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So besides the obvious quip— Uh no taco trucks on every corner is the GOAL — & classism (+ implicit other isms) I am so struck by the diff bw this tone (ew bad yuck) & Mamdani’s “what good things people deserve / how I will get it to them”. Did not every politician pay close attention ?!?

Not as upset as the ostrich who feels ripped off

repairing the discourse with timeless selfies, an occasional thread. all that stuff yall are taking about is banished by the power of this relentless selfie

what’s the job where you just keep reporting it out and never have to write it

Pimple patches are good for many reasons, but they also help me avoid absent-mindedly picking at pimples or scratching mosquito bites. I also use them on small cuts.

He has no idea what spreadsheets are at all.

There are lots of women who are genuinely spreadsheet people? I am so confused.

OK #jewsky besides like, Svara and Shel Maala (and Torah Studio + J unbound), what else would you recommend to a NJB who lives in a VERY rural location to meet a NJB? Including #onhere, fb groups, or whatever else --

Trump is constantly talking about how under threat he is from antifa or whatever, and meanwhile he's just letting some weird lady sleep in a crawl space directly above his head and then spend her days trying to clone him from scraps of his diarrhea.

Sometimes when someone is clapping back at great length and in great detail and they’re being specious and ridiculous and all those things, the funnest thing to do is to NOT RESPOND.

just going to say it, the fact that this story, in a roundabout way, helped Warrior get a third season... I'm proud of that! Anyway!! I appreciated it! [which alan knows 👊 🙌] www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

I’m increasingly convinced that Harp is one of the Satanic handlers of the Antichrist like in THE OMEN. We’re due an “ALL FOR YOU, DAMIEN” moment any day now.

have you heard the good news about Sterling Point on Amazon Prime, just got renewed for a second season today! All the cool people are talking about it! (26-28 of us on bluesky)

Gonna do myself the favor of not arguing any further about Woodrow Wilson’s racism on the internet because I could be reading fanfic instead while waiting for my burrito

Hi from Bread Loaf.

remember when andrew yang ran for mayor of New York on an “arrest the churro lady” platform

“Ella Rubin looks like a cross between Anne Hathaway and Julia Roberts, and she’s got the talent to match.” FACTS #sterlingpoint 🛶

When asked for comment she hissed "I hate jobs"

Man even the Texans third-string defense is crazy

She clearly doesn't want to be mayor, and in her defense, the employment market for black women is incredible right now

Also, almost all of these people must be rich, white, cis, straight men or some insulated combo thereof because of all the ways your peace can be disturbed on the internet, saying that “pro-AI” is not suitably embraced on a website is the most cowardly-ass shit I’ve ever heard

Jeeeeeeezus. www.thedailybeast.com/why-i-decide...

I’ll just quote them directly: “I mean I’m sorry your mom died but it’s still animal abuse to keep a betta fish in a bowl”

coming out against taco trucks is the caliber of self-imposed destruction with very few rivals. I'm thinking Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus, General Custer, Division General Leclerc. Sun Tzu wrote a whole book about not giving your opps this much to work with

are we too many hours in to add, “I want to post with spreadsheet people like you”

My issue with this is that they’re stewing in a cesspool of “race science,” Nazis, persistent degradation of marginalized genders, reactionary politics, and CSAM, and their focus is on not being yelled at for pro-AI views that can be curated via aggressive muting and blocking tools.

I'm reassured to know if I ever post too much or too close to becoming Main Character of the Day, several friends would intervene, tell me to log off, and go for a long walk with my dog.

Tonka Hemingway gotta be a first-team all time football name

All this as departments studying race and gender are being closed across the country.

outstanding contribution to the Being Back Shame political project

Missed opportunity to call it Pu-Holes, or possibly not

Wow. (HT @ravmike.bsky.social) --the people starting Israel decided not to call it "Palestine" because THEY ASSUMED THERE'D BE A PALESTINIAN STATE CALLED PALESTINE RIGHT THERE IN A MINUTE + they didn't call it Zion because THEY ALREADY KNEW THE WORD ZIONISM HAD BAD CONNOTATIONS WITH PALESTINIANS

I enjoy the jokes about spreadsheet people.

encouraging everybody to follow @capitalbgary.bsky.social, one of the few outlets doing sustained coverage on the power outages in Gary

If one dude with a pushcart can outdo your whole operation with a kitchen and a whole line in there, maybe you should switch places

For a lot of people Black inferiority is a given

“According to KERA News, a new budget proposal includes a relatively large staffing cut of around 70 positions and a reduced schedule for all Dallas branches to combat a shortfall in city budgeting.” couriertexas.com/local/cultur...

