Steve is wondering if you can make alcohol from pumpkins.

every photo of red sprites is so sci fi horror, wow

I guess it’s illegal to stage peter pan in texas, since the character is male but is traditionally played by a woman actor www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...

Grand Prairie ISD cancels 'Little Shop of Horrors' after girl lands lead male role

Ana Mota was thrilled when she landed the lead role in her high school’s production of Little Shop of Horrors. Then she learned the district was taking away her part.

dallasnews.com

If you're wondering why Flock leaves cameras up after a contract end, part of their business model and marketing strategy is being able to advertise that their customers can access data from cameras all over the country. You may have canceled your contract, but the cameras still fuel the system.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 2d ago

“A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract—Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to uncover them” www.theverge.com/tech/1009411...

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?

Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.

ctinsider.com

And now, Richard Garriott, AKA "Lord British," has claimed back the rights to the groundbreaking Ultima series of computer role-playing games, which he sold to Electronic Arts in 1992: www.videogameschronicle.com/news/richard...

Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series | VGC

Ultima creator confirms he will soon regain the copyright from Electronic Arts…

videogameschronicle.com

Unfortunately a third (or more) of the US has gone absolutely batshit insane. And it is fucking over the whole world. I miss being the country that tries to be the good guys and doesn’t always succeed. I am not enjoying being the bad guys controlled by worse bad guys.

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · yesterday

The livestreaming of an execution should be blocked everywhere. FFS, what's wrong with people? Why is this even a question?

Lastest reminder that republicans' sticking fingers in their ears and squeezing shut of eyes and going "LA LA LA THAT'S NOT HAPPENING" to the clear moral repugnance of their candidates is a loyalty oath, making it clear that they stand for nothing but their party and the reflected power therefrom.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2d ago

More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d

Emperor Georgiou is basically if Avon and Servalan were one person #startrek

The political system is just not designed for someone who isn't a patriot. A traitor, yes, but somewhat who just didn't give a damn about the nation and its well-being and its symbols? I'm not sure any political system anticipates that.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Timeline cleanse: American pikas calling to each other in the Canadian Rockies. Sound on to hear the loud “MEEP!” made by these potato sized alpine mammals. They’re way off under those cliffs but the calls travel. *this is likely a niche post, but it’s one of my favorite sounds in the world.

is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 3d ago

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

One of my favorite foods. And the mascot was in a Good Eats episode.

Laura Seay@texasinafrica.bsky.social · 3d ago

Spent this past week in Mississippi. Of all the college mascots, Delta State University's Fighting Okra is the greatest mascot.

What I like about Bluesky is that Ukraine's bombing of the Russian Bots has no effect on traffic here, we all blocked those bots long ago

School boards are way under the radar in a big year like this, but the same battles you've heard about (book bans, Moms for Liberty, trans kids) are happening this year too. I identified 19 school boards where there battles like this — and what's up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

Andy Burnham says UK authorities are “clear” there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum as @catneilan.bsky.social reports in today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...

The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum

observer.co.uk

Low-hanging fruit for reporters and Dem trackers: ask a Republican running for office, "what would you do if you were in a car with your child and men in hoodies charged at you with guns drawn?" Follow up with "do you think it's reasonable for a parent in that situation to use lethal force?"

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly@rtodkelly.bsky.social · 4d ago

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We are becoming more like our ally Russia every day under the Trump Regime. Vote his Republican enablers and supporters out of office next month. Our Republic is being shredded and our credibility all over the world is completely gone.

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This is, effectively, the same stupid argument that Elon Musk made against advertisers for not advertising on X. It's also not how antitrust law works at all.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d ago

BREAKING NYT: The Trump Justice Department is investigating whether the major television networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox — violated federal antitrust laws when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of Trump, according to six people with knowledge of the department's action.

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

I was once told by a cop, at a training triggered by a sharp increase in drugging and SA at large events in the 2010s, that their job was to disprove allegations, that 99% of victims were liars, and they were there to lock up people who made false allegations. Which was basically everyone.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4d ago

You’re sexually assaulted. You report. And the police make you the suspect. Police unleash a slew of interrogation techniques meant for criminal suspects on vulnerable people.

i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.

she’s dreaming about greeting her friends aka everyone she has ever met

🇧🇷Falcão-de-peito-laranja 🌎Falco deiroleucus Conservação: Quase Ameaçada O falcão-de-peito-laranja é uma falconiforme da família Falconidae. 📷 Marco Guedes

Adding to this: it’s not just that the Constitution allows for impeachment; it COMMANDS it upon the commission of treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors by federal office holders. The word “shall” is a command, not a plea.

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 5d ago

If Donald Trump, with his record of corruption and law-breaking, is not impeached, we might as well strike impeachment provisions from the Constitution. He is the reason they exist and must be implemented.

Thanks be to God that we no longer have to live under the tyrannical yoke of the woke radical left language police.