H R Pickens
@hrpickens.bsky.social
I don't expect to be followed back. When I find your stuff interesting, I don't necessarily expect you to find my stuff interesting. That photo is fake. It's not me. But also, basically, it is.
Honestly not sure. But either way, he was a fucking idiot and I don't care what he thinks.
ʙᴇᴀᴜx 🕋@obsidian.blacksky.app · 3d agoWould 20 y/o you be impressed or disappointed by you today?
Yes, President Curtis is good. But also? I think I'd just enjoy the hell out of watching Keith David, Stephanie Beatriz, and Jim Rash in absolutely anything at all.
The position “I would mass murder [any group] for any improvement of [other group]” is indistinguishable from Nazism. This is one of the most disgusting political opinions I’ve ever seen posted on this site (though of course the only person who needs to answer for it is the poster themself).
People on this site want a popular front against fascism until someone puts together a popular front against fascism.
James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING: 20+ Republican leaders just endorsed our campaign for US Senate. We’re bringing Texans together onto one team to take power back for working people. Because the real fight in this country isn't left versus right — it's top versus bottom.
Hi. I'm HR, a dad and soon-retiring software engineer. I like astronomy, colony sims, and bread with a chewy crust. And that bit near the end of Larry Carlton's solo in Kid Charlemagne where he eases up and just glides home, like a surfer finishing a run still upright.
John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social · 2w agoHi, I'm John Moe, a writer and podcast maker in Saint Paul. I am married with three mostly grown kids and two nice dogs. I like in "Misunderstood" when Tweedy throws in extra syllables on "Take the guitar player for a ride". Would you like to introduce yourself with a small song moment you like?
One should never label sarcasm as sarcasm. That reeks of insecurity. If you can't live with a small fraction of your audience failing to get the joke, sarcasm isn't for you.
Just had the first of what I presume will be a long string of "my kid opening kid-safe packaging for me" episodes. 8yo saw me struggling with the zip lock on a bag of tide pods and said "lemme get that, daddy"
The thing that pops for me here is that if "we" act, "you" will bear the blame. He's probably not even aware that he has that tic. He literally can't conceive of blame properly attaching to himself.
Hill Woward@convolutedname.bsky.social · 3w agoThe other funny thing is that this will look even worse by 2028 if the CapEx bubble bursts
Threatening to withhold hypothetical future usefulness may be your only move if that usefulness isn't actually available on any terms.
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 3w agoRegarding DSA-LA's non-endorsement of Nithya Raman, I think a lot of people on the left don't get that the way you gain clout with politicians is by proving yourself useful to them, not by threatening to withhold hypothetical future usefulness.
The easiest part of a president's job is deciding which turkey to pardon. Maintaining good relations with Canada is surely the second-easiest bit. You'd have to be an S-Tier dipshit to fuck that up.
Natalie Harp quoting Pride and Prejudice to a dude who used to fast-forward through Bloodsport to all the times dudes got kicked in the balls
ICE: "We're going to start using torture gloves against the public." Public: "What the fuck, you should not have those." Omaha PD: "What's the big deal, we have them." Public: "what" Omaha PD: "We use them on school children."
The electric shock gloves ICE is spending up to $20 million on are already being given to police officers in Omaha public schools | Fortune
The Omaha Police Department was awarded more than $65,000 for 40 pairs of the gloves in May 2025.
fortune.com
IMAGINE HITTING A 449-FOOT HOME RUN ON THE VERY FIRST PITCH YOU FACED IN THE BIG LEAGUES
NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.
Anything connected to the Internet is, to a reasonable first approximation, under the control of hackers.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · last mo.What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
“‘He would get in trouble and just—nothing ever seemed to happen,’ a former Shaker Heights High School classmate and baseball teammate of Miller’s told Politico in 2021 for a story that documented no fewer than four arrests between ages 18 and 22 on criminal charges…” prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...
Max Miller’s Endless Wars - The American Prospect
The Ohio congressman fabricated a wild story of death threats on Interstate 90 and casually destroyed the life of a constituent. It’s one of many accusations Miller, now facing a spousal abuse scandal...
prospect.org
Bluesky is sort of a dark forest for discourse, where, upon encountering a human being, you need to immediately try to take a kill shot. Anyway, please don’t accuse me of plagiarism and demand my resignation because you imagined my anti-plagiarism blog post said the opposite of what it does
Some number of people with self-diagnosed impostor syndrome actually are impostors.
Rewatching Babylon 5 (S1) and struck by the fact that both B5 and Star Trek: DS9 have a season 1 "And Now An Episode Specifically About Our Nazi Analogues". www.imdb.com/title/tt0517... www.imdb.com/title/tt0708...
Absolutely drives me nuts that the 8yo at the piano will not slow down. Just cannot. When he makes a mistake, he tries again but faster. There is just no talking to him on this. He either refuses to slow down, or flatly cannot grasp the concept. He's a really bright kid. And also an idiot.
Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients
Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients
The 26-year-old man was fined £200 by Llandudno magistrates
independent.co.uk
Been waiting for this to bubble up to the surface. Again, any other time in American history when we had functioning news media, this would have been a five alarm scandal. There would be senate hearings. There would be consequences for everyone in the chain of command involved in this.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo agoHoly shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
"The idea of society may sound appealing, but it's old men who will take the hit, planting trees under whose shade they might never sit."
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2mo agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Treating any overreach by Israel-critical voices as an opportunity to leap in and secure through trickery some kind of implicit endorsement for what Israel has actually been doing in Gaza and Lebanon is deeply unhelpful. I’d go as far as saying this behavior is symbiotic with the antisemitism.