If Stevens won they would not print that moderates didn’t get the big election night they wanted, they would print that moderates have struck back and reasserted their place leading the party

Politico@politico.com · 17h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

tapping the sign

Welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

The future is not knowing what ails you

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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · yesterday

“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

A reminder of the news that came out of Philadelphia hospitals in 2020:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true

I know people are tired and overworked, but I feel like oftentimes they’re offloading a creative (and, on some level, rewarding) activity to free up time that they’ll ultimately spend scrolling on their phones—thereby further reducing their brains to mush. it’s a vicious cycle of meaninglessness

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6d ago

'but AI is the only way i can afford to make an event flyer' notebook paper. sharpie. here is my event. photograph with phone. post. be less stupid in the future

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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"I've got a great campaign written, I just can't get a group together" is the peak D&D experience.

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves co-director Jonathan Goldstein says the script for a sequel already exists, but he's not expecting it to see the light of day any time soon. https://bit.ly/4bIsrNA #SDCC

man, now when I watch The Core (2003) with my son I'll have to pause it to explain where the science is outdated

Science Magazine@science.org · 2w ago

Earth’s core may be as much as 1000°C cooler than previously thought, according to a new technique for measuring the temperature of molten iron under extreme pressures. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4yIOLkf

95% of my communications from the Democratic Party look like this. I have never in my life signed up to be texted by a campaign or the party, and I spent fruitless months attempting to unsubscribe from these. These are functionally identical to scam texts.

last year I didn’t get enough basil from the garden for pesto and so this year I thought “I’d like to get enough basil from the garden for pesto” and friends I may have overcorrected

From me, and the WIRED leadership team. Proud of WIRED today and every day, and we’re not slowing down on our reporting about MSG or anything else.

WIRED@wired.com · 3w ago

A statement from WIRED leadership.

Gene amFilm Auto-Alignment OneTouch for iPhone 16 [6.1''] Screen Protector + Camera Lens Protector, Tempered Glass, 30 seconds Installation, Bubble Free, Case Friendly, Anti-Scratch [2+2 Pack]

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

he says “minions CAN’T die” which for some reason is way more troubling to me than if he had said “minions don’t die”

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · last mo.

Minions co-creator Pierre Coffin was asked if the Minions ever worked for Hitler: • Main Minions were 'stuck in the cave' • Other Minion tribes were not involved in WWII (via Polygon)

The trans panic and vaccine refusal are, like the Satanic Panic before them, niche beliefs seeded by fringe lunatics and built whole cloth by the media Just Asking Questions. Normal people have to be taught to think this way. They can be taught to forget.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last mo.

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

literally one day apart. goldfish would scoff at this lack of object permanence

anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers

expand the court. no more half measures. this is intolerable.

@kvanaren.bsky.social this library book isn’t about what I thought it was about

The chart made me laugh (in a painful way.) It's part of this incredible story: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · last mo.

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

Here's the team that made your new Star Fox!

Velan Studios@velanstudios.com · last mo.

Velan Studios will be 10 years old this year. We've been thinking about what we've built, what we've learned, and what we've become over a decade of developing games. Star Fox™ launching right before that milestone feels less like a coincidence and more like a reminder of why we started our studio.

i asked if my 6yo was bored and he said “a little bit” and i said “why don’t you go play with magna tiles” and he said “that’s still a little bit boring” and i said “what!! playing with magna tiles is the most exciting thing in the whole world!!” and he said “that’s not TRUE, you’re just FORTY”

The lives, happiness, and dignity of real human beings matters more than whatever philosophical point you are trying to make is basically the entire basis of my ideology now.

Louisa@louisathelast.bsky.social · last mo.

Been stewing a little since yesterday I saw someone dismissively using “pushing strollers” as an example of something assimilationist gays do. Actually, gay people having kids and not having the state take them away or lose them in custody battles is pretty fucking radical

Look abandoning progressive principles in a vain attempt to appease rightwing bigots may not have worked this time or all the times before but one of these days it'll click just you wait

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Starmer is going to go down as the single most juiceless politician in history, imagine winning a national landslide and then being so bloody useless they threw you out a window less than halfway through the term

Having your almost-7yo sweetly and enthusiastically yell “smell ya later!” as you walk up the stairs is kind of a perfect encapsulation of the whole experience. Happy Father’s Day!

"An Entire Civilization Will Die Tonight" is going to be eagerly memoryholed by Trump's enablers in the media and hawks in the Democratic party and I propose: not letting them do that.

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST@chathamharrison.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump came to the brink of unleashing horrific destruction on Iran's civilian infrastructure simply because he was tired of being briefed on how we were losing every day, & once he was denied that he checked out even more. It is the most pathetic performance of any world leader in memory

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW — Belfast-based writer @hleehurley.com talks about the racist pogroms that have terrorized his city, how existing tensions in Northern Ireland (and *not* Elon Musk) primed local factions to turn violent, and how Minnesota’s response to ICE inspired their community to care for one another:

idk what kind of tech following I have On Here, but felt worth mentioning that this is the last thing I wrote and handed in as a full-time Ars Technica staffer. You'll still see me around there occasionally, I think - I'm not going to another media gig - but I'm ready to try something new.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 2mo ago

It was a partnership between two companies that made Macs dramatically better... until it started making them worse.

Maybe the dumbest bit that still seems to have purchase in American politics is “that really rich guy can’t be bought!” I assure you, his wealth is *proof* that he can be bought, despite a weird elite class of Americans who want you to believe they won their fortunes in single combat or something