If you thought masked, unidentified federal agents grabbing people off the street were a frightening step toward dystopia, wait until it's private contractors chasing cash bonuses for rounding up human beings at scale

News outlets that haven't yet been co-opted by Trump will run headlines saying: "Trump's treasury chief says parts of economy 'are in recession'"

So good the TV went out in the middle of it...

Pastureland #blueskyartshow #autumn #mountains #scape #northgeorgia #photography #fence #bluesky #leaves #pasture

I'm not used to the Red Sox not disappointing me, please respect my inability to cope.

Sorry for posting someone’s drivers license number I guess

Is it blasphemous to put cheese in Swedish meatballs and noodles?

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Pinus radiata #Bonsai in development. 🌱🇳🇿 A shot of all three displayed in the near finished outdoor tokonoma.

Venezuela to investigate Bukele, other officials for alleged detainee abuse reut.rs/3TRUBN2

i still dont understand resigning in protest just gum up the works till u get fired ffs

Portrait of a Woman https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.96

Baby KJ was born with a rare genetic disorder. Becoming the first baby to receive a custom gene-edited treatment saved his life. Here’s how it happened—and what the implications are.

Ben Collins (@bencollins.bsky.social) on The Onion's editorial in the New York Times: "We’re hitting the gas pedal here, and think it’s working. Hopefully they should be showing up in the mailboxes of every single congressperson."

me: there's no way this day could possibly get any better Ireland:

New is awful. Post a Godzilla

Awful. More horrible science news "The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."

NEW: Mayor Eric Adams is launching his reelection campaign tomorrow on the steps of City Hall — via @lauranahmias.bsky.social

“Over the past few months, Paramount leaders have been wrestling with how to pay to settle the lawsuit without exposing directors and officers to liability in potential future shareholder litigation or to criminal charges for bribing a public official.” www.wsj.com/business/med...

My fluff dog walks up to my shoulder and like snorted into the side of my head... sigh**

Sen. Mike Lee is trying to sneak the largest attack on public lands in U.S. history into the Senate budget bill. We're not gonna let that happen, and thought we'd remind him of that with a full-page ad in his state's paper of record:

During a closed-door meeting of Republican senators, Sen. Mitch McConnell tried to tamper down some of his colleagues' fears that the Medicaid cuts included in the bill could lead to major electoral losses for the party, claiming that voters will ultimately “get over it.”

Resisting the urge to text childless men I know “Happy Fathers’ Day, Daddy” just because they have, like, a really good moustache or whatever.

Underneath all of those articles is a deep fury that Bluesky punishes instead of rewarding lazy and/or hostile engagement farming. Try to build a following here with trolling and slurs and you'll find yourself in a ghost town. To them that is simply intolerable.

Alaska wolves poisoned by mercury after switching to sea otter diet news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪🌎🦑

Suprematist Design for a Façade, by Vera Ermolaeva, 1920, 📸 by @kelcgrant

Me: take hours to read a book You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey

The resemblance is truly uncanny.

Not just sycophantic… Research suggests LLMs exhibit social desirability bias during personality tests that "exceeds typical human standards"—they seem to detect they’re being tested and try to look better than they otherwise might: buff.ly/xmGjV4R via @psypost.bsky.social

Happy Father’s Day!

Several bridges across the Willamette River will be raised on Monday morning, disrupting traffic, buses and trains.

The nice circles are a (crewed) DHS King Air. bsky.app/profile/airp...

Some youth in Maryland spend more than a year in adult jails before seeing their day in court. Without a fix, the state may lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding every year.

Something to remind you It's a world worth saving

Retweeting the best Tony tweet

It's safe to say I'm now hooked on photographing dolphins. No blue whales today, but being surrounded by 600-800 dolphins is unbeatable 🦑🦊🌿

The impulse buy cover vs the warning between the dedication and the title page.

The federal government runs out of money in 114 days. Just 41 Senate Democrats have the power to prevent any approps bill from being approved. A tyrannical government needs money to pay its agents of repression. ICE, HSI, FBI, etc. agents need money to eat, pay bills, etc. Turn off the money spigot.

The people of Los Angeles will rally on Monday, 6/9 to demand the release of everyone unjustly detained by ICE, like SEIU leader David Huerta, and an end to militaristic escalation on our communities. Join us and @aclusocal.bsky.social at 11 AM in LA to call for an end to these human rights abuses.

You can see the bloke aim at her

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

Greta Thunberg and other human rights defenders have been kidnapped by Israel on international waters. The aid they were delivering to Gaza that includes baby formula & medical supplies has been stolen. The ship Madleen was attacked with drones & will be forced to port at Ashdod Port. #3E #FreeGaza

Not one lie detected

Today is a good day for everyone to learn about ADS-B Exchange (which includes aircraft that you won’t see on FlightAware: globe.adsbexchange.com

Daily bunny no.2980 needs another way across

LAPD assisted by the Huntington Beach Police just came in full force firing munitions and with Horse support. Someone was trampled. Another has a serious head injury.