Dear Bluesky Elders, Tell us stories of the days when Bluesky was fun.
Kate Walburn
@katewalburn.bsky.social
I have come here to chew bubblegum and shitpost the fall of democracy... and I'm all out of bubblegum. Healthcare is a fundamental human right, not a privilege. Everything You Need To Vote: vote.org Hashtag Games Calendar: Bit.ly/HashtagGames
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
What’s most shocking about the whole Ed Sheeran thing is that firstly, there is an Ed sheeran tour, and secondly, people are willing to pay to go and see it.
CBS: The Army is requesting military planning aimed for Cuba. Is the US preparing for military action? STATE DEPT SPOX TOMMY PIGOTT: We're always going to guided by the national interest of the US. The president has a wide array of options (Not a no!)
Fuck SCOTUS. Any Democrat who doesn't pledge to reform the court isn't a serious candidate and should step aside. Period.
Supreme Court lets Trump administration use revamped federal voter eligibility database for now
The Supreme Court is allowing states to resume using a controversial federal tool to check voter eligibility before the November elections.
apnews.com
🎶 Oh, what a beautiful moron… 🎶 ALL NEW! “Dummy with the Wig on Top” 🌽🤠 #DummyWithTheWigOnTop #RandyRainbow
Dummy with the Wig On Top - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
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WIRED: “Census Bureau Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank — home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person, used for drawing congressional districts + allocating federal funding…” Nothing to see here, folks! 😕🤷🏼
The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
wired.com
NEW: Trump has proposed a $5 billion investment in a new fund to help Middle East countries rebuild energy infrastructure battered in the Iran war and reduce their reliance on the Strait of Hormuz. No money for rebuilding anything in America. Gift link. 👇 www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Exclusive | U.S. Proposes $5 Billion to Kickstart Fund to Rebuild Gulf Energy Sites
The proposal is under discussion with several Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia and U.A.E.
wsj.com
tired: inside of you are two wolves wired: inside of you are two brains
Ryan Boyd@ryanboyd.bsky.social · last wk.NEW BRAIN DROPPED
The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting. The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells.
The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco
ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.
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My wife and I may look like couch potatoes, but we move like a NASCAR pit crew whenever “SKIP INTRO” appears on the screen.
Take a look inside Muppets history at the University of Maryland's Jim Henson archives.
Inside University of Maryland's Jim Henson archives
News4’s Tommy McFly gets a look at Muppets history inside the University of Maryland’s Jim Henson archives.
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LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
Lol. He's wanted a "Trump TV" for a long time. And it should be completely ignored unless it's being laughed at and mocked.
Mediaite@mediaite.com · last wk.White House to Launch ‘TRUMP TV’ at 7PM Monday — 2 Days After Press Ban
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
wsj.com
Venezuelan oil is unusable sludge. The Greenland deal is NOT new. The Strait of Hormuz is CLOSED. Belarus says they've no potash to sell. China isn't buying soybeans they said they would. Saudi Arabia is under attack, Trump sitting it out. He is a distrusted deceitful disaster, despised globally.
"In May, the Gemini model accessed three separate private computer systems by guessing passwords and by twice using a repository of publicly listed passwords, Google said." This genie is not going back in the bottle.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.Are you even a frontier AI lab if you haven’t lost track of your AI agents during security testing and they hacked a bunch of websites? It’s like this is a new benchmark for showing investors how close you are to AGI.
HIM: what are you up to? ME: just laying in bed, decomposing HIM: you mean “decompressing?” ME: sure
