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.

“Why would I reject a man who so perfectly personifies what the GOP stands for? The only way he could be MORE Republican is if there were rape accusations along with the violence.”

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

I used Chat GPT to help solve a problem with an Excel equation three weeks ago so I guess I’d have had to spend a half hour looking at YouTube videos three weeks ago. Not that hard to imagine actually.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 10h 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.

Hahahahahaha I wanted to type something here but I'm laughing too hard "could you still get through an entire workday" what the fuck, man, you just sharpied "I am incompetent" on your forehead.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 10h 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.

I remember seeing this comic years ago but at the time I didn’t realize it would describe future US elections and that the GOP would just ignore the advice.

Kip Williams sort of@kipwilliams.bsky.social · 7h ago

VIZ's Davy Jones addressed a lot of these issues decades ago. (He's on bluesky, by the way.)

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.

The US is governed by a racist regime. But you know that. "The State Department is making permanent a program under which citizens from 50 countries, mainly in Africa, are required to post bonds to apply for a U.S. visa, & raising the cost as well, to as much as $20,000." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

U.S. will make visa bond program permanent, affecting mostly African countries

A draft notice published Friday in the Federal Register says a nearly year-long review “provided sufficient data” to suggest the bond program effectively enforces compliance with visa conditions, and ...

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I’m always reminded of the coworker who insisted that Trump might be all the terrible things I said he was but he would bring back coal while Biden was killing coal and hurting all the coal miners. “I have a cousin that works in coal!” (He was a manager.)

Ryan Van Velzer@ryanvanvelzer.bsky.social · 8h ago

Kentucky Public Radio and NPR obtained a draft of the NIOSH letter before publication. Researchers found that working veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia are suffering from the incurable and fatal lung disease at the highest rates in nearly 50 years. www.lpm.org/2026-08-05/a...

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

hahahahaha "The judge hearing the antitrust case seeking to block the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger has scheduled the trial for March 2027. The scheduling matters a lot to Paramount, which will begin paying Warner Bros. shareholders $7 million a day on Sept. 30 until the deal is complete."

Judge Sets Paramount-Warner Bros. Antitrust Trial for March 2027

The judge hearing the antitrust case seeking to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger has issued a preliminary scheduling order, with a trial set to start in March 2027 -- considerably lat...

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This self-immolation is like the car crash scene in Talladega Nights only more outlandishly over the top 🤦‍♂️

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:

Another day, another reminder that this party has attracted and lifted up the absolute worst of humanity.

the gif reaction seems understated ngl

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h ago

My reaction watching this train wreck of a dumpster fire of a shitshow of an interview:

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

chaser:

Salomé Viljoen@salome.bsky.social · 24h ago

shot:

This was a profoundly painful existence, this isolation. Speaking to no other human soul for weeks. I'd abandoned social media. My fair weather friends had abandoned me. But millions of severely mentally ill people live this deeply painful loneliness. So it's not just you. @mewefree.bsky.social

Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24h ago

For a couple years after my partner's decision to move back to Morocco after our divorce, my life was addiction to online scrabble that had me playing it 14 hours a day chain smoking Marlboro menthols. The only people I regularly spoke to were my therapist & psychiatrist. And my hallucinations.

Leading the competition for “most on-brand Republican.”

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.

On the positive side, rare to see a TX Republican imply women should have the right to choose

Earlier tonight, @michellegoldberg.bsky.social read *another* quote from this weirdo that reflected the same general sentiment. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

San Antonio-area congressional candidate calls children 'cum trophies' in latest controversy

Brandon Herrera (left) and former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz clasp hands at a San Antonio rally during Herrera's first failed House run. Brandon

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OMFG. I'm so sorry! that's nuts. and The statistics are nuts. ten years ago, only 1% of women reported being choked in their last sexual encounter. today that # is 25%.

To your subsequent post about ideology and porn: I brought this up at last years American Political Science Assn meeting and everyone tittered. But it’s real and it has the capacity to shape how people think about gender and power in fundamental ways with tremendous political implications.

One sign of the rise of male supremacy and the decline in women’s status is the ubiquity of online porn lingo in casual speech.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.

You can't make this up - private prison reopening to partner with ICE in MN, and the CEO has "swindle" as his literal last name. www.startribune.com/appleton-pri...

WATCH: Texans are now speaking at the Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting, telling GOP county officials not to slash their polling locations www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc7W...

Tarrant County Commissioners Court: August 4th, 2026.

YouTube video by TarrantCountyTX

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Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 2d ago

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

This is so true. Texans you have to turn Texas back to blue. You have to want better.

PETER FALK making his debut as ‘Lt. Columbo’ in 1968’s “Prescription: Murder”.