"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."

(regular voter voice) Well ah I don't really know about Israel and all that but it sounds like this group wants to help Trump keep the Senate and enable his ongoing crime spree and I'm against that

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 11h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 18h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

maybe copilot knows why www.techspot.com/news/113326-...

Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why

The shift stands out because the change was not gradual but abrupt. Linux's rise came largely at Windows' expense, while OS X saw only limited movement over...

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The author of “The Liberal Case for Donald Trump” has thoughts about how Democrats should go about defeating hard-core MAGA Republicans in a deeply purple state

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 22h ago

And this is why people hate the Dem establishment. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

saying "we need to protect women and children from this group" is more than just hate, it's effectively encouraging violence against that group

Just very depressing to me that this sincerity, honesty, and clarity is a huge electoral risk while muttering the same three slogans over and over again forever is savvy campaigning with a proven track record of success.

Ron Skolnik@ronskolnik.bsky.social · yesterday

El-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

The process of emigrating is increasingly convincing me that Papierdeutsch is just an elaborate form of hazing.

Yeeessssss.

Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2d ago

Letters of Marque but for cryptocurrency held by the governments of authoritarian shitholes

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

"I know it when I see it" Justice Potter Stewart, defining his threshold test for obscenity, Jacobellis v. Ohio, 1964.

Meredith Lowry@meredithlowry.bsky.social · yesterday

Today in design patents: D1138536 issued for a banana stand. #DesignPatents

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off

In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.

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A company I'm talking with is currently inching their way closer to loosing an ~$6000 contract because they're refusing to pay $15 to correct a UPS shipping address. If you can't be bothered with the small details, why the hell should I trust you with the big details?

So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

We're probably going to see a *whole bunch* of AI catfishing scams in the future, right? I imagine scammers will set up an AI to "fall in love" with their marks and then ask to have tens of thousands of dollars wired to an off-shore account so that they can get a "real" body or something similar.

extreme income inequality is bad for a lot of reasons but today the one i'm mad at is people having the wealth and power to force me to live inside their delusions

Maybe it's because I'm an early modern specialist, but: it's always urine (except for the rare occasions when it's poop or blood).

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 2d ago

Wait until i tell you all the best way to artificially age copper piping

Public Storage is such a despicable bunch of money-grubbing assholes. They will happily increase your storage rent by ~20% every six months because they know it's a pain in the ass to move your shit in spite of the fact that they've changed nothing and still offer the same size unit for cheaper.

lots of DNC stories and I’m seeing all kinds of crazy accusations and responses. Let me summarize the reality 1. Ken Martin is taking on DC corp/centrist consultants. Many of the leaks/hit pieces are sourced to them. 2. Martin is shifting $ to states and on-the-ground early spending. Good.

Truthout@truthout.org · 2d ago

The NYT published a missing chapter of the DNC “autopsy,” titled “What Happened in 2024” which offers criticisms of party consultants who are “self-enriching” and out of touch with the concerns of ordinary voters.

This is downstream of the fact that the US - though probably also most of the anglosphere - does "Community Input" completely ass-backwards because they are *looking* for veto points.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2w ago

what's really funny is when they go through multiple cycles of community input until they get to the layer that tells them "no," and then that's the one that counts as the community

Every time someone responds to a suggestion that we should regulate the "make realistic viral racist videos" technology by saying "it's inevitable; we'll just have to learn how to live with it" I'm reminded how badly things went when people "just tried to live" with COVID before the vaccines.

Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

Watched the Odyssey tonight, and it was *excellent* - the dialogue was terrible (though I'd blame that more than anything on the writers compensating for our increased illiteracy as a society) but the story and the cinematography were for *incredible* and well worth it.

The one bright side of the present insanely illegal war in Iran is that it is rapidly getting people to switch from oil to renewables. In a small, very dumb, hideously expensive, and deeply immoral way, Trump's idiocy is going to help save the world.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

I'm late to this, but an absolute banger from @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com here (full piece: www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...)

Misreadings are frustrating. I can't speak for Polybius but I can speak for my A Paradise Built in Hell: this Le Monde version misrepresents what it documents and concludes. It does document constructive pro-social civil society responses to disaster. it also documents elite panic and crackdowns...

Every stagnation era Soviet joke is applicable to the present day United States

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Last night, after a long battle with heart disease and without regaining consciousness, Konstantin Chernenko was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party.

A long while ago, I wrote a pretty good piece on O Brother, Where Are Thou?, lies, & Oz. It was rejected on the explicit grounds that Real Classicists had no interest in engaging with "low-brow shallow comedy". Anyhow, at this moment of #Odyssey reception, here it is. medium.com/@anisestrong...

All Coens Are Liars: O Brother, Where art Thou? and Homer’s Odyssey

All Coens are Liars:

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