Tradwives are a social media trend, not a real-life one. There is no evidence that young women are eager to drop careers and get back to the kitchen. Even in Utah, couples have fewer children and wait longer to have kids because the cost of living is so high. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/o...

Opinion | The Tradwife Illusion Meets the Anti-Trump Reality (Gift Article)

Nara Smith’s illusion meets the anti-Trump reality.

nytimes.com

Drugs. Just do them

ANARCHISTS WILL NEVER FORGIVE THE GOP FOR REPOPULARIZING COMMUNISM.

"When debating the bill to ban guaranteed income before it had a chance to be tested, some of my colleagues claimed people would stop working. Not only do the UpLift pilot results prove them wrong, but the results show an unfortunately harsh reality: getting and keeping a good job costs money."

Lawmakers banned a hand up for Iowa’s families

When debating the bill to ban guaranteed income, some of my colleagues claimed people would stop working. Not only do the UpLift pilot results prove them wrong, but the results

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Someone asked why should they subscribe and read things like this if all they are going to do is upset them, and the answer is you should know these stories and be upset by them lest someday you get beaten by an angry mob and everyone ignores your broken body in fear of being upset.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 12h ago

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Being ill is expensive. As in it's literally financially expensive because you have to buy specific things with real money every month and it's a drain.

"When they go low, we don't go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out" - Abdul El-Sayed

👀

Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 6h ago

"COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you" A study of 1,154 patients found COVID-19 can reactivate dormant viruses, including herpesviruses, even with a healthy immune system. This may help explain why some people develop severe COVID-19 or Long COVID. Source: archive.md/DDJy1

Richard III (1995)

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5h ago

Name your fav modernization of a public domain story.

Hey, that's me www.25newsnow.com/video/2026/0...

Bloomington holds community conversation on vacant housing at Miller Park splash zone

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#FlatLincoln

Excuse me, but Science is green, History is yellow, and Math is red The rest is correct.

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d ago

What color, what subject? Math is yellow. English is blue. Science is red. History is green. Languages are purple.

Companies are all in on selling folks the idea that it’s in your best interest for your products to “know you” as if you are getting a dedicated servant but what you are really getting is a spy.

GM to launch its own in-vehicle AI system later this year

General Motors plans to launch a proprietary in-vehicle artificial intelligence system that's better tailored for its customers later this year.

cnbc.com

The stock market may soon discover how much global investment in Treasuries ensured cheap funding and contributed to US exceptionalism (not the only factor obviously but cheap money sure helps grease the wheels)

do i want to install an app downloadeded from the internet? no. i only install software sent to me by floppy disks.

the stress is so much

I'm not ok, but whatever.

anyways godzilla rolling up on one of those knee scooters

and also imma need the tax people to tell me if he can set this up so (1) tesla shareholders receive nonvoting SpaceX stock - which is likely a given (2) it's tax free to Tesla shareholders (reverse morris trust)? is that possible?

Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hoo boy. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

This is unhealthy

A Bay Area Pastor Made an A.I. Twin to Talk About God at Any Time (Gift Article)

To meet the growing needs of his congregation, Justin Lester created an A.I. duplicate of himself. Every day he sees more people using it.

nytimes.com

star trek should be a public good like reading rainbow or the muppets

On Bsky, Kremlin block you.

When a third of job listings are fake, it's easy to understand why labor force participation is low. www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

It seems these days everyone wants to sell out, and my avant garde position is just kind of dinosaur time.

Finish my damn book.

Bootstraps, a docuseries@bootstrapstv.bsky.social · last wk.

Explain what you would do with universal basic income (UBI) in four words.

"Warsh is not interested in communicating with the general public about policy decisions or how current economic conditions are guiding those decisions. He did clarify that this FOMC’s inflation target is exactly two percent"

Sara@ms-theman.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the Fed and Warsh's weird press conference. It wasn't the weirdest thing I heard last week, I saved that for One Last Thing ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/srrfunfa...

every time a video is needed, my brain plays this scene ⬇️

Spooky Sara (end of summer madness)@pashion.bsky.social · last wk.

that JLo thing on Netflix. iykyk, if you don't, good for you 💯

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · last wk.

Name the worst film of 2026 so far.