Really good piece. "You used to be able to be poor in a city and still live in it." A city dies when its working people cannot afford living there.

Eoghan Sweeney@eoghan.eurosky.social · 3d ago

Superb piece on the death of Dublin, killed by greed. It's not immigrants who wielded the blade; it's our own, developers and property owners obsessed with squeezing every penny of profit out of the city, on the backs of stressed, overworked people they've priced out of living in it #spéirġorm

Like wasps and hornets, the Tiresome Literature Boy may be irritating on a one-on-one level, but they are crucial parts of the ecosystem.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

they were very annoying and were also already a species in decline by my college years - but I mean, I never thought the Tiresome Literature Boy would ever really go *extinct*, and now we’re facing a truly catastrophic population decline.

Briefly forgot the Spanish word for "spider" mixed up with the word for "orange", and created a monstrosity.

This is Loki, our Maine Coon and the cat of our hearts, and he went missing today. We have no idea how he got out, but he’s an elder, indoor cat, the whole region’s in an intense heat wave, and we’re really scared. I doubt I have any followers here in Martinez, CA, but if so, help? It’s SO hot

This is specifically for Scotland/Wales/England, but the script cards would be very useful in certain USA locations and/or certain individuals as well. Having a planned way to respond in bathroom-access confrontations can really help de-escalate things.

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 3d ago

Please share with all women (yes it affects cis women too) and trans + people. goodweeplace.com

I love when I swallow a bite of taco slightly incorrectly, and my body decides what it needs is to close my throat almost entirely. Body, there is nothing in my throat anymore, I'm not choking, but you ARE preventing me from breathing right now.

It is GOOD and the science is EXCELLENT and you should absolutely read it.

Seanan McGuire@seananmcguire.bsky.social · 4d ago

INTO THE DROWNING DEEP by Mira Grant is only $2 in US eBook format today! That's less than half the cost of a cup of decent coffee for hours and hours of meticulous marine biology research leading you to the horrors of the deep!

If anyone else is insane in the same way as me, and needs this information, here's a list of the dragons that are, or should be, in the HotD show. (Dragons in approx birth order, because that's just how I roll.)

Not only are there submarines in the Great Lakes, they are participating in diplomatic negotiations with Nessie.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

We entered this war under the childish delusion that we were going to bomb everyone and no one was going to bomb us back. At Tehran, Isfahan, Bandar Abbas and a half-hundred other places we have put our naive theory into operation. We have sowed the wind and now we are going to reap the whirlwind

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2w ago

The war has taken a personal toll on the president and some of his senior advisers. Some top aides have been advised by intelligence agencies that the Iranians are seeking to kill them and have been told to stop taking car services, according to people familiar with the matter.-WSJ

I'm glad it's being reported, since a surprising number of people don't seem to know. I will admit, however, that my first response was an angrily sarcastic "NO, REALLY????" Universal Health Care now, please!

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E

Quote from THE BURN LINE: "Well, on the bright side, maybe an awful monster would come and murder her before she had a chance to go to the meeting." Big mood, extremely relatable.

The Burn Line by @jonnysims.bsky.social has just arrived!! Plans for the weekend: sorted

My coworker is trying to convince me he doesn't have bifocals. "They're transitional focus lenses! This part is for regular, and this part is for reading!" Yes, so they're bifocals. "No, see, they're *transitional*"

Quick Tip: "Don't speak ill of the dead" means dont demean, or spread lies, or speak malicious untruth about dead people, who cant defend themselves Accurately describing someone's life and legacy is not "speaking ill" It's the truth - which is self justifying in that it is the truth!

The More You Know - Iconic Star Animation

ALT: The More You Know - Iconic Star Animation

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Don't buy Rockstar games. Ever again.

Winter@kernowshark.bsky.social · last mo.

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

I personally need to be better about this when I'm stuck in the scrolling dopamine-slot-machine glance/favorite/repost cycle.

Death Wishbone@amagire.bsky.social · last mo.

we can't escape the fake animal videos and general increasing unreality of Posts Online, while preserving the scroll-glance-fave-retweet model of social media feeds. I'm sorry, but you will have to think about the things you see for at least 5 seconds

You ever have a craft planned, and you're going through it, and it doesn't seem *quite* right, but you keep on, and then you hold up the partially finished piece, and there is NO WAY it's going to work, and now you have to start over again?

If you don't physically own it, you don't own it at all.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · last mo.

PlayStation is deleting over 500 purchased movies from its customers' accounts 🎞️ • Includes films like 'Terminator 2', 'Rambo', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Hot Fuzz', and 'Moonlight' • No mention of refunds • Comes after a licensing deal ended

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

happy juneteenth, as well

Death Wishbone@amagire.bsky.social · 3y ago

Black lives matter. No human being is illegal. Abolish the police. Happy Pride.🧱

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

Scott McDonough@sjmcdonough.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I really want some knock offs of these medieval socks from Egypt (12th century CE?) at the GWU Textile Museum. collections-gwu.zetcom.net/en/collectio...

Defeat transphobes with the power of silly little hobbies

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2mo ago

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

"Be the sand in the gears" is very inspirational, especially for folks like me who are not able to do larger, more visible acts of rebellion and resistance.

Tim Triche, Jr.🔰@timtriche.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Be the sand in the gears for the next four years” The original counterterrorism manual for the US Army emphasized sabotage. These guys make it easier by sloppily sabotaging their own plans

It’s the first of June, the beginning of Pride month. Stonewall was a riot. Trans rights are human rights. No one gets to erase us from history. Fight back against book bans. Fuck anybody who thinks we don’t deserve love or bodily autonomy. They don’t get to steal our joy.

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

We could solve or reverse this, as well as general light pollution, by reducing outdoor lights at night. DUAL SOLUTIONS. THE EFFICIENCY.

Science Magazine@science.org · 2mo ago

A new study finds that the glow of outdoor lights might be enough to delay when the Culex pipiens mosquito, the primary carrier of West Nile virus in the United States, goes dormant during the winter. Learn more: https://scim.ag/49TDcvA

THIS IS A CAT CHECKPOINT: relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. This is Earl (left) and Stewie (right). They are having Comfy Nap Time.

Emory@nuclearalchemy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. This is Finch. She had just come back out after pulling an entire plastic box of paint and calligraphy supplies over on her head.