omg I found the picture ❤️

ECP@ecppdx.bsky.social · 20h ago

Years ago I coined the milleneuve, which is a unit to measure how horrible the sky color is based on Villeneuve films. Blade Runner 2049 is around 900mn. Today is around 250 I'd say. (It's a very scientific scale.)

Air quality. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 70s and 80s and remember having to stay inside because the smog was so bad - Stage 2 smog alerts, they were called. Apparently they haven't had one of those since 1988. Haven't had a stage one smog alert since 2003.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 20h ago

Food, 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.

Only liberation is a shared liberation.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

we are at the point where huge swathes of the media sees their only job as getting attention from the public and giving nothing back and you're supposed to juuust tell enough truth that you can't be called an outright liar, just get the click anyhow, it is used car sales masquerading as journalism

Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell@garethlpowell.bsky.social · 11h ago

It’s like how there was that one professor who thought the recent interstellar asteroids were likely to be alien spaceships, and even though the rest of the scientific community disagreed with him, it was reported as “scientist says…”

best thread

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.

I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

this is sociologically interesting. people who haven't acquired skills through education or experience now think they're *indispensible* compared to those who have.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 13h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

The thing that’s hard to explain about growing up in the 70s is that a) many many of us read that story. In school. b) we genuinely thought we would die in nuclear fire or winter. There was a weird part of your brain that was sure you’d never be a grown-up, or certainly Old.

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

Micro knitter Althea Crome get an astonishing 50 stitches to an inch Incredible 🧶 #knit

NEW: Missouri voters have rejected Amendment 4, which Republicans had passed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments effectively impossible. It would have required initiatives to pass in every congressional district—not just statewide—giving the overwhelmingly red districts a veto

The best toy is a box. The 2nd best toy is also a box. The 3rd best toy is not a box but a box in a box in a box The 4th best toy is whatever the cat is not allowed to play with

I asked chatgpt and it said it isn't, but then I told it that it is and it said sorry yes it is.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · yesterday

"A.i." is bullshit and literally everyone knows it.

I'm in.

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

tbh HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE *is* an incoherent, self-indulgent mess, but the thing about Miyazaki is that means it's still pretty safely one of the 10-15 best animated features ever made

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 2d ago

And maybe not Howl’s Moving Castle, either. Those who had actually heard of Studio Ghibli in their lives before Spirited Away won the Oscar found Howl’s an incoherent, self-indulgent mess. 😖

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Dr Flowers identifies, but doesn’t call out (or maybe even agree with) what I think COVID showed about Americans: that their understanding of freedoms and rights is that of a child. They could do nothing for the benefit of any other person, because they don’t understand that they live in a society.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d ago

I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.

WHAT DID THEY DO TO HER

Roberto Baldwin@strngwys.bsky.social · 3d ago

Important crossover event

@stuckyparty.bsky.social I am trying to flip a table while simultaneously squishing the emotional support cow plushie and it's not working and it's your fault (and Dorothy Dunnett's)

not all heroes wear capes

Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

this guy gets it

AND IN OTHER NEWS: "...the only known example of a beetle wing dress belonging to a working-class person..." archive.is/Y2meU Barbara Morrison, "farm servant" on Skye, later a hired dressmaker, and later an Army wife, owned this gown.

there’s a funny harm scale to crimes that should result in you going free

In Otter News@in-otter-news.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sounds like otter chaos.

arguably, a villain without a relatable point is a bad villain in the same way that a story where you root for the villain is a bad story

STEMthebleeding@stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 4d ago

A Villain can have a point. It doesn't make them suddenly a good guy.

Jeanne Gibson, one of the last surviving Rosie the Riveters, died on July 29, 2026. She was 100 Years old. Born in Minneapolis in 1926, she was only 18 when she moved to Seattle to weld U.S. Navy destroyers at Todd Pacific Shipyards. Rest in peace, Jeanne

This story is amazing

Maine's Black Lawyer@lutherevers.bsky.social · 5d ago

For Rahaeli and @elsieyork.bsky.social, who both asked: My professor was working as an assistant county attorney very early in his career when he got assigned a nuisance abatement case. The owner of property in an unincorporated part of the county was keeping exotic animals without a permit.

In case anyone else needs a little badge

i amar prestar aen@oakleaf.bsky.social · 5d ago

Tomorrow I get a little badge that says I Survived July