⚠️ Democrats in array: Schumer, Gillibrand, and Whitmer coalesce behind El-Sayed

"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.

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Reminder of the awesome preview pages from LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #1 courtesy of @cleanlined.bsky.social and @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social! Pre-orders for the debut issue end in just FIVE DAYS. So tell your store to get you copies before MONDAY!

I'm launching a line of dress socks that use nanobots to pull themselves up your calves.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 12h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

Here’s the key takeaway from our report: Epstein couldn’t have carried out his trafficking and criminal activity without the help of the highest ranking employees and executives at the most powerful banks in the world. Wall Street is complicit in Epstein’s crimes from top to bottom.

Between the Odyssey and a demented narcissist ruler becoming obsessed with a reflecting pool, Greek mythology is having a hell of a summer.

Bought a new printer, so I'm taking the opportunity to clean off my desk. Found four sets of old glasses in the debris. So...it's been a while.

Just a few days ago, Senator Moreno was asked if his daughter's alleged abuser should drop out, and he responded, "I don't know."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Moreno on Max Miller: "My daughter lives in constant fear of this man ... you can't fathom what that makes me feel like when the dad's number one job is to protect your kids... if there's any minimum standard for being an elected official, he feels to meet it. I don't care about the politics at all"

It would get more play if it didn't make Tubby mad. Gotta preserve that access!

David Roberts@volts.wtf · yesterday

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

I get why courting a right-wing customer base seems appealing, they're bad with money and really fucking stupid

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Yf you spye a fadid signe at the syde of the roade that saith 'V short leagues to the Shack of Love'

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The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump’s regime from Guatemala to Pittsburgh | Will Bunch

In just a year and a half, Donald Trump’s warped agenda is killing innocent people at home and around the world.

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Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 2d ago

The bodies are piling up In a Guatemalan sugar cane field. A Pittsburgh bus shelter. A residential street in Iran. A street in Maine, and inside the ICE gulag The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

carving “this machine kills fascists” into a 60lb rare earth magnet and launching it into a data center

Such a good read.

Kieron Gillen@kierongillen.bsky.social · 3d ago

You'll likely know @tomhumberstone.com from various things (his comic on the Luddites went large), but he's got a new one on the Gig Economy, couriers, the history of all that, specifics of exploitations and the fight against that. Read it, and spread it around. Strong. tomhumberstone.com/just-work

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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The story of how the LDS accepted Black people is incredible. IRS: "So you refuse to ordain Black people as bishops?" LDS: "Yes, it's god's will." IRS: "As a racially discriminatory organization, you are no longer tax exempt." LDS: "Hang on... you are NOT gonna believe who I just talked to."

Dark Horse Comics’ beloved Senior Editors have insisted on joining our union, DHWU! In response, Dark Horse management has threatened the Senior Editors with a demotion and severe pay cut unless they accept supervisory status and abandon their union eligibility.

This guy can’t even handle lettuce and he wants to lecture us about doing too much to save lives at the start of a pandemic that killed over one million Americans.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

BASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me ...

Sheep go to heaven, goats go to...

On August 1, 1986, Howard The Duck premiered in theaters. NEVER FORGET.

“We’re gonna go through every fucking file” is what I want to hear right now from every Dem candidate. Seed fear into the gestapo. Let them know they don’t just walk away from all this when management changes. Biden historically blew it by “moving on” from Jan6. We can’t make that mistake again.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

This is simple and powerful advice. Sad that our biggest outlets tend not to take it.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 5d ago

A simple rule for any journalist who cares about this country: "The lie never gets the headline or the lead sentence—the truth does, every time."

The Sack of Troy hits different in academic circles vs on Pornhub

Trump's popularity hits a new low. But there's still more bottom to this barrel.

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...