obsessed with this from @racketmn.com. one of my core principles is that we need like 20x as much scene/street style photography from media outlets as we have. it's so wonderful racketmn.com/enjoy-43-lov...

Enjoy 43 Lovely Portraits of Minnesotans Thriving at the 2026 MN State Fair - Racket

At the Great Minnesota Get-Together, humanity shines as bright as the midday Midway sun.

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The person you should all be voting for in the most influential Bluesky thing is Kyle MacLachlan who has made exactly one post and it was a reply to someone and it was a hot dog

Kyle MacLachlan@kyle-maclachlan.bsky.social · 2y ago

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Imagine giving Baudrillard different kinds of Gatorade to try and watching him get progressively more depressed as you told him the names of each flavor

Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

really good "how did we get here" on the current enclosure of OSS commons by wealthy, phobic fascists brennan.day/normalized-f...

Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...

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This is a hanging crime

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Anyways, I’m gonna go to bed and think about all of my mistakes

If a mug says "dishwasher safe" you can put it in the dishwasher. If it doesn't say "dishwasher safe" it's still ok to put it in the dishwasher. If it says "do not put in dishwasher under any circumstances" you can still put it in the dishwasher a little bit

once you see missing missing reasons you never unsee them issendai.com/psychology/e...

Last year, I wrote about how awful it is that many states and cities are still using Facebook and X to communicate vital disaster information. We desperately need to fix this.

We Have to Stop Using Facebook and X to Warn People About Disasters

In the early morning hours of July 4th, as the Guadalupe River reached catastrophic heights, city officials in Kerr County, Texas turned to an all-too familiar mechanism for getting the word out to ar...

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David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3w ago

During an emergency like we’re having in Hawai’i, I’m reminded of how annoying it is that essential accounts like the electricity company and the City and County of Honolulu are only on Twitter and not on Bluesky.

the anti-vaccine movement is just an anti-science movement that spills over into other parts of medicine and the misinformation kills

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w ago

Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)

Perhaps professional associations of journalists should convene a working group to address these kinds of non-responses. A new norm is needed here to dis-incentivize it: if a *professional politician* claims to be unaware of a serious news item, end the interview there.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

TAPPER: You voted for Blanche. Do you think it's appropriate for the AG to be participating in a partisan political event? CASSIDY: All I saw was that little snippet. I'm going to reserve comment because I was not aware of that before this. I will say Republicans are very strong on law enforcement

There’s about a 20-year period between 1995 and 2015 where actors from the 90s got 20 years older

Listen here, pal: this is a Megan Follows bar. You don’t come to the goddamn Avonlea Alehouse and start shit-talking Megan Fucking Follows unless you want someone to take you the fuck out." buff.ly/C6klcGj

Say “Megan Follows Is the Best Anne of Green Gables” or I’ll Beat the Living Shit Out of You

“Listen here, pal: this is a Megan Follows bar. You don’t come to the goddamn Avonlea Alehouse and start shit-talking Megan Fucking Follows unless you want s...

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Cosigned, a former homeschooled kid

Cohen is a Ghost@skullmandible.bsky.social · 4w ago

people will be like "well homeschooling worked great for me" and like sure, ok, I don't doubt it, but religious conservatives are raising swarms of children who can't read and don't know what the sun is and I think we may need to return to a seatbelt-mandate-style solution to this issue

"Minnesota’s most recent error rate was 2%, one of the lowest in the nation, compared with 6% nationally and 7% in Florida, 8% in Ohio and more than 20% in Wyoming and South Carolina, all red states."

Hard data and context are missing in Minnesota's overblown fraud furor

Trump's claims that this state is an outlier when it comes to fraud don't hold up, and the politicized attacks must not go unchallenged.

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my fav @michaelhobbes.bsky.social hot take that i have now stolen as my own: we need broken windows policing for white collar crime.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · last mo.

A central part of why it seems like powerful, rich people live in a consequence-free world is that the social incentives to hold them to account have withered. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 𝟏𝟐-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬

new issue of Vizier Monthly is out

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

The Biclops

The latest SpaceX unscheduled rapid disassembly into the fuckin moon happening right on Einstein's Crater is 🧑🏻‍🍳💋 terrific subtext great work, writers

yeah i'm a gamer

This last bit is significant of the way that networked amplification of lies (and hate, and other propaganda) works; where fact-checking, counter-narrative messaging, and attempts to “shine light” are relied on to *spread* the original message through participatory information sharing behaviors

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · last mo.

"The operation, which emerged in 2024, specializes in creating fake articles that look as if they were from real news organizations like Reuters or France 24. The goal seems to be to spread the claims by encouraging fact checkers to debunk them."

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Again, the most important legal and ethical issue raised by this is something like "no you didn't, that's a lie, that didn't happen"

Musk is calling for the assassination of a journalist. It's so difficult to comprehend why someone in his position would do such a thing that we naturally give him the benefit of every doubt, but it's crystal clear what he's saying.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

Ok but what if I WANT to terminate my thoughts with a cliche

AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/

"I use chatgpt as a search engine" "I use minesweeper as a website browser" "I use the lego pirate ship when I want to boil an egg"