Stop normalizing stuff, nothing is normal anymore

At least candy corn will be safe. New candy corn hasn’t been produced since 1997 there’s been enough to last this long.

DeFlock maintains a crowd-sourced map of alleged location of Flock cameras around the U.S. “Camera locations come from volunteers and the OpenStreetMap community, not a private company or government agency,” DeFlock says. | Martichoux and Gustafson thehill.com/policy/techn... #BlackskyNews

Flock camera map: How many are in your neighborhood?

Flock Safety, a surveillance equipment company, says it partners with more than 5,000 law enforcement agency partners across 6,000 communities. Is your city one of them?

thehill.com

no one called it 'cutting off family' when these same parents threw their gay kids out of the house. wild how that works.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d ago

lol come the fuck on

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Another day, another impeachable offense: The White House ordered federal agencies to block resources to Colorado because it had punished an election denier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.

Reuters@reuters.com · last wk.

Spain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages reut.rs/4zAAN4r

If Bluesky was really as dead as they say, could I do THIS?? (okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)

THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

logging into bluesky

We should really work together, hand and hand, to focus all of our community’s poorly-suppressed and totally ruthless bullying energy on the single demographic we all agree actually deserves it: Harry Potter Adults in the year of our lord 2026

WCK is responding in Colombia, where a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the Pacific coast. WCK teams and local partners are working to serve meals to people in need as quickly as possible. This situation is evolving—follow along for more. Read More: wck.org/news/colombi...

This site lets you scan barcodes to see if they’re part of Taylor Farms: www.taylordetector.com

Taylor Detector — Scan for Taylor Farms brands

Wondering if a product is made by Taylor Farms? Scan any barcode to instantly check brand ownership and affiliations. Free, no signup required.

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Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 2w ago

RECALL: Taylor Farms is pulling pre-packaged salsa and guacamole for contaminated jalapenos.

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THREAD. The New York Times just published a propaganda piece that portends dangerous trends in the coming months. Corporate media wants to help a group of sociopathic monied interests (called "moderates" here) to boost fascism by deceiving people about their true motives.

I was a historian of the atomic bomb decision from 1989-95 and coauthored an 800+ page book on the politics behind the decision. I’ve seen a lot of documentaries, but this is new to me. There were 78 people who survived underneath the explosion. This is how some of them survived. One is still alive.

Hiroshima Ground Zero: Eyewitness Accounts of 78 A-Bomb Survivors | NHK WORLD-JAPAN

When the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, 78 people who were within 500 meters of the hypocenter survived. We visualize what happened at ground zero that day based on rare recordings of eyewitnesses. B...

www3.nhk.or.jp

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

To be loved is to be changed.

“Oh hi there! I heard you needed some Wednesday walkies with a floofy goof. Reporting for duty!” 🧵

Folks, the US lost to Iran, decisively, and there is no way to un-lose now by any practical means. The IRI is the hegemon of the Gulf Arabs now. The Strait of Hormuz will not be free again in my lifetime. Freedom of navigation is dead as international norm. He ruined the world. Best to make do.

Goodnight

Alright fellow political junkies, here’s a gift link to the NYT live updates results page—happy refreshing!

Primary Elections Live Updates: In Michigan Senate Race, El-Sayed and Stevens Face Off (Gift Article)

Polls are closed in most of the state, where Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, is facing Representative Haley Stevens, a moderate, in the Democratic primary for Senate. Kansas, Missouri, Virginia and...

nytimes.com

Fuck AI slop, I want my sense of wonder back...

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

You can read “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury here: users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Do...

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 3w ago

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.

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better