lol I fucking knew that little shit wasn't to be trusted. Avoid the new Vine like a plague, they just want a pure dataset to scrape.

this is the correct framing

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

This is a story of a massive Trump cover up but it’s also a story about total elite impunity, how the wealthy and powerful operate with a set of rules totally unrecognizable to the rest of us

Amid everything else I had almost forgotten that even without a pardon, Trump has offered Ghislaine Maxwell amenities unexplainable by anything but some sort of quid pro quo.

I never had any doubt that the Kavanaugh affair was seriously shady shit, starting with a Supreme Court justice randomly deciding to retire early.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Drive-by to say Kim Davis can eat 💩. That is all.

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i started making fun of Jeremy Renner as a bit on the show years ago. didn't have any reason to think he was an awful person, just felt like he was up his own ass enough to be funny. anyway turns out he's an actual monster. i take back my apology over making fun of his weird snowplow accident.

The double splitscreen shot from 1:13-1:42 is one of the most insane shots created during the photochemical era. You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…

Remember to live your life such that people don't talk about the abject evils you did when you die.

I will repost this forever.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

The President is disgusting and a disgrace. And he’s clearly rattled by yesterday’s turnout. Keep speaking out. The power belongs to the people.

Someone said a thing to do about this is just call it out as horrible. Reinforce that beliefs like these are reprehensible. So I'm going to chime in and say if you once believed in sensible GOP policies, you have seen this shit, and you still want to vote with the right...fuck alllll the way off.

People think I'm being hyperbolic when I say "Yeah the GOP is just pro-slavery at this point." If their actual farm labor policy wasn't enough, there's always this.

I know the temptation is to just scroll past this with a “not surprised” reaction, but you should read this if you have the emotional bandwidth to encounter horrifying slurs and violent sentiments, because there’s an important takeaway: extremism is often performed to reinforce an in-group’s bond.

Checking out the Viking-Age hall reconstruction in Lejre, Denmark

#uspoli important context. We’re all learning so much about our country at least. Heh.

AI developers have long made it clear that their entire focus is on supporting "use cases" (arbitrary tasks they wish you'd do) and they spare no attention on abuse cases or misuse cases.

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time. Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense. 🧵

This happened to me today. I got an email from a verified Paypal email address about a huge charge, but it wasn't real. ALWAYS go to your browser and type in the URL of the site and check the Activity at the legitimate site, don't click from the email. No matter how real the email looks.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

5 companies now control 90% of the 🇺🇸 media market. Not great! And they have all either caved to Trump, or are owned or may soon be owned by his allies. (Per @moreperfectunion.bsky.social — A 1996 bill signed by Clinton set us on this path 😕)

another case of people reading a headline and either not reading or misreading an article. the actual reporting does not say anything like "all trans people are being classified as terrorists" i understand why people are scared. i also feel like reading comprehension is at an all time low

It feels like the door to an entire era of American cinema has been finally and irrevocably closed. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

If you're looking to get the latest COVID-19 vaccine, epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina has two recommendations: call your doctor, and call your insurance company.

Holy moly I had no idea my number was that small. And dammit, gotta fix my avatar.

JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

What’s the next likely stage with a network of concentration camps? Forced slave labor. As historian Timothy Snyder urges, CEOs should pledge to not hire these laborers and each of us should pledge not to buy from or invest in companies that do. www.americaamerica.news/p/will-we-to...

This came to mind after I saw this video. I admit: I wouldn't have known this band was AI-generated unless someone told me. Very scary time for musicians. IG danmanganmusic

If you needed encouragement to keep masking and cleaning the air where you live/work, here you go. COVID acts as a “neuroinvasive virus that slowly degrades your brain and your ability to function” Every mild infection adds to the damage in your brain. It’s NOT just a cold, even if mild.

In case it needs spelling out, this is the framework for how the GOP plans to get cheaper field labor.

In a laboratory-scale study, green roofs captured 97.5% of microplastic particles in soil keeping them out of runoff, in addition to substantial heating and cooling benefits. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/an-u...

Lalo Schifrin, who died last Thursday, was one of TV and film's most exciting, indelible composers. @filmsonwax.bsky.social delves into the man's work, his jazz influences, and how his MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE theme persists today: www.rogerebert.com/tributes/lig...

Even linkedin gets it

AI Balloon Effect - all the energy expended to inflate and deflate for nothing

There's a new telescope this week. Dreamed up in 1998. NSF first funded it in 2005. Its camera sensor is measured in feet. It cost $2B. For that we learn about the universe and not get wiped out by an asteroid like the dinosaurs. We can do great things, when we dream, plan, work, and fund them.

PLEASE READ and SHARE from the CHILDREN'S Hospital Association: “Your child—regardless of their insurance status—could see the services they rely on reduced or eliminated... The bill amounts to fewer doctors and nurses to see your child, longer wait times, and sicker children."

That mirror doing the Lord's work

Since the NBA season ended last night, here's my self indulgent take on where Sports Bluesky is atm. The TLDR is that crappy Resistance accounts are working like antibodies to flush casual sports ppl off this platform and the devs should address this if they actually want sports to take off here.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Hey friends who are dooming out about AI… A mode of communicating information that actually helps people think and better understand concepts and systems and is also quite pleasant when done well is diagrams and infographics. "AI" sucks ass at infographics.