I like when people use alt text, and I have learned a bit about why it is varying degrees of useful, kind and essential for some people. Sometimes it is hard to describe a picture, but I do not understand why people who post pictures of blocks of texts skip the alt text. It helps searches! It's easy

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

Narrator: they did not listen and there was smog but no snow

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 11h ago

Three Utah State University professors are sounding the alarm about how bad the smog could be during the 2034 Winter Olympics — and offering eight ways to improve it. But will Games organizers and state and federal leaders act in time?

It is pretty sad that so few people actually believe in open borders

Fair Weather by Dorothy Parker This level reach of blue is not my sea; Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun, Whose quiet ripples meet obediently A marked and measured line, one after one.

2050 in fascist America: the cold civil war between the Neo-Calvinists, the SSPX, and the Evangelical-Mormon Alliance breaks out into open warfare

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

My closest friends, with whom I spend a ton of time, live 1.5 miles from here and were evacuated last night. Living in Utah has always meant dealing with wildfires, but it's getting worse and this year feels like one of the worst fire seasons yet. 30 acres, just like that.

Ben Winslow@benwinslow.bsky.social · 5d ago

Fire tears through Logan neighborhood overnight, forcing evacuations www.fox13now.com/news/local-n... via @fox13news.bsky.social #Utah

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

reminded today of one of my favorite posts

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

theguardian.com

Grandparents were babies or not alive, but great-grandparents were cattlemen or farmers, with the exception of one railroad worker.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

I support trans people therefore I am

The Pumpkin Dipshit@pumpkinpal.bsky.social · 7d ago

My favorite bluesky bug is when it crops off the bottom line of a post, I hope they never fix it

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

Old Cat (2022) David Shrigley

*remembering my trans friends don't like the word 'folks' or being called brave* you guys are fucking cowards

I'm often reminded that it is still largely socially accepted to be openly discriminatory towards disabled people, (seen most frequently in an obsessive need to police accommodations), even by those who would find similar behavior toward other minority and oppressed people to be despicable.

I harvested a bunch of catnip flowers for seeds and it looks like a big pile of schwag.

She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.

I did a play about C.S. Lewis in college and a girl tearfully told me afterwards that she went back to church because of it and I was so disturbed. Like, don't do that

Morning, folks.

Nephew Whacking The Hell Out Of Tree Trunk With Stick

JOURNALIST: when will it be safe to eat lettuce again TRUMP: I don't know RABBIT WHO IS ALSO PRESENT: what the fuck do you mean you don't know

"He was an irritable sonofabitch made tolerable only by his extreme cannabis habit"

I forgot that it's "Pioneer Day" in Utah and my neighbor started shooting off fireworks and my "lived in a rough neighborhood in Miami" instincts were like, hit the floor, ho! Then I remembered it's the gd Mormons.

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

These hate mongers are killing our kids, there was ample warning that this would be the result, and we need to be louder and angrier and more publicly heartbroken about it.

I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

nbcnews.com

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/m...

Why Do Some Dementia Patients ‘Return’ Just Before They Die? (Gift Article)

As they near death, some dementia patients recover mental faculties assumed to be long lost. Researchers want to know why.

nytimes.com

Shana at the Cottage@shana-nola.bsky.social · 3w ago

Can some gift this please? The paywall is fierce