THREAD: Here's what happened in today's "We are exploiting peoples' legitimate fears around kids online safety to advance dangerous censorship and surveillance legislation" hearing in the Senate Commerce Committee... 🧵

omg I found the picture ❤️

ECP@ecppdx.bsky.social · 15h ago

Years ago I coined the milleneuve, which is a unit to measure how horrible the sky color is based on Villeneuve films. Blade Runner 2049 is around 900mn. Today is around 250 I'd say. (It's a very scientific scale.)

let me repeat myself: we have vaccines for cancers now. also, 40 years ago was 1986. height of the AIDS crisis. and now we have treatments and preventatives and it isn't a guaranteed miserable death sentence anymore also also, the internet is nice

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Gonna start a little thread for my historical fiction project #PARADOXICA Set in late victorian England, Time travel to the mesozoic has become quite the industry, for both scientific research and (for better or for worse,) tourism. Here we have Lana Carter taking her friends dromeosaur for a walk 😇

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

The Music Between You And I is officially out in the world. This story means more to me than I can put into words, and I hope it finds the readers who need it most. Thank you to everyone who's supported me along the way!! #books #romancebooks Grab your copy here: books2read.com/u/brrQae

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The Music Between You And I by Quiana Glide

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i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

My parents are currently safe, but one of my sisters in law lost her home to the wildfires ravaging #Spokane Washington. I’m joining the effort to ensure she and my niece and nephew are taken care of, however temporarily. gofund.me/bd93f259d

Donate to Help Tanya’s Family Rebuild After Disaster, organized by Jamie Collier

Help Tanya and Her Family Rebuild After Losing Everything In a matt… Jamie Collier needs your support for Help Tanya’s Family Rebuild After Disaster

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Have been giggling for ten full minutes thinking about a tricksy centuries-old fae magician getting out-rules-lawyered by medical insurance bureaucracy determined not to pay for a magical cure after the human submitted paperwork for reimbursement

Natty@vexisidhe.bsky.social · 20h ago

And then I reported the fae for HIPAA violations because my identity should have been (half-assedly) identified via peripheral data before proceeding with any conversation regarding my status.

Lon Burnam, a former state lawmaker representing Tarrant County from 1997 to 2015, was carried out of the room by four sheriff deputies, who held him by his hands and feet: fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...

Tarrant County judge removes attendees during public meeting about voting site reductions

Former state lawmaker Lon Burnam was carried out of the courtroom by sheriff deputies after O’Hare called speakers disruptive.

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'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

‼️ Colleagues: If you're teaching this semester, please let me know if I can assist you. Happy to recommend reading, talk w/ students about immigration, free speech, Cold War/McCarthyism, ideological exclusion/deportation, "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️ @iehs.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Threat of Dissent — Harvard University Press

“Suspicion of foreigners goes back to the earliest days of the republic…Kraut traces how different ideologies would be considered intolerably dangerous according to the dominant fears of a given era. ...

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Fuuuuuuuuck. (And yes ladies, they are still coming for your yoga pants)

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · yesterday

BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit, en banc, upholds Florida's anti-drag law, holding that it is neither unconstitutionally vague nor unconstitutionally overbroad. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

Tor Bramble backs HM Wolfe after AI-detection claims over Daggermouth

Tor Bramble has backed HM Wolfe after the Atlantic reported that the author’s dystopian romance Daggermouth returned a 60% score in an analysis using the AI-detection tool Pangram.

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"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Theater director fakes threatening texts to self to get a Rocky Horror production cancelled rather than deal with cast drama. Last line of this piece is incredible.

maryr✨@merveille.bsky.social · yesterday

Local coverage link, including link to coverage of someone impersonating the licensing company to get the performance cancelled: www.sevendaysvt.com/news/its-ast...

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For those in Spokane and elsewhere who have lost their homes:

I'll tell you something else deeply meaningful to me today: @archipelagobooks.bsky.social is publishing Sevgi Soysal's "Walking." It's the first translation I've sponsored, something I've wanted to do for a long time. When I read Soysal's "Dawn," I knew I wanted to see her other work in print.

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.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

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

Yeah, sorry, but some folks on here just got straight-up outrage farmed by the Verge. This is fine!

Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d ago

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

We were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED

I sincerely hope that @toni.bsky.team won't deceive himself into thinking that right wingers from X have the capacity to engage with civility as he envisions. Their lack of presence here is because they've been unable to weaponize Bluesky for harassment. That's a huge plus for the site.

Just a few more days left for Hugo voting! Murder by Memory is on the novella ballot alongside a murderer’s row of talented wordcrafters — you can vote this week and then come hear all of us on the panel at the end of the month! www.lacon.org/hugos/

When you’re reading a romance involving Fae bargains and you start to hear a sweet little distant melody chiming through the air… Then you realize it’s an ice-cream truck. Then you remember you live on a side street backed up against the woods and have never once seen an ice-cream truck here.

Heads up folks! My Seattle mystery about a psychic travel agent slash karaoke queen is a special price for August! For just $1.99 you can grab the ebook from all the usual suspects - just click here and check the right-hand column here for links: 👇 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grave-...

Grave Reservations

A psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective try to solve a murder in this “ebullient tap dance of a mystery” (Christopher Moore, New York Tim...

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i cannot stop laughing at this, this is incredible

Théo@tlpavlich.gay · 4d ago

Okay I went back and recorded the WPBL anthem. I haven't seen a clip of it yet and....it needs to never be forgotten.

periodic reminder that long covid has surpassed asthma to be the most common chronic health problem in children jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d ago

Covid was- overwhelmingly- not a threat to children. Hence why (generally) we don’t vaccinate them now.

COMMENTARY: Crickets: Four fatal shootings by the Memphis Safe Task Force and almost no national news coverage. At the root lie Tennessee politicians who approve of the task force, writes Editor @jhollymc.bsky.social.

Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout

Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?

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