Joey Anton
@pascalssquare.bsky.social
Lover of interesting people, literature, rap music and chess. Asymptomatic carrier of the woke mind virus. Chemist by training. Posts about climate change, US politics, and more-or-less obscure sports. The future's up for grabs. He/him
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: Rep. Haley Stevens and I shared a call this morning. She loves democracy like I love democracy. Whatever differences we might've had in the primary pale in comparison to what unifies us. All of us have to come together to make sure that we never let Mike Rogers see the US Senate.
NEWS — Haley Stevens has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan U.S. Senate race against Republican Mike Rogers.
Stott, Bohm, Marsh, and Turner have all peaked and I don’t think any rental in the world would’ve fixed that enough to get the Phils to a title But hey, at least I get to watch Luis Arraez do Luis Arraez things for a few months.
We have lost a lot, but we have also saved so much, and we will save more still.
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, 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.
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white, Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
This conclusion seems perfectly correct as a matter of fact and defensible (albeit cold-blooded) as a matter of strategy.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d agoMojtaba Khamenei Backs IRGC Commander Ahmad Vahidi’s Hardline Strategy • According to sources, Tehran has concluded that the United States can no longer be trusted, and IRGC Commander Ahmad Vahidi’s approach has effectively become the regime’s official policy.
oh shit you can currently watch The Repair Shop for free on Tubi and the Roku Channel! Let me please take this opportunity to encourage everyone here to watch The Repair Shop! people come with their Old Items, and a bunch of highly skilled craftspeople fix the Items
thingswithwings@thingswithwings.bsky.social · 2d agonot enough people are out here talking about The Repair Shop!!! what about the sacred quality of objects that humans invest with their own history and emotions! what about the value of handcrafting processes that go back generations! what about the rich interconnections between craft and carework 😭
I thought the whole thing with Bryce at 1b was so he doesn’t Tommy John himself again? Are we not concerned about that anymore?
Jon Heyman@jonheyman.bsky.social · 2d agoLuis Arraez will play 2B for Phillies. First choice appears to be: Stott to 3rd. Bohm to 1st. Harper to RF. Bryce has said he’s willing to go back to the OF. @MattGelb on Arraez/2B
This is prob true but everyone is predictably mad about it bc what economists mean when they say “preference” is not the same as what normal people mean.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
This exactly. Speaking of "why the rural Overton window is the way it is." And it's not just about ability to win elections & promise nice things (although that is obvs part of it).
@cooperativescience.bsky.social · 5d agoI feel like at least part of the motivation behind this pretension is not acknowledging the elephant in the room: That Democrats genuinely are not all that much better than Republicans for many poor rural folk. They are better ... but rarely enough for folks to risk organizing for them.
Sarah Taber thread about rural politics straight into my veins, thank you.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d agoA very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.
a future D administration should make an easy pathway to citizenship specifically for foreign students
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d agoOne weird trick to literally destroy America www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
This framing is funny because we’re talking about the woman who’s been popping up in PA college towns and Black churches in Georgia for a couple of years already. She’s running y’all!
Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 6d agoAOC needs to run, everyone simply needs to get over themselves
As of this week, hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their legal status. Most have lost work permits as well. That's left many people unable to support themselves. Here is a verified link to a fundraiser supporting Haitians in Springfield. Please drop links to other fundraisers in the replies.
Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis
Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...
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Not all climate solutions are created equal. Jonathan Foley makes a strong case for why we should stop chasing what sounds good and start funding what works. The biggest levers in food? Land use, food waste, fertilizer, and diet — not vertical farms. 🥗 🔗 https://bit.ly/47OjOiK
Choosing Climate Solutions That Deliver
Jonathan Foley discusses prioritizing scalable climate solutions in food systems, addressing trade-offs, diets, land use, and food waste.
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Just my luck to get fired from my job at Raytheon for supporting military action against oil and gas infrastructure right before the one good military action against oil and gas infrastructure.
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · last wk.ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century
At this point I think Talarico winning is more likely than not but if Abbott somehow drops the governorship…
ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · last wk.hm!!!
*levitating six inches off the ground* They’re actually conservative, which is why they vote Republican, and why we should focus on making higher education as encouraged and attainable as possible for everyone so we can reap the political benefits of edpol
Dean Haddix@doctoreon.bsky.social · last wk.“It has been a pretty big lie people [have] told themselves on here that working class people are closet leftists,” Neera Tanden, the president of Center for American Progress, posted on X. “They are in fact much more moderate than college educated folks.”
Cannot emphasize this enough, get the gelato.
ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · last wk.9. Ordering the house red wine or the house white wine are perfectly acceptable, don't fret about wine selections. You can always check out a wine bar later. The wine bars are plentiful and are actually the cheapest way to drink when you're out on the town. 10. Get the gelato.
Everybody’s rightfully dunking on the laundrettes that offer to fist you but “temples for public weeping” is killing me
The level of age and career-stage diversity on the Sixers starting lineup is really funny to me.
lord help me I have spent 25 years hating this man, but if he brings a chip…
Low-key kinda disappointed with The Reconstruction Papers so far 🫤
Distracting myself today by thinking about an unlikely-but-not-crazy scenario where The Company pays for me to go to Istanbul next year. Willing it into existence.
