SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 16h ago

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

BRB; intentionally spreading the misinformation that having "universal healthcare" means that if you want to see a doctor or get any form of medical care in the USA, you'd have to go to a Universal theme park. Need emergency care? Well, I hope you got an express pass when you purchased your ticket.

Q.@qalyon.bsky.social · 18h ago

Isn't it funny how something as basic as "universal healthcare" is seen as so... villainous by more than halt the country?

They're at it again (still). Horrible name aside, this is a great time to remind folks it is absolutely never about protecting children. www.404media.co/what-is-the-...

Be sure to remind them that THEY would need to verify too, and that THEIR PII and internet history would also inevitably be regularly leaked with everyone else's.

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 7d ago

The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5, 2026. Take action now to oppose nationwide age verification in the US This bill would force every adult in the country to hand over identifying information just to use the internet. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/

It's 6 so I can catch up with @secretqueen.bsky.social and @tyislucystoole.bsky.social because it's been too long since I've seen either of them.

Dr. Neutral Gena, PhD👑@neutralgena.bsky.social · last wk.

4 hour flight, no wifi… what seat are you picking?

My husband and me, every year around this time: Dore next year?

Q1: yes Q2: yes Q3: god no Q4: yes Q5: 🤔 Q6: 🤷‍♂️ Q7: YES Q8: fuck you Q9: yes, probably

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2w ago

MA officially has 9 ballot questions for this November.

Person who regularly harassed people at brunch I made knockoff movie poster flyers for is now hosting brunch at the same bar (under new management) with uninspired AI flyers.

Kikipedia@kikipedia.app · 3w ago

Day 3 of shady gaga leaving voice messages in our Instagram DMs. We are continuing to ignore them.

Potentially microdosing the parasite lettuce experience because I forgot to specify soy milk in the latte I ordered (not at my usual cafe).

I def recommend this game if you want a modern interpretation of the original 2 Rollercoaster Tycoon games.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 3w ago

Parkitect is $11.99 on GOG buff.ly/lKnl9Pg #ad

I know truly private accounts will never be a thing on here (not profitable) but I sometimes wish I could just go private because the slop accounts are liking my last post. At least I can limit interactions so I don't have to read their "thoughts".

Love it when I start getting email newsletters from a company I purchased from many years ago because they exported all the email addresses in their DB into a new marketing spam SaaS platform.

Finished Subnautica Below Zero and by the end of it the most unsettling thing was the way the controller vibrated when you hit a creature in your sea truck and how it kept vibrating as you dragged the carcass. Completely desensitized to the leviathans and underwater cave dread though.

New MK World knockout tour rallies right before a long weekend thank you Nintendo.

so goose's privacy policy is bonkers. anything you put on the app can be used for whatever they want and they're using AI instagram models to promote it

Stop building stupid little texting apps that are locked in to 1 device ecosystem.

What hardware are people running OPNsense/pfSense on these days?

Welp. They found a way to screw voters regarding rent control. Again. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

Rent control question disqualified due to religious exemption

Massachusetts voters will not have the opportunity to repeal the state's three-decade ban on rent control on November's ballot.

wgbh.org

I love a drag brunnci. It sounds Almost Italian.

Another Friday, another dick pic

Oh no another price increase on the new apple iwaste that comes out every year with little to no actual improvement and is designed to last 2 years or less. But you need to get it because the new iOS is only compatible with devices from the past 5 years and all of the apps will soon drop support!

Gay bar that often waits til the last minute to post info about their annual pride block parties got denied permits to do them this year because they waited too long to apply for them.

Hey gay bars in San Francisco: what the fucking fuck is this shit SF queers boycott the fuck outta this nonsense please!

The natural light in the half bathroom said "go piss girl"

Someone just asked for all of their past drag race auditions because they lost access to their vimeo account, and for some reason I had EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. Turns out it was because we ripped them all to do a few super cut sequences for the FINAL time they auditioned (season 15).

Welp, it's Friday.

I've had to conduct 2 interviews this week where the candidate was obviously reading from an AI assistant and they were both absofuckinlutely TERRIBLE. Thanks for wasting 2 hours of my day reading summarized framework docs to me when we were trying to have a conversation about system design.