I’m not holding my breath. Full text in alt text.

I know Bluesky is anti-carceral but that’s okay, I don’t need him in prison. Just throw him into the fire he started.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 13h ago

Man charged with arson in Spokane, Washington, told police he planned wildfire for weeks and waited for ideal weather

Actual Tom Holland is, of course, from the UK.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 15h ago

I cannot imagine a more disgusting appropriation of Spider-Man on both moral and aesthetic grounds. This is fascist AI-slop, the thirstiest cultural ambulance-chasing they could commit, and I hate them even more for it.

This one echoes an observation I’ve been making since the 2024 election. One factor to which I ascribe the resurrection of Trump is that he was there to be quoted. Democrats need a Leader of the Opposition because modern media limits itself to talking about things where they can quote someone.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 2d ago

"There's a great deal of legitimate criticism to be made about Democrats' overall performance since the beginning of the second Trump term, as well as for key figures such as Schumer or Jeffries. But one of the basic problems is structural: American parties simply do not have leaders."

Good decision. Pick a fight with the only thing 1/9 of the Supreme Court cares about.

Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Trump administration is trying to gut one of the strongest laws protecting tribal sacred sites, burial grounds, and ancestral lands. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act has worked since 1966. Now a handpicked Council voted to rewrite it..in one week. Here's what at stake.👇

I remain low-watt convinced that COVID came from thawing tundra in Siberia. I am persuadable I’m wrong though.

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2d ago

Genuine answer: 1️⃣ the published, peer-reviewed research evidence points to a zoonotic origin (as with previous viral epidemics & pandemics) 2️⃣ there are ongoing harms from promoting the lab leak hypothesis given the lack of peer-reviewed research to support it (see journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...)

I was talking last night with some Democratic Party admin folks. They were amused when I kept talking about what President Pritzker would do with his Cabinet in 2029. They were unfamiliar with him as the Great Khan of the Plains but they enjoyed it.

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d ago

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

A particularly Bluesky thing is that we say we should accept people for living their truth. Unless of course it’s certain specific types of truth. Those people can get fucked. I’m happy for Mr Hill that he likes himself now.

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 4d ago

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

As is her custom, Ms Milan has said the correct things. Thread.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 3d ago

This is such a lazy piece. It's like "this is a price control, and price controls always fail." First, it's not a price control. It's a government subsidy. Second, price controls don't "always" backfire. They prevent gouging in emergencies and help regulate monopolies.

In Austin for work. Saw one of these fucking things. Nice edgelord font, losers.

Dr Flowers identifies, but doesn’t call out (or maybe even agree with) what I think COVID showed about Americans: that their understanding of freedoms and rights is that of a child. They could do nothing for the benefit of any other person, because they don’t understand that they live in a society.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 5d ago

I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.

My read, after a couple of decades in consumer goods: consumers want new stuff, so it doesn’t matter as much to them if their old stuff degrades more quickly than it used to.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 5d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

Boo.

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 5d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

This is funny to me because I have amazing weather karma for London. I used to go 4x/year when I was at Pokémon (we had an office and I had a team). I have had it rain exactly twice. Once it lasted an hour, the other it was a shower. I used to forget to take a coat.

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 4d ago

"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."

This shit makes me extra angry. My beloved Moose had an autoimmune disease and we couldn’t get her antivirals because nobody knew what to use against COVID. A year later, she would have lived. This majestic beast only got 6 years.

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 5d ago

The problem with What Should We Have Done About COVID discourse is that it’s all Monday morning quarterbacking with the much better information we have now compared to then, and is about what we should have done now that we know instead of how we should have acted with imperfect information then

Here at the airport on a cruise ship Sunday morning. Fortunately I was at Costco last week so I’m used to everyone having their first day on earth. Walking down a passage and then stopping for no reason? LET’S DO THAT! Preferably standing 6 wide please.

I remember a lot of people yelling at @kathryntewson.bsky.social about this poor little smol bean. Lapsu$ are very bad people.

Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker who was given an indefinite sentence in 2023 because he wouldn't stop hacking is now out of hospital and awaiting retrial

Arion Kurtaj, a member of the Lapsus$ hacking group, was behind a 2022 hack of Rockstar that revealed GTA 6 to the world more than a year before it was announced.

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I’ve mentioned that Ron Moore gave a speech at GDC about interpreting IPs that was foundational for me in making Detective Pikachu. Here’s him saying the same things about Starbuck, to actual Starbuck!

#thesackhoffshowclips #thesackhoffshow

TikTok video by the sackhoff show clips

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Good. If there’s one thing each of Sony and Microsoft has demonstrated recently with their employment practices, it’s that they don’t want the studio sizes that are necessary to make games for the most advanced hardware.

IGN@ign.com · 6d ago

The $500 console is dead. Even after the RAM crisis ends, the era of affordable gaming hardware is gone for good. https://bit.ly/3ROAvpc

Having done a spin at the center of the alt-right hate tornado, I feel for her here. Even if you think they’re fuckasauruses and you’re correct, it’s still no fun.

I have discovered the stupidest person on Bluesky dot app, who thinks the fact that someone pays for them to have Internet access means that the Internet is not publicly accessible. Kids these days, who never had to configure their own ISP to access the Internet…

Paripetia@paripetia.bsky.social · 6d ago

It is a privately owned site on an internet my parents paid for and I maintain, but cannot access without paying a private gatekeeper

Of course she’s correct. That’s why they advertise them as gambling.

Times Union@timesunion.com · last wk.

New York Attorney General Letitia James' office has brought a civil lawsuit against the prediction market Kalshi, claiming its sports contracts are nothing more than illegal gambling.

Correction: Bars are giving up on young people and catering to young people instead.

Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · last wk.

at least someone remembers us www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ge...

I am very concerned that Chinese machine factory TikTok may be lying to us all. It appears that Tina does not have truck engines. Even if you find her, you cannot buy from her. Thankfully I’m sure Chinese trampoline family fun center manufacturing TikTok can be trusted.

Somehow not mentioned: her sister (?) Leather Tuscadero. I went through a phase where I code named projects with law firms for billing purposes, and used characters from Happy Days as the names. I always enjoyed two alleged adults having to talk to each other about “Project Leather Tuscadero”.

Will McKinley@willmckinley.bsky.social · last wk.

Henry Winkler and Roz Kelly #BOTD on HAPPY DAYS in 1976. Pinky Tuscadero remains a generational icon for '70s kids — despite the fact that she only appeared on the Sept 21 and Sept 28 episodes. Two nights burned into our memories forever. #TVSky #ClassicTV

He’s world-historically unpopular. So what? He’s never running again (I mean, he might try, but I think even this Supreme Court will be unable to ignore the plain words on the page). So he has no more elections to lose. He doesn’t care about the history books because he can’t read.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...

Kathryn is doing a good explainer on the Grok litigation against MN's nudification statute. I pulled out this one because it raises an interesting point. SCOTUS has been traditionally hostile to this thing of taking a legislative criterion from one statutory context and using it elsewhere.

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · last wk.

The complaint then goes on to point out that the conduct described as "nudificiation" in the law incorporates the definition of "intimate parts" from MN's criminal sexual conduct code. IOW, these are the parts of your body that it's a crime for someone else to touch without consent.

The first hire I made at Pokémon, in large part she got the job because she had been a distance swimmer in college. I saw it as: she was willing to stare at the bottom of a pool for an hour, she'll have no problem with the most boring parts of being a lawyer. I see a lot of that in these kids.

Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’

Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside the youth track boom that’s turning kids and teens into speed machines.

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I am often told I'm a very bad person because I don't have a slavish dedication to the US understanding of freedom of speech, which is a child's concept of complete irresponsibility. I absolutely think that AI companies can be held responsible for the output of their software. #GiftLink

Can a Chatbot Be Held Responsible for a Death?

Cases of fatal violence and crimes involving AI users continue to emerge. While chatbot companies say they have safeguards in place, a spate of lawsuits argue the protections are insufficient.

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