Lashana Lynch was cast as 007 in the last James Bond movie. I'm guessing they don't want a Black woman in the role and are planning on looking for a white guy, instead.

The Independent@the-independent.com · 8h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

This is especially true for LGBTQ+ youth who need online communities now more than ever to connect, organize & find resources that are being restricted by the Trump administration & rightwing state governments. Read our full statement here: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-08...

Senate Commerce passes censorship bill KOSA out of committee, SCREEN Act fails

Fight for the Future is a digital rights organization that has been leading coalitions of human rights, LGBTQ, reproductive rights, and digital rights organizations opposed to the Kids Online Safety A...

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The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...

Tech: KOSA heads to Senate floor

The Senate Commerce Committee sent the Kids Online Safety Act to the floor on Wednesday, alongside three other bills designed to protect kids and teens using technology.

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It's amazing. They pull out another billion-dollar film with Zendaya and her husband and suddenly everyone stops talking about movies altogether.

Making Black people feel menaced and unsafe is as critical to the dogma of full-spectrum white safety as being accommodating of all white demands, desires and delusions.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 16h ago

For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

No mention of it in this story, but B&N's relationship with Warner Bros/JKR is something they need to contend with here: not the selling of books by them, but all the focused HP merch. It's offensive and off-putting. I hope they let individual stores get rid of it. youtu.be/HbVPHFM43qg?...

Inside CEO James Daunt’s Plan To Save Barnes & Noble | Behind The Business

YouTube video by Fortune Magazine

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It’s fucking gross to mock Cori Bush for "the Capitol steps with her Cheez-Its." She was sleeping outside the Capitol to pressure Congress and Biden to extend the COVID eviction moratorium after it expired, protecting millions of renters from eviction. Bush herself had experienced homelessness.

Reminder to everyone living with smoky air right now: DRINK MORE WATER. You're inhaling particulate even if you can't see it, your body needs to flush that crud out, and it needs water to do so. You're probably gonna produce more mucus and that's annoying, but it's helping clean out the crud.

Yay! On Libraries passing everywhere. Boo! On the Seattle Times endorsing No. Just goes to show how out of touch the Mercer Island Blethens are not just with the city but the region.

Oliver J. Moffat@olivermoffat.bsky.social · 14h ago

Snohomish and Island county voters approving the Library Levy by 56.34% so far

Brave thing to post on this site.

"You wouldn't believe my fantastic math productivity, now that I prompt-and-vibe-math the Big Tech math engines, instead of actually trying to think about problems and figure anything out"

Fires are burning on and around Mt. Hood, Oregon, with Level 3 Go evac orders for Mt. Hood Meadows. It's starting to look dangerously like a replay of the 2020 fires (that had WA and OR see mass evacuations all over). www.kgw.com/article/news...

A lovely gift in a dark time. J. Michael Straczynski brings Babylon 5 back to our screens via Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztQ4...

JMS Welcomes You to the Official Babylon 5 Channel!

YouTube video by Babylon 5

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@jasonleopold.bsky.social gets a sneak preview of @wyden.senate.gov's report on how banks ignored Jeffrey Epstein's suspicious transactions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Knowing the names of the officers engaged in violence and egregious use of force is a key part of HRDAG’s larger efforts to support accountability hrdag.org/2026/07/05/n...

Naming Police Officers Who Kill in California

New Functionality in the Police Records Access Project Highlights the Names of Individual Police Officers Oakland resident Erik Salgado was 23 years old when he was stopped by the California Highway…

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Well, at least this channel admits it is making AI slop. Here's the thing, though. You don't need the fake stuff. The real stuff still exists (and is 100000000x better. Even the crap).

There are so many better visions for this world and how we can live in it and we really need an end to this only-the-wealthy-decide madness.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

And keep in mind: if all those people wanted was to talk with other dickheads, they were and are still free to do that. But they don’t WANT that. They want to bother US. They literally have nothing to say to each other, because their entire social media experience is just howler monkey bullshit. 

lol YUP. One of the funniest 48 hours on Bluesky. They would try to bait all the big accounts, get the nuclear block, get added to a bunch of moderation lists, and then just be standing there like 

Ryan's Confused Stare (The Office)

ALT: Ryan's Confused Stare (The Office)

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

NEW: Big new feature from me about offshore wind farms as anchors for wildlife! For example: seals swimming *into* turbine towers to, apparently, hunt fish - and scour protection at the base of turbines used by sea creatures as a dwelling place. atmos.earth/science-and-...

The Sea Life Making a Home in Offshore Wind Farms | Atmos

Offshore wind farms can pose risks to birds and marine life. But their foundations also serve as artificial reefs, offering essential habit.

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Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Real talk: My Bluesky account is my most popular social media account, ever. It's been a significant benefit to me in tangible ways. But if they think *I* think they're irreplaceable? Their very existence proves they're wrong. I peaced-out on a 60k Twitter. I'll drop this place too, if it tries it

In case you still don't believe me. ddrn.dk/20190/

Every time you use genAI, you're supporting an ongoing genocide in Congo. Earlier this year, the US and UAE (which is, with our help, also committing genocide in Sudan) created a paramilitary force to ensure the flow of cobalt and rare earth minerals extracted by child slaves to create GPUs.

Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding

The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.

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Neal Stephenson on why writing by hand is good for your brain and how to do it. Schools reducing lessons in handwriting cursive is maybe the biggest educational blunder of the past 20 years or so. By handwriting you combine motorcortex with abstractions & "engrave" knowledge. What a skill to have!

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d ago

As a reader, my enjoyment of your novel is the same whether it was dictated, typed on an Underwood Noiseless, keyed into a word processor, or scratched out with a fountain pen: nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by... 5/

It's getting late. Take a break. Tune in. Alice Coltrane, Song of the Underground Railroad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5WH...

Alice Coltrane - Song Of The Underground Railroad (Jazz Jamboree, 1987)

YouTube video by Alice Coltrane

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Because the liars are out lying again— I wrote this from Paterson NJ in April 2020

‘Anybody who says they’re not scared during this is lying to you.’ A day in the life of paramedics in a pandemic | CNN

The man lay unconscious in the back of the ambulance, parked in front of the nursing home on the Passaic River. Another life slipping away before the paramedics of Paterson, N.J. For these health care...

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RFK Jr is a despicable liar.

Kirk Rudell@rudell.bsky.social · 3d ago

Shouldn’t be shocked at any lie RFK Jr tells, but he whined to Dana Bash that businesses were shut down during the pandemic “with no just compensation.” There was an almost trillion dollar PPP loan program, and his organization got millions from it, none of it paid back, to make payroll.

Found this to ben an insightful take on what's happening on the ground in MI www.notus.org/2026-electio...

A Normie Democrat Revolt Is Pushing Abdul El-Sayed Toward Victory

“The only reasonable thing seems to be: Burn it down and start over, and make it different,” one Michigan organizer said.

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I couldn't go the hospital to see my aunt, my best friend or my brother die because 1. They were full up and 2. Covid quarantine procedures. We remember everything. This fucker is gaslighting the world and I'm so gd sick of Dems playing ball with this administration. Enough.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>