Chris Maliga
@chrismaliga.com
Photographer whose work explores themes of psychology and the passage of time. https://www.chrismaliga.com
Hey friends, I’ve been away camping for the past few days, so I don’t have anything new to share this week. But today, August 6, 2026, is the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, so I wanted to revisit a piece from a few years ago. www.flakphoto.news/p/the-last-s...
The Last Survivors of an Atomic Bomb
Kentaro Takahashi's portraits recall Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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Charlie stopped by to visit today. We wrestled near the Dean's pollinator garden, but he got tired.
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 5d agoToday, 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.
Apollo 14 launched on Jan 31st, 1971 containing about 500 tree seeds (and also 3 human astronauts, for ballast, one presumes). These tree seeds were bold pioneers: Earthling visitors to our nearest neighbor in space. They returned to Earth & were planted across the country. MOON TREES!
What in the World Are Moon Trees? - NASA Science
Fifty years ago, the Apollo astronauts carried some souvenirs from Earth to the Moon, and then brought them back.
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“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6d agoThose who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 7d agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
Allegedly Nolan had comrades tie him to a ship's mast before being read Wilson's review
I am currently reading @sesmith.lol's tremendously good book "All my Dead Cats and Other Losses," on grief and the difficulty of grief in the cultures many of us live in. Having lost my mom a little less than 2 years ago, and a dog about 3 months ago, this excerpt resonated with me.
one tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon
“This summer… An epic tale of betrayal and the quest for forgiveness. In a world struggling to produce enough food, one man will brave the cold to survive. PLUMS only in cinemas.”
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 2w agoStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
"Violence against women begins and ends with silencing; the two are not separate phenomena; a voice is what a human being has when that human being also has rights and membership in society..." -- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, whose voice is always clear despite our horrors.
Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women
The following first appeared via Rebecca Solnit’s Meditations in an Emergency. Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the Br…
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Marvin's family has now created a GofundMe to help with funeral expenses and to support Natasha and the kids in the difficult days ahead. If you're able to contribute or share the fundraiser, I'd be deeply grateful.
Donate to Support for Marvin Johnson Sr.'s Family and Honor his Legacy, organized by Erica Day Ruffin
It is with broken hearts that we share the unexpected passi… Erica Day Ruffin needs your support for Support for Marvin Johnson Sr.'s Family and Honor his Legacy
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Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.
If you're able to help Natasha and the kids during this unimaginably difficult time, I've shared her Cash App below. A fundraiser will likely follow in the coming days. $NiquiLeBeau
I'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.
of the dodgy odyssey takes, 'odysseus is meant to be a stoic badass unaffected by war' probably winds me up the most. in the text the king of the phaeacians correctly guesses odysseus is a veteran of the trojan war because he keeps bursting into tears whenever anyone mentions it
new keyboard came in the mail and yeah. it's got a big button that just says "diarrhea" whre the enter key shld be
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 3w agoMexico warns travelers of "Explosive Diarrhea Risk" in USA boingboing.net/2026/07/20/m...
a young buck with an intelligent looking calf’s head before him, is somehow one of the saddest sights you can see
if i were a man who was, you know, normal, well i'd be mad as hell every time some guy got on a microphone to talk about what a big stupid lunkheaded alcoholic rapist i am
Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 4w ago“'Most every guy I know did what he’s being accused of at one point or another with their girlfriend at some point after a night of drinking,' complained the Donald Trump-loving comedian Adam Carolla." www.salon.com/2026/07/15/m...
Overheard a mother talking to her daughter: "You don't like this heat, huh? Don't go to hell then! Hell's hotter!" Checkmate, kid!
Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
I Am Not Sorry Lindsey Graham is Dead - Assigned Media
How a decade of hate made me a worse person
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It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.
“[S]cientists say it’s likely at least partly due to climate change. Melting Arctic ice and warmer waters may be reducing the number of small sea creatures the whales rely on for food, and altering the selection of what does remain.” www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...
Grey whales are dying along our shores. Researchers say a warming climate may be part of the problem | CBC Radio
So far this calendar year, 10 grey whale carcasses have been discovered off the shores of B.C., and 30 in Washington state. Whale researchers say they see a connection to a changing climate, and want ...
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Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art. As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky? This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
