It's wild how little some ppl seem to value having a capable working brain but as someone who had a TBI & is still trying to cope with capabilities I lost & changes that occurred, I refuse to cede any of my brainpower willingly & tbh 1 day these people might have to face that same emotional trauma

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 16h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

God I hate having a car. Dead battery this morning, jump it, gas light is on but my commute is literally 1.5 mi to the freeway, freeway the whole time & work is right at the exit so I don't want to stop before the freeway bc not enough juice to jump it again so I just hypermile the whole way lmao

Mr. Holani was: 1. Unlawfully detained without due process, 2. Shackled & coerced to sign a document, and 3. Lied to about the document, which authorized the gov’t to deport him. This is a government without decency, without respect for the constitution, & not worthy of your respect.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22h ago

Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

doc@docseuss.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I'm begging you not to use apple products. This shit is devastating to creators like me

OF COURSE THEY WERE this is how a public health investigation works public health agencies who take their jobs seriously won't go around issuing recalls or press releases based on unverified reports so they can get sued by all the corporations they were wrong about! god I fucking hate it here

Taco Bell Met With Michigan About Parasite Weeks Before Recall

Michigan health authorities were in touch with Taco Bell’s parent company, Yum! Brands Inc., about a parasitic outbreak in early July, weeks before the company officially alerted consumers.

bloomberg.com

This is just graft, plain & simple. DHS (ICE & CBP) have so much money, they are itching to give it away to every friend, cousin, and ne’er-do-well. Nobody expects to collect on this foolishness. BUT it is an opportunity for us to take down some names. Folks who take money from Trump must pay.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday

NEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.

Wait bb Hugh Dancy was in a werewolf movie called Blood and Chocolate which is the very thing that Chilton tells Hannibal he's going to name his next book??? (This post is 4 #murderhusbands only, obvs)

LMAO I made wings for dinner,ate them & went about my business. I just took my dog out & when I came back I looked in the mirror & there's fucking sauce all over my face. It was legit like that scene with Lindsay in You're the Worst when she's making Edgar hit on the dude for her at the sports bar

This is the story that started my lifelong love of "cold" dystopian scifi and that was always my read of it, but I was also ~8 when I first read it, so I'm def not saying I was right because I knew fuck all about nuclear war. I was just like "man the future is gonna be so sad & then we all die"

Cris (without an H)@ambignostic.bsky.social · 22h ago

Today is There Will Come Soft Rains day, and it’s interesting how much the story reads to me now less as a “horror of nuclear war” snapshot and more as an examination of how impersonal our automated homes have become, that they could just go on without us

Obviously some of it is just marketing, but in general, "toiletries": skin care, hair care, sunscreen, cleansers, razors, the formulations of makeup/cosmetics, the availability of makeup in various skin tones, hair removal options...

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 23h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

I mean you also need to be able to afford to feed them & provide medical care for them, which is substantially more expensive than even the bourgiest cat toy (Also the unsaid implication is that untold numbers of wild animals deserve to die as entertainment for your cat which is kind of psychotic)

Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social · yesterday

Someone once told me that it's "classist" to advocate for people to have indoor cats because you need to buy them lots of expensive toys. Marcel has been playing with the discarded stem of a fresh green bean for 20 minutes. 🤷‍♀️

Huh. Seems like if you wanted to get paid you wouldn't have stopped people from generating income and then sent them to countries where they can't pay you from 🤷

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday

NEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.

A new investigation reveals that Nicaragua’s gold boom is encroaching on protected areas and Indigenous territories. Driven by government backing and rapid concession growth, expanding mining operations now threaten local forests, clean water, and ancestral lands. By Maxwell Radwin for #Mongabay.

Nicaragua’s gold boom is now encroaching on protected areas and Indigenous land

In Nicaragua, the mining sector has steadily grown over the last two decades, with gold becoming a top export and a pillar of the national economy. For most of that time, the growth was gradual. But…

mongabay.cc

God of course the new piece of shit health insurance my company has doesn't cover prescriptions filled at CVS which is the one pharmacy that will fill my ADHD meds. WHY CAN'T THINGS NOT FUCKING SUCK

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects...

404media.co

As a latina trans woman who has witnessed my dad being taken away by ICE in the dark of early fall morning during the Obama era in 2013- I would really fucking appreciate it if cis people didn't weaponize my people's pain to attack trans people as well, WHO ARE ALSO MY PEOPLE. Fucking hell.

Jessie Gender@jessiegender.bsky.social · yesterday

Deeply disappointed at the comments on my Ken Jennings video. People would rather have empathy for a cis person than the trans person mocked. Yeah it’s the trans persons fault for lightly pointing out to a cis person the New York Times is bad actually to trans person. She’s making it about herself.

I don't think that even if you combined all of the online homies I've had in 30+ years of being online, including years on an IRC server with a room of people I was tight as hell with for over a decade & met irl, & several other private slack & discord servers, it would reach 100 people

Bluesky@bsky.app · yesterday

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

Featured story: "I was molded from the clay soil in Deep East Texas ... This region has an antebellum history shrouded in violence, mystery, and resilience—much like the ecosystem of the Big Thicket, which is arguably the most diverse in the world."

A Love Letter to the Black Woodswomen of Deep East Texas

Where I’m from, the Afro-Texans who made me know our lives are forever woven into the ecology of the Thicket.

texasobserver.org

Looks like it might finally be time to pull out your air purifiers.

Wildfire Smoke Incoming From Pacific Northwest, Will Likely Stink Up Bay Area By Wednesday

Smoke from the dozens of wildfires now burning in the Pacific Northwest is already fouling the air to our north, and it is set to start fouling ours in the next 24 hours.

sfist.com

Dude Nightman got Damien's wife pregnant with PTSD?? Where the fuck is the Dayman when you need him?!

Why is NYPD still issuing criminal summonses to vendors for violations like being too close to the curb? A law that took effect in March decriminalized such violations. & NYPD hasn't been the primary agency in charge of vending enforcement since 2023. documentedny.com/2026/07/24/n...

NYPD Criminal Summonses Continue Despite New Vendor Laws

A Documented review found vendors received more criminal summonses in the first three months of 2026 compared to the same period last year, despite a new city law decriminalizing many violations.

documentedny.com

i am deceased 💀

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

Dude Nightman got Damien's wife pregnant with PTSD?? Where the fuck is the Dayman when you need him?!

good old historic palo alto - where they did things like make a park for "palo alto residents only" so that the poors & POC who they'd redlined out of buying homes there wouldn't be able to visit it. & it wasn't until a lawsuit in 2020 that it opened to everyone. such a rich history!

tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 2d ago

I'm not going to QT but there's a silicon valley NIMBY complaining about maintaining the historical character of Palo Alto and man that place should look like fucking singapore. Market cap of tech companies based in and around there is like $14 trillion and it's full of fucking bungalows? So broken

“Tengo más fuego en el culo que Charmander” — DesiRée Beck (Drag Race Latina Royale) 👌✨🍑

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

California Democratic Party breaks with Newsom to endorse billionaire tax

Several powerful labor unions and Gov. Gavin Newsom have come out against the tax.

mercurynews.com

Boy so glad to have several men jump into a thread to explain to the hysterical women/femmes/feminists that a man creating a chatbot of his female political opponent that says what he wants her to say without her consent is def NOT MISOGYNY. One even cited a thing called Merriam-Webster??? WOW THX