"The hot new look for squishy middle-aged men is something we like to call 'Jedi shabby'."
Ivan Gayton
@ivangayton.bsky.social
Sakura and Kaede's dad, free migration advocate, Free Software, humanitarian, mapper, sci-fi/computer nerd, musician, citizen of Earth. He/him
"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity
It's like running into a dingy dive bar and yelling "HEADS UP, THIS PLACE ISN'T DOING AS WELL AS THE BAR AT THE W HOTEL IN TIMES SQUARE" Like ok well the W doesn't let you do coke bumps by the garnishes, what are we talking about here
Before I encountered Zorua and Zoroark, I had a different pokemon as my favorite: Absol! I've always loved it and especially its Mega Forms<3 So I finally got a lil sketch from the wonderful @exvarn.bsky.social of a Silver-Mega Absol version!
I will happily just stop using social media if only choice is owned by actual demon Mark Zuckerberg
As a resident of Summerland, BC, evacuated due to out-of-control wildfire, I'm reporting criminal activity that led to this disaster. Three of the perpetrators, Mark Carney, Danielle Smith, and Scott Burrows, have confessed publicly here. Please get them to The Hague. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
Canada and Alberta advance west coast pipeline project proposal and Pathways Project Carbon Capture Initiative – to build a stronger, more resilient Canadian economy
Canada and Alberta will each share equal partnership in the project, and there will be a meaningful equity stake reserved for Indigenous Peoples.
pm.gc.ca
Story after story in the press about the catastrophic effects of climate change, mostly bereft of mention of climate change, and utterly without any mention of what must be done. The only thing hotter than our Godforsaken home planet right now is my rage at these fuckers share.google/1Ea3o9xaVQed...
Europeans, Braced for 5th Heat Wave of 2026, Have Had Enough
With temperatures set to soar as high as 109 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) this week, Europeans and tourists say that summer in Europe has lost its appeal.
share.google
My family and I have been forced to evacuate from Summerland BC. Police say they are investigating the cause of the fire amidst reports of "suspicious activity". The executives of the big fossil fuel companies are fairly easy to locate, what are the cops waiting for? globalnews.ca/news/1201597...
Cause of Summerland wildfire under investigation as RCMP examine reports of suspicious activity | Globalnews.ca
The Penticton RCMP, along with neighbouring RCMP detachments, are actively patrolling areas currently within the evacuation order, checking in on properties and businesses.
globalnews.ca
Centrist orgs like Third Way aren't afraid that a progressive will lose the general in 2028. They're afraid that they'll win www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
When you get a job in government, does someone just knock you over the head with a bat until you start coming up with ways to improve the bottom line of the oil and gas industry, or what
Mark Carney Advisor Says AI Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ For Gas
Boosting energy production is one of the top ‘public policy benefits to Canada’ of data centres, internal Privy Council document explains.
desmog.com
We wanted to understand how Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey differs from the Homer original. So we talked to three unvaccinated crypto investors at a Five Guys in Toms River.
Ok everyone, don't respond, it's time for Bluesky to be Bluesky. Block and move on.
Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
Republicans believe vaccines cause autism, Trump won the 2020 election, Michelle Obama is a man, and ivermectin can cure Covid. Democrats need to accept at least some of these or give up the charade of bipartisanship.
Emily Wilson's critique of The Odyssey presents a conundrum for MAGA and chuds in general. Nolan cast a Black woman as a supreme beauty and a trans man as a hero. Attack, right? But a progressive, educated (uppity) woman criticised a white male director' work. Defend, right? Tricky. Poor chuds.
When the media is relentlessly insistent that in order to effectively oppose fascism the opposition party must embrace fascism, it is difficult to avoid the creeping sensation that maybe the media just wants fascism. www.npr.org/2026/07/29/n...
To win over working-class voters, Democrats need to stop talking about democracy
Working-class voters have moved away from the Democratic Party. Winning them back is key to the party's future, a new reports shows. But first, the messaging has to change.
npr.org
I enjoyed Nolan's ODYSSEY quite a bit, and found it more moving than expected. I also read Wilson's critique and found that both enjoyable and insightful. It's not even really a bad review -- it's an incisive dissection from the POV of someone whose knives have long been sharpened on the material.
stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself
Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · 3w agoStephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
When covering the FDA's highly unusual announcement that the parasite found in Taylor Farms lettuce was a "false positive," I guess CNBC doesn't think it's relevant or worth mentioning that Taylor farms made a $1M donation to Donald Trump's MAGA Inc Super PAC? www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/c...
The FDA made a big reversal in its cyclosporiasis probe, but it still thinks iceberg lettuce is to blame
The FDA's investigation into the source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak is causing confusion as companies and consumers alike navigate new updates.
cnbc.com
Another day, another prestige-paper op-ed worried about hypothetical “AI” drones (whatever that means) that fails to really mention or meaningfully engage with how 100% human drone pilots are using small cheap drones to target civilians *right now*:
Opinion | A.I. Drones Are Coming. We Are Not Ready.
World leaders are marching us toward an uncertain era of new warfare — fast.
nytimes.com
I saw this cybertruck with an awesome custom paint job!
Not using Meta products is the easiest way to tell the government you don't want or need a data centre in your area.
I want fewer police with worse equipment and less authority and I am not kidding.
If the left wins by making themselves more like the right—eg by denying rights to trans women—then that's the plot of Animal Farm.
Taylor Farms CEO goes to the White House to kiss the ring and a day later the FDA is saying the cyclospora sample was a false positive. Here's the thing: could it have been a false positive? Definitely! Could you have gathered the necessary data to figure that out this fast? No. Fucking. Way.