Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...

Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.

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Apparently it’s unprofessional to have a murdered son

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2h ago

Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...

Preferable to what we have now, which is pedophilia for everybody.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 58m ago

Trump on the Biden years: "We had transgender for everybody"

I yearn for the crisp, perfect crunch of iceberg lettuce. On a burger or sandwich. In a salad. In a rice bowl. But the Trump administration took that from us.

It's pretty weird that this one guy gets to say 100 things every day that make no sense at all or are wrong in like 12 different ways and he still gets to be in charge of everything

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 55m ago

Trump: "An outlier is a person that doesn't have a chance" (That's not what 'outlier' means)

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...

Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats

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I Work As A Jungle Cruise Tour Guide At The Magic Kingdom. Here's What The Odyssey Gets Wrong About Boats

My wife briefly confused Lisa Frank with Anne Frank and let me tell you, I’m planning to ride this mistake into 2027.

Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015. (Published May 2025 w/ @tennesseelookout.com)

This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.

The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...

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Noah Kahan tonight at Target Field! I am excited if a little nervous because I have never gone to a concert by myself before.

More great news. 😑 www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

FDA Announces Recall of Deli Meals Sold at Kroger, Publix, Wegmans, and More for Potential Metal Contamination

Check your fridge or freezer!

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MPD has defunded the city of Minneapolis.

Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · yesterday

More than 100 city employees could be laid off in Minneapolis in the first major layoffs in 16 years as the city faces a $33 million budget gap.

this should get so much more attention — two states within 3 weeks have made major moves on rights restoration.

Alex Burness@burness.bsky.social · yesterday

A combined 100,000+ people with past felony convictions have either already gained or will soon gain voting rights in Missouri and Virginia, which both have elections today. More: boltsmag.org/gop-run-miss... boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...

Again, it's useful to ask "The period you think of as the times when everyone had it easier than they do now - were things actually better for everyone, or were you just under the age of 30?"

why are we still posting screenshots of text without adding any alt text? i am forced to conclude you are either too stupid, lazy, or indifferent to figure out something an infant could do, AND that means i shouldn’t be following you and no one should be boosting your stuff.

the best HS teams in the country have multiple guys who will be in the NBA in a couple of years. they aren't normal high schools, they're basketball factories. but this literally doesn't matter. the value of women's sports isn't contingent on their performance vis a vis men.

Bobson Dugnutt@shampeon.shampeons.com · 2d ago

Don't just drive past the premise, though, which is absurd. Any WNBA team is exclusively the top 0.01% athletes in the sport. Pretending that a high school team could hang with, much less beat, them is ridiculous.

The US is a monstrous entity, nothing less, nothing more. Truly monstrous.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday

NEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.

A friend moved to a new state for a job and was laid off after just three months. He's had a hard time of things for the last few years—please help me raise funds to help him through an extremely bad time. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Donate to Support for a Trans Librarian, organized by Violet Fox

Hello! My name is Violet Fox and I'm raising money for a friend, a trans librarian who rece… Violet Fox needs your support for Support for a Trans Librarian

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“Uber’s strategy recycles an old and ugly script: If a woman drank, if she rode alone, if it was late, if her memory is imperfect, then maybe she is to blame,” Ms. Engstrom said. “But those are precisely the circumstances when Uber told consumers its service was supposed to protect them.”

David Bixenspan@davidbix.com · yesterday

Fucking hell. (Gift link/no paywall.)

To be clear: This investigation was prompted by Miller, who is angling for a House ethics probe versus resigning. Why? An ethics probe will drag on way past today (the deadline for Miller to drop out of his race) and allow him to carry on with his reelection bid and hope that people move on.

I just saw a dude argue that Christopher Nolan has created the most interest in The Odyssey that has ever existed in history and please, someone hit me with a tranquilizer dart that will allow me to sleep through next year’s Oscars. Please. I can’t take it.

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

“Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.”

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · yesterday

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

Age verification is surveillance by another name. They won’t stop until they’ve age-gated everything that transmits over the internet. Including your streaming and messages.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

"A.i." is bullshit and literally everyone knows it.

If you do get the "you have already left kudos" message, that's a good time to leave a comment like "Second Kudos ❤️" or "If I could leave kudos again, I would." I remind people & yet there are some works I love where I've been shocked to find I haven't left kudos yet (I don't usually read on AO3).

Laurel Krahn@windowseat.bsky.social · yesterday

I know I bang this drum a lot but if there are fanworks you love on AO3 be it fanfic, fanvid, podfic, art, or something else, leave comments on them. Definitely leave kudos, but comments mean a lot. Don't have to say a lot—if you love it simply saying "I love this" may make someone's day. ❤️

If you have a little kid who loves stuffies and creating, I can't recommend "The Stuffie Stand" by Maddie Frost enough. It's adorable but also a nice nod to learning to work with someone and forming a friendship!

my husband is a poll worker. I just took him lunch, and his polling place had only had 33 voters halfway through the day (!!).

when father is doing his stupid work instead of paying attention to you

I’m reaching a point where I feel so much shame and exhaustion just from the thought of having to put up another “please send me money” post. Please send me $142 so I can reserve the last two nights at this place before I have to move. Or something. I don’t know. I can’t keep this up.😭😞