(overheard in discord) If you are Sephiroth posting about a primary then I want to know when the last time you cleaned your toilet was

“every class where the final was something you studied for with flashcards” 😤

Jillian@nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · yesterday

since they seem to think AI mostly replaces memorization and sorting based activities why are they not going on and on about how cooked STEM researchers are. every class where the final was something you studied for with flashcards. how is it always history & literature & creative arts

"There's a great deal of legitimate criticism to be made about Democrats' overall performance since the beginning of the second Trump term, as well as for key figures such as Schumer or Jeffries. But one of the basic problems is structural: American parties simply do not have leaders."

Editor's Notes: Our Headless Opposition Party System

The opposition to Trump is diverse, diffuse, decentralized, and lacking in leadership.

liberalcurrents.com

hey guys maybe chill out about drawing conclusions about a state with notoriously bouncy county-by-county results before even 40% of the votes are in

Today everyone — EVERYONE — should take a moment and read Ray Bradbury's four-page short story from 1950.

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24h ago

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

WHAT

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Man this is such a big deal.

Larry@ahbseen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Pope Leo is the first Black pope, first American pope and now the first pope to acknowledge a familial connection to the Atlantic Slave Trade. He's also almost certainly the first to have had ancestors who likely came to the Americas via the Middle Passage.

For millennia migration was just a standard thing for humans.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · yesterday

“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”

It should be a law that if you’re breaking down a roasted chicken for multiple people to eat, you get ALL of the say of what happens to the wings.

For those who’ve been looking for ways to help Spokane, a thread of donation opportunities👇

City of Spokane@spokanecity.org · 3d ago

As the Spokane community continues to face the devastating impacts of local wildfires, you can help your neighbors. We will continue to update this thread with more opportunities to help!

Girls I am happy that I’m doing this and happy that we’ve finally gotten to our new apartment AND we’re almost done unloading all of our stuff BUT… A bitch is not a warm weather girly I am melting like my queen Elphaba.

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them)@melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 3d ago

Okay big news for me: we’re on the last leg of a summer “tour” that started in Chicago and is ending in New Orleans, where we’re moving. I’m starting a PhD program there in a few weeks.

WHAT DID THEY DO TO HER

Roberto Baldwin@strngwys.bsky.social · 3d ago

Important crossover event

Okay big news for me: we’re on the last leg of a summer “tour” that started in Chicago and is ending in New Orleans, where we’re moving. I’m starting a PhD program there in a few weeks.

An experiment in my last hours with the in-laws: quesadillas hamburguesa

There’s somethinh like a 90% chance that this is a scam, and maybe a 95% chance that there’s something shady about the DDS doing the extractions.

Dael Norwood@dael.bsky.social · 4d ago

Because I’m a masochist I looked into this a bit…and it’s a chain of dentistry operations that all offer no-waiting IV sedation. They’re all owned & operated by the same Florida LLC, none of them take insurance – but they do offer same-day financing through a SF-based fintech partner.

personally, I'd rather live next to trans people and immigrants than nazis

ok, since an actual reporter (and a great one at that) is reporting that homes have burned. Yeah... a lot, by my analysis/experience/gut. It'll be amazing if no one is dead. The National Weather Service Spokane nailed it today with the PDS enhancement... #SpokaneFire

Mike Satz@mikesatz.bsky.social · 4d ago

This sreengrab from @alexdugganreports.bsky.social Instagram is wild. She’s firing off as much info as she can as quickly as she can. Our local reporters are amazing.

Holy shit this is Cinema

fraser ramon@fraserramon.bsky.social · 4d ago

You know nothing about cheesecake

August as an academic

HANG UP YOUR HAMMER, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE THE THOUGHTS THAT WOULD STEAL OUR JOY. AND YOU WILL WIN.

苦手な魚を見たときのアザラシ

So The Long Walk was phenomenal and I’ll never need to watch it again.

I've started incorporating reading poetry into my wake up routine, but I'm woefully underread on the stuff. Ya'll got some recommendations for poetry collections (single author or multiple authors) that I should tuck into? I'm very much open to any and everything; just hit me with your favorites.

Incredible intersection of two of my interests

will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 5d ago

incredible discovery here: the 1762 original of the ha ha ha yes sicko cartoon courtesy of thomas waters new book “Magic”

A group of Waxwings is called an earful​

It is genuinely marvelous that im at my limit of being with my in-laws (lovelt people who have a radically different lifestyle from me) just before we’re set to leave.

Please give this page a follow! It's a public history project by debbielinsleyliles.bsky.social mapping the migration of enslaved people into TX in the 19th century. & if you know anything about the Civil War, you know that's a lot of enslaved people especially from 1860-65, as slavery spread west 🗃️

enslavedtexas.bsky.social@enslavedtexas.bsky.social · last wk.

Working hard creating an interactive map of Texas that visualizes the forced migration of enslaved people into Texas from 1800 to 1865. Check us out at enslavedtexas.org We are about halfway in this initial stage, so visit us often for updates! debbie@enslavedtexas.org

Whelp we’re taking her to an emergency vet. Timed extra poorly; my MIL just got out of the hospital and were leaving our little Florida Vacay on Sunday to complete our Summer of Relocation. I just hope she’s not too scared. She’s so skittish already, and she probably broke one of her front leggies.

Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them)@melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 7d ago

My inlaw’s little bishon fell off their bed because she was too excited about her sister’s manicure and is clearly some kind of injured so prayers up for my sister in arms Leia aka lil chicken.

This is very much not what I want to hear right now.

Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.

Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56

My inlaw’s little bishon fell off their bed because she was too excited about her sister’s manicure and is clearly some kind of injured so prayers up for my sister in arms Leia aka lil chicken.