Guess that means Tuberville would not be able to commute to work in Alabama from his home in Florida.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

Tuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."

Sunrise reveals a Pacific Northwest overwhelmed with wildfire smoke. Combined with rising temperatures in the region, any outdoor activities should be limited as much as possible. weather.gov

A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body go.nature.com/4fDUY9w

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you

Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.

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Well, I guess it was a success of sorts? In 1998, Honduras built a bridge designed to survive any storm. It survived a Category 5 hurricane perfectly but the river shifted, leaving it spanning over dry land. Source: www.reddit.com/r/geography/...

Not the most important thing here...but that doesn't look anything like MacArthur.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterday

Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.

Way back in the 80's, Buffalo had a Playboy Club. It was a total mob joint. The whole enterprise was always sketchy.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · yesterday

The late 90s TV-driven rehabilitation of Hugh Hefner as America's Hilarious And Harmless Horny Grandpa - a lot of people participated in that who should've known better!

I recall getting on FB and telling people unless they had hooves and were under the care of a veterinarian, they shouldn't be taking this stuff.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Ron Johnson: "Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid ... unfortunately, more people didn't follow him. We wouldn't have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You've seen the video reels of this happening in 2021."

Congressman with the AC/DC t-shirt from the party that once staged a week long outrage over a tan suit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"

"Will I be able to see the crash?" Probably not, but that doesn't mean friends in the Americas shouldn't try (daylight for those in Europe): look to the eastern limb of the Einstein crater. The @eso.org VLT will observe it & NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is taking before and after images! 🔭🧪🛰️

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 5d ago

Scientists do love turning accidents into discovery! Wed 5th Aug 06:34UTC: 4 tonnes of Space-X debris will crash into the moon 😮 This sim shows what will happen, if we understand the moon as well as we think we do. If we see something different, we learn something new! 👏 🧪🔭🛰️ 🎥 William Jo/UT Austin

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.

Widespread smoke and haze-filled skies remain over the Pacific Northwest as wildfires continue to burn in the region.

#BLM OTD 1919 days of violence targeting Black Chicago communities ended when the National Gurard intervened. After a week of gunfire, beatings & burnings, 23 Black people & 15 white people had been killed, 537 injured & 1,000 Black families left homeless. #BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory

I had forgotten about this one...

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2d ago

Whatever Pirro's ridiculous shenanigans of recent years, nothing will ever top her being the star of my very favorite political flameout:

In 1900, diarrhea was the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. You know, the good ol' days. stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53236

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Heh, maybe this writer from Texas can do the next column on how much that state subsidizes the oil industry.

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.

We asked 1500 degenerate online libertarian guys who are all trying to screw each other over constantly what they think is going to happen in the world, and the answer might surprise you.

CNBC@cnbc.com · 2d ago

Kalshi traders think July jobs report will come in slightly cooler than economists’ predictions

It's hard to know yourself from the inside. Astronomers are still figuring out what our home galaxy looks like; a new study reveals updated locations for the Milky Way's spiral arms. This is where we are. 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

One reason, among many, why the "Donald the Dove" narrative was so lazy and dumb.

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 2d ago

OTD 10 years ago, during the 2016 campaign, Joe Scarborough reported (below, starting at 5:55) that several months earlier Trump received a one-hour foreign policy briefing and asked his expert briefer three times about the use of nuclear weapons, including, “If we have them, why can‘t we use them?”

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

Heads up, #Seattle...smoke from massive fires in Eastern Washington and Southern British Columbia will move into Western Washington starting early Monday, getting denser through Tuesday and Wednesday. Prepare for an extended period of degraded air quality. #wawx

Way to go, Ohio...

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

There are a lot of Ohio Republicans in the news right now and it can get confusing. I'm here to help.

I once had a middle school teacher who used to admonish us that we did not have to verbalize every dumb thought that popped into our heads.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."

Reminded me of this classic scene from America Graffiti. youtu.be/1M4uEbLYyAM?...

American Graffiti - Toad and the Used Car Salesman

YouTube video by Robin Dover

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d ago

Someone on here (@jamellebouie.net?) noted a while back that dealership assholes like Moreno are a bedrock of MAGA politics and the Democrats would be wise to do whatever they can to drive these moronic middlemen out of business.

this guy gets it

Just going to use this as an opportunity to share a pic I took of the Flatiron Building in 1990.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4d ago

My publisher was in this building for many years and while it was absolutely an impractical building, I loved visiting and am sad that now the only people who will get to see the view from it are a bunch of rich folks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Today in 1958 at Johnston Island in the North Pacific Ocean, the United States conducted Shot TEAK, using an Army Redstone rocket to loft a 3.8-Megaton W39 warhead about 48 miles above the Earth. A programming error caused the warhead to detonate directly overhead instead of six miles to the south.

1958-08-01: Hardtack Teak Redstone Rocket

YouTube video by Tom Owens UAP

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I'll have to use this for a physics kinematics problem.

Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · 5d ago

this is my new favorite diagram

First rule about Fight Club...

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

Prosecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job

As the US continues to threaten water desalinization plants in Iran, does anyone think Iran won't try to do the same to the US water facilities if they can?

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

With a a major El Niño now in full swing, global sea surface temperatures are approaching their previous record, set in March 2024 pulse.climate.copernicus.eu