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I always thought the equivalent to this UK thing is if Democrats managed to replace Joe Biden with Gretchen Whitmer after she won a special election in Michigan or something.

The algae thing might get me through the end of the year honestly.

97-0 94-2 97-0 96-1 These are James Talarico's leads with Democratic voters in the last 4 polls of the Texas Senate race. I really wouldn't worry about Jasmine Crockett.

The most saves ever is… 16?

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

I know this app is 38 years old but who else worked at the mall. I had jobs at Electronics Boutique, Recordtown, and waited tables at our anchor restaurant which was a Ground Round.

Trump really won’t be satisfied until he’s ruined quite literally everything

"I have seen children harmed by disease, poverty, by bad luck. I had not, until now, seen them harmed so methodically by their own government." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The U.S. has absolutely no right to impose tolls for transiting the Strait of Hormuz. It’s actually an act of war and/or piracy against the entire world.

Everyone's comparing Ecuador's coach to Kato Kaelin but he's really more of a Keefe

Coach of Ecuador wearing that Chess King shirt

I believe I got that on your sleeve, Mr. Torrance

This sounds like something he’d do for free.

More like Tim Curacao-ard

Skinny Fabio coaches Ecuador

was trying to trace an Appalachian folk belief recorded in the Silver John stories that "Jesus Christ is the only man who was exactly six foot tall" and it looks like it was Irish originally? Makes sense. (ref - lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/10/26/c... www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/33094?...)

Some simple (not easy) ones imo: Remove the ability to organize at the department level, allow to collectively bargain at the sectoral level only, or just ban it similarly to military. Consoldiate agencies: while being a large dept is no guarantee of professionalism, it is a precondition of it.

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons meme

Asking my boss for a raise

an underrated Mad Men bit is when a very drunk Don accuses the computer guy of being the devil

YO Curaçao goalie is MVP of the whole tournament

Reminded of the heated Mike Lansing v. Sean Berry debates among the employees of McGill's sports summer camp, the stakes of which may have been overstated in retrospect

Mr. Trump, sir, it was Stephen Miller who destroyed your beautiful pool

Note how he deploys the same approach here as he has with his Iran war: scapegoating others, pretending all is well, and clinging to a characterological inability to admit — even to himself — that he effed up.

Just found these photos from Jaipur and Jodhpur

imagine how much chaos one could create by changing one's name to "Yard Sign" and running for mayor

iran has closed the reflecting pool.

Pensive monkey in Jaipur

The people going hungry to pay for (a small fraction of) Trump’s wars and upper-class tax cuts www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/the-...

You're gonna think I'm nuts but I think he's doing the Elon Musk. Ask for 10B from the government, spend 1B blowing up a rocket and then ask for 10B more to fix the blown up rocket. Trump is gonna pay another 12M to some contractor to fix the problems caused by the first and pocket his kickback

Mamdani's team 🤝 bird photography Get there 20 minutes early Via @boringstein.bsky.social

Ok I had to run to the corner store to get beers and I'm about to make the kind of bad decision I haven't made since 1997. Steel Reserve has starred in 3 stories of mine that ended up with me talking to the police

The Disney Castle as seen in the production logo is uniquely vulnerable to aquatic improvised exposive devices. Sure that gate controls a waterway but one barge laden with dynamite and complete castle collapse.

HARD AND LOW IS THE WAY TO GO with the most British accent you've ever heard

given that the planarian worms/memory experiments turned out not to be replicable, we must conclude that Swamp Thing actually was Alec Holland all along.

Otto Möller City 1921 oil on canvas

Just FYI people who are actually 6’3” don’t call 6’2” people tall

Happy Summer Solstice, everyone! Such a pity I have no High Arctic expeditions this summer. There’s something magical about the midnight sun, when you’re on an expedition, and you simply land and go ashore each time you get to the next destination, because week after week, night never comes.

jesus christ she should resign.

Currently catsitting in the society hill towers and some dickhead is flying a drone up to the 20ish floor

They're playing the Irish National Anthem, Jump Around by House of Pain

Love to glimpse the prospect of a brave new future in which there is no citizenship, only boss.

Charles is releasing his tax information, the first monarch to do so. It was also his habit as Prince of Wales. William - who came into an enormous income as Prince of Wales - refuses to do so.

Beef Ribs Longhorn by Basquiat at The Broad

I adopted Molly three years ago today. Foster failure. She’s a pain in the ass but I love her so much #dogsofbluesky

I might buy this. Very cool

I actually think this would make a dope shirt

Curaçao has its foot on the gas they do not give af.

Why is 1994 Kato Kaelin roaming the sidelines of this match

Seeing the "Oh my God, the South Korean/Mexican alliance who knew!" stuff on social media is always funny because it's like yes, welcome to Los Angeles, it consists of more than the one block in DTLA they showed on TV during the protests

A very happy sixth anniversary to @blanksslate.bsky.social, who is a better partner than any of y’all could ever understand.

