Just so everyone knows: today's settlement with Meta is the largest consumer settlement in US history outside of the Big Tobacco master settlement, which was with four separate companies. It is the largest consumer settlement with a single company ever.

Linux turns 35 today. Here's your cake. Enjoy.

Nooooo, the hits just keep coming 😭😭😭😭

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d ago

Actor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reports

My childhood. It had such glorious treasures.

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social · last mo.

Pee Wee Herman & Dolly Parton singing a duet? Here ya go...

she was 100x braver about this shit in 1985 than country artists are now

🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈@tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 3d ago

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

No greater tribute to Dolly than depicting her as she always preferred to be: stacked and snatched

People Magazine @people.com · 3d ago

🔗: bit.ly/4qC1fWV Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video. 📷: Getty

I'm tearing up at work about it - I knew this day would come, but I'm still not ready for it. Thank you so much for your kindness and love in this cruel world, Dolly.

metal dot txt@metaltxt.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wow, so the message to men is "Don't be a jerk, treat women with respect and kindness, and you'll have more success in your relationships. Physical appearance isn't everything." Revelatory. Who would have guessed?

That last bit is 🎯🎯🎯🎯

Jillian@nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 3d ago

did you have to shop through counselors to quote to find one who would give you a 1950s line about women being attracted to responsible men because they “want to be taken care of” rather than the much more obvious and accurate “do not want to parent an adult child just bc he’s hot”??

Maybe stop using the terms that men use to describe what women are doing, saying, thinking... and report information like normal human beings : women prefer men who treat them well.

Taking it away on a stretcher is killing me

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · 3d ago

Robots suck ass at lifting weights is my take away here.

Tiana would NEVER betray the Saints this way.

Dan Hopper@danhopp.bsky.social · 3d ago

There’s no way it’s canon that every Disney princess is an Eagles fan

It has to feel so good to hit a two-run homer after making an error that directly leads to two runs. A special kind of endorphin that you get after waking up at 3:00 a.m. in a panic, then realizing you don’t have to be up for hours.

Man, I miss the Austin that used to exist.

The Onion@theonion.com · last wk.

Local Music Venue An Absolute Minefield Of Ex-Boyfriends https://theonion.com/local-music-venue-an-absolute-minefield-of-ex-boyfriends/

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2w ago

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

Hey AZ folks, someone go see the cubbies. @supportfortruth.bsky.social @azpenguin.bsky.social @cstrable.bsky.social @thebleats.by86400.link @farmerbraxton.bsky.social

Joe 🌵🐻@zonabear.xyz · last wk.

Hey folks, I came into having two tickets to the Dbacks v Cubs game on Wednesday next week. They’re in section 140 (outfield bleachers). I’m unsure if I’m going to be able to go, so I thought I’d ask if anyone here has availability and wants to go?

God in heaven, what actual sickos (derogatory) would take time out of their lives to be voluntarily subjected to this nightmare?

Sue Trowbridge@trow125.bsky.social · last wk.

You know what's NOT up for debate? "It's Up For Debate: An Evening with Charlie Rose Presented by Polymarket, featuring Andrew Yang & Marjorie Taylor Green" would be the worst possible first-date activity ever. And I say that as someone who was once taken on a date to see William F. Buckley Jr.

I need there to be a No Reservations* Roku channel. *Not Parts Unknown, No Reservations.

Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)@kleinman.bsky.social · last wk.

When it premiered Bourdain's show was deeply countercultural and 2026 resembles 2006 in a lot of ways

I come from a long line of spreadsheet people. I am a spreadsheet man. My father was a spreadsheet man. My grandfathers were shoe men and random farm job men respectively but I'm sure had Excel been around they wouldn't be able to resist them siren song of the cells. My daughter will toil in sheets.

"The Emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum as they move from playground to playground... They are following children in parks and gymnasiums, and we need this. I need this so I can stalk my ex-girlfriend."

It's true that *at an individual level* you should be kind. Don't scream at your anti-vaxx neighbors or whatever. But when it comes to *public discourse* the most important message is that vaccines save lives and anti-vaxx beliefs kill children. If they feel attacked by that, it's not my problem.

The media relentlessly promotes the narrative that progressives are too mean to anti-vaxxers and we must bring them around with compassion. This isn't true and isn't helping. The more public sympathy you show them, the more empowered they are in their beliefs. www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/s...

Chicken Parmigiana: "I am filled with fear. Pullet flesh, seared to white, cast like bronze within a crunchy coat." (Happy b-day, HP) buff.ly/2unvzL4

H.P. Lovecraft Writes Olive Garden’s Dinner Menu

“Such that they confound the senses and simultaneously seduce my bravery to dread. I am left muttering to myself a mantra of origin unknown, ‘When you’re her...

mcsweeneys.net

If you saw someone taking down a flock camera, no you didn't.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

“The no-bill doesn’t legalize destroying cameras. It doesn’t cancel Flock’s OH contracts. But when a grand jury declines to treat smashing a surveillance camera as serious felony business, that signals something real about where public sentiment sits — and that tension isn’t resolving anytime soon”

I had zero clue how good we had it going into 8th grade that year. What a time to be a teen with terrestrial radio and cable tv.

assbutt@nasboat.org · last wk.

ask and ye shall receive….the Billboard Modern Rock chart from August 20, 1994. one of my favorite years in music.

When you as Secretary of State find out that the President's deranged aide and diaper wrangler Natalie Harp, who has no security clearance, is a channel by which foreign leaders try to reach him.

Oh hell yeah

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL@edsbs.bsky.social · last wk.

Gonna restart the perfect songs thread from the other spot, someone got most of them here so first, catch up open.spotify.com/playlist/2VL...

60s/70s rock and Motown, ‘70s popular folk, some disco (when it came on the radio still), yacht rock, and Top 40 of the 1980s. It seeped so deeply into my soul on hour-long one-way drives across the DFW metroplex, because we lived in the way south suburbs & the “good” shopping was more north.

Charles Louis Richter@richterscale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

what's the music your parents played all the time when you were a kid? for me, it's a dead heat between Neil Diamond and Linda Ronstadt