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Then, still with his back to me, in a colorless voice, calm, reassuring: “Monsieur, vous êtes fou.” Signal: rone.69

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 59m ago

"As California Republicans brace for a challenging midterm election, they must navigate a reality in which DeMaio's rabble-rousing politics prevail over pragmatic Conservatism." l u l z "pragmatic Conservatism" foh

CalMatters@calmatters.org · 1h ago

On Election Day, candidates backed by DeMaio’s Reform California performed well without the party’s endorsement, a sign of the growing influence of the renegade movement to the right of the California party. cal.news/4bxu0Ox 📸 Fred Greaves

Assemblymember Carl DeMaio speaks before lawmakers during an Assembly floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 21, 2025. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3h ago

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...

The acting attorney general’s conversation with Trump appears to have taken place just hours after the president publicly mused about pulling Blanche’s nomination and instead trying to push through a fund that could be used to compensate Jan. 6 rioters and others who claim to have been persecuted by the Biden administration.
Announcements at the beginning and end of the Intercessors for America call stated that it was “not intended for press purposes.” A speaker told attendees that the call was “not on the record” and directed any journalists on the line to hang up.
POLITICO was not on the call on Thursday when it took place and did not agree to any limits on reporting. Audio of the session was posted on YouTube by Intercessors for America, which calls itself “the largest national prayer ministry dedicated to praying for our government and leaders.”
As of Monday, the recording remained publicly accessible.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1h ago

the City of Boise's increasingly aggressive campaign against the state's repeated attempt to ban pride flags flown by cities is extremely funny

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 5d ago

i have never seen a higher density of pride flags than in Boise

Technology Brobdingnagian @dfeldman.org · 1h ago

It is kind of funny that software developers spent a couple decades learning that specifications don’t matter and only code matters… and now specifications are the ONLY thing that matters

reggie seidman @ennui.org · 3h ago

FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM as farce

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h ago

In Tucker’s recent interview with his favorite Holocaust-denying “historian,” TC is shocked to learn that the Bolsheviks erected a statue to Judas in Moscow. The only problem is, there is no evidence that this ever happened. But who cares about evidence when you have a fascist narrative to push?

"You know when the Bolsheviks took over in Russia, one of the first things they did was build a statue of Judas in Moscow..
-Darryl Cooper
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They built a statue to Judas Iscariot in Moscow
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 3h ago

this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 4h ago

I actually configure AWS correctly now due to embedded chatbots

Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 8h ago

A portrait done in digital paint of Shelley Duvall portraying Wendy Torrance as seen in The Shining (1980). It’s a head and shoulders shot of her with unkempt black hair with bangs, and wearing a chunky knit turtleneck under a green heavy flannel button up. She is viewed looking up from a low vantage at her tired-looking, somewhat haggard face as she looks down at something that suddenly has her deeply concerned. The background behind her is paper toned and has a single repeated line typewritten over and over disappearing top and bottom: ‘Maybe it will happen today.’

lenora frigid @lenorajoon.bsky.social · 4h ago

the OG (early 90s) Posting Rig

picture of a vaguely sailboaty cabiny shaped Enclosed Computer station displayed at the art museum

art label for the previously depicted

Douglas Ball designed this self-contained office capsule to alleviate eye strain and neck pain during computer work. Drawing inspiration from his Audi's reclining seat and dashboard, he created this design as his personal workstation. A limited edition of 100 units was produced by New Space in Fort Worth, Texas. Based in Montreal, Ball's distinguished career in office furniture design spanned over fifty years, with a focus on office systems furniture and task chairs for companies such as Sunar, Arconas, Herman Miller and Steelcase.

Douglas Ball

Born in Peterborough, Ontario, in 1935

Clipper CS-1 Workstation Capsule

1992

Maple plywood, maple, laminated maple, polycarbonate, thermoplated painted steel, plastic, fibreglass, leather, lighting and ventilation system, computer Prototype produced by Leon Goldik and Jeff Sokalski for Douglas Ball Inc., Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec

Gift of Douglas C. Ball, 2017.471

Alan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 4h ago

Photos: The Dogs That Surf - Recent images of canine competitors riding the waves in dog-surfing competitions, many them fundraising events for animal and environmental nonprofit groups. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

A dog barks as it is pushed through breakers on a surfboard. (Eakin Howard / AP)

A dog, wearing sunglasses, falls from a surfboard in a wave. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty)

A dog rides a surfboard out of a crashing wave with a very focused look on its face. (Mindy Schauer / Orange County Register / MediaNews Group / Getty)

A person and their dog share a kiss on a surfboard on calm water. (Andrew Matthews / PA Images / Reuters)

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 7h ago

Audience-Capture Miserabilism is the great enemy all of us on the liberal posting app must fight every day you can get so much engagement for saying obviously false things that resonate with people who are extremely sad

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 20h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian

@doriantaylor.com

air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime

question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*?

like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*?

2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h ago

very good point about Zohran's grocery idea

This is the key to understanding, for example, the question of why groceries cost so much in New York. I won’t link to them because I don’t want to start fights, but a lot of the commentary on this subject has attempted to bring Data to bear by looking at supermarket profit margins, and asking whether a state-owned retailer would be more or less efficient.

