This might be the purest Bluesky of all time

Sen @gallego.senate.gov at the scene again. We’ll all remember.

I’ve started rewatching one of my favorite shows of all time, Turn: Washington’s Spies. The casting is great; genuinely one of, if not the best, depictions of Washington in media. The intrigue is also incredibly interesting.

There’s been a datacenter less than a mile from my home for years. It’s called a library. Read a book you ai hawking losers.

Right now just English and a few things in Spanish. My goal in the next five or so years is to at least get conversational in Spanish and Italian.

Dusting off Ol' Reliable

you shouldn’t have to put “🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally” in your bio to show your support. your actions should show it more than anything. in fact, if you have that in your bio, it makes me question how much you really support those groups.

So weird thing about being in a blacksky hosted PDS is that I made a couple posts just fine (and they were showing up fine over there) while Bluesky seemingly was back for everyone else but they weren’t actually posted on Bluesky until a couple minutes ago. Seeing this with @adrew.dadguy.help’s too

The Tigers are actually making me sad. Should have been a great season and they’re just lifeless.

Oh no I think this is Glendale Community College. I wouldn’t be surprised if the other Maricopa County Community Colleges were doing the same. I’d be so fucking pissed. They put in the work they deserve to have their name be read (and read correctly)!

$1.776 as in 1776. As in celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by robbing the Treasury to reward those who are destroying the country

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

this has got to be the worst time in american history to make the totally sensible and correct argument that we should pay people in congress more than we do

The Chiricahua leopard frog has been listed as threatened since 2002, but its numbers are rising thanks to the work of volunteers, conservationists and the state story via @jerodmacevoy.com

What if there were a carbon sequestration method that was fully solar-powered, could be deployed anywhere & cost pennies per unit? Oh. Trees. I just re-invented trees. EXCEPT trees don't hold carbon for very long. Enter the Saguaro cactus: It shifts carbon from 'biotic' to 'abiotic'! (📷: NPS)

It’s truly incredible how Joined Nov ‘24 accounts will bring up things that Trump is tangentially related to and make it all about him

I’d love to see this come to the desert southwest in a big way. Would also be interesting to see if it’s something that could be applied to things like the CAP and SRP canals.

unfurling a "white replacement" banner should get you permabanned from MLB stadiums

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FIFA painted over a Wyland mural in downtown Dallas. Same artist who did the whale mural in Detroit among other works (that’s also covered, temporarily. Free the whales!) Fully painting over it is a complete disgrace and should not have even been in the conversation.

This is incredibly hard because I love so many naval (especially submarine) movies. Probably going to go with The Enemy Below followed very closely by The Hunt for Red October

Fantastic. Wish we’d see more of this type of action elsewhere

I really hate this trend of @azcentral.com using “Phoenix-area” in headlines to describe stuff happening in Scottsdale, Chandler, Mesa, etc. Just specify the city that it’s happening in! Stop trying to clickbait! It’s clearly local news so why are you obfuscating?

I love the limo that costs $2.25 but I can share it with a couple dozen others

Really no surprises here

Tempe City Council passed an ordinance 7-0 that makes it so the city can enforce nuisance laws on private properties. They claim it’s absolutely in no way related to churches giving aid to the homeless population but it’s very obviously for that. Yet again, cops instead of actual help!

God's perfect killing machines shouldn't have such precious widdle ears

Oh and ASU gets Harrison Ford making an impassioned plea for the rights of indigenous people and the need for bold action to address climate change

I can’t wait for the fucking ballroom to be what nukes the filibuster and not the Democrats protecting abortion rights or passing the PRO Act

Eraserhead and Paprika are obvious picks but I think I might have to go with Rubber. It's a horror movie... about a tire. That kills people. ...yeah

This is incredibly hard because I love so many naval (especially submarine) movies. Probably going to go with The Enemy Below followed very closely by The Hunt for Red October

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

So either Vance (or whoever is presiding) just overrules the parliamentarian’s advice or Dems gift the GOP the votes for some bipartisanship reason

Seeing video of the atrocious UofA commencement pro-AI speech and it’s honestly embarrassing. I feel so bad for all the graduates who had to sit through that humiliation ritual. The gall to say straight up that all work will be done by AI to a stadium filled with people about to enter the workforce

FIFA painted over a Wyland mural in downtown Dallas. Same artist who did the whale mural in Detroit among other works (that’s also covered, temporarily. Free the whales!) Fully painting over it is a complete disgrace and should not have even been in the conversation.

A great thing to have would be less flagrantly racist leadership in the Democratic Party

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

The more coverage I read about Kash Patel’s swim around the USS Arizona memorial the more disgusted I get

I just saw an ad/sponsored post for a game that I guess claims to be the next Firewatch (probably one of my top three games I’ve ever played), and the brief look at the gameplay makes it clear that it’s not like Firewatch. I hate when games do that. You’re trying (and failing) to ride coattails

Journalist Solomon Crenshaw Jr. is covering the voting rights events in Selma and Montgomery today for The Handbasket. Here’s a great shot from this morning:

Most consecutive quality starts at Coors Field: 2005-06 Aaron Cook: 9 2009-10 Aaron Cook: 8 2022-pres. Merrill Kelly: 7 *active 2018 Kyle Freeland: 7 2018 German Marquez: 7 2009 Ubaldo Jimenez: 7 Kelly is the only pitcher with 7+ straight as a visitor

10 favorite novels rn River God (Wilbur Smith) Life of Pi (Yann Martel) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne) Night Call (Brenden Carlsen) Rendezvous With Rama (Clarke) Anathem (Stephenson) Ravensong (TJ Klune) Say Nothing (Keefe) The Mercy of Gods (James S A Corey) Speaker for the Dead (Card)

The monk seal rock thrower’s defense is that he is a fisherman from Washington and doesn’t like sea lions. MGP out here radicalizing people with her anti-sea lion rhetoric

I just saw it and it’s somehow worse than I possibly thought?

Hearing that the Cardinals put out some AI bullshit for their schedule announcement. Arizona’s century of humiliation continues. The Diamondbacks winning in 2001 really cursed this place, huh.

I think voters might be a little more enthusiastic about the Democratic party if their elected officials didn't so clearly despise them

Actually unconscionable decision. I can’t imagine what it feels being a voter in the affected county and a resident of Colorado generally. Completely selling out the integrity of elections because you received some pressure from Trump.

We already have an edit button. Its titled "delete"

I am actually furious over this. No more centrist cowards and corporate libertarians masquerading as progressives. This sucks, and is an absolute betrayal to the people of colorado she committed fraud against.