I love Bluesky because it means I get to see essays like this that I never would have seen otherwise but that excite me to read. I love to learn; I love to expand my horizons. This site scratches a really cool itch.

Darkly funny that we’re watching the president die in real time and when he inevitably dies, millions of people will swiftly conclude the visibly decaying 80 year-old was killed by a woke CIA Judeo-transgender conspiracy to shrink video game boobs and make Star Wars worse.

Oh, okay. 👌

May 14th, 1796: English scientist Edward Jenner inoculates a patient with the cowpox pathogen, thereby immunizing him from smallpox, a highly infectious, scarring plague that has already killed millions. Jenner has created the world's first vaccine and will be called 'the father of immunology.'

That he delivered his lecture about "waste" and "fraud" while his Admin. is spending $1 billion a day on a war that Americans do not support—to say nothing of the staggering corruption of his own President—is beyond parody. It’s shameful, it’s dangerous, and it’s beneath the dignity of his office.

🚨👀 @kamalaharris.com calls for expanding and rebalancing Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS "Let’s invite ideas, for example, that are about Supreme Court reform, including the notion of expanding the court." h/t @paulblumenthal.bsky.social

a 13th-14th century seal depicting a squirrel encircled by the words I CRAKE NOTIS ('i crack nuts')

At this point you must have a suicide wish to take a cruise. Every week there’s another outbreak of one kind or another.

The last few months of my mom’s life was physically and mentally exhausting. She didn’t make it home from the hospital for hospice, but the bed was set up. This is beyond cruel. No end of life care for people on their deathbed. The rage I feel reading this!

Hedge fund predators sending offers to pay cash for your home, for $150k less than its appraised value. These investors preying on people during hard economic times. Eat the rich!

Zohran Mamdani has fully balanced New York City’s $12 billion deficit — an uncomfortable reminder to the political establishment that governments can, in fact, function when taxpayer money isn’t funneled toward lobbyists wealthy benefactors

For use with your normies

AI detection is nearly impossible now. When we cannot distinguish deepfakes from reality, our collective trust in media erodes. Support mandatory labeling for all AI-generated content to preserve the truth.

OMG, so sweet and how loving. 🥰

It’s National Police Week, and Republicans in DC have shown how little they care about Capitol Police.

Was reading beauty articles about slugging (the act of putting a bit of vaseline over your lotion to lock it in) and everyone acting like this is new. It's not new. I remember commercials in the 70s on TV telling us to do this. It's not co-opting culture, its in beauty products already

Redditors have caught Google secretly updating its Chrome terms of service to remove a line that guaranteed that local AI models won't send data to Google servers. That's now gone, meaning your local AI sends data to Google, so it's not that local. old.reddit.com/r/chrome/com...

Hopefully these remain after the games. There’s homelessness in Seattle without access to water.

I once saw crows chasing a baby bald eagle, they flew in a loop then came back my way in front of the baby bald eagle and it’s mother chasing them and they were flying fast cause mama eagle was about to whoop their ass for harassing her baby. 🤣

First ice cream truck of the year came up the street. It’s now $6 for an ice cream cone. But yay! Ice cream.

The new rules for leggings. And, if they make you look old, cool, because I am old and I’m still wearing them because they’re comfortable.

☝️ SPEAKING TO YOU, WOMEN! YOU will be the next target before the white guys. GET YOUR BUTTS OUT AND VOTE for YOUR rights! NO excuses. NO sitting home. NO third parties. NO write-in. NO whining. VOTE for Dems or be state-owned breeding livestock. That's IT.

Missed this feel good story a few months ago. 🎁🔗 Graham Walker sold Fibrebond for $1.7 billion and included a condition in the sale that 15% of the proceeds, amounting to $240 million, would be distributed to his 540 employees (averaging $443,000 per person).

It’s just silkscreened bottles of Woodford Reserve that costs $35 at Target. Not exactly top shelf.

I have figured out that I can clean my entire house only during commercial breaks, get all my chores done and have a mostly lazy day lounging about.

this goes directly against the intent of congress and the law.

Democrats get a gerrymander in Virginia approved by a referendum, and it falls. Republicans in other states manage to gut the Voting Rights Act to enact partisan gerrymanders with no signoff from voters, and they stand. The game really does feel rigged, doesn't it?

