Oh no, not your mom’s pied-a-terre!!!!!!!

I can only watch Channel 4 through a VPN. And yet! I’m crawl up from the belly of the earth like a Fury furious.

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

1. I’d love these twats to define “processed food.” Almost all of our food is “processed” + has been since humans started cooking. 2. Studies showing physical differences between ADHD brains + neurotypical brains are abundant! + demonstrate the differences exist from v early childhood - at least!

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

“While traits of ADHD undeniably exist – the question is why they exist. Is ADHD actually a neurodevelopmental disorder? Do people with ADHD have differently wired brains? Or does our world – with…processed food, and regimented education – serve as the catalyst for certain…patterns of behaviour?”

This is laughable --- "reporting says", well yes, these reporters did a bang-up job anthropomorphizing the system they are talking about, and obfuscating the responsibility that OpenAI holds here. bsky.app/profile/mims... Some examples:

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've seen some folks try to frame OpenAI's unreleased model hacking a company that tests its abilities as a cynical marketing ploy but reporting says that absolutely was not the case: This was a real-deal escape of an AI agent that could have done vastly more damage. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

Just watched one of my astoundingly talented daughters perform 'Dead Mom' in a community production of Beetlejuice. She sang like she was really on Broadway. To get out there and do that after watching me- her not-yet-dead mom- go through cancer treatment for the past year? Very hardcore! I cried!

The thing is I can’t live without garlic powder. So maybe upcoming recalls could take that into consideration? Thanks!

Calling all meta glasses wearers 'specs offenders'.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

A British white guy writer/director leaving “nobody” out while making sure Iphigenia gets her moment? Truly surprised me and I apologize but I must gently stan on that basis alone!

Okay, a couple thoughts here: (1) Life isn't about efficiency. It shouldn't be about efficiency. Life is about experience, connection, and empathy. (2) Not everybody has the resources to pay a babysitter to watch their kids for an hour while they grocery shop. 1/

Trump's Blood Clot@melvin-nodd.bsky.social · 3w ago

I've never understood the urge to bring infants/children/the entire extended family to the grocery. We never did that, it's obnoxious & slows everything down for everyone. One person, in and out. That's all you need. If you cannot find one person in your life to be with your children for an hour...

(guy pointing at the first toaster) is this a bread witch

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Could AI be conscious?

has anyone considered listening to women

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

A second ex-wife of the ICE agent who killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine has come forward. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes."

In Nolan’s Odyssey, the only (somewhat) decent nobleman was raised by a single mother. And you know what? He's right to say it. (I am only kind of joking. Or I am not joking at all.)

🕸️Meg Conley@pocketobservatory.org · 3w ago

And no spoilers but it’s not a father-son movie imo. Which was a pleasant surprise.

“i told her i had been suicidal but did not think and do not think it would be helpful to her to know i thought about killing her as well” SIR, I DISAGREE

recently read a piece that interviewed gambling addicts. one admitted that he fantasized about killing himself AND HIS WIFE and it occurred to me that having a male partner who gambles probably raises the risk of family annihilation 🙃

Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social · 3w ago

More than a quarter of American adults have a daily gambling habit, 42 percent of bettors have said they spend more than they should, and a majority of men ages eighteen to forty-nine have an active account with an online sportsbook.

I have complicated feelings about the many-wayed man. Except for when he strings his bow and plucks it right before dispatching the suitors. In every translation that moment leaves me feeling one very uncomplicated feeling. Ahem. Can confirm that Nolan did right by that bit.

Neither here nor there but my sister used to work for a catering company that did a lot of work for Yellowstone Club and Matt Damon was one of the only celebrities that treated her like a person. Anyways. Ten more hours till I get see The Odyssey.

4. Homeric Greek is an artificial poetic, traditional language, developed over generations of poetic storytelling and fusing different dialects and eras - not a language that anyone ever spoke. It works beautifully for traditional spoken-word poetry, but it's quite unsuitable for a film script.

1. Creators, including screenwriters, can and should do their own thing, especially when adapting a myth. Euripides adapted the end of the Iliad for the Athenian tragic stage using a different meter and different lexicon from Homer's, for a different genre and a different time. That's fine!

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

ICE says he “weaponized his vehicle.” Same line that is already falling apart in the killing of S. Araujo. Same line that fell apart in murder of Renee Good. Same line ICE misused so often in Chicago that a Fed judge said it was “difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost” any such claim.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Mullin told him.”

“I’m pretty (expletive) tired of people dying in the streets.”

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3w ago

"I tried to stop," said the immigrant shot in the head and bleeding to death This is the new "I can't breathe" www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/b...

ICE killed a random guy today.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - Homeland Security secretary said man killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Maine Sen. Angus King says.

You guys I used AI to zoom the photo out and this is potentially a bombshell.

“Your horror has been stolen from you” is a 10/10 sentence.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 3w ago

You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.

"I read the words on the bandaid tin, 'A covered wound heals faster.' I started to cry, leaned against the door + slid down onto the tile. I’d like to say this is the first time package copy has brought me to my knees, but you + I know that can’t be true." www.pocketobservatory.org/a-covered-wo...

A Covered Wound Heals Faster

A little bit about the science of wound care, a lot a bit about the irrationality of me.

pocketobservatory.org

Any editors accepting books/culture-related pitches? Reporting; focused more on part of book/reading culture and nostalgia than a specific title or author. It is timely as in seasonal for summer, and would love to pitch it because I keep thinking about it!

@pocketobservatory.org is one of my favorite writers. Her work is glorious and expansive, and as always, this is a breathtaking piece of writing. “I just know that when I look up, I am under a different sky.”

🕸️Meg Conley@pocketobservatory.org · last mo.

I've finished chemotherapy + radiation. At a recent check-in, a woman told me I can get back to my life. I tried to hide my confusion. Which me? Which life? I seem to be experiencing the superposition of parallel versions of myself... www.pocketobservatory.org/alright-lets...

The thing I love about Meg Conley's work is the way she makes you see the world completely differently by connecting apparently unconnected things. The multiple Spidermans metaphor is a perfect exploration of the effects of what sociologists much more boringly call 'biographical disruption'

🕸️Meg Conley@pocketobservatory.org · last mo.

I've finished chemotherapy + radiation. At a recent check-in, a woman told me I can get back to my life. I tried to hide my confusion. Which me? Which life? I seem to be experiencing the superposition of parallel versions of myself... www.pocketobservatory.org/alright-lets...

Luminous, as usual

🕸️Meg Conley@pocketobservatory.org · last mo.

I've finished chemotherapy + radiation. At a recent check-in, a woman told me I can get back to my life. I tried to hide my confusion. Which me? Which life? I seem to be experiencing the superposition of parallel versions of myself... www.pocketobservatory.org/alright-lets...