I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning... were rented. All of them.
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She/Her spoken with the awe and fear as with which the Depths Of the Sea are named.
I think it is good and important for other countries to start playing domestic US politics like this right as everyone starts paying close attention to the midterms? fuck you, retaliatory tariffs punish the Republican Party directly with your timing
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 10h agoIn the coming days, we will release the details of these new tariff measures, which will come into force the Tuesday after Labour Day.
Nice: Rinse Cycle Valet is a laundry pickup and delivery business that's raising money to provide free laundry pickup, washing, drying and delivery to affected families in Gary. Their original goal was $1800. Their current donation total is over $22K. www.gofundme.com/f/clean-clot... #garyindiana
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Cory Doctorow is on fire as always. I think though the bubble needs to pop, it is currently on life support. The companies borrow money to buy GPUs. Nvida are the only ones with real money. And now they are giving it back to keep the bubble popping. It kind of feels like asset laundering.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · yesterdayAny frank assessment of your achievements starts with an equally frank assessment of the world-historic forces that attended those achievements. For example, I often tell people who want to get into tech, "If you lack the foresight and work ethic to be born in 1971, I can't really help you." 1/
Another example of other countries needing digital sovereignty from the U.S., which @doctorow.pluralistic.net has talked about before (and is mentioned in the article) I hope they're able to do it sooner rather than later
Holger Hestermeyer@hhesterm.bsky.social · 3d agoThis incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...
This isn't the first time the USA has placed 50% tariffs on Canada. In 1890, the USA's Tariff Act was touted as a way to build up American industry, but the true goal was forcing the annexation of Canada. It backfired and made Canada stronger. This is the story. 📸 LoC 🧵1/10
I have to conclude that people who want to watch the new HP series are grasping at straws. JKR spends her billions erasing trans people from public life. She wants it to be illegal and unsafe for trans people to pee anywhere but their private homes.
Tea Berry-Blue@teaberryblue.net · 7h agoRowling did not make a statement. She replied to a trans woman in the comments section on Twitter. Rowling did not say anything supportive, she basically said “you were so mentally ill that the only way to cure you was surgery and hormones.” She notably did not say the woman in question is a woman
"...the ordinary Americans’ experience with AI is as if after the invention of electricity, every factory worker was assigned to start each workday by receiving an electric shock, and newly founded electrical companies went around to rural farms tasering farm children"
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d agoWondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...
Don't sleep on Relooted, an Africanfuturistic heist game about reclaiming artifacts from Western museums. Here's a chat with two of its creators, who are putting their time and money into building up the games scene in South Africa.
The Best Heists Are Also History Lessons
In Relooted, before you steal artifacts you must learn why they matter
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Fellow US folks, we all understand the pickle we're in, right? Suppose we elect a reasonable person in 2028, who the world respects and truly believes is acting in good faith. It would be irresponsible of them to make any deal with the US that would outlive that reasonable president's term.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 8h agoIf you really want to know what’s been going on in Trump’s USA-Canada trade dumpster fire, invest the time to watch Canadian Prime Minister’s address to Canadians. It’s pretty clear who the expert, and the adult, in the situation has been. Spoiler: Trump and his cronies are lying as usual.
UPDATE: Yes, their owner passed away Thursday. We're taking them in today, but as I said, that CAN'T be permanent; they NEED a HOME NOW. We're willing to drive pretty much anywhere in the Northeast for the right adopter. We're begging.
Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · 15h agoMorning people: yep, looks like the ONE nibble is now ghosting. Going to Kevin's apartment today to start cleanout & get the cats, then we're bringing them here. They HAVE to stay closed in our bedroom, so they're safe for now, but one room is NO way to live the rest of their life. Please. SOMEONE.
Carney says the US tried to restrict Canada's ability to make trade deals with other countries as a requirement for negotiation. Sources tell CBC this included making Canada impose new tariffs on other non-US trade partners in compliance with the United States www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
U.S. tried to restrict Canada's ability to get new trade deals - Carney says U.S. 'asked too much and offered too little' after trade talks fall apart
In the final hours of negotiations, the U.S. tried to include restrictions on Canada's ability to strike trade deals with other countries, Carney said. "Unacceptable," the prime minister said flatly.....
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I have followed Sarah for many years, and whenever I chose to dismiss one of her takes as fancifully paranoid, she’s been right. Anyways, all we have is us 🙏
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 12h agoThread with some excerpts of an article I wrote in 2024 that nearly got me banned from Bluesky when it was posted here then, but has since become conventional wisdom 🙃
Bluesky folks have fallen back into the bad Twitter habit of vagueposting about whatever the current discourse is without telling people who aren’t constantly online what they’re talking about. I’ve been tempted to just start making up discourse to obliquely reference.
missouri republicans have a level of contempt for the people of that state that is truly remarkable. but then, why wouldn’t they after successfully insulating themselves from any political accountability?
ProPublica@propublica.org · 12h agoMissouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its advertising is focused on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors. The campaign never explicitly states it would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved 2 years ago.
Flock takes their privacy very seriously. But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways. Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.
Just saw this come across my feed elsewhere and this cs lewis quote hits on something i’ve been saying for a minute now
Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune
its not a misuse if that's why they bought them. checkmate human rights groups
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 13h agoDespite warnings from human rights groups that electric-shock gloves like the kind ICE plans to purchase are “readily misused for torture,” police departments, jails, and even school resource officers across the country have been using them for years.
HOLY SHIT HE DID IT HE ACTUALLY DID IT
Jim Zub@jimzub.com · 14h agoMichel Gagné's SAGA OF REX is a hand-animated feature film he's been working on for 14 years and the trailer is finally here! I backed Michel's original 4-min short way back in 2012 and am so thrilled to finally see this feature version come to life! Watch + share: www.youtube.com/watch?v=clVY...
in the absence of a green new deal, libraries and public transit are going to be america's de facto cooling centers, keeping large number of people alive during climate disasters for the indefinite future
ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · yesterdaythe bus network in austin is like a circulating distributed AC system and i think i would die without it
Natalie Harp Was the Document Author of Trump's Blow-Off of the January 6 Committee emptywheel.net/2026/08/22/n...
Natalie Harp Was the Document Author of Trump's Blow-Off of the January 6 Committee - emptywheel
The metadata of Trump's blow-off of a January 6 subpoena shows Natalie Harp was the author of the document.
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Remember when we let DOGE run around and steal all of our private data under the guise of finding “fraud and abuse” and a year later, the national debt is higher than it’s ever been at $40T, while headlines about fraud smack you in the face at breakfast and we don’t even blink?
Your reminder that the English Beat icon "Beat Girl" is a transgender woman named Brigitte Bond from a photo of her dancing with ska musician Prince Buster at Heathrow in 1964 and none of us will be as cool as she was.
Happy #Caturday to these heroes.
Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17h agoWhen a Bitcoin mining center suddenly went offline in Inner Mongolia, China, the technical team started an analysis, only to find that stray cats, drawn to the warmth of the GPUs, had curled up on the machines, blocking the cooling systems and shutting everything down. Original post
The most interesting thing about Rowling's statement is not the statement itself -- which absolutely not worth taking seriously even for a moment -- but that she (or more likely, Warner Brothers) felt the need to issue it. Someone over there is getting a bit nervous that she's fucking up the bag