How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
Traci White
@thetraciest.bsky.social
Multimedia person! Takes pictures, writes stuff, laughs conspicuously.
Nah, I can’t be convinced this was death by suicide. Black people do not lynch themselves from trees, and the fact that these cases have been dismissed so quickly without thorough investigation is telling.
Israeli army orders criminal investigation into killing of Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in Gaza
Israeli army orders criminal investigation into killing of Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in Gaza
The six-year-old spent hours on the phone to paramedics before her body was recovered days later in Gaza City in 2024.
bbc.co.uk
“… a total of €180bn could be wiped off EU GDP by the heatwaves.” - and thousands of people are dying. If the moral, fewer dead people argument doesn’t work, maybe the financial argument will (plus the fact that it’s politically popular to take bold climate action)
From tourism to power generation and productivity, Europe feels economic cost of heatwaves
Low river levels have stalled German freight traffic and forced closure of nuclear plants in France
theguardian.com
I keep thinking about how people are going THROUGH IT. Everyone. It’s so important to have compassion for ourselves AND — crucially — each other.
Really great piece by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social about the gender implications of AOC running for president and how she is dealing with that. Highly recommend. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/o...
Opinion | Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff? (Gift Article)
She will run as a woman but unlike how every woman before her was forced to run.
nytimes.com
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "[Political parties] are not your friends. Even allies takes it too far. They’re tools, and your job is to figure out what tool in this particular moment reduces the most harm against me and my fellow citizens” (among so many other blazingly true insights)
Bryan Newland@bryannewland.bsky.social · 2w agoTNC with Hassan Minaj. Incredible as always. I've been repeating like mantra since 2016: we have to work every day to protect our own humanity. open.spotify.com/episode/0NwK...
Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 2w agowe should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something
“It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties.”
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2w agoMy editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:
They may be shameless, but shunning, booing and not accepting them into public spaces is the correct response.
drag race latina royale! matraka is already rocking my world very hard, i fucking love a conceptual queen. i mean, c'mon now. www.instagram.com/p/DbcTEPBDQq...
“Modern life is standing at a gas station sink with your hands under a motion-activated faucet waiting for water that doesn’t come.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
Quicksand
Gen X was right after all.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
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“Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
404media.co
Bring back banishing individuals who endanger their community by taking too much for themselves (from “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer)
In 2023 while in NOLA, a Lyft Driver and I had a conversation about leaving home. It led to him telling me about his terminal diagnosis. “An editor told me once that if you want to understand a war, interview the grave diggers. I’d add that if you want to understand a city, interview the drivers.”
Mister Anthony
oxfordamerican.org
Overland, MO, couple killed in Guatemala after being deported by ICE | STLPR www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
stlpr.org
I loved the movie and am already making plans to see it again. However, as I’m a messy bitch who lives for the drama, I am LIVING for this review of the film by Emily Wilson. She eats him UP! Hehehe!
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
lrb.co.uk
the odyssey: the film that launched a thousand think pieces (amirite)
Fozzie Bear Performing Stand-Up Comedy
ALT: Fozzie Bear Performing Stand-Up Comedy
static.klipy.com
Pride is een protest 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ De strijd is nog lang niet gestreden. Dat laten ook de gebeurtenissen in Berlijn vandaag helaas pijnlijk zien. Onze gedachten zijn bij de slachtoffers daar. Blijf je uitspreken. Kijk naar elkaar om 🙏🏼
In my first story with Kelley French for @notus.com, I spoke to the woman pictured in the Metro photo on July 4. She didn't know she went viral. Her family wants people to know their difficult reality. Please take some time with our story today www.notus.org/metro/viral-...
The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.
America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.
notus.org
200,000 people ordered to evacuate now because of the fires in Spain and France. 200,000 as.ft.com/r/da6f737f-8...
France and Spain evacuate 200,000 people as ‘unprecedented’ wildfires spread
Extreme heat and high winds fuel fast-moving blazes as authorities in both countries battle to contain them
as.ft.com
thank you drag race france and fluffy bidule in particular for teaching me about The Triumph of Surrealism by Max Ernst www.max-ernst.com/the-triumph-... "Ernst's goal was to depict the chaos that he saw spreading over Europe and the ruin that fascism brings to countries."
Andy Burnham’s wife has organized a special welcome party at Downing Street tonight
Ben Coates@bencoates1.bsky.social · 3mo agoTrue story: Andy Burnham’s wife, Frankie van Heel, is Dutch. Years ago she went on the TV show Blind Date, and won a date with a guy who turned out to be comms director for the Conservative Party. When they got backstage she said: “Fuck off, I never want to see you again”. And then she married Andy.
we won't know for sure when aliens join us on earth, but there will be signs
