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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 · 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.

How much will I be paid?

The Independent@the-independent.com · 2d ago

Hannah Waddingham says Ted Lasso stars had one question when fourth season was announced

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ian Rapoport@rapsheet.bsky.social · 2w ago

Per Shams Charania, LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers.

Helpful tip for our president, the number of electoral votes is equal to the number of senators and representatives combined.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."

THERE WE GO

Oh, interesting.

*seeing a player get ejected for flopping*

What a terrible, terrible dive

Wow

OH MY

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WEIGHT ROOM

What a shot

and Rachel Riley who did NOT die

Finally!

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 4w ago

Best part: You can now search the posts of people you follow!!

BERINGER

Grady is on the call for Summer League? Fantastic.

Parties choosing their own candidates is now an end run around democracy. That’ll be news to every other democratic country on earth.

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 4w ago

If the party rebukes those voters, and anoints a moderate without a real democratic process, Susan Collins wins for sure. You can bet on it.

Lmao @kenklippenstein.bsky.social hasn’t even posted here since the new Platner news. What a smarmy, little coward.

Need to get more teams in on this trade.

Shams Charania Tweets@shamsbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dallas is sending Middleton to the Wizards via sign-and-trade as part of a larger six-team deal that includes, in total, the Mavericks, Wizards, Clippers, Pistons, Bucks and Grizzlies. It involves previously agreed upon deals such as John Collins, Gary Harris and Taurean Prince (Detroit), Isaiah

That Trump stink just doesn’t come off.

Jesus

OH HELL YEAH

US got that Game 3 Trump stink on them.

Not a bad idea, Ben.

Big Ben@bigbenclock.bsky.social · 4w ago

BONG

was trying to think of tweet that was stuck in my head from hearing country roads a lot recently….

Schumer/Gillibrand: “The allegations reported today are incredibly disturbing – violence, abuse and sexual assault are absolutely unacceptable. “Graham Platner needs to immediately withdraw… The DSCC will not invest in the Maine Senate race if Platner remains on the ballot.”

*taps sign* The government running party primary elections instead of letting parties pick their own nominees in the manner of their choosing is a weird American thing that eviscerates the fundamental purpose of political parties and it's bad, actually.

What world are some people living in?

Adam Grant@adamgrant.bsky.social · last mo.

The definition of a true fan: You’d rather see your team lose fairly than win unfairly.

A lot of people seem to be using the Balogun decision as a justification to get off their most unhinged views on Americans.