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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

"...the structures, stretching across a zone of 1,700 square miles, build on evidence that the Amazon basin was widely and densely populated in the centuries before Columbus."

Archaeologists Find Hundreds of Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon

The geometric earthwork structures, carved into the ground with embankments and ditches, are in some cases more than 2,500 years old, researchers said.

nytimes.com

Oh awful

Glen Hansard, Irish Musician and ‘Once’ Star Who Won Oscar for Best Song, Dies at 56

Glen Hansard, the Irish musician who starred in the film "Once" and won the Oscar for best song, died on Wednesday in a motorcycle crash. He was 56.

variety.com

I saw The Odyssey last night and I absolutely loved it for about 10 different reasons. Sort of wish it came out 10 years ago so the ASOIAF community could spend weeks comparing it to AFFC (there's so much there).

This episode should be about 30 seconds long

well THAT'S the most effective headline I'll see this week

That’s awful

1st goal: Scored by Arsenal 2nd goal: Assisted by Arsenal 3rd goal: Scored by Arsenal 4th goal: Scored and assisted by Arsenal Just for those keeping count.

I'm sure there are worse ones that I've forgotten entirely, but 10,000 BC is the first that came to mind.

Defector@defector.com · 3w ago

What's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...

welp

now.arsenal@nowarsenal.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨BREAKING: William Saliba is expected to undergo surgery to heal his case of chronic back pain. Arsenal expect the France centre back to be out of action for 4 to 5 months.

just the absolute biggest of oooofs

Don't park the bus on the railroad tracks

so so predictable

I really did not care for the way William Saliba went down there 🫤

If this is accurate, even a "Trump says this, but evidence does not support it story" will be insufficient. This speech is part of an explicit threat against democracy, to overturn and control democratic outcomes. If we can't call this out clearly, we are lost.

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's all fun and games until we gather at the Capitol

the only good thing about the Maine senate drama: it suggests we've finally made it out of the "everything is the 2016 campaign" phase of existence and now entered the "long 2024" era.

yeah i am ready for my fellow Americans to stop caring about soccer now

lol imagine trash talking in that situation

Welp. The Gabis get to rest, Martin gets to play back into form I guess. Wild, fun game.

Wow

Whew I was worried bribery didn’t work for a minute www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

Folarin Balogun available for USMNT vs. Belgium as red card ban suspended (Gift Article)

Balogun was set to be suspended for Monday's game but will be now free to be selected.

nytimes.com

Magic

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · last mo.

Golazo from Sidny Lopes Cabral, level again

Man,

Game’s gone

Balogun just scored. The Trump administration doesn’t think he should be eligible to play for America.

Matt Browner Hamlin@mattbh.com · last mo.

Folarin Balogun is leading the line for the US men’s soccer team tomorrow and tonight Miller is saying he should have been banned from being able to. Miller is rooting against America.

Trans people, I am hereby ordering you to live. Let us spite our foes with our continued existence

by the way i finally got around to watching Master and Commander this week - guys it's a great movie!

@emilystjams.bsky.social I am finally watching the last seasons of Community, which I missed the 1st time around despite being a huge fan of the show. I'm reading & appreciating your old AVC reviews as I go (just wish the comments were preserved!) Laughed out loud at this bit of prescience today: