Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Greg Muller (Dr Math)
@morilac.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Roller derby ref with Twister City Roller Derby. (he/him)
Someone just posted this picture I didn’t know was taken of our sweaty group hug at the end of Wakey’s Pride scrim and it sums up what I love about this sport.
It probably feels good as hell to yell "ENOUGH!" and transition into the final phase of your fight.
More than anything, this illustrates a way that math can fail to capture real value. Anyone who has taken a probability course can compute "expected value" and smile smugly (some people make a career out of it), but that assumes that all dollars are equally valuable.
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w agoIf you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick? £50,000: 73% 50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
these Young Male Christians should form some sort of Association, then they could offer services beyond gymnasiums and shower facilities, such as short-term lodging at which it might be fun to stay
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2w agofoolproof 👍
Is there a Patreon tier in which we, personally, get to put Noel in The Device?
Dreamboat Branny 🦢@bransonreese.bsky.social · 2w ago
I slept on it and I'm only more frustrated by the movie, so I'm gonna be a hater into the void. No shade to anyone who liked it, though!
Greg Muller (Dr Math)@morilac.bsky.social · 3w agoOverall, I can't say that I liked Nolan's The Odyssey BUT I did laugh out loud at how many times the screenwriter showed off that he had read the wikipedia article about the Bronze Age Collapse. I'm gonna be laughing for days at Matt Damon solemnly saying "Our Age of Bronze is collapsing"
Overall, I can't say that I liked Nolan's The Odyssey BUT I did laugh out loud at how many times the screenwriter showed off that he had read the wikipedia article about the Bronze Age Collapse. I'm gonna be laughing for days at Matt Damon solemnly saying "Our Age of Bronze is collapsing"
If we were part of a sci-fi style galaxy-spanning civilization, this would be one of the things Earth would be most famous for. Every solar eclipse, we'd be swarmed by obnoxious tourists for the galactic core with no respect for local customs. Get your selfie and stop slumming it in the Orion Spur!
frank: print witch@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 4w agoeclipses are bonkers though. Absolutely wild odds that, from our perspective, the moon is the same size as the sun. blows my mind every time I think of it
Absolutely losing it that there's a serious neurological condition called "Todd's syndrome". Imagine going to the doctor, who looks gravely at your test results, and then looks up and says "I'm afraid you've got that thing that Todd had"
When you line up to jam and you see these skaters on the other team...you're gonna die on that track.
James Wallis@jameswallis.bsky.social · last mo.Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped
This is still active!
TchaiKILLsky@tchai-sky.bsky.social · 3mo agoHey all, doing a little fundraiser for my NA West/Champs travel this year. If you are interested in an angry swan sticker or just like my announcing (and mail) - forms.gle/EYiShXKccJb6... #DerbySky #NAWest #WFTDA Your donation supports me 🎙️ and the USPS 🦅
Ok, this is very funny. AI generated a marketing campaign for Starbucks which was themed around a brutal anti-democracy massacre in the 80s, and no human stopped it. One of the slogans directly referenced the death of a student by torture! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea
A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestorm
theguardian.com
Thinking about this again for No Particular Reason, though it is never far from my thoughts.
crop 'em top 'em robot@annachronous.bsky.social · last yr."i just want to show up & skate" not me, i joined roller derby because i love cold calling warehouse owners & filling out tax forms
(texting my friend Evil Larry) me: what's up dude Larry: matters most vile
Google docs rolled out new logos. Today of all days! Normally, I'd need a day of recovery to process and heal after something like this, but it's the first day of NA South Playoffs, so I guess I'm just gonna have to roll with it.
There is truly no email more threatening than the "It's almost time for your flight to [blank]!" email that airlines send out. Fuckin' chill! I have a dozen more on-fire things to worry about before I even START worry about that flight.
@tchai-sky.bsky.social on the mic for the first game of North American playoffs!!!
Unfortunately, you simply have to stan this level of commitment to the con. He only got caught because he kept awarding it to other people every year after he gave it to himself. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize
Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky
theguardian.com
Beleive and seperate are twins in my torment
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 3mo agoWhat word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.
now THIS game has the deduction juice. all you sickos who love linguistics, language, translation, and logic puzzles, play this right now: jamwitch.itch.io/trevosa
The Archives of Trevosa by jamwitch
Translate terms to untangle the history of a strange kingdom
jamwitch.itch.io
I like how the US has backed into a form of socialized media every April, where we pay a portion of our taxes to TurboTax every year, which they use to fund virtually all media via non-stop advertising blitzes.
Few things get me as amped as watching a pack of elephants protect a baby elephant. I too would fight a lion for the baby.
The electric semi-final between the Bogata Bone Breakers and Metropolitan RD (Santiago) is 70-54 at intermission right now! You can watch here: wftda.sporfie.com/event/-Op4w_...
Bogota Bone Breakers vs Metropolitan Roller Derby (WFTDA Roller Derby)
Watch live, replay or highlights of this event on Sporfie.
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Sometimes when I tune everything out and just skate, everything clicks into place and I feel like "ohh, this is what my body is meant to do". Making it do chores, or socializing, or emails, or threat assessment...of course that never works right. Body is machine that turns music into skating.
Inexplicably dense princess sitting on three mattresses ahead
Tim Dickinson@timdickinson.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat does this National Park signage icon mean? Wrong answers only
Prediction markets are such a vivid synecdoche for the illness of late capitalism. Not only do they lay bare the rampant gambling addictions at the heart of the tech and finance worlds, but the insider trading is so obvious that anyone participating must be assuming there's a greater fool to scam.
Is there a worse word in the English language than "eighth"? Spoken, it ends in a strangled tetragraph, as if garroted midword. Typed, it alternates hands on off-home keystrokes, practically guaranteeing a typo.