THE MOST PROFOUND THINGS ARE INEXPRESSIBLE

DON'T PLACE TO MUCH TRUST IN EXPERTS

TECHNOLOGY WILL MAKE OR BREAK US

SELFISHNESS IS THE MOST BASIC MOTIVATION

Doctors say that you should eat a balanced diet that includes whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seat seats and doesn’t wipe his ass says you should subsist entirely on sauerkraut and steak. For a busy eaters it can be hard to know who to trust.

“Democrats in disarray.”

Just a note that @jbendery.bsky.social is 100% worth following. Always finds stories like these that matter, and yet are a bit under the radar.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 1h ago

Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

ICYMI, Congratulations to Caroline M. Yoachim! “Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War” is a finalist for the Best Short Fiction World Fantasy Award! You can read it here! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/unfi...

We need to start calling them sloppenheimers.

Epitome Tagg's Sexy Mother@readyuser.one · 1h ago

Is slop midwife related to slop goblin? 🤔

me: more democrats need to talk smack el-sayed: let me lay the smack down

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 1h ago

El-Sayed: "Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little more manly by making an AI video ... he's a guy who went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to bet for his endorsement."

El-Sayed: "Mike, I'm gonna say it right now, I know you're gonna say no because you're a coward: Five debates, alright? ... By the time we're done, you are not gonna have safe quarter from people holding you accountable to what you've done for them here in Michigan. We will send you back to Florida"

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑@leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2h ago

Michigan just proved something the political establishment doesn’t want to admit: When we organize, we WIN! Now, let’s make it happen again on Tuesday, August 11. Join @indivisible.org’s phonebank for @peggyflanagan.bsky.social on Monday and help us keep up the momentum.

But please read the whole post.

Tom Marcinko@tommarcinko.bsky.social · 2h ago

That line alone goes into the notebook.

Oh look! The latest:

Republican Chuck Edwards drops bid for re-election after report finding sexual harassment of staffers

Congressional ethics panel had recommended Edwards face censure over its findings on ‘hostile work environment’

theguardian.com

Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.

The depiction of self-help seminar culture in 90s and 00s movies is so fascinating bc that's all like MLMs and crypto now

It was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed for the Summer 2026 Orion's Belt issue! Thank you for the fantastic questions. Subscribers can read the interview now!

Orion's Belt magazine@orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 2h ago

🌞 Interviews with @angelaliu.bsky.social and @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social! Cover artwork, "SUN II" by David Álvarez, with design by @ashsmash.bsky.social. 🌞

Or healthcare, perhaps?

Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 1h ago

Maybe he means the legal abortion.

So sick of that face, that mouth, that voice.

The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1h ago

Donald Trump is already claiming election fraud in Michigan after Abdul El-Sayed won a primary race that could see the balance of power in Congress change.

Observational humor.

Ever accidentally “heart” one of your own posts and feel like a jerk?

Not too late to shoot a scene and cut it into the movie when it streams.

Tom Marcinko@tommarcinko.bsky.social · 2h ago

Mamdani is shaming his predecessors. Also, he should have been in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. (Not letting that one go.)

That line alone goes into the notebook.

Laurie Penny@pennyred.bsky.social · 2h ago

substack.com/@lauriepenny...

The bigger question emerging from the reflecting pool case is what to do with the lawyers. Had they pursued the case, disbarment would be an appropriate case. Still they secured an indictment from the grand jury and that was almost certainly through deceit and misrepresentation which requires study.

Lawyers in Reflecting Pool case say Justice Department knew case was flawed

Lawyers for a former Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool say that the Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case was flawed.

apnews.com

We were told smoking bans and mandatory seatbelts were the first slippery steps towards dictatorship.

And if you asked somebody to please put it out you were risking an argument or worse.

David Bowman@dlbowman76.com · 2h ago

Getting smoking out of public spaces, particularly restaurants. I remember 1986, and at that time, smoking was omnipresent. It was inescapable.

I shared an inventilated office space with a boss and his tobacco habit. Come to think, I’m not sure which was more toxic.

Monique AC@moniqueac.bsky.social · 2h ago

I had my first office job in 1987 & I had an ashtray on my desk (in an open area office!).

Couldn’t Villenueve have cast Tom Holland as Paul?

Statistically, movies with both Tom Holland and Zendaya have a better than average chance of being pretty damn good.

Just when we thought we couldn’t like him more.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h ago

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.