I use Android Auto and have appreciated that it generally works... but Google is forcing a switch to using Gemini for the hands-free tasks. Fuck you, Gemini.

The Perseverance rover on Mars caught an occultation of Earth by a crescent Phobos on July 2. These observations aren't only fun (though they are fun!), they also help with monitoring minute variations in Phobos' orbit www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-p...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Watches Earth Vanish Behind Martian Moon

The first observation of its kind captures our home planet slipping behind Phobos in the Martian evening sky.

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BREAKING: Southern California Edison equipment caused the deadly 2025 Eaton blaze, county fire officials said.

Southern California Edison equipment blamed for 2025 Eaton Fire in Los Angeles

Los Angeles fire officials say the deadly 2025 Eaton Fire was caused by Southern California Edison equipment.

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you cannot wield genAI, Hank. none of us can. you must diminish, and go into the West, and remain Greenladriel

Fictional character I relate to most?

The Angry Old Geek@angryoldgeek.bsky.social · 5d ago

Who is the fictional character you relate to the most

Unsurprisingly, my birth was heralded by: cyberpunk down bad dongle G-spot Jedi

Charybdis Goatse@ass.golf · 5d ago

Air guitar electronica graphics tablet stressed-out macchiato

Brett has found the one possibility that might actually be worse

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · last wk.

I was going to joke AI Ross Douthat but that might be true.

"spiritually Christian" sums it up really well - quite a lot of modern Hollywood (who am I kidding? since the Hays Code) makes movies trying to be acceptable to western Christian mores at the cost of story and character

yaoi gagarin@mel.bzky.team · last wk.

its fine to like the movie but her criticisms of it hold water. and personally as someone who loves the odyssey (not her translation of it; i read it in german) i find my own criticisms of the movie pretty well reflected. this isnt the odysseus i know. this whole enterprise is spiritually christian

one silly thing about me is I change lanes to keep a good driving line when the road bends

me with those flock things

explore.org@explore.org · 2w ago

Yearly bear cam maintenance staff reporting for duty.

Wax Heads is a great Strange Horticulture-style deduction game, but what really charmed me was its exploration of the many roles music plays in our lives: To develop an identity, to connect with others, to remember a loved one, to rebel, to escape. store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/...

Wax Heads on Steam

Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and th...

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Hells yeah!

Gnome Anne@annethegnome.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote 10 000 words for a narrative video game THIS WEEKEND please clap *im so tired*

exactly; this question is a recession indicator

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w ago

People plump for the 50k because they’re answering a different question. They’re being asked “Can you afford to turn down a guaranteed fifty grand” and for most people, the answer is going to be “No”, regardless of how many times you tell them it’s obviously better to flip the coin.

I poured 144 bottles of beer down the sink for science

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?

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Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World's Largest Pop-Up Book

"Luceros y Penumbres," designed by Daniel González and engineered by Matthew Reinhart, is an ode to learning and discovery.

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Loot drop after defeating me: - Spectacles - Testicles - Wallet - Watch - Churu

K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · 2w ago

Loot drop after defeating me: - Two very loud dogs. They're your problem now. - 1 half-drunk can of Diet Red Bull - 184 notebooks with only the first four pages used - Seed packets - A whole-ass herd of deer - Handbag full of husband's random EDC castoffs

met a far-right old-school isolationist racist today and even he was like "I don't approve of how Trump's going about this Iran thing" and honestly, it was mildly encouraging that Trump's lost even THOSE assholes

Gonna wear my USC Trojans shirt to see the Odyssey

Can you spot what isn't quite right about this scene in Troy (2004)?

Those late-80s early-90s movies are prime candidates for this, though there are a lot of good suggestions in the thread. But even as a young boy I could tell that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze was a bad movie

Ditty Doop is eating soup@goosname.bsky.social · 3w ago

So many to choose from… * Blues Brother 2000 * Super Mario Bros (1993) * The Rise of Skywalker * The Phantom Menace * Masters of the Universe (1987) I’ve seen The Room in the theater, too, but I would never disparage such a masterpiece.

While it's no surprise that this is coming, I for one do not want to let it arrive without notice or protest

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 3w ago

NEW: Under questioning from Senator Ted Cruz, acting AG Todd Blanche said he would review Biden-era DOJ guidance on the Comstock Act if confirmed to the role. Comstock is an 1873 anti-obscenity law that conservatives want to use to stop the mailing of abortion pills in all 50 states @autonomynews.co

if Argentina gets the goal taken away on VAR, I am going to die laughing

Hi, SFF Apex, Bona Books, Agita Publishing, And all the others who have gotten tricked by AI, Let's have a nice talk.

A Little Chat: Genre Fic in the Age of Slop | Dorian Dawes

There is a scene in Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V For Vendetta that is very different from how it was adapted in the 2005 film. Our eponymo

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So anyway, here are my comments to friends months ago specifically calling out Bella Chacha's story as a puzzlingly slapdash thing to find in a major magazine.

that's nothing, we could do the exact same just in the Oval Office

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3w ago

Iraq seizes 375kg of gold in sweeping anti-corruption crackdown https://aje.news/524d6l

I feel like I could be a trillionaire too if I just talked out my ass more

really bummed to see that I'm already late to the Falkland Islands jokes now that it's England-Argentina in the World Cup. Bluesky stays winning as the site with all the clever people

So @merriam-webster.com has a new game on their shared site with Brittanica - The Loop. Which is a fun concept. But which, instead of using publicly available art, or hiring an artist, runs entirely on AI art. Which feels like such a fucking betrayal. You're the *dictionary*.

Norway finding they have a lot in common with Egypt all of a sudden

Just got a midnight visit from Mitch McConnell, we talked for twenty minutes about the crisis in the Middle East and how his eternal chains are heavy and long