I love you all but you are incredibly (understandably) reactive. It’s making you SO easily manipulated by rage baiters. When you see something without context, a headline or a snippet of a quote, take a deep breath and look into it to see if you really should be upset. Please protect your hearts.

A fun game I like to play while stuck behind someone going 10mph below the speed limit is Is This Person On Their Phone, High, Or So Old They Should Probably Not Be Operating A Several Thousand Pound Motor Vehicle

Here's something cool that doesn't suck. Researchers have used polymers made from shrimp and seaweed to make a fuzzy mesh that can harvest microplastics from water. Pretty neat. (short 🧵) news.ncsu.edu/2026/08/tang...

Tangled Seaweed Inspires One-Size-Fits-All Cleaners for Ocean Microplastics

The superadhesive meshes can capture large and small microplastic particles, and are made from sustainable biopolymers.

news.ncsu.edu

she's deployed this strategy again and again, only deviating where her vote was a deciding one, a la Kavanaugh

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23h ago

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

New ‘Ted Lasso’ Season Aims To Teach Viewers About Shapes, Colors https://theonion.com/new-ted-lasso-season-aims-to-teach-viewers-about-shapes-colors/

we need to expand the supreme court to overturn the One Night Only Sex Mandate www.polygon.com/one-night-on...

I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.

Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Jeff Dean is the guy who made a bunch of women's lives hell when they were working at Google

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 3h ago

Google is losing two of its biggest AI researchers from day to day operations. 27-year Google veteran and Google Brain cofounder, Jeff Dean, is leaving Google with 3 others to focus on AI accelerating scientific research. Demis Hassabis is no longer CEO of DeepMind and is now their chief scientist

the best of america

Jamie@crayonsocialism.bsky.social · 4h ago

I heard “inshallah and the creek don’t rise” the other day.

* SPACEX PLANS TO ESTABLISH "CHEESE MINES" ON THE MOON TO DISRUPT GLOBAL DAIRY MARKET * SPACEX ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH ANDURIL TO PROTECT CHEESE MINES FROM BIKER MICE FROM MARS * ELON MUSK CALLS LACTOSE INTOLERANCE A "WOKE LIE", DONATES $1.5B TO PRO-LACTOSE SUPER PAC

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 9h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

nothing better than a tourist town that resents the tourists. thank you for coming to my ten-seat microbrewery and vintage ice cream shoppe. you son of a bitch

Props to the Democratic establishment for immediately getting behind El-Sayed and sticking to Vote Blue No Matter Who

I know it sucks, but Dems have got to be prepared to inherit a munitions-and-readiness hole that is going to be expensive to fill, but which will need to be filled. Hardly the only such hole, but it will be a big one.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 5h ago

Who knew ridiculously long deployments and demanding op tempos run a ship and crew into the ground!

Granted I'm not smart enough to be a SpaceX investor but if I was, I think I would have questions about why you need humanoid robots working in factories on the moon, presumably making things that would need to get shipped back to earth

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 19h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

no thank you, but good reminder that I should finally delete that unused dropbox account

El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

[guy who votes for pedophiles for president, senator, representative, and city council, and is himself personally a wife-beating pedophile] the Democrat Party has bad values and hates Jesus

Amazed lifestyle people haven’t incorporated climate change into their fall coverage. “The perfect fall bikini” “seven skimpy Halloween costumes for when it’s 90 in the shade” “cool salads for another hot Thanksgiving”

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.

My take on boots discourse is that we face a lemons problem with many consumer goods, given the acquisition of many storied brands by companies aggressively milking accumulated brand equity for higher profits, such that price and reputation for durability does not reliably predict higher roi.

The important thing to know about boots is that Dr. Martens was bought by a private equity firm a while back, the boots are now garbage in terms of construction quality, but Solovair set up to make similar boots on the old equipment in the old factory and their versions are much better quality.

Will Wilkinson@wlknsn.xyz · 7h ago

My take on boots discourse is that we face a lemons problem with many consumer goods, given the acquisition of many storied brands by companies aggressively milking accumulated brand equity for higher profits, such that price and reputation for durability does not reliably predict higher roi.

I don't want Google Gemini in everything, I want a setting on Google Maps for my ADHD brain that says "you need to leave 15-30 minutes earlier because the streetcar will probably be late and/or you will hit rush hour traffic on the way and/or get lost"

I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 18h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take