one aggressive hardball thing I would like to see happen is blue states coordinating to have deliberately contradictory and difficult to navigate regulatory environments for hostile regime-aligned businesses such as X. what red states did with abortion pre dobbs.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

If someone says "this photo's from 2023!" and they don't provide a link: Bullshit. If someone provides a link to a 2023 "source," but the "source" doesn't include the photo: Bullshit. If someone posts an "original" photo showing the subjects poolside, but it's still interior lighting: Bullshit.

He never deleted it.

@gavingsmith.bsky.social Just stayed up all night finishing Alien: Cult. I’ve been barreling through the Titan novels this year (hooked by the RPG). Gotta say, Cult is a blast, and not just another pastiche. 11 books in, this is right up there with Alien: Into Charybdis as far as I’m concerned.

The fact that the Hudson River is currently capable of sustaining aquatic life is due in no small part to this organization, as a note.

Reuters@reuters.com · last mo.

Footage shot from aboard a ship owned by the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater environmental organization showed the U.S. Coast Guard and New York Police Department vessels directing the tall ship away from New York Harbor's Sail4th 250 parade on July 4. reut.rs/4gX4oxR

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Peter Clines@peterclines.com · 2mo ago

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

From the second we started TrueRef, I instantly started finding our POC refs turned white and redistributed in the wild.

I have faith in our modern crop of American conspiracy theorists to somehow, SOMEHOW, concoct an explanation for how that tarp means that Trump's name was, magically, never actually removed

I am more than mildly shocked to declare that MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE kinda rules. Doesn’t quite reach the soaring heights of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES for me but it goes on the same shelf.

Alan Hale, Astronomer Who Co-Discovered Comet Hale-Bopp, Dies at 67 https://www.ufofeed.com/258615/alan-hale-astronomer-who-co-discovered-comet-hale-bopp-dies-at-67/ Alan Hale, the American astronomer who co-discovered one of the most spectacular and widely observed comets in human history and …

Alan Hale, Astronomer Who Co-Discovered Comet Hale-Bopp, Dies at 67 - UFO FEED

Alan Hale, the American astronomer who co-discovered one of the most spectacular and widely observed comets in human history and spent the rest of his career

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eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

0n my knees, pleading, tears in my eyes, I ask: what is this monstrosity? Why is the brain in the big toe, why are there four fingers on what I guess is a foot? Why are all the internal organs below the solar plexus inside of this HAND FOOT? Yes, AI is certainly the future. One without humans.

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

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Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

Defense News@defensenews-poster.bsky.social · 3mo ago

US Navy could run out of money by July, top officer warns - https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-navy/2026/05/13/us-navy-could-run-out-of-money-by-july-top-officer-warns/

Now Chad Vader is really back! Thanks @captimes.com for the article!

Twenty years later, Madison’s viral sensation Chad Vader strikes back

In 2006, two Madison comedians made a video series of the banal trials of Darth Vader’s younger brother, Chad Vader. Two decades later, it’s coming back.

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Slightly increase a band. They’re Probably Giants

C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Slightly increase a band. All-American Maybes

Watching #StrangerThings Tales From ‘85 and, 3 eps in, all of the D&D/RPG references have been *accurate*. What’s going on here!?!?

I would distort the box office by bankrolling a string of weird mid-budget genre films.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3mo ago

Take a break from the discourse and quote this with a business you would want to start if you could afford to lose money on it

A shot of the Virginia Theatre after the conclusion of the last screening on the last night of the very last festival. (The movie was the American president, and Rob Reiner was originally gonna be here.) What an astounding trip it's been. I was blessed to have been able to participate.

We waited 3 years for this moment. 🥹 Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is OUT NOW on Steam! 🎉 Play now: 👉 s.team/a/3119540 Please repost & help us spread the word 🙏

A lot of the worst people on the planet are seeing the end of their road on the horizon tonight, so that's nice.

Replace “Family Member’s Birthday” with “Time I Want to Post About a Game I Played or Movie I Saw” and you get what killed my social media posting habits in a nutshell.

The Onion@theonion.com · 4mo ago

Every Family Member's Birthday Now Marred By Some Tragedy https://theonion.com/every-family-members-birthday-now-marred-by-some-traged-1819574798/

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD #BehindtheMask bloody-disgusting.com/movie/394534...

Long-Awaited Sequel ‘Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon’ Is Officially On the Way

It’s been 20 years since Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon introduced audiences to an unconventional new slasher icon, and fans have clamored for a sequel since. After multiple false starts, it’s now official: the long-awaited sequel is finally moving forward. Behind the Mask director Scott Glosserman and writer David J. Stieve have […]

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I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

Just got caught up with season 2 of #1670Netflix, the "workplace comedy" set in 17th Century Poland. Others have aptly described it as a melding of The Office and Blackadder. Have no idea how they managed to up the emotional stakes so much in this deeply silly framework. Justice for Regina!

Happy ”Sigh and Roll Your Eyes at Every Screengrabbed ’Headline’” Day to those who celebrate.

This is an interesting read but I have to recommend the blog post version. Following a reply chain 75 posts long should not reveal my preference for that format.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4mo ago

We're a diverse species, cognitively speaking - different ways of thinking come more easily to some than others. I'm good at lots of things, but I have *terrible* spatial sense. I can't parallel park or catch a ball. I get lost so easily it's almost comical (it's a running joke in my family). 1/