Extremely hype to have read an all-time great graphic novel this week.

This one is exciting.

The answer seems to be: filing my giant collection of excerpts and screenshots

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Big Tech will not willingly or adequately self-regulate. Back in 2019—well before AI broke containment—Lizzie O’Shea considered how workers might come together to demand real reform.

we got a lot of text alerts and emails about how hard it was gonna rain today and for once I feel like they’re were entirely justified

Decriminalize breaking pervert glasses on sight

curious what scholars who study France make of this

Around Maine with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social today

Because of the group chat, I’m watching this and my god, everything my colleagues have said about wealthy homeowners having particularized politics that are regressive and bad for public policy is on great view here. Wild stuff.

what am I going to do when I don't constantly run into headlines like GREAT RAILROAD FIGHT BEGUN IN HOUSE and MISS ROOSEVELT CLIMBS ROPE LADDER and HYPNOLOGY SAVED LIFE, SAYS DR. QUACKENBOS and (this was a letter to the editor) "Moral Effect of Red Paint."

the appeal of direct democracy is not rosy eyed idealism about the general adult population but simply a sober comparison of that population to its ruling class

y/n do I need to define "shirtwaist" in my book (of course I am I just wanted some solidarity w my other late 19th century folx)

Also, I am a political writer so I am seeking out primary sources more often than not. I don’t actually need to find sources as much as wade through them so I can better understand the context.

One week away! Tickets are still available to our LIVE SHOW at Swedish American Hall in SF on 8/27! HOW TO BE A SILICON VALLEY CREEP IN 10 EASY STEPS! www.ticketweb.com/event/how-to...

I love when people call me a Luddite. MRNA vaccines? Inject that content into my muscles. Solid state batteries? Fuck yeah let's scale that shit and get it out there. Agrivoltaic breakthroughs marrying plants and technology? LET'S GO, power + plants is specifically my jam.

Maris is so smart!!! I love reading her work!!!

I demand Jack Reacher 11: Alan ritchson carries tom cruise on his chest

Because I am a writer and editor and my partner is extremely analog and a visual artist, absolutely nothing about our lives would be improved by a subscription to an LLM. I cannot conceive of any task in my life that could be helped by opening ChatGPT. I’m even open to suggestions.

“Let’s stop throwing labels around,” says the guy who insists on misgendering trans girls

have been mostly offline, now pretending this is the only thing that I missed

It will never stop being amazing to me that we are in a time when (a) we are curing multiple kinds of cancer, (b) measles are returning, and (c) Billly Kristol wants to abolish ICE

The thing about Seattle sports is every time you look at the Seahawks their coach is talking about one more run and on the other hand over there the Mariners are losing games by 2 touchdowns and a field goal

This is such a hopeful and angry and funny and beautiful conversation!!!

One of my either virtues or failings as an artist, depending on how you look at it, is my refusal to embrace any niche or single identity. The second somebody says “he’s the guy who does this,” I want to do something else. But if my brand were “brutalist ghost stories” then i might feel different

I love consumer reports

America effectively has two bills of rights—one for citizens who live inland, and one for immigrants and anyone who happens to live in the heavily policed “border regions.” There, ​​agents wield extraordinary powers without checks on abuse.

this is deranged, I'm sorry. the woman obviously committed the killings in a severely altered state, the children cannot be helped by prosecuting the mother *because they are dead*

Fact that even in death the word of a white supremacist who has been as explicit as possible about his motivations and aims about the actions and character of a person he was attacking was widely accepted wholesale.

