very interesting. this person made their own mastadon fork with built-in anti-fascist features like a disinformation website blocklist, ai labeling & filtering, pro-lgbt & what they call trans friendly features + more join.piefed.social/2026/08/04/a...

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Some time ago some fascists took a copy of Mastodon and made Truth Social with it. Arguably the damage caused by Truth Social to the world is greater than the good Mastodon brought to a few of us. Thi...

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Bullfrog of the day! Wednesday, 5 August 2026

Betty is on the Hand for Snacks tonight and she is wearing her Watermelon Pink Smile of Joy!

some colors cause everyone keeps saying he has a skin pocket and its grossing me out

i don’t know who broke my scale but they won’t get a weigh with it

the billionaire's chamber

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 1h ago

Engineers have unveiled a 60-foot underwater habitat that can house four people Vanguard features bunk beds, tables and bathroom facilities for long-term stays beneath the ocean

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h ago

“The newly linked states — Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina — join Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and West Virginia,” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

fashionably late

getting hornswoggled is not nearly as fun as it sounds

Pure filth 🐸

hrrrrrrr good morning

not many have been showing up this year, grateful for the visit

amanda hugandkiss? never met her bro. but she sounds like a terrific lady.

printing out your skeets and crumpling them into a ball for a three-pointer.

as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3h ago

Reuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be ​unlikely to risk transit without paying."

Granted I'm not smart enough to be a SpaceX investor but if I was, I think I would have questions about why you need humanoid robots working in factories on the moon, presumably making things that would need to get shipped back to earth

Finally

The Independent@the-independent.com · 8h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

Before the internet we had to shout at books

doing generational theory

Uncut Femmes@juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 3h ago

generational infighting over who gets to claim the concept of swinging

If I were an eccentric recluse living in a dilapidated mansion I would make all the grocery delivery boys disappear

tiny pig 🐷

omg i now understand, like, 50,000 zoomer memes i used to see and had no clue wtf they were laughing about

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3h ago

10 years ago today

Gwen deactivated 😔

300 followers: i am the modern day publius. my posts on bluesky will be preserved and debated by philosophers and political scientists for generations to come 30,000 followers: doing my geralt of rivia as a troubled teen mom bit again

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