Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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I know the fashion is not to like this book anymore, but it’s brilliant, sorry. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago‘I felt Holden was talking to me alone’: The Catcher in the Rye at 75
Can we drop all the Daylight Saving Time talk and just go back to Swatch .beat time like we all want to?
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given that there's a contact sensor in the ball, i think the world cup broadcasts are missing an opportunity to implement screen shake
my hot take is that this is the actual america 250. just a ton of different people coming together, showing people what makes America weird and fun. people being welcoming. and yeah there’s some bullshit too, which is also very true to America! but the good and community far outweighs it rn.
celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle
"Mommy, how long was the N64 account creation, multi-factor enrollment, update process, and new user experience when you got it on Christmas?" Matilda is distracted and scoots away, so missing your hand over the saucepan, wooden spatula shaking like a wet dog. Oh god. What world did we build?
For 10 season, I watched Jaylen Brown become not just an incredible player, but an incredible person. What he’s meant to the Boston has gone far beyond the court & he truly shifted the energy. Thank you for everything, JB, you’ll forever be one of my favorite Celtics ☘️
My friend just texted me "no goal is offsides on stolen land" 😭😭😭
Are we supposed to pronounce it tur-key-eh or tur-key-ay? I thought it was the former, but the US announcers keep saying the latter.
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Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
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Marsha P. Johnson said it best: NO PRIDE FOR SOME OF US WITHOUT LIBERATION FOR ALL OF US.
me at kickoff of every world cup game: oh this is nice to put on in the background, maybe the team with cool jerseys will win me 90 minutes later, literally every time:
Like twice a day now I read a headline that makes me remember that time I went to Versailles with my mom, and she looked around and went, “They had it coming.”
It’s not that subversive, but I eat black olives like they are grapes
Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · 2mo agoLet's flip the ongoing game on its head: What's the thing (a solo thing or a combination of things) you love to eat that you suspect most other people would (or do) find repulsive? I'll claim the free center square with:
Other than my Dad, it’s hard to think of anyone who affected the way I think about sports more than Eddie. Listened to him a ton growing up. Vale, and may his memory be a blessing.
Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 2mo agoI was curious why the New Zealand soccer team didn’t perform a haka before their match, and OF COURSE it’s because FIFA doesn’t allow it.
People love to tell me their one secret recipe for making beets not taste like dirt clods, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat’s the most widely enjoyed food that you can’t stand, not because of allergies or anything but just because you hate it?
We really need a national movement to add more songs and chants to American sports
Please enjoy the musical stylings of Fenway Park. 😂 #mlb #baseball #karaoketiktok #redsox #bostonceltics
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If I'm Spain, I let Cabo Verde attack a little to try and get something happening on the counter #ESPCPV
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