2008 blogosphere. And the thing about the blogosphere, as homogeneous as it was, was that it was highly successful. Bluesky doesn't need to be Twitter.
My only concern is that Bluesky's owners may feel differently.
My only concern is that Bluesky's owners may feel differently.
🧵 🧵🧵 The constant bitching about Bluesky community and the obsession around it in certain parts - is not really any different than the dynamic around blogosphere/netroots circa 2003-08 (until those spaces became coopted). (1/6)
May 12, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Good thread. I fully agree that Bluesky today serves the same purpose as the 2002-2008 blogosphere. And the thing about the blogosphere, as homogeneous as it was, was that it was highly successful. Bluesky doesn't need to be Twitter.
My only concern is that Bluesky's owners may feel differently.
My only concern is that Bluesky's owners may feel differently.
there's a growing blogosphere in the atmosphere 🫨
August 30, 2026 at 4:58 AM
there's a growing blogosphere in the atmosphere 🫨
Wisst ihr noch, Blogosphere?
September 23, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Wisst ihr noch, Blogosphere?
Bring back the blogosphere
February 20, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Bring back the blogosphere
For all the complaining in certain circles about how Bluesky is a "bubble," people are really underestimating how quickly it's replacing the progressive blogosphere of 2002-2009. 🧵
June 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
For all the complaining in certain circles about how Bluesky is a "bubble," people are really underestimating how quickly it's replacing the progressive blogosphere of 2002-2009. 🧵
Friedman has been doing great work since October 7, which is disorienting to someone who came of age in the Iraq War-era blogosphere.
I regret to inform you that Thomas Friedman is correct. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/o...
Opinion | Netanyahu Is Making Israel Radioactive
Things have gone terribly wrong in Gaza. They could get worse soon.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Friedman has been doing great work since October 7, which is disorienting to someone who came of age in the Iraq War-era blogosphere.
Welcome to the blogosphere. All @standard.site publications in one place.
July 20, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Welcome to the blogosphere. All @standard.site publications in one place.
Russian TG blogosphere is at a loss over today's massive Ukrainian drone attack across Russian strategic bomber bases. t.me/milinfolive/...
June 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Russian TG blogosphere is at a loss over today's massive Ukrainian drone attack across Russian strategic bomber bases. t.me/milinfolive/...
I have not seen a lmgtfy link in ages. brings me back to the days of the blogosphere!
February 12, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I have not seen a lmgtfy link in ages. brings me back to the days of the blogosphere!
our internet overlords are really getting out of hand.
makes a person miss the blogosphere days.
makes a person miss the blogosphere days.
Breaking: Meta has now banned and removed all links to The Handbasket on its platforms because of this story.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-ref...
www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-ref...
April 5, 2024 at 5:57 PM
our internet overlords are really getting out of hand.
makes a person miss the blogosphere days.
makes a person miss the blogosphere days.
that's not how the information environment works! he was involved in the blogosphere. He should know this!
(he's clarified this elsewhere--he wants to go back to a world where left-wing activists and intellectuals said what they wanted to say about issues and Dem politicians ignored them)
April 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
that's not how the information environment works! he was involved in the blogosphere. He should know this!
Can Substack Recover the Blogosphere We Lost? by Bhaskar Sunkara talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/can-s...
Can Substack Recover the Blogosphere We Lost?
When I started Jacobin in 2010, my first milestone of the magazine...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Can Substack Recover the Blogosphere We Lost? by Bhaskar Sunkara talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/can-s...
My high school BBS was a beautiful moment in time.
USENET and alt.society.generation-x was a beautiful moment in time.
The beginning of the blogosphere was a beautiful moment in time.
The early days of Twitter were a beautiful moment in time.
They were great, and now they're gone. It's fine.
USENET and alt.society.generation-x was a beautiful moment in time.
The beginning of the blogosphere was a beautiful moment in time.
The early days of Twitter were a beautiful moment in time.
They were great, and now they're gone. It's fine.
May 24, 2026 at 4:36 PM
My high school BBS was a beautiful moment in time.
USENET and alt.society.generation-x was a beautiful moment in time.
The beginning of the blogosphere was a beautiful moment in time.
The early days of Twitter were a beautiful moment in time.
They were great, and now they're gone. It's fine.
USENET and alt.society.generation-x was a beautiful moment in time.
The beginning of the blogosphere was a beautiful moment in time.
The early days of Twitter were a beautiful moment in time.
They were great, and now they're gone. It's fine.
Traumatic flashbacks to the transit blogosphere in the early 2010s
I'm reading about how Saint-Étienne, one of the three legacy tramway cities in France, modernized its tram in the late 1970s by moving the tracks on a reserved median alignment and can't avoid to think that the US built curbside mixed-traffic streetcars in the Years of Lord 2010s on purpose...
April 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Traumatic flashbacks to the transit blogosphere in the early 2010s