Steve in Chicago
@spsnomad.bsky.social
IT Professional. Friend of democracy. If you're not going to heaven, why only miss it by an inch?
Cook has NC-11 at R+5. Probably would have been easier to beat a scandal-tarred Chuck Edwards than whoever the NC GOP replaces him with, but it's winnable in a year with Roy Cooper on the ballot.
NC Newsline@ncnewsline.com · 11h agoNEW: Congressman Chuck Edwards, R-North Carolina, has decided to drop his bid for reelection following Monday’s recommendation by the House Ethics Committee that he be censured. ncnewsline.com/2026/08/04/e... #NC #ncpol #WNC
One of the reasons that the oil price shock hasn't been even worse is that the Saudis have been able to pump a massive amount of oil through a pipeline to the Red Sea and out through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Taegan Goddard@politicalwire.com · 9h agoHouthis Say They’ll Target Tankers in Red Sea https://politicalwire.com/2026/08/05/yemens-houthis-say-theyll-target-tankers-in-red-sea/
I absolutely love this -- I hesitate to call it an ad, but Turek and Obama shooting hoops, talking Iowa and talking a little smack is the perfect vehicle to use in a campaign video. Absolutely fun without hitting anyone over the head. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaBa...
President Obama and Josh Turek play basketball
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Absolutely insane. He's got Plant's vocal range in there, Page's guitar mastery and Bonham's drums. I...want to see him do Rush next. Like take a crack at Tom Sawyer and Fly By Night.
Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2d agoMichael Winslow, the man of 10,000 sound effects replicating Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin. Original post
Pretty sure I saw these guys open RiotFest two years ago
Brawlcats@brawlcats.bsky.social · 4d agoairbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Good. I don't care what eventually takes out Kalshi and Polymarket, but Congress is bought and paid for and won't be doing it any time soon. Go after them, Tish!
CNBC@cnbc.com · 5d agoNew York sues Kalshi, says prediction market is running 'illegal gambling operation'
Really great opportunity to replace an incredibly corrupt organization that gave Trump a peace prize with literally anything else. Form a new organization, get the other associations behind it and tell FIFA their services are no longer needed.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 6d agoInside Uefa’s extraordinary World Cup boycott plans – and what Fifa might do next
Saw a lot of his shows and loved his music, but there was always something about his shows that felt like you were hanging out with a friend in their living room. Really sad to hear he passed.
Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56
I wish every community had a local journalist like Phil Williams out there, turning over rocks (complimentary) and reporting on what scurries away when exposed to daylight.
Phil Williams@philinvestigates.com · last wk.Looks like the neo-Nazi crowd is triggered by my latest reporting! 🤷♂️
I feel this skeet in my lower back
R.E.M.@remhq.bsky.social · last wk.Here’s to 40 years of Lifes Rich Pageant
While we're talking about The Odyssey, can we take a second to appreciate one of the greatest exchanges of dialogue in the history of superhero fiction?
Teller from Penn and Teller. I don’t want anyone knowing my business.
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
I think we're all kind of glad that Arnold Palmer didn't pop into his head.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump shouts out Shohei and then dates himself with a long rant about Babe Ruth and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I can't wait to see this. It always looked like a fun afternoon, but just seeing these few minutes of John Cena absolutely chewing the scenery (complimentary) is *chef's kiss*
Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2w agoFinal trailer for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has been released. In theaters August 28. #CoyoteVsAcme
Read through the article, which mentions that they found that the delaminations started at the expansion joints and it shows an employee grabbing and easily pulling up a large sheet of the coating. I don't know what it takes to get summary dismissal of the vandalism charges, but come on.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoPhotos taken at the Lincoln Memorial’s drained Reflecting Pool appear to show government employees gathering evidence in at least a dozen places, including spots identified in a Post analysis as locations where newly applied coating had peeled.
I kind of love that they initially started using this rarely used callsign to obscure their flights, it turned into a giant neon sign saying "THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AN ICE RENDITION FLIGHT", people picked it up quickly and now it's taken them months to change it back.
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2w agoThe TYSON callsign ICE tried to hide these airplanes Not invisible
I kind of love that someone ran a prompt through Grok, generated about a 1-minute clip and IMMEDIATELY, people were like "They're rowing the wrong way", "The wind isn't blowing consistently", "The oars aren't touching the water" and "Why is a character wearing a bright fluorescent earplug?"
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2w agoOMG: The racist pappification of culture with Musk's AI. Follow the link to his post to watch the video. Hilarious. Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Unbelievable. 4 days in and they're still all bangers.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w agoMy man looks like Reek working his way through the twelve steps
I normally have a policy against kinkshaming and bullying, but I’d make an exception for this. I think Nixonian himself would want to smack some sense into anyone actually putting Nixon video over Drake tracks.Maybe like this. www.dailymotion.com/video/xmagzq
Get A Life!
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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2mo ago"It’s being called Nixonmaxxing, and it involves a series of slickly edited social media videos that cut archival Nixon footage to rap tracks and turn the 37th president into the sort of stone-cold, sigma male-style antihero that Gen Z bros can’t get enough of these days."
They got to a sample size of 622 daily gamblers, which is 28% of the total sample size, which would have been about 2200, but I'm wondering how they selected that sample...
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3w agoi am not calling the numbers into question, but i find 1 in 4 americans having a daily gambling habit genuinely hard to believe, and i used to be a near-daily blackjack player at one point
Ok, bring out the Muppets and Shakira again. I don’t make the rules.
Needing a NYT-style explainer about who everyone in this video is. I know who the Tate brothers are, but is the guy in the gold lamé jacket and nutstrangler skinny jeans part of their entourage or an undercover cop? (If it's the latter, he DEFINITELY understood the assignment.)
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2w agoHas anyone checked on Barron Trump since his bros were put behind bars? Or has his father pardoned them yet?
IT guy here -- Congress has no idea how much stuff out there requires clocks to be in sync in order to prevent replay attacks and maintain network security. Yeah, changing the clocks twice a year is stupid, but if Congress changes it, I hope they allow plenty of time for IT to react.
CNN@cnn.com · 2w ago"Congress is yet again flirting with eliminating the United States’ twice-yearly ritual of changing the clocks by an hour — this time, by making Daylight Saving Time permanent," writes Aaron Blake. | Analysis
