It’s weird that the can recycling machine gets off holidays but the Safeway workers don’t. Just saying!
It’s weird that the can recycling machine gets off holidays but the Safeway workers don’t. Just saying!
When I first got on BlueSky I used a bunch of starter kits, which meant I got some random UK journalists in my feed. It’s kinda nice to see them freaking out sometimes and then realize it’s niche UK stuff and being able to not care about it. Checking out of a story online is one of life’s great joys
But that’s the thing, Townshend doesn’t think you should have to. So she doesn’t. It’s just a different of opinion.
Arrogant of Ostapenko?
Someday the Growing Pains theme song is gonna catch me in the wrong moment and bring me to tears. Not yet though.
I see they’re making new confederate monuments.
Congrats on the social engagement you’re going after here with this nonsense.
DAs might be able to indict a ham sandwich but not the guy who threw one.
When you think of all the instances journalists use ridiculous hedging language (allegedly, claims) when it’s clear what happened and then compare it to how they treat Trump lately….🫠
My college buddy detailed to me exactly what was going to happen before Katrina made landfall and he was just some guy. It was absolutely predictable.
This guy is just gonna spend the rest of his life making up problems and “solving” them by growing his power and wealth, and he’s probably never gonna be held accountable for that. And that’s where we’re at.
The lowering of standards for police and recently the FBI should be really concerning. (Some) People believed that a baseline standard of ethics or devotion to rule of law would stand in the way of fascism. This is how you get around that. Hire people who aren’t tethered to the ideals of the job.
I think this is the thing it’s taken me 42 years to realize, that some people need to see people punished. I’ll never understand it.
Maybe it's because I was in the Bay Area and people were playing this like crazy, but I think more people would end up remembering this than this poll predicted. It was really cool to see people have communal public fun in this way, though I know some people hated the crowds, etc.
I’m 80% sure my coffee pot just sighed. Same, buddy.
People don’t talk enough about the Dreamcast. Not me, I talk about it constantly.
We fired cancer researchers, for this
It’s just Pip farting on a snare drum.
We tried to watch Airheads tonight and it apparently doesn’t exist on streaming anymore and this is the worst day of my life.
same guy lmao
Green Afternoon
*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane
Frickin Caesar's Palace nonsense
You can tell it’s fake because his head is so small.
I think I’m at a point where if someone wrote “wash me” in the dust on my car window that it would send me over the edge.
"This institution doesn't work right and can be improved somewhat" MAGA: you're a radical communist. you want to overthrow the US "Let's abolish 17 different agencies overnight, that support science, schools, workers, diplomacy, health" MAGA: this, to me, is conservatism
Starting the day with an episode of Twilight Zone where a callous factory owner tells a distraught employee that he’s been replaced by a machine that can do his job thousands of times better and he’s no longer needed. Wonder what’s gonna happen….
Norma was really the only person consistently worth a damn in the Arnold family.
Ah, she’s cosplaying an office worker today.
Can we talk about how “sleazebags all” is the most poetic and creative thing Trump has ever said?
It’s true, he is another naively arrogant white person. Finally, I agree with Skip.
Leno is the Hulk Hogan of late night tv. He doesn’t believe in anything but lining his pockets.
I dropped a poster tube in the #sdcc exhibit hall trying to get a signature. The poster inside has 2 dozen autographs collected at events in multiple states and countries. The tube has a name and address on it, it’s easy to id; but I’m devastated, I feel like such an idiot. #sdcclostandfound
Have you had the awesome sauce Goldfish crackers yet? 👀👀👀
I feel like as a society we’re all coping with finally having to pronounce Ghislaine out loud after years of kinda skipping over it when reading articles.
One cup of coffee makes me feel good, so surely four cups will be four times as good with no adverse side affects.
Getting older means forgetting words like “bookmark.”
I spend very little time thinking about this guy but this is super gross.
I think LinkedIn and I have different standards for “notifications”
Why’s he looking at me like that?
Another reason why AI is so popular. You don’t have to reason your way through a problem, just inset the question and pull the lever.
I love the idea of showing up to the park in a full Sonics uniform. Eastbay was the best.
Sometimes it seems like these Amazon Prime Day beat writers have the only steady gigs in journalism. You’re telling me you’ve been covering this for YEARS!?
Ah yes, Clay Travis, the sports radio guy who now talks exclusively about politics is lecturing us about the desperate need for apolitical entertainment.
One of my favorite things about Twilight Zone is how immediately unhinged people get when the premise starts to reveal itself and they’re convinced someone is playing a trick on them.
senioreditor@nytimes.com
No, it was republicans.
Is there actually a rule he’s trying to shoehorn into this or is he literally just saying don’t speak ill of father?
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
live your life such that social media isn't sad to learn it is not you getting absolutely clocked by a piece of pizza
The guy who casts the deciding vote to pass the bill says others need to do soul searching?
You’re better than this @ericswalwell.bsky.social
I just realize I tap the top of my bun after making a sandwich. Not sure when that started.
Does anybody know if she made it?
You know I feel like someday people will say “You know Trump was originally a reality tv show host” in much the same way they say “You know Hitler was originally was an artist.”
Imagine being the guy who gave that comment a thumbs down.
Whoever said Bluesky was dying was not on Bluesky tonight.
The Sgt. Slaughter with Sgt. Slaughter action figure is innovative stuff
See this is precisely the kind of nonsense I love as a collector.
There’s an episode of Night Court from the 80s(!) where Harry has a trans friend. It’s wild how far we’ve regressed on this issue.
Voting that we ban “reamed out” from future journalism.
perhaps, after all this time, it was The Noid avoiding me
Playing sports (poorly!) growing up made me a better friend, teammate, husband, dad and worker. I see the evidence almost every day. Heck I still play two days a week and it still teaches me lessons.
And yes I’m positive it was Six because she was a special guest at the game a couple hours before.
I once asked a Charlotte Hornets basketball player for his autograph at a restaurant and I looked over and he was on a date with Six from Blossom.
“The road to authoritarianism is filled with people telling you you are overreacting.” @governorwalz.mn.gov speaking at @americanprogress.bsky.social right now
Adrien Payne….RIP
This is perfect.
Many folks certainly kept it up for too long. Agreed. They were super obnoxious at times, too. That said, I still think using republicans allegiance to Trump as a good example for success is…crazy. Especially when we look at how their party is now beholden to him (which is its own purity test!)
So when I said the entirety of the left did not demand purity, that was accurate, right? Instead it was a vocal group of folks online (who used a hashtag, as you pointed out). And we don’t know how those folks voted either. I’m sure most didn’t vote for Kamala but I’d bet many did.
So, a portion of the left and not the entirety of the left, right? What percentage would you say the uncommitted movement represented among the left?
“The left” in its entirety certainly did not demand purity. Some vocal folks online did. I would wager many of them still voted for Kamala. Lobbying for more from your politicians isn’t necessarily a purity test.
And now they’re all beholden to Trump and governing in a failing democracy. Is that close to where they wanted to go? I hope not.
Winning is the only thing they care about and now they all have to kiss Trump’