The vibes are incredibly bad today. Everyone just feels so off.

There Will Come Soft Rain is one of Bradbury’s best, I read it for the first time in 7th grade English and have thought about it at least once a month ever since. Highly recommend taking a few minutes to read it, treat yourself, and remember to stay out of the nursery

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · yesterday

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

God Seth Moulton is such a sack of shit. Can we please be free of him already.

This is truly disgusting. We don't participate in higher education for job training. It is crucial for a vital society that we have people throughout our communities who are educated in music, religious studies, history, gender studies, and philosophy amongst many.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

The Prisoner is on the criterion channel ⚪

This is an extremely fun read.

Lexington Herald-Leader@kentucky.com · 2d ago

From ‘honest American bats’ to thoughts on President Trump, visitors to Kentucky’s only national park had a lot to say.

We need to return to traditional masculinity, to the time when real men took their kitties for walkies so they could smell smells.

This is a good piece about how drought looks different here in the northeast. atholdailynews.com/2026/07/27/t...

The drought you can’t see: Behind another summer of water restrictions is a drought measured below the surface - Athol Daily News

Massachusetts faces significant drought due to low rainfall and groundwater levels, leading to mandatory water conservation efforts.

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you know the media is Irreparably Diseased when joe biden chose to dismantle the massively popular and successful covid-era medicaid expansions, kicking 25 million americans off their insurance in the span of just ten months, and somehow this WASN'T a historic and legacy-defining failure.

sarah zedig 🐐@hmsnofun.bsky.social · 2w ago

like the longer you look at how we treat welfare in this country, the more undeniable it becomes that the whole thing is predicated on a logic of bigotry, classism, and eugenics. it is a despicable practice that needs to be abolished with violent and unapologetic prejudice.

Here’s the finished painting, I’m naming it “Already Under”.

Aspenhearted@aspenhearted.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Working on some new things. Feels good to be painting again.

watched Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974) last night and not only do I love a Hammer Horror but this one was a swashbuckling one and I fully endorse this vintage ridiculousness.

For interested folks, I created a wildfire experts list from my old starter pack. I also know a lot of new people have joined Bluesky since I last updated it, so let me know if you’re an expert who would like to be added bsky.app/profile/did:...

The front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.

Nightmare

City Atlas@cityatlas.bsky.social · 3d ago

"The wind blew smoke and flames across North Indian Trail Road so quickly, firefighters were yelling at people nearby to run." www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Though she lived almost 12,000 years before writing, her tiny hand prints - and fragments of the snazzy necklace with which I’m sure she was very pleased - still tell her story 700 generations later. What will attest our presence some 15,000 years hence? (Davin et al. 2026, doi.org/10.1126/scia...)

Modeling identities among the first-sedentary communities: Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia

The discovery of the earliest clay ornaments in Southwest Asia (15,000 years ago) made by children and adults is reported.

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The Demise of Adam #critterposting

Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is my personal Sistine Chapel. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

I love it and its chonky face

'Look at that beautiful face,' said I to @dinodadreviews.bsky.social. 'Is it not exactly like a little Hypsilophodon?' Red-breasted goose (_Branta ruficollis_), St. James' Park, London.

so much I wanted to quote here about why we as scientists seem to find ourselves in this current political situation: “When and why powerful and wealthy outsiders chose to pluck scholars and ideas from obscurity should be of key concern to those of us interested in the independence of science.”

Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

This beautiful video popped into my head tonight for the first time in so long that I had forgotten what it was called. It's just as lovely as I remember. youtu.be/k7X7sZzSXYs?...

How To Be Alone

YouTube video by Andrea Dorfman

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I am looking for genuine suggestions here. We have a small deck on our unit, where we're allowed to put patio furniture. When we moved in we got the wood set the previous owners had. The squirrels literally ATE IT. What kind of patio furniture is both squirrel-resistant and relatively comfortable??

"a country that worries abt declining birthrates cannot dismiss the material conditions under which women are expected to give birth, recover, earn money & raise children...Before asking why women are...not [having] children, America should ask whether it has done enough to deserve their motherhood"

Sarah Tuttle@niais.bsky.social · 5d ago

All of this and more. I wouldn't trade my children for the world. But this country has meant that I've traded a lot to be their mom. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wond...

Phone bank in Jamaica Plain, community social in Roslindale planned to help Haitians facing loss of, well, everything www.universalhub.com/2026/phone-b... #Boston #immigrants

Happy #FossilFriday from the special surprise found inside the last stupid Xiphactinus that i discovered this spring: a complete Micropycnodon! This poor little guy was eaten right before the Xiphactinus (nicknamed Brown Sugar) died, and is forever trapped in fish rib jail. 🧪🐟

AGU26 abstract deadline is coming up fast! Help get the word out about work being done on development of standards for field equipment operations -- or make the case for the need for new standards in hydrology, seismology, or near-surface geophysics.

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him)@cbdawson.bsky.social · 4w ago

Are you working on instrumentation standards or best practices in near-surface geophysics, hydrology, or seismology? Share your work in our #AGU26 Poster Session (IN038)! ⚒️🧪 agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/prelim.cgi/Session/280115

MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury

Artist: Andrew Davidson From ‘Tales of the Peculiar’ by Ransom Riggs

Work sucks, man.

Spouse is away at GenCon for the next four days and I am engaging in my favorite bachelorette activity - not doing the dishes. I cook and spouse does dishes so when they're away I indulge in purposeful slothfulness and then do a huge dish dash the afternoon before they get back. 😙🤗