C.A. Pinkham

C.A. Pinkham

@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

I write stuff and talk about restaurant stories a lot. Also I won’t shut up about the Mongolian Empire. He/him Bylines @ Jezebel, @ Jewish Currents, @ Thrillist, @ Daily Meal, @ FanBuzz, @ FanByte colin.a.pinkham@gmail.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

oh got it yeah no i was worried it might be something weird

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Trump: The fake news only covered the ass part. They said 'what the hell was Trump doing talking about a man's anatomy? He was talking about his ass.' I studied his ass to see where the power came from

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

None of the articles explain what crime Wannabe Diet Franco was charged with, how can I fully Immerse myself in the schadenfreude if I don’t know all the details

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@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

It is so, so funny that they think this is a gotcha

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comMamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friendsThe choice of location has scrambled NYPD training operations, angering a police union and a Republican lawmaker.
C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

NARRATOR: it did make you an American.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

I genuinely believe the reason Beshear doesn’t get as much national buzz and was never really in the VP conversation in 2024 is because consultants don’t like that he flat out ignores all the shit they would tell him to do in Kentucky and wins anyway by huge margins

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@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

He’s certainly not perfect, no one is, but an unabashedly pro-choice and pro-LGBT politician winning in Kentucky absolutely embarrasses the shit out of everything dem consultants stand for

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

What’s wild is this man could’ve done so much with gifts like these. Once in a generation orator. He still has every bit of juice on his fastball. God what a wasted opportunity

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Obama on Abdul El-Sayed: "You see those big guns? That's why he wears those t-shirts. I never campaigned in a t-shirt. I ain't got those big guns."

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C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

Mix of gravitas, humor, positivity and raw cool that just can’t be equaled. Zohran comes the closest (by far, honestly) but he doesn’t have nearly as much of the first one

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

By objective standards he’s the best president of my lifetime by light years and I cannot think of a bigger indictment of the American political system than that

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Matthew Ar-killah, editorial murderer
@experimentego.bsky.social

Replying to @eyepatchguy.bsky.social

It's true. I've watched many people in different sectors choose to do things they sort of know are stupid or ineffectual that a consultant told them to do and they are trying to look good to the consultant or impress them which is some major loser shit.

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

What’s wild is this man could’ve done so much with gifts like these. Once in a generation orator. He still has every bit of juice on his fastball. God what a wasted opportunity

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Obama on Abdul El-Sayed: "You see those big guns? That's why he wears those t-shirts. I never campaigned in a t-shirt. I ain't got those big guns."

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C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

What’s wild is this man could’ve done so much with gifts like these. Once in a generation orator. He still has every bit of juice on his fastball. God what a wasted opportunity

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Obama on Abdul El-Sayed: "You see those big guns? That's why he wears those t-shirts. I never campaigned in a t-shirt. I ain't got those big guns."

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

We were so starved for charismatic politicians that we thought Bill Clinton was magnetic, then this guy came along like the fucking K2 extinction hitting the dinosaurs. You still can’t look away when he speaks

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

The flags are at this point basically that elevator scene from the shining

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

This is one of the larger left-of-center Facebook pages, and I do feel like a few years ago, left-of-center people on social media with large audiences were not using terms like “goyslop”?

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

“Well that’s weird, the AI judge not only gave the black gymnasts a lower score but also reported them to authorities for ‘being suspiciously dark’”

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Micah
@rincewind.run

once again: they are flailing, they are desperate, they have no plan, and they are panic-throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks that this stuff is scary doesn’t mean we need to grant them the presumption that it will work

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

One thing that sucks about being a parent is I have to rein in being Ebenezer Scrooge about Halloween for the next like 14 years so I don’t ruin it for her

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

I’m sorry but I’m gonna keep on this. Like this is back patting from people who want to do nothing about the status quo and feel like heroes for it. The lesser evil does not help the system get better over time, it just is our only fucking choice unless we do something to break that paradigm

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

It is, fundamentally, an exercise of choosing the lesser evil, over and over and over again, so that the total amount of evil in the system decreases over time. And you must keep doing it, because - since evil is easy - good is easily reversed.

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

I’m not telling anyone not to vote for harm reduction—I vote for harm reduction—but you do not get to feel warm and toasty about it. You do not get to pretend the system is just peachy as is

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

Imagine still believing in incrementalism post Biden

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

It is, fundamentally, an exercise of choosing the lesser evil, over and over and over again, so that the total amount of evil in the system decreases over time. And you must keep doing it, because - since evil is easy - good is easily reversed.

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shaunt
@shaunvids.bsky.social

even abstracted into hypothetical maths this doesn't make any sense. picking the lesser evil still makes things more evil, just by a lesser amount

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

It is, fundamentally, an exercise of choosing the lesser evil, over and over and over again, so that the total amount of evil in the system decreases over time. And you must keep doing it, because - since evil is easy - good is easily reversed.

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C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

Replying to @eyepatchguy.bsky.social

Like I believe in harm reduction, which is why I keep voting for these absolute shitheads, but the idea picking the lesser evil makes the system better over the long term is fucking insane, no it doesn’t, we just don’t currently have a better choice

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Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog.xyz

liberty mutual was the only advertiser who stuck with tucker carlson after he said mexicans were "filth" so whatever fantasies you have about torturing the mascot are morally correct

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

Matty seeing all these other Matts coming for his Worst Matt throne and going “you come for the king, you best not miss”

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

I feel better about my child still refusing to take more than a few halting steps at a time at 15 months since I looked up the milestone for words at the same age and uh Lol

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

Distinct words we’ve counted at least 30-35 not including the ones where she’s referring to something specific but we can’t identify it. She had three new ones today alone (yes, shoe, and sock)

C.A. Pinkham
@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

Unified Theory of Pam (“in any human field of endeavor, there will be a single person—Pam—miraculously holding things together, and if anything happens to Pam, we are hosed”) remains undefeated

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.