Sneadly
@sneadly.bsky.social
Retired librarian. Dogs, books, induction cooking—cap the gas!
Just spent an hour excoriating my long-time go-to local HVAC company on yelp (I am one of many) and the BBB site for having become a piece of shit. Turns out they sold to some national overlord corporation. So that explains it. We were with them 35 years and now they’re garbage.
You could have voted to impeach in January 2000. Instead, you voted for no witnesses and no documents to be allowed at trial. You are a failed person, Cornyn.
When Whitehouse is on, he's on. This is a flamethrower.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWhitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
Domingo Geronimo Mattle / @realurbanartistry paints subjects as if they’re turned around in famous paintings: #AGoodPlace
You'd have to be a special kind of stupid to not understand this.
Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.
There is shooting yourself in the foot, there is stepping on a rake, and then there is whatever cosmic level of self-sabotage the Trump Organization just achieved. In what might be the single greatest “be careful what you wish for” moment ever in legal history, Donald Trump set out to prove
James Talarico demonstrates the silliness of including the 10 Commandments in school. 🎯
Randy Fair@southerngayteacher.bsky.social · 4d agoBlanche “has the authority right now, with the stroke of a pen, to grant us this access, to let us, our investigators and prosecutors, come and take a look at the files, identify co-conspirators, witnesses, corroborating evidence, identify new potential leads,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I loathe the Huckabeast.
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4d agoThe man endorsed by Sarah Huckabeast in this video is Arkansas state Rep. Austin McCollum. McCollum was arrested today on charges of aggravated assault against a family or household member, first-degree false imprisonment, and third-degree domestic battery. www.nwaonline.com/news/2026/au...
Republicans believe vaccines cause autism, Trump won the 2020 election, Michelle Obama is a man, and ivermectin can cure Covid. Democrats need to accept at least some of these or give up the charade of bipartisanship.
Barry Blitt illustration in The New Yorker
If I were a country that had designs on the US, I’d be thinking “Now is the time.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/w...
In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear (Gift Article)
With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.
nytimes.com
It’s 10 p.m. Friday. The HVAC repair-guy is telling his boss on the phone he can’t figure out what’s wrong with my A/C. It’s going to be 100 degrees every day next week. We’re screwed.
By March, Lake Powell is forecast to reach a critical low. Its surface is expected to fall below the threshold to generate hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam, according to a federal analysis released this month. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/c...
U.S. Raises Threat of Steep Water Cuts in Lower Colorado River Basin (Gift Article)
A federal plan would impose drastic water cuts on Arizona, California and Nevada in dry years over the next decade. A legal battle could follow.
nytimes.com
5-year-old HVAC (heat pump) blower just died ahead of a week of 100-degree days. Parts are under warranty. Labor $800. Everything is made of crap.
Yaki Point - Grand Canyon ',1924 Watercolours Gunnar Widforss,1879_ 1934 )
Bernie Moreno was a car salesman with a record of wage theft and employment discrimination. Anthony Fauci was the director of NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and in 2008 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work fighting HIV/AIDS in that role.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
A start to myriad future articles about how we can’t get food anymore. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Cyclosporiasis cases show ‘vulnerabilities’ in US food safety system, experts say
US states and federal government tracking cases as outbreak comes amid cuts to public health funding
theguardian.com
We actually had the 16th highest mortality rate in the world and it largely resulted from the ignorant asshats who were *resisting* the common sense protection measures Fauci was promoting like masking and distancing. What a colossal asshole.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.RFK Jr: "Because of Dr Fauci's leadership and other reasons, we had the highest mortality rate from covid of any country in the world" #OtherReasons 🙃
In 1924, the year this picture of the Grand Canyon was painted, Gunnar Widforss exhibited a large group of works depicting scenes from US National Parks. An art critic at the time considered Widforss as 'possibly the greatest watercolorist in America today.'
Before herding sheep, Border Collies learn to split ducks into two groups using nothing but stare and body position. Thousands of years of farm instinct at work.
So the bluesky website locked me out (age verification) for a couple of weeks, but the app still let me in (??). Just now the web site let me back in, though I never verified. The site is much easier to use than the app, so, yay. ?
