If Bojack Horseman is "This is the best thing ever, I don't recommend watching it" Then "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" is "This is the worst thing ever, I do recommend watching it"

Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts

NEW: Opponents of AI surveillance cameras keep getting wins in Wisconsin. Dane County added to the cascade of jurisdictions pulling out of "Flock Safety" contracts a few weeks ago, and several more towns have followed. Bolts' @pascalsabino.bsky.social looks at what's going on:

He's just repeating what Xi told him, which is that Taiwan is the one provoking tensions by flirting with independence. And it's nonsense.

Totally agree w/ this take. I somehow managed to become extremely close with two people I randomly met at a conference in my first year. We are now each others' biggest cheerleaders. To say nothing of the more senior faculty I've gotten to engage with, who have been so generous/kind/fun. Its a hoot!

The Intel chair hasn’t read the treaty. If he had, he’d know there’s only been one time NATO was required to help the U.S. and that was after 9/11. And they did.

Reading this and thinking of the taxi driver in Torquay last weekend enthusiastically telling me he’d watched a video of Nigel Farage speaking up on Question Time to champion the needs of those who earn just £15,000 a year. He’d later discovered it was AI, but “I was impressed anyway”

Yeah if you're only counting scandals where there's personal enrichment (Ecclestone and Cash for Peerages for instance both involved payments to the parties and were significantly bigger in size)

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

“Americans are under-babied” has a deeply predatory, Epstein-class stink to it. It sounds less like social commentary and more like the language of insulated elites trying to launder creepy fixations through intellectualized nonsense. Some phrases do not need decoding. They self-announce the rot.

I may have lots of complaints about the US government’s response to hantavirus, but our colleagues at @unmc.bsky.social are the best of us. I’m moved by their humanity 🥹

Trump campaigned on bringing down the cost of living "starting on day one," and then: started a trade war; deported much of the farm workforce, bombed Iran, allowed healthcare subsidies to expire, cut food assistance, ran an interest-rate boosting deficit, and attacked fed independence.

The highway system will collapse, but your gas will drop from $6.59/gallon to $6.41/gallon. Sounds like a deal.

“.. Inflation is now eating up all wage gains for the first time in about three years. This is painful for Americans and a true financial squeeze.” CPI Inflation in past year: 3.8% Wage gains: in past year: 3.6%” @byheatherlong.bsky.social

It's bizarre how people still act like anything he says bears any relation to reality.

The Reflecting Pool is the Trump admin in microcosm: *The pool has real problems, like leaky pipes, that are not being fixed *Superficial paint job that will actually make it look worse *No bid contract! No oversight! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

All that’s missing are the inflatable flamingos. And it only cost us $6.9 million!

I guess we’re doing this again?

Make sure you give your mom a firm handshake today. Show respect by looking her in the eye.

Electrifying a home isn't just an upgrade. It gives families the power to opt out of footing the bill for a massive energy crisis caused by war. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

Not a lot of fun stuff in politics but watching Orban’s defeat is fun.

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

This kind of info is helpful because it reminds us there’s a floor and that floor is way higher than it has any right to be.

The First Amendment is clear: The federal government can't punish media organizations just because it doesn't like what they have to say. By fighting back, ABC is sending an important message: Our rights are worth fighting for.

Y’all it gotta be emotional whiplash that have lived long enough to have been born during the aftermath of Jim Crow, the tail end of desegregation in his town, then see the first Black president, and now be alive to see an openly segregationist president and party.

Currently thinking about how my father (in his early 60s) had to learn how to swim by jumping in the river by a levee in his hometown because the public pools in 1970s Laplace, Louisiana didn’t let black folk enter. He gotta watch the resegregation of our society all over again.

Saw a photo of two white lawmakers laughing at protestors in Tennessee and I ain’t ever felt myself so close to a mental break before bruh. My people are having decades of shit we fought for rolled back and they’re just laughing.

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

That photo could be from the 1960s. So much for progress.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

in essence he's right, he's firing multimillion dollar missiles at butterflies. and this is why your libraries are closed on the weekends and your grandfather is working a retail job at 80

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

We're in the Ranking Pedophiles phase of rationalization.

/2 When I was called in and walked past him I said “you’ve got something on your shirt,” pointing vaguely. He did not.

There was a man, perhaps in his sixties, watching YouTube videos without headphones in the doctor waiting room. I sat and considered what law and social convention permitted me to do to make his life a little worse today.

Buttiigieg: "Look, when you are this deep into your second year, if your reflex is to still be trying to blame the previous administration, it really shows that you are out of ideas, out of solutions, and unwilling to take ownership of your own choices."

one thing that still baffles me is that orchestrated spate of right wing talking points about how the alleged shooting at the WHCD should end any debate over the ballroom it made absolutely zero fuckin sense lol it still makes zero fuckin sense lol

"I voted for strength. The Emperor projects strength. That’s important. But I didn’t think strength meant a planet-killing battle station this close to my planet. I assumed deployments like this were for Outer Rim situations. You know, for lesser things, like Jawas."

Question: What term describes a situation where opposing state militaries are engaged in competing blockades, one fires missiles and drones, the other fires air defense interceptors and fires on small attack boats, sinking any in their vicinity? US media: A “ceasefire.”

Every generation must carry the torch of freedom and democracy, said the man who killed the Voting Rights Act five days ago

“You know we’re in a war,” President Trump said yesterday, as a White House letter to Congress asserted that the War Powers Act doesn’t apply because there’s no war. Utter contempt. Congress is cool with it. Because the GOP majority also has contempt for the law, Constitution, country, and people.

"For most of the nation’s history, the former Confederate states have worked hard to minimize the political influence of Black residents in particular. Now they have full cover to do so again." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As my colleague David Rosnick puts it: the Roberts Court is just calling the balls and strikes. The problem is that they do it before the pitch is thrown.

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

Trump’s latest moves on trade and troops in Europe reconfirm two simple facts: no deal with Trump is worth the paper it’s written on & no degree of bending the knee to him makes an iota of a difference (other than shredding European dignity)

”developments … show that European nations are working with shocking speed to free themselves from dependence on America.” The problem never was that Europeans cannot imagine European security without the US. The problem is that Americans can’t imagine that Europeans can do it.

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!