Jeff Gorvette
@jeffgorvette.bsky.social
He/him • Sometimes known as flying nipple
This evening's News Brief: The Texas Railroad Commission has nothing to do with trains. It oversees your gas rates and whether the gas system is ready for the next Winter Storm Uri.
Written it many times before, but it bears repeating: Every player and team and league that does this is rooting for its fans to lose.
Discuss.
ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start BATMAN: check the battery ROBIN: what’s a tery
They really should be explicit in the headline that the rise in South Asian hate rhetoric is stemming directly from the united states government.
A Punjabi Sikh truck driver in Wyoming said he was followed into a bathroom and stabbed repeatedly in an attack that has stoked fear across the greater South Asian community.
It's the funniest shit in the world that the former CEO of Microsoft conceded to the insane demands of an even more avaricious guy known as Uncle Dennis. It's like a mid-level mafioso successfully shaking down Jamie Dimon.
I can't stress enough that (abortion) shit is going to hit the fan after the midterms and that the Trump administration delayed it on purpose. see also: Medicaid work requirements from the Big Ugly Bill not taking effect until Jan 2027
NEW: A Texas judge paused a lawsuit seeking to revoke FDA approval of the abortion drug mifepristone until December 1—or FDA finishes its sham mife "review." Judge Reed O'Connor said Texas and Florida *can challenge drug's original approval* @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Tesla Model S, rebadged as an Audi, with oil and gas license plate?????
They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing
What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass
"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis
Gaming Anniversaries; on this day 10 years ago, an Xbox 360 was sold in Japan.
amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
There is a good chance that if this had happened to me in this story, I would have died. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...
How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.
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Post a photo of an American car in a foreign land
QOTD: Post a photo of an American car in a foreign land.
Removing Florida was not necessary, but it was satisfying.
Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.