Say whatever you want about the Senate Majority PAC but they picked up the phone here and said "Abdul, do not worry about the white people, we are ON IT"

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h ago

A new @abdulelsayed.bsky.social ad out from Senate Majority PAC — stark contrast to the Mike Rogers fearmongering that has already started

If AI disappeared tomorrow, my workday would be easier. Absolutely wonderful! The only time I have used any AI product was when my office required me to. I hated it.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

As always, I will note that I don't ride any kind of bike myself, but I 100% support infrastructure that allows other folks to do so. I will admire them from the other side of whatever keeps them safe from me and my car.

Michael Herzing@mherz67.bsky.social · 2d ago

E-bikes give people affordable, clean transportation. If kids are getting hit by pickup trucks, the answer isn’t to treat e-bikes like the problem; it’s protected bike lanes, safer crossings, lower traffic speeds, and infrastructure that keeps everyone separated from multi-ton vehicles.

“You’re a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, how come you don’t like Palantir?” “You’re a huge fan of 1984, how come you don’t like the surveillance state?” “You’re a huge fan of Fahrenheit 451, how come you don’t like ritual book burnings?”

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

mmmm yes.... obtaining a new and cute little notebook will cure me of my mental illness and turn me into a shark eyed type a productivity megafucker... the last several cute new notebooks didn't, but this one will be different, surely.

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

In loving memory of Awdah Hathaleen Join IfNotNow DC, JVP DC Metro, and other organizations on Wednesday, August 5, 2026 at Kalorama Park, DC from 7-8:30 pm Right to education Justice for Umm Al-Khair Stop the demolitions!

I'm back on my bullshit* *Asking local assholes on FB if they're Russian bots or utter doorknobs. Y'know, for science.

Phone is dead, we need food to get us until the 4th, and shares have all but dried up. Anything helps but we need it now! Tysm! #mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2026 💕 💸 25/200

Emily (Briar/Autumn)@alpacawax.bsky.social · 4mo ago

autumnalpaca.carrd.co Ven:AlpacaWax #mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2026 #transcrowdfund Trans elder enby escaped homelessness, needs help recovering documents and living until am able to apply for services myself. Anything helps trans partner and I survive while we try helping ourselves! tysm!

Bernie Moreno was a car salesman with a record of wage theft and employment discrimination. Anthony Fauci was the director of NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and in 2008 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work fighting HIV/AIDS in that role.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

C: Make it quick, please, as we're already over time. M: [takes twice as long, ISTG] I do *not* need to be involved in this conversation, can I just lie and say I have another meeting and run away?

Sitting in driver's ed with Barak (the first class parents must stay) and the mom next to me has not stopped talking to her son for the last half hour. He can't have heard a single thing the instructor said.

this did numbers on tumblr and i feel it here a lot

As a boy, my grandparents wouldn't dream of buying a Ford b/c Henry Ford—who was long dead by then—had been a rabid antisemite. 40 years later, I'm amazed that so many people who deplore xenophobia remain willing to buy a Tesla.

Still looking <3 A bunch of states added to my list including Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Louisiana so please reach out! If your state isn't listed lmk and I will look into it :)

victoria@vashetc.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Looking to speak with any Black folks in New Mexico, Arizona, Missouri, Maryland, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Washington, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, or Colorado (whew) who have had their Medicaid or SNAP benefits abruptly canceled! (I’m writing about how AI systems are denying benefits)

Statement on yesterday’s horrific stabbing attack. JFREJ will continue to fight for policies that keep all New Yorkers safe. To learn more go to www.nycagainsthate.com

Citation needed. I mean they won't have one, because no survey or research has ever found this to be true. I hate phone calls with a passion and I still want humans not an AI chat bot.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

‘Customers prefer AI chatbots to humans’ says British Gas boss as 1,300 call centre staff axed

I’m sorry what

I definitely hate genAI/LLMs *almost* as much as they hate the equal protection clause. I'm not sure it's possible for me to hate anything as much as they hate the equal protection clause, but surely it must be close.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 2w ago

name something you hate as much as this administration hates the equal protection clause I'll start: cancer.

OMG, Barak did this in the doctor's office at age 2 or 3!

The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · 2w ago

Seven-year-old Mary Walker has scoured scientific journals but has yet to find any peer-reviewed evidence that kissing minor injuries makes them “all better”.

Every single fucking time I think they've gone as low as they can go...they find a new and exciting depth to sink to. ICE would have to improve 1000% to reach the level of merely disgusting and vile.

Teddy Wilson@reportbywilson.bsky.social · 2w ago

ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters

Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.

I was a NCSHPO contractor once upon a time. SHPOs do good and important work and there was a time when I aspired to work for the MD SHPO. I dreamed of working on State Archaeology Day and registering new sites and protecting MD's cultural resources.

Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist@hknorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Diminish the S/THPO roles; give all power to the federal agencies to allow public participation; fed agencies have all authority at every step of the process without any oversight or transparency. NCSHPO has an excellent peice on what we are facing ncshpo.org/2026/07/20/t... 2/N

I also did that work for around a decade, for the National Park Service, the Air National Guard, Historic Annapolis, and M-NCPPC. I knew my former field would be a target eventually, because archaeology is about history and culture and understanding other people and times. This is still painful :(

Rachel Grant/R.S. Grant@rachelgrant.bsky.social · 2w ago

This will be devastating for cultural and heritage preservation. Cultural Resources Management - the work I did for a decade and they type of work the vast majority of archaeologists in the US do, will be gutted.

My hubby works in supply chain for pharmaceuticals, so let me tell you, tracing product is complicated. if Taco Bell does it well enough to be able to quickly figure this out, then my hat's off to them. If you can eat there (there's not much I can eat), then please do so. Good for them.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

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!

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!

Fantastic writeup of an incredibly complex problem with the interdependence of the entire food system and how the people it screws hardest are the people who care most

JayIsPainting 🍁@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 3w ago

Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.

Her: This PDF won't publish! Me: Okay, lemme go look. Um...I don't see anything published by you. Her: Oh, I asked S to try. Me: I'll go look at pages she published. Um...there's nothing published by her either. Her: ::shrug:: I literally cannot.

My single Maryland county has around 295 voting precincts. And keep in mind that blue state governors won't allow their National Guard to be used to intimidate voters. So he'll have spread red state military and DHS to cover us as well. And regular citizens who show up will outnumber them.

Daniel Gilmore@gilmored85.bsky.social · 3w ago

It is fun watching ppl on this site continually vastly overestimate the number of military/DHS personnel there are and vastly underestimate how many voting precincts there are.