"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

I’m much more afraid of people not from here walking around with guns than I am of any of my neighbors the delusion they want me living in is that my neighbors are to be feared

Musicology Duck@musicologyduck.bsky.social · 2d ago

like I cannot emphasize enough how far away I am from federal buildings, the monuments, etc. one man’s delusions means this is what our residential neighborhoods look like

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

also, why be so fucking afraid of local experiments!? if the nyc grocery is a policy failure let it be an instructive one and until then let mamdani sell cheap milk and eggs to struggling new yorkers.

rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · last wk.

any liberal credibly able to call themselves such must at baseline be willing to defend the liberty to advocate for perfectly normal positions like state run health care and social services. even if they were marginally fringe ideas the fuck are you doing here? they're trying to jail people

To me cutting USAID is like, you put a quarter into a slot every day to keep millions of people alive. You don’t have to do it but it causes you no hardship. Then one day the job falls to people who are overtly white supremacist and they decide to stop doing it. It is most obviously murder

Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gross to see a senator skip over the part where the aid was cut off illegally and without warning. Cooking their brains on a right wing owned social media site.

Here’s the thing - if you’re the kind of person who believes that Mao killed 50 million people and Stalin killed 35 million, then you have to apply the same accounting to Musk. That’s the only way to be consistent.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.

Get it twisted. We can’t have public transit because YOU aren’t going to”tsk tsk tsk” loudly enough. Now put the kid in the grill of the F-150.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think you're going to have a difficult time convincing families with young children to give up car culture and take more public transit if you also refuse to police behavior on the public transit and in the transit centers. Yes, people doing drugs in those places is a turn-off.

"but kids are annoying" yeah, so are you, but hopefully people are being polite about it

Whatever could be said about that claim when he made it in 1962, it soon became undeniable that government vaccine research, distribution, and mandates are objectively among the greatest achievements of civilization. Claiming otherwise is embarrassing, it's like saying you don't wash your hands.

Cato Institute@cato.org · 3w ago

"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus." — Milton Friedman. They were driven by individual liberty and free markets. And they always will be.

Every day this guy does something like this and every day the same people who dress him up as a terrifying commie destroyer of civilization do a dozen things to sabotage the public good, to murder and destroy and hate and kill, and I can't anymore handle those who won't see the clear difference.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

It's genuinely incredible how cynical this whole thing is. Fallout: New Vegas is one of my favourite games of all time. Saying you're doing a remaster as well as a sequel means absolutely nothing to me, not when you're treating the people making these as surplus to requirements.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 3w ago

Fallout didn't make itself aftermath.site/fallout-5-beth...

GMS Everest as a tarot card #Lancer #LancerRPG #mecha #mech #scifiart

the crack of the bat. the scent of a verdant field. A nationally broadcast game. These are the things that piss baseball fans off the most

Every hour a friend knows and did not tell me is an hour where they were not my friend.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3w ago

I gotta sleep but everyone please take this moment as a prompt to check in with friends and make sure everyone is on the same page with your wishes: Do you want to be woken up when it happens or not?

"He'll be reborn as Trisha Paytas' baby." "He'll be reborn as Anne Hathaway's baby." Wrong. He will spend the next thousand lifetimes born as mosquitoes that immediately fly into the bug zapper.

victory lapping on this one

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2y ago

welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

the beautiful game...

DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · last mo.

The entire city is on edge right now. It’s 96 degrees, we’re interrupted every 5 min by the sound of low-flying fighter jets, and the president has managed to ruin July 4th. Quietly muttering to myself: “just wait until IT happens. Everyone will be so happy when IT happens. It’ll be incredible…”

watched enough youtube videos this week to make me search for this one from the archives

In America, they put out emergency bulletins to arrest kids who put their hands in the supreme leader’s reflecting pool

If this guy saw the dark knight in theaters at the age of 13 he is 31.

Joe For America@makeitunclear.bsky.social · last mo.

saw the worst thing in the world today

Is there a way to get a deck of MTG Proxies that aren’t AI? All of the top sites and Etsy pages are infested. I just want to give a dollar to a person who made a silly art card and print a card to play commander with my friends. #EDH #MTGProxy

I made a new t-shirt that I think has an important message about the future and also about friendship and i think maybe you will like it roryblank.bigcartel.com