I miss my dogs. Since 2014, I’ve said goodbye to Emma, Queen, Polly, and Fancy. I will thank them for the rest of my days.

Tiger Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈@tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 7h ago

Assholes who make fun of people eulogizing their dogs: There aren't many places for folks to do that, and it's a big moment in some people's lives they weren't exactly ready for. So shut the hell up and let them do it.

No one does a window better than Wyeth

Edward Elderman@elderman.bsky.social · yesterday

COLD SPELL , watercolor , 1965. Andrew Wyeth.

Oh and nothing makes me feel better about school innovations than ones inspired by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Very normal stuff. Ukraine has used drones in war effectively. Our children are at war with gun culture, therefore our schools need weaponized drones.

This is unhinged. It’s only a matter of time before they use these for minor discipline concerns. Kid won’t open her book? Send the drones.

Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · last wk.

America is at war with its children.

Nobody “loved lockdowns.” We love our neighbors.

bob barker 🍸@insortediaboli.bsky.social · 3d ago

why do so many of you follow this person

Would buy

Brawlcats@brawlcats.bsky.social · 4d ago

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

I feel seen

Annette Yoshiko Reed@annetteyreed.bsky.social · 5d ago

August as an academic

Cool use case of my ears I learned last night: Listen to my family

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago

#caturday with post-exercised chill bro

I simply say in a calm but firm voice, NO, robot. Then I redirect the robot to help me make a spreadsheet.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 5d ago

THIS SHOULD TERRIFY EVERYONE. AI models from two of the world’s biggest AI companies broke out of controlled tests and attempted to hack real-world systems. Regulation isn’t optional anymore. If lawmakers don’t get serious about AI regulation, we’re living on borrowed time.

Yesterday morning was 65 degrees F with 33% humidity. It was incredible. I think we hit the upper 60s in late June, but since then it’s been mid 70s overnight and humid af. So what I mean is Go Packers. Fall is here. 🫠💚💛🧀

Shot in the dark, but does anyone happen to have a spare copy of The Bitter Southerner issue 14 they would part with?

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

I’m not even a huge soccer guy, but this is a potent bit of writing that makes me hate FIFA leadership even more.

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d ago

in case anybody needed a primer in how to write a press release that clearly states its position

I just pray Douthat gives us 1500 more words on whether god prefers bocci over lawn darts.

They’re acquiescing to the new sticky limb of edtech. Shame on them.

Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · last wk.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... Disgusting. Disgraceful.

The children yearn for the data centers

Top notch news here. McBee has felt corrupt as hell for as long as I’ve lived in SC. It’s been word of mouth wisdom that McBee had a ticket quota. www.qcnews.com/news/investi...

SLED arrests McBee police chief, others connected to QCN ‘Officer Down’ series

Multiple current and former members of the McBee Police Department turned themselves in to agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) on Monday morning in Chesterfield County.

qcnews.com

A poem by Virginia Hamilton Adair, who published her debut collection at the age of 83

Psshh. That admins have convinced k-12 teachers that it’s totally chill and normal to fundraise themselves for basic classroom needs is bonkers. The cops get new F150s and surplus spoon grenades and whatever all the time. They just ask for them.

We’re seeing it happen in real time, making our case for their intellectual and emotional sovereignty, and taking what wins we can. Some students don’t even know what they’re giving up, and that enrages me for them. I worry about the textures of their inner lives being smoothed to a sheen.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3w ago

#caturday with heat advisory and a napping cat startled awake and into flight by mysterious outside sounds. I was trying to catch the old boy at rest. (Redo with alt text)

Congratulate me! When my glasses fell off my mask as I picked up dog poop this morning, I caught them with my leash hand not my poop bag hand. It could have gone either way.

Absolutely love that Dabo Sweeney is a top three hated college fb coach. Sweeney’s thin-skinned victim complex is a bore. Couple that with his fake piety and empty platitudes and I’m actually surprised he’s not the most loved. People love fake piety and churchy thought-killing cliches.

It seems like it to me too

Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 3w ago

kind of seems like Taco Bell is the main good actor in this story so far but what do I know

I feel like there should be public works employees who bring dignity and closure to hit animals, wild and domestic. It says a lot to me about a county’s priorities when they let road kill molder and decompose roadside or road-middle, as the case may be. The lack of humane regard is saddening.

Brutal. I was going to prep an asynchronous course for this summer, but it had no promise of making (new prep uncompensated) and the ai usage would be disheartening to say the least. Andrew’s experience below confirms my decision to pass was the right one.

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 4w ago

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Grass Snakes are so cool. No nonsense, just a pure default snake. Bro is literally just 🐍

Senator Stephen King of Maine

#caturday with heat advisory and sound machines for tonight’s fireworks. I fucking hate fireworks and do not understand how you can just roll up to a yellow castle called Circus Explosives or whatever and leave with quarter sticks of dynamite and 700 mortar rounds of screaming red whistlers