Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

Happy Book-Birthday to you, @juliusgoat.bsky.social! 🥳

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · yesterday

If this essay appeals to you, it and many like it are in my book FIGHTING IN THE DARK, which is out today. Didn't mean to turn this into a plug but hey my book is out today, that don't happen every day. bsky.app/profile/juli...

if the online right can’t post on bsky without getting blocked by so many people it makes the place too dull for them to hang around, i suggest they go and learn some manners and then try again

This gaslighting from Max Miller is textbook abuser behavior. "If I'm such an abuser, why was she nice to me afterwards?" Because you are the father of her child and she is forced to see you regularly. Because she wants to try and make life seem normal for your daughter. Because you scare her.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.

“Many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow."

the Talmud really is “the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate”

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...

Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.

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And, like so many traumatized people, they inflict trauma. Folks, I am sorry for what happened to you but I promise you. Standard Time is better. It’s better in *winter* when you are sad and it’s dark. Those of us who grew up in OneTime places can help you. Standard. Get up in the light.

YOU PASS LAWS TO FORCE KIDS OFF THE INTERNET AND THEN CREATE TASK FORCES TO PUNISH THEM FOR GOING OUTSIDE, WHERE THE FUCK ARE CHILDREN ALLOWED TO EXIST???

The Charlotte Observer@charlotteobserver.com · 3w ago

Charlotte joins major cities across the U.S. in grappling with the rise in disruptive “teen takeover” activities.

BREAKING: My office is suing Paramount/Warner Bros to block their proposed $110 billion merger. Combining the two Hollywood giants would unlawfully reduce competition in the film and tv industry and raise prices for consumers. You shouldn't have to pay the price of corporate greed.

just to be excruciatingly clear it is also not okay to shoot the target of your warrant as an arresting LEO. the warrant is not a warrant to shoot someone. it is a warrant for arrest.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Pedestrianization is often framed as transforming streets. In many cases, we're actually restoring them. We're reclaiming what's been lost: social connection, local commerce, civic life, and human-scale movement. Perhaps it's time to shift from street transformation to street restoration.

Plants or data centres; you decide

Patrick Bresnihan@pbresnihan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Data centres use a lot of water, but they use even more during hot periods. While the government is set on growing the number of water-intensive data centres without any understanding of the implications, the media tells us to stop watering plants 1/3 www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

We need to stop forcing new developments to “break up the box.” It makes building designs worse, reduces usable square footage and the amount of housing we can create, increases long-term maintenance challenges & hurts energy efficiency. 📍 Reading, MA (1900)

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Just think of how many hours some of us spent getting yelled at here about how tattoos don't matter and it was just a drunk kid and nobody can really say what it was and it was only 18 years and

Matt Baldwin@thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 4w ago

A whole lot of people need to sit with, and honestly answer, the question "why was a Nazi tattoo by itself not bad enough for you?", and not be allowed to rejoin society until they have that reckoning.

Raise your hand if you're a woman & you think this is exactly what a rape victim might tell her friend two years later. Now, keep your hand up if, if you read this, you would *not* think your friend was telling you her ex was a rapist. (All hands drop so quickly and the sound echos like a thump.)

ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 4w ago

for reference

I think Platner’s failure to formally withdraw from the race shows exactly what happens when someone says no to him.

"why didn't they come forward sooner" every single time a woman comes forward men become the douchiest fucks imaginable about them and their lives and chocies and try to justify why bad things happened to them and that's before we look at the failures of police and the justice system God damn it.

3/ Seeking high office anyway, knowing what's out there, is reckless. Being confronted with the reporting and doing anything but quietly withdrawing from consideration is the height of selfish egotism—a deliberate choice to retraumatize survivors and betray your own supporters.

Disasters and politics don't mix: Trump on Friday rejected $227 million in aid requests from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island for help recovering from a major snowstorm in February www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

No one is emphasizing to nonlawyers enough that the pace ay which this Supreme Court is changing the law has never been seen before in US history, and all of the history of common law for that matter

ADHD Women's Summit— a summit specifically for a cohort of people CATEGORICALLY KNOWN to have auditory processing issues— is *Charging A Fee*. For *Subtitles*. What in the ACTUAL FUCK.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · last mo.

Subtitles as paid upgrade? On behalf of everyone with disabilities, fuck you very much

They got away with *exactly this lie* when it was a white woman in Minneapolis, you think they don't know they'll get away with it when it's a Black child? They've been getting away with murdering Black children since 1619.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last mo.

Mississippi police shot and killed a 1-year-old child who was in the car with his mother. Autopsy reports reveal the child was shot through the side of the car, contradicting officers' claims that the car was heading towards them.

I feel like I should repost this every day until everyone reposts it every day and demands this simple change with big impact

Koreen Brennan@koreen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

THE LAST TIME BOSTON HAD 2 CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF ABOVE 100 DEGREE TEMPS WAS AUGUST 12-13 1944

this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · last mo.

Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI

I’m just gonna note that the current head of public health policy in the US government has decided this technology should not be researched anymore.

Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · last mo.

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.