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Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · last wk.

Amazing stuff

Iran is now publicly talking about what I’ve been saying since this war started: They’re trying to Jimmy Carter him, and he’s letting it happen while telling everyone he’s winning.

The Trump administration wants to defund wastewater monitoring for communicable diseases. Write to your members of Congress:

Congress Must Fully Fund CDC Wastewater Surveillance Program

The CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System remains one of the most valuable public health tools for detecting the increased spread of infectious diseases in the US, such as SARS-CoV-2, measles,...

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Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · last wk.

I’ve never seen any of these weird sad MAGA attempts to be online bullies and get attention, unless others repost them, and if I did I wouldn’t react to it. Block them, ignore them, and starve them of attention - it’s not hard

Trump's Social Media Team Craves Your Unwilling Participation in Its Weird Fetish

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last wk.

And when we do appreciate patina, it’s on cars

"doesn't understand the appeal of patina" feels like neat summation of American aesthetics

A BBC story headline reads: "Worth $5M? Visitors react to renovated Washington horse statues." There are two photos. One from 2013 that shows the horse statues in their older, patina state. And one from 2026 that shows them covered in 23.75-karat gold leaf.

Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · last wk.

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January.

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.

NPR @npr.org · last wk.

U.S. employers cut 23,000 jobs in July, and job gains for the two previous months were weaker than initially reported, according to a report Friday from the Labor Department. n.pr/45RROJn

Employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs in a sign of a wilting labor market

U.S. employers cut 23,000 jobs in July, and job gains for the two previous months were weaker than initially reported, according to a report Friday from the Labor Department.

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

So this guy made almost $400k a year to not do his job well and be out of town often, and now we’re paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars more to leave the job he barely did. Amazing stuff, love to pay taxes for this

The city just provided a copy of former police chief Shon Barnes separation agreement, which includes a promise from Barnes not to sue the city and a promise from the city not to badmouth Barnes to any potential future employer.

There are people whose minds and bodies are immediately transfixed when the Ducktales theme starts playing, and there’s the rest of you

Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s incredible to me that information like this continues to come out and most people not only don’t care, but are actively hostile to knowledge about how impactful COVID is

A study shows male mice recovering from severe COVID-19 can pass anxiety-like traits to their offspring. The virus alters RNA molecules inside their sperm, suggesting a father's infection before conception could change how the next generation develops mentally. Source: archive.md/U7dad

An image from psypost.org showing a microscopic view of swimming sperm cells rendered in a glowing, translucent neon-blue colour against a black background. Multiple sperm cells with distinct oval heads and long, wavy tails are visible drifting across the frame.
At the bottom left of the image, an overlaid black text box features white sans-serif text that reads: "Severe COVID-19 linked to anxiety in offspring via altered sperm RNA". Below the main image card, small grey text attributes the source link as "From psypost.org".

Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 2w ago

The wildfires in the Pacific NW are incredibly sad and devastating. We have to face the fact that a warming climate is unsustainable. As you can see, fires in the Pacific NW are getting much larger in recent decades. The largest fires (100K acres+) have increased by 10-15X since the 1980s. 1/

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jeremy Clarkson Oh No Anyway Meme

Alt: Jeremy Clarkson Oh No Anyway Meme

static.klipy.com

“.. the audience for pro-Trump content has fallen from its heights and, for some creators, has reached new lows. .. The shifts threaten to complicate messaging this year for Republican candidates ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Kayleigh Diaz 🫜@kayleighdiaz.com · 3w ago

Important thread about AI and education. We are allowing kids to be indoctrinated into AI reliance and ensuring they can’t think for themselves, despite the best efforts of caring teachers like this.

And now it's the prompt-runner’s turn to go on a rant, only I'm going to talk about what I'm seeing with AI in education. Buckle up. You're not gonna like it... 🧵 (1/?... many lol)

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 3w 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...

Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 3w ago

It is deeply insulting how ignorant and malleable this man thinks we are

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 3w ago

I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3w ago

Fitch is now warning that an AI Market Correction is emerging as a major credit risk, with “the the medium- and long-term potential of [AI] being highly uncertain” www.fitchratings.com/research/ban...

FITCH WIRE
Al Market Correction
Emerging as Major
Credit Risk

The scale of the Al investment boom and the accelerated global technology cycle has been a significant driver of US equity market valuations and corporate bond issuance over the past year. The effects on real economic indicators are profound. The 18% yoy rise in IT capital investment directly added 1.4pp to 1Q26 GDP growth. The wealth effect from Al-related investor optimism and equity market gains has also been a meaningful support for US consumer spending growth, which has been broadly slowing.
That said, the medium- and long-term potential of the underlying technology is highly uncertain, as with previous tech cycles. The combination of revenue uncertainty and the extent to which capital markets and economies have become intertwined with Al have
created a vulnerability for credit in the event of a reevaluation of long-run returns potential. Very short-term spikes in market volatility for individual equities and tech-heavy stock indices have already occurred, but a larger, more protracted correction could have wider market, macro and credit effects depending on its scale, duration and contagion.

Ragnhild Holmås @ragholmas.bsky.social · 3w ago

Dette er briljant aktivisme. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Spoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glasses

The activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recording

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The Seattle Times@seattletimes.com · 3w ago

#Seattle

Police and ambulances are responding to a shooting with "multiple victims" at Seattle Center, according to emergency dispatchers.