ted lasso used to be funny, right? like it did start out as a sitcom basically
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On twitter, I had an underscore in my name. Here, I don’t. Everything else is basically the same 📍 Carrboro, North Carolina
It's hard to read this and not think that this is Meta not wanting to be left out of the super-dangerous / super-powerful AI club.
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 3h agoIt keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.
this inspired me to do my semi regular threads check and you know what
victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 3h agoopened threads. saw this. closed threads. perfect app
opened threads. saw this. closed threads. perfect app
(regular voter voice) Well ah I don't really know about Israel and all that but it sounds like this group wants to help Trump keep the Senate and enable his ongoing crime spree and I'm against that
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 10h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
These guys suck, but I want to emphasize that the people who found news media sites, and then sell their sites to anyone but their own employees, need to have rotten fruit thrown at their heads for the rest of their lives whenever they appear in public
bart@bartsmith.bsky.social · 12h ago"The Madden brothers aka Good Charlotte fired almost everyone from REVOLVER Magazine, BrooklynVegan, and Alternative Press"
unc has hired the same external lawyers to investigate its football program as they did to investigate its civics school. we're still suing to get the report from that civics investigation www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
UNC-Chapel Hill Retains Law Firm to Investigate Football Program
The university has hired the same team that produced a confidential report into its civics school earlier this year.
theassemblync.com
ordering Domino’s and then blaming ChatGPT when nobody wants it
Today my primary care doctor told me that menopause is autism and all immigrants have autism, so I guess I have to go without the medication I went there for for a little while
it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This
How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
oaklandreviewofbooks.org
it’s cool that if you turn on ESPN nowadays you’re fairly likely to see the 24th best QB in the NFL discussing the lab leak conspiracy with a man in a tank top
i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
Bonita Gooch is the next representative for Kansas House District 84, unseating incumbent Ford Carr by a 70-30 margin
Cherry blossom@chocilate.bsky.social · 22h agois she winning
Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 22h agoSpoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.
sometimes on my laptop I get the intuition that there's a beautiful interesting website I should be visiting but I either can't think of it or it is my mission to find it
This is kindergarten logic. “We like it when it our athletes take a stand for a good cause, yet we don’t like it when they’re bigots or crackpots?” Uh, yes?
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 13h agoAaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D
This is 💯 not true. It is never a choice between ‘taking big tech’s money and doing nothing’. A stronger moral imperative is NOT to take the money and the strings attached to it - particularly if you do not and cannot yet understand the implications
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
"The Madden brothers aka Good Charlotte fired almost everyone from REVOLVER Magazine, BrooklynVegan, and Alternative Press"
Chuck Edwards posting this on facebook at 3:35 am but he probably should have disabled comments
NEW: Congressman Chuck Edwards, R-North Carolina, has decided to drop his bid for reelection following Monday’s recommendation by the House Ethics Committee that he be censured. ncnewsline.com/2026/08/04/e... #NC #ncpol #WNC
Edwards drops reelection campaign following ethics probe, urging of Republican colleagues • NC Newsline
One of Congressman Chuck Edwards' fellow North Carolina Republicans thinks the outcome of a U.S. House ethics investigation will make it hard for him to win reelection in November.
ncnewsline.com
In hindsight, Big Jim Cameron really should have made Avatar a trilogy and ended the story with the third movie rather than just redoing the same plot from the second movie
With Avatar's Future Still Uncertain, James Cameron Now Says He Wants to Prioritize 'Other Stories' For the 'Last Act' of His Career
Avatar director James Cameron has signaled that he may be ready to move on from the franchise, as the status of its two planned sequels still remains uncertain.
ign.com
lot of scandal dogging my campaign right now but I'm going to calm things down by going on TV and blackmailing my father in law, who is a US Senator
suspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile
Bono reciting the lyrics to U2’s “Beautiful Day” at Glen Hansard’s funeral is really the most Bono thing he could have done
Had an incredible interaction with a guy over the weekend who went to see The Odyssey and told me he was pissed that Elliott Page played Achilles, a character Elliott Page did not play that was not in the movie
imagine debasing yourself before one of the most ridiculous figures ever to occupy the global stage, imagine doing that with your life
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterdayPirro even lugged a giant box of evidence with her to prove she hadn’t messed up the case. trib.al/4UonG7L
A lot of columnists have lost their minds in recent years because social media has allowed people to talk back to them, whereas before they could say any old vile shit with next to no pushback