Hyperlexic
@hyperlexic.bsky.social
Queer East Bay GenX native & parent. He/him. Had my mask pic before the fascists. I tend to block quote-arguers. Follow me so I can disappoint you.
Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
4. My earliest childhood memory is of turning 40 years old.
FEDWATCH: “.. Most of the 911M SpaceX shares unlocking tomorrow were granted or purchased when the company was valued between $20B and $150B, versus a current market cap of $450B–$500B. .. This means that nearly all shares are deeply in the money with a 3×–20× uplift— roughly 10×–20× gains ..”
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h ago
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect. www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
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It gets an actual chuckle out of me seeing people on here say "now the TRUE test is whether the shitlibs can live up to their own words and line up behind El-Sayed!" only for Stevens, Whitmer, every prominent Michigan Dem, the DSCC, etc. to have endorsed El-Sayed before they can finish the sentence.
A bit faded now, but one of my proudest pranks lives on. My partner’s mum asked me to tidy up her son’s hair for a family photo. I did… but I also gave him dicks for ears. That photo still sits proudly on his grandparents’ sideboard. The family are very foolish or I would never do such a thing.
I don’t have a big issue with this op-ed, but 1) Sf’s current rebound has a lot more to do with the AI boom than anything around city governance / politics 2) the writer’s job made me LOL. maybe disclose that earlier! thehill.com/opinion/camp...
San Francisco and LA: Two cities headed in opposite directions
I have spent much of my life going back and forth between San Francisco and Los Angeles. One is my hometown. The other has been my home for many chapters of my life. I love them both, and for decad…
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This week’s episode takes it a step further and goes deep into the industrial-scale human sacrifice of Shang dynasty. 13,000 sacrifices THAT WE KNOW OF. (from the few surviving divination texts) Being a nerd it occurs this is pretty untapped for ttrpg settings
Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2w agoNew Past Lives: The Tomb of Fu Hao and the Rise of the Shang Dynasty. In a shadowy Bronze Age world of kings and nobles, Fu Hao was a queen, royal mother, general, priestess, and even executioner. She was buried with a treasury of jades, bronzes, and 16 human sacrifices. pod.link/1852618120/e...
Not sure there's ever been a single text that sums up the mindset of a dedicated abuser better than this interview
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:
I’m not a “Europe is hopelessly poor” person nor a “GDP explains everything” person but tbh whenever I see someone complain that EVERYTHING in MODERN LIFE has gotten MONOTONICALLY WORSE there‘s a good chance they’re in the UK which has in fact been in and out of recession for 10 years
The Democratic Party is a big coalition with many different tendency
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 5h agoMy ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.
I’m glad that ttrpg culture is popular enough to get this, but I have 0 desire to ever go to anything this big.
BoardGameWire@boardgamewire.bsky.social · 5h agoGen Con tops 74,000 attendees as record-breaking show preps for much-needed venue, hotel expansion: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
The DSCC puts out a statement from Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand backing Abdul El-Sayed. This is the first time since 2010 that a DSCC-backed candidate lost in a primary. #MISen
some specific democrats suck and they suck in ways that are detrimental to issues that you personally care about you know how you solve that once we are past the primaries? you elect even more democrats so that their votes are less important joe manchin couldn’t have done as much damage as vote 52
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post get zero likes, and ONLY angry quote retweets and comments before
Make It Make Sense@themimsshow.bsky.social · 23h agoTrans debate isn’t over
Good analysis of the various rent metrics, with pros and cons of each but all are showing a dramatic change in San Francisco.
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 5h agoA report of a record high median price for two-bedroom rentals in San Francisco has spread across social media, but is it accurate?
The full wraparound illustration! If you're wondering if I painted all those mosaics by hand the answer is HELL YEAH (with many pauses to protect my fingers and wrist) You can back it HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
I wouldn't be surprised if Emeryville is beginning to see a rent spike, but 'annual rent growth in July' is a weird phrasing. Does this mean 'YoY growth since last July'?
My favorite seemingly-abandoned railroad remnant is getting turned into a park! www.berkeleyside.org/2026/08/04/s...
Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.
"There shouldn't be any science or scientists in the first place, there should only be MAGA military-industrial R&D," this new form of Trumpistan Lysenkoism is already pretty obvious
are these Wildberries actually militarily relevant (moving military logistics, or is this just messing with the civilian / economic side?
Meanwhile in Ukraine@meanwhileua.bsky.social · 15h agoWildberries received its biggest return yet: a 194,500 m² logistics center in flames. ㅤ Unidentified drones struck one of the company’s largest hubs in Aleksin, Tula region. Opened in 2022, it was built to move cargo at industrial scale. ㅤ Russia’s rear is now measured in drone range.
The best thing about Vote Blue No Matter Who is that it unloads a lot of cognitive burden. I wanted Tom Steyer to be in the Governor's race, but he's not so I'm gonna vote for Becerra. I don't follow his campaign at all: I'm voting for him because he's not a Republican.
I really have no idea what this person is seeking, but I appreciate the classic approach of pole flyering.
