PilgrimSoul
@soulpilgrim.bsky.social
I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing 'til they got a hold of me 🎃👻🦇🧛♀️🧟♀️🕸🕷💀 📚🦈 Bookshark Profile pic: It's me-a headless Wednesday Addams with Thing. Banner: The man, the myth, the legend Rod Serling, perpetual smoke in hand.
It's not just Flock. Other companies like Axon and Motorola are also trying to invade our privacy with their automatic license plate readers (ALPRs).
Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock | ACLU
Flock deserves the heat it’s getting, but switching to another provider won’t necessarily improve anything
aclu.org
..."Do you like your Dad?" "My dad is weak," I replied..." "All men are weak...That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong." The Family Upstairs Lisa Jewell 📚💙 ⚡️📚 Picked this up at our little free library not expecting much, but I loved it...
It's time for Dolly to be canonized. Can't recommend Dolly Parton's America highly enough.
Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · 4d agoNew TIME cover just dropped: Dolly Parton, 1946 - 2026 “The last time I saw her, she told me she was planning a comedy album. She also said that…she’d recorded many more songs of hope she’d put away in a vault, to be released throughout the hundred years following her death.”
I just found these teeny beetles eating my basil. Anybody out there in #gardensky seen these guys before?
Typical social media, the horror feed is 50% people whining that horror movies are too scary for them & the Halloween feed is 50% people bitching about decor being in the stores too early (like we aren't fighting xmas creep year-round). Deep thoughts, maybe post about what you actually like instead.
"We have a need for an enlightened, watchful articulate opposition. We have no need for semi-secret societies who are absolutist, dictatorial and would substitute for a rule of law and reason an indiscriminate assault on the institutions that must be held sacrosanct." ~Rod Serling
"In a decade where the past was a nightmare & the future was a dream, the present was an unknown sort of way station where everyone seemed a little lost." (1926) The First Bright Thing @jrdawson.bsky.social I am a sucker for a circus book. I need to start a🧵 for my collection 🎪 📚💙
Here's the direct post and Worse on Purpose us here on Bluesky.
Worse On Purpose@worseonpurpose.bsky.social · last mo.One PE firm owns Pyrex, Corelle, CorningWare, Instant Pot, Anchor Hocking, and Oneida. The pastel Instagram pans lose their nonstick between cooking cycle 30 and 60. A pan measured in months, priced like it's forever. Who owns your kitchen, and what's still worth buying 👇 tinyurl.com/2s3xc53m
This explains so much. Why Cuisinart and OXO discontinued popular high-quality products. Why an Anchor Hocking glass measuring cup expoded into a gazillion pieces when I put in the dishwasher just home from the store. Would be great if people weren't insufferable greedy monsters.
@laperry2.bsky.social · last mo.
“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Watching SyFy Twilight Zone marathon today. Fun fact, my mom likes to watch Murder She Wrote and I've noticed a lot of the TZ actors show up in different episodes. It's fun to see them in something different, sometimes it's their voice I really recognize.
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
What a cool way to learn about Lyudmila Pavlichenko. I'll take my history with a side of werewolves. Horror always has something to say. 👻📽 www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...
“Lady Death” of the Red Army: Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Known to her enemies as “Lady Death,” Lyudmila Pavlichenko is recognized as the most successful female sniper in history with a total of 309 confirmed kills.
nationalww2museum.org
Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2mo agoEXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK - Kiah Roache-Turner's LADY DEATH lives in the same universe as shark movie Beast of War. "There’s something wonderfully cinematic about throwing a sniper, commandos, Nazi villains & giant wolves into the same story." Learn more: bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3...
How cool is this? And tickets sold out in less than an hour. Go ladies!
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 2mo agoOlivia Rodrigo announces her Daisy Chain Fields festival with an all-women lineup. 100% of the net proceeds will go to charities dedicated to advancing and advocating for women and girls.
"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we may as well dance." Water, Wood & Wild Things: Learning craft and cultivation in a Japanese mountain town. Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social 💙📚 💡📚 A book like this is the closest you can get to making the journey yourself. I was inspired 1/2
Aaand Pluto is owned by Paramount. Argh.
PilgrimSoul@soulpilgrim.bsky.social · 3mo agoI knew something was up because in 2025 Roku started aggressively marketing Fox stuff in their ads and search results. Had no idea Fox already owned Tubi since I mostly use RokuTv. We're fucked per usual since that leaves Google, Apple, or Amazon for streaming.
I knew something was up because in 2025 Roku started aggressively marketing Fox stuff in their ads and search results. Had no idea Fox already owned Tubi since I mostly use RokuTv. We're fucked per usual since that leaves Google, Apple, or Amazon for streaming.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo agoFox Corp. has reached a deal to acquire the streaming platform Roku in an agreement worth approximately $22 billion
This is about tech, but there's also this tidbit: "All glasses are owned by one company, which also owns LensCrafters and Sunglass Hut. I don’t care what it says on the temple of your lens. It’s owned by Essilor Luxottica. They’ve raised the price of glasses 1,000 percent in the last year."
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 3mo ago“This wasn’t a case of technology outrunning our regulators. This was a case of our regulators deciding to do enshittigenic things,” EFF’s @doctorow.pluralistic.net told @thewalrus.ca. thewalrus.ca/cory-doctor...
The students really are't down with the AI praise. A compilation of the latest commencement speakers that got booed, and also a school that used an AI system to read off graduates' names, and glitched. From our latest pod here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...
Our parents were really like “stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about” and then destroyed the middle class forever
"People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness." Søren Kierkegaard
"The International Hantavirus Society has warned against categorical claims that transmission can occur only after clear symptom onset." 1/2
SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)@covid19disease.bsky.social · 4mo agoLeading airborne transmission scientists who warned the world about airborne COVID are now sounding the alarm on Andes hantavirus. In a BMJ warning, scientists urge WHO to treat Andes hantavirus as airborne by default, warning delays could repeat COVID mistakes. www.bmj.com/content/393/...
The Dead Town- Frankenstein Book 5 Dean Koontz "I don't know why you have to be mean." "I do it well. A man likes to do something if he's good at it." 💙📚 🩸📚
A perfect episode for Mother's Day on the SyFy TZ marathon.
Adamint Fresh🎞️🎬@adamintfresh.bsky.social · 4mo agoHappy Mother’s Day from The Twilight Zone! There’s a special Mother’s Day TZ marathon going on right now on SyFY. This queen right here is a real “killer mom”... #QueenOfTheNile #TheTwilightZone #TwilightZoneMarathon #TwilightZone #Zoners #MothersDay
Fallout VI Warshawski "The consensus seems to be that you're honest, you get results, you're reckless. And you're a pain in the ass." "If I die down here in Kansas, make sure they chisel that on my tombstone." @saraparetsky.bsky.social doesn't miss a beat here! Detective stories... 1/x 📚💙 📚⚡️
