Fuck Reddit. They were instrumental in getting "/r/TheDonald" elected the first time And they're partnering with "AI" companies now. All your posts are "training data". For the machines that ultimately, and extremely inefficiently, decide what's considered "spam"

Hypertoroidal Pan@christbot.bsky.social · 6h ago

I’ve definitely encountered what seems to be inauthentic posting on Reddit.

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SaMindy@samindy4.bsky.social · 8h ago

A strange bug (cicada?) had to be rescued from the catio

There's ample evidence Trump's no-bid "pool guy" just took the money ($14M?) and then fucked up the reflecting pool renovation so bad it must be intentional. Soo... Trump insists on scapegoating innocent passersby

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 6h ago

"No evidence? No problem. Trump pushes ahead on false claims that Reflecting Pool was vandalized" apnews.com/article/trum...

Mää muistan vielä kun oli ennätyshelleaalto syyskuussa Koska se oli viime vuonna. Mitä helvettiä

HS | Terminen kesä on nyt keskimäärin 30 päivää pidempi kuin 1960-luvulla. www.hs.fi/tiede/art-20...

Kerran saunotin kissaa, kun olin kaivanut ja sahannut sen esiin lumen ja maahan jäätyneen kuormalavan alta kovassa pakkasessa (pieni, nuori sisäkissa, joka pakeni ensimmäiseen löytämäänsä koloon pihalla. Tuurilla jätti ihmisen seurattavat jäljet iltahämärissä) Nelli eli sit vielä jotain 15 vuotta

Anna@kissankuono.bsky.social · 7h ago

Kaikki kolme aina alalauteella. 15v russeli hulluin.

Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.

Raw Story@rawstory.com · 8h ago

Retired GM engineer Tom Smith could not figure out an FEC website, but he did beat Trump's endorsed candidate, despite dropping out of his race. His charming handwritten FEC letter recently went viral. bit.ly/4fNVocc

Good job Germany didn't send Ukraine those Taurus missiles. It really helped prevent an escalation.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7h ago

The Leipzig drone bomb marks a dangerous escalation for Europe

A Christian.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 8h ago

Far-right pastor Dale Partridge says that Germany was "attacked from within by grossly immoral Jewish forces during the Weimar Republic," which naturally made Nazism "extremely appealing": "This Nazi movement terrified the Jews because it represented a powerful form of Christian nationalism."

RT to scare a speculative collector

Your Canadian Girlfriend@yourcanadiangf.bsky.social · 2d ago

Why? Why must everything we enjoy be sealed up with a "grade"? I get baseball cards being put in plastic because you can still enjoy both sides of the card. But a Blu-ray?

Just one reason why billionaires shouldn't exist Maybe private jets shouldn't exist either, who knows

Elon Musk's Jet Tracking@elonjet.net · 10h ago

~ 302 gallons (1,145 liters). ~ 2,027 lbs (919 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $2,123 cost of fuel. ~ 3 tons of CO2 emissions.

Oleksiy was an incredible person. RIP #Ukraine

Mark MacKinnon@markmackinnon.bsky.social · 13h ago

More sad news from Ukraine today. Oleksiy Yukov, the leader of the Black Tulips group that bravely retrieved the bodies of soldiers - Ukrainians and Russians alike - so that their families could give them a proper burial, has died. Spending a day with Yukov was both inspiring and terrifying. RIP.

"Good news for migrants and constitutional rights. Bad news for an administration that has no respect for rights whatsoever and sees migrants as sub-human..."

Techdirt@techdirt.com · 10h ago

Trump’s Mass Detention Policy Shut Down By Two Appeals Courts On The Same Day The Trump administration has been shut down more than 10,000 times by federal courts over its novel... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/05/trumps-mass-detention-policy-shut-down-by-two-appeals-courts-on-the-same-day/

They cannot even park a bike on the sidewalk? Meanwhile, pedestrians in Finland just have to put up with extremely dangerous rental e-scooters, remotely controlled (probably by slave labor) delivery robots, and whatever the "mobile ecosystem" pukes up next

Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social · 10h ago

A thought I've had is that a struggling rust belt city should go all in on becoming this. "America isn't Amsterdam" is true but in a rich country of 350m people, if you become the ONE city that is Like This, you will attract 100,000 people who love this shit.

well sure, since he died in the last one, he's gonna have to come back as a zombie or something

The Independent@the-independent.com · 17h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

Last night, Russia hit some warehouses and shit which might be sort of legitimate targets. Or not. But they also hit a suburban rail platform full of civilians Which is definitely not

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 10h ago

Eight people were killed as they stood waiting for a delayed train overnight on Aug. 5 during one of the most intense Russian bombardments of the town of Brovary, just east of Kyiv, of the entire war.

we thought nukes would be the problem but it's actually affordable fruit

current discourse feels like

Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 11h ago

we should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something

"So he can feel a bit more manly by making an AI video" is a direct callback to this image that deserves a second life in this campaign

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 11h ago

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can feel a bit more manly by making an AI video. If you want a senator who's gonna lick some boots, go vote for Rogers. But if you want a senator who's going to stand up to Trump, you've got your option.

Imagine your local, national and global leaders doing... this Then demand they do it ... Then replace them with someone who will

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterday

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Business Elite Access Shredding is thing I didn’t know I loved… until now

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterday

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Russia's oil and gas face sanctions and price caps. Its fertiliser sector is mostly exempt: a carve-out meant to avoid worsening global hunger. This spring, that exemption helped Russian exporters to an estimated £500m windfall. Read our new analysis: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/08/04/r...

Russia's £500m Fertiliser Windfall from Iran War

Russia earned an estimated £500m fertiliser windfall — over £5m a day — as the Iran war choked global urea supplies, an Unearthed analysis has found.

unearthed.greenpeace.org

Tänään Paksupetäjäjärven huudeilla, jossa on paksujen petäjien lisäksi myös kohtuullisen kokoisia kiviä.

On Saturday, Aug 15, I'm giving a keynote at the Southeast Arizona Bird Festival. There are still a few spots, so sign up and come say hi! Here's a comic with the festival's signature bird, the Vermilion Flycatcher. tucsonbirds.org/festival/fes...

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

theguardian.com

My friend told me her 10 yo daughter is growing out her hair after a teacher at school barred her from entering the girl’s bathroom last year because of her short hair. Can you believe this shit? And the school never apologized for this act of bullying.

Cc @olivia.science "Teaching children about smoking cigarettes is a 'moral imperative,' said Jan Janson, the Protect Children Union president. "And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tobacco's money or doing nothing." I renew my call for @rweingarten.bsky.social to resign.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”