A day later and it hasn't gotten any better, these readings are insane
Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · yesterdayThe entire continental US is covered by smoke plumes and there are spots in the northwest that are absurdly toxic, do NOT go outside there. For reference, "hazardous" starts at an AQI of 300. fire.airnow.gov
Before the media outsourced everything, sub editors wrote headlines and ledes AFTER reading the article. This one suggests a crime was only discovered after a toddler was taken to hospital. But who took the toddler to hospital when everyone else at the house was dead?
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 5h agoA 23-year-old woman and 45-year-old man are found dead at a property in Charleville in outback Queensland after a toddler was taken to hospital.
Michael Clarke: Last night, Ukraine attacked a Wildberries warehouse in Tula region. This was 14th of 15 biggest Wildberries warehouses. Wildberries now suffered attacks, destruction, or damage to 60% of its warehousing capacity. It's cost them $3 billion worth of stock so far.
Computer scientist Frances Allen was a pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. + 1st woman to win the Turing Award + Her research directly shaped compiler design, code optimization & automatic parallel processing Born #OTD in 1932 & died #OTD in 2020. #WomenInSTEM #CompSci
There are other Democrats, of course. Not that you'd know it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoNew in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."
"New research reveals that almost 90 per cent of women politicians had experienced gendered online abuse, with more than half reconsidering their positions in public office." Thank goodness we're safe on this platform. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Tanya has been called a ‘fat dumb blonde’. But this is what crossed the line
Almost 90 per cent of women from across the political spectrum have endured patterns of targeted abuse designed to drive them out of public office.
smh.com.au
This is the story of how a group of perfectly ordinary neighbors took on one of the worst landlords in New York. And won. Introducing, the Union of Pinnacle Tenants: the short film. Watch the full film: youtu.be/h5dvGKI26ZA
24 years in the US senate: - didn’t read the constitution limiting executive power; - tax cuts for rich pukes; - couldn’t rally moral fiber among republican caucus; - odious record voting against women’s bodily autonomy, gun reforms; - spit in the faces of Epstein victims, protected abusers;
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
They are indicative of the users most protected on this platform.
Scott Wortley@scottwortley.bsky.social · yesterdayReplies and quote tweets of this are informative about a certain range of attitudes indicating some people are very angry that women in Edinburgh have a single sex service set up in addition to the ERCC service which did not guarantee such services for users.
The only profitable use cases for AI chatbots are predatory and malevolent. The more this crap pollutes digital space, the more people will abandon said space. The future is analog. The future is meatspace.
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · yesterdayIt's entirely possible that AI chatbots could someday soon take over much of the scam process as fully independent fraud agents.
The sheer spitefulness, the loathing for independent-minded women and anyone saying the wrong thing, runs like a thread though this hateful Guardian piece (And well done Sophie, because they attack when they can’t silence) www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
Sophie Cunningham isn’t rejecting politics. She’s cashing in on them
Sophie Cunningham’s rise says less about basketball than the incentives of a sports culture where outrage, identity politics and attention have become lucrative commodities
theguardian.com
I'm off like a raw prawn. See you on the other side.
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“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
wsj.com
"As a result, inciting hatred against people based on sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, religion and other characteristics will not be made illegal under the Crimes Act."
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Minns government has rejected key advice from a review it commissioned, which recommends hate speech laws be extended to protect more members of the community.
