Pretty sure when you win the election it's a big election night. Pretty sure when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate.

Politico@politico.com · 14h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

And even if they were, it would still be extrajudicial murder and a war crime. www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

‘They are murder victims’: Senator suggests US strikes have killed people who weren’t involved in drug trafficking | CNN Politics

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following “a careful...

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Fae: Behold, mor— Me, suspiciously: Are you AI? Fae: What? Me: Because you’ve got some weird looking feet Fae: What are you talking about Me: I don’t use AI, thanks. ::walks away:: Fae: What just happened

Fae: “Greetings, Mortal. I am here to strike a Bargain.” Me: “Is this about my car insurance?” Fae: “…no.” Me: “Cleaning the gutters?” Fae: “What? No!” Me: “Nigerian prince?” Fae: “I am the Lord of Constellations, keeper of the Chalice of Cuchulainn who…” Me: “I’m in.”

Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

The best thing about this place is all of you (well, most of you), but the 2nd best thing is that if you come on here and you're a bullying dick you'll just get quickly sealed into a box and sunk to the bottom of Bluesky hell, muttering to yourself and leaving the rest of us alone.

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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This book is an unbelievable feat of social research and theory. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Addiction by Design

An anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tactics

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That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

My constant refrain (to myself usually) is "didn't they know anyone who died??" I knew people who died of covid in 2023. Two neighbors on my block died. Numerous friends lost family members, some multiple family members. So yeah.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.

Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

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."

Lockdown people are so funny. They pull out their hair at the fact that schools were closed for five minutes, and then you ask them if they actually want to educate poor and minority children and they’re like of course not

the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure

This is Loki, our Maine Coon and the cat of our hearts, and he went missing today. We have no idea how he got out, but he’s an elder, indoor cat, the whole region’s in an intense heat wave, and we’re really scared. I doubt I have any followers here in Martinez, CA, but if so, help? It’s SO hot

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.

It's not just Google Maps. AllTrails put genAI into their system last year and it has screwed everything up so badly I would never use it for hiking, purely for safety reasons. Some things require long years of practical, experiential knowledge. Walking in the 'wilderness' is one of those things.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3d ago

“We’re so used to using Google Maps in our everyday life that I think when people are starting to get into hiking, they think that probably Google Maps will work for backcountry use as well, and that’s just not the case,” said John Blown, of North Shore Rescue, a team based in British Columbia.”

BAGGER: (spilling my groceries on the floor) Oh God. I'm so sorry. This isn't what I'm supposed to do. ME: How are you supposed to do it? MANAGER: She means she was gonna be a fox. In the woods and shit. But something happened and she got stuck. BAGGER: (crying) Got so stuck.

This lighter went through a full wash cycle and somehow still works. He is now called the Fire of Poseidon

This goes hard

Dont go into the woods in a full moon, or into the gin bar next to a comparative literature conference

"I enjoy standup comedy, but I would enjoy it more if the comedian were a union organizer with a finely tuned understanding of political microdistinctions" Strongly agree • agree • neutral • disagree • strongly disagree If you selected one of the first four options or enjoyed this joke format, 👀

Nato Green@natogreen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Here is the link for my brand new standup special The Darkest Hour. Album version out 8/14. It is not for everyone but it is extremely for who it’s for. I hope that is you. I’m quite proud of it. Please give it a watch and share etc. youtu.be/_er-hJ8nZh0?...

I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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I am so grateful to my kid's high school history teacher who was like, "I went to school with him, he's a jackass" so that I could take him off my list of "men who seem smart at first glance and whom you should never listen to" car talks.

Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open@dylanmacri.bsky.social · 4d ago

The thing about this Hank Green crap is that intelligent people are very susceptible to cult recruitment and brainwashing because they're more able to rationalize it to themselves.

"This is not rare. This is one of life's worst diseases." Professor Chris Ponting speaking about harm from graded exercise therapy and hospital care, and how patients have been let down for decades because #MECFS was wrongly thought to be psychological. (Clip from 2024)

My thing is characters from northern locations not knowing how to ice skate. I'm looking at you, Sense8: a Polish cop's kid in Chicago should be a BEAST on skates, giving a woman from Iceland a run for her money.

Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 4d ago

I can suspend my disbelief while watching film in most respects except for when people use microfilm to look at old newspapers AND QUICKLY LAND ON THE EXACT PAGE THAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR. Without slowly scrolling through countless pages, without having to nudge the image or adjust the contrast.