As a physicist and historian, I like to point out that the first rechargeable battery was invented about 165 years ago.
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As a physicist and historian, I like to point out that the first rechargeable battery was invented about 165 years ago.
A federal appeals court panel rejects the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan immigrants.
Random fun fact: since I’ve lived in NC there have been three gas shortages, two due to hurricanes taking out infrastructure and one due to ransomware. No energy source is 100% guaranteed to be available at all times, which is why you DIVERSIFY. Also: batteries.
Day 30 of the next Natl Guard deployment: protestors take to the streets to stand off with guardsmen, holding signs that say "if we weren't protesting today you wouldn't get health benefits, so you're welcome"
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Okay enough news for the night. Games, movies and Transformers.
Melania’s windows are sealed shut because she keeps trying to climb out to escape his stench
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
I don’t even need a super serious relationship in my life at this point. I would be happy to have someone I be could spend time with semi-regularly and that we care about each other.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Very much this, by @pearlmania500.bsky.social
Ok everyone, you manifested really well. Now we just need to work on your aim a little bit
Ugh a singularly unproductive day.
Here are the rules for mail in voting in Alabama: www.sos.alabama.gov/alabama-vote...
He’s the nosferatu type. Miller bit him
New theory: he is now a vampire and cannot go into a city unless invited in.
So… I admittedly don't watch Trump speaking live, if I can help it, but… That's how he talks, now? And like… They let him? Uhhhh… 😬
man all he had to say about the bags out the window was that workmen are renovating the residence, now I'm convinced it was body parts
He really sounded like one of those one hit wonder bands performing half-assed at local festivals decades later. Not interested in doing it anymore but no other options available.
Maybe just wishful thinking but I remain confident that something went off with Donald this past week. Maybe not serious but noticeable enough that they opted to keep him out of view until he recovered. And he didn’t really seem like he wanted to do that presser.
thanks for NOTHING donald
And then he said he didn't again!
Then he said, yeah, he heard about it.
Trump just asked about rumors that he was dead, and he claims that he didn't hear anything about it. He doesn't look amused.
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
It's interesting that he talked for like three minutes and then passed along the mic to everyone else.
Wow he looks so lifelike
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
actual footage of the white house rn
I don't think that's the type of AI they're talking about
I heard they’re still struggling to get the president to master the line “putting on the ritz!”
Dare you to find a more fitting metaphor for America right now.
the sunglasses keep falling off
Someone check the roof of the White House again
I maintain certain shreds of civility in spite of everything
"What a world we live in."
It’s like electricity, but if when you plugged a device in it works exactly as intended about 25% of the time, works sort of as intended another 25% of the time, and 50% of the time it either doesn’t work or spontaneously transforms into a chicken.
Last minute preparation
I wanna watch the first few minutes in the hopes of seeing something hilarious that would not be appropriate to state publicly
Don’t forget tomorrow at 10:30 presume DC time Epstein presser www.wlwt.com/article/thom...
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So where do we watch this crap at 2:00
i cannot wait to return to this specific bit of this story
No offense but if you have to keep telling me that AI is as big as electricity or the internet then I doubt it is as big as electricity or the internet
Nothing received yet, standing at $105/$360, please help! 💸💕
Five days until the Lunar Eclipse. 🔭 🧪
No no no he died to distract from Epstein and the war is to distract from the fact that he’s dead. Then he’ll invade Chicago to distract from the war
AI staff joining Meta, after seeing the state of the company and industry:
Super cool new #sciart ink painting on yupo based on an image of mitosis in drosophila artologica.etsy.com/listing/4358... 🧪🐡🧠🪰
I say we give it a try
* BREAKING: LIVING PRESIDENT, WHO IS ALIVE, TO APPEAR LIVE AT 2PM TO ANNOUNCE MOST INCONSEQUENTIAL THING YOU'VE EVER HEARD OF
@naoisedolan.bsky.social is on here folks.
these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes
Being nice pays off. Just got a free lunch at my local lunch place, just because.
