Happy Montgomery Boat Brawl Day, to those who celebrate!
Doug Hanke
@dougmakingstuff.com
Full-stack developer living in Portland. Avid reader, coffee drinker, Pikmin wrangler. I watch a lot of MST3K and Columbo.
Every member of this administration is almost the Platonic ideal of a person who should not have their job.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."
The #MST3K every-episode-in-order Forever-a-Thon has wrapped back to the beginning, so right now it's one of my favorite experiments: First Spaceship on Venus. A multinational cast braves meteor storms, bizarre machinery, and the planet itself to discover what happened to its inhabitants. Cozy fun!
You mean do my job like I’d been doing for decades? Gosh I wonder if such a thing would be possible.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 23h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
This scene was amazing in the theater! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PaU...
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QuadCityPat@quadcitypat.bsky.social · 22h agoIt's not even close for me, Layla in Goodfellas, second place, Beastie Boys Sabotage in Star Trek Beyond
“How’s the economy going?” you might ask. Well, ribeye is $20/pound and has anti-shoplifting tags on it. So it’s guess everything is great.
“Climate change isn’t real.” Photo credit: screenshot of the Watch Duty app, Tuesday August 4, 2026 at 2:17PM
One of Bradbury’s most memorable stories. The little robot mice are my favorite touch. There are several adaptations listed in the replies that are new to me.
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, 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.
One step outside and it already smells like burning. Gonna be a long couple of days. (I don’t remember this happening when I moved here decades ago.)
you know we often talk about how baseball players are the most right wing athletes culturally and i am developing a theory that it is because they are all extremely fucking dumb
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d agoThe whole Mariners' pen believes Babe Ruth didn't exist. Kinda want all MLB players to believe this and make the owners agree to it in next CBA
This is a wonderful interview with Banderes about Bourdain, his career, the power of art, and God. Contemplating tickets to Spain to visit his theater, it sounds amazing. Helen was right, I DID really enjoy reading this conversation.
Helen Rosner@hels.bsky.social · 3d agoI had a long, honestly pretty spectacular conversation with Antonio Banderas (!!!!) and i think you will really enjoy reading it www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
society if we understood the difference between “no one is allowed to ask these forbidden questions” and “people keep asking these stupid questions and getting answers they don’t like”
The amount of people who show up on Reddit to defend people makes me wonder if there's some sort of reputation-laundering service they offer, or if people are really that dim. Though after the last decade, I should know by now it's the latter.
We’ve all been taking our shoes off for decades in airports on the 1 in a billion chance someone puts a bomb in their shoes but we won’t do a fucking thing to address climate change in case the people who dedicated their lives to studying it know what they’re talking about
Sean Casten@seancasten.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.
They’re married now! Perhaps everyone on Bluesky already knows this; if the reader isn’t, then they get to be one of today’s lucky 10,000. www.inverse.com/input/cultur...
The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos
Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.
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Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.
Goddamn I need to watch this film again. Raimi knocked it out of the park with THE QUICK AND THE DEAD and it never comes up as often as the Evil Dead series.
Zoe Tunnell ➡️ FlameCon E-09@zoewithasword.bsky.social · 4d agoTHESE FIGHTING GAME ASS INTROS I'M LOSING IT Hey I think this movie absolutely rules?
RFK Jr. likes to claim that he is “restoring trust” in public health, so let’s gaze at the glory of what he’s achieved. In March of 2025, 77% of adults trusted CDC recommendations. In March of 2026, it’s only 50%. Trust in public health in the U.S. has cratered since he took office.
Get you a cartoon that can go from puns to a story about a moose's football career at Wossamotta U to an extended adventure about "The Ruby Yacht of Omar Kayyam." A special show indeed.
Will McKinley@willmckinley.bsky.social · 3d agoJune Foray and Bill Scott #BOTD the voices of Rocky and Bullwinkle. "It was a special show for special people," said Scott, who also voiced Mr. Peabody and Dudley Do-Right and was the head writer and co-producer of the show (with Jay Ward). #TVSky #animation
It's Saturday night, time for a little CARNIVAL MAGIC on the #MST3K Forever-a-thon. This movie is such a trip and yet surprisingly dreary. I'm surprised it doesn't get mentioned in the same breath as Manos and any of the Coleman Francis films.
The Marx quote came up and it always makes me think of one of the GOAT tweets
![Tweet by Joe Kerr @societylivr1984:
There's an old saying in Schelling-I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling-that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again
[Attached is a photo of George W Bush at a microphone]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:455ovagdvxrpidbm2mevqj3q/bafkreiarl4osuzbgobzdw4k6afhtiyeagkeezhoas5gsao6hn73etyldxa)
this quote from patreon.com/merrittk is incredible "Video game developers once spoke of being inspired by childhood experiences exploring caves or growing gardens. Today, they talk about being inspired by their childhood video games."
merritt@merrittk.com · 4d agoOn the #MST3K Forever-a-Thon, it's one of my personal favorite episodes: AVALANCHE, from season 11. Starring Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, and tons of styrofoam snow.
"After everyone told us they hate this idea with the fury of a thousand suns, we have decided NOT to demolish the greatest sporting tournament in the world to further enrich the Kushner family at this time. Please stop yelling at us."
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 5d agoFIFA President Infantino announces the FIFA privatization scheme will NOT proceed after fierce backlash and growing divisions over the plan. The reversal comes after European nations announced a boycott and CONCACAF rejected the proposal, which involved a private equity deal tied to the Kushners.
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
I really have to wonder what the use case for this was supposed to be and why the team responsible went ahead with this. Other than they never took the two minutes to think about it.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d agoI used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
