You never see a tradwife on camera babysitting the preschool teacher's kid because the teacher's childcare canceled and the other teacher is sick and everyone else in the class will now lack childcare if there's no one to run the classroom

This was brilliant questioning. The cult members on the panel, however...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

It occurs to me that this is key to breaking down one of the ways that pro-AI and anti-AI people tend to talk past each other. There are things that AI can do *for* us, and that list of things is likely to grow. But I'm not seeing any serious examples of things that AI can do *with* us.

Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There is no way to do anything interesting in any sustained way in any field without immersion in that field. That's just a fundamental fact of being human, and there's no getting around it.

Jarrod Watt@jaywatt.bsky.social · 6h ago

An at-risk teenager "...fell into a filter bubble where his account was recommended a repetitive amount of content surrounding Suicide & Self Harm & depressive topics, particularly leading up to the date of his suicide..." The TikTok revelations keep coming. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I have been saying this for ages! Misinformation robs people of autonomy. When applied to women’s health it means it is inherently misogynistic!

Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · yesterday

Hear, hear‼️ Health misinformation erodes autonomy‼️ Vaccine mis- and disinformation isn’t just a threat to public health, but also to our autonomy theconversation.com/vaccine-mis-... "If we value autonomy for what it really means ... we must take action to address mis- and disinformation."

Gentle reminder, very genuine: this was a Dem primary. Here's the 2024 Michigan map. The ground game in SE MI is important because northern Michigan outside Traverse City and west Michigan outside the cities is ruby red.

NoMIMA@littleplatter.bsky.social · 4h ago

I found this interesting. Dems in NW MI and the UP largely went for El Sayed. I know most of these places save Leelanau County and potentially Benzie and Grand Traverse will vote R in the general, but these support for progressives up here.

When we in the @debtcollective.bsky.social started to organize around this in 2014, the attorneys we talked to were supportive but skeptical that Dept of Ed would ever actually cancel even some of this debt. ...

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h ago

Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

No country that arrested librarians and booksellers was on the right side of history. But that's what's happening in Arkansas, and book banners aim to replicate that lousy legislation across the country. Speak up! Take action! Fight back!

Arresting Librarians AND Booksellers in the United States

History has shown that arresting librarians and booksellers has never led to greater freedom or liberty.

action.everylibrary.org

Maybe political polling is irrevocably broken and we should treat it like astrology.

"We searched the entyre internet!" What archivists heare: "We searched the entyre small airport bookeshoppe!"

"Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy. The University of Wyoming will be the only R1 institution, the only state flagship university, and one of two land-grant universities that do not offer a B.A. in Philosophy." dailynous.com/2026/07/23/u...

Maybe political polling is irrevocably broken and we should treat it like astrology.

"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

folks this is what Vote Blue No Matter Who actually means we buckle down and beat Mike Rogers in November no matter how this finishes

It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.

Another day, another reminder that this party has attracted and lifted up the absolute worst of humanity.

*faint glimmers of hope*

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 18h ago

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d ago

BREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

every theater kid I know is wincing in sympathy

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

Yf you spye a fadid signe at the syde of the roade that saith 'V short leagues to the Shack of Love'

🧵This regime is surely guilty of a lot of evil, but there's a special cast to the evil of denying a reality THROUGH WHICH WE ALL LIVED that stole at *least* 1.2 million of us. That's more people than the populations of St. Louis, New Orleans, Boise, & Anchorage, combined. One of them was my mom.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

I introduced legislation to prohibit the use of AI-enabled humanoid robots in instructional roles in New York's schools following a proposed classroom humanoid robot. Use of these humanoid robots is absolutely unacceptable.

1. Last week, we revealed that the New York Post published a fake cover story claiming "thousands" of 9/11 families were trying to ban Mamdani from the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero. Instead of admitting its error, the Post quietly edited the article, adding even less credible info.

Since Max Miller is trending, now is a good time to introduce everyone to his Democratic opponent, Brian Poindexter.

Brian Poindexter For Congress@poindexterforcongress.com · 3d ago

No one credibly accused of holding a gun to his wife's head and breaking their two-year-old daughter's collarbone belongs in the halls of power. Help defeat Max Miller in November. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bpx82

Why do people think so many people believe gop lies about the border and trans people? Yes, GOP propaganda but the propaganda is assisted by democrats WHO REFUSE TO TALK AND CREATE NARRATIVES.

Detroit, I am in you!

Lockdown people are so funny. They pull out their hair at the fact that schools were closed for five minutes, and then you ask them if they actually want to educate poor and minority children and they’re like of course not

1/ REALLY insightful thread. (Jess's, not miee) Many of my students (particularly undergrads) lack basic computer skills, including folder structures, knowing that you need to download certain files to open them, how to navigate a spreadsheet etc. And it affects their ability to do schoolwork.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

senator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.