Are you teaching a class on State and Local Politics next year? We wrote a BRAND NEW textbook for you that will be out for spring 2027! Happy to chat with anyone about how it might work for their classes.

I've been paranoid about this exact circumstance since I was a kid because...

A New Hope Trash Compactor

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alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterday

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

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

Man with Cup: Wolfhowling Yes

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Captain Awkward@captainawkward.bsky.social · yesterday

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

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 Owls Are Not What They Seem.

@Above96th@above96th.bsky.social · yesterday

One steamy July morning I encountered Flaco sleeping in Central Park, his wings spread in an effort to keep cool. One of my favorite Flaco shots! #Flaco #Internationalowlawarenessday #birding

STRANGE DAYS IS BACK ON HULU THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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I’m gonna say REM with Green - Out of Time - Automatic for the People.

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

This goes hard

#MagnetoWasRight

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5d ago

Name a villain who was actually right.

Piss Christ II (2026)

Time for a Battlestar Galactica (2005) rewatch. The show is more relevant now than it was then.

Battlestar Galactica: Human Race on Verge of Extinction

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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

(NYT) - The scope of cyberattacks on U.S. water systems has grown to include at least seven states and may be far wider, officials and experts warned .. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

We loved Reggie Dinkins. Glad NBC had the good sense to renew it. If you liked RD, don’t sleep on Stumble. The scriptwork on that show was incredible. We watched on Peacock and I had to pause and rewind often each episode. NBC were fools for cancelling it.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d ago

reggie dinkins is so much fun. i’m so glad to see tracy morgan playing tracy jordan again and daniel radcliffe is surprisingly great as liz lemon

I wonder if the author has ever spoken to someone on the spectrum who has to work hard to mask in social situations. Because Reader, it is *exactly* like this, all the time, even when there are no cameras around. A constant self-monitoring of facial expression, tone, body language. Just to pass.

Frank Pasquale@frankpasquale.bsky.social · 4d ago

“There is something eerie about being both the speaker and the watcher, performing one’s own identity for oneself, rather than simply living it. When we take on the roles of actor, audience and critic all at once, it’s going to cause some psychic strain.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

This should be the moderate Democratic position going forward, really.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

You could imagine that higher education is not as ethically-compromised an industry as other businesses. But you would be very, very wrong.

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People like to imagine themselves as Neo in their little cyberpunk fantasies, but if they're honest, most people really just want to be Cypher. We're so cooked.

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 5d ago

We're definitely in The Matrix prequel where people are building homemade pods and saying, please machines, hook up the tubes, jack me in.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Panther Raccoon@pantherraccoon.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

I’ve taken to using my iPad Pro as a laptop again with the Magic Keyboard. I think the secret is to turn multitasking off and just keep every app fullscreen. It becomes an incredibly useful focus device used that way, especially if you use a Focus mode that turns off notifications.

Taylor Lorenz: "If I got online every single day and ranted about how evil the AI industry is, or ranted about how AI is fake, it’s a bubble, nobody really uses it for anything, it’s all coming crashing down, and I’m not kidding—there are people who do that who are millionaires." Reader, I died.

This Thunderbirds reboot really sucks.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.

Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

I thought we had all agreed that O Brother, Where Art Thou? was the superior Odyssey adaptation?

George Clooney: 'Geographical Oddity' in O Brother

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We regret signing up with X Money. The system will not allow any transactions below $14.88.

Kind of cracks me up that the future of warfare is motorcycles and technicals. *Fancy* motorcycles and technicals, but still. mod.gov.ua/en/news/gene...

Generator bike: the Ministry of Defence codifies a unique all-wheel-drive motorcycle

The Ministry of Defence has codified MUL.E, the first Ukrainian-made all-wheel-drive electric motorcycle. Here is what makes it unique, how its removable generator works and how it performs at the fro...

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@cascio.bsky.social I don't know what we're doing to Google's AI Summaries today, but it's wonderful.

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Wes Anderson's Saving Private Ryan

Jamais Cascio@cascio.bsky.social · last wk.

Quentin Tarantino's Oppenheimer

Hear me out: Christopher Nolan's The Hobbit.

All he has to do is release a video more than 8-12 seconds in length without any edits, shot by a third party. In our current AI in Politics moment, a tightly cropped still photo ain't cutting it, chief.

Kentucky Public Radio@kentuckypublicradio.org · last wk.

A statement from Mitch McConnell released by his office says he’s still undergoing “intense physical therapy” and will miss the Fancy Farm political event this Saturday.

I’d always thought that The Dark Knight Rises was his least successful effort, really. TENET is a really good but not great film you have to spend a *lot* of time with to appreciate.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.

I absolutely consider it the least successful of his films (as a piece of cinema, I'm not talking about box office, because, COVID), but a) if you like it, that's cool, b) as noted, his "failure" is at a high enough level that it would be someone else's best work

The sheer arrogance of this motherfucker.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

BRENNAN: You were an early supporter of Graham Platner. Do you regret not acting earlier for him to drop out given the warning signs? BERNIE SANDERS: No, I don't think so