What's wild about short stories is how long they can remain ingrained in your psyche -- I completely remember reading this as a teenager, alongside All Summer in a Day, which STILL scars me. Bradbury knew how to gut-punch, and wasted no time in doing so

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Had a 75 minute drive in a car with only terrestrial radio to flip through in Northern Wisconsin on Saturday and heard "Jessie's Girl" three times and "Summer of '69" twice

Film you've watched more than six times Hard mode: no Ernest movies, Wim Wenders, Ghoulies, Emmanuelle, or Krzysztof Kieślowski

TIL that Susan Ann Sulley & Joanne Catherall of Human League were high schoolers dancing in a club when lead singer Philip Oakey approached them to become backup singers even though they had no experience because he loved their style & look, so in other words the perfect 80's synth-pop origin story

Went to launder a new shirt and the tag just had a QR code which I presume directs you to the laundry instructions but I'd rather just ruin the shirt than reward whoever decided that was okay

I really appreciate that this show remembers that sometimes in TV you don’t want long arcs and complexity, you just want a fun main character who beats up rich assholes and solves a mystery and then the next season he moves on to new rich assholes and a new mystery

Collin 'Appears To Be A Typo' Woodard@collinwoodard.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨 new reacher trailer just dropped 🚨

It is somewhat ironic that reporters like Woodward and Bernstein becoming famous for doing journalism probably contributed to our current useless media environment by creating a generation of people who saw it as a path to fame and fortune while conveniently forgetting the doing-journalism part

Sidebar: I've been doing a 30 Rock rewatch and I'd forgotten how absolutely deranged and hilarious Jenna and Paul's relationship is, Will Forte was such perfect casting. Holding your own against full-throttle Jane Krakowski on that show is no mean feat

Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Final trailer for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has been released. In theaters August 28. #CoyoteVsAcme

I understand it from an ethical/bad precedent perspective but from a purely tactical one can someone explain why it's better for Beshear to confirm McConnell's demise and force a special election likely to go GOP versus leaving the Senate with one less Repub vote until after the general?

One of the reasons why the Daredevil TV show is one of my favorite Marvel adaptations. You don't have to know anything to enjoy it! It's a crime/mafia saga! My wife knew nothing about the comics and she's totally into it

Colin Spacetwinks@spacetwinks.bsky.social · 2w ago

it's sooo funny that the marvel movies eventually replicated the exact thing people disliked about the comics and preferred the movies for: overstuffed event crossovers that intimidate readers, demand you look at a whole bunch of other shit to know the story, and don't even tell a good story

This weekend such a good reminder that people like shared cultural experiences. We don't want personalized AI prompt slop movies with Marilyn Monroe in Overwatch or whatever, we want stories guided by a steady hand or exciting sporting events we can enjoy together and talk about afterwards

People are fairly calling out Beshear for not pushing harder to get an answer here, but also, didn't we used to have a media that liked getting scoops? There's no reporter out there willing to throw on some scrubs Fletch-style and go check?

RoseMarie@rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 3w ago

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) got two phone calls from different agencies suggesting that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had died, the New Republic relayed. This week, Beshear spoke with veteran newswoman Katie Couric, (cont.) www.msn.com/en-ca/news/o...?

I'm in Northern Wisconsin where the AQI has been between 250-600 for days and people are still out waterskiing on the lake and golfing. But hey, at least there are still air purifiers in stock everywhere, as opposed to LA when this happens

Matt Lombardo@mattlombardo.bsky.social · 3w ago

“It really doesn’t seem that bad here,” regarding the wildfire smoke, when a quick google search shows the current AQI is in the 200s and “unhealthy,” really illustrates the divide in this country and how many folks outright deny science, doesn’t it?

Gordon Bluey Tickets (works even better as an old timey nickname, Gordon "Bluey" Tickets)

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

30 Rock had entire episodes of Queen of Jordan, Tracy's wife's reality show, and they were some of the funniest episodes of the whole series

Dr. Amy, PsyD@dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · 3w ago

Give Yourself Filler Episodes The other day, I saw a reel of someone lamenting about how television shows these days have such short seasons, so everything has to be plot-heavy, advancing the full story....

Center Theatre Group website completely crashed thanks to being utterly overwhelmed by the Oh, Mary presale. And they say LA isn't a theater town

Aww, man, I was doing okay until I watched this. I had an exchange with Sam Neill on Twitter years ago where I commented how his life on his farm making wine looked pretty great and he responded "indeed it is." A man who understood the value of simplicity and kindness. RIP.

Garth-Gasu ガース in日本語@gasugasu1984.bsky.social · 3w ago

'do I have a dream' ..................... 'wouldn't that be nice' it sure would Sam

Do Democratic Senators know they can just say nothing

So the Platner campaign was just a bunch of bros who didn't do the homework confident they'd breeze through the class and get an A anyway because they thought they were smarter than the teacher

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 4w ago

Oh damn, this guy was gonna lose no matter what becasue his campaign had no idea what they were doing www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

Real litmus test whether “she said she needed her glute massaged” or “she told him not to come over and he did anyway” is the most important part of this story

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago

"she asked for it"

If the podcast dudebros get us Platners and the juiceless Schumer old guard gets us Mills-es, I’m all-in on the Mamdani/AOC wing we’re supposed to be so afraid of, thanks

Is there a version of the Spider-Man pointing meme with the Worst Person You Know guy's head on it?

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · last mo.

FIFA is corrupt; Trump is corrupt; the Balogun call was bullshit; the suspension of the call was bullshit; the appeal of the suspension is bullshit. Wow this is like the perfect storm for a discourse. You have all sorts of possible stances to take. Have fun everyone.

Getting older is mostly just going “we need a new _____ already? But we just got that one!” and then looking it up and realizing you bought it in like 2016

“With one lion already slain, the big game hunters of the NBA media circus turn their sights on their next target for constant and exhausting speculation...”

Why Nuggets should be concerned if Nikola Jokić does not sign contract extension this offseason

Jokić, eligible for a four-year extension, is reportedly considering bypassing the move this summer

cbssports.com

The answer to combatting the Far Right has ALWAYS been to take over the Dem party with strong progressive fighters vs running doomed third party campaigns. Taking over the party worked for the Fascists in the GOP and it can work for liberals too, which is why the centrist Dems hate it so much

This is such a niche Brewers post but Brandon Sproat looks like if Kenny Powers was played by Timothy Chalamet

Downsides of Giannis trade: 1) Team acquiring lots of assets almost always loses vs team getting superstar 2) Great, several middling draft picks for a GM who has routinely sucked at drafting 3) Jimmy Haslem rancid vibes now dominant Upsides: 1) I can get a Bucks jersey with WARE on it 2) It's over

Ready for the Brewers to leave Atlanta

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2mo ago

President Trump on Friday displayed the Boeing 747-8 that will serve as the new US presidential jet.

I don't really believe Mamdani is the reason for these championships but I do believe there are people who have a field of luck and positivity radiating out from their person that makes unlikely things happen and he's clearly one of them

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 2mo ago

Arsenal 🤝 Knicks Champions It's a Zohran Mamdani sports summer.