Take a moment and check out the soundtrack that this was set against. Just incredible. I would pay anything for a goth revenge movie backed by My Life with The Thrill Kult. open.spotify.com/album/3y7Mwv...

The Crow Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Compilation by Various Artists | Spotify

Various Artists · compilation · 1994 · 14 songs

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insomniac@phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 15h ago

I feel like I sometimes have to explain that in 1994 you could have a movie where the main character is so consumed by inner pain that he does himself up like a goth mime, climbs to the top of a warehouse, plays a sick guitar solo at sunset, and smashes the guitar with zero irony

Advocates for both cis and trans girls call foul on a new right-wing proposal that would force school-age female athletes to undergo invasive physical exams to "prove" their gender.

Washington ballot measure could force all girls to have genital inspections to play sports

Advocates for both cis and trans girls call foul on a new right-wing proposal that would force school-age female athletes to undergo invasive physical exams to "prove" their gender.

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The US military tested a GPS jammer and murdered a bunch of civilians on a civilian plane. futurism.com/science-ener...

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

futurism.com

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Critics called the proposal a form of voter suppression.

Texas county judge shuts down meeting as voting fight erupts

Critics called the proposal a form of voter suppression.

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more people need to view "AI" as a dismantling of society by a handful of super wealthy pedophiles

San Antonio Express-News@expressnews.com · 19h ago

KRIS 6 employees are slated to be laid off amid Scripps' plan to boost core profits by shifting toward an AI-powered newsroom model.

KRIS 6 employees are slated to be laid off amid Scripps' plan to boost core profits by shifting toward an AI-powered newsroom model.

'Gut-wrenching': major layoffs hit Texas newsroom as Scripps embraces AI model

KRIS 6 employees are slated to be laid off amid Scripps' plan to boost core profits by shifting toward an AI-powered newsroom model.

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Another instance of trans people being right and transphobes being wrong.

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 19h ago

wow really

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

I know this isn't going to come across, like, at all, because it's writers I'm talking to, but for Mithras' sake, don't catastrophize! Don't spend all your time worrying about whether or not someone is going to like your work, whether editors are likely to buy it, whether it "sounds like AI"

A dark day for human rights.

The genocidal anti trans agenda isn't limited to red states (as many of us have been trying to tell you)

Hi-fi Zo-fi 🏳️‍⚧️@hifizofi.bsky.social · 4w ago

So, here in Washington state transphobic billionaires are trying to pass IL26-001 and Il26-638. The No Hate in WA State campaign just sent me an email saying in a poll most voters were undecided on the votes...32% voting yes for the former, 43% said to vote yes for the latter. This is extremely bad.

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

I haaaate that this is happening but I have a ticket from the end of June I need to pay before the Aug 25th deadline or they'll put a warrant out for my arrest. The sooner the better so I can walk free. Over speeding... SELLING VINTAGE PKMN CARDS ITT!!!! Check below!!!! All on ko-fi.com/ovaettr/shop

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

Clam chowder that makes high pitched beeping sounds

davemakes🔶@mixolumia.com · 5d ago

obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law

People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.

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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d ago

Musk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?

NYT: Musk preparing 9 figure spending campaign in support of Republicans in "swing" states like Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas.

There is no non-complicit enjoyment of Harry Potter, in 2026. Every time you stream a Harry Potter movie or buy one of her books, etc., you are helping her campaign to end trans lives, full stop.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 5d ago

Truly appallingly spineless.

Whether older people are biking at all is a very clear marker of whether our streets are designed well.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6d ago

We've had a number of older pedestrians and cyclists killed by drivers recently in Massachusetts, and something I've noticed is how those deaths are treated even more dismissively than usual because of ageism and ableism. People of *all* ages and abilities deserve safe mobility.

I do think posting "I love the sandwiches made by the guy who wants to kill Alice" on the internet is slightly in poor taste

Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️@alice.averlong.com · 6d ago

there's plenty of restaurants in this town, but the owner of the sandwich shop downtown hates me, says he's gonna kill me, and has a sign up on the wall saying that 5 cents out of every sandwich order will go towards buying bullets to shoot me with.

Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 6d ago

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

This one got me in the first half lol

Caelan Conrad@caelan.bsky.social · 5d ago

Finally someone is talking about this.

I'm not saying it was hard before, but they just made misinformation, their whole platform now. Are we only to believe physical negatives as photographic proof now? The potential misery they are unleashing is diabolical.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d ago

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

Amnesty had a Palestine protest same day as Falmouth Trans Pride; when both marches passed each other, we spontaneously chanted "Free! Free! Palestine!" & they chanted "Trans rights are human rights!" in solidarity with each other. This is very disappointing. And I wonder how their volunteers feel.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community

While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.

newrepublic.com

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

thepinknews.com