Just nuts. I benefited immensely from NSF GRF. The ladder was pulled up almost immediately after I got my award.

this is somehow the primary corollary to the OG days on Bluesky where half your timeline was going on about the beef between these two big accounts and then you look and its 2 people you never heard of with like 72 and 86 followers each

long as we're doing these, theoretically I should love Pink Floyd like life itself and in practice they have like 3 songs I kinda like

Alice is in my kitchen singing to herself and making me birthday cupcakes while I read on the couch perfect contentment

I just pretend it's a compliment even though it's probably not but it's funny how many people who know me first online and then meet me in person at some point are like "wait you're actually like this

I just pretend it's a compliment even though it's probably not but it's funny how many people who know me first online and then meet me in person at some point are like "wait you're actually like this"

I think it says something that we have seen the adoption of surveillance technology alongside the growth of policing and police budgets. These technologies are quite often pitched as a way to create frictionless policing but incidents of police violence have largely remained static after rising yoy

i am bravely charting a middle ground between "every use of AI is evil" and "all of you should give Anthropic $20 a month"

we gotta start doing some QC for these hate mailers, standard is through the floor

this thread is amazing

I'm hoping someone will create a tracker for the increasing prevalence of AI as a topic in postdocs and faculty searches. My sense is that uni admins are forcing this on departments as a condition of the TT line. Nevertheless, there is now an increasingly large incentive for ECRs to pivot to AI

I too have been to Dulles

every so often you'll see a video of some incredibly drunk person not being allowed on the plane and then I think that there's someone on that flight with an empty seat next to them who thinks they got lucky and has no idea how lucky they actually got

Teachers spend so much of their own time, energy, and money making sure their classrooms are ready for their students. We want to help carry that load. We’re collecting school supplies specifically for teachers and we’d love your help filling their classrooms with some of the things they need most.

"Students are prohibited from wearing [...] bedroom shoes, bonnets, or (do rag) to class or the cafeteria" not that I would wear my bonnet to the cafeteria, but I know I'd be so annoyed if there was a rule saying I couldn't lol like what if I was up early and hungry! www.al.com/news/2026/08...

ugh we got her account up to 575g and she went to Pierre's. didn't even water or harvest crops 🤦🏾‍♀️

“The conditions on the ground — widespread violence, mass displacement, acute hunger, and the collapse of essential services—are precisely the type of extraordinary and temporary circumstances that TPS was created to address,” Bera wrote in the letter,”

I am tempted to write this article and post it online on Google Docs for free/tips.

I'm in the semi awkward position on this where I don't buy a lot of the research findings but also don't really care too much, as credible messengers receive only a fraction of the resources that cops get, and we might as well keep trying everything we can to keep violence at record lows

two of the friends in my college housemates group chat are on a whale watching expedition this week and I, a person who just finished INTO THE DROWNING DEEP by Mira Grant, am now full of helpful tips for avoiding terror at sea (such as “if you see mysterious lights in the water GET THE BOAT AWAY”)

I'm not going to play the duskbloods because I don't like online multiplayer but I am sorry I'm apparently missing out on a giant white toad with two tongues, human teeth, and enormous breasts

Kinda interesting how little attention Angie Nixon’s win has gotten on here, and how little attention that primary got despite the importance of her state.

@emilynussbaum.bsky.social talks about her love of cult Canadian TV show Slings and Arrows on the latest episode of the New Yorker's Critics Cult Classics podcast: www.newyorker.com/podcast/crit...

if you tell me "A is a bully on social media(/in print, in whatever specific scenario) but very pleasant elsewhere" you are roughly 50x likelier to convince me that they have the additional vice of cowardice than you are to convince me that they have a hidden virtue of kindness

Jungle being a band that makes dance videos is genius www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrd5...

Well—happiness to their sheets!

Very very curious to see how their books look under standardized audit

we did it sterlingheads #sterlingpoint

Coal miners, countertop workers, and coffee shop workers are all facing down the same deadly threat: silica. Let me tell you all about it—

from 2015-2024, there were fewer than 30 executions nationwide each year in 2025, there were 47 so far in 2026, there've been 22 it's August, yet the US has already matched or surpassed the year-end total of executions in 5 of the last 10 years ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

last Thursday was the first time in over 15 years that American prisons executed 3 people on the same day i did a lil digging and was confused at first to find that executions are at a modern high, even tho public support for the death penalty is at a modern low ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

a lot of wolverine's badass appeal depends on you not knowing what a wolverine is

Now for something fun www.polyesterzine.com/features/mol...

"There has to be some differentiation" is such a weird thing to say because the thing we do now is get everyone medical care that evaluates everyone's needs on a case by case basis, and hopefully provides them with support. Nobody is treated as a member of a group.