Someone from my company HR said they can't find a certain email about my pay versus percent of full time (signed on after an 18-month stint as a contractor). Might want to dock my pay and benefits by 20%. Was in an email I saved, but company changed email retention to 2 years.

What, and I'm putting this very mildly, the everloving fuck? These companies pushing AI LLMs/photo generating applications are fucking wreckers. bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

I used to be against court-packing. I also thought the potential long-term damage to our constitutional order outweighed any short-term benefits. Trump v. United States made that position no longer tenable.

Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 3w ago

I just listened to a panel with David French and someone from the Brennan Center vociferously argue against expanding the Court. French said it would lead to “the dissolution of the republic.” About a third of the audience applauded. We need to get a policy culture that’s willing to do what it takes

Look how orange the sun is 75 minutes after sunrise! Went out earlier this morning, and the air smelled pretty bad. Crazy how far smoke travels from fires over 1,000 miles away!

As the tread in the post I copied below says, we've continued to fail the promise, but we keep getting closer. America should be great because we get that, not repudiate it. bsky.app/profile/sjsh...

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4w ago

i genuinely think that maga hates america. they hate america because america makes them feel small.

Thanks, Elon, for being the shit who’s giving a lot of Americans the shits after doing a number on US public health agencies. bsky.app/profile/bogh...

BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · 4w ago

There is an ongoing Cyclospora diarrhea outbreak in the US affecting multiple states and ongoing for several weeks. We still do not know what the contaminated food sources is. Really like this write up by @cmyeaton.bsky.social updating on the situation. www.foiclinical.com/posts/alert-...

Alexa, play let down by Radiohead

"who amongst us hasn't raped here or there" is definitely... something

Was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland today. Top floor is for temporary exhibits going in depth on some artist. Currently it’s Wings. So, so many British bands over the decades influencing rock. Yet this exhibit is McCartney and Wings???

Because everything, and I mean everything, involving Trump is a scam: bsky.app/profile/bill...

Bill Prady@billprady.com · last mo.

There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs

Niagara Falls at night. They light up the falls.

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Fireworks on Mall likely to cause hazardous air pollution, documents show

Internal modeling shows the July 4th fireworks display will cause hazardous pollution around the Mall and “very unhealthy conditions across central D.C.”

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Niagara!

Bad air is the norm during fireworks on the 4th n DC. Going from 10k-20k shells to 850,000+, on a humid night with little wind... should be interesting. Why 2026 is primed to be smokey: www.capitalweather.com/dcs-firework...

I’m no Yale Law graduate, but last time I checked, the 14th Amendment, you know, amended the Constitution because of something the Framers didn’t anticipate (the elimination of slavery)… bsky.app/profile/kate...

Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · last mo.

Kavanaugh says that Constitution is an "enduring document" and that new exceptions to birthright citizenship can be added for "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers"

Of course Trump would like a gold, very Nazi-looking eagle. And with 11 stars instead of the traditional 13 for the original states. But the change federal had 11. Must be a Stephen Miller design. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

tacky and fashy

Except for the very wealthy… And cops, too, as much as they can get away with it… bsky.app/profile/dlbo...

David Bowman@dlbowman76.com · last mo.

This is called prison. Keeping everyone under constant surveillance is putting everyone into permanent incarceration for life. Do any of these tech weirdos actually ever interact with humans?

PAULA WHITE: Nobody has stood up like you have stood up TRUMP: *sitting* *asleep*

That’s why this seems so silly to me. People have figured out how to solve this problem. Rejecting AC doesn’t make you a good person. It just makes you sweaty.

Seems like Mamdami's response, being the mayor of a city, not, you know, a national Democratic leader, should be the biggest fucking jerk off gesture. Mamdami is literally working within the structure of the party. WTF? bsky.app/profile/huff...

HuffPost@huffpost.com · last mo.

The House minority leader told CNN the mayor is going to have to patch things up with congressional Democrats follow Tuesday's primary upsets.

Nothing more American than celebrating a 250th birthday with the military occupation of a nation's capital.

Every time I make the typo "grabity" part of me wants to argue that it should have been called that all along.

To my UK friends suffering in miserable heat and humidity: Maybe there's a silver lining in that it'll help the English wine industry. Maybe it's because I'm remembering after 3 cans on an Iceland Air flight, I thought the English sparkling wine I had was pretty decent.

Egypt and Iran have requested that Pride events in Seattle during their World Cup match be canceled and… no. Welcome to Seattle. This might be the most patriotic I’ve felt in my life. Pride isn’t happening during your game; you’re here during Pride. Suck a rainbow. apnews.com/article/worl...

Iran and Egypt will meet, uncomfortably, in Seattle's World Cup 'Pride Match'

Egypt and Iran are two of the most repressive countries for gays and lesbians. But by sheer coincidence they will square off in a World Cup “Pride Match” in Seattle coinciding with the city’s annual c...

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Now that Keir Starmer is resigning, I hope the sun god will be pleased by this sacrifice and relent on its punishment of southern England!

The co-founder of Ubisoft died in a tragic accident and the NYT somehow feels the need to spend a lengthy paragraph of the obituary debating whether having a black main character for a recent game was "DEI". Incredible work.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

skáld@danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

national guard deployed to keep people from touching the reflecting pool

Hosting a block party this afternoon, and went to Costco this morning to get some stuff, including condiments. Christ, the only mustard (because wanted to get a crowd-sized amount) was American yellow mustard.

Fuck these motherfuckers who are doing this, from the top (Trump, Miller, Vance) all the way down. bsky.app/profile/male...

Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny!@malena.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What if you were abducted & detained & you had no idea when or if you'd ever get released & you feared being sent to a country on an entirely different continent? That's what immigrants are fearing! All immigrants, regardless of status are at risk in this administration. #ICELawlessness