As a matter of fact, no, I don’t believe this shit.

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 4h ago

My friend told me her 10 yo daughter is growing out her hair after a teacher at school barred her from entering the girl’s bathroom last year because of her short hair. Can you believe this shit? And the school never apologized for this act of bullying.

It's that time of year again, folks: I'm back at school tomorrow, so this is my annual beg for anyone who wants to donate some school supplies to my 8th grade Math classroom. Reshares are greatly appreciated as well. Thank you! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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It’s time for Randi to go, I think.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

Fantastic thread.

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 13h ago

small, single corridor shopping centre in Stevenage Old Town. Called the 'Magnet centre' after the family that owned the land. odd nik-nak and dress shops... ...and in the mid-90s briefly, hidden at the back, the town's first comic shop. we discovered it as teens. it was like finding heaven /1

Almost my entire cassette collection eventually got repurchased on CD.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name physical media you purchased more than once.

I feel like my TL is significantly more anti-AI than usual this morning. Not that I mind, obviously, but did somebody do something stupid and I just haven’t seen it yet?

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

I hope this man’s afterlife is just his dad and his uncle beating him to death over and over and over and over again.

Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2d ago

The “primary obligation” in any future health crisis must be to “protect our constitutional rights,” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 🤦‍♂️ Source: www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

I hate it here.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Today's bloggery:

Let’s talk about DAGGERMOUTH

If this book was written by AI, we are all in really big trouble, folks.

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It's that time of year again, folks: I'm back at school tomorrow, so this is my annual beg for anyone who wants to donate some school supplies to my 8th grade Math classroom. Reshares are greatly appreciated as well. Thank you! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Check out my list on Amazon

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I didn't realize that whoever won the Michigan Democratic primary was going to be running against a cop. This will be fun.

I like this. Everybody gotta get together fast.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · yesterday

No matter who wins tonight's primaries in Michigan, the state Democratic party is launching a rally for all of the top nominees on Friday in Detroit. Pete Buttigieg will join the event - seeking to unify, after a blistering fight between Abdul El-Sayed & Rep. Haley Stevens

Looks like another Republican is about to get kicked out of Congress for predatory or violent behavior toward women. No not Max Miller, the other one. No not Matt Gaetz, the other one. No not Paul Gosar, the oth www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

House panel seeks censure of Rep. Chuck Edwards over conduct toward female staff

Attorneys for the North Carolina Republican, who has denied wrongdoing, accused the Ethics Committee of reaching a rushed judgment and called its recommendation “extraordinarily harsh.”

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Eek.

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.

The way that everyone sees fantom AI in original work now is such a fucked up secondary downstream AI nightmare consequence. People can’t critically identify real art any longer and so everything gets accused of not being original. I don’t know how we climb out of this hole.

I live in Indiana. I have more than sufficient exposure to what conservatives think ideas are.

Jon Becker@jonbecker.bsky.social · 2d ago

(I like my Bluesky bubble. I don't need "viewpoint diversity" on anything all that politically consequential on here)

Today's bloggery:

I am never fixing anything again (clap, clap)

In which I destroy my possessions and my sanity! Also, begging.

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Heads up folks! My Seattle mystery about a psychic travel agent slash karaoke queen is a special price for August! For just $1.99 you can grab the ebook from all the usual suspects - just click here and check the right-hand column here for links: 👇 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grave-...

Grave Reservations

A psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective try to solve a murder in this “ebullient tap dance of a mystery” (Christopher Moore, New York Tim...

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LOL. I would count surviving as the best I could do.

Boneless Wings…Lover@coachd21.bsky.social · 2d ago

Do you think you take a hit from a NFL player and not fumble the ball at your age?

I love the idea that me competing against LeBron James or Michael Phelps is “fair” because we have penises but competing against a woman is not.

I get why this is illegal but I'm less concerned about Lindell throwing pillows into a crowd than I am at the idea that someone might change their vote because he threw them a pillow. *Those* people should be disenfranchised.

Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 2d ago

Very short notice, but I just saw this. The MyPillow guy is getting dragged into Minnesota's campaign finance court for giving away pillows as campaign promotions at a 4th of July parade, allegedly in violation of a law prohibiting the provision of monetary value to win votes. Hearing in 10 mins!

Reading a book that’s been loudly accused of being authored by AI, and I don’t believe that it is, mostly because this book is bad in a specific way that I think genAI is really unlikely to create.

Is he dead yet?

Just because

He’s a roadkill enthusiast not a scientist

I really shouldn't have to keep reminding everyone that we don't have to care what Ross Douthat thinks. Ever.

My God, Washington would hate Donald Trump more than he'd ever hated anything in his entire life.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d ago

Good to know after a tough weekend on the golf course the president is back at work laser focused on improving the lives of Americans by resuming his deranged AI marathon.

It's a sign of how well-rested and ready for school to start I am that I agree with this in principle but in reality those "priorities and dreams for the future" don't involve any form of education a whole lot of the time.

Lee Ann Jung@leeannjung.bsky.social · 3d ago

🔑 The IEP process should commence well in advance of the formal #IEP meeting, by asking the #student and family to share their priorities and dreams for the future. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Educators #UDL #EduSky

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