Justin Gibson
he/him, writer, former swimmer, slow runner, sourdough baker, cactus parent, mushroom admirer, etc
Fiction Reader at @okaydonkeymag.com
- Reposted by Justin GibsonThat new Boots Riley movie is gonna feel like a drink of water in the desert
- Reposted by Justin GibsonWhat do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?
- Reposted by Justin GibsonHe's not kidding. He's not kidding at all. You can hear it. You can see people near him reacting.
- Reposted by Justin GibsonAlso trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them
- Reposted by Justin Gibsonmany things are bad. my boring hot take is since airport restaurants already charge so much more, they should offer breakfast items all day. sometimes people are flying in from other time zones. sometimes you want a BEC on a bagel at 1:30pm before boarding your plane.
- Reposted by Justin GibsonA new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
- Reposted by Justin Gibson“What if your cigarette was also a facial recognition surveillance device” is peak Silicon Valley venture capital.
- Reposted by Justin GibsonWhen people say “you want to dox Feds” the respond is “you want secret police.”
- Reposted by Justin Gibson“A succubus visits Marc Summers each night. He knows her only as Why.“ “Family Double-Dare, ‘The Lima Beings vs. Toledo TNT,’ June 1991” by T.J. Martinson, new flash fic out today at OKD: okaydonkeymag.com/2026/01/23/f...
- Reposted by Justin Gibsonthis is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane
- The @usdot.bsky.social, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
- Reposted by Justin Gibsonif bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
- Goddamn I love this story
- We need stories. We need to try to know each other better. Fighting against fascism means exploring our emotional and rational selves deeply. Sharing my latest attempt at that in @bulbregion.bsky.social. Many thanks to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving it a home: bulbregion.com/You-Can-Keep...
- Reposted by Justin Gibson"This is the best system there is, and not just because it’s the only one there is. It works for you, the consumer of things, some of which fall on you." This was just what I needed to combat current existential dread. Thank you @veryrealbatman.bsky.social for making me laugh tonight.
- We need stories. We need to try to know each other better. Fighting against fascism means exploring our emotional and rational selves deeply. Sharing my latest attempt at that in @bulbregion.bsky.social. Many thanks to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for giving it a home: bulbregion.com/You-Can-Keep...
- Reposted by Justin Gibsonwould never have thought of mobilizing the guard to offer donuts and coffee to civic resistance to ICE, credit where it's due that's a great move.
- Reposted by Justin GibsonHuge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers
- Reposted by Justin GibsonI can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
- Reposted by Justin GibsonKash Patel going to a big meeting of the intelligence chiefs in England and asking if they can go jet skiing instead of having a normal meeting is really doing a number on my ability to focus
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AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening theconversation.com/ai-induced-c... @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social - Reposted by Justin GibsonFolks I must again insist
- Reposted by Justin GibsonI'm watching Shin-Godzilla with my kids -- much belatedly -- and within five minutes it's obvious that this is a biting political satire.
- Reposted by Justin GibsonGary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
- Reposted by Justin GibsonI realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
- Reposted by Justin Gibsonsemi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
- Reposted by Justin GibsonI find myself having to get dumber to get smarter. Like part of my brain was insisting despite all the evidence that there had to be some form of master plan or whatever for Venezuela despite all available evidence suggesting Trump thought we‘d leave with canvas money sacks like cartoon robbers.
- Reposted by Justin GibsonIf I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
- Reposted by Justin GibsonWe've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
- Reposted by Justin Gibsonif trump thought he had a winning hand here he would be the first person in front of the press. they know it’s bad so they send their little pig man out to gobble up the slop
- Reposted by Justin Gibsonit is a little disconcerting that none of the people in charge of anything right now seem to know how to do it. like, if you were on a bus and the driver started whipping around all crazy and yelling about how buses don’t need wheels you’d probably be like, hey. this guy shouldn’t be driving the bus
- Imagining a season of “Emily in Paris” that makes even passing mention to any geopolitical events at all
- Reposted by Justin Gibsonbooks have no tech tree, no fog of war
- Reposted by Justin GibsonThis insane asshole has been doing nothing but crimes since the day he took office, you're the only branch of government with the power to remove him and you're not even going to try because it might not work? Why are you even there? To feel important and do insider trading?
- Reposted by Justin Gibsonwith all of the stories about the rise of solar energy we’ve seen in the last few months it kind of feels like America is doing regime change in order to secure the rights to billions of dollars in blockbuster gift cards
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- Finally getting around to watching Ted Lasso and good god this show slaps. Like the TV-show equivalent of a fresh funnel cake at the State Fair
- S1: “wow, what an incredible feel good show. What a monument to the idea of putting good out into the world” S3: “God dammit it’s another close up of an iPhone”
- Reposted by Justin GibsonI used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
- Reposted by Justin GibsonI don’t know, books do this pretty well without having to fine tune them for outputs.
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- Reposted by Justin GibsonI need someone to get an urgent message to Hollywood
- Reposted by Justin Gibsongod damn the opposite camera's views of each of their faces is peak schadenfreude
- Reposted by Justin GibsonA streamer scared for his life while a guy wearing Polymarket trunks beats his ass is too perfect
- Reposted by Justin GibsonNebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner
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- Reposted by Justin GibsonOf all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one
- Reposted by Justin GibsonThe process by which the Kennedy Center was renamed to honor Trump was about as bad as you assumed donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
- Reposted by Justin GibsonI could watch a million Benoit Blanc mysteries
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- Reposted by Justin Gibson'Wake Up Dead Man' defines justice differently: defector.com/wake-up-dead...
- Reposted by Justin GibsonThoughts on Wake Up Dead Man - this was very fun and smart - Rian Johnson is really smart storyteller (and apparently a great human, which makes me happy) - I would really love to see Benoit Blanc on The View
- Reposted by Justin GibsonMe before the movie starts versus two minutes into the trailers
- Reposted by Justin Gibsonsent this to a dm scammer pretending to be elon musk and he deleted his account. he's free
- Reposted by Justin Gibsonthe guy who directed Netflix's crackling fireplace video has a whole bunch of credits for crackling fireplace movies, over decades actual auteur www.imdb.com/name/nm59938...
- Reposted by Justin GibsonWill Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
- Reposted by Justin GibsonIn terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
