I'm old enough to remember when Republicans tried to scare Americans from voting for a Communist Muslim who would menace us with Universal Healthcare and Sharia Law and I gotta say life was pretty good under President Barack Hussein Obama.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

Pro tip: in satisfaction surveys, try to call out the good stuff!

NPR declares THE FAR LEFT IS ASCENDANT! 👀😃👀

Young people think AI is cringe and it makes you dumb and it makes you look dumb. via The Week August 7, 2026

New raised intersection underway at Thorndale and Glenwood in Edgewater.

Google blocks YouTube from autocompleting "trump fascism" https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/youtube-isnt-here-to-help-you

YOUTUBE ISN’T HERE TO HELP YOU

I want to tell you something that YouTube told me this morning without meaning to.

closertotheedge.net

I read Kate Beaton's "Ducks" this weekend. Coming-of-age in the Alberta oil fields in the early aughts to pay off student loans. The writing in the graphic novel was more beautiful than I expected. I'll be sending it along to my sister.

“We are interested in building alternative social infrastructure that allows us to be no longer reliant on Big Tech." www.404media.co/luddite-even...

Being a Luddite Is Fun Again

As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.

404media.co

I'm not cool. I still suffer regular psoriasis.

RE: https://sfba.social/@dannyman/117021136510912059 "The Democratic Socialists are too extreme and Americans won't vote for a candidate with extreme positions" explain the Democrats who lost Donald Trump.

Nobody hates the Democratic Socialists more than the Democrats who lost to Donald Trump. "Democratic Socialists aren't even Democrats" lament the Democrats who lost to Donald Trump. "Americans won't vote for Democratic Socialists" say the Democrats who lost to Donald Trump.

Just to be clear: I am a 50-year-old man wearing a Big Lebowski t-shirt.

I needed a subnet calculator, so I searched one up. But it was giving me bad answers. So I tried the next two search results and they were all wrong. Is everything vibe-coded!?? Then I woke up. It was just a bad dream. [1/2]

And the sign said "long haired freaky people need not apply."

Legalize Housing in Chicago!! https://www.stevencanplan.com/2026/06/built-in-1912-banned-in-1957-the-courtyard-homes-at-the-damen-station/

Built in 1912, banned in 1957: the courtyard homes at the Damen station

Finding an affordable home near the Brown Line in Ravenswood is hard. Not having enough homes to rent or buy creates cutthroat competition and drives up prices — wait lists for apartments, offers o…

stevencanplan.com

I am liking the pancake menu icon on github today.

"A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included ⁠in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company did ​not respond to a request for comment."

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

TIL: in jira, do not use the "ai search" button in the search bar, as it is trash but you can go to the upper right and "Ask Rovo" and that churns for a bit and can deliver a high-quality answer

I just hope my local newspaper has enough resources that someone is around to have a mild "undo panic" over publishing this headline.

Use case: - you have a server with a bad disk - low urgency to replace the disk - automation which detects and uses available disks - the drive numbering is non-deterministic at boot - you want that disk to not be used until you get around to replacing it dannyman.toldme.com/2026/07/29/b...

How To Blacklist a Disk on Linux

Use case: you have a server with a bad disk and low urgency to replace the disk automation which detects and uses available disks also, the drive numbering is non-deterministic at boot so you want …

dannyman.toldme.com

RE: https://aktuelle-naturkatastrophen.info/2026/07/29/pyrocumulonimbus-wolken-in-frankreich/ Here is California, where we have experienced this level of fire in the past decade, recent public polling opposes phasing out new fossil fuel cars in 2035.

Pyrocumulonimbus-Wolken in Frankreich

Die Brände in Frankreich haben weiterhin ein enormes Ausmaß. Inzwischen entwickeln sie auch ihr eigenes Wettersystem. Sogenannte Pyrocumulonimbus-Wolken wurde

aktuelle-naturkatastrophen.info

The San Francisco Bay Area has long been infamous for its NIMBYism blocking new housing. Now NIMBY tactics are being leveraged against the world's most loathed property developer. And his fucking would-be ICE facility in Gilroy. Nick Bhasin in today's Merc.

Sunnyvale at risk of losing "appearance of poultry farm" at 434 Crescent Ave. (Neighbors ARE concerned with 3-story townhomes being built.)

🐶🪚->🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

JM Rieger@riegerreport.bsky.social · last wk.

Last year, DOGE delayed a $10 million grant awarded under the Biden administration that was supposed to help Minnesota thin out 4,000 acres of forest at high risk of burning. Most of the work never got started. Now some areas of that forest are on fire. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

It is best to leave a nest with eggs undisturbed until the babies leave home

What to do about a dark-eyed junco nesting in San Rafael door wreath

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Heck I dropped T-Mobile after they paid Trump to tear down the East Wing. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/t-mobile-down-thousands-users-us-downdetector-shows-2026-07-27/

I dropped T-Mobile after they paid Trump to tear down the East Wing.

Reuters@reuters.com · last wk.

T-Mobile down for thousands of users in US, Downdetector shows reut.rs/4h1IGsD

tell me more about conservatives and small government. trump administration now demanding that hospitals hand over "personally identifiable medical records of all patients who seek help at their emergency rooms..." www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/h...

Trump administration demands hospitals share emergency room records | CNN

A tiny federal agency tasked with protecting the public from injuries caused by lawn mowers and coffeemakers is demanding that some of the nation’s biggest health systems turn over detailed, personall...

cnn.com

The Pushcart War