Periodic reminder that Chrome is bad software. It's a personal data collector cosplaying as a web browser. Use other browsers, my personal recommendations are Safari (if you're on a Mac) and Vivaldi (works anywhere). Orion is worth a look too (no Windows version yet).

The police should not have quotas, the news should not have ratings and the prisons should not have profits

Anyone who thinks these thugs will stop with foreigners is very, very dumb. Terrorizing migrants is just a practice run for terrorizing anyone else the billiknaire class finds troublesome. Protecting migrants is protecting civil society.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · yesterday

Journalists attacked with rocks for reporting on racist rioters waging a pogrom whilst calling for refugees to "have their f**king heads chopped off". These are the "protesters" with "legitimate concerns" we keep on hearing so much about www.edp24.co.uk/news/2644352...

This is an attempted lynching, which will be treated with much less seriousness then pensioners holding up Palestine Action placards.

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2d ago

🔺 BREAKING: Police officers evacuated five men from a house in Norfolk after a mob of 100 people attempted to force their way into three properties which they claimed housed asylum seekers

Odd how we keep allowing Trump to be president when, according to experts on Bluesky, we all have standing to sue him for various crimes, and Minnesota can send cops to arrest him no matter what the laws say. (Will the people coming up with these brainy schemes vote? Reply hazy; ask again later.)

Be it known: The reason young people want to live in Seattle rather than Cleveland is because they saw people doing it in movies. It has nothing to do with scenery, jobs/salaries, quality of life, or relatively liberal policies on issues that, for some, are literally a matter of life and death.

accidentalflyer 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦@accidentalflyer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Home prices in most of America are highly affordable. Take Cleveland, Ohio for example. Problem is too many young people want to live in LA, SF, Seattle, Boston, New York etc. Places people live in movies and TV shows. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Posting this now so I can pretend to be psychic when it turns out in a couple of months that 40-70% of the men arrested for 'protesting' in Thetford were wife beaters, rapists and/or nonces

Reform is running through MAGA’s entire bag of tricks, right down to passing off colleagues and relatives as the Voice of the People.

LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦@ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 2d ago

What Reform UK don't tell you is this is the father of a Reform UK councillor.

The moment Collins announced she was a no on Blanche, you KNEW they had the votes.

This is as true as it gets.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 23h ago

Businesses that use AI art on their marketing materials in 2026 are pretty much exactly equivalent to businesses who used crappy clip art pulled from a CD-ROM or Microsoft Word in 2006, paired with a Comic Sans or Papyrus font. It’s a very strong “we don’t give a shit” indicator.

“Why won’t they integrate?” Also…”let’s not let them integrate!” The right wing views foreigners only as a tax paying sub species, here to serve the white “indigenous” population. They’re never seen as people, families, neighbours, never talked about with dignity or respect. It is disgusting.

Tories vow to ban foreign nationals from accessing UK social housing

Party leader Kemi Badenoch pledges to implement policy if she forms next government as she tries to outflank Reform

ft.com

‘Listening’ to ‘legitimate concerns’ is what led us to violent riots in Thetford. Embracing flag-shagging is what inspires lynch mobs. These are the worst of people, and we should have said so clearly and loudly from the start. We should be saying it now.

“We need data centers to stay ahead of China” seems to be a common belief of AI supporters. Why can’t we ever want to stay “ahead of China” when it comes to high-speed rail or EVs or low cost of living or public safety?

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This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠

Somebody please pop the hood of one of Prof. Scott Galloway's cars to give him a clue what happened to all the garage mechanic jobs.

Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time

Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me · 2d ago

Really? Because I keep seeing them in charge of everything from car dealerships to the White House, and they seem to doing just fine despite their obvious handicaps.

Trans panic is inherently unjust and idiotic in itself, of course, but it also empowers the creepiest people on Earth to conduct impromptu gender inspections whenever the urge strikes them. Everyone who is OK with this needs to restrict their search for perverts to the nearest mirror.

Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸@echowrites.bsky.social · 2d ago

This server didn’t specifically ask her to show her breasts, but the server kept badgering her to prove that she was a woman even after she told her she was. On top of that, Minnesota doesn’t have a trans people using public restrooms ban.

Now that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has won the primary, i think he needs to begin addressing the concerns of people who are extremely racist against him

I support the death penalty only for white collar crimes, and I think working on or advocating surveillance pricing should get you the chair

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d ago

A ban on surveillance pricing—using people's private data to set prices—is already setting off the big retail and grocery companies, which bought Seattle Times banner ads and are sending mass texts to convince consumers it's in our best interest to let companies mine our data to decide what we pay.

Guess what? Meta now claims their AI "escaped" and "hacked" another company too. This is their new sales pitch: Our AI is sooo "autonomous" that it "hacks" companies on its own. For years they claimed their AIs are "near" conscious, but since that BS doesn't work anymore, this is the new BS.

A handy guide for those still confused about this.

I'll post this CAMPAIGN TRAILS piece again for the alleged liberals who refuse to listen to reality -- you need leftists in the Democratic Party. The "moderates" who are attacking them are only worried about keeping their own jobs, not the success of the party. Punching left is a con.

Punching Left

Over the last month, there's been a flurry of panic from self-styled moderates and centrists in the Democratic Party about the success of a few socialist candidates in party primaries. Some of this g...

campaign-trails.ghost.io

Melissa Ryan@melissaryan.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is a batshit response to attacking candidates who are winning primaries and elections, when the other side is fascists. If you think you have more to lose from lefty candidates winning office than MAGA's continued destruction, no one should take you seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

I don’t want to Do mY OwN rEsearCh. I want really clever researchers to do the research because that’s what they are good at and correctly advise politicians and people in power to make the right decisions for the benefit of all of us. I’ll bring snacks.

"If Count Binface were elected as the MP for Clacton, it would become one of the biggest political stories on Earth. Television networks, newspapers, YouTubers, podcasters and comedians from around the world would descend on the town ... You cannot buy publicity on that scale." via Raymond James

“You gotta understand, man, we’re like, living through the fall of the Roman Empire and the whole energy is shifting.” (I was 5 and he was a hippie.)

Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 3d ago

A question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"

Listening to my generation talk about the 90s the way the previous generation talked about the 70s is tiresome. No that wasnt 'back when movies were good' or 'music still meant something'. There's loads of great shit coming out now and there was loads of slop back then. You just miss being young.

I would be less troubled if they made impaired driving legal.

Linotype Pilgrim@symbo1ics.bsky.social · 2d ago

The UK and Canadian governments are working hard on this question and nothing else

Lucille Ball in "Roman Scandals" - BOTD

the american paradox