The Trump-endorsed IndyCar race on the DC streets into a great unintentional advertisement for the effectiveness of raised crosswalks as a traffic calming measure

The last game I played was UFO50. Unclear if this means I’d be spending a year in Mini & Max (delightful, endless), Pilot Quest (rough), or just 1988 (maybe fine?) $250M is a lot, but I’d probably end up with different flavors of brain damage in all three cases.

Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 6d ago

You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?

I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.

i didn’t realize chaptgpt prompts were totally fair game for legal discovery and hhahaha holy shit

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7d ago

New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

my tepid take is that speed cameras are bad because roads should be designed to force lower speeds to begin with. if they were, we wouldn’t feel like we need robots whose primary purpose is a revenue stream for police departments.

siding with the wrong korea feels like a test that should have been very easy to past, but here we are

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last wk.

For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.

There’s this inversion one can find among high school aged kids; they often imagine things that are timeless (having a crush, hating parents) is unique to their generation, and things that are new (e.g. cellphones) go back much further. I wonder if any kids think Chaucer used ye olde discussGPT?

Sure you are my twelve year old friend

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump says that after Iran is defeated he’s going to declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States

I didn’t keep up with the jurassic parks movies, they got good

The saddest girl to ever hold a martini@lifeisterrible.bsky.social · last wk.

chicks rock

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

Jesus christ, the details are grim.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

There have reportedly been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as poor conditions and mental stress reach a breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land, a record

we found him, the first dude ever to get straight trebucket’d

Ryan North@ryannorth.ca · 2w ago

Fantastic Four story premises are everywhere for those with eyes to see

I hope AOC finds love BUT “hot single president” would incite some of the most insane content ever produced by human beings

Don't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.

been a good while since a work day left me this cooked. really hoping this is the peak and the rest of the week is more chill.

We just have to live our lives now assuming all our food comes from the factory in The Jungle where the rats ate that drunk kid alive.

Data Report@datareport.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nearly 30,000 Pounds Of Beef Recalled—Check Your Fridge & Freezer Here’s why you shouldn’t eat it. www.delish.com/food-news/a7...

people will be like "well homeschooling worked great for me" and like sure, ok, I don't doubt it, but religious conservatives are raising swarms of children who can't read and don't know what the sun is and I think we may need to return to a seatbelt-mandate-style solution to this issue

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

It stings how accurate this feels some days.

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 2w ago

YouTube is such a complicated beast for me. Its algorithm seems always itching to find an excuse to surface brainrot and right-wing noise, but it’s also a crazy resource for so many “how-do-I-X” questions. Today I wanted to know how to rehab elbow tendinitis, and the advice honestly isn’t bad.

Highly usable post from last year

MS NOW@ms.now · 2w ago

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: In fiery meeting, military families confront acting Navy secretary over conditions on the USS Lincoln www.ms.now/news/navy-me...

they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel for mega man bosses these days

Sandy Jarrell@sandyjarrell.com · 2w ago

Making a dumb playlist

Wait, they're releasing DLC for Quake.. 30 years after the game came out? That's actually amazing commitment. Trailer is giving me flashbacks to playing the shareware levels over and over as a kid.

Quake: Dawn of the Machine — Launch Trailer

YouTube video by Bethesda Softworks

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A couple of weeks ago I rode to Newburyport MA and saw this COVID memorial and realized this is the only one I have ever seen anywhere. And the fact that I nearly broke down seeing it is something I still think about.

this how the photos be lookin in headlines when a white dog kills his entire family

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3w ago

See recent images of canine competitors riding the waves in surfing competitions for dogs, via The Atlantic Photo: theatln.tc/gzIZZkl2

Progressives won three competitive congressional primaries in Michigan despite being outspent nearly 10-1. Politico didn’t get the big election night they wanted.

Politico@politico.com · 3w ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

A friend reminded me that Ray Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains is set today, August 4th, 2026. Worth a few minutes to read if you’ve never had the pleasure.

since the idea of “the muppets do the odyssey” was put into my head by a tumblr post, I can’t get out of my head the image of gonzo lashed to a ship’s mast while being serenaded by three sirens that are also chickens.

I've never watched Hot Ones because I don't give enough of a fuck about what celebrities think about basically anything, but it *would* be interesting if there were a version where they have on like, academics and researchers and grad students and such.