I’m a hater when it comes to the Dead (NoFX’s “August 8th” is one of my guilty pleasure songs) but Paul’s prose here will at the very least get me to give this song a fair shake

The People’s Music@thepeoplesmusic.bsky.social · 5h ago

During the Days Between (Aug. 1–9), I keep returning to the Jerry Garcia Band's Shining Star. That's the song that made me a Deadhead—not because of the guitar solo, but because it revealed the remarkable bond of devotion between Garcia and his audience. Read my retrospective—link in bio

This is absolutely correct. So much of the AI boosterism just feels like a retread of the NFT boosterism, where it was was absolutely the future and everyone had to get all in on it right away or be left behind and then it just…wasn’t.

Patrick Damp@synonymforwet.bsky.social · 6h ago

I know this website hates AI, as it should, but if its biggest boosters actually talked about it as a tool that could make your life easier? Might be more popular, might be more people willing to try it. Instead, they’re all telling you “lol fuck off idiot, use AI or get left behind”

Oh so it’s gonna CRASH crash

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h ago

Jim Cramer just now on Elon Musk and why you should buy SpaceX: “Because our minds are small and his mind is big.”

Aaron Rodgers famously had his leg explode on the field after he had taken ivermectin

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h ago

Ron Johnson: "Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid ... unfortunately, more people didn't follow him. We wouldn't have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You've seen the video reels of this happening in 2021."

Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

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Not a knock on Dan here because he is doing good reporting but the fact that Trump is even involved in any of this while there is a war on and prices continue to rise should cause nothing but “Out-of-touch Trump fiddles with decorations while oil tankers burn” headlines from every news outlet

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · yesterday

Scoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost

Something I keep thinking of that may not be popular in Pittsburgh is the Steelers current ownership stinks. You see all the NFLPA and player surveys and the Steelers were damn near dead last or last in everything but coaching. This isn’t to say Mike T was perfect or hadn’t become stale, but…

When do they announce Mitch McConnell’s death? today? This week? Place your bets with kalshi®️ I mean predictions! Place your predictions

thank you SO MUCH to everyone who subscribed or just otherwise enjoyed Hater Week, it was one of the biggest weeks in the site's history (in terms of pageviews AND new subscribers) Because of this, we're extending the sale. $75 for a 'Member' sub is an absolute steal.

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@drewmagary.bsky.social this can be the entirety of the Steelers WYTS entry.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s August 2026 and Aaron Rodgers is having a full blown meltdown about Anthony Fauci.

I guess we're just never gonna ask the right to square the fact that they think the covid vaccine kills you with Trump getting the shot and like 20 boosters, huh?

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

bernie moreno cares about the american people as deeply as he cares about his daughter (would let any other republican abuse them without comment)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Sen. Moreno claims Fauci "killed seniors" and calls him a "smug SOB"

Blogged it. Happy Hater Week. aftermath.site/war-crime-n6...

Do Not Buy The War Crime N64

There's so many ways to play the N64. You do not need to support Palmer Luckey's little project.

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having to root for uefa

The president during the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak was Donald Trump.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

TUBERVILLE: Fauci killed 9 million people FOX BUSINESS: Yeah. We can't prove that, right? TUBERVILLE: We can

It was, in accelerated fashion, a parallel to how living through climate change is making Republicans far worse on emissions & pollution.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

The Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

Everyone started driving like maniacs during COVID and I don’t think it’s going back to normal anytime soon at least in the US

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

Sen. Johnson also had a role in the unprecedented effort to overturn the 2020 election in order to keep a defeated president in power.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Ron Johnson claims the the "injection injured" are committing mass suicide

Saw LeBron at Valley Forge, he was looking at one of the log cabins and crying. “The cold, the hunger, the disease, the suffering. They did it all for us.” I put my arm around him and his bodyguard beat the shit out of me.

it’s not “tax relief” when the working class writ large doesn’t pay into the system, it’s disenfranchisement

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The right got a big win when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld states banning trans girls from women's sports. What's next? Over at @defector.com, I dig into their plan for essentially winding down competitive women's sports and Title IX — think of it as make women's sports girly again. Gift link:

Is The Right's Next Project Make Women's Sports Girly Again? | Defector

Within a few weeks of the country’s highest court giving states permission to ban trans girls from nearly all school sports, the influential right wing think tank The Heritage Foundation made clear it...

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Instead of saying "women slept their way to the top" we need to say "men withhold promotions until they receive sexual favors" because that is the truth not the other way around

The same people villifying Ms Rachel for standing up for Black and brown kids are the same people who would have canceled Mr. Rogers for putting his feet in the pool with a Black man.

a gentle reminder that your posts are public and you should not post things that will lead to a knock on your door.

Tapping the sign

Neil would rather be eating ice cream@burghpunk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wrote a 5-post screed about the dumb Matt Yglesias post that is going around and then remembered that none of you should care what that dolt says other than to openly mock anyone that does

I’m really glad I have Bluesky to keep me informed about what Matt Yglesias is saying. I have him blocked for being a dumbass nobody centrist shill with nothing to say and I don’t use X, but thankfully all the nothing he says gets screenshotted and reposted here. Wouldn’t want to miss it!