tree orchards are especially tough on water, because even in tough years where the fruit is going to be minimal, you still have to water the trees because the other option is to let your entire orchard die

Andy Masley@andymasley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Getting more replies saying "Because pecans are native to the desert, their water use isn't a problem." I'm worried Big Farmer has messed up the minds of a generation.

woke 1.0 was the silent recognition that legislation and legal action were inaccessible to the people desiring an egalitarian state, so they instead opted to use social pressure to achieve their ends, as this was the only tool available. it was doomed to fail, and fail it did.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!!

The sudden release of an accurate AI-writing detector is going to have hilarious repercussions in politics and journalism, let me tell you. (It’ll also literally save higher education.)

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 2d ago

People have real qualms with AI detectors, and so do I, but the evidence is mounting that Pangram in particular very rarely gets it wrong (especially on longer chunks of text, but increasingly even on short ones). @brianx.bsky.social tested it and it didn't miss: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/t...

i uh... it seems like israel intentionally fed trump bad intel to torpedo the deal, the CIA said, "they're lying to you, sir," and he had a flameout

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

Man, the WaPo is crushing it this week. @washingtonpost.com @danlamothe.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

boy, 1965 is a carefully chosen date re: "which bathroom to use"

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ah yes, the two genders: Bugs and Women

the "college students should vote where their parents pay taxes" is just another offshoot of "children are the property of their parents"

1/ This is such a bizarre and childish attitude. The most logical residency test *is* where you spend most of your time. The fact I never changed my address and voted absentee from home once for a presidential election in college is a weird electoral defect.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d ago

Students should vote where they - or their parents - pay taxes. I use to ask Dartmouth students: "Who has a car?" Some hands go up. "Who registers their car in New Hampshire." The hands go down. "Vote where you registered your car."

The idea that Harry Potter became popular because of a massive marketing budget is cope. I was there. It was an insane phenomenon. There were kids who had never read a book before bragging that their aunt was traveling to England so she was picking up Book 2 before it made it to America.

Sarah Clarke - Not your doll@damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2d ago

Like I see some people suggesting it might flop because it's going to be bad or a retread of the films and ngl if quality writing and originality mattered more than a massive marketing budget, those books would never have become the massive phenomenon they did.

One of the luckiest guys in politics. A month ago his career looked over. Now he's the favorite to be the next governor, getting kid glove treatment because he beat someone with some really bad posts.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

"I have to ask -- where do you stand on Thanksgiving?"

Total waste of money. They could pay a bunch of DSA factions 10K each to shit post against one another and get more results.

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d ago

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

Bo is a 50-something nepo baby who couldn’t successfully run a 7-Eleven. He’s also a gutter racist who was rebuked by both Dan Patrick & Greg Abbott. But the Texas GOP nominated him & unless there’s an upheaval in Texas politics, he’ll win this fall. www.kut.org/energy-envir...

GOP leaders shunned Bo French for racist posts. Now they want him to regulate Texas’ oil and gas

After Bo French asked his social media followers whether Jews or Muslims were a “bigger threat to America,” Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called for him to step down from his position at the Tarrant...

kut.org

Tim Dickinson@timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d ago

The media is obsessed with the supposed 'extremism' of democratic socialists... Meantime you've got mega-MAGA dude running for statewide office in TX who wants to "round up" Muslims and Chinese people, calls Native Americans "savages," and has a dark nostagia for Rhodesia. My profile of Bo French:

dude.

Christopher Wiggins@cwnewser.bsky.social · 3d ago

SCOOP: He was one of a handful of Democrats who joined Republicans in May to pass an anti-trans bill through the House. Last night, instead of listening to trans constituents at a meeting that I attended, Eugene Vindman got angry. It went downhill from there. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Note that this applies to all users, meaning even just people typing in the Twitch chat, not just the streamers themselves.

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 3d ago

everyone with a Twitch account is automatically opted in to Amazon using your stream to train its AI models. you have to deliberately opt out - a feature the platform is positioning as a nice little favor to its users :) www.404media.co/twitch-train...

I would pay to use Bluesky. Would I pay enough? I dunno. But I'd pay.

An entire generation absolutely begging for an age specific financial crisis

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2d ago

it's so over. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sincerity has to triumph. Irony and cynicism have to be pushed back.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 3d ago

i also wonder if part of the backlash was that we've decided obvious earnestness is 'cringe' &, like, look at the world around you. do we like the alterative? getting back to a sane & just world will involve a lot more of things we dismiss as cringe now

The media is obsessed with the supposed 'extremism' of democratic socialists... Meantime you've got mega-MAGA dude running for statewide office in TX who wants to "round up" Muslims and Chinese people, calls Native Americans "savages," and has a dark nostagia for Rhodesia. My profile of Bo French:

He Wants to “Round Up Every Muslim” — and Oversee the Oil Industry In Texas

Lone Star MAGA candidate Bo French is an unvarnished “bigot.” Just ask his fellow Republicans.

contrariannews.org

the people who are on bluesky are the people I want to know, and are influential with other people I want to know. that's more or less the end of it.

I've been repeatedly told that expecting Jasmine Crockett to make an effort at this kind of post-primary unity is actually racist.

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 3d ago

Francesca Hong, like Haley Stevens last week, showing how it’s done

"human" is a species of offputting little ape that parasitizes the much larger armored arthropod "car"

🇮🇳‼️ Russia has started importing gasoline from as far away as India, as Ukrainian attacks on its refineries trigger severe local shortages, - Bloomberg For the inaugural shipment, Russian-flagged products tanker Cyclone (formerly Agni) loaded a 42,000-ton gasoline cargo from Vadinar on June 18

writing a horror movie about a jewish exorcist whose catchphrase is “dybbuk stops here”

When I tried ADHD meds for the first time I sat quietly and read a book for three solid hours without constantly waggling my feet. Honestly, I could cry. Why are so many media people so immoral, so unethical, that they will happily shit all over vulnerable communities just to make a quick buck?

Matt@itsmattagain.bsky.social · 3d ago

Man without ADHD tries uppers for the first time: I mean honestly we're scraping the barrel on this now surely. I'm not diabetic. If I took insulin the affects would be far worse.

As the game Horses found out: Adding sexual content to your game, even artistic nudity, creates a whoooole lot of problems if you want to sell your game on the same marketplace as regular guns-and-violence games

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3d ago

There should be more sex in games! I wanna see more romances where the characters have sex as part of the story, like BJ Blazkowics and Anya in Wolfenstein The New Order finding a moment of human connection between the bloodshed, instead of sex being cordoned off for prudishness.

not sure i love this about myself but i love this shit

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm sorry I was not familiar with your game.jpg

the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%

one cool thing about the internet is there is apparently just, like, a galloping herd of people who want to write eldritch, lovecraftian ambient scene music