Happy Owl Awareness Day to all who celebrate (and everyone should).
Jonathan C Slaght@jonathanslaght.com · 2d agoit is International Owl Awareness Day! May you now be aware of the weird and wonderful Blakiston's fish owl! 🦉
Jonathan C Slaght@jonathanslaght.com · 2d agoI’ll never get over having to accommodate Children’s Health Defense stans at work in 2020-22. Feel like that permanently damaged me.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳 Dana Bash pressed RFK Jr on Trump's culpability for mishandling covid and the misinformation he pushes about vaccines, and the segment wound down with him getting mad and barking at her like a rabid dog Here's the full thing:
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Gary Carter injured his back cleaning closets at home the week before spring training started.
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 6d agoLet's remember some Baseball Injuries! I'll go first: Glenallen Hill having a nightmare about spiders that was so bad he fell out of bed and through a glass table
You're not 'creating' anything if you use AI at all. It's literally the opposite. It's either "I'm too stupid to learn" or "I'm too lazy to work" for the AI set. There's no creation and there's no creativity.
404 Media@404media.co · last wk.“I’m not going to apologize for using AI in the creation process.”
“Waving data-filled reports” man that’s the worst I hate that shit
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2w agoWas it public health who did that? Or was it politicians and opportunists?
“AI is the asbestos we’re shoveling into the walls of our civilization” This thread is brilliant.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w agoAs *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/
Why in the world would you want a governor who can get that done to be your Senator smh
Maine Morning Star@mainemorningstar.com · 2w agoMaine ended another year with a general fund surplus, allowing the state’s rainy day fund to again reach its statutory cap and helping to fill a transportation funding gap that had halted projects earlier this summer. mainemorningstar.com/2026/07/24/m...
to be fair, i am against *some* lazy and stupid anti-american immigrants who come here and commit crimes and steal millions in government welfare
This case is so full of holes and mysteries, seems like there’s significant covering-up on the Fed’s side, I’d love to see more about it in the press.
VTDigger@vtdigger.bsky.social · 2w agoAttorneys for Teresa Youngblut had called on the federal judge overseeing the death penalty case in Vermont to set a new system after what they described as “failures” with the current method.
First thing you do when you get on an airplane is vote for who you want to fly the plane. Not something I’d want to entrust to a noncitizen.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoScalise: "Anybody that gets on an airplane has to show a picture ID to vote. Nowadays, if you want to go to Olive Garden and get unlimited pasta, you gotta show a picture ID. This isn't complicated stuff."
Did they show picture ID before they signed the Declaration of Independence?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoScalise: "For God's sake -- you can't get pasta at Olive Garden without a picture ID! Why not be able to show a picture ID to vote?"
An important truth for social media *and* every other known form of human communication.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w agothere is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.
People who think bail reform will fill the streets with violent criminals need to be made to understand this.
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 3w agoMost people are in Rikers pre-trial, meaning they have been accused of something, and are too poor to afford bail between the time they are accused, and their trial. The most common arrest codes are drug possession (mostly weed) and theft of something under $1000. Many thefts are false accusations
In all seriousness, Trump and Republicans are setting the stage right now to attack our democracy, steal our elections, and violently crush any dissent. Wake up, America.
When do we round up everyone with an Italian surname and send ‘em back?
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3w agoNo, he legit thinks that 100 million people crossed the border and are living here. And even wilder, he thinks 80 million of them entered from 2006 to 2026. Here’s from an interview he gave a far right media source on his European tour. It’s completely nutso. Just lunatic fringe crazy stuff.
But he was such a cordial witty gentleman (to the people he wanted to impress).
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 3w agoIt got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.
It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.
🧵Taps screen 🗣️I need y’all to stop falling for this “working class” bs!!! No really…STOP IT! A majority of the candidates & the people behind them are rich white dude bros that are angry Black Folks & Women have made progress. paydayreport.com/platners-dan...
Platner’s Daniel Moraff Barred from Summer Lee’s Campaign Over Sexual Misconduct Complaints
Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Platner's strategist Daniel Moraff from her campaign after receiving sexual harassment complaints against him.
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The bullshit thickens. Who in hell is he to dictate terms? He’s being run out of the first and only election he’s ever run!
Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · last mo.Platner aide lists terms for dropping out: “If he was to step down it would only be with a guarantee of being replaced by a candidate who he believes is true to the values and vision and policy agenda of the campaign that Maine voted for." @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway
The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated
Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.
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sorry, we're deciding this one by goals per capita
I don't care how big a Messi fan you are, it is incumbent on all of us to root for Cape Verde to dump out Argentina before the Round of 16. It would be the greatest thing that ever happened in the history of the sport
You have to have anger issues to become a police officer in the USA.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last mo.In front of fans and kids taking photos, a Dallas police officer starts shoving staff members of the Egyptian national team here for the World Cup. At one point, he even reaches for his handcuffs. The video is already being shared internationally by news outlets.
here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport
Here is the "WARNING NOTICE" federal agents hand-delivered. "YOU MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW" It's the second of these notices I am aware of. If you've received one, please get in touch: fire.org/alarm
