my uncle died a couple years ago and my mom gave me hundreds of his unopened vintage action figures and toys and this might be the most tedious inheritance i can imagine

I am in basically as good an insurance situation as exists in America - I work in big tech and my wife has a union engineering job at an agency whose major selling point is "our benefits are absolutely insane" our dental insurance response to major orthodontic work was "lol fuck off"

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 16h ago

Put this shit up in neon lights. One of the dentists at my dentist actually had a forty minute conversation with me in the lobby about the history of dental insurance, the politics of dentistry, and dental care which has led to our current fucked situation.

A hearty f*** you to Adobe for the platform-wide licensing system that makes it impossible for me to use both my university license to Acrobat Pro and my personal license to their Creative Suite at the same time. I remember when buying a software package meant you could use it, no bullshit.

A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 4d ago

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

Then Toad poured a glass of water over his head.

huh wonder why people are rebelling against this technology oh well guess we’ll never know

'South Korean authorities are deploying drones to issue heat warnings to farmers while residents are taking shelter in airports, as the country battles an unprecedented heatwave.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drone warnings, sheltering in airports: South Korea battles historic heatwave

The president has called the extreme heat a "national disaster" and ordered agencies to mobilise all resources.

bbc.co.uk

Angry. Angry at the needless losses to science, to America, to the world. Angry at the profound, arrogant ignorance. Angry at the individual pain and losses. Angry at the absolute enormity of the human cost, not just in future losses, but immediate deaths and suffering.

Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 3d ago

US scientists: Going into fall 26, how are you thinking about things? Following Fall 24 events and a tumultuous spring 25, I remember a convo with a colleague in which we agreed we just needed to wait things out until fall 25 and we'd have some clarity about the landscape (eg for funding). /1

I have seen this going by today but have been busy, thankfully, which means by the time I looked deeper the additional context of "2022" had been surfaced. They've shoved this shit down our throats so hard it feels like we've been fighting forever, but most folks knew NOTHING about LLMs in 2022

Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY@wtalabi.com · 3d ago

Eugenia has already said here everything I was going to say about this. One thing I will add is that the lasting thing I gained following this project was a deep hatred for AI slop and LLMs as anyone who has heard me speak on ths subject since knows. I saw how the sausage was made and rejected it.

The major city in America to have the last socialist mayor before Mamdani and NYC? Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Haymarket was here in Chicago. Eugene Debs was from Terra Haute, Indiana. He helped organize the Pullman Strike, in Chicago. Minnesota’s Dem Party is actually a Farmer-Labor party. Etc.

I want El-Sayed to win for a lot of reasons but id be lying if i said getting the “sure it works in New York and California but it can’t work in middle America” people to shut the fuck up wasn’t high on my list.

When the classroom got these joints you couldn’t tell us shit, Limewire was going UP buddy

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 3d ago

it's a disservice to the public to run an old photo of him with this article when there's zero actual current photographic evidence of the events described in the story

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 3d ago

Mitch McConnell released from rehab center to recover at home

NEWS: Knox County is Tennessee's 3rd largest county, and it voted for Trump by 20%. It has a GOP-run school board known for banning books & approving controversial charter schools. Democrats last night flipped control of the school board in Knox County.

For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer it must contain an old, crumbly-ass rubber band

darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3d ago

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? a mysterious key that does not unlock any thing

Here's a tool to check whether your newspaper subscription data just got sold to Palantir. Some Gannett cities include Phoenix, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Nashville, Memphis, Oklahoma City, Louisville, Savannah, El Paso, Reno, and Asheville www.usatodayco.com/local-brands...

Local Brands Map - USA TODAY Co.

Daily publications test Select a state from the dropdown or click on a state below to view Gannett’s daily publications. Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georg...

usatodayco.com

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d ago

🙃

Rep. Andy Ogles loses his Republican primary in Tennessee Ogles lost despite having Trump’s endorsement, NBC News projects. Former state Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher will be the GOP nominee.

Rep. Andy Ogles loses his Republican primary in Tennessee

Ogles lost despite having President Donald Trump’s endorsement, NBC News projects. Former state Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher will be the GOP nominee.

nbcnews.com

With early voting and 67 of 102 Election Day precincts reporting, Democrats remain on track to flip control of the Knox County, TN (pop. 511k) School Board.

Ahhh, Oregon

Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”.

Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents - and a guillotine - pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility.

yahoo.com

Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time

Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me · 4d ago

Really? Because I keep seeing them in charge of everything from car dealerships to the White House, and they seem to doing just fine despite their obvious handicaps.

Call in now if you’ve also had your ex-wife kill your horse due to a marital dispute.

this is what men look like in this shoe color

For the 1 millionth time as someone who works at a university, this was never a thing. Men like Rufo are just mad because women and people of color were finally beginning to be treated as equals in academia, which meant that morons like him couldn't lord their mediocrity over them anymore...

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · last mo.

Here Klein half agrees with Rufo's sweeping claims, for which he provides no evidence, that "the institutions" were "anti-white."/6

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

Nine unelected people can void anything you vote for. The man running them answers to nobody. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.