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Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 23h ago

"The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it was chosen, but once it was finally upon us, it passed like all days." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...

Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set

The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.

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David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · yesterday

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off

In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.

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John Bull@garius.bsky.social · yesterday

Given we are approaching that time of the year, my big piece from years back on the 1983 Cold War Crisis (and the role of Stanislav Petrov in it) over onto authory as a free-to-read. Over the years, the myth of what happened has been simplified. The reality was scarier. Because: Ronald Reagan.

The Day the World Didn’t End

At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved the world. The morning of the 26th September 1983 had started ...

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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.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

Uncanny X-Men cover by David Marquez
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d ago

POSITED: the primary task of any Odyssey adaptation is not to get things right, but to kick ass flaminghydra.com/issue-618/#f...

That, I'd argue, is the experience to replicate in any adaptation of Homer's Odyssey-not so much the particulars of Poseidon's grudge or Penelope's dream, but the mood. Any adaptation of The Odyssey lives or dies by its ability to kick ass. It can develop or dismiss any parts of the source material as it sees fit in order to kick the maximum possible amount of ass. It can take liberties, and indeed it will have to. It can commit the sins of sentimentality or bad dialogue, sins at which a scholar of the poem might cringe hard enough to herniate a disc, as long as it kicks ass while doing so. Wilson watched Christopher Nolan's Odyssey and saw the missing wheels on the Trojan horse; I saw a dozen men packed into that big horse for days, pissing and shitting all over each other, puking at the stench, gasping in a panic for air. I was right there in that horse with them. I did not know how we'd survive. It kicked ass. The whole film did.
Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 6d ago

TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on Oh Brother Where Art Thou?'s thrillingly loose, modern and musical adaptation of The Odyssey. "It can develop or dismiss any parts of the source material as it sees fit in order to kick the maximum possible amount of ass." flaminghydra.com/issue-618/#f...

Grace@eriopsis.bsky.social · 5d ago

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. If some lady handed me a free sword I'd still take it though.

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Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 5d ago

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 6d ago

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · last wk.

On this day in 1993, the Polka Dot Door aired its final episode. The show ran for 22 seasons and 383 episodes. The show featured Polkaroo, Humpty, Dumpty, Marigold and Bear. It was named a Masterwork by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. 📸 TV Ontario

Polkaroo from *Polka Dot Door* stands in a colourful children’s playroom set, surrounded by toys, blocks, stuffed animals, instruments and bright polka-dot decorations. The character is holding a badminton shuttlecock, with a racket hanging from the costume, creating a playful and nostalgic scene from the Canadian children’s television series.
Accented Cinema@accentedcinema.bsky.social · 2w ago

Good vibes protocols: Fatal Termination is a 1990 Hong Kong movie that features perhaps the single most shocking stunt sequence ever. Okay, maybe "good vibes" is the wrong term. Anyway, this sequence directly inspired a similar stunt in The 2026 action film The Furious.

The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 2w ago

In 2021, Premier Doug Ford was personally presented with 20 recommendations to improve emergency management in northern Ontario. The auditor general later offered another 30. Little progress was made before the deadliest wildfire season on record. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-igno...

First Nations gave Doug Ford a wildfire plan. Ontario ignored it | The Narwhal

Indigenous leaders and the auditor general gave Ontario several emergency management recommendations over the years. Little progress was made

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