Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? Snagged a copy at a used DVD sale last month. Definitely a fun movie.

Just another Jen@blue-estro.bsky.social · 16h ago

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? This is basically a canonic chick-flick except violent.

Whenever a beloved celebrity dies, I check to make sure they weren’t transphobic. Gloria Steinem went from Transsexual Empire-inspired transphobia in the 70s to full support in later life. Heroes change their opinions when they realize they’re wrong. www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck https://theonion.com/google-maps-introduces-crawling-directions-for-cyclists-hit-by-truck/

Have you recently gone to a Job Center in a red state where you went through an ID verification to file for unemployment insurance? I want to talk to you. Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

Had a dream about this recently... what if you could play chess on a giant rubik's cube? #gamedev #threejs

Saltine. Saltine. Saltine. Salt-ine!

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 16h ago

I’m having a saltine with soup.

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

This Trump administration official is either disqualifyingly ignorant or knowingly lying. You decide. Evergreen post, I know.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h ago

JD Vance: "America has fought a lot of wars since I've been alive. 42 years. And we have won almost none of them until Donald J Trump became the president."

Soon we will be *dancing*!

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames.com · 2d ago

The Free Stars: Children of Infinity Combat Demo launches on September 8th at 9am PDT. If you missed our Kickstarter, we're re-opening physical pledges for a limited time (or until we run out of stuff!). Get the deets here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...

The one thought I can't shake about the new HP series is how badly I feel for the child actors. This is just such a complicated opportunity for them. I hope they have fun and make enough bank to fund them for life and they have good support systems and make healthy life choices.

Been enjoying this webcomic for years. Extra amused seeing this today because I'm sitting in Northampton as we move our new college student into her dorm.

K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · 23h ago

Have we talked about Questionable Content recently? The last five years in particular have just been so darned good. It's humans and robots doing their best, nobody really knows what's going on, and there's a giant cryptic hive mind that spits out different embodied personalities so it can chat.

The part I'm curious about is - how far was the car away from the human when the computer decided it needed to stop? Because there's a lot of complicated decisions and calculations made in that moment before the brakes are applied. So when did that process START? That's the question.

SFist@sfist.bsky.social · 3d ago

A father in Noe Valley says a Waymo robotaxi stopped within 13 feet of his two-year-old daughter when she fell in the crosswalk, nearly running her over, but Waymo claims the car wouldn’t have hit her. sfist.com/2026/09/01/f...

Uh, well, you guys are the government.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump Cabinet member Sean Duffy: Lie after lie after lie. I have a hard time believing the government anymore Stephen Miller's wife: I'm still distrustful of the government

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · 3d ago

The polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...

Marylanders: The post office may be implementing rules that could have adverse effects on the delivery of mail-in ballots. There are groups fighting this attempted election interference. 1/x

Time for the latest session of Election Judge training.

Dear registered voters, When was the last time you checked your registration status and verified your current name and address? You can find the links you need to do that at npr.org/vote

How to register to vote and check your registration status

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

npr.org

www.oglaf.com/surpriseparty/

this is why the policy exists! mapquest can get away with it because let’s be frank, nobody uses mapquest one of the big companies? they do this for one landmark or border dispute and congratulations every country in the world is now screaming at your executives to personally intervene

Aaron Blackshear@aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 5d ago

It would be really funny if Google did manually intervene to change it back instead of ingesting the govt data, and then China and India said “oh so you do decide?” and both start demanding they change the borders of their countries shown in the other

I think it’s important for people to know it is passed through fluids – especially saliva – which is why bites are such a problem If you fed a rabid baby goat, and they slobbered all over you and then stuck that hand in your mouth, you should absolutely get the shots before risking symptoms 

If you know anyone in NC who may have even possibly been to the petting zoo, get them to emergency care. *NOW.* Rabies is fatally untreatable once symptoms begin.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d ago

Rabies is 100% fatal if untreated. Please help spread the word about the exposure at the Farm Adventures mobile petting zoo in North Carolina. The vaccine is incredibly effective and will save your life. Also…. Rabies at a petting zoo!?!? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

If you have to carve out such an exemption, maybe the law itself is just bad. www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

tomshardware.com

Change a letter, change a movie: Captain America: Civil Way

Prof. Joey "Barely a Footnote" Neilsen@joeyneilsen.bsky.social · 5d ago

Change a letter, change a movie: Raging Bulb

None of this is true. Arion Kurtaj wasn’t sentenced to life imprisonment; his own legal team argued that he was “unfit to plead,” which means that he was unable to understand the nature of the charges against him or to assist meaningfully in his defense. They requested he be evaluated.

“by a celebrity 💅” fuck her god she’s SO MAD someone else besides her is being lauded as the patron saint of child literacy. you had your chance and blew it, lady! that’s not who you are anymore! gotta force HBO to reboot your movies just to feel something smh

@cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · last wk.

How the BBC is reporting Dolly Parton's passing.

JKR had her chance at a future where she would be remembered forever for getting kids to fall in love with reading, and instead she will be remembered as a stochastic terrorist on the wrong side of one of 21st century history’s foremost civil rights battles, and I do think that’s somewhat sinking in

“Billy over there is the best damn FBI agent we ever had” “Is he-“ “I want you to concentrate on the wider picture here, but yes he is fucking that goat for money”

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 7d ago

FBI Reportedly Loosens Hiring Rules So ‘Prostitution and Bestiality’ Are No Longer ‘Automatic Disqualifiers’