we managed not to die in a nuclear fire... but the world is on fire all the same short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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The MCU Spider Man movies are a 4-film cautionary tale about the dangers of public private partnerships
sometimes I wonder if I’m wasting my life but then I open bsky and know that I am
Interviewer: why do you want this job? Me: I'm a job guy. Love jobs
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
a forehead kiss isn’t enough i want him to swallow my whole head
Hey is it good for democracy when an illegal secret police force operating on the orders of a wannabe dictator tracks down its critics
11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
“We’ve been very lucky that there’s been no major insurer insolvencies that had to be mediated through the guaranty fund system, because there’s an open question as to if this is even logistically possible” One more fuckin brick in the wall prospect.org/2026/08/03/a...
Private credit companies are key owners of AI-related assets. Many of their parent private equity firms own life insurers that are dumping grounds for bad loans—and subject to state bailouts.
Instead of passing through bankruptcy, insolvent life insurers have all their liabilities—in particular the policyholder claims—paid for by state guaranty funds.
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These are the words Greek people moan during sex
Kory Bing@korybing.bsky.social · 4d agoJust tried to look up the Ordovician jawless fish with the funny face and these are the things I searched for and got nothing because it was spelled SO wrong: -sacombabsis -sacombibabsis -sacobibastis The correct answer was: -sacabambaspis
I’d see more movies in theaters if it weren’t for everyone else seeing a movie in a theater
The entire point of professional bull riding is just to hang on as if that isn’t what we’re all doing all the time
Just a reminder that in this country, the process is punishment. 24 hours in jail to process your arrest, money for bail, money for a lawyer, missed work for your court appearances...it all adds up. We do this to poor people every single day in this country. Many never really recover.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.
Just had to go figure out how to mute a tag (bb28) only to find that I had actually muted a tag before (bb27)
Lie under a moist log and let the calming tentacles of mycelium penetrate your organs 🫴🏼
I need a haircut and an oil change literally and figuratively
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
Once we did advertising by lying that a bottle of arsenic & cocaine was good for colicky babies then we did ads by saying it was revolutionary for women to smoke cigarettes & now we do ads by threatening to kill most everyone in the world but only after arresting everyone with police robots
