I would like somebody to run on destroying car dealers.

Me: Ok, I'm at the admin access console for the mainframe. GM: Do you roll for hacking? Me: Before I do, does the console have an attached keyboard? GM: Yes? Me: I flip it over and check for a sticky note.

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

"why can't we find any senior devs to hire" because you fired all the entry level people 5 years ago gerald

This is what the internet is for, folks.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3d ago

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

Many of the prisoners who work here are ICE detainees. So the government is 100% fine with employing undocumented immigrants without work permits as long as they get to keep most of their wages.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

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 president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · 4d ago

When you slow down and think about it you realize it's ten times worse than it seems. Sure it's farcical, but it's also a brutal legal attack on a man they knew to be innocent, done to distract from their own thievery and incompetence and as a flex to terrify anyone who might make them look bad.

MAGA masculinity means declining to publicly criticize the man your daughter has accused of physical abuse, because doing so might prompt a senile 80-year-old man to write mean things about you.

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 5d ago

The man beat his daughter and injured his granddaughter but he's fine with it apparently. www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...

The harsh truth is solar farms tend to be installed on farmland where the people who own it, for whatever reason, have just kinda given up on farming. BUT, its owners also won't sell the land to someone who does want to farm! So they lease it to a solar farm.

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

I’m being either an aeronautical engineer or an airplane mechanic, so I hope I get some *very* comprehensive on-the-job training.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.

There are only three possible futures: a) everyone in the Trump admin goes to jail, rule of law partially restored; b) Dems retaliate in full, and maybe that's a deterrent; c) neither (a) nor (b), so lawless authoritarianism wins again, and when Republicans regain power they ramp it up even more.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

16-year-old Emely Charloth Suaza Chambo was taken by ICE on her way to church. ICE told her dad Fernando Suaza Ortiz to come take her home or they’d send her out of state. When he showed up for his daughter they took him too.

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

Pepper spray is less lethal, not non-lethal. People die or are permanently disabled from pepper spray. www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Lethal In Disguise: The Health Hazards Of Pepper Spray

Peaceful protesters were pepper-sprayed by mounted police, a sickening image prompting me to revisit the health risks.

forbes.com

Space Witches, Esq.@popelizbet.bsky.social · last wk.

when anyone sets off pepper spray in a school, it gets into the HVAC (usually not very up to date HVAC) and exposes a larger number of people to pepper spray than just those in the room with it. So people who are trying to quietly hide will be coughing and struggling to breathe.

Car dealers are a solidly Republican constituency, IIRC, and a Democratic Party willing to learn useful lessons from the GOP (help friends, hurt enemies) would put effort into rolling back the government's special treatment of dealerships.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last wk.

As far as I can tell, car dealers suck. All of them. You have to walk in knowing exactly what you want, tell them no repeatedly, also turn down their financing, have them scream and cry and act like you’re kicking their puppy, and then threaten to walk out (and potentially actually do it).

The crime that supposedly merits this horrible treatment? Shoplifting well over a decade ago.

Gregory Pratt@royalpratt.bsky.social · last wk.

A Polish-born woman in Des Plaines who “had done everything right” has been in ICE custody for the past year. Green Card for 20 years, sought citizenship. “And it didn’t matter.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/27/i...

As a reader, I share this worry. Trying to buy books right now is hell, especially children’s books. Just waves and waves of slop

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · last wk.

Maybe some audiences won’t care that a book is AI-assisted or just generated. I don’t know. I think my major worry is a blizzard of AI books making discovery even harder.

I got a family cemetery in Kentucky with just. Tiny grave after tiny grave. And you can tell when vaccines become common because suddenly there's almost no tiny graves anymore, only big ones. As big as Mormons are into genealogy you'd think Utah would be a bastion of vaccination.

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧵The US no longer meets criteria for measles elimination. Utah's outbreak has lasted for more than a yr. And cases this yr are at a 35-yr high. I talked w/pediatricians treating measles & talking w/parents who don't vaccinate. My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

I’m very worried about the person who records first dates and then asks the chatbot for feedback.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Definitionally, these are not “friends.”

We can solve hard problems when we actually try

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...

the only people who could ever earnestly support means testing are people who've never had to be means tested before. it is a humiliating, dehumanizing bureaucratic hostage negotiation with a system whose primary purpose is to *not* provide financial support as often as humanly possible

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Seattle City Council just voted 6-3 to approve Joy Hollingsworth's amendment to delay universal school lunches for kids, replacing them with vouchers for qualifying low-income parents to buy groceries over school breaks and weekends. Eddie Lin, Alexis Mercedes Rinck, and Rob Saka voted no.

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.

climatecoloredgoggles.com

Wow, Google's free cash flow is negative for the first time in over 10 years because of their relentless spending on AI products no one wants "Alphabet's spending on AI is now expected to hit as much as $205b...Alphabet's combined quarterly revenue hit $119.8b." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs

The company said earlier this year it expected to spend as much as $190bn on AI investments.

bbc.com

This is a blunt assessment of what the Trump regime is proposing for US science: they plan to take all the funding, essentially collapsing university-based research, in order to give that money to themselves, and they are lying about it.

Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common: