PLEASE take it from this local weed grower with a LOT of experience with herbal remedies: DO NOT FUCK WITH KRATOM. It is as addictive as opiates and completely unregulated. Just look up people's experiences with Feel Free from Botanic Tonics, the company mentioned in this story. archive.is/QHqsV

STAT@statnews.com · 5h ago

Exclusive: Senate inquiry suggests Trump administration softened kratom and tobacco policies in quid pro quo. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is at the center of a new investigation launched by Sen. Ron Wyden. www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/s...

You know the end of that pirate movie where it looks like the giant sucking tooth-filled anus thing is gonna swallow the whole screen in one disgusting drooly gurgle?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

Hahahahahaha I wanted to type something here but I'm laughing too hard "could you still get through an entire workday" what the fuck, man, you just sharpied "I am incompetent" on your forehead.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 11h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

This is good and hits on something I talk about a lot in my offline life of instructing a new human in how society works. Some people are genuinely beyond the pale. There are people I will never allow you to be near. Social comfort should never endanger you. But some people are just kinda dicks.

Micaiah Johnson@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 3d ago

Very nervous about tomorrow’s blog on Patreon so have some out of context quotes from it as a treat 💜

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Especially when you have to log in just to make an appointment that the system then tells you can't be made online!!!!

Atrios@eschatonblog.com · 2d ago

like no this 86 year old man who has had a stroke is not going to be able to log into your medical portal which requires 2 factor authorization why does this surprise you

My pharmacy recently went to an AI assistant instead of the usual thing where you type in the prescription #. The AI assistant asks for all the same info, but never confirms if it's refilling the scrip or not after you give it. You just get endless prompts for other services.

Sending an off-putting NYC freak with charisma kryptonite to rural Wisconsin to sell something already hideously unpopular is ... certainly a choice.

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 2d ago

This past weekend, former Mayor Eric Adams was in Wisconsin Rapids—population 18,654—trying to convince residents that they should allow a real estate developer to build a data center in the heart of their town. The public hearing did not go well. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...

My favorite thing about being a Democrat is the party having to answer for every single person on the internet's every idiotic word while Republicans aren't held responsible for the actions of their actual no-shit senators and presidents.

👇🎯 Your periodic reminder that we don’t have to keep doing this thing we’ve done for decades now on Every. Single. Damn. Topic. In. American. Politics.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

So we've been having a middle school summer, which is to say, entirely developmentally appropriate boredom and general disinterest in the usual delights. Yesterday I dragged Kick to this deranged junk store in the far west burbs and we got fixated on, of all things, an 80s boombox.

Fuck you, you fucking fuck.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Not only do you not know, but sometimes your doctors do not know, and sometimes they act like you're being rude by asking.

Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato@kristadb1.bsky.social · 5d ago

I thought you got estimates - it's low to high range, so that you kinda knew low "everything goes well" vs med "they had to remove more body parts" and high "they did lifesaving measures" that way you knew and could budget a little or apply for grants. So you just go to surgery...not knowing?

Remember how we had Crystal Pepsi and no one liked it and then we just stopped having it one day? A few people were upset, but mostly no one cared. We could do that!

With regard to AI, what if we just ... didn't? Like with other stupid shit we didn't wanna do? Has anyone considered just ... not, and continuing to do the things we want to do and are good at, that people already seem to value? Maybe it wouldn't work, but whatever this is isn't working either.

All these assholes out there jerking each other off about AI when the first person to make a home printer that doesn't suck shit will die buried under an avalanche of money.

nice try, cybertruck guy with two corgis in the back, but you still suck

Fuck, in no particular order, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, and the fucking Beatles.

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

My grandma had that 1915 one and lemme tell you, the gnarly injuries it'd give you make box cutters look like safety scissors.

Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · 7d ago

Antique can openers TT: @@dustyoldstuff

When the poor can't afford a car they're all BOOTSTRAPS BITCH! but when you suggest they invest in deodorant and manners to get a girlfriend they're massive victims

Everything is terrible but @judet.bsky.social showed me snd Kick this yesterday and I've been giggling about it ever since.

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Jamison Foser@jamisonfoser.bsky.social · last wk.

if there's one thing America's television viewing audience has been craving it's more Ross Douthat

He's my weird baseball baby and I love him.

Aipropx@aipropx.bsky.social · last wk.

WATCH: Jacob Misiorowski has 11 strikeouts through four innings! Yes. ELEVEN 😳 (via MLB) #aipropx

My dad's made out of leather and shingles nearly killed him. People scaremonger about the vaccine side effects but other than a sore arm for two days, I had zero. Go get your fucking shingles vaccines, people.

Nothings Monstered@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · last wk.

My grandmother was a tough lady, and I will never forget her *screaming* with pain from shingles. I got my vaccination as soon as I was old enough, and I encourage you to do the same.

He seems not to retreat and cower every time he gets criticized and a whole lot of people are nervously eyeing each other like "Wait, can we do that?" Yeah man you don't have to govern under permanent, blanket heckler's veto.

Happy Caturday from Ada Byron Lovelace:

Jamie Murray was so pretty that when she asked to hold my then-2 month old baby I just kind of handed her over, and I didn't really do that then. Mira Furlan was also staggeringly gorgeous in person, even her magnificent screen presence didn't fully convey how much POWER she had.

Jeremy Dauber@jeremydauber.bsky.social · 2w ago

Random question: what celebrity have you met in real life who was dramatically better looking than ypu thought they were based on on screen appearance?

I need her arm workouts because MAMA.

CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️@cnlester.bsky.social · 2w ago

Everyone needs a treat, and this is today's www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

this is the thing like schism watch 2k16 is hilarious in many ways but it is also terrifying because extremists are always terrifying some of these people are simply whiny losers yelling on the internet about the pope being mean to them, but some of them are legitimately dangerous

ELEVEN ANGRY EX-MONKS ROLLING UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO THROW THEIR ABBOT IN THE TRUNK OF THEIR CAR AND TAKE OVER THE MONASTERY, WHAT THE FUCK AM I READING