Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.
fascists will be like The Noble Wisdom of our Ancient Past but then you'll open an actual book and the noble wisdom will be "snakes flee at the sound of the mandolin because they have no spleen, the organ of lust" and "electrum makes you gay"
15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.
This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.
THREAD OF PLACES TO ACCESS FOOD 🧵 Please spread the word on and off this website, because people are dealing with real hunger issues now.
Food Pantries of America - Welcome to FoodFinder!
At FoodFinder you can search the food pantries that are closer to you. Explore the map and enter your zip code to learn which ones are available.
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The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Share this with anyone who doubts the effect of anti-trans laws. Then imagine a kid whose parents are specifically unsupportive and school officials who are the same. These laws are murderous.
Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 3w agoJust had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2
Our air quality index changed from “unhealthy” to “very unhealthy” this morning, and having just watered the gardens and filled the feeders and baths, I can confirm that it was like breathing smoke filtered through loose-weaved linen. Not a fan. 0/10, do not recommend.
Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.
We’re under an air quality advisory because of wildfires in Canada, and all day the light has been an unsettling, after-the-apocalypse yellow. Photos can’t capture this jaundiced twilight. It makes me anxious on a primitive level.
Elton’s glasses are actually made in a factory that’s run by these critters.
🌈Dr. Frizzle@swilua.bsky.social · 3w agoElton John ass beetle
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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
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Sam and Frodo navigating the reflecting pool on their way to Mordor...
IMPORTANT: Two websites for US food access. Please spread the word. This is a great, easy to use site to find free food near you:
Food Pantries of America - Welcome to FoodFinder!
At FoodFinder you can search the food pantries that are closer to you. Explore the map and enter your zip code to learn which ones are available.
foodfinder.us
He was playing the part of Ea-nāṣir in Aristophanes' long-lost play "The Copper Weasels"
James Felton@jimmfelton.bsky.social · 4w agoI find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)
According to the most rigorous studies, 10.8% of college men perpetrate at least one rape before graduation. This statistic always comes to mind when I see men in power reacting with disgust to the idea that one of their peers could face even a shred of accountability.
Since we are are doing yet another round of trash people defending trash men, I would like to point out the answer to one of the common objections I am seeing to the Platner accusations from today is in the article itself. (CN: sex assault and the reporting thereof)
Tell Williams doesn't have an active bluesky presence so I'm going to share this with you. I couldn't agree more. We believe victims, even, & especially, when it isn't convenient. SA crosses all socioeconomic & political divides. I will not be an apologist for sexual assault. Integrity matters.
A simple reminder, summer or winter, that a knock on the hood of your car saves lives. 🐱❤️
