"Oddyseus when will we get home?"

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

happy birthday to all horses in the southern hemisphere

Half the discourse this summer has been about the Second World War and half about Homeric Greece but yes there’s clearly no future for students trained in history

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

What you guys need to know is that if you just keep subscribing, my monks and I are *this close* to turning lead into gold.

Local Man Realizes Opportunity To Leave Missed

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Breaking News: Ross Douthat, The New York Times opinion columnist, is joining CBS News’s “60 Minutes” in one of the first major hires since Bari Weiss’s takeover.

I think a good bit would be to pretend to be one of those people who's really mad about the modernized sensibility of Nolan's Odyssey but the more you talk the more it becomes clear that you've confused the Odyssey with that He-Man movie from a couple months ago

My favorite depiction of the Trojan Horse, and the earliest known version. I love the windows, like an airplane, and that the windows go up the neck too.

A trial of a limited print shop. 25 of my paintings available as prints for first time in almost a year. If in Ireland or UK you'd probably want to restrict yourself to Art Prints, Canvas Prints or Posters to avoid customs hassle. (No issue if in North America) fineartamerica.com/profiles/4-l....

Incredible thread, it's not just the young folks on the tick tock out here grifting

Legal C@legalclaret.bsky.social · 2w ago

This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1

Sir, for the last time, ordering "penne alla vodka, hold the penne" doesn't count as a pasta order

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Scalise: "Anybody that gets on an airplane has to show a picture ID to vote. Nowadays, if you want to go to Olive Garden and get unlimited pasta, you gotta show a picture ID. This isn't complicated stuff."

yet another reason why it’s so important there is no amnesty for the regime’s criminals after this is done. it’s a core component of repairing trust with our allies. accountability is a commitment we make to them that we won’t screw everyone over again in four to eight years

Martyn Wendell Jones@martynwendell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Contributed a short item on Trump’s new tariff threat against Canada to our Morning Shots newsletter today. TL;DR: Trump’s statements and actions might be nonsense, but they’re not a joke. Stand up for Canada. www.thebulwark.com/i/207906786/...

"Americans should take the president's anti-Canadian saber-rattling so much more seriously than we do. We should treat it not as a joke, not as a quirk . . . but as a genuine threat to our neighbors." @jamellebouie.net is exactly right www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPs9...

It is time to stop treating Donald Trump's anti-Canada rhetoric like a joke

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Monday you can make a peace Tuesday Wednesday trade and fleece Thursday maybe it will cease It's Friday I'm at war

It's arguably worse than Epstein, maybe not in terms of scale but in the sense that rapist wasn't Epstein's day job

Professa Murray@kalimurray.bsky.social · 2w ago

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

The Milwaukee Brewers would like a word

Mike@mikebirty.bsky.social · 3w ago

The American mind will never comprehend this

I still can't get over the fact that our politicians get $558 per week for meals... WTAF? While kids get cut off SNAP 2,232 per month, just for meals. I will be mad about this for a long time. They have the nerve to deny low income kids food

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer

An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

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Well? Are they coping well?

Hey man maybe handing dod to a guy whose main skill set is “masculinity influencer for dumb guys having a midlife crisis” was a bad idea bsky.app/profile/mjga...

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Ding ding ding

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

Donald Trump’s corruption is allowing him to do what he never achieved in business — finally making a profit. What hasn’t changed? You’re still being cheated by him.

Close to a million investors of the Trump memecoin lost a collective $3.8 billion, even as the president disclosed $636 million in earnings | Fortune

The president launched the $TRUMP coin just before his inauguration last January.

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Remembering the mass in Italy where the priest went to the sacristy, un-vested, walked to the back with a giant key to open the big medieval doors, returned to the sacristy and re-vested in time to read the gospel.

NEW: Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate KEY FACT: Many European cities, on the world's fastest-warming continent, never needed AC in the past For some strange reason – I can't imagine why – many commentators prefer to ignore this

Jeremiah 14:14: Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds."

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4w ago

Preaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."