i assume our government at a federal level will follow this great finding by looking for a way to outlaw it and require berry fields to instead be coated with a generous layer of oil and coal

Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦@earhart.bsky.social · 3d ago

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

Douglas Adams: everything sucks and life is cruel, meaningless, and absurd Adams: i hate the universe and everyone in it Barker: boy this guy's a real firecracker Barker: so glad you brought him over, steve

Because it seems like the rule is "Don't say anything that may cause a person of privilege to feel embarrassed." That's not sustainable.

Computer: say it. say the words. Me: can we not do this today? Computer: we do this every day. say it. Me: (*sigh) I would like to stay logged in on this device Computer: (*chuckling)

Rosie Duffield and co.

To say the obvious part first: if your kid tells you they're trans, they're virtually guaranteed to be right. But there really is a broader point here, and it needs to be said plainly at this point: puberty blockers--the compromise position on HRT--are unneeded. Just let them start HRT.

My main thing about "electability" is every single candidate I have seen it used as a virtue for has either barely won or lost

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's "Electability" season once again so let me just remind everybody possessing this incredible power of foresight to tell us something useful like November stock prices.

I never wanted to be a "in my day things were better" old lady... but I need to categorically state that technology actually WAS better. You are currently in the peak of designed obsolence, enshittification, personal intrusion and forced acceptance by lack of choice. Sure, the underlying tech...

The Adam Savage school of tools is to buy the cheapest thing from like Harbor freight, and if you break it, that means you used it enough for it to be worth buying a higher quality one 

Mon Mothra@flobbert.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s me, the guy who fully understands the benefits of a good tool and also has a basement full of ryobi because I don’t use any of it hard enough to break it

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

unsurprisingly to yet again expend this level of agita and venom about fauci, early reactions to COVID online, etc, rather than ever mourn or really confront how we live in a society that can and will easily normalize preventable mass death in the name of efficiency and profit

This goes hard

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

Stating the objective truth continues to be an ironclad defense against defamation in the United States.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4d ago

A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” trib.al/oZwZMR9

Post your lock screen.

Taya, Goblin Accomplice 🏳️‍⚧️@tayatranscends.bsky.social · 4d ago

Post your lock screen

Devs, pay attention to who is actually, practically offering support to our laid off colleagues. It’s not the companies, it’s not the ESA, it’s the union, it’s us.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago

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something horrifying has come to me in a vision

There are days when the daily bunny is the one thing that keeps me going.

Will Quinn@willquinnart.bsky.social · 5d ago

Daily bunny no.3397 is sailing alone around the world

I think that not only is this good politics, but the stability of American society depends on it. Liberal American normies are out for blood, but *everyone* is in an anti-system mood. If we don't feed that beast some sacrifices, it'll find someone who can, and those sacrifices will be innocent.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5d ago

Chaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”

Ugh. Add “gallery walls” to the list of things I used to like that TFG has now ruined.

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 7d ago

Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

Excellent ad placement

putting aside the destruction of rare books, how is digitizing a copyrighted text "transformative" for anthropic but the internet archive is guilty of infringement for the national emergency library

chiller@chiller.eurosky.social · last wk.

This is ... horrific

One thing I really like about Bluesky is how mostly everyone who joined pre-11/2024 is on the same page and we ran off the people who weren't. Lol I can post about how mindless transphobia is and not have to spend three hours blocking a bunch of dildos

Alternative headline: Andrew Willson lays off everyone who worked on successful Battlefield 6 to steal all the wealth they created.

PC Gamer@pcgamer.com · 7d ago

Despite its success, Electronic Arts rewarded some of those who made Battlefield 6 by laying them off. It's a different story for EA CEO Andrew Wilson.

“Lab leak” and “trans panic” are the two weirdest brain diseases that people who ought to know better have contracted over the last few years and I’ll be damned if I understand why

Ernie Piper@whoisernie.bsky.social · 7d ago

Zeynep Tufekci is still completely insane over the lab leak idea. "There is a conspiracy to cover this up" is not evidence for "covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab". It could also be evidence for my theory, "please stop talking about this stupid idea"

There are only three possible futures: a) everyone in the Trump admin goes to jail, rule of law partially restored; b) Dems retaliate in full, and maybe that's a deterrent; c) neither (a) nor (b), so lawless authoritarianism wins again, and when Republicans regain power they ramp it up even more.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

one big thing that i think has made work measurably Worse has been the deprioritization of personnel management, org development and strategy in favor of executives whose only skill is get that bag

John Brown’s Body@berndtpetersen.bsky.social · last wk.

I blame it on corporate leadership being a goat rodeo of people who are basically all sociopaths in one form or another and have never done the actual work, aka the “financialization of the c-suite”.