"Anything a prisoner can create a relationship with can be destroyed. Part of their punishment is to be alone, without any family, or any attachments to anything." - this could be applied to so many things - obviously to the carceral state, but to addiction & ultimately to capitalism itself.

I don’t have specific ones but I would definitely check out @olivia.science’s feed. She posts her own work and also shares some other things. And @emilymbender.bsky.social does the same.

This is Stock's "collateral damage" in action

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 7h ago

Cis woman on now speaking about how much she has been challenged, had security called on her because she has PCOS. Says she's never had a problem with trans women but multiple problems with GC women. She's on the verge of tears.

LMFAO

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

All great families should follow this progression.

Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 21h ago

A Free Software group I know reports overwhelming interest in sessions they are offering in "How To Turn Off AI Features". Some might argument that isn't really part of the remit, but regular folks don't turn up to Really Free Markets to learn about anarchism. But while they're there...

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 9h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

REMEMBER The guidance coming into effect today doesn't dictate what you're allowed to do as an individual. It for service providers and business owners. Do not cower in fear, do not reduce yourself, do not isolate, that is one of the intended effects.

Happy segregation day everyone. I have no doubt this government (and Starmer) will eventually be remembered for their awful human rights abuses. Take care if you’re out and about today - there will be GCs around actively looking to ruin our day. Hopefully they’ll end up targeting each other! 🤞

#80s #scifi B-movie "classic" Battle Beyond The Stars is now on YT: www. youtube.com/watch?v=5BuCTvYlfJc

Battle Beyond the Stars | 1980 | George Peppard | Classic Sci-Fi Movie

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A stripy little building Will call our ships to port The countless little rowboats With sailors in the dark 🎶

VictorianLondon@victorianlondon.bsky.social · 21h ago

internet tells me this was for guiding ships into harbour as opposed to warning them away

Someone once told me that it's "classist" to advocate for people to have indoor cats because you need to buy them lots of expensive toys. Marcel has been playing with the discarded stem of a fresh green bean for 20 minutes. 🤷‍♀️

"These aren't the druids you're looking for"

We drive darkening, ghosted roads. In these last minutes of solar alchemy, every turn is towards folklore. We become one with the land's long memory. One with a hodology where every traveller is another time's temporal shade. We become high strangeness. – #DAKilroy, 1982

New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras https://theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-dinosaurs-had-quinceaneras/

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. 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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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping all-time high 60% off on Steam until August 18! 💀⛏️🩸 It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

“Ignore politics long enough, and one day politics comes for you in uniform.” Nikanor Volkonsky 2026

H.G. Wells and H.P. Lovecraft have entered the chat.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterday

alright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

To be very clear, extrajudiciously killing people you suspect are drug traffickers is *also* murder

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

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, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

I have taken the 2-3 lbs of copper that were in the camera which you were probably saving for surveillance Forgive me they were so accessible so valuable and so disruptive

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

Batman will always be popular because people love the fantasy of pretending a billionaire isn't depraved.

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

If anyone is still in doubt as to just how nasty the Raise The Colours campaign had been, see this. I am mighty glad that @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social has succeeded in taking legal action to stop them.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Reportedly, much of the vandalism of Flock cameras has been due to thieves recovering the 2-3 lbs of copper and 1-2 grams of gold in each unit. It’s very distressing that people vandalize these cameras to retrieve 2-3 lbs of copper and 1-2 grams of gold.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

This seems relevant to the interests of many people who follow my account.

European Space Agency@esa.int · yesterday

For World Space Week 2026, we're teaming up with Pokémon to unite space exploration and a universe of imagination. More to come soon. ⚡https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Branding_and_Partnerships/ESA_and_Pokemon_team_up_to_celebrate_World_Space_Week #WorldSpaceWeek2026 #PokemonxESA

8/4/1932 — b. Frances E. Allen, American computer scientist. A pioneer in optimizing compilers; language and #security code programmer, National Security Administration. The first female IBM fellow; a fellow of the Computer History Museum (2000) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #SciSky #HistSci #NSA #IBM

The poem that gave Bradbury's poem its title is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_W...

There Will Come Soft Rains (poem) - Wikipedia

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Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday

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