Bryan
@bryanuf.bsky.social
UF alum in Connecticut via Chicago, Orlando, and Los Angeles. Metro-North and MBTA Napper. Big brother to Puddles the Shih Tzu. Sometimes I write at http://www.bryanhg.wordpress.com.
“If built as planned, the gas burning plants — scattered across states including Texas, Ohio and Wyoming — could release as much planet-warming pollution in a year as roughly half of all the passenger vehicles in the United States”
hilzoy@hilzoy.bsky.social · 2h agoGift link. 😬 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/c...
Universities have utterly given up the pretense of academic rigor.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h ago“If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework…”
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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Audience-Capture Miserabilism is the great enemy all of us on the liberal posting app must fight every day you can get so much engagement for saying obviously false things that resonate with people who are extremely sad
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
from the video (on FB) bro got off his electric unicycle (lol) when he heard cries for help and just kind of maneuvered to give the woman a chance to get away. he didn't even end up having to fight the guy. peak performance www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
Good Samaritan describes helping stop Georgetown attempted sexual assault
A man leaving an early morning showing of the new Spider-Man movie at the AMC Georgetown sprang into action to help a woman yelling for help from the bushes in the nearby waterfront park.
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Alt: Ms Rachel and Zohran Mamdani doing the crying hand gestures as they sing ‘The wheels on the bus’.
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The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Anyone got a forklift and box truck I can borrow?
Metropolitan Transportation Authority@mta.info · 6h agoWe’re auctioning a limited number of MetroCard Vending Machines and MetroCard Express Machines! The auction is now open and offers must be received by Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 8 pm EST. Learn more and bid on our website: mta.info/auction
We're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.
SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision
Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour
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The US is governed by a racist regime. But you know that. "The State Department is making permanent a program under which citizens from 50 countries, mainly in Africa, are required to post bonds to apply for a U.S. visa, & raising the cost as well, to as much as $20,000." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
U.S. will make visa bond program permanent, affecting mostly African countries
A draft notice published Friday in the Federal Register says a nearly year-long review “provided sufficient data” to suggest the bond program effectively enforces compliance with visa conditions, and ...
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Gianni Infantino's colossal, Kushner-backed backfire isn't quite the story of good actors stopping bad. It's the story of — surprise! — a political strategy that is so incompetent that it's basically indistinguishable from malice: youtu.be/EFT7_PIh6w4?...
How FIFA's "King" Tried to Sell the World Cup | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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As a Palace supporter: whoa
Tom Bogert@tombogert.bsky.social · yesterday🇺🇸🔴🔵 BREAKING: Crystal Palace in advanced talks to sign American winger/wingback Zavier Gozo from Real Salt Lake, per sources - Deal not agreed yet, but trending well. Likely in $15m region - Gozo, 19, made clear he wants to go to Europe www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
Interest in Zavier Gozo is widespread, but Premier League money priced out other interested clubs like Feyenoord, Anderlecht, others like that. Aston Villa and Atletico Madrid among clubs to previously pursue him. But Crystal Palace working to close the deal
Tom Bogert@tombogert.bsky.social · yesterday🇺🇸🔴🔵 BREAKING: Crystal Palace in advanced talks to sign American winger/wingback Zavier Gozo from Real Salt Lake, per sources - Deal not agreed yet, but trending well. Likely in $15m region - Gozo, 19, made clear he wants to go to Europe www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
The new franchise did a pretty good job justifying the choice of Sirens over Rockers. It works for me.
The Athletic@theathletic.com · yesterdayWelcome to the W, Cleveland Sirens! Instead of reviving the Cleveland Rockers, who played in the WNBA from 1997-2003, the team will begin a new chapter with a new identity. nyti.ms/452l3ZV
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
Kurawanko, a laid-back dog, and Hiranyanko, a capricious cat, are the mascots of Hirakata City, and both wear loincloths.
DOG OF PEACE: Look at this fluff! She’s such a sweetheart. We hung out with her at the park, catching so much attention because it’s so rare to see such a big dog in Taiwan.
From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: U.S. host cities for the 2026 World Cup are chasing FIFA for millions of dollars they believe they were promised by soccer’s governing body that have so far gone unpaid.
U.S. cities chasing FIFA over millions of dollars owed after hosting World Cup games
FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced last year that host cities for the 2025 Club World Cup would receive $1m.
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For the first time in more than 70 years, women took the field in a professional baseball game. Dreams that generations fought for are finally becoming reality. Here’s to every girl who has ever been told, “Baseball isn’t for you.” Keep proving them wrong💪 #WomensSports #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance
Unfortunately for David Ellison this is transparently laughable after what Bari Weiss has already done at CBS and it will be very funny if her genius moves fuck up a $100 billion merger www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
I wonder if there's a postcredits scene to Coyote vs. Acme where an anvil falls on Ellison
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · yesterdayShameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
wild that nobody is giving the mayor (Brandon Johnson) credit for this. If it was Rahm there would be a 60 minutes profile on how Rahm was the savior of Chicago
Jared Rutecki@jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 2d agoThere were 37 homicides in the city last month, the lowest total for any such month dating back to at least 1970. That total is down 18% compared to July 2025, and is less than half the totals of July 2020 and 2021, which each saw more than 100 killings.
Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump. austinkocher.substack.com/p/edwin-lope...
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo Is the 23rd Person to Die in ICE Custody in 2026
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump.
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How convenient for Varsho. He just has to walk to the other dugout instead of hop on a plane tonight.
Jeff Passan Bot@jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Houston Astros are finalizing a deal to acquire center fielder Daulton Varsho from the Toronto Blue Jays, sources tell ESPN.
Adell may have gotten traded today, but Angels fans can take solace in the fact that the coolest moment of the MLB season took place when he was in an Angels uniform
