Good morning! Coming up at the top of the hour (10:00 am Eastern, 7:00 am Pacific), it's the Senate Commerce Committee markup on several bad internet bills, including KOSA, the SCREEN Act, and the CHATBOT Act. You can watch the livestream at www.commerce.senate.gov/meetings/exe...

The Transition (is unstoppable).

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6d ago

US electricity investment inched up to another record high in official data released this morning Solar/Wind investment continued hitting new highs, transmission & distribution investment rebounded from its 2025 declines, while traditional gas/coal construction remains stagnant

Week 2 at @igalia.com and I am practically vibrating with excitement as I learn about the challenges I get to dig into and the fabulous people I'll be working alongside. This is going to be a fun and gratifying adventure. Also: look ma, I'm now listed on the website 🥺

Robin Riley | Igalia - Open Source Consulting and Development

Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers an...

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A health worker union has accused Kaiser Permanente of screening patients and making care recommendations through “a digital, automated algorithm” without clinician oversight — a practice the union says violates state law. cal.news/4fISnd7 📸 Jules Hotz

Let's go @wpbl.bsky.social San Francisco Firebells 🔥 Stoked to witness history, their first game of the first year of this brand new league.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

June in Servo… 🫴👷‍♀️ SharedWorker now stable 🎨🛠️ more powerful ‘attr()’ and ‘calc()’ 📏📐 new @‌media query features 🏜️🥾 real world compat improvements 🙏📰 `@‌servo-highfive monthly update` servo.org/blog/2026/07...

This Week in Matrix is out! 📰 New MSCs, spec updates, and the Matrix Workation early-bird deadline (it's today, Jul 31!) Read more: matrix.org/blog/2026/07... #Matrix #FOSS

This Week in Matrix 2026-07-31

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

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Ah. Fire and smoke season has definitely arrived.

Today and every day, trans youth need to know that their community is with them, and that they are seen, loved, and celebrated for who they are. We won’t stop fighting for trans youth, and we know our community won’t either. 💜🏳️‍⚧️ Share this post and add your own message of support in the comments.

I'm looking for resources for trans folks in the US who live in hostile states — both adults and minors. May include support lines, groups, funds, travel networks, guides, compendiums of resources, you name it, I want to know about it. Let me know what's on your radar and please boost for reach!

Bay FC announced today that the club has activated defender Abby Dahlkemper from maternity leave, marking a return to the club’s roster for the Bay Area native. Dahlkemper will be available for selection for today’s match vs. Gotham FC.

Welcome to the COYOTE calendar of Bay Area events! This week, we've got alien costumes, several forms of magic, bratwurst throwing, Yiddish puppetry, and something described as “intelligent, leaky, erotic, and alive.” www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

Current status: posting from the Blacksky app 🔥

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🔥 The Blacksky mobile app is here. Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android. If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇

I would like to bring more of the fruits of the AT Protocol to the people who don't care about protocols, which is most people. www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-...

Launching a Cloud Atlas

The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.

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I regret having overlooked the romance genre for so long. Whole lotta cultural reasons for that, I imagine. Finished my first read last night and I'm excited to find my next! But that'll have to wait, because next on my list is This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Chloe Zhao's THE TIGER IS OUT, coming 2028

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Our friends at @coyotemedia.org are doing a subscription drive, so support them if you can (even though they outrageously stole our unique and proprietary idea to be a hyperlocal bay area voice that publishes an events calendar and is mad about tech barons): www.coyotemedia.org/email/ad0d0c...

COYOTE Weekly: We're Having a Subscriber Drive!

We're having a big sale!

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Another round of Soccer with Socialists is this Saturday, August 1 at Santa Rosa's Juilliard Park! Hope to see you there ⚽ ¡Este sábado, 1 de agosto, habrá otra ronda de «Fútbol con los socialistas» en el Parque Juilliard de Santa Rosa! Esperamos verte ahí ⚽ solidarity.socodsa.org/soccer-with-...

First day on the job — aka, time to get settled in on a new machine. Can I just say how happy I am that newer MacBooks brought back the MagSafe connector while still supporting USB-C PD? What a delight.

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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I'm delighted to share that next week I'll be starting as an Open Source Product Marketing Strategist at @igalia.com 🤩

Didn't realize that Dr. Bronner's soap was cool like that, but I'll take it

It's a strange feeling to get an official diagnosis of autism after years suspecting it was a thing. Your girl's been blessed with the super hat-trick of the frequently co-occurring: Trans, ADHD, and autistic, with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Now to figure out how to apply this self-knowledge!

18 months into medical transition. I dreamt about joining the women's soccer team — which was lovely. Then I woke up and had to confront the reality that trans femmes are less free than we were, and many I love have fallen prey to the right-wing psy-op that is the trans people in sports "debate."

Get the Facts: Trans Inclusion in Sports

True fairness in sports means ensuring every individual has the opportunity to compete on a level playing field, regardless of their identity or background.

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Something optimistic for you today: An interview with Understory, a worker-owned restaurant in Oakland, on how they manage to survive a cutthroat industry with their values intact. www.coyotemedia.org/understory-o...

How a Worker-Owned Restaurant Chose Each Other Over Everything Else

Oakland’s Understory wants you to come for the political mission AND the great food.

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Allowing myself to sit with a little "told you so" energy before reckoning with the fact that this is vile, we're all worse off for it, and sitting on a high horse does no good.

World Cup got you fired up? 👀 ⚽ Join us for Soccer with Socialists, SoCo DSA's first pick-up soccer game, at Cotati's Kotate Park this Sunday! Then, join us for an afterparty at Lady Blume off La Plaza. ☕ RSVP: solidarity.socodsa.org/soccer-with-...