In 6th grade I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, then wrote a 4 page book report on how much its writing sucks compared to Final Fantasy Tactics.

Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 15h ago

What is the most vindicated you have be ever been for a hot take

The euphemism for Great Depression just dropped.

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 11h ago

"The jobless boom has arrived," per WSJ

I have lived east and west and while the west coast mountains will kill you through indifference to humanity, they are brash young mountains. The Appalachians are the home of things whose names humanity has never known, and they resent us as newcomers and take us down into the dark when they can.

Kris Lorischild@direkris.itch.io · 20h ago

It's so cute when people on the east coast talk about mountains

every single cis BlueSky lib account with "ally" in the bio when one of them makes a transphobic joke that just happens to be directed at MAGA: "🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"

I don't like this. I want folks to sub or give me bits because they wanna support me, not... Pressured into it by some nonsense like this, feels skeevy. Hopefully there's some way to turn it off.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 18h ago

Twitch is exploring the launch of a Boss Battle feature. Randomly, a Boss will show up in chat, and viewers need to fight it with Subs, Gifted Subs, and Bits for it to go away. If you beat it, you may get a temporary emote and/or a chat badge.

every single actor joining the new harry potter series saying "I don't agree with JK Rowling's opinions!"

oh FUCK yes! it's fully self-published now, none of the money goes to M$. Buying this IMMEDIATELY

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 20h ago

Were you interested in South of Midnight but didn't wanna give Xbox money whyever that might have been? HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU!https://kotaku.com/south-of-midnight-compulsion-games-bds-xbox-2000724140

The more I ponder what Mary said here, I think it is VERY important for those who don't like this EVEN IF YOU DON'T STREAM and want to send a message to Amazon on where the Twitch community falls in the genAI discussion to go in their settings and turn this off. The metrics are what speaks to them.

AnEternalEnigma@aneternalenigma.com · 2d ago

Flower cows! 🌼🐄 #art

You know how bad shit has to get for Raffi to be like “the peace of death is too good for him”

Raffi_RC@raffic.bsky.social · 14h ago

dying while in office not enough. prison is what his heinous crimes warrant. the nation will need a tribunal to hold him and his maga GOP accountable for contempt of democracy, for undermining the constitution they swore to uphold. and, at long last, the #epstein survivors will deserve justice.

BREAKING: ICE charter Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a massive contract to operate DHS's "deportation fleet." gillianbrockell.com/breaking-eas...

BREAKING: Eastern Airlines gets contract to fly DHS 'deportation fleet'

Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of ICE charter airline Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a contract to operate a fleet of Boeing 737 jets acquired by the Department of Homeland Security to conduct ...

gillianbrockell.com

everybody got the same pitch in their inbox huh

Notorious RBMK@comraderobot.bsky.social · 12h ago

bro shut the fuuuuuuck uuuuup

Just had dinner with some older Gen X people who are well-educated and every one of them had the whole "we just have to give up on trans people" attitude I want to talk a little bit about how I countered their arguments because maybe it will help some of you in similar convos (🧵)

Many libraries are moving away from a fine/late fee model with regards to getting people to return items. Removing that barrier has probably freed a lot of people to use the library more regularly with less anxiety. There's also been very little problem with this move in practice that I've seen.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · yesterday

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

New: 3 yrs ago I published exposé revealing Richard Hanania used pseudonym to write for Nazi sites Ever since I've watched centrist media rehabilitate him, accepting his ludicrous claim to have left white nationalism behind. My look at what it means, for @marisakabas.bsky.social' The Handbasket

You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania

The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.

thehandbasket.co

NEWS: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces the city will eliminate all out-of-pocket child care costs for roughly 22,000 low-income families receiving child care subsidies, making their care completely free beginning in September.

Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.

Jeremy White@jeremywired.bsky.social · 20h ago

POWER TRIP: ICE’s new electric shock gloves are designed to overpower subjects through intense pain. But it turns out there is a simple way to stop them working. Read the full story on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-pa...

one of the major changes in media criticism online in the last half decade is that when people used to do big leftist critiques of why harry potter sucks they always had a disclaimer like "now this doesn't mean i think you're a bad person for enjoying the books." they dont really do that any more

Apparently the test of the modern university is whether it would accommodate a seventeenth century academic exactly as he was

There is a very strong argument to be made that Elon Musk is one of the world's most prolific mass murderers

Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 2d ago

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This is a good example of something that is entirely political (the government dislikes higher ed and foreign people) and has large economic impacts but will get less attention than "woke one" from our pundit class.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterday

There will probably be far fewer foreign students on college campuses nationwide this fall following the Trump administration’s crackdown on international visas. A new report predicts international enrollment will decrease by 9.5 percent this fall.

Insane that AOC is being quoted as saying "Woke 1 was crazy" when this is what she actually said. youtu.be/SFwAnMLBSOw?...

Reminder: 1. You don't need to have an opinion on everything, especially stuff you don't know enough about 2. You don't need to have a PUBLIC opinion on everything 3. It's okay to focus on one or two things and let others take up the slack elsewhere 4. It's okay to take a break when overwhelmed.

every time a 360 shooter everyone hated at the time for being lowest common demonstrator slop that is now getting video essays from zoomers talking like its the lost soul of the once beautiful games industry i smile. thats the circle of life

this entire issue is downstream of the fact that kids are trapped in car-dependent suburbs, unable to develop any sense of autonomy until age 16, when they're suddenly allowed to drive a 4,000 lb vehicle

Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸@princetonyimby.bsky.social · 22h ago

The moral panic about e-bikes... "In New Jersey, the state legislature passed a law requiring registration, a license and, in some cases, insurance for anyone to ride an ebike...In this regulatory wild west, legal ebikes are caught in the crossfire." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Funny how "cause and effect" works. "the world is marching toward a grim milestone: Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase." "A study published in... 🧵1/4 apnews.com/article/usai...

USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying

The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.

apnews.com

The thing I dislike about modern promo pics (very well illustrated here next to an old one) is that the actors are visibly not inhabiting the same space.

Paul Kirkley@paulkirkley.bsky.social · yesterday

Casualty promo pic 1986 v Casualty promo pic 2026

The ChatGPT commercial with the old woman crocheting and talking to it like a friend infuriates me so much I have to mute it every time it comes on. It's not cute, it's scary and depressing. Please be kind to the elderly in your life and do not let them become reliant on a machine for companionship.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h ago

* U.S. SENDING FRESH AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO MIDDLE EAST AMID IRAN WAR STRAIN -- WSJ @reuters.com

Please don’t buy engineered stone countertops & pass it on

CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · 2d ago

Public Health Alerts: Silicosis among workers fabricating engineered stone (‘quartz’) countertops in California, 2019-2026 Among 592 patients, the median age at diagnosis was 46, with a mean age at death of 52 for the 31 workers who died. bit.ly/3UeRhyJ @nejm.org 📷: Heather/Flickr cc