President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/81eEaAG

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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funny how that works

Google is bad. On purpose.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5h ago

When Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... 20/

and they wonder why the Wicker trailer is popular. if you don't wanna be replaced by furniture, gentlemen, start bringing more to the table than furniture.

Nikolaj Bill@nikolajbill.bsky.social · 15h ago

I remember a coworker in her late twenties saying this on how dating was so difficult. I was not surprised by her first two complaints: general anger issues and having few outside hobbies. I WAS surprised at her mention of how many men apparently don’t wash their hair or butts.

its not like there isn’t serious amounts of money interested in 1. defeating republicans 2. gaining a degree of control over policy levees and buddie what you want is a Newspaper pls invest in a newspaper I need you to buy a newspaper

Just a girl thinking about how many failing newspapers could be bought with the amount of money Stevens set on fire

Why Is the Internet Still Like Deadwood? New TEDx talk just dropped. By me :)

Why is the Internet still like Deadwood? | Drew Curtis | TEDxSoards Road

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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A couple of weeks ago I rode to Newburyport MA and saw this COVID memorial and realized this is the only one I have ever seen anywhere. And the fact that I nearly broke down seeing it is something I still think about.

Hey Seattle don’t forget to vote by tomorrow evening, the low turnout for August elections means your vote is going to be extra potent, like you’ve been gooning for democracy

Lefty Cheat Sheet@electioncheatsheet.org · 2d ago

Your boss and your landlord have voted.

Wow. This is getting pretty sketchy. The Alaska Division of elections used outdated data to justify removing a bunch of citizens from the voter roles and given the opportunity to fix it they were just, like, nope.

Anchorage Daily News@adn.com · 2d ago

The Division of Elections will not immediately restore over 3,000 voters to the state rolls, after it moved them to “inactive” status based on outdated information regarding their citizenship status. www.adn.com/politics/202...

lol YUP. One of the funniest 48 hours on Bluesky. They would try to bait all the big accounts, get the nuclear block, get added to a bunch of moderation lists, and then just be standing there like 

Ryan's Confused Stare (The Office)

ALT: Ryan's Confused Stare (The Office)

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas

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

Good morning, Alaska! In-person voting is now open at a handful of locations for the Aug. 18 statewide primary. Locations are posted online: www.elections.alaska.gov/avo/?e_id=26...

The Senate Commerce Committee has a markup on KOSA this Wednesday, August 5. After you've phoned your Senators (https://www.badinternetbills.com/ makes it easy), contact them on Bluesky!

Tell Senators with Bluesky accounts what you think about KOSA and other bad internet bills

Contacting to legislators social networks is a useful complement to contacting them through official channels.

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Important crossover event

“It also detected an “unintended consequence” of the ban: the proportion of parents who didn’t know their child had used social media increased by 10%.” Well who could have possibly seen that happening.

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

So… they’re working

The Senate is important, but state legislatures are just as big and, as the post notes, these races are a lot more effective use of your dollar.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3d ago

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

There were 8 players spanning 5 decades and multiple levels of skill at our neighborhood basketball court this evening. One of them was trans. Nobody cared. We all had fun. This is how it should be.

If you’re paying attention to the right wing media hit jobs going on around Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, this is a good 🧵 and @ericacbarnett.bsky.social is a good follow - check out her other recent posts about ousted Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes. 1/

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

What a batshit first sentence to an editorial excoriating the mayor of Seattle for removing a controversial police chief appointed by her predecessor, something our mayors have routinely done. The conspiracy brain at play: "How dare this scheming woman try to distract us from her incompetence!"

if you don't want to be characterized as a Villain, maybe don't do Villain shit (this subskeet is directed at a number of humans, organizations, and nations simultaneously)

I loved this take from Texts From Superheroes

this is my new favorite diagram

As ever, the most important fact about a given technology isn't "what it does," but "who it does it *for*" and "who it does it *to*." 77/

Circa 1830s lithographs of Sitka vegetation from a French printing on the 1826-29 journey of the Russian corvette Seniavin, which visited Sitka during the course of its globe-crossing voyage. Via Library of Congress. #alaskahistory #alaska

“…the airline said in a statement[:] ‘For the foreseeable future, the guest will not be permitted to travel on our flights.’” … “She said she wants to contact an attorney and intends to continue preaching on planes.” www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/...

Preflight sermon gets plane preacher kicked off Alaska Airlines flight

Florida evangelist Whitney Lynn shared clips of her removal on social media and racked up millions of views.

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if we're rebooting everything ever, I'd like to pitch the colorful, over-the-top big budget high concept Commedia Dell'Arte Cinematic Universe. the world is ready.