"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

dopamine. oxytocin. adrenaline. cortisol. long ago, the four hormones lived together in harmony

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 2d ago

I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

Agreed. At the least, they should stick one on their TrackPads. Then I could have a small-ish one on my desk, without needing to use their keyboards.

Anil, that would break the whole point of all of Apple's excellent, privacy-preserving innovations, which is to lock you into a lifetime of hardware purchases 😅

There needs to be a term for when someone tries to mansplain you a topic they learned about five minutes ago that you literally wrote the book about.

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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The US Justice Department is prosecuting Samuel Tunick for providing border agents with a “duress” password that wiped his GrapheneOS phone during a border search.

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...

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new political axis just dropped

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

I keep thinking about that poor cannibal locked up next to Andrew Tate.

The USA became a place where a single person decides several international policies and often changes it daily. Crossing the border risks being disappeared into a concentration camp. Food is unsafe to eat. Sciences are viewed with suspicion.

Once these birds braved enemy fire. Today all I can think of looking at this picture how these two people risked an ICE concentration camp for a bit of flying fun. It's a sad timeline we live in.

Jèf Uphoff@juphoff.bsky.social · 2w ago

This may be the coolest flying shot I've ever seen involving people I know! @astrokatie.com in the higher RCAF warbird and @peacewind.aero in the lower one, on their way back to Canada from Oshkosh.

The AI czars have been Sacks, Burns, and Fall? are they doing a bit?

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w ago

Trump's newest AI czar out after three months. His predecessor lasted 24 hours. techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/t...

Well, I care a lot about the future of Drupal now only because my livelihood depends on it but since the DA can't do anything about the project self destructing by embracing LLMs, what's the point here? (I quit contributing partially because the community didn't care for my proposal to ban LLM code)

J Matthew Saunders@jmatthews.bsky.social · 2w ago

A reminder for everyone who cares about #Drupal’s future: you do not have to make a donation to become a #voting member of the Drupal Association. Choose the complimentary membership option and make sure it is active by 00:00 UTC on 21 July. Details:

"The other commissioner who approved the Paramount merger, FCC Chair Brendan Carr, and his wife sat in a private skybox with Paramount CEO David Ellison and other executives from Paramount and CBS. Such seats sold for $125,000 a ticket..." www.propublica.org/article/para...

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals

Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...

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Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

when sex workers do this they get debanked

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · 3w ago

‘On Friday, after 65 bids, one of Huang’s pre-worn and signed jackets sold at auction at Sotheby’s for $960,000, much higher than the pre-sale estimate of $40,000 to $60,000. He wore the jacket in 2023, at an event at Foxconn in Taipei, Taiwan.’ www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/l...

Larry Summers served as a Harvard economist for nearly 20 years after a speech in which he said women were too stupid to do research. SBF's parents still work at Stanford despite obviously advising him on how to commit fraud.

I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

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really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

When guys are like “that’s not rape, all my friends have done that,” that’s exactly what we’re talking about. That’s the problem. Rape is so common and unpunished that a guy could casually reveal all his friends are rapists and not see it as a problem.

This edit of a new and older trad wife is perfect

Google Scholar is down and it feels like one of the lobes of my brain has been surgically removed. It's surprisingly anxiety inducing!

Visiting my university’s new, expensively-refurbished space for startup incubators and senior management and cannot imagine a better illustration of the American university at this moment in time than a breathlessly press-released “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

This was Haaland during the last World Cup when Norway didn’t qualify. Look at him now: 7 goals and Norway are in the quarterfinals!

the audacity of this hurts so much so much MAGA have killed tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of people by making masking a divisive issue but when it's Trump fireworks they will happily wear a mask even outside but I can't attend a conference safely because no one masks

Bill Kuchman@billkuchman.bsky.social · last mo.

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

We're constantly told that women can never compete with men and yet Kelsey Pfendler is about to set the record for the fastest solo row from California to Hawaii, beating the men's record by a full week. What an incredible feat of athleticism, endurance, and grit.

Aussie boys are on a bender, Donald Trump is a sex offender

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last mo.

Aussies in Walmart 🤣