Mitch McConnell's staff is doing his entire job for him. None of them will say if he's still alive.

the content we’re all here for

Apparently 10-K drink is coming back. Wild.

Weird text from a random today

No one wants to hang out with those people... You can't let Nazis into the bar.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Can confirm. "Yeah, just hook your claws under the door frame and whole camper just opens up like a sardine can."

@halltline.bsky.social · 2w ago

I saw an interview with a park ranger who was asked "Why can't they build bear proof dumpsters?" His reply was perfect: "There's a considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people."

Wouldn't be necessary in a centralized district. And the choice is an illusion.

NOLA.com@nolanews.bsky.social · 3d ago

New Orleans-area schools ramp up student recruitment efforts bit.ly/4pPWzMQ

I think about this once a week

"This weekend marks the 250th anniversary of the start of the signing of the Declaration, on August 2, 1776"—"a reminder for us that independence was not a single moment but a process that took sustained effort to achieve." www.thebulwark.com/p/declaratio...

Happy Declaration-Signing Day

Nobody signed America’s birth certificate on July 4, 1776—John Hancock kicked things off on August 2.

thebulwark.com

I know I complained about this park in Harahan that was massively remodelled and re-opened more than a year ago. Well, I guess they finally realized the neglected playground needed to be addressed.

I don't know anything about Hasan Piker other than everyone talks about him. But if this means we no longer have to hear from Carville, that sounds like a great deal to me.

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 3d ago

James Carville Tells Fox News He’s Out of the Democratic Party if Hasan Piker Stays: ‘One of Us is Going to Leave’

My key takeaway here is the proof cannot really advance mathematics until you can understand the connection it managed to find to enable the proof. This is analogous to when a lecturer introduces a susbstitution in a first year lecture and you have no idea how anyone knows to choose that.

Henry Yuen@henryyuen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings. Wow. I mean, Erdos problems are cool (I genuinely mean that), I didn't know about the Jacobian conjecture before it got disproved. But this newest batch from OpenAI hits home in a way the previous announcements did not.

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

Guess what guess what, the 2026 update of the New Orleans Community Resource Guide is now available online, and will soon be available in print! Use it, share it, it’s for you! www.imaginewaterworks.org/new-orleans-...

New Orleans Community Resource Guide for Resistance and Renewal

An extensive list compiled by volunteers with the intention of increasing public access to free or low-cost services in the New Orleans area.

imaginewaterworks.org

The Joshua Kushner Made Man Project has been abandoned.

TSN@tsnofficial.bsky.social · 5d ago

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has scrapped plans to sell stakes in the World Cup.

Why does Zaslav even have a job anymore?

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 5d ago

‘BARBIE 2’ might happen with Greta Gerwig ready to begin writing the film. Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling & Greta Gerwig are all in talks to return but David Zaslav is currently refusing to pay what they're demanding, calling it “too generous.” (Source: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...)

I've been doing my Hubig's pies a la mode (I got Cosco size ice cream to go with a Costco pie for the World Cup and it still needs to be eaten), and it's a revelation (for me anyway).

Gianni Infantino’s Icarus moment. www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...

This is Gianni Infantino’s Icarus moment – the FIFA president has finally flown too close to the sun (Gift Article)

The FIFA president's plans to sell off a stake in the World Cup has been met with widespread disapproval throughout the sport

nytimes.com

A lot of AI and cybersecurity stuff is pretty complicated, but this latest stuff from Anthropic and OpenAI isn’t; it’s basically like if you were testing bombs and didn’t notice that instead of blowing them up in the desert you were blowing them up in a neighborhood where people live.

In other words, NYT is increasingly becoming a gaming and recipe company, with revenue from that business helping subsidize the higher costs of their journalism (which has been weaponized in favor of trans genocide). They depend on liberals not caring enough to boycott them.

to be clear, Uefa are just as money grabbing as FIFA. there are no goodies here. they just believe you shouldn't be OPENLY corrupt, as it will kill the golden football goose. Infantino stuck two fingers up to that, unnecessarily. and now they are PISSED.

And then this World Cup happened. and FIFA did the Balogun thing. And the target was Belgium. and if European history teaches us anyrhing its that no European power gives a shit about Belgium until suddenly EVERYONE does. Because if you can fuck with Belgium, you might do it to any Euro power.

This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

And That’s All…

Genuinely thought I was really good at basketball as a teen. A pretty decent shot, and could easily dunk. Got to uni, joined a pickup game to impress a girl, got soundly humiliated. Turns out regulation baskets are a full 2ft higher up than the kid sized court I was used to.

Stalked jellyfish are a super rare group of jellies that don't float, but instead anchor themselves to the seafloor using a special 'foot.' To move, they do cartwheels, holding onto the seafloor using sticky pads between their pompom tentacles. 🧪🌿🌊

This is Fenrir. He has not yet been successful in cuddling with the cat. But thinks if he goes slow enough she might not notice. 13/10 (IG: fenrirfanclub)