What I love about Bluesky is what I loved about old Twitter: if I want to find out about something (however recondite) there will be someone here (often with a PhD in it) and the time and patience to share their knowledge. /1
John Hayden ❌👑🌊
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John Hayden. So many hobbies, so little time. Smite incandescent metal; make music, art, and beautiful things. Boston Grampa; retired IC designer. Be safe, be kind. He/him Guns2gardens.org
A little vignette of the cold war could-get-nuked-at-any-moment 1950 terrified mindset
Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂@nwhyte.bsky.social · yesterdayThe breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk. "Today is August 4, 2026," said a voice… www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader...
CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
That is my single favorite moment of all social media that I have experienced, is a young woman getting her stuffy back. 25/
This is my personal Sistine Chapel. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Create a shadow cabinet. Every time Hegseth stands at pentagon podium to announce some wild holy war action, our shadow SecDef gets up at ours to explain what we’d do differently. Same with RFK vaccine announcements or supplement things. Create a constant contrast, counter narrate the presidency.
1782: Caroline Herschel—sister of William Herschel, an astronomer who discovered Uranus the year before—discovers a comet after spotting it through a telescope. This is the first comet discovery credited to a woman. #WomensHistory
9. By far my favorite thing in the film is Robert Pattinson's hilarious and sexy Antinous. If anyone ever wants to make a spin off TV series with Antinous risen from the dead to mess with other mythical households, I would be so there for it.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
We have 100 days until Election Day. 100 days to knock doors, register voters, get on the phones, volunteer, and talk to our communities. 100 days for the future of this country. Let’s win this.
Democrats@democrats.org · last wk.We have 100 days to organize, mobilize, and vote. America, let’s do this.
I'll bet he didn't specify the font size on those signs. Print them in 1-point type on signs 1 inch from the wall, facing the wall. By the alley service entrance. Blow up a cropped microscope photo to a yard across and show it to him as proof
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoBreaking news: President Trump ordered the installation of signs outside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that warn of “inaccurate” exhibits and direct people to “accurate information regarding America’s history.”
@mayorwu.boston.gov Outlines a New Street Safety Agenda in the Wake of Louisa Gag’s Killing: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/24/m...
Mayor Wu Outlines a New Street Safety Agenda in the Wake of Louisa Gag's Killing - Streetsblog Massachusetts
On Friday morning, Mayor Wu issued a detailed 6-page letter to residents in which she outlined her administration's plan to improve the safety of the city's streets, and address mounting criticism of ...
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Open Streets is back! Enjoy car-free, family-friendly fun in neighborhoods all across Boston, starting with Jamaica Plain on August 2. Get the details about all upcoming Open Streets events at boston.gov/openstreets. 🎉
Hold it! Hold it, Grandpa. You read that wrong. She doesn't marry Humperdinck. She marries Westley. I'm just sure of it. After all that Westley did for her… if she didn't marry him, it wouldn't be fair.
13y later: i bought a used car from some gaunt, stressed-out guy, but now i wake up in the dead of night behind the wheel, no idea how i got there, cruising donut shop drive-thrus
DoubleTrouble@badboybill69.bsky.social · 10mo agoStill haunted by the donut hole I dropped, rolled under my car seat & got away.
A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵
We mourn the lost secrets of the elder artificers of a vanished age, never to be vouchsafed to such fallen as ourselves
Nina Metz@ninametz.bsky.social · 2w agoWhy Aren’t There More Imax 70mm Screens for ‘The Odyssey’? variety.com/2026/film/ne...
This Message From Former Ambassador Michael McFaul, Who Served Under President Obama, As Ambassador To Russia.......
