Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
Kip Williams sort of
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Left foot. Right foot. If not there yet, repeat. (my algorithmic motto)
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
I've been scanning plates from a reprint of a 19th century German encyclopedia, and I randomly chose a scan as my desktop and had it center the image and went about my business. Ever since, I've been obsessing about this cherub and his broker, who is also a cherub. And they have competition there.
BOOKER: Let me make this easy. Be a man. Yes or no -- did Joe Biden win the 2020 election? CANDEUB: ... the Congress certifie-- BOOKER: There you go. Stop! Can you please tell me yes or no, did President Biden win the 2020 election? CANDEUB: The Congress certified-- B: You are showing cowardice.
2️⃣/3️⃣ These community archives preserve histories that might otherwise be lost. Hosted by Dave Hansen & Chris Freeland, the final #VanishingCulture episode looks back at lessons from six conversations about preserving culture. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE: archive.org/details/vani...
Dem AG Raul Torrez doing more for Epstein victims than any US senator voting to confirm Todd Blanche
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 3h agoBREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Lost in all the election news — Israel just imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's family home in the West Bank right before his sister’s grad party. The soldiers were shown his US passport and apparently didn’t care, disregarding it. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom.
Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks
Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
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Flock trying to ruin Michigan's economy.
404 Media@404media.co · 4h agoNEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.
I just want to see an indicator on there when somebody likes their own posts. This is something the world needs to know.
SCHIFF: When Trump ran against Hillary Clinton, who won? CANDEUB: Um. Trump was certified as winner S: Did he in fact win? C: He was certified S: Do you have some doubt about if he won? C: I have no doubt he was certified S: When did it become so difficult to answer such a simple question?
Oleksiy was an incredible person. RIP #Ukraine
Mark MacKinnon@markmackinnon.bsky.social · 6h agoMore sad news from Ukraine today. Oleksiy Yukov, the leader of the Black Tulips group that bravely retrieved the bodies of soldiers - Ukrainians and Russians alike - so that their families could give them a proper burial, has died. Spending a day with Yukov was both inspiring and terrifying. RIP.
“The newly linked states — Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina — join Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and West Virginia,” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Cyclosporiasis outbreak has expanded to six more states
The CDC’s planned update marks a significant expansion in the outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms.
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A place built to protect civilians became a target of Russia’s war A Russian drone reportedly struck a shelter with people inside in Odesa, showing how Moscow’s attacks continued reaching the very spaces meant to keep residents safe 🎥 Odesa Info
Or, as @radiofreetom.bsky.social put it: "the president has encased himself in the hard amber of irrationality that inevitably surrounds authoritarian leaders. He has become detached from reality—and that detachment is extremely dangerous." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous
The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 21h agoWith his ridiculous claim about nonexistent vandalism at the Reflecting Pool, Trump is either trying to gaslight us or, more likely, he’s gaslighted himself: he’s told himself so many lies that he has lost all sense of what is actually happening. presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
Yes, Camelot actually existed. Just read any history book that was written by me.
On a... different note, it’s also the 12th birthday of the Profanity Embroidery Group
Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · last yr.So, happy 11th birthday, the Profanity Embroidery Group
This answer encapsulates Trumpism perfectly.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoQ: What message does it send if Trump fires a US attorney because she determined there was not sufficient evidence to charge four people with a crime? BLANCHE: If he fires a US attorney, it turns out he's allowed to do that because he's the president
It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.
Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 22h agoI need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.
A Democrat unexpectedly won a vote today. Here's why that doesn't matter!
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
In the Old days, Kings had a Memento Mori guy to remind them of their mortality and humanity. Today, anyone who can afford A.I. has an automatic pretend-guy who will tell them that they're a genius and they'll live forever, or until they tell you to do yourself in.
Youth sports were doomed when they got sucked into the hypercompetitive college admissions game. Soccer practice used to be a way to kill time after school until you could leave work to pick your kid up; now it's another thing your kid must excel at or they aren't getting into Yale.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d agothe obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.
New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...
Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses
Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.
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If governments turned off the spigot of money to Musk, he’d be done.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that what Musk is doing with SpaceX is orders of magnitude worse than Michael Gove's Stonehenge tunnel boomdoggle. It's worse than the Taliban blowing up the Bamiyan Buddhas.
Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 8h agoOkay, so speaking as a professional archaeologist whose job it is to make decisions on this stuff, the moon should be given protections equivalent to, if not exceeding World Heritage status. What Musk is doing is an act of cultural and environmental vandalism and he should fucking swing for it.
If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdayMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.