BREAKING: Trump Promises to Hunt Down Swamp Thing, Save Washington and Polluters from the Green Menace

Keir Starmer was an experimental entity forged in the bigotry mines of Tufton St. The experiment is coming to an end.

America: where the president believes he can grab women by the hoo-ha with no consequence whatsoever, but you can’t touch the water.

We, as a nation, are collectively missing a great opportunity to get RFK Jr to drink from the reflecting pool.

wow, this screaming guy on fire just threw himself into the DC reflecting pool and now some kind of green creature is climbing out the other side?

He looks like the pervert teacher from Election, sorry this is not a good looking man

ACAB means park police too

Breaking NYPOST: Graham Platner Caught Sexting With The Algae

Finally found religion

nothing more good ol' boy in practice than letting your pedophile buddy off.

It is asada time

Horrible situation on Conn Ave bridge. Massive dc and fed police presence. Apparently Park Police was involved in a high speed chase. Unclear on details but a scooter driver was hit on the bridge Local media all over. Tragic

I'm into the classics, personally. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

This is a really interesting claim, Democrats are 39-55 right now according to FiftyPlusOne. I didn't see them aggregate polling data on socialism but it's about the same in this Gallup poll news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...

god, this Peter Hessler piece is so good, and so painful. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

There are people in DC who have been pushing for an Iran war as long as I can remember and it is important to note they are psychos and idiots

There is no universe in which it makes sense to call Zelensky a member of the Epstein class unless you take it for granted that “Epstein class” just means “the Jews.“

At least NINE law enforcement or military officials were involved in detaining this ONE man for sticking his hand in the reflecting pool

yeah exactly ‘keeping the state’s violence doers in line’ is like literally one of the oldest problems in politics, this is not some totally unique problem requiring these unique solutions that no existent modern state has. this doesn’t mean the problem is at all simple or easy, but it’s not new.

The algae now producing a Streisand Effect

It's been a bad yet for... society... and.. the world... BUT, it's been a VERY GOOD YEAR for sleepy gosling footage by your favorite labor photographer. So. At least we have that? Yes, at least we have that :) 🐣 🪶

I don’t know about multiple arrests, but washpost reported that one person has been charged with a misdemeanor in DC superior court (so, not “years in jail”) www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

The Reflecting Pool is actually a portal to an alternate universe where Trump lost in 2016.

Yoshi waits patiently for a treat but Bobby prefers to take the initiative

I work for antifa, my job is to put algae in the reflecting pool

This is a lot more violent than I remember.

It's funny what people on X think BlueSky is like. Hearing them talk, you'd think everyone here was busy planning assassinations.

Basically, the pro-CO₂, coal-rolling-as-climate-policy president has created an urgent reason for oil-importing nations to decarbonize as swiftly as possible. It’s an own goal on a scale one could only expect from a man who managed to bankrupt a casino.

Several scientific studies have shown that Volodymyr Zelenskyy has more courage in his pinky toenail than Scott Bessent will ever possess as long as he lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Republican voices from the Obama Era suddenly cried out the word “fungible”, and were suddenly silenced.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Republican voices from the Obama Era suddenly cried out the world “fungible”, and were suddenly silenced.

I honestly wouldn’t trust a thing coming out of HHS these days.

Love this for him. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Either Germany just scored or someone needs to check on the Sudetenland

The Athletic doing some great work www.nytimes.com/athletic/int...

They're fascists, yes, but again, and more importantly, they're deeply weird. These people are so psychologically warped and emotionally broken that they don't know how to be normal or happy members of a society.

if we expand the court, Ds could just forgive all this debt.

Trump “has acted like a poker player who believes his own bluffs. … “While none of his maximalist war goals were achieved, Trump celebrated the cease-fire, and lifting of the blockade, as if he had had no role in creating the whole mess in the first place.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Got tickets to this one and while on the one hand I want to see the Tartan Army I'm terrified of the concession lines if they're there

The United States in 1989

They're going to prosecute people who tried to take home pieces of Trump's peeling paint so he can falsely blame them for his embarrassing fuck-up. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

tbf, he does seem to sincerely hate trans people.

This is what popularism without values gets you www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

trump managing to announce a humiliating defeat while simultaneously keeping gas prices up.

Kind of incredible how many people have built lucrative careers for the past three decades on insisting against all evidence that this kind of guy is what voters want.

Why are World Cup commercials so much worse than Super Bowl commercials? Every single one of the ones on repeat is absolute crap lol

Wait what happened? I don't follow Brit Politics outside of knowing Starmer is weak as hell and they hate the trans community even more than American government does. Starmer is gone? What happened?