if this chihuahua barks the entire time the electrician is here... well there isn't a whole lot i can do about that but i'm not going to enjoy it very much

if i have no greater legacy on this website, let it be this

Louis@louisevans.bsky.social · 4h ago

(“We die like mice” is the redwall-inspired gender neutral reinvention of “we die like men” and I’m going to be posting it a LOT)

me, surrounded by summer wildfire smoke my email: As you start planning holiday content, our boutique ice cube company has patented an entirely new process for producing dense beautiful etched ice cubes

Running errands but I’m hot and overstimulated

I think a good way to think about the current moment is understanding white supremacy as a spectrum with passive acceptance as the status quo out to actively arguing for global genocide.

why isn’t the future the way we thought it would be

a sentence that immediately went triple platinum in my brain:

leon@leyawn.bsky.social · 5h ago

the arc of discourse is long but it bends towards burrito

While I completely understand and respect the why, please know that I still really really want to pet your service dog.

Privilege is sitting in my air conditioned house while the air quality is unhealthy at the same time minimum wage farm workers pick the produce I eat in the exact same conditions.

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · yesterday

"Rena" sent this from Moses Lake WA where she is weeding carrots for a non-union company. She shared: The air is bad. See my cell phone. The AQI is 166, which is unhealthy. We start at 4am. We'll work 7-8 hrs & earn minimum wage. #WeFeedYou

it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This

How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor

“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”

oaklandreviewofbooks.org

I don’t think Americans know what it’s like to lose lose a war. Yes sure the US lost in Vietnam but obviously the costs were way bigger for uh the Vietnamese

Fuck, the reason why everyone in Star Trek only consume old music or movies from the 20th century is because that's the last media before AI slop took over. You never see 24th century media in Star Trek because it's probably all just brain rotted slop. Have you seen the doctor's holonovel?!

Imagine if we had good wages and UBI and Medicare for All and disability and fully-funded Social Security, and people could live without struggling.

omg I found the picture ❤️

ECP@ecppdx.bsky.social · 23h ago

Years ago I coined the milleneuve, which is a unit to measure how horrible the sky color is based on Villeneuve films. Blade Runner 2049 is around 900mn. Today is around 250 I'd say. (It's a very scientific scale.)

for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!

Katrina Von Meowkins 🐈 Cat (Domestic Longhair) 📍 Business District (98101)

10 years ago today

The Microwave Cooking for One site is legit useful. You know that thing that happens when microwave food is half frozen? That’s not inherent to the microwave, it’s because most box microwave instructions are for 1100 watts and your microwave is something else. There’s a conversion chart for that!

Fun@funkelly.bsky.social · yesterday

did someone say sadder

to add: The west is going to burn, fire has been here longer than the USA has, many Indigenous land management practices work alongside fire. Rather than focusing on who started a fire, we need to work out how to live with fire and how the city became a tinderbox and how to help people right now.

James Stout@jamesstout.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just wanna caution everyone posting about the Spokane fires that an arrest is not a conviction and if we look at LA they haven’t been able to convict that guy.

i have been in a very...well, everything doom, but climate doom specifically, headspace all day and this thread helped.

C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 22h ago

Noise. Pollution. The Ozone Layer. Acid Rain. AIDS treatment. Cancer cures. Crime rates. Child abductions. As much as we consume doom and gloom in our media, humans are very, very good at solving problems when we want to. We just have to want to.

"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today at the convent: the nuns have been teaching me to scythe.

I can’t breathe

HTTP 1.1/418 Eldritch Teapot of R'lyeh@rmd1023.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’ll just leave this link here. youtu.be/Z0ZyTHfEwxc

Someone once told me that it's "classist" to advocate for people to have indoor cats because you need to buy them lots of expensive toys. Marcel has been playing with the discarded stem of a fresh green bean for 20 minutes. 🤷‍♀️

"The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it was chosen, but once it was finally upon us, it passed like all days." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...

Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set

The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.

rogerebert.com

Use a VPN for your crimes, y’all.

No cheating post your lock screen

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · yesterday

No cheating post your lock screen

taking off my sweater and putting on my kn95 to leave the building for lunch

...wait there's a kind of perimenopause where you get LESS period?? where can i sign up for that one?? i got the wrong kind, i need to complain to the manager

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterday

Cat Power is antivax

This is MADNESS, just sheer madness! For the love of all that's holy, people, drop off those ballots. Offer to drive your friends and neighbors to ballot drop-boxes! I get voter apathy in these weirdo times, but COME ON NOW!

King County Elections@elections.kingcounty.gov · yesterday

We projected 45% turnout for this election, King County. As of 8 a.m., 19% of you had turned out. You've got until 8 p.m. tonight to make your voice heard! kce.wiki/DropBox has a list and map of all 91 official ballot drop boxes across the county.

looking forward to the longest vacation i've had in 20 years two and a half weeks yay also the thing 20 years ago was actually just eight months of unemployment so maybe that doesn't count