Ben Klaus
@looserooster.bsky.social
UX Designer. Photographer. https://www.klausphotos.com
If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
Great essay from @craigmod.com on risk, comparing NYC with Tokyo as two extremes. craigmod.com/roden/116/#j...
Oooohhh Summer, How Much Risk Is a Useful Amount of Risk? — Roden newsletter issue 116
Thinking about how Tokyo and NYC continue to diverge
craigmod.com
The unsung hero of public EV-charger buildout is [checks notes] Wal-Mart?
Walmart Leapfrogs EV Charging Competitors With Rapid Buildout
In a matter of months, the retailer has become a major player in the business of fueling electric cars.
bloomberg.com
Mitch McConnell is getting leg lengthening surgery. He plans to return to the Senate in October and 8 feet tall.
This is so important. We all need to get on this level!
This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.
Trump: "We made a purchase of 10% of Intel. We got it for the right price. And we made approximately $72 billion on that deal. So it was good. Do I get credit for that one? No. I get no credit!" (Tell me more about how Democrats are communists ... )
It's hilarious when pundits call DSA the "left's MAGA." As though a desire for universal healthcare is just the mirror-image version of ... explicit support for rape & sex trafficking.
You have to show picture ID to buy cocaine. Why shouldn't you have to show it to vote?
A beautiful metaphor for America here at Glacier National Park: a bunch of people standing under a melting glacier that could collapse onto them at any moment despite all the signs warning them.
😂🇺🇸 theonion.com/nation-wakes...
Nation Wakes Up From Strange Dream Where They Were Watching Soccer
WASHINGTON—Dazed while trying to piece together the series of bizarre yet deeply vivid images, the entire nation reportedly awoke Monday from a strange dream in which it had been watching soccer. “I w...
theonion.com
This is an indictment of our education system!! How do the employees not know the story of the Trojan horse?!?
Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 2w agoTwo people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
O Brother Where Art Thou We Thought You Was A Toad Treasure Do Not Seek The Treasure
ALT: O Brother Where Art Thou We Thought You Was A Toad Treasure Do Not Seek The Treasure
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Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 3w agoStop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
Solid life lesson from England and France tonight that you achieve so much more when you don't fear failure.
Now they're doing what we call "trace forward" in the food biz. "Now that we have a suspect [lettuce from X farm].....where ELSE did that lettuce go?" In other words, a whole lot of companies were probably serving that lettuce! Taco Bell just had a good tracking program, so they found it first!
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
The more I see this kind of stuff, the more angry all the "don't worry, Trump can't steal the midterms" posts make me. Elections in the US are very often close. You don't have to do a lot of fuckery around the margins to make a big difference.
Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 3w ago🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court revived USPS’ ability to move forward with Trump’s anti-mail voting rule. The rule would mandate new federal checks before mail ballots are sent to voters
If Odysseus had just given his sailors testosterone injections, it wouldn’t have taken him 10 years to get home.
So weird how many times spousal abuse is an indicator of even deeper problems that erupt later. If only we could take spousal abuse more seriously as a society. But of course we can't. Sorry, no. Why? Reasons.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3w agoMAINE— Killer ICE Agent’s ex: “He wanted me to lie about his character. I won’t. He abused me and my daughter… I’ve waited years to speak my truth, and now a man is dead.” They are hiring the worst of the worst.
@dkthomp.bsky.social could've used a spoiler warning on the latest episode about this new Odyssey story!
Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."
TIL The Blue Angels are part of the US military. I always thought they were sort of like the Harlem Globetrotters of military jets!
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3w agoCourtesy of Hegseth, everyone who goes to any beach in America with their families consents to sudden and unexpected low flyovers from military jets as part of your experience. Maybe the pilot will be getting testosterone injections. This is how your tax dollars are being spent.
