Facebook does this type of shit and then campaigns in favor of age verification laws BECAUSE THEY KNOW AV LAWS DON’T WORK and because mandatory ID verification furthers the surveillance state they’re in favor of.

Public Citizen@publiccitizen.bsky.social · 1h ago

Meta ran & hosted dozens of paid ads that featured AI-generated child sexual abuse material. This is absolutely repulsive. Big Tech is willing to do anything that helps their profits - even if it threatens kids' safety & wellbeing. The public should be outraged.

Naomi Klein going all-in on launching a Substack in 20fucking26 makes me want to throw my teenage copy of NO LOGO through a window

I heard “inshallah and the creek don’t rise” the other day.

Fair enough, but the non-partisan polls of the races also did very poorly: - Emerson: El-Sayed +16 - Tavern: AES +10 - Glengariff: Stevens +7 - Mitchell: AES +14 Looks less like partisan pollsters rigging their data and more like a combination of late movement and biased samples across the board

Norm Ornstein@normornstein.bsky.social · 20h ago

Whoever ends up winning the Democratic nomination for Senate in Michigan, I hope with little expectation that those who took seriously polls showing a rout for El-Sayed will think twice about relying on questionable and/or partisan polls.

It’s the 50th anniversary of the time Eric Clapton went onstage and told everyone who wasn’t British to leave the room and the country, and was the impetus for Rock Against Racism

It gets an actual chuckle out of me seeing people on here say "now the TRUE test is whether the shitlibs can live up to their own words and line up behind El-Sayed!" only for Stevens, Whitmer, every prominent Michigan Dem, the DSCC, etc. to have endorsed El-Sayed before they can finish the sentence.

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I have no desire to hold public office & am entirely unelectable besides. my recreational habits in 1986 alone disqualify me. but I'm running for president anyway & my entire platform is "when you need your health care provider, you get a live operator every time." I will win in a landslide

BRYANT ANNOUNCES DEAL TO CONSTRUCT FILM STUDIO ON SURFACE OF MARS

Carli Velocci 👽@carlivelocci.com · 7h ago

CARLI PLANS TO FLY TO MARS AND POWER IT WITH ACRES OF POTATO BATTERIES

god brooklyn vegan was such an institution, what a loss.

Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 8h ago

“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”

in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon

Miller is a piece of shit. But be cautious about calling family photos of nude toddlers "CSAM." I've written about lives ruined over allegations that turned out to be harmless photos of kids taking a bath or running naked through the house. Moreno is already calling for prosecutions, here.

Max Miller’s lawyer admits to accidentally releasing ‘private images’ of daughter

Lawyers for ex-wife Emily Moreno said possible “Child Sexual Abuse Material” was included in a trove of documents the Ohio lawmaker publicly posted.

politico.com

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

404media.co

Oh so it’s gonna CRASH crash

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h ago

Jim Cramer just now on Elon Musk and why you should buy SpaceX: “Because our minds are small and his mind is big.”

Something I think those of us who grew up in 90s or earlier are going to have to internalize — and will always struggle to remember — is that US voters no longer accept the fiction that politics is a contest between liberal and conservative ideas, rather than faction-based culture war by other means

Young people don't think politics is about proper tax rates or balancing efficiency and justice. Young people — and in this sense they're just seeing the world more clearly — understand politics now is about status. Who deserves to have it stuck to them? Who should do the sticking? These are our Qs

The decisive failure of GOP referenda in Kansas Amendment 1 and Missouri Amendment 4 yesterday is yet another reminder of something I've been saying for a while: Voters, even Republican voters, now regularly despise and repudiate GOP attempts to use them to destroy democracy.

In Chicago we can start with parks and libraries. Parks should have 24/7 all gender public bathrooms

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 12h ago

Efforts to police bathrooms are evil and will impact peoples' health. Segregated bathrooms themselves must be done away with, it's the only solution. I reported this question out, years ago for @99pi.org 99percentinvisible.org/episode/wher...

The fuck is this

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 11h ago

Aaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING@weatherishappening.com · yesterday

/ BOSTON / THIS TUESDAY SUNSET / IS THE FINAL SUNSET / AFTER 8 PM / UNTIL MAY 17TH 2027 / DEAL W/ IT / & REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS

In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 11h ago

web.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"

And even if they were, it would still be extrajudicial murder and a war crime. www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

‘They are murder victims’: Senator suggests US strikes have killed people who weren’t involved in drug trafficking | CNN Politics

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following “a careful...

cnn.com

This does seem like a pretty key piece of context for all those "the Michigan primary was super close, so El-Sayed had better tack to the center now!" articles I'm already seeing pop up

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 16h ago

Unfathomable

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 20h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

@josie.zone hey I remember you talking about The Believer (2001) — do you by any chance know the movie podcast Pleasers & Punishers? because I'm listening to their summer bloopers ep and co-host Amanda Jane Stern just said her mother was the casting director.

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

huh, in three weeks Pearl Jam's debut record _Ten_ will be 35 years old. …fuck

wait, that's a _new_ X-Files movie?

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak