BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.

I just put 2 & 2 together that Brian Poindexter is running against the “embattled” Max Miller who is alleged to have abused his wife and daughter. All the “hurr hurr his name is pointdexter, what does he know about being a manly man” comments seem extra dumb now.

Danny Page@danny.page · 3w ago

feels like a lot of folks are getting rage-baited by a screenshot of an Atlantic article when they should remember: Don’t Read The Atlantic. He seems fine to me, he’s endorsed by a ton of unions, and has already been a politician. poindexterforcongress.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Everyone’s expectations got skewed over the past week but Abdul El-Sayed getting $70 million spent against him in a state he lost a primary by like 20 points eight years ago and still winning last night is probably the most impressive electoral accomplishment of the decade.

[extremely Dave Wasserman voice] I’ve seen enough. It’s time for many of you to go to bed.

This is rough but I think it talks about a lot of what is missing from the Cunningham/WNBA discourse. Namely, that trans people are not hypothetical thought experiments. They are real people who are being genocided by our government & any coverage that doesn't center that reality misses the mark.

the answer is always to disavow it

Would you let the Proud Boys march in and sit courtside?

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either way this goes now, gonna be a normal one on bluesky the rest of the week

I called & emailed a bunch of orgs. We have strollers, high chairs, etc in good/great condition. They only want new items. Probably for liability but it’s frustrating. I’ll have to check out the free groups as mentioned in the comments, but I agree that it sometimes seems easier to just toss.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 22h ago

I have so much good condition, child-based *stuff* my kids have outgrown (clothes, toys, entire bedrom set) and this fucking society makes it SO FUCKING HARD for me to give these items away and basically encourages me to place it in a landfill and I fucking hate everything.

they raised at an $11B valuation in 2021 !!!

Software start-up Airtable hits $11 billion valuation in latest funding, adds Salesforce, Michael Dell as investors

Airtable raises $735 million in a funding round with Michael Dell that values the enterprise software company at $11 billion, nearly double its last valuation.

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Techmeme@techmeme.com · yesterday

Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company at $1.285B, set to close by 2026-end, its first post-IPO deal (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

One man is on the hunt for his SSD containing Bitcoin, but is far more interested in the value of the drive itself. paletteswap.site/dif...

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

> Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked, memory tapes glided under electric eyes. > Out of warrens in the wall, tiny robot mice darted. The rooms were a crawl with the small cleaning animals. I love reading prose like this, decades before the tech became real. www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...

Da Scary Rose@modernmodron.itch.io · yesterday

“Today is August 4, 2026,” said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, “in the city of Allendale, California.” It repeated the date three times for memory’s sake. - There Will Come Soft Rains

Washington Spirit soccer vs. D.C. United soccer

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?

everyone in the world of One Piece, every single last person: so you see then I ate the extremely rare and mysterious devil fruit, a special thing very few people get to do

We have so many things to be angry at the management of this website about we don’t need to let Verge selectively choose the thing they know is gonna make us the angriest and spend all day being worked up about it.

Folks I won’t tell you not to feel your feelings, but this is rage bait. He’s talking about expanding beyond politics into things like live sports.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

bad news, guys. mario is fake.

Berg will have to sell his equity in LAFC as part of his taking this job. There's likely no immediate timetable for that, and the team has a huge, ever-shifting cap table. Berg is one of three rotating "control" owners...

Eben Novy-Williams@ebennovywilliams.bsky.social · 2d ago

SCOOP: Larry Berg will be the next MLS commissioner. More coming at @sportico.bsky.social via me and Scott Soshnick 👇

Not only was he not seriously creating regulatory rules, essentially every one of those stories is about some interesting, unexpected consequent of the Three Laws' flaws. It's like reading Hercule Poirot stories to learn how to commit an unsolvable crime

Poor Data, always overlooked.

Data Star Trek: The Next Generation

Alt: Data Star Trek: The Next Generation - he's shrugging

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DaniTheFraudLady@theoriginalbigdave.bsky.social · 2d ago

I was gonna say, whenever I see artificial intelligence in a sci-fi story or novel, it's almost always the villain. How many Star Trek episodes literally just had "evil computer" as the antagonist?

starting to think we've taken the "torment nexus" analogy a bit too far

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

Poch’s Carhartt outfit is going to go so hard in the 2030 World Cup

“”Why should we build the world’s largest parking garage in the world on an airport we just invested $6B to connect to Metro?” tweeted Virginia Democratic Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell.”

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2d ago

One part of Trump's $22 billion makeover of Dulles that's been missed is his big, beautiful, world-record 32,000-spot parking garage. That's *way* more parking than recent estimates show the airport needs, and it would tower over the historic terminal: www.notus.org/metro/dulles...

UPDATE: I am back from mini-vacation upstate & the paid subscription response was so strong that I'm unlocking Thursday's response to @edzitron.com . Thank you to all the new paid subscribers who made this possible. I'm a writer! I like sharing my writing! www.crisesnotes.com/sigh-no-ed-z...

*Sigh* No Ed Zitron, AI bond issuance is not AI’s "Subprime Mortgage Crisis”

EDITORIAL NOTE: Given the importance of this issue, and in a desire to be fair when writing such a critical piece, I sent a draft of this article to Ed Zitron to review and give his response to. I've ...

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I love that Olivia Miles, when asked at the half about facing Caitlin Clark, pivoted to praising Kelsey Mitchell. game recognize game

Unless you have a ticket to the Grand Prix in DC that will go near the National Gallery of Art , you can’t visit the National Gallery on August 22 and 23. Crazy

Skubal to the Dodgers is the “Trinity Rodman is Greenland” analogy that actually works

bought a “Jackie Chan 10 Movie” bundle on Amazon Prime and it turns out that multiple of them only have the Spanish language dub? When I’ve seen a few with English dubs? it was only 8 bucks but it’s very odd

Hey so this goal is cool but watch what #11 does in particular for the assist I’ve never seen a scorpion kick assist on the ground