OK, so having just had a lovely phone call with a support person involved in this recall, since yes indeed this is the very same Little Red Fridge and yes indeed mine is subject to the recall, but I myself have already replaced the part in question. Allow me to speculate on what's going on here. 🧵

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 6d ago

#Recall: Galanz Americas Retro Refrigerators; One Death Reported. The recalled refrigerators’ internal electrical components can short circuit and ignite, posing a risk of serious injury or death from fire and burn hazards. Get repair. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 25,1958

Just posting this video for the non-sickos who don't obsess over new high-speed electric car charger installations

Watching reactions to the Slate truck has been... weird. I didn't expect people to completely forget the lower cost of ownership angle to electric vehicles so quickly but they apparently have. Many comparisons between it and Ford's current Maverick on purchase price and nothing else! The fuck!

The Canadian wildfire smoke has arrived in Chicago

Anybody know a public health science person who'd want to do a livestream about Cyclospora, screwworm, or other headline news? Get in the replies & let me know!

Heat pumps! Heat pumps!

The US may be hitting a tipping point for heat pumps

In the first quarter of this year, heat pump sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32 percent. Here's what makes the appliance so powerful.

grist.org

Thread. Guys, those annoying middle managers who never actually do anything are in charge of everything now. The crafty people with agendas have figured out nobody actually checks things carefully any longer. Makes influencing politicians very easy. It also works on you and me.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @searchlightinst.bsky.social memo telling Dems not to talk about climate change. It surprised me, but may not surprise you, that the memo lies about what US swing voters actually said in the polling. Let's have a look, shall we? 🧵

“Anytime a company collects highly sensitive personal data, there are risks the data will be shared, breached, or later seized by the government,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @sfchronicle.com. “Companies should ask themselves, is violating everyone’s privacy worth it?”

Grocery Outlet Bay Area stores are using facial recognition technology to catch shoplifters

Grocery Outlet has begun using facial recognition in some Bay Area stores to identify suspected shoplifters.

sfchronicle.com

roberts et al have a mental model of racism as being defined entirely by the most atavistic mania of the jim crow south. if it isn’t that, if it wears suits and ties and speaks the language of national security and executive authority, then it not only doesn’t count, *it’s not racism*

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

OK guys, I deleted the post since you explained for me and don't want to seem to be dragging someone. It just genuinely does not fit in my brain as a logical seed of that argument.

This video is proof you can fix anything if you try hard enough. Recently discovered this channel - someone whose hobby is to fix CD players. Very much my jam, and this one stands out for sheer tenacity! youtu.be/Y4gP1_hBb9A

Can I fix the most damaged CD player on eBay?

YouTube video by Spare Time Repair

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Do centrist Dems realize that the incentive structure they're establishing by admonishing one of the few major Arab American figures who unequivocally endorsed Harris despite nothing being conceded on Gaza? The lesson for those Arabs will be to uh, not do that again.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4w ago

"Arab American endorses the Democratic nominee for president even though she refused to budge on the question of whether or not Palestinians being killed by US made bombs was bad" doesn't make the Arab American in question look bad, it makes the person attacking them look bad.

Theory: The folks who love features like automatic route planning and believe they are mandatory for EV adoption are much more likely to lease cars every three years and are thus not even thinking about why someone who wants to own a machine wants full control of that machine without a subscription

KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 4w ago

All 3 men inside of the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “‘reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van…They came in and started shooting from the sides.’” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I mean... of course

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 4w ago

NYT - The new Air Force One, which President Trump flew on earlier this week to Turkey, lacks the same defensive countermeasures that were security features of the old model, including its advanced antimissile capabilities. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/us...

I recently watched a compilation of TV commercials that aired when I was a kid on kids cable channels. Please raise your hand if this phrase unlocks an utterly useless memory deep inside you: [A woman's voice says enthusiastically] "Even baked Alaska!"

the fuck

Guy Segal@guysegal.com · 4w ago

I’m at a design panel and they just said “AI will solve taste” and I’m done

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

"We need to get rid of this talk that we're somehow this exceptional nation chosen by God,” @esglaude.bsky.social told @brookegladstone.bsky.social. “We need to grow up. We can't grow up if you don't admit who and what you are.”

Another Exciting Adventure in American Fascism

Jason Scott@textfiles.com · last mo.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

He's got just the one bit, folks. Every new idea is either acquired or stolen. Almost like a monopoly, I wonder if we have laws on the books against those

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · last mo.

NPR - Before Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg directed employees to build a standalone prediction market app, he proposed buying Kalshi. www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

huzzah, someone who actually gets what I'm on about

large language marge@mcdonalds.help · last mo.

people apparently don't recognize that manufacturers would develop AC units that would work with e.g. common tilt-turn windows if European countries developed a healthy market for them and laws allowing them. The box form factor designed for sash windows is convenient but not the *only one possible*

fixing the court is table stakes for any Dem running for national office, you are not a serious candidate if you can’t get on board with this and refusing to do so is disqualifying in a primary because it doesn’t matter what your policy positions are if SCOTUS will just overrule them

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last mo.

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

pulling this out of replies because this really is the core point of all of my logic here which I feel like I never did a good job pressing on. they would not be engineering a mechanism to hold detergent back if there were no need to.

Technology Connections@techconnectify.bsky.social · last mo.

If the dispenser is still there, then it's still doing a pre-wash otherwise it wouldn't need the dispenser. Co-marketing agreements between appliance manufacturers and detergent peddlers are probably the reason helpful features like "hey there's two spots for detergent" are going away.

more evidence detergent pods fundamentally break the way dishwashers are supposed to operate

Ross Hendry@rosshendry.com · last mo.

@techconnectify.bsky.social If you're keeping a tally, I've switched to powdered dishwasher soap and adding a little for prewash. My underperforming dishwasher is now fine, and I'm saving money. Thank you!

“The decision comes months after some Woodburn residents expressed fears that the information collected from the cameras would be used to arrest immigrants or invade people’s privacy.”

Oregon’s most Latino city removes Flock cameras after audit confirms immigration agencies accessed data

The city installed 23 license plate cameras in spring 2025 to target crime, but that’s not all they did.

oregonlive.com

Look, I shouldn't have expected any better, I know where I was posting, but a lot of people were responding to an argument I wasn't trying to make so here's the one I *was* trying to make: There are inexpensive, pre-engineered, self-contained, modular air conditioning units which need little power.

OK, so just as I have to yell at my fellow Americans "air conditioners *are* heat pumps!" to combat basic ignorance of what the tech actually is, Europeans need to hear "heat pumps *are* air conditioners" because y'all are making arguments which don't make sense if you see why heat pumps are good.