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Failed writer, failing better. MDANT, so there's that.

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Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · yesterday

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

@context776.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Reminder, the only time Trump played a golf tournament where he couldn't cheat, the American Century celebrity tournament in 2006, he shot 52 over par in 3 rounds and finished in 62nd place out of 80 celebrities," a golfer noted.

As Sparks Fly Upwards@fitzjohn.bsky.social · 2w ago

"I only like people who like me." This is probably the most emotionally stunted (yes, I thought about the R word) utterance by anyone who's ever set foot in the Oval Office. It may be related to his dementia, but I suspect he's been thinking and saying it for 75 years.

God@thegodshow.com · 2w ago

Jesus never said anything about “wiping countries off the map.” Jesus wasn’t a soldier. Jesus was killed by soldiers.

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Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 2w ago

The legacy media sat there while Trump lied about the past elections and "joked" about running again in 2028. They did not boo. They did not walk out. They just sat there and ate their dinner. The journalists in that room will be remembered as the journalists in that room.

God@thegodshow.com · 2w ago

When Democrats take power, they must immediately cancel all of Elon Musk’s government welfare checks. Like and repost if you want this to happen.

Bob Geiger@bobgeiger.bsky.social · 2w ago

“In order to be Secretary of War, I have to be Secretary of Warpaint,” he told reporters. “And my warpaint is by Estée Lauder.” “Make no mistake: I am lethal with an eyebrow pencil.” #Satire (or is it?) www.borowitzreport.com/p/hegseth-sa...

Hegseth Says His Naturally High Testosterone Has Helped Him Apply Makeup

“In order to be Secretary of War, I have to be Secretary of Warpaint,” he told reporters. “And my warpaint is by Estée Lauder.”

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3w ago

“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

HASSAN: If RFK ordered you to stop promoting flu vaccine during a deadly flu season, would you? S: We have to prioritize-- HASSAN: This isn't a hypothetical. RFK Jr in the middle of a deadly outbreak directed the CDC to do it. So would you? S: I don't speak in hypotheticals-- H: It happened!