David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.

👇🎯 This is the entire answer & I’m not sure why more people can’t/won’t see that. The entire country, Bluesky included, is traumatized by the fascism & evil & the total failure of every one of our societal institutions to meet the moment. Yes, Twitter in the Obama era was more fun. So was democracy.

Ads playing on gas pumps now leading cause of hearing loss

Oh man I just find this deeply & utterly incomprehensible. Reading aloud to my children was a top-three life experience for me. I was gutted when they got old enough & no longer wanted it. I still miss it. It is both intensely pleasurable & easily the best thing you can do for your kids.

What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility. 11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

Geezus

Bring back Ben & Holly

it's been said before but it's wild that these guys have more money and power than anyone on earth and still have unshakeable loser energy. none of them would survive the cafeteria of a public high school. give me a five-minute phone call with j.d. and i could make him cry

Great thread

AOC: Trans girls are girls. And for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern for women for the first time. I don't know who has been to gym class, I’ve played co-ed sports all the time

I honestly think we are experiencing the end of the internet as those of us born in the 20th c understand it. Smaller, siloed communities like discord servers and newsletters will persist, but the idea of the global public square is dead, as is “the information superhighway.” VCs killed it.

Has someone started a subway wrestling gif account yet?

Those plastic pieces in new socks are just beyond annoying

Matt Gaetz Attorney General! Not even mad! Cackling like a maniac. Nothing matters. Let it burn. The country will be a neverending Miss Teen Universe contest by August.

Smoking section in a restaurant is like a peeing section in a pool