"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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Just finished reading a book called 'The Barefaced Messiah' about L. Ron Hubbard. Conclusion: Scientology was created by a lunatic and conman. It's unbelievable people still faithfully follow that crazy creep's teachings. Pap for the feeble-minded, including Tom Cruise.

Wasn’t it not too long ago that some people were COMPLAINING about writers giving writing tips online on basic stuff like punctuation and paragraph cuts? And now there’s complaints about gatekeeping?? Make it make sense!

Antony Johnston@antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 3d ago

Seeing complaints online that authors 'gatekeep' information…! Absolute nonsense. There is no industry or craft in the world which is so comprehensively written about, studied, and discussed as fiction writing, and every author I know welcomes new writers who are serious about giving it a go.

Elon Musk: 2024: $288 million. 2025: "I'm done with politics." 2026: $90 million and climbing. Billionaires don't retire from buying elections. They just pace themselves.

genuinely cannot wait for all these people to be gone from public life forever

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

They're gonna use this argument for data centers on concentration camps next.

I prefer an e-reader these days, but I appreciate the sentiment this carries.

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Water is often a scarce commodity in Nairobi's largest slum. The only source may be a local cartel — and with that comes the risk of sexual threats and attacks.

Some women who can't afford water are often pressured to provide sex for it

Water is often a scarce commodity in Nairobi's largest slum. The only source may be a local cartel — and with that comes the risk of sexual threats and attacks.

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All of what @moryan.bsky.social says here and also the additional thought that in the current exceptionally shitty climate there's the wager that not only do some people just not care about awful behavior, some people (mostly dudes) valorize it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Opinion | Jared Leto and Hollywood’s Open Secrets (Gift Article)

Whispers can fester for years before anyone faces consequences. And the tactics celebrities use to escape scandal have completely changed.

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#poet #art #winter 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚜 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏. 𝙴𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙳𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝙰𝚛𝚝 𝚋𝚢 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚘 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚎

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was buried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle.

Roughly 1 in 3 victims to financial scams fall victim to it a second time within one year. On a completely unrelated note, it looks like Tesla and SpaceX will merge at some point so you can get back in if you missed out on SpaceX in 2026

This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

I W H E N T H E L I G H T R E M A I N S I Where the Light Remains, a quiet horizon caught between fading warmth and endless silence. Sometimes even the smallest light is enough to guide us home. — The Asylum Art — #art #conceptualart #modernart #abstractexpressionist #sea #light #cptsd

Everything needing hyperdetail is destroying everything. Cameras are worse. Game consoles are worse. Tv is worse. Cinema is worse. Everything is worse

Japanese engineers have developed a new method to recover 90% of lithium from used electric vehicle batteries by swapping standard sodium hydroxide for recovered lithium hydroxide in the chemical refining process. In America, we are making it impossible to afford learning the skills to do this.

Apple workers could have gotten $4 MILLION each over 8 years. Instead, Apple spent $650 BILLION on stock buybacks. Shareholders got rich. Workers got nothing. This isn't investment. It's theft. Tax the rich.

Republican Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young GOP talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism. “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots,” one senior GOP congressional staffer said.

GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem

Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young Republican talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism.

politico.com

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams. (Published Jan. 2025)

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

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My #review of Archangel's Eternity (Guild Hunter #18) by Nalini Singh is live! Last book in one of my favorite series, and it was a DELIGHT. Will be sad to see these characters go, but at least they all got the endings they deserved. #bookreview #paranormalromance #booksky 💙📚 Book review here:

Kam Reads and Recs

Title: Archangel's Eternity (Guild Hunter #18) Author: Nalini Singh Genre/s: paranormal romance Content/Trigger Warning/s: pregnancy and birth; possibility of madness Synopsis (from author's website):...

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My #review of An Oresteia, trans. Anne Carson, is now live! Really enjoyed reading these plays, but also thought that Carson's translation flattened any tonal and stylistic differences between the playwrights. Great to read post-Nolan's Odyssey. #bookreview #classics #booksky 💙📚 Full review here:

Kam Reads and Recs

Title: An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aishkylos, Elektra by Sophokles, and Orestes by Euripedes Author/s: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Orestes, trans. Anne Carson Genre/s: classics, plays, mythology and...

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My #review of The Truth of Carcosa by Jacob Rollinson is live! Imagining fascism as a cosmic horror isn't really new, but the way it's executed in this novel is pretty well done. #bookreview #horror #booksky 💙📚 Full review here:

Kam Reads and Recs

Title: The Truth of Carcosa Author: Jacob Rollinson Genre/s: horror Content/Trigger Warning/s: the rise of a fascist state; every single Christofascist Far Right and technocapitalist ideal, value, and...

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Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. If some lady handed me a free sword I'd still take it though.

Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

TREKKIES 🖖🏽 See you soon @ STLV 🥹

This is my painting named Sunburn. #art #drawing #artwork #globalwarming #heat #surrealart

Yes lockdown was really tough for kids. Lots of those kids are teenagers now so maybe as a thank you our establishments could stop deliberately making even more things worse for them due to a weird systemic hatred of our own youth