after 2+ years of trying, I’m finally admitting defeat: I don’t have what it takes to wear Doc Martin’s loafers. my gentle heels can’t take the blisters. into the donate pile

Banger

the guy in the leading anecdote is an unbelievable loser www.wired.com/story/people...

People Are Ghosting Long-Term Partners. Some Don’t Regret It

The communication-free form of breaking up has become ubiquitous. “I no longer had to bear her energy,” a man who ghosted his partner of four years tells WIRED.

wired.com

Music, fashion, film, existentialism aftermath.site/charli-xcx-mus...

I’ve been a fan of Abdul El-Sayed and his work for a decade now, and seeing a committed public health advocate win such a contested race in 2026 is genuinely inspiring. a little light in the darkness

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tfw it’s time to vote blue no matter who

I don’t know enough about Arizona to know if this would work to get her reelected, but the continued obsession with bipartisanship among centrist democrats in the Trump era is a pathology www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate

Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.

nytimes.com

do kids these days still have a duct tape phase? duct tape was very important to me in my formative years and I’m worried that this is yet another thing we’ve lost

"...we found that the rhetoric & policy of shared sacrifice diminished & partisan differences in pandemic policy increased once it became clear to political elites that there were major racial disparities in COVID-19 cases & deaths."

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’m proud of this paper (as awareness of disparities spread, Republicans eased up on public health measures- but Democrats focused a lot of energy on reducing disparities, so real divergence). Also nice to have a random pharma salesman summarize the whole issue in the epigram at the top.

Jim Haggerty is the lightest satire of Bill Maher imaginable. basically just an impression

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 2d ago

"What is a woman?" Jim Haggerty knows the answer to the question liberals refuse to ask.

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

404media.co

This joke goes nuts if you, like me, are the son of a evangelical pastor who became an epidemiologist

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 6d ago

New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

skill issue. simply have close male friends, this is literally all we do. "someone's looking handsome today!" "did you get a haircut? looks good!" "wow been hitting the gym? looking strong!" etc. infinite friendship and good vibes hack

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 6d ago

A thing I learned a while back that blew my mind is that men almost never receive compliments, especially cishet men. Giving a man a compliment will literally make their year

I hate that they closed my local REI aftermath.site/soho-rei-close...

you can’t make me read Emily Wilson’s odyssey review. it’s called self respect

I was not expecting the noise to be that bad. It's like a dolphin screaming while a circular saw endlessly grazes it. My wrath toward the big tech colonizers grows by the day

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

“People will say ‘I’ve lived here for 75 years, don’t take away my free parking.’ Well I’m going to live here for the NEXT 75 years and I want to get around my neighborhood safely”

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is my favorite bike advocacy video in a long time. I love how direct the kids are about saying they deserve to move about their neighborhood safely. Well done Piers Park Sailing! They have more videos on Instagram: www.instagram.com/piersparksai...

hospital workers who smoke are impossible to understand until you learn literally anything about working in a hospital

Screaming Pectoriloquy@caulimovirus.bsky.social · 7d ago

“no smoking on hospital grounds” has gotta be up there for Most Ignored Sign of All Time

lab leak is a conspiracy theory for people who want to seem a lot smarter than they are

the next few days may just be a stream of odyssey bits

Agamemnon? more like Chad-amemnon amirite

is there anything more insulting than the automated help line bot ~pretending to type~ when you ask to talk to a real person? how dare you put in keyboard clacking sounds

look I know facebook is trash and I only use it to sell furniture I don't want anymore, but this ad in the sidebar (right at the top of the screen!) is actually crazy. the link is a completely random scam website. they just truly do not care at all anymore

hundreds of millions got the COVID vaccine and there were so few problems that the main form of criticism turned into "friend-of-a-friend" hearsay stories, so this guy can't actually cite an actual case but knows his base will think they know people who know people this may have happened to

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."

and also rand paul is a slimy little worm

today feels like a good time to remind everyone that the lab leak theory has been all but disproved, and anyone peddling it is either misguided or directly lying

Peter's work should be required reading for anyone who fights bike infrastructure by saying, "Our cities and streets were built for cars!"

Peter Norton@norton.bsky.social · last wk.

“‘Jaywalker’ was a tool in this reconstruction effort. It implied a new answer to the question ‘What is a street for?’ – an answer that carried a sting.”