Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w agoi worked in several casinos and later for an online sportsbook. the best advice i can give you is to stay the hell away from all of it.
Ok, that’s enough internet for me today
Julie Patton Lawson@srfrjulie.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat the actual fuck
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken
David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3w agoIt took social media by storm, but it didn’t work for all the reasons that ocean plastic pollution experts said it wouldn’t work all along. My latest for The Revelator tells this important story and asks what we can learn from it. Please enjoy. therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...
Trump ruins everything he touches. Before; After.
"Every job is easy. Except mine. That requires a rare combination of brains, hard work, and subject matter knowledge" -everyone
Seth D. Michaels@sethdmichaels.bsky.social · last mo."venture capitalist is the only irreplaceable job, and can comfortably sit on top of a substrate of mass unemployment," says the venture capitalist, because his mind is so squishy and shallow it does not comprehend the distinction between reality and a video game gizmodo.com/marc-andrees...
Cloud-to-ground lightning, ground-to-cloud fireworks in DC.
I was a teenager in 1976, and lived through the year-long Bicentennial bash. It's striking how different it was from thos joyless, cheesy, angry 250th is. This one feels like an official celebration in Pyonyang, under the point of a gun.
I don't think any American--regardless of party, despite fondness for aviation (which I share)--would enjoy being under the nonstop low-altitude, high-speed, incredible-volume of the Caligula overflights of our nation's capital right now. It feels and sounds like being under aerial attack.
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · last mo.So, per @Froomkin, what we're getting now in DC is sequence of -F-35s -F-18s -More F-35s -F-22s about to arrive. Again, I love airplanes and airshows. But this is wasteful beyond belief. (Another F-35 pack zooms by just now.) Someone can calculate millions-per-flight-hr of each craft
Really hoping this was a clip of the guy putting the cone on her head but…oh, well
DC Council@councilofdc.bsky.social · last mo.Looks like more new neighbors moved in across the street… Freedom Plaza now has a mid-gilded “Spirit of Liberty” …with an assist by beloved Simpsons character Groundskeeper Willie!
A few pictures from the Nathanael Greene statue re-unveiling yesterday in Stanton Parl thehillishome.com/2026/06/nath...
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There’s not much related to the American Revolution in D.C. for the simple reason that the city did not exist during that war. One of the few things we have (other than the paintings in the Rotunda of...
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Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
At least it gives them something to do. Like telling people to get off the (painted grass)
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2mo agoOh boy. Trump has now stationed the National Guard around the algae pool. Truly one of the greatest threats facing America today.
That's clearer than before the NPS started 'cleaning it up' There's a metaphor here, I can feel it. (And the reflecting pool is a synecdoche to the entire Tr*mp regime)
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2mo agoI guess the paint is peeling off the grass, too.
Because it would be too on the nose if it were 177.6 times that amount
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2mo agoConservatives wanted Barack Obama impeached over the money he agreed to pay Iran (which was Iran’s money, frozen in U.S. banks), which was $1.7 billion. Trump is going to hand Iran 176 times that amount. trib.al/YEFHCNb
I just want to know if the two reflecting pools between the Capitol and Washington Monument are painted blue
Helder Gil@hgil.bsky.social · 2mo agoExcellent map of sightseeing to do over the next 10 days!
This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone
Andrew P.@apoure25.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat
Since they seem to hang out in places already quite safe, this does not surprise me in the least
NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoA new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqK
