"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

Good luck to all the nominees! So many incredible stories on the ballot - I'm cheering for everyone!

Anyone know what happened at Expo Park today? Cops swarming the street next to the Natural History Museum.

White phosphorus is a human safety problem for three reasons: 1. It spontaneously ignites when exposed to oxygen 2. It’s thick, sticky, and gooey 3. It’s a powerful reducer. What that means: 1. It burns and burns unless smothered. It’ll start burning again as soon as it hits the air. (cont)

There are a ton of thriller authors just throwing hands right now.

One stat that should be a headline one for Dems is that deportations and arrests are job-killers. We talked about a study on today’s Slate Money that found that for every arrest, 6 Americans lose jobs and 4 undocumented immigrants do. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...

Actually…

Hegseth aligning himself rather directly with the soldiers *defending* the beaches at Normandy, who were, and you might find this surprising, not the Americans or Canadians or British, but rather, and this is interesting, the

I specifically requested no more metaphors

“Police remove diabetes experts from diabetes conference for critique of Trump administration” was not a headline I thought I’d have to see but here we are

“According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (6), food prices in the U.S. have increased 33.3% since the beginning of 2020, while housing costs are up 32.5% (7). Energy prices, meanwhile, have surged 48% (8) over that period.” Fuck the economy gaslighters claiming we just dont understand gdp

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

In all the excitement for this weekends game announcements, don’t forget about all the devs that have been laid off in the last few years. Imagine how much better games could be if people weren’t tossed aside for profit & corporate greed. We may never know how it could have been.

Good morning

Had an awesome time yesterday. Big thanks to the fine folks at @ruadanbooks.bsky.social !!!

Those agendas and biases can be anything! Case in point: you think the fruit in the garden of eden was an apple because a guy translating the story into Latin wanted to make a pun.

"What good is the World Cup for Los Angeles when workers don't earn enough to pay the rent and must choose between showing up and being kidnapped by ICE?," says Unite Here president Kurt Petersen. "If we're forced to strike, those $100,000 FIFA suites will have nothing but bottled water and Doritos"

Update: SoFi workers have voted 96% in favor of authorizing a strike, "meaning workers could walk off the job at any moment if their demands are not met." Negotiations continue Monday — but the first World Cup game at SoFi is one week from today

Somebody got a word a day calendar. I mean, not him, obviously. He can’t read.

The most nerve wracking thing about voting in LA is how long it takes to count.

LinkedIn traffic about to skyrocket.

We've reached the point where just selling you a thing and not a subscription to a thing is an act of rebellion.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

Generative LLMs (rightfully, thankfully) expose the mugs in our midst, who have forgone any sort of thinking beyond their nosetip, because what do you mean you're asking an app not to do something? It's an app! 🫠 bsky.app/profile/oisi...

The amount of corruption in this administration is astounding.

In retrospect, having decades where index funds were a boring but functional option for non-millionaire investors should have been a clear sign that they were exactly the kind of good thing Elon Musk likes to loot and destroy.

The president doesn’t even realize when he literally shits his pants. So, no.

Surprised RFK Jr isn't vowing to fight the screwworm outbreak by snorting them all up his nose.

Did they also knight his Jaeger?

Medicaid work requirements were always going to be cruel. Then, the White House intervened (likely) and made the definition of who can be exempt based on disabilities/health much stricter. This is going to kill people. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gimme a jackhammer and I'll have it done in 20 minutes.

If we ignore all the dead people we will never have any dead people

As someone who came up through the fanfic trenches, there are many things it can teach you. And there are many, many things it is unlikely to.

Hey friends. I have some news to share.

The Nazi who makes explosives in the guise of cars and rockets is about to annihilate your pittance of a retirement fund.

One book or a hundred, I don’t care. Hell, half a book. Just please read something.

DATA?! IN THIS ADMINISTRATION?!?

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

After setting the price of train tickets to World Cup games at $98, a 7.5x increase on the regular $12.90 fare, NJ Transit is finding that hardly anybody is buying them. Only 4,000 tickets have been sold. 320,000 tickets are still available. First game is in 9 days time. www.nj.com/news/2026/06...

Show will be renamed 20 Minutes Each.

You’re welcome.

A great thread, and to a large degree this development is due to the sickness now consuming the entire economy - the network’s job went from making profit to driving stock prices up. A mature business will not make your CEO and his pals as rich as a “growth” business.

If you’re reading for the Hugos…it’s also the perfect season for my little summer gothic baby and she’s nominated!

There goes international investment in the US financial system.

So they made sourdough from 3000 year old yeast they pulled out of a mummy’s butthole. How long before it shows up on the shelf at Sprouts?

CORPSE LOAF

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

Finished Dead Things by @stephenblackmoore.com and really enjoyed it. If you have trouble getting into audiobooks, get the dramatized cast recording version—they’re like radio plays with sound effects and musical scores and everything!