Exciting day at work. Company internal accident. Giant ass truck hit pedestrian in front of the main lobby.

It’s a direct attack on rule of law from the highest levels, aimed at permanently ending US Constitutional democracy and imposing a dictatorship. Always has been. Anyone who tries treating it as something else—as if they’re dealing with mistaken impressions rather than lies—gets egg on their face.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 17h ago

It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

there's gotta be, right?

If you dug Ride or Die or like voting for things, pls consider signing up to vote in the Dragon Awards: applyto.dragoncon.org/fan_awards/d... The Dragon Award is a fan award given at Dragon Con & Ride or Die is a book about bullies, abandoned amusement parks & a weird kid who just wants to be cool.

Still need to break all major media companies into 5 each. That's a national security issue.

It’s whiplash inducing for the Senate to all vote for the Epstein transparency bill, for Blanche to flagrantly violate its terms, and then vote to confirm him

There is a greater than zero number of street fights involving the interpersonal drama of teenagers (that potentially could have escalated into assault with a deadly weapon) that were instead resolved by Smash Bros, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Halo, or Goldeneye 1v1s

Robert Black@hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2d ago

The theory here is video games defeated crime by giving us all something to do all day? I like this theory, it would blow the minds of certain political figures in like 1995

Check out the very normal lobster that made a shitty restaurant go viral in my city recently

If they're too cheap to buy a little chalkboard to put out front they're not buying good ingredients, and god knows what their storage looks like

they're already absolutely everywhere, and every single one radiates this deeply unsettling "not made by humans" vibe that is totally at odds with the fact that delicious food is one of humanity's universal languages

can't shake the feeling that slop menus are going to be a deciding factor in the AI backlash

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪@murderxbryan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

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.

If everyone in 10-20 years everyone working in a field is stupider than the AI because they haven't learned the building blocks, how to recognize errors, or problem solve, they can't correct the fucking AI bot.

I wanna scream. It's not just bad when you steal the creations from picture and writing artists. It's bad to steal people's creations/work, period. You are depriving them of future work and depriving folk of the learning process to create future quality and expertise! WHY. IS. THIS. HARD.

What I’m working on – August 2026 Here’s an update on what I’m working on in August 2026. How can play and iteration be a part of my daily practice?

What I’m working on – August 2026

Here’s an update on what I’m working on in August 2026. How can play and iteration be a part of my daily practice?

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gotta wonder how many congresspeople—Dem or Repub.—are actually IN the Epstein files

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d ago

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

my good scab my taxes pay for SO MUCH SHIT that not only will I never directly benefit from, but NOBODY but a tiny handful of hyper-rich cumstains will """benefit""" from, in that their meaningless Money Number Want Uppies Now High Score goes that little bit more Uppies fuck entirely off

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Bluesky's nuclear block supports a culture of consent. Each user can completely prevent another user from having any access to them on this site. Right wing harassers on X hate consent. They hate being told "no." They hate not being able to force their posts onto others and target others.

there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Oh hi #CriticalRole #criticalrolefanart #themightynein

As a dungeon master, specifically, I find darkrob13's comments especially insulting. I, of my own free volition and with no thought of reward, do full canvas paintings for battle maps and key NPC token art. I put more prep time into hand-painted visual aids than I do even into writing my prep notes.

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

Weird feeling catching a murder documentary episode and it's my college town and the murder occurred about a year after I graduated, meaning I was in school at the the same time as the folk affected and I know most of the places being shown. No one I knew, thank goodness.

Can confirm. Has made replacing old housewares challenging af because the good stuff often isn't stocked in physical stores and sussing out quality via Google/Reddit/etc is an experience (derogatory)

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 3d ago

Information asymmetry ‘lemon problem’ - unable to tell at a glance *which* goods are high quality, consumers assume they are all relatively low quality and thus only pay for cheap ones

obviously all of it is the late stage capitalism etc etc like you can be the person that makes good things for a limited amount of people & keeps skills alive. still the massively frustrating ubiquity of the issue is bothering me

something that feels soooo deeply insane to me is the huge disconnect between talent and intelligence pools vs what's available to us. there's so many incredibly talented folks out there, but we get cheap shitty clothes, identical rectangle phones, horribly unusable websites, products that break

For all the knitters among us, and also the non knitters who will recognize the knowing nod in this story.

Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · 3d ago

Making something, anything, is an act of defiance. Today we offer you "Ragescarf: A Knitting Pattern for a World Unraveling" by Amanda Saville Try it out. When things are coming apart, knitting things together can feel so satisfying...

next dem president absolutely must rescind this by executive order on day one

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

It's sort of wild that the US president declares war and announces peace deals 3-4 times a week now and it's just...barely even news any more? Could it be unhealthy? Who can say!

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Update: No deal, back to war, Trump says.

Hear ye: "not everything that makes me sad is morally wrong." (and apply it widely in your lives!) 🧵 👇🏽

Shepherd@neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 3d ago

My most unpopular opinion is that not every book has historical and cultural significance and it is not, in fact, morally wrong to shred books. There are a shit ton of books out there that are "old" and "rare" and it's fine to shred them. They're in the Library of Congress probably.

This week in repro news: Telehealth is not the solution to the abortion crisis. More Americans now support abortion access in all or most cases, and a Washington ballot initiative aims to bar trans girls from girls’ sports. rewirenews.link/4chGYA1