I had a great time talking corvids with Caitlin Gibson for her new article in the Washington Post about befriending crows. Gift link.

Caitlin Gibson@caitjgibson.bsky.social · 12h ago

I wrote about my bird son (and human daughter) in the newspaper 🐦‍⬛ Gift link for fellow corvid admirers: wapo.st/4q7fkvp

* SPACEX PLANS TO ESTABLISH "CHEESE MINES" ON THE MOON TO DISRUPT GLOBAL DAIRY MARKET * SPACEX ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH ANDURIL TO PROTECT CHEESE MINES FROM BIKER MICE FROM MARS * ELON MUSK CALLS LACTOSE INTOLERANCE A "WOKE LIE", DONATES $1.5B TO PRO-LACTOSE SUPER PAC

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 12h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

A lovely review from the Library Journal in the US, excited for the State-side publication on September 1st! @pegasusbooks.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Valuable thread from Bruce

Bruce Wilson@brucewilson.bsky.social · 12h ago

We can could cook up various metaphors to describe what AI is doing to society. Try this on: what holds human societies & governments together are our shared beliefs on reality, as determined by the scientific method, our shared "facts", & our belief that such knowledge is even *possible*...

When I think of Homer, I think of the Homer statue at the University of Virginia—and the fact that for over 25 years, Ted Lendon has been making students (including me, once) learn how to march in a phalanx on the lawn. ⚔️

The entire continental US is covered by smoke plumes and there are spots in the northwest that are absurdly toxic, do NOT go outside there. For reference, "hazardous" starts at an AQI of 300. fire.airnow.gov

in re Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which, in the original Martian Chronicles, occurs on today's date), I didn't realize the very first published version of the story, in Collier's magazine, was set in April 1985. (the current edition of Martian Chronicles now sets it in 2057).

Pretty sure I will collapse in a pool of grateful tears if the Real Feel temp ever goes below 100° again when it's not raining... (Currently 108ish)

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

theguardian.com

Just remembered I’ve this on my calendar for the better part of a decade. Happy Dying Smart House day to all who celebrate.

Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

biggest tell to me that big tech *wants* this shit is that they're not beating the drum to oppose this shit like they did back in the day with SOPA

SnepShark 🔞@snepshark.bsky.social · 3d ago

It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

Once again, Morning Me was overly optimistic about the task-completion abilities of Night Me. To be fair, though, Night Me was overly optimistic about Morning Me's ability to get up a little earlier today and maybe should have gone to bed on time. Who will win this next round is the question now...

Women ages 40+ searching for jobs may find their decades of experience as a hindrance. Some remove dates and years of experience from their resume. It is another way women are considered 'never quite right'. www.thetimes.com/money/family...

‘I’m invisible now’: The high-earning women who can’t find work

Job hunters in their forties and fifties are finding that decades of experience in top roles can be a hindrance, not a help, in today’s job market

thetimes.com

This Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues in the history of Movies imho. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) Have a listen.

Folks I won’t tell you not to feel your feelings, but this is rage bait. He’s talking about expanding beyond politics into things like live sports.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

we had an entire ICU team that was dedicated to flipping patients onto their bellies to give them a last shot at oxygenating before their inevitable deaths, but ok

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

The majority of benefit fraud is perpetrated by the payers, not the recipients of the benefits. This is intentional cruelty and abuse against people without power and influence who already are vulnerable.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Everyone should know who Borlaug is. This is the legacy Musk and Trump destroyed.

KC@kcwinters.bsky.social · 3d ago

Tom Vilsack, former Secy of Agriculture & former gov of Iowa, profiles Dr. Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born scientist whose Green Revolution transformed global agriculture, saving more than a billion lives from famine in this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social& team. youtu.be/JF46O8BgTq0?...

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

For a while now my policy across all media has been I Don’t Want To Pay Money To Feel Bad and it’s been pretty great. Plenty of feeling bad for free/getting paid to feel bad for my job to be found elsewhere.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d ago

These days I google the end of every single movie before I watch it to see if it’s sad because I just can’t handle that shit anymore. Happy endings only the real world is sad enough.

Best part about dredging up the Covid restrictions convo again is being reminded I probably could've actually met up with (distanced) friends on occasion rather than mostly staying at home, alone. But easy to forget how scary it was pre-vax, especially early on. May have made it easier when I left 🤷🏻‍♀️

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

Probably going to end up dying via lightning electrocution because I finally give up on trying to observe the rule of "no showers during a thunderstorm" stuck living in a place where it can actually thunderstorm to one degree or another all day long...

My experiment to raise my ferritin in two months was not only a huge success, but massively life-changing. The current “normal” range for #ferritin is failing women and the chronically ill. We need to make changes to diagnostic testing now. #medsky #hematology #labmedicine #chronicillness #spoonie

How Raising My Iron Levels Allowed Me to Go Back to School at 37

The "normal" range for ferritin is failing women. Here is the exact absorption protocol that changed my life as a spoonie and new mom.

open.substack.com

New baby hippo born at Berlin Zoo. Named Brötchen. Which means "little bread roll." You're welcome

Wrote a brief for the @bookriot.bsky.social newsletter aboiut grief, and some of my favorite books (that aren't mine) on the topic.

The way we mourn in America is deeply broken

s. e. smith, author of All My Dead Cats and Other Losses, recommends four must-read books about grief and mourning.

bookriot.com

Making the meal from Bayeux Tapestry - Game hen for William the Conqueror

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)