hello I love my wife very much have a wonderful night everyone

in the Québécois version of King of the Hill (“Henri pis sa gang”), Boomhauer is named Papineau and sounds like this

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Social workers do incredibly vital work but we don't pay them enough to pay back their student loans so we'll solve this by taking away their student loans

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

SHOOT IT INTO MY VEINS

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 5d ago

I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

Make great games again that people want to play, simple as

Tom Warren@tomwarren.co.uk · 6d ago

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has just laid out Xbox's priorities for the year ahead in a memo. Part of the focus is on strengthening the Xbox platform through console, and making Xbox studios "more focused around our strongest franchises and biggest new ideas" www.theverge.com/games/973520...

starting a collection of quotes like this

Great series starting at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social today: every Tuesday, they show movies that are set in, or heavily involve, the New York subway system. I took this series as an opportunity to write critical blurbs about a some of my favorites. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/get-on-t...

RIP Kavinsky… thank you for the inspiration 💔

HELLO EVERYONE IF YOU WANT TO WATCH A BADASS MOVIE BASED ON AN EPIC POEM I HAVE ONE TO SUGGEST

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

36 years after the ADA, disabled people live in a eugenicist hellscape run by monsters trying to preferentially kill us --- and succeeding. My list of the shit the Trump Regime has done since 1/20/25 is public. No Patreon login required; please share it. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

The Day After ADA Day | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

On July 26, 1990, George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. Thirty-six years later, we find ourselves in a eugen

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check this shit out motherfucker [i drizzle hot sauce directly in my eye and recoil in pain, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do]

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · last wk.

male loneliness epidemic is here to stay

There's been a shooting with “multiple” victims at the Bite of Seattle food festival, according to the Seattle Police Department

Mass shooting reported at Seattle Center

Police and ambulances were responding to a shooting with "multiple" victims at Seattle Center, according to the Seattle Police Department.

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It's so fucking crazy that we're doing this. Persecuting hundreds of thousands of people here living and working legally because we're captive to mindless racists

Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status

A recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end a humanitarian program that has allowed about one million immigrants to work legally in the U.S.

nytimes.com

During the 20th anniversary Pan's Labyrinth panel at Comic-Con, Guillermo del Toro made one thing clear about the film's upcoming theatrical release in 3D: "absolutely no goddamn AI" was used. "We are protecting a lineage of art," del Toro said. In theaters October 9.

Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them

Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company

Ghosted after a job interview? Submit an anonymous report and see which companies candidates say stopped responding after interviews.

didtheyghostyou.com

riding bikes is also vastly more pro social than driving a car. you pay so much more attention to the world around you and are so much better enmeshed in your community.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2w ago

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

One of the arguments against funding universal school meals in Seattle now is "the money may run out and we'll have to yank the program in 3 years." What's baffling to me about that argument is that the council funds things with literal ONE-TIME money all the time. This is an ongoing tax source!

Seattle Council and Mayor Butt Heads Over Universal Free School Meals

Seattle City Council is weighing an amendment that would delay Mayor Katie Wilson’s proposal for universal free school meals in favor of a more cautious expansion and a voucher food assistance program...

theurbanist.org

FF VI no doubt and maybe FF VII

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 3w ago

Name a videogame you've played for 1100 hours.

Putting milk and cookies on our doorstep for Jimothy tonight

BBC engineers built robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife at distances no human crew could ever get close enough to reach.

a random fact I love is that the city of london uses this same font (Albertus) for all its signage, leading to this fun case of coincidental brand synergy:

Catbus@catbus.phd · 3w ago

the gold seal of cinematic quality 📽️

Imagine a country being so bigoted that nobody can safely eat lettuce

infected lettuce entering my body to cause explosive diarrhea

me reading the news yesterday morning vs me reading the news this morning

You are *meant* to make more rice than you think you need, leftover rice that has spent a night drying in the fridge is the foundation of all fried rice dishes. You don't get fried rice without leftover rice, embrace making more rice than you actually need.