I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.

Sometimes I read articles that are really insightful and hard-hitting and go to link to them and it turns out they're on Substack, and just a little too much of Substack's money comes from and goes to Nazis, so I don't. Not saying it's entirely a Nazi bar, but there are other bars you could be at.

Fantastic news! Better vaccines are coming, even to the USA!

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 4h ago

Against all odds, with an HHS that has defunded mRNA research programs, the FDA just approved the first mRNA flu vaccine

Having trouble paying your bills ? There's gold in them thar hills !

The Creatively Maladjusted@tyrotcm.bsky.social · 3h ago

Copper, gold, silver–computers & fancy cameras are full of valuable metals.

The coral reef rose from the seas & spread rapidly. Transforming the landscape. Mutating every living creature. We never suspected it had a plan. @hazelzorn.bsky.social's REEF MIND will blow yours🧠🪸💀 Art: @headfullopuddin.bsky.social & @echoechoillu.bsky.social Get: store.tenebrouspress.com

Small Spec Book Awards@specawards.bsky.social · 3d ago

Congratulations to @hazelzorn.bsky.social! Her book REEF MIND, published by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, is a semifinalist in the horror category for the 2026 Small Spec Book Awards. #SSBA #SSBA2026

@reckoningmag.bsky.social friends! We will be closing to regular submissions on 31 August. Until then, send us your creative writing on environmental justice! (and don't forget "environmental justice" isn't just environmental+justice) :D reckoning.press/submit/

Submit | Reckoning

[Leer en Español] We're currently reading for Reckoning 11, which will close to submissions August 31st, 2026. There are never any fees to submit. We pay SFWA-qualifying "professional" rates upon acce...

reckoning.press

Longleaf Press Book Contest (Poetry; pays) opened to fee-based poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Re-opening: Longleaf Press Book Contest

Longleaf Press Book Contest (Poetry; pays) opened to fee-based poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com/contest/longleaf-press-book-contest-33179 #amwriting

duotrope.com

A bill heading to the Senate floor would incentivize social media platforms to use invasive identity verification measures and threaten our privacy online. Tell your Senators to vote NO on KOSA.

Censorship Does Not Keep Kids Safe

KOSA is an alarming bill that would enable censorship and violate young people’s First Amendment right to freely access information. We must call on Congress to act now and protect free speech online.

action.aclu.org

writing the book requires writing the book.

It's not just Chipotle. Qdoba had the salmonella jalapenos too, according to the FDA. They've identified 345 cases in 27 states. 36 hospitalizations.

Outbreak Investigation of Salmonella: Jalapeño (August 2026)

Do not eat, serve, or sell recalled fresh jalapeños from Sinaloa, Mexico distributed by Coast Citrus Distributors. FDA’s investigation is ongoing.

fda.gov

We will win in November because nothing beats a face-to-face conversation, and we've got the ground game to reach voters where they're at. While Tom Barrett collects checks from corporate PACs and passes tax breaks for billionaires, we will fight for working class Michiganders.

Major congratulations to @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, @donavanmckinney.bsky.social & @wewill2026.bsky.social for their victories in Michigan. Proud to support them. (1/4)

Now it’s time to defeat Mike Rogers and send him back to Florida for good. We’re united and in a strong position. Chip in $10!

Donate to Abdul El-Sayed

We’re building a movement to win the Senate majority and elect Abdul El-Sayed to the U.S. Senate. Join me and chip in:

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ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.

The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.

Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan

The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.

civilbeat.org

I have found my new favourite meme response for slopists. Ahahahahaha 🤣

🚨 KOSA UPDATE The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE. Next comes a full Senate vote. Contact your senators NOW. (1/2)

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 14h ago

The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use."

New essay! "This Is Not About AI" by Hana Lee! buff.ly/LU6gc80

I love playing my bi-weekly dnd game at the library, but there's one player at the table in particular that is the personification of a migrane. He's so loud, insists his opinions are facts, tries to be the main character at all times, and turns each thing he does into a production.

On Saturday, Aug 15, I'm giving a keynote at the Southeast Arizona Bird Festival. There are still a few spots, so sign up and come say hi! Here's a comic with the festival's signature bird, the Vermilion Flycatcher. tucsonbirds.org/festival/fes...

Hawaii Democrats are showing us how to get money out of politics.

Hey remember when Nanowrimo said "sure why not" to allowing AI slop in their process and then immediately died after 20 years of operation oh, no reason, was just thinkin' about it

death to the phoenix metaphor by Kiki Em "survival is a fungus" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

That’s right Space Unicorns - ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT of the Uncanny Magazine Year 13 Kickstarter!! So, SEAS THE DAY and check out all the amazing backer rewards still available!!! We need YOUR KELP to make Year 13 happen!!! buff.ly/nuCWVxG

COVER REVEAL! My next novel, The Animals We Became, retells the medieval Welsh tale 'Math fab Mathonwy'. It's a book about gender, trauma, and compulsory heterosexuality expressed through non-consensual animal transformations and some deeply unreliable narration... finnlongman.com/books/the-an...

We just added 15 more artists to the Hire Human Artists directory! 💪 We're working our way through the current batch of 100 as fast as we can! #HHA

Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists

Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.

hirehumanartists.com

A new issue of @apexmag.bsky.social has been unleashed upon the world! Apex Magazine issue 154 includes original fiction by Anj Baker, Rob Cameron, AM Maris, Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad, Stefan Alcalá Slater, CM Sullivan, David R. Hoffman, RJ Aurand, and SC Pires. www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/apex-m...

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.