Had our work volunteer day at the animal shelter and met some very good cats. The shelter director said this is one of the worst kitten seasons they’ve ever had, so if you’re thinking about adopting, now’s a great time.

Trying to get my missing nose pad replaced at a chain spot on lunch and one of the staff is having a little argument with someone over her bifocals

Madison, WI. Today, 4August Police brought a wheel loader. Protesters clung to what they called "an autonomous zone," where a cop killed Corey Ruiz. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Laura Schulte, captured the scene at 7:44 am (local time). "Police have removed protestors." URL: x.com/SchulteLaura...

“but how could we pay for it?” idk why not start with some of the $2+ billion (not including settlements, unbudgeted overtime, equipment…) chicago pays for cops every single year? police sucks up so many resources and are never asked to justify their existence, unlike schools or public health.

A superficially similar picture has been published by Reuters. In both pictures, abandoned shoes can be read metonymically for missing bodies: an established visual trope, legible as an allegory of human suffering. But while the Reuters photographer documented a scene of real-life suffering … 2/

Licensable picture: Migrants cross into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta

A float and shoes belonging to migrants float in the sea at El Tarajal beach, amid mass crossings of migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into Spanish...

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“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”

BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs

Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation

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please think of the ohioans in your life today. it's really hard for us to have to hand it to michigan about something

AI brain is going to be one of those medical conditions kids make scary videos about in 20 years

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 15h ago

I have one answer.

Congrats to everyone who joined the class, and a massive “sucks to suck” to the education department and every school on the borrower defense list

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9h ago

Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 18h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

Okay I need to not read any more posts about the Michigan Senate race because the racism and Islamophobia are bumming me out about a progressive win

Okay I’m confused. Seeing a lot of leftists biting their nails over Michigan returns but multiple certified freaks acting like they just voted in sharia law statewide

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

It happened so quickly but I’m already at the point where I need to never see another AI-generated hamburger again

Anyone ever have luck going into a random optometrist’s office and asking if they’ll replace a lost nose pad? Alternately, is this something Walgreens might be able to sell me?

i can be trusted with the ability to send pictures to the group chat

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

I know intellectually what the cat does with his mouth all day but I’m really not into him licking me after I caught him eating the other cat’s barf this morning

Wow the MN governor’s race really is gonna be the Klob vs the MyPillow guy, huh?

Heather Randell@heatherrandell.bsky.social · yesterday

Minnesota primaries are one week from today. Here are the DFL-endorsed candidates who will be on my ballot—don’t forget to make a plan and go vote!!!

I can’t tell if I’ve lost my presentation mojo from disuse or if I’m just used to presenting on things I’ve known for 5-15 years and it’s harder to present on things I’ve known for a year or less

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

I’m going to celebrate making it to today without causing our own extinction

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

This really is a fantastic read. I’ve been trying to embrace this idea of community as I push myself to show up imperfectly

Molly Templeton@mollytempleton.com · 2d ago

this post is so good and necessary and everyone should read it

The 2025-2026 Non-NCAA National Championships (Part 2) presented by the Sickos Committee! Check out all the Non-NCAA Champions from the past year! Also if you know of more let us know below with links so we can make more graphics! More parts to come!

Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 2d ago

The 2025-2026 Non-NCAA National Championships (Part 1) presented by the Sickos Committee! Check out all the Non-NCAA Champions from the past year! Also if you know of more let us know below with links so we can make more graphics!

WE HAVE REAL CAMPS YOU CAN BE OUTRAGED ABOUT

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

I have to say my favorite thing about the Chicago OEMC app is getting a little push notification reminding me it’s the first Tuesday of the month and I’m going to hear sirens at 10 am

taught my sons to say "gondor calls for aid" when they want their brother to come help them with something

Every time I do my little weekly ICE watch shift, I think about how little it actually takes to be in the fight and how much it matters to keep showing up

retvrn

Lynn Becker@cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d ago

Rather astonishing to see such long-form journalism from a TV station, but CBS Chicago's Adam Harrington has a remarkable history of the rise and fall of Clybourn as a retail corridor, and of a 1915 factory's short life as the 1800 Clybourn mall. bit.ly/4hdfzCJ

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?