Every good cyclist on the road knows that the most dangerous thing you’re going to routinely encounter is a car trying to turn left. The crazy thing is that it’s worse on a one way street with a protected bike lane. They just don’t look!

“Brandon,” a Bluesky commenter@bedubble.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cold urbanist take: ban right turns on red lights Hot urbanist take: ban left turns on unprotected greens

I miss when cable TV had absolutely no money and tons of airtime to fill so they'd be like fuck it what about a guy and a puppet make fun of movies? what if we just take all this old cartoon shit we have and make a talk show?

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

A while back, I whipped up a board game to entertain our kiddo, who LOVES garbage trucks. Drive the trucks! Get the trash! Can you tidy up the town before the end of the day?? I cleaned up the art and now YOUR four year old can play… GARBAGE DAY! 🎲 🚛 www.patreon.com/tonycliff/po...

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

WHAT DID THEY DO TO HER

Roberto Baldwin@strngwys.bsky.social · 3d ago

Important crossover event

"why can't we find any senior devs to hire" because you fired all the entry level people 5 years ago gerald

🚨FOR PETE’S SAKE PEOPLE, DO NOT EAT THINGS YOU THINK MIGHT BE WILD CARROT/QUEEN ANNE’S LACE UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE WILD HEMLOCK LOOKS A LOT LIKE WILD CARROT AND IS BAD NEWS FOR THE HUMAN BODY www.dcmga.com/wp-content/u...

Alan@gammacounter.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only learned recently that this thing I’ve been calling Queen Anne’s Lace for most of my life is actually also called a “wild carrot.” Totally blew my mind. I didn’t eat it, but it *smells like a carrot*. There were hundreds, so I pulled one and washed off the dirt at the riverbank.  

And remember that even if your dog (like Bruce!) came out with only a few scratches, it will have a lasting effect on them—keep their next 48 hours VERY boring (no guests/bbqs / parties/ new dogs or people) and be cautious with dog intros for at least the next month

Last: here is a trainer demonstrating what I mean by a hip grab. This is stage two. If they don’t let go of the other dog/animal in surprise when you grab the hips, you can also lift the hips off the ground like this and walk them back. The dog is too busy going “what the fuck?!?!” to keep attacking

All this is to say, if a dog rushes another dog or a person with an intent to harm, they ABSOLUTELY will do it again. You can pretend they won’t and keep rolling the dice but fam, the house always wins

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Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’m feeling a way about this because my dog got attacked on a walk today too, by a dog that ran out of its yard and tried to bite him. Luckily Bruce only got scratches. But let me tell you THE most important thing to know about breaking up a dog fight: (1/2) (imma also tell you some legal stuff)

I’m wheezing smittenkitchen.com/2026/07/spag...

What I love about this book is that it feels like a guy from a much grittier fantasy series (I have joked to @adamstemple.bsky.social it's a guy from one of his books) wakes up and finds himself in a comedic romance (albeit one with a much higher body count than you'd expect in a romance).

Danielle (TBQ)@thebookqueen.bsky.social · last wk.

$2.99 ✦ Swordheart by T. Kingfisher She suddenly inherits an estate from a wealthy distant uncle, and while there finds an ancient sword . . . and the immortal warrior who has been trapped inside it. amzn.to/4vZAjSi Bookshop bookshop.org/a/111397/978... Kobo click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=...

@tkingfisher.com has a new White Rat book (Daggerbound) coming out on 8/25, so if you haven't already read Swordheart you might want to pick it up while it's only $2.99. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/swordheart...

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ME: I can’t find a single decent metal cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart. KEVIN: Yeah, they all go power ballad. ME: I’m not asking for a Cookie Monster growl on “turn around, bright eyes” but… ME: No, wait, that’s EXACTLY what I want. That would be awesome.

Jareth the Goblin King said “I’m leaving here with *something*” and 60% of the audience volunteered as tribute.

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 4d ago

Lots of arguments for Magneto, Ozymandias and Killmonger, but my money’s always on Darth Revan. I will also argue that Jareth the Goblin King was neither right nor wrong but behaving exactly the way that an ancient fey acts when some dipshit teenager invokes him to steal her brother.

Also, you think Jareth WANTS that baby? His while thing is to teach Sarah a lesson. He's 100% a good guy in the grand fey tradition. He's doing his part!

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I alllllmost would give it to Ursula the Sea-Witch except Ariel’s technically a minor signing a legal contract. The hyenas in the Lion King, however, were 100% in the right.

Lots of arguments for Magneto, Ozymandias and Killmonger, but my money’s always on Darth Revan. I will also argue that Jareth the Goblin King was neither right nor wrong but behaving exactly the way that an ancient fey acts when some dipshit teenager invokes him to steal her brother.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5d ago

Name a villain who was actually right.

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Hang on. Did they go to @seananmcguire.bsky.social and say "we took a vote, it's a mammal"?

Maine's Black Lawyer@lutherevers.bsky.social · 5d ago

End of story: Emus were relocated to a licensed facility, the owner was eventually fined and scolded by a judge for his actions, the deputy was ribbed by colleagues (they swapped his uniform name plate with one that read "Deputy Bird"), and professor learned to always surveil property before serving

We have a twice a year shot that makes HIV 99.9% preventable. I can’t believe we’ve seen this in my lifetime. And I can’t fucking believe that we’ve erased so, so much of this progress to just be dick swinging, war mongering assholes of the world.

Hannah Harris Green@whatsitlike.me · 6d ago

We now have the technology to eliminate HIV and AIDS. But cuts to USAID mean it’s not gonna happen any time soon. My latest. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I think for some people it is more comforting to believe that there is a vast conspiracy to hide the truth than that sometimes the best scientists in the world sometimes don’t know what’s happening

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is it, the entire conspiracy: In early 2020, Fauci and a bunch of scientists thought the virus could be engineered. Then they did more research and found that it didn't show any evidence of that. Nothing we've learned since has overturned this finding.

Believe it or not we have addressed this! Here you go: single gar = gar multiple gars, same species = garrison multiple gars, different species = garmada

Frank Hogan@charleyphogg.bsky.social · 5d ago

A group of Gar can not be called a school it’s not tough enough

Our community lost so many of its elders... the very people who battled and paid with their lives to bring us the rights and freedoms we have today... and it's painful for me to witness the disrespect, and even disdain, that the young LGBTQ+ folk have for the elders that remain.

It's the oldest of the prion diseases we deal with, it's entirely possible BSE evolved from it as well as chronic wasting disease in deer.

Mask — Olmec culture, ca. 900-400 BCE greenstone 7 x 6 cm

I will—to be clear—surrender my em dashes WHEN I FUCKING DIE.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

This book is sooo good!!! I stan a frumpy relatable heroine, and @tkingfisher.com writes them so well!

Danielle (TBQ)@thebookqueen.bsky.social · last wk.

$2.99 ✦ Swordheart by T. Kingfisher She suddenly inherits an estate from a wealthy distant uncle, and while there finds an ancient sword . . . and the immortal warrior who has been trapped inside it. amzn.to/4vZAjSi Bookshop bookshop.org/a/111397/978... Kobo click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=...