These statues don’t do a single thing They just sit and gather lots of dust On a lonely shelf
Now inventing a product line that is opposite of Transformers, called “They’re Statues!” Theme song: They’re Statues! Less than meets the eye They’re Statues! Cast from a single die
Oooh I will be able to show off another big Transformer tonight, after a package arrives
Grand juries have declined to indict at least six times in recent weeks as part of President Donald Trump's federal policing in Washington. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
so what's everyone drinking for the 2pm announcement that the president has been dead for a week? i'm thinking moscow mule.
He's not announcing sending troops into Chicago and Baltimore?! Low energy, SAD!
The Northern Lights were visible across the UK overnight on September 1, and may appear again on Tuesday following a powerful solar storm 🤩
Please send tips
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
I had $750 of it but I accidentally sent it through the bank and the bank is $-747 in the negatives. My rent money is gone. I lost my job and I was raped last month and lost a pregnancy. Please help if you can.
"Breyer's scathing ruling accused the Trump administration of “willfully” violating the law, saying it used troops for functions that were barred by their own training materials, refused to “meaningfully coordinate with state and local officials” and “'coached’” federal law enforcement agencies"
Me neither. Cats weren't helping me.
a standing O for Gaza I feel establishment Dems quivering
roses are red gold is the key
How to report on Nazis. And it's real, I checked thenightly.com.au/editions
The Blue Sky chrome identity for @astronomycast.com is used by several people. For reasons I chose not to question, typing "bsk" auto-completes to this March 10 post by @drskyskull.bsky.social . I am ok with this. bsky.app/profile/drsk...
Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.
Hardly slept at all last night
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Apparently Trump will be speaking about “defense” this afternoon and not “retirement,” sadly
A live-as-it-happens demonstration of one of the many very serious problems with LLMs.
Canada seems to be getting caught in the crossfire of the USA tariffs. Bunch of companies have stopped shipping to USA and their systems have North America as one zone. I first heard of it because a number of LEGO hobbyists can't get specialty pieces from Europe anymore. Highly annoying. ☹️
Headline: Biden coverup made it impossible to see Trump's body disintegrating
'Twas the night before.... You know And all through bluesky The skeeters were hopeful Though they wouldn't say why.
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SLEEP
Jake Tapper up late, furiously writing an article about Biden’s mental state
Is it too presumptuous to write a version of “The Night Before Christmas” but instead of being about Christmas it’s about… you know
The Wild Wild world of Batwoman www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_nP...
There are a few MST3k movies where the movie is so bad that the riffers just start shouting “END! END!” and that is how I’m feeling now
Mood
The most amusing thing about “Blueskyism” is the implication that there’s anything like a coherent ideology among the users here. Except, maybe, “don’t do genocide.”
Uh subscribe to The Onion, by the way. For like one more week you also get a tote bag. membership.theonion.com
Happy Labor Day! For over a century, Illinois has been the epicenter of the fight for workers’ rights. Working families are the bulwark that has made our state the 5th largest economy in the nation. Today, we celebrate workers and their leadership of Illinois’ success.
I actually hate this framing. First, it was obviously never about crime and acting like is could be implicitly gives credence to the idea that military intervention is a viable solution. Even if it works, which I am skeptical, at $1M per day per city, minimum, it is not sustainable.
“Okay, so the president is ill. Slightly ill. He will recover soon to freely pursue a life of religious fulfillment.”
Okay who let Nate Silver have opinions again
*pushes glasses up nose* This is known as the Blueschism
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
By the way, if you ever entertained the thought that Trump is respected in other countries, I give you... Chinese Trump. www.tiktok.com/@trumpbyryan...
Some days I just love what I do. The current section of a paper from 1906 I'm reading and translating: "The principle of the impossibility of perpetual motion of the second kind in its relation to the thermodynamics of interference phenomena."