Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Jokes on you Iran, it's impossible to humiliate us if we have no sense of shame or awareness of current events.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't think the average American and certainly not the average MAGA even gets the extent to which "humiliate your foe" is a core ethos of the Iranian approach to conflict

Turns out war is options trading by other means

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d ago

Still wild to me we’re literally fighting a war entirely outside of trading hours

The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was buried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle.

This might sound elitist, but I don’t think the people liking the Peanuts slop posts should have rights

Barbara Longley Author (no DMs) 📎@blongley.bsky.social · 5d ago

let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d ago

and Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!

i'm sick of the liars and the bull shit you see on social media. taco bell is NOT the same 4 ingredients wrapped in different shapes. they actually innovate the menu a lot. but you won't see them say that on the fake fucking news

no one is doing it better than @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d ago

struck by this clip of Josh Johnson standup: he doesn't really develop the theme, no real punchlines. he just says what people have been complaining about re: The Odyssey and everyone laughs for *3 minutes* because a professional comedian *could not improve upon it* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcv...

A funeral was held on Friday for 28-year-old Sgt. Angel Rampersad, an Ozone Park resident who was killed in an Iranian attack on a military base in Jordan. Rampersad's mother, Carol Acevedo, shared her message for parents during the service.

this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

I hope they shouted this as they plunged the knife in

Floodybarts@floodybarts.bsky.social · 6d ago

Inflation’s down!

i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same

"there's an industry of fabricated sexual assault claims" is 100% indistinguishable from gay frogs 5g activating the vaccine chips shit

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

matt stoller fully embracing his role as sexual assault denialist

I don't worry at all about terminator stuff, I worry quite a lot about Augmented authoritarianism, and I worry the most of all about a gigantic metastasizing perpetually low-trust neomedieval pile of shit that AI greatly exacerbates and possibly locks in for good.

dame@dame.is · last wk.

real talk, how many of y’all are genuinely concerned about super intelligent AI ushering in the end of days?

The prosecution alleges she suffocated both of her 18-month-old children in a premeditated act, and a judge revoked her bond for fear of her having contact with her new child. RFK Jr.’s antivaxx propaganda group put her on air to push disinformation about vaccines days after her children’s death.

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: I dug into the court documents in the case of Andrea Shaw, the Idaho mother charged with killing her toddlers. Shaw insists they died following a set of vaccinations. I looked at how the anti-vaccine movement insinuated itself into this case and her life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"TikTok is just AI slop, teenagers dancing, and political misinformation" SKILL ISSUE. MY TikTok feed is 100% the guy structuring an elephant puppet around a toddler carrier and using it to invade Italy via Hannibal Barca's 218BC route through the Alps. vm.tiktok.com/ZN8JcuTJd/

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

AI event flyers are ruining my life cause I didn't know I had so many friends with bad taste

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

1537 marks the first known instance of the word ‘dogecoin,’ which appears in the margins of Lady Flocker’s Psalm, which was held in the special collections of the George H.W. Bush library prior to a devastating black mold infestation in 2012 that ruined approximately 40% of their printed materials.

We are ruled by airport books

Brendan Cantwell@cantb.bsky.social · 2w ago

I quit www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

So this is the Donbas playbook right here. It's an overt attack on our sovereignty.

The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Alberta will also need its own military,” Modry said, adding: “And would the U.S. be willing to work with Alberta in the development of an Alberta military? That’s on the table for discussion.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

I think the thing I resent most about gen AI- and this is a selfish thing to say but it’s true- is that it’s put an asterix on my sense of wonder. What I mean is that now when I see an amazing or beautiful image I can’t have that initial “wow!” reaction. I doubt. I have to verify. I hate it.

“the two big things biden got right - afghanistan and stimulus - are the two things that buried him” remains one of the most blackpilling things ever for me

This parking job remains the best thing I've ever done in my life, and the person I'm up against is very bad at parking, so I'm extremely confident.

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2w ago

in 2016 @spikefriedman.bsky.social and another college buddy of ours got in an argument about who's better at parallel parking. we decided to hold a contest judged by the rest of the group—but ten years hence, so they'd each have that time to practice. yesterday i got this google notification:

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

matthew always brings the receipts

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 2w ago

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

If you feel like people are being a little performative & over-the-top with "Hey Taco Bell good looking out," you could always stop & ask yourself.... "I wonder if there's a reason?" Maybe there's a wider trend in public health where good deeds just get punished, & we're trying to stop that!