No drinking water or air conditioning in the South China Sea in July? Uhhhh

hilzoy@hilzoy.bsky.social · 4h ago

Jesus. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

You've made it through Monday! Things are looking up for the rest of the week.

If you think data centers are bad, boy howdy let me tell you about almonds

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h ago

you get scolded for taking a longer shower because Adolf McKulak in the Central Valley literally has a semi-feudal right to use as much as he wants to grow some of the most water intensive crops in the world, often for export overseas

My first ever favorite video game

MS-DOS Games, Programs, Trivia, Pixels, Grog@scumm-bar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Oxyd Dongleware Verlags GmbH 1992

Nick Anderson: nickanderson.substack.com

At this point I can’t tell if I’m rewatching all of Band of Brothers because it’s an excellent show or because I wanted to watch Americans humiliate Nazis but it’s probably equal measures of both

This is the greatest summary of the failed Pivot to Asia I've ever seen. @diplomatofnight.com

White House Taps Mean Teen In Zara Fitting Room As New Press Secretary https://theonion.com/white-house-taps-mean-teen-in-zara-fitting-room-as-new-press-secretary/

Describe your music taste with only 3 artists: - Opeth - Voivod - Rush

🦝C҉e҉e҉ ҉J҉a҉y҉ 🦝@cjup2nog00d.bsky.social · 11h ago

Describe your music taste with only 3 artist: - Black Sabbath - Wolfmother - Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats

Obviously this is not true, but I actually do think some of these CEOs believe it as sort of an Atlas Shrugged escape plan kind of thing. They all know that Earth is fucked up and it is their fault and they just want to leave to their private little planet. Well you're stuck here with us fuckers.

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 14h ago

Actual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...

It’s hot and humid today and I am officially declaring a day of hiding in my wolf cave

Shout out to today’s @quorators.bsky.social for the gem “you could make a WikiFeet for faces and call it Facebook”

The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!

Today's daily reminder that the UAE is currently engaged in a genocide in Sudan using weapons they receive from the US and money they receive from our tourism dollars, and every celebrity who lives or vacations in Dubai or Abu Dhabi is knowingly funding it.

Far left college professor here. College is supposed to prepare students for real life.among other things. Do you want your accountant or doctor or any professional really to collapse in tears b/c they are unsure of how to handle your issue?

Really got some ultimate dad hours going on today with my plans of working out and then grilling and watching Band of Brothers lol

Just for my own nerdiness: In Omani history, they bitterly remember the British extorting the Sultan of Muscat in 1898 out of making a great deal with France for a coaling station and threatening them into relenting, and their whole thing nationally is that no one is going to do that to them again.

I got out of doing policy analysis full-time a long time ago because I thought the guy who came after Obama would be worse than Bush, but I honestly don’t know what to say about what’s happened in Trump 2. The stuff that has happened in the last 24 hours completely blows my mind for how dumb it is.

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 17h ago

🔺BREAKING: President Trump threatens to bomb Oman ‘if it gets in the way’. The US president also told Fox News he was in ‘no hurry’ to secure a deal with Iran

Books!

Anne@anneb.bsky.social · 4d ago

You complete this sentence

I watched the new Bob Odenkirk movie Normal and it was very good, and I really appreciated that it is pretty silly lol

Like ten years after I went there the “senior prank” did some major damage to some classrooms and the scandal was so intense that about six guys had their diplomas withheld, lost their college acceptances, and went to jail for a month or so.

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · 2y ago

what was "the incident" at your high school?

nuclear discourse bomb just dropped 😭

Furry Clips (KiloRat)@kilorat.com · 3d ago

Jimmy Kimmel Live! (Series) (August 13, 2026) - Dave Franco talks about Raww's age (not content I like to focus on, but the only clip I could find was a phone pointed at a TV, and we deserve a better clip than that)

Not to excuse this site’s downtime or necessarily argue against allegations of vibe coding, but it does sort of suck that building a simple Twitter-like service is easy but building one that operates at a scale of millions is very hard from a computer science and software development perspective.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how basically the entirety of what the US defense apparatus was planning for as of 2010-2015 was containing North Korea and the “pivot toward Asia” total shift and in the last couple of hours and days the rough entirety of those millions of hours of work was discarded.

it's pretty cool that we just saw the largest shift in U.S. defense posture in decades declared via spiteful post.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterday

BREAKING: President Trump orders the Pentagon to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea after he says it declined to help denuclearize Iran.

"Hello Jeffrey! We would love to have dinner with you this evening."

Dario Amodei's Wife Is Closely Linked to Jeffrey Epstein

Emails revealed that Cami Clark, the wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, communicated with and tried to raise money from Jeffrey Epstein.

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Why is it always "Bluesky is dying because sometimes a Marxist replies to you" and never "Bluesky is dying because the site regularly fails to load for half-days at a time"