There's also a livestream of sea lions in a cuddle puddle.

Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒@marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 7h ago

Orcas are swimming and vocalizing right now on the livestream! 🫍 orcalab.org/live-streams/

I hate drones so much (horse owner, those things are a menace).

Washington Emergency Management Division@emd.wa.gov · yesterday

Flying drones in fire zones is not allowed. In a press conference on Aug. 3, Spokane Sheriff John Nowels said drones are simply not allowed and have already interfered with fire operations there. It’s not allowed in other fire zones either. #wawildfire

I swear to God, part of the problem of literacy is that we make kids read SO MANY books like this. Of course they’re going to associate reading with misery! We put them in a Skinner box and shock them when they read, what did people THINK would happen?

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · yesterday

Having ranted about school curriculum books, I’ve just seen my son’s summer reading list, and all I can say is “I was right”. A more depressing collection would be tricky to assemble. Are we actively trying to convey to kids the idea that reading is dismal and arduous?

I haven't been able to get this out of my head, so - I'm calling it. A few decades of rapid technical progress here, and plastic garbage can become the new coal or oil... And landfills become the new coal mines or oil wells. BRING IT ON. (Also: sci-fi writers, grab this maybe-future quick!)

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · last mo.

Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen at scale Cambridge Uni made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/scie...

You heard it here Seattle: no vacuuming. We all get out of chores at least?

Washington Emergency Management Division@emd.wa.gov · yesterday

If inside, keep the air clean. Don't add more air pollution. Avoid smoking, using a wood stove or fireplace, burning candles or incense or vacuuming. Air purifying machines may help remove smoke particles indoors, but they don't remove gases and odors. #wawildfire #wawx

If you’re outside, the best breathing protection is to wear an N95 or N100 mask. These masks filter out most fine particles in smoke, but not hazardous gases like carbon monoxide. Avoid strenuous outdoor activity. #wawildfire #wawx

Some areas of Washington state are seeing worse smoke conditions this morning. You should download the EPA AIR NOW App to check conditions near you. Find the latest state smoke forecasts: wasmoke.blogspot.com #wawildfire

If conditions become smoky near you, stay inside, shut windows and doors, and run an air purifier. If you must go outside, wear an N95 mask and stay hydrated. Visit wa211.org to find clean air and extreme heat shelters near you. Check the WA Smoke Blog for smoke and air quality updates.

OK Seattle, our annual reminder that wildfire smoke is *dangerous for your health.* Reinstall your air quality app and pay attention. My own rule is NO outdoor exercise over 100. Do not be out there doing a long run when the AQ rating is hazardous, ok? Be safe y'all.

Just three days into August, this is already the most challenging, devastating fire season our state has experienced in years. Our hearts are with the people all over our state who have had their lives turned upside-down by these disastrous wildfires.

It’s pretty sad to me that MLB has been largely silent on this, what a cool opportunity to show some allyship and get people excited about the sport as a whole, 🦗🦗🦗

Maladroithe@maladroithe.bsky.social · 4d ago

We have women’s professional baseball 🥹🥹🥹

The most bullshit thing about middle age is setting your alarm to 6:45am on work days and waking up at 6am every day off. 🤦‍♀️

This is and has always been the point of patriarchy: barring women from access to resources so we can only get them through men. So that men who would otherwise never be chosen by women can coerce women into relationships. Patriarchy has always been affirmative action for shitty men.

Yooty@yooty.bsky.social · 5d ago

The conservative solution for the “male loneliness epidemic” and decentering men is to just remove women from public spaces.

Once again need a bio for a group and can we make these all the same format so we can all write the dang thing once every like 5 years and reuse it everywhere? Please?

If you ask your therapist to testify for you all their records can be subpoenaed and used against you. That has always been the case Whats new is that more and more therapy practices are now using AI scribes to record transcripts of your sessions in place of summary notes.

it’s me, aslynn@aslynnromano.com · 3mo ago

"Jennifer Kamrass confessed her worries to her therapist: her marriage, her finances, and self-esteem... 2 years later, a transcript of every word Kamrass had typed to her psychologist using the app Talkspace was produced in court by her former employer." 🤬

we lost so many people

Malaclypse the Middle@malaclypse.bsky.social · last wk.

A couple of weeks ago I rode to Newburyport MA and saw this COVID memorial and realized this is the only one I have ever seen anywhere. And the fact that I nearly broke down seeing it is something I still think about.

My Dad only ate peanut butter by first toasting his bread, slathering it with butter and then topping with peanut butter. The whole thing is crunchy, melty, and amazing and BANANA bread is the best this way. This lunch is for you Dad.

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: No Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney or Ghibli. Easy:

Denzel Washington

ALT: Denzel Washington

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Nat is in the valley of the shadow of death@natlaowai.bsky.social · last wk.

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: No Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney or Ghibli.

“False allegations ruin men’s lives!” Motherfuckers, TRUE allegations don’t even ruin men’s lives.

The problem with putting chocolate chips in banana bread is that it's really hard to tell when the skewer is coming out clean.

Of all the things I do NOT have time for this week, chief on the list is my monitor which seems to have died a very colorful death on the morning I have 5 clients. 🤦‍♀️ When do I have time to package and ship a monitor back for repair? (Thankfully Spouse uses 4 monitors so we had a spare...)

A gospel that can save people from a rhetorical, eternal hell we haven’t seen while they return to the literal hells we’ve constructed for our neighbors (and ourselves) is actually not good news at all. Stop settling for small gospels, beloved.

just watched a presentation by a guy who is using an algorithm to track humpback whale movements so that this can be used to lobby shipping companies to alter route timings to lessen danger to them and this is the kind of AI I'm into

Reading with Miggy is a full contact sport.

The amount of joy the World Cup brought Americans seems like a great argument for reviving the World’s Fair. Technically it’s still going, but it’s a shadow of itself. The next one is going to be in Belgrade & the one after that is in Riyadh. We should kick off a new series starting in New York.

Trying to share pictures of Miggy and the stupid app just keeps reloading. 🤦‍♀️

I'm a horrible Midwestern because I loathe sloppy Joes. Like HATE them (I don't like either cooked tomato OR beef). But tonight I made "Indian sloppy Joe's" and I am SOLD.

I do it all the time and it has a name! Linguistic convergence. Empathic people are more likely to do it, as are neurodivergent folks.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w ago

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you

Really appreciate this: “While the concept of chosenness in Judaism is tied to a covenant of responsibility and ethical duty, anti-Semites frequently distort the term to falsely accuse Jewish people of believing they are racially or morally superior.”

Greg Bovino's anti-semitic comment in meltdown call over Minnesota ICE shootings

Former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino made seemingly anti-semitic comments to personnel close to him as his agency aimed to handle the chaos surrounding the deaths of American citizens Renee Good ...

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A major reason why so many people pretend long covid doesn’t matter:

CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · 2w ago

Researchers: Women have worse signs and symptoms of neurologic long COVID than men. Both previously hospitalized and nonhospitalized women more often cited numbness/tingling, dizziness, headache, and pain than men. Read more: https://bit.ly/45gRwLR