Setting up a Hibachi table at a job interview

Well super disappointed in @robsandia.bsky.social and wish I could get my donations back. If we don't stand in solidarity, what are we even standing for? Besides, this only opens girls and women to more scrutiny, harassment, and invasive testing, all to prevent a problem that isn't even a problem.

it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show

The Verge@theverge.com · 4w ago

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

disconnect.blog

Many people say because of unions, laws etc it's impossible to discipline bad cops. But many tools to discipline and punish cops exist, they are just deployed exclusively against whistleblowers and honest cops so corrupt cops can drum them off the force

Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: I spent months trying to understand why a cop who spoke out against Flock faced five internal affairs investigations and was pushed out of his job—only to find himself at the center of an unlikely political fight uniting parts of the American right and left. www.wired.com/story/the-co...

On The Climate Brink, I write about how the U.S. is getting smokier due to wildfires. Bad news for those of us who enjoy breathing. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/smoke-gets...

♫ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ♫

and your lungs, your blood stream, your brain, just about everywhere

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real art isn't in the cinema. it's not in books or libraries. it's definitely not in the TV. real art only exists on youtube channels with 3,000 followers where a guy who calls himself MicrowaveBen reviews tv dinners on a strange but internally consistent 7-point scale he calls the Flavornator

Why is CNN waxing eloquent about Lindsey Graham without mentioning his legacy of warmongering and shame and hate?

I relocated to the beautiful Twin Cities earlier this summer! I was greeted with lush greenery and amazing food but not being able to get outside for the last couple of weeks (between the extreme heat and smoke) has been getting me down. Locals have any tips for coping? 😞 #TwinCities

i will remember those of you who did not stand with taco bell in these trying times

Could someone check in later this afternoon and remind me that I’d planned to get my shit together and turn my life around today?

AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

"If you’re worried about population collapse, then I have two solutions for you: attract many more immigrants, and figure out how to loosen the patriarchal bargain’s grip on the masculine imagination." publiccomment.blog/p/if-you-wan...

If You Want to Raise Birthrates, You Need to Fix Men

New evidence that patriarchy plus economic growth leads to declining birthrates

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BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 4mo ago

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

The Trump administration violated U.S. law by providing Iran’s government with confidential information detailing the asylum applications for Iranians it planned to deport, a new lawsuit filed in D.C. alleges.

U.S. gave Tehran details on Iranian asylum seekers, lawsuit alleges

The claim, outlined in court papers, contends information shared with Iran could jeopardize the lives of pro-democracy protesters, religious minorities and LGTBQ people.

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Less than 24 hours after RFK Jr. became health secretary, his press secretary delivered an order from him to the CDC: Take down your ad campaign promoting flu vaccines. That same day, the CDC reported flu-related ailments that season had killed 68 children — 11 that week alone — and 16,000 overall.

Inside the C.D.C.’s Mad Scramble to Meet Kennedy’s Demands

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A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Ah look it's Friday late afternoon and the markets have closed.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Senior US official said US military has begun striking Iranian targets in response to Iranian breach of MOU and ceasefire and attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.-Fox News

The Vanderbilt report is a key part of this - an effort to invalidate peer-reviewed humanities scholarship as illegitimate in order to replace us with "civic centers" that won't question the end goal of taming universities for big tech. asheeshksi.substack.com/p/producing-...

Producing Epistemic Doubt About the Humanities For the Sake of Profit: AI's Version

The Center-Right's strategy to discredit cultural knowledge draws from the same playbook as Big Tobacco and Big Oil because humanist reason threatens their bottom line.

asheeshksi.substack.com

"I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy." ~Wab Kinew, Premier of Manitoba, addressing cancellation of a data center project

Sometimes it may feel like we aren't making progress in the fight against RFK Jr.'s destruction of US public health, so I wanted to share some of the successes that we can look to for motivation: 1. Stopped the illegitimate ACIP 2. Ended said ACIP's anti-vax recommendations

Elon Musk is not only the richest man in the world. He’s the richest man in the history of the world. And he spends an inordinate amount of his time spreading paranoid disinformation and inciting racial hate and violence on his own social media platform

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry

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Shortly after these portraits were taken, the US limited migration from Southern and Eastern Europe, as those people were deemed "less desirable" than those from Northern or Western Europe.

It's neat how this happens across the US, possibly thousands of times per day, yet all of the moral outrage and concern is over ebikes, bikes on sidewalks, scooters, and pedestrians wearing headphones.

The Honda Fit is a sleeping dragon, pop-culturally. If you made a heist movie like the Italian Job where all the characters are doing cool shit in their Honda Fits it would go absolutely crazy

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4mo ago

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.