"Billionaires don't just try to buy elections. They also promote the conspiracy theories and malaise that steer people toward fascist politicians, who in turn allow billionaires to loot the country." Listen to @brianbeutler.bsky.social and @smotus.bsky.social: www.offmessage.net/p/saving-dem...

kash patel has ordered polygraph tests of *former* employees? why would they agree to that? they don’t work for him! i won’t even do compliance forms for *my* former employers

incredibly funny how the outbreak happened after the two main countries involved, the united states and argentina, completely obliterated their public health and regulatory agencies for insane kulturkampf reasons

I was just thinking how in a lot of ways poor folks have an advantage over the middle class. Poor folks already know how to get creative and resourceful with nothing and do without during hard economic times. Middle class, not so much. That fall from that platform going to be a hard one.

I was reading how 1/3 of those in poverty have hygiene poverty and can’t even afford soap/shampoo/toothpaste, etc. and that was before Trump. I’m sure the stats are far worse now. Then there’s household detergents to keep home clean too in the stats. 😭 Then there’s billionaires not paying taxes. 🤬

1965 - 1975: the acid heads & hippies tried 1976 - 2020: the environmental activists tried. 2021 - 2025: the essayists & authors tried. 2026 - 2030: we watched it all collapse 2031 - : we?

I've been all around the globe but a sewer barge was never the mode of transportation and I have no desire.

Back when I was born, new fathers used to hand out cigars. I found a pack from around that time period in the basement. They cost 48 cents a pack.

I was grateful for cable TV in the early years after Ted Turner introduced it into homes. However what it has morphed into is just not worth it. I miss a few channels but paying $300 a month where channels you don’t want are forced on you driving up costs. My antenna TV is good enough.

The Oil Industry’s Latest Disaster: Trillions of Gallons of Buried Toxic Wastewater www.desmog.com/2026/02/12/t...

Between 2024 and 2026, Facebook hosted over 75% of all wildlife products found for sale online. Over half are endangered or critically endangered. Researchers say the platform’s architecture and algorithms that suggest related content, allows illegal networks to thrive. Spoorthy Raman reports.

Global oil reserves are being released at record pace, all to keep oil around $100 a barrel. This isn’t sustainable, and the administration has no plan to reopen the Strait.

When your neighbor gives you dirty looks because Iinstalled a backyard clothesline, then their dryer breaks and they’re hauling it all to the laundromat… I’m just sitting here not saying a word but thinking, the irony 🤣 It’s always good to have a backup alternative 🌞

This is 1977 all over again with the Love Canal disaster. I’m old enough to remember. Many here are too young to remember the nightly news with all the sick people because developers built homes over a toxic waste dump.

A fish rots from the head down, and embracing far right nationalism has caused this. What Israel is doing to Christians and Islamic countries, Trump (USA) is doing to minorities here, and other nations. Same far right nationalism, same shit, different countries, same hate, same actions.

One thing is, okay, let’s set aside the fact that Kennedy is a conspiracy-theory crank with zero credentials. Isn’t “the government jumps into health care to micromanage what sorts of treatments are available” THE EXACT THING REPUBLICANS HAVE SUPPOSEDLY BEEN ANGRY ABOUT SINCE 2010?

They’re coming for anti depressants and anxiety meds, and we are living in a time where they needed as funding support for mental health is drying up. He’s going to make suicide skyrocket! He’s not a mental health specialist. Hard labor on farms won’t cure depression.

For those struggling with grocery prices, watch lots of village cooking videos from around the globe. Most remote people living in poverty create feasts on nothing. It really teaches how to stretch that grocery budget, and cook delicious meals from basic frugal ingredients.

This! Netanyahu is a war criminal. Protesting genocide isn’t antisemitism. A lot of the people calling it antisemitism don’t even practice their faith! You can love Jewish people and criticize their government’s crimes.

Heidi Klum Met Gala Costume.

Just hours before the 2026 #MetGala, hundreds gathered in the Meatpacking District to watch people walk down a different red carpet in custom couture. The "Ball Without Billionaires" - a runway show co-hosted by fashion stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and 'Abbott Elementary' actress Lisa Ann Walter