This Wolf Alice cover of the Roches’ “Hammond Song” is exceptional. open.spotify.com/track/2aR3Hs...

Hammond Song

Wolf Alice · The Clearing (B Sides) · Song · 2026

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They’re calling this the Most Bluesky Discourse of all time

It’s baffling to me that non-Republicans want Mitch McConnell to be replaced. He’s hoarding a seat and not voting, so the best case scenario is that he does this for as long as possible.

Maybe someday ChemDraw will have an AI “Generate” feature which lets you generate a structure that you can spend your PhD trying to synthesize.

Adobe Illustrator has some of the most egregiously annoying AI features in the 2026 edition and I might roll it back to an older version. If you crop an image but extend your crop further than the original, it automatically switches to “Generate” mode. That’s the opposite!

It’s gotta be relatively simple to vibe code something like ChemDraw with AI, right? It’s a bunch of lines with a sample library and pre-set constraints.

BCCE’s in town but there’s no Al D. Hyde and the Keytones? What a waste.

Let me tell you, this match does *not* help soccer’s reputation in the U.S.

Oh now they’re using the kids because we can’t talk shit

This is like when you do a group project but your group doesn’t actually get together to meet until the day before the deadline

This might be the most shameless attempt I’ve ever seen to please as many people as possible

It smells like every person on this bus has extreme body odor. Yet another item added to my list of reasons to not work on weekends.

There are several variables in play*, but I got a cat (that I’m allergic to) and have been feeding him the Purina allergen-reducing food and after 3 weeks I don’t really notice any extra allergy issues. (I’m taking ~2 Claritin or Allegra per day and it’s possible my body has just accepted its fate)

I keep getting emails “from” Chris Pappas telling me about John Sununu and I need New Hampshire to keep their Dr Seuss politics to themselves

Am I missing some reason that X-rays would be uniquely impressive in space? I can’t understand why this is an achievement for anybody other than the x-ray machine maker

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · 3w ago

Behold: The First Medical X-rays Ever Taken in Space https://gizmodo.com/behold-the-first-medical-x-rays-ever-taken-in-space-2000785035

I think we should just be irradiating all of our food with gamma rays (I’m not joking)

I think the Daylight Saving Time issue is very silly because it already works very well. Maybe we can go back to the pre-2007 schedule but I can’t be convinced that the twice yearly clock change is that big of a deal.

This is wild but the responses to the person being injured are even more wild

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

A tourist was seriously injured after being thrown 8 feet into the air by a bull bison in Yellowstone National Park. Professional photographer Mike Macleod filmed the incident.

It’s really funny to me that they included the newspaper but tried to make it look casual enough and not like an obvious proof-of-life thing (that’s today’s WaPo)

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell says he was hospitalized because of a fall and developed mild pneumonia, in first statement on his condition. His office released this photo:

Novichok would be the most dramatic development to this. I don’t know if the country would survive whatever happens after that.

Lindsey Graham couldn’t help himself from stealing the spotlight one final time

The business school may be winning in the degrees conferred metric, but here at UW-Madison the physical and natural sciences are winning in the more important metric: access to chilled water and air conditioning

Chemjobber@chemjobber.bsky.social · 4w ago

NCES: "Of the 2.0 million bachelor’s degrees conferred in 2021–22, some 58 percent were concentrated in six fields of study: business (19%) health professions/related (13%) social sciences and history (7%) biological and biomedical sciences (7%) psychology (6%) engineering (6%)

This thread is about pedagogy, but I think it’s applicable to about everything that involves interacting with people and work created by people. “Trust but verify” is well known!

Jake Wright@bcnjake.bsky.social · 4w ago

So there are a lot of people talking about this IHE story because, like @kjhealy.co says, this is basically lab-grown to stimulate The Discourse. I want to say something about how what happened here relates to what Jeff Moro calls Cop Shit and why this was handled exceptionally well.

i'd like to sincerely apologize for missing the mark with the satire in this post. the lack of clarity and purpose has led to it being mistaken for and contributing to that which it intended to criticize. i've since learned how the pyramids were built: very carefully

leon@leyawn.bsky.social · 4w ago

um, so everyone cheering on egypt in the world cup realizes how the pyramids were built right? but i guess that's a conversation you're not ready to have

This CNN live coverage of the building at risk of partial collapse in NYC is the ultimate example why cable news sucks. It’s just paragraphs of fluff to fill time. They interview this fruit vendor who says it’s like when a manhole cover exploded a couple years ago. www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/u...

Live updates: NYC high-rise unstable after columns buckle | CNN

Officials have observed additional movement at the Midtown Manhattan building, the former headquarters for Pfizer, which is being converted into apartments.

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Ken Klippenstein lives in freaking Madison, Wisconsin. It’s actually quite easy to find someone who hasn’t been a Blackwater mercenary *or* hasn’t gotten a Nazi tattoo, and it’s even easier to find someone who hasn’t done both of those things.

wb.@willbdoubtful.bsky.social · 4w ago

Klipp is just willfully obtuse. The reason these are "red flags" (actually just actual bad things for a person to say or do) is because they are indicative of a broader worldview that sees the bodily autonomy and wellbeing of others as secondary to personal gratification

I fundamentally disagree with this. We cannot reform the NIH right now. We need to fight against ALL changes until we have an administration that isn’t hellbent on destruction. Until then we have to assume that literally everything is being done in bad faith.

Theresa Kim, PhD, MS@tyk314.net · last mo.

Don't abolish the #NIH. Fix it.

This might tarnish the public perception of ex-mercenaries with Nazi tattoos

Oh I didn’t realize that Mitch McConnell might actually be dead