This is honestly the saddest part of this story to me. Fauci, despite being surrounded by vipers, helped everyone who asked, even calming the fears of the vipers who went on to politically assassinate him. A lifetime of public service, turned on for cheap points www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Asking Anthony Fauci for medical advice then calling for him to be jailed? Katie Miller is the latest Maga hypocrite | Arwa Mahdawi

The vocal vaccine sceptic and wife of Trump’s deputy chief of staff turned to the former US science adviser when she was worried about Covid. Now, she’s claiming it was a cunning plan, writes Arwa Mah...

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"FUCK YEAH, WE'RE THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR NOW!! WARRRRRRR" *5 minutes later* "Okay so we ran out of missiles..." www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say

The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, ​raising concerns about th...

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I cut my water usage down to 2 days per week and a chunk of my lawn died which led to my HOA sending me a violation letter.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 2d ago

Denver Water asked customers to cut back 20% of their summer usage during the drought. Customers have only saved 5%.

We voted for people who have now made 2 people shit themselves to death. www.axios.com/2026/08/03/c...

Cyclospora outbreak causes first two deaths

Weeks into the national crisis that's sickened thousands of people, federal authorities still don't know for certain where it's coming from or why.

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I was talking to my wife about this tendency and how widespread it is. A couple days later we decided to show our kids Men In Black. And I had totally forgotten that fuckin K uses the MIB satellites to spy on his ex from space, her jaw was ON THE FLOOR.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

Why are these guys So. Fucking. Weird?

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

Earlier tonight, @michellegoldberg.bsky.social read *another* quote from this weirdo that reflected the same general sentiment. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

lol Doomsday about to go into some reshoots variety.com/2026/film/bo...

‘Spider-Man’ Beats ‘Avengers: Endgame’ as ‘Brand New Day’ Climbs to $360 Million, the Biggest Opening Weekend in Box Office History

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" beat the opening weekend record of "Avengers: Endgame" after all with $360 million in its domestic debut.

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If you don't specifically identify the scene where Spider-Man is swinging MJ home in total silence aside from some thwips and grunts as one of the peak all-timer Spider-Man scenes in film, I'm afraid you may simply not understand Spider-Man.

I was using a web site that tracked shot availability at different pharmacies so I could fill out a form the second I could, which included lying about my age and pre-existing conditions so I could drive 3 hours to get it as soon as possible. The government didn't have time to acquire my obedience.

Marc Veldhoen@marcveld.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.

Finally. Call up all the other journalists that have been fired from these various right-wing news takeovers while you're at it.

Sam Litzinger@samlitzinger.bsky.social · 3d ago

Good luck, Bill! “Ex-‘60 Minutes’ boss Bill Owens wants to launch rival news show with Scott Pelley, other fired staffers: sources” nypost.com/2026/08/02/m...

Nothing works and everyone is euphoric. ptrchm.com/posts/nothin...

I may have just coined the term "slopuments"

I've scanned through this diary a bit and while there is some strange stuff - like calling the wet market an "accelerant" rather than origin, or his general obsession with his press - for the most part the biggest takeaway is that EXACTLY what we all thought was going on was true. Trump's a moron.

Jennifer Shin - WTAF@jennifershin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Considering how badly Covid was mishandled, they're probably going to regret the decision to make Fauci's personal diary and journal public. We're going to see how it was handled from the insider, from Fauci's point of view... based on you know...science.

Watching #BigBrother28 feels like watching the GOP win on election night I will not be elaborating.

X views are a total mirage. Whatever Musk reports is certainly a lie. They won't let anyone study the platform for a reason: It's entirely fake; it's a billion Russian bots pretending to be your girlfriend.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5d ago

The audience for pro-Trump content has fallen from its heights and, for some creators, has reached new lows, a New York Times analysis suggests. Views are dropping for many of President Trump’s greatest allies. nyti.ms/3TLV4TV

Fight. They will fold first, every time.

MS NOW@ms.now · 5d ago

BREAKING: DOJ drops felony charges against former Olympian after concluding Reflecting Pool damage was caused by "botched" installation, not vandalism.

I really don't know what else people could have wanted from a Spider-Man movie

Good fucking god this looks like hideous shit

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 6d ago

Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized

I think if you don't love Brand New Day, you might not actually be all that interested in seeing Spider-Man on film www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

Every Tom Holland ‘Spider-Man’ Movie, Ranked

We're taking a look back at every time Tom Holland donned the spandex to swing into action, as Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrives.

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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...

I feel like this basically confirms X is explicitly working on a nudify app

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · last wk.

SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...

OPINION: The growing grassroots movement against Flock cameras has entered a new phase. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/07/floc...

Flock Blowback, Tea Parties, and the Groundswell Against Big Tech

Header image by Jacob Richards. The growing grassroots movement against Flock cameras has entered a new phase. As citizens' concerns have gone largely unheard by local governments, the people have...

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Atlassian has instituted a $500 - $2,000/month AI token budget as the tokenmaxxing era ends. I’m curious to see where these budgets end up over time and whether this is another metric that’s used to differentiate big tech from regular tech jobs?

Atlassian tightens tracking of staff AI use as other technology firms encourage ‘tokenmaxxing’

Some companies reportedly using leaderboards for employees who used the most AI in their work

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The fact that this happening would be so funny and gratifying is why I know it won't happen

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

(Bloomberg) - Larry Ellison and his family would be on the hook for $9.8 billion if Paramount Skydance Corp.’s deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. falls apart. @bloomberg.com $PSKY $ORCL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hey. Hey. Listen. I get it. I understand the urge to select and deselect paragraphs of text over and over as you read a document. I do it too. But once it's in a Google Doc, you gotta stop.

"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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It's very odd to me that, given the absolute nightmare of negotiations that have gone on between Marvel and Sony over Spider-Man and related characters, that they would introduce their first official MCU X-Men character in a Sony production.

I came back to MTG for Duskmourn so these cards have been staples of every deck I've played against and every deck I've played for years. I haven't gone through an actual rotation since then. This is gonna be crazy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWp7...

2027 Rotation Guide

YouTube video by Arstall

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lol they took the one thing that was most interesting about the franchise premise - that each time they load into the game, they are assigned different characters, forcing the 4 mains to act like completely different people - and ruined it.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · last wk.

JUMANJI: OPEN WORLD - Official Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhAp...

Sure would be fun to take my kids to see Brand New Day but whoops for it to make any sense I have to show them No Way Home first and whoops for that movie to make sense I have to show them 5 other Spider-Man movies from 2 different universes first. Fuck multiverses, shit's whack