In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

In terms of "fanfic premises where you get a magic sex tattoo on your wrist at 18", I rate this a B-. It's better than your future soulmate's name, but not as good as magically revealing whether you're a dom or sub and sorts you into the matching bom or sub house at BDSM Hogwarts

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h ago

i'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else

when I called Greg Mortenson's obvious bullshit about how the primitive people of the mountains simply didn't understand time - *after* he had been exposed as a bullshit artist - he tried to smear me to my boss on social media, entirely unsuccessfully. Real piece of shit.

If Books Could Kill@ifbookspod.bsky.social · 4h ago

Episode 54: Three Cups of Tea One man's mission to build schools, fight terrorism and promote peace, one private jet reimbursement at a time.

he's posting stuff begging for money now and - man, some people just destroy their whole lives for nothing.

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Take no pleasure in putting together the sentence "The SinFest guy is in his pro-Imperial Japan revisionist era"

Yeah for all my jokes, I actually think this has a chance to be a pretty good outcome for the party overall. A more conciliatory AES and a party establishment which doesn’t feel doomed may actually be pretty good for focusing on the GOP

Vibecession Forever@ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 14h ago

I don’t think there’s enough vote for Stevens left but this will be a close result. My hope is that the El-Sayed/DSA/far left contingent don’t get despondent but realize that both factions need each other. It’s time to cut the shit and fight MAGA, not Democrats.

I don't doubt that some Chinese online propaganda has latched onto data center discontent in the way it latches - usually ineffectively - onto any kind of discontent, justified or otherwise. But the idea that they actually care about it as an issue is brainworms crazypants bullshit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

"They're spending a lot of money on promoting 'don't build" -- Trump suggests China is secretly running an influence campaign in the US to turn Americans against data centers

so it's still likely him but the over-enthusiasm at el-Sayed having crushed it was just because in person votes got counted first and his support base was younger?

the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.

And by quality: there are entire genres of antisemitism that hardly get mentioned here

Just search "Jew" chronologically here vs Twitter and compare the results

Bluesky does not have the same proportion of antisemitism as Twitter, do not be ridiculous, I am quite qualified to judge this roughly at least

it's only possible bc their constituency populations are so strong but i genuinely think the UK does it right by not announcing any results until they've counted everything

Anchorage Man@sethpartnow.bsky.social · 15h ago

Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.

Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.

Good to see Democrats being strategic by withdrawing and supporting independents running for Senate in three deep red states where a Democrat couldn’t win. Utah in 2022 and Nebraska in 2024 saw independents massively overperform the Democratic ticket, and Nebraska is a very real possibility in 2026

Democrat exits Senate race in South Dakota, clearing way for independent

Julian Beaudion withdrew after resisting pressure to step aside, making South Dakota’s contest the third Senate race without a Democratic candidate.

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honestly can't stress enough, as a former family law attorney, how depressingly common Max Miller's behavior and words are, right down to the petty fixation on custody procedure and rules when faced with allegations of shocking violence.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

Rep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty made an enormous difference. It entered into force in 1970. President John F. Kennedy thought we might have 25-30 nuclear weapons states by the 1980s. We now have 9.

As seen with Barnes v. Hong, people overindex at times on ideology in primary fights and underrate "do your coworkers hate your guts?"

60 Minutes had major Epstein scoop before Donald Trump’s hand puppet fired the reporter www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/60-m...

60 Minutes had major Epstein scoop before Donald Trump's hand puppet fired the reporter - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Bari’s Weiss’s rolling catastrophe continues: Deutsche Bank AG failed to promptly notify authorities of more than $250 million in questionable transfers tied to Epstein, according to Wyden’s report. T...

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honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20h ago

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

So, to be 100% clear: I'm not criticizing anyone who says "I won't vote for that person if they're the Dem nominee" because I'm taking it in the spirit of "passions are high during the primary". And I'm not objecting to arguments like "that nominee will lose votes and we should care about that".

today's centrist shitlib take: I totally get people having really strong feelings in the primary and I will not criticize anyone who says "If that person gets the nom, I'm not voting in November." But in November, anyone who doesn't vote for the non-fascist against the fascist? Fuck you.

if you want some spicy *authentic* ODYSSEY discourse, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library has a translation of the incredibly bitter East Roman freelancer John Tzetzes's ALLEGORIES OF THE ODYSSEY, which is the cutting edge of 12th-century Homeric criticism. folks, it's *bonkers*.

EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest

Every day I read one of your posts and learn something terrible. I suppose that's on me for following you but jesus what a price I pay

my national identity goes back to ancient times, your national identity is a false creation of modernity.

the only truly liberatory genre of music is jizz, the music of the Rebellion. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jizz

Jizz

Jizz was a genre of music. Jizz-wailers were musicians who specialized in the genre. Maximilian Rebo and his band were popular Jizz-wailers.[1] Jizz was first mentioned in canon in Star Wars: Return o...

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I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

a perennial obsession of anti-semites is the attempt to find 'real Jews' who can be used to attack other Jews. It's the role that Neturei Karta plays for a chunk of the British left too. But picking Mizrahim given actually existing Israeli politics is a real know-nothing sign.

Alex Mann@alex-mann.bsky.social · 18h ago

This is always a pretty easy tell for "does not actually understand Israel/Palestine outside of memes." I don't think anyone could look at the political currents of Israel and argue that the Mizrahi are somehow the people who will find common cause with the Arabs...

'Mizrahi Jews will magically realize they're actually Arabs' is racist delusion.

Cuddles_the_destroyer@cuddlessmash.bsky.social · 19h ago

what the fuck am I reading lmao

several of you appear to follow this absolute moron, who not only managed to read a criticism of a piece for antisemitism as antisemitism but then do a bizarre AI thing about it, then double down when corrected