But that’s very much the wrong way to look at this sort of question. Supermarket profit margins will tend to be the same roughly everywhere, and will tend to a very low level. In exactly the same way, and for exactly the same reason, that 19th century tenant farmers’ income was almost always at roughly the same subsistence level whatever the quality of the land, and despite huge productivity improvements in farming machinery.

That reason being that David Ricardo and his Law of Rent are not easily denied. Two essential inputs into the grocery retail trade are land and business permits. Almost everything else in the industry is a commodity with a price set in the free market, but these two aren’t, and they don’t have any close substitutes.

Which means that, in general, when you look at the recorded profit margins of a retailer in the accounts, what you are learning about is how good a job the real estate investment bankers did. And that when you’re comparing the (acknowledged to be anomalously high) prices of groceries in New York City to the (acknowledged to be more or less in line with the rest of the industry, and not showing obvious scope for fat to be trimmed) profit margins of New York supermarkets, what you are seeing is the amount that has been extracted by a sort of “permit Raj”.

reggie seidman @ennui.org · 6h ago

Kuberneti pot

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h ago

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

David W (aka Flex NP)@rnflex.bsky.social · 7h ago

Absolutely insane numbers from Eli Lilly this morning. 15 billion dollars in sales for tirzepatide alone, in just 90 days. Now on track to ~55-60 billion in sales for one drug. We need a different term than blockbuster drug. This is wild.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 7h ago

Schumer/Gillibrand on @abdulelsayed.bsky.social's nomination: "Democrats are united by a common purpose: putting a check on Donald Trump by defeating his Republican enablers and taking back the Senate. We look forward to working with Abdul and Democrats across Michigan to win this seat in November."

Technology Brobdingnagian @dfeldman.org · 7h ago

How did the Trump Administration make an actually good thing happen? Oh, they missed deadlines set by the court

The government lost because it missed its deadlines.
The "post-class" settlement created two additional groups of borrowers: Those who had attended one of more than 150 schools, mostly for-profit institutions, specifically named in the settlement; and those with claims against other schools.
The government was required to make decisions about the applications of those in the first group by Jan. 28, 2026, and to make decisions on the claims of the second group by April 15, 2026.
It missed both deadlines. That means borrowers with unresolved claims would automatically have their loans discharged. The government has one year to carry that out and eliminate those loans.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9h ago

Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 12h ago

Wire mother, wire father, wire sister, wire brother. Wire pillow, wire pet, wire bread to break and eat. Wire earth, wire star—I'll cut myself upon your rays and love you as you are

ceej @ceej.online · 5d ago

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · yesterday

I saw one of his pieces at the Palm Springs Art Museum and it was fabulous

Faig Ahmed’s Osho (2015), a two sided rug that is woven to look like it’s melting in the middle

Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · yesterday

It's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com

A red, blue, yellow and white work of textile art by Faig Ahmed that appears to be a traditional Central Asian carpet but is woven to look as through it's melting onto the floor in a puddle. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

John @johnlk.bsky.social · 17h ago

So, uh, a candidate who suspended his campaign a month ago is winning a landslide against a Trump endorsed candidate because of anti-Muslim prejudice against a guy who is not Muslim (and I guess probably also just regular racism). How often does a candidate who suspended their campaign win?

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 18h ago

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

reggie seidman @ennui.org · 17h ago

I know they're over now but this song is still magnificent

Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) (Official Remastered Video)

YouTube video by ArcadeFireVEVO

youtu.be

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 19h ago

Two wins for abortion rights: Voters in Kansas and Missouri easily defeated ballot measures that could have threatened abortion access in their states

screenshot from KCUR showing Associated Press race call:
2026 Kan. 1 - Require elections for state supreme court General
Ballot Measure
AP estimates 74% of votes counted
No wins. AP race call at 9:07 p.m. on Aug. 4, 2026.

choice votes pct
No: 309,657 62.9%
Yes: 183,051 37.2%

Updated Aug 4, 2026, 10:39 PM

https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2026-08-04/kansas-election-results-amendments-primary-august-2026

screenshot from NBC news
Missouri is voting on a proposal to raise the threshold to pass future state constitutional amendments by statewide ballot measure. If it passes, future ballot measures would need majority support in each congressional district to pass instead of needing a statewide majority.

Amendment 4: Congressional District Approval

Yes: 228,418 votes 19.8%
No: 926,781 votes 80.2%

Amendment does not pass

75.5% expected votes in (Est. remaining 375,000)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/missouri-ballot-measures

The real impasta @therealimpasta.bsky.social · 18h ago

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

The effort to repeal the income tax in Missouri losing 80-20

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · yesterday

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

reggie seidman @ennui.org · 20h ago

interesting that the "EDM is the soundtrack to Israeli genocide" dipshit has no other footprint online under that full name

Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 22h ago

wow really

An article titled "transphobes claim puberty blockers ruin bone density forever. A new study says otherwise"

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 21h ago

I know a lot of people in Michigan are maybe gonna feel a little sad or angry or resentful tonight. And I get it. I don't like seeing Skubal on the mound for the Dodgers either. We'll get through this. We don't have to watch if we don't want to.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h ago

you know that money that was yours, which i illegally took from you and was ordered to return? well, when you think about it, it was really yours the whole time, but now it isn’t

Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 21h ago

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion