Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

right. this bike ride isn't going to ride itself.

rain? in July? in THIS economy?

It's a good day to reflect on these thoughts from @attackerman.bsky.social He offered this perspective in an interview he did with @marisakabas.bsky.social after the publication of his Henry Kissinger obituary ran in Rolling Stone. Today, relief.

Senator Graham knew exactly what he was doing when he supported President Trump’s second term.

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this looks ... amazing. 🍽️ 🍜

as always, here's Claire coming with all the tea. I've not caught up at all this week and, well, here we are. it's everything I'd dreamed of ... and more.

BREAKING NEWS: Meta rolls back controversial feature that let anyone tag public Instagram accounts and generate images using their likeness—without their knowledge or active consent. @wired.com

I cannot overstate how litigious the tech sector is when it comes to IP. Patented or not, if there's even a HINT of this stuff, they bring in the lawyers. And Apple has quite the stable of in-house AND external counsel. They are well-funded and they don't blink. BRING IT ON.

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

"Throng"

Marimu-chan, a mascot from Lake Akan in Kushiro City, is a sentient ball of algae wearing a traditional local Ainu costume.

who else had the spiral bound thomas guides under their car seat because they did not fit in the glove compartment

some day, maybe in my lifetime, Bluesky will make video autoplay settings persistent.

“Only a tiny percentage of men commit violence against women! If digging into the backgrounds of male political candidates reveals that a material percentage are among them, it must mean that women are lying about them all.” Or, consider the alternative.

today is a good day to block Sean Hannity here on Bluesky. it felt FANTASTIC.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

you know what? Saying "The US may never win a World Cup" is the best lesson this country can learn. Most of us, like 99.9999999% of us will NEVER be the best at anything. Learn to find the JOY in competition rather than simply by winning.

What an insightful, timely, and infuriating read. Particularly given this country's full-bore attack on women's humanity. And this sentence stopped me in my tracks: "We still don’t know what triggers a pregnant woman’s body to deliver a baby." But please, give me more robo-taxis and AI slop.

Timeline cleanse However, primarily for the 55 plus crowd.

Lemme explain what the words BELIEVE WOMEN should mean. They don't mean you have to believe women no matter what. They do mean that you have to treat women as a source the same way you'd treat a man.

You go to the police and you give a traumatizing account and he interrogates you like you did something wrong and then he asks you if you really want to ruin this nice white boy's life. That's why the fuck people don't do police reports.

One thing I don’t think men understand is that rape and assault are so ubiquitous—and so perpetually immune from consequence or recognition—that many women learn to talk about these incidents as of they’re mere inconveniences. We are not allowed to treat them with more gravity.

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

what today has taught me is that for many men, a certain amount of abuse of women is always acceptable. sure, there's an amount that isn't, but that's up to them to decide, and if you try to question them, well you're just a crazy fucking bitch aren't you.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

*looks outside* frankly, it's bean SOUP weather up here on the mountain, but as long as we have beans, all is well.

“Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their ​citizens universal healthcare, calling it a ‘moral imperative’ that ‌people have access to the health services they need.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

watching World Cup with Mitch McConnell. It's great because his rigor mortis-stiffened hands are perfect for holding my beer.

I love this!

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the words you're looking for are "Kicks from the Mark"

what a day for sportsball.

the ongoing defense of Platner tells me that plenty of men on the left hate women more than they love their supposed principles

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

this World Cup just doesn't stop giving. I just hope I get to see an African team in a final one day. Because they are so beautiful to watch.

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

Don’t send a man to do a woman’s job

Your friendly reminder that the USWNT has won FOUR World Cups. And they had to go to the Supreme Court to get paid.

all we need is Infantino to find us 11780 votes

Going from BBC, Japanese and Swedish coverage of the World Cup to Fox in the US is depressing. They call these matches like high school football games. It stinks.

I've been watching the Aussie coverage and, I gotta say, it's been fantastic. I think they're taking the BBC/int'l feed and the announcing has been great. Best part no Alexi Lalas.

Other people: "I NEVER let my dog on the furniture at home!" My dog at home:

Gutted for Mexico but they were simply outplayed. They were in disarray for most of the second half; couldn't build momentum like they did early in the first half. If this match had been the Final, no one would have been disappointed.

NPR's "Embedded" did an incisive and maddening series about Sen. McConnell. Part 1 here, you're on your own to find the rest. Listen and fume. Literally everything wrong about politics. The man is a skin-suit full of cockroaches.

what the hell is happening in St. Louis !?!?

In case anyone ever tries to suggest this man is “not really French”