PANTONE 448 C FTW

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 6h ago

This is low key one of the most important popular studies that supports the societal importance of art history. So much so that I am doing everyone here a solid by not allowing the article preview to show, the images of which will haunt you for life. english.elpais.com/health/2026-...

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

All great families should follow this progression.

Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · yesterday

New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."

Moderate Democrats have a choice to make

Do they want to help their party win, or do they want to whine about the left?

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A coworker of mine is headed to a new job, so I made this “shoot for the moon” card for him tonight. I really like the design.

I know it’s so pedantic, but I hate it when people throw toga parties and then wear a Greek chiton off Amazon with, like, a gold meander pattern. That’s why I always teach my students how to tie a proper bedsheet toga—because Rome.

What I have found is that DDG is good for “basic” web searches and G is still best at very specific searches (all of which I do with “!g” searches). When DDG improves at specificity, I won’t need G at all. (General: American civil war Specific: Gettysburg July 4 battles)

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · yesterday

Recently started using Duck Duck Go and I have to say it’s nice to not have my search history stolen and funneled into social media sites and my email and every other website I visit

The Onion published this joke _ten years ago_ theonion.com/spacex-s-pla...

George Pearkes@peark.es · yesterday

Elon is talking about using robots to build a mass accelerator on the moon in support of an economy 1000x to 1 million times the current earth economy. It's a bad sci fi novel not an earnings call.

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...

Absolutely fucking not

Bluesky@bsky.app · yesterday

Update: group chats can now host up to 100 members.

I thought electing Mamdani was going to turn NYC into a communist hellhole?

J'avoue que je préfère la version de @mcsweeneys.net

I Am a Disappointed Zohran Mamdani Voter Who Was Told New York Would Descend into Chaos

“As an anarcho-communist-accelerationist-antifascist-nihilist-transplant-gentrifier-crisis actor living in a rent-controlled penthouse bodega paid for by som...

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USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

They’re so polite. Either he’s delusional and should be impeached or he’s lying and should be impeached. And removed.

Forbes@forbes.com · 2d ago

During a contentious interview, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several claims about COVID-19, vaccines and measles. Here are some of the statements that were factually inaccurate.

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

No one is this in need of needing to feel something.

Screamer Jim@screamerjim.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Been toying with a few different ideas but a truly stupid one hit me last week and I can’t shake it so here we go: I am going to watch every movie in the HBO Action Movies tab In alphabetical order

what's next? my taxes paying for roads I may never drive on?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Another banger of a story from Gail

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

Congrats again to the White House Correspondents Association!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"

It is really weird to read Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" on August 3, 2026. www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_T...

Morning earworm: "Copacabana" Takes over from "Walking on the Sun"

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

“Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal” 1/ Blanche didn’t sign the IRS assurance. 2/ There’s still a huge IRS break for the Trumps worth tens of millions of dollars. 3/ Trump could reimpose the $1.8B insurrectionist slush fund later, after Blanche gets confirmed.

Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal (Gift Article)

Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.

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Yeah, okay, and the problem is?

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.

Day 2 of #StationeryFest: the best rock concert I've ever been to

these are bribes and theyre illegal and when people are like “what do you want the dems to do,” i just want them to say what i just said and promise to investigate as a crime when theyre in power, disincentivizing businesses from participating in this farce

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d ago

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The fact that the world's billionaires are focused on getting yachts and mansions (rather than paying scientists to invent an exclusive color only they can see) indicates that they are all completely washed

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 6d ago

Researchers at U.C. Berkeley used lasers to stimulate retinal cone cells in a way that doesn’t occur naturally—creating a new color that only seven people in the world have seen. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The fact that after receiving classified briefings about COVID, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue downplayed the virus to the public and invested in BODY BAGS should have been a bigger a story.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...