Me: I have to leave work a little early today as my son has a game. Co-worker: I didn’t know your son played. What position? Me: Uh… Dungeon Master.

The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.

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Unofficial CTV News Mirror@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 5h ago

‘My jaw kind of dropped’: Miss Universe Canada host speaks out after Indigenous costume controversy

What's great about all these guys is how many of them are actors who could be getting world class roles and have instead decided to play one-note joke parts that have already been played better by someone else.

Jacob Oller@jacoboller.bsky.social · 5h ago

buddy just start a gofundme it's way less embarrassing deadline.com/2026/08/nich...

crushed to learn Nicholas Hoult exploded on the set of SUPERMAN and died and is now dead. deadline.com/2026/08/nich...

Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.

Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.

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the first confirmed death of someone fired FROM a trebuchet remains unclaimed so my lifelong dream is still intact

Andrew Curry@andrewcurry.com · 6h ago

The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org

This is so incredibly sad 😢 She said the first sign was really tiny, more of a “hard spot” than a lump – and wants people not to ignore even tiny things like that 💔

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 8h ago

The Office actor Lucy Davis says she has incurable stage four breast cancer

real “my religion says you can’t do that” energy from the BlueSky fun police

The title is actually “Michael And Chloe are Taking The Piss OR: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Subjectivity”

Michael Molcher@molcher.bsky.social · 5h ago

You want niche on tomorrow's In Orbit Every Wednesday? Yeah, me and @cuntersthompson.bsky.social go niche. (and we're right, as well) youtu.be/IAbmqFbH0vE

Okay, here's something im very passionate about. A man in Europe named Baba Nkrumah Pepukayi has the largest Black book collection in the whole continent. Over 1 million books. And he's at risk of losing it all. The spirit of Arturo Schomburg compells us to not let this happen

Spectacular day high in the Glyderau range of Eryri/Snowdonia today 🔥☀️ An extraordinary landscape of white rock, huge slabs & twisted outcrops. A favourite place 👌 📷 The famous cantilever 🤩

the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it

I don't remember Last of the Mohicans giving me any trouble even as a sleepy college kid, but if I hadn't read it all I wouldn't have appreciated Mark Twain roasting James Fenimore Cooper as much.

You know that thing when a new book comes out and it's a hardback and you think "that's a bit expensive for me. I think i'll wait for the paperback to come out" Me too. Which is why I do a thing called "When's the paperback coming out". bit.ly/3k932C7

Looking in the card section and this font seems a bit off.

WHY IT MATTERS: the article you're all hate-sharing is now doing bonkers traffic

First read Mark Twain on Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses. After that, you won't even have to take Last of the Mohicans seriously. Here, frinstance. twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/ris...

apropos of stuff, if around 150-200 people BASED IN THE UK would like to take out a, remarkably we should say, good value subscription to Wyrd Science on this the 11th of August 2026 it would be pretty pretty pretty pretty good 👍 wyrd-science.subsail.com/subscribe/

Demanding all books be converted to a format they can handle, like eight-page waterproof chewable vinyl

Oh no

J. L. Westover@mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 13h ago

Secret Panel HERE 🌼 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/stuck-in-rut-94656748

The one plus point to these people turning themselves into pale, atrophied tech Eloi is that they should be pretty straightforward to overthrow

Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 12h ago

I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Good morning. We took a walk in our favourite graveyard and I took a few photos of graves I like 🧵

Interesting example of shrinkflation in real time: regular branded mint Cornetto vs. an un-branded version of the same ice cream. Cornetto weighs ~63g; unbranded weighs ~73g (and is still, miraculously, cheaper).

Alien Isolation (2014): Sevastopol Station, art by Brad Wright

Wait, so the Prime Minister wants to send cis men to women’s prisons because the men’s prisons are overcrowded, but he wants to send trans women to men’s prisons because we are supposedly a danger to women 🤦‍♀️

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 14h ago

JKKK is eerily silent suddenly…

It's wild how we're watching this all happen in real time

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12h ago

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

The Shutterstock slop was removed after we filed a complaint of violating "right of publicity". The form response was funny... But our users promised not to use the infringement machine to infringe...and then they did. 🤣

Dammit

Andy Clark, Nerdling Herder@andycruns.bsky.social · 14h ago

No, Andy. You have far too much to do, do NOT spend half an hour on a very stupid and rather crude photoshop...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com