Seen some bad pitches in #MLS but #CHIvsCLT ...woof

One thing #floydfest has taught me over the years is that genre in music is a lot like medium in visual arts. You can express all the feelings in rock, country, bluegrass, blues, metal, etc as if they are watercolor or oil or marble or chalk.

Magic eraser gonna get a workout getting Trump out of everyone's copy of that Spain team photo

They are doing this at every game, every score! Looking for crying kids! It's gotten weird at this point!

Opinion Editor @ Bluesky@dly.bsky.social · 3w ago

World Cup cameramen scanning the crowd for crying English kids:

This was the first thing I ever programmed

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 3w ago

This was the first thing I ever programmed. www.youtube.com/shorts/z_Zqw...

I do not understand Belgium's early subs in this game and now seems really ill advised in light of Courtois

I try so hard to cultivate summoning the words "so what do you think you'll do about that?" It's very hard to unlearn your own expectation of having an immediate answer for anything your kid throws at you but seeing how they work through challenges themselves is priceless and, after all, is THE JOB

Conor P. Williams@conorpwilliams.bsky.social · 4w ago

Put differently: Once your kid gets (roughly) two-thirds of the way to 18, a lot of parenting is best done as backwards planning. At that point, you have six years to give them enough responsibility/accountability that they'll be ready to live independent lives + be someone's roommate.

Bosnia AND Herzegovina!? In this economy?!?* * this has been an official Bluesky skeet for #USMNT

Thank God Claude is doing all my work for me this week bc I am watching a lot of world cup

Nashville in the summer of 2026 is live music with a singer from the audience in front of a TV screen showing world cup soccer and tornado warnings

American airlines making this flight from Charlotte to Nashville seem like a road trip by starting out saying the fuel is low and the lav is broken so I guess we're gonna need to stop at Sheetz along the way

Okay yes I'm searching the World Cup a lot but you may be getting presumptuous about my sports tastes, Google

Current kit proving my 1994 theory that #USMNT play best when they look like the discount rack of a Myrtle Beach Wal-Mart

Maybe an underappreciated additional harm that monopolistic, enshittified platforms inflict: they give many people the impression that this is the *only possible* version of that type of system.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 2mo ago

More broadly, are you aware that there is an entire field of people who are professionals in the practice of understanding how social networks function, and how to design them for social good? That *most* social platforms are healthy — the giant fascist networks are the dangerous exception?

More broadly, are you aware that there is an entire field of people who are professionals in the practice of understanding how social networks function, and how to design them for social good? That *most* social platforms are healthy — the giant fascist networks are the dangerous exception?

This is so funny to me bc I grew up near Philly (West Chester) and even though I can get Tastycakes at the local grocery chain in Charlotte, NC I refuse to b/c my heart says Tastycakes are not authentic unless you buy them at Wawa

I find GIMP hard to use. It's not a diss on GIMP, and I'm pretty good at most normal life skills. It's a very full featured image manipulation program and I use it about once every 3 months. Yes it's mostly clicking on pictures but there are a lot of them and their behavior is not always obvious.

Isobel Bess@echosequence.space · 2mo ago

if you find GIMP hard to use you probably shouldn't be allowed to drive a car or shop at a grocery store. it's literally just buttons with pictures on them that do the things the pictures represent. you don't even need to be able to read.

Landon Donovan has better hair than Alexi Lalas and the US scored 3 goals in a half?!? #USMNT

Self-defense striking the last half of a pint of Ben and Jerry's before my family gets to it

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2mo ago

🚨 BREAKING: Shortly after Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported explosions near the strategic port city of Sirik, CENTCOM announced that U.S. forces had begun what it is calling “self-defense” strikes against Iran at Trump’s direction in response to the downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter.

Shouting this as my neighbors come to shut down my raccoon petting zoo

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”

Men, if you've been chopping jalapenos, wash your hands BEFORE you use the restroom. Please don't ask me how I know.

Sarah Hörst@planetdr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Someday I will figure out how to chop hot peppers and remove my contacts without burning the ever loving shit out of my eyes in the same day. Today was not that day.

Yes this is the least important thing about this photo but...it's killing me that they've got the Empire State Building as taller than the Willis Tower, because they are comparing the with-antennas height of the former to the without for the latter. Like-for-like Willis is taller.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I guess we're really never getting the strait opened.

Great for cooking and cocktail parties to not know quite where the kitchen counter ends

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo ago

www.tumblr.com/thevaultofth...

DRYER: might I suggest this new auto-sensing feature which conveniently stops the cycle 15 minutes before your clothes are dry?

Trying to convince my CEO I'm just an overachiever

Unless you see shit like this from time to time and think you accidentally swiped to Discover, you're not following enough sickos. Also: CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANES!

Google just deprecated one of its leading LLMs (2.5-Flash) while its replacement (3.5-Flash) costs 4x as much. The AI bubble burst is going to feel more like a squeeze to anyone who's gotten dependent on these guys Gemini-2.5-Flash: $0.30/M in // $2.5/M out Gemini-3.5-Flash: $1.5/M in // $9/M out

Even AI haters have to admit how good it is at telling us how indifferent or hostile many leaders are to their own employees

Mia Sato@miasato.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Exclusive: Unionized tech workers at the New York Times have filed grievances accusing management of using AI-powered performance tools to track and discipline staff. The Tech Guild says recent disciplinary notices appear to be generated using one of the tools. 🎁 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Looks like Google Health just got a heart transplant from Southwest