I am EXHAUSTED. Not helped by the fact I got woken at 8 and couldnt fall asleep again, but I gotta imagine the fact I keep working 10 hour days and have only taken one day off is probably contributing. Weekends are supposed to be two days I'm allowed to (try to) relax

SOME GOOD NEWS! continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 4h ago

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Well look at that, it's every single "former Republican" who Democrats and centrists have been championing for "breaking with Trump", announcing they're recreating the American Nazi Party just like everyone with a brain knew they would

current discourse feels like

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

What companies who say they're looking for an "AI native" when most of the tools feel like they appeared yesterday sound like (this is most companies I see, this can't end fast enough).

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

dude i don't even know how chatgpt looks like

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Okay it's clear to me that isolation is maybe the thing hurting me the most, being in a VC for a few hours helped so much, I wish I could have a third monitor for so I didn't have to choose between watching something or seeing discord when I'm working or playing a game

The Nazis burned gender studies because it threatened their worldview. It happened before and it's happening again. Except nowadays, we have a powerful tool in thr internet. We can connect and spread information faster than they can destroy it. Keeping fighting the good fight ✊

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.

gamedeveloper.com

Another day another Patreon post. In today's update, sometimes good progress looks like things breaking. www.patreon.com/angremlin/po...

Some Days Are Better | An Graves

Some Days Are Better by An Graves on Patreon. Join An Graves's community for exclusive content and updates.

patreon.com

"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 23h ago

EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

when you know you've made a good game

What can you do? CALL. WRITE. SCREAM. The bill is up for a vote THIS WEDNESDAY. Call your Senator. Dem. Republican. Whomever. Right now, it's a solid R bill, but they're looking for Dems to take it across the finish line. Let them know how badly it stinks. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/

Defend Online Privacy: Stop the SCREEN Act!

The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5. ACT NOW to stop it!

defendonlineprivacy.com

lmao

USSR Pictures@ussrpictures.bsky.social · yesterday

"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s

imagine debasing yourself before one of the most ridiculous figures ever to occupy the global stage, imagine doing that with your life

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 24h ago

Pirro even lugged a giant box of evidence with her to prove she hadn’t messed up the case. trib.al/4UonG7L

this is gonna make me cry laughing. 137 year old company still treats Americans like idiots the good old fashioned way

Maxime@monogon.bsky.social · yesterday

They still do, at least Nintendo of America does. If you watch a UK Nintendo Direct you'll see that they just say "game" instead of "the [game] game" like in the US. Which means that they make the narrator record two versions of the same line every time he mentions the name of a Nintendo game.

As should everyone

Goldstein@goldstein.latinsky.app · yesterday

www.politico.eu/article/euro....

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Mannnnn I googled a unity problem and scrolled on past the AI section and looked at a related reddit post, and it had one answer but it like didn't address the question at all despite sounding very authoritative, then it ended with "Source: [name of AI] I don't know shit about coding". WHY???

biggest tell to me that big tech *wants* this shit is that they're not beating the drum to oppose this shit like they did back in the day with SOPA

SnepShark 🔞@snepshark.bsky.social · 3d ago

It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

PSA: It's even worse. Craig not only operated a revenge porn website, but he also was engaging in racketeering by secretly running several shell companies that offered a paid service that would remove your revenge porn *from the revenge porn distro sites he owned*.

Roger (6’5”)@iamtherog.com · 2w ago

Does everyone here know that @craigbrittain.com, who is currently masquerading as an anti-MAGA warrior, was fined in 2016 for operating a revenge porn website? A *lot* of y’all follow him. ⚠️ Marked as unsafe. ⚠️ www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’

The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.

politico.com

He's not accused. He confessed. He turned himself in. Nobody knew it was happening until then. You don't need to use "allegedly" to describe the crimes of a person who does not contest them.

F.B.I. Agent Is Accused of Stealing Cryptocurrency (Gift Article)

The agent confessed to making unauthorized withdrawals from a criminal target overseas, according to court papers.

nytimes.com

that’s what public services are, that’s how they work, no one person takes advantage of every single public service, it just has to service people ya fuckin dipshit low-rent dentist office ass newspaper

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d 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.

What people using AI crave at root is an end to the uncertainty of human interaction and connection and its replacement with endless hollow affirmation and instant gratification. They should be pitied but never enabled or excused.

Genuinely destabilizing events being ignored because the press no longer knows real fear

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

amazing mission complete that right there is why you're the best boss

Appropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d ago

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid