I was nearly flattened by a driver flying through a fully red light a few weeks ago and when I asked the driver if he was having a medical emergency he said he was having “cognitive issues,” no mention of why his the younger person in took to be his wife in the passenger seat wasn’t driving.

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 4d ago

"MNPD said an 87-year-old Kentucky man who was driving a Ford Fusion ran the red light at the 4th and Broadway intersection in downtown Nashville and hit four people."

Every time I across one of these I watch the entire thing three times in a row

second time in thirty years that Davey Hearn has had fake charges against him dropped, incredible form

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 5d ago

BREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.

Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.

Elias Thorne@truebe.horse · 6d ago

saw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...

the petro-/bovo-masculinity death cult prefers rethinking other people's rights to exist

Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · last wk.

🤯🍔 Did you know that producing *one pound* of beef releases as much greenhouse gas pollution as burning 25-50 pounds of coal? And producing grass-fed beef is even worse? We gotta rethink our high levels of beef consumption...

"vote blue no matter who" for thee but not for me

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 7d ago

There's going to be a centrist Uncommitted but specifically just because Abdul is Arab lol

The world lost an amazing scholar and human being this past weekend - please consider donating to the Sarah Knuth Junior Fellowship below: climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute

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comparatively minor given everything else, but only the dumbest people to have ever lived would think razor-covered buoys in a flood-prone river a good idea even just in hydrological terms. we deserve better enemies.

The Border Chronicle@theborderchronicle.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING🚨: 120 buoys staged for Trump's Rio Grande floating barrier broke loose near Eagle Pass, closing bridges. They're drifting toward Laredo, where officials declared an emergency, expecting them at the Colombia Bridge by Sunday, threatening water supplies & trade. Read full story: 🔗🦂

Still reeling from this. Sarah was kind of an academic aunt to me through grad school and after. She was brilliant, but she used her brilliance to collaborate and to make everyone around her feel smarter, funnier, and more hopeful. Unreal to inhabit this dumber, drearier world without her.

Patrick Bigger@pmbigger.bsky.social · last wk.

The world is a little dimmer today. Writing this for my friend and colleague Sarah Knuth was agonizing and we miss her so much, but we also celebrate Sarah's memory and push forward on the struggles that she cared about so deeply. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.

and “the people developing the tech”

Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.

one of the most important things you need to do when developing a new product, especially in tech, is sit down and think about how it can be misused by bad actors and nowadays it sure seems like the bad actors are less “people to be guarded against” and more “the target customer base”

I admire our government's new commitment to honesty.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to hang out in the middle east while he starts the same war every day. when a missile blasts you into pieces he'll say your last words were "we must build a new ballroom in the white house" before your body is even cold. good luck soldier

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

the exit strategy from the bubble is selling this malware to public institutions

ChatGPT Edu | AI at UNCG

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing higher education, research, and the workplace. During the coming year, UNCG faculty and staff will have the opportunity to explore ChatGPT Edu, OpenAI’s hig...

ai.uncg.edu

Futurism@futurism.com · 2w ago

It's a bloodbath.

Jonas Vingegaard felled yet again by the cruelty of his sport: defector.com/jonas-vingeg...

Jonas Vingegaard Felled Yet Again By The Cruelty Of His Sport | Defector

ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Exactly 84 minutes after Jonas Vingegaard spiked his right collarbone into a curb and limped into an ambulance and out of the Tour de France, the assembled press watched him…

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Fun fact: While Jews made up less than 1% of the population of Argentina, they comprised up to 12% of those disappeared during the Dirty War, due to the antisemitism of the right-wing junta and the association of Jews with leftism. More Jews were killed in the Argentine Dirty War than on 10/7/2023.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yes, Argentina, that country that has famously never dabbled in antisemitism, unlike Spain. Just don't ask the people in Javier Milei's government where all of their ancestors came from and why.

CABO VERDE CABO VERDE CABO VERDE

Bryan Fischer@bryandfischer.bsky.social · 2w ago

The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.

senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign

Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Time keeping is my passion.

would hogwarts hire a velociraptor? do you have to let a vampire inside your home - if he's your landlord? is a cop who fights crime as a werewolf by night technically a K9 unit who - deserves overtime? if they become partners, can they literally go anywhere and pull over whomever they want?

In other words they are doing their job

Atlanta's New Bike Barriers Are Flipping Cars and Sparking Debate

If you drive down Cherokee Avenue in Atlanta's Grant Park neighborhood and see a car precariously balanced on two wheels atop a concrete divider, don't

motorbiscuit.com

I’m usually more of a “mature Marx” than a “young Marx” type of guy but yeah, this is a level of alienation previously unknown outside of the nobility, and they are loading it into a cannon aimed directly at their children

Matthew Haugen@mjhaugen.bsky.social · 2w ago

it is not the most important reason to redistribute wealth, but doing so would be for their own good as well as ours. these people are spiritually sick and need intervention.

Thus, then, in our hearts’ honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg—a cosy, loving pair.

casually aiming an ICBM at your opponents’ home countries as host of the 2034 World Cup

Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump administration has tentatively agreed to allow Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium without enacting international safeguards intended to prevent nuclear weapons development. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/18/p...

I just departed NY, a city blanketed in wildfire that—for the health of players & fans—should very much not be hosting a World Cup final. “These are high-level athletes who are moving a lot of air through their lungs,” said Dr. @courtghoward.bsky.social grist.org/extreme-weat...

Wildfire smoke threatens the World Cup final. FIFA still doesn't have a plan.

The biggest game in soccer is set for Sunday, when Argentina and Spain will meet in the World Cup final, held just outside of New York City. There’s just one problem — wildfire smoke now threatens the...

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a traumatized woman fights to take back her adopted daughter from an evil matriarch while her would-be boyfriend convalesces with a head injury

what an essay by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. send it to your friends, family, and every elected democrat representing you. bostonreview.net/articles/truth-without-reconciliation/

gonna start talking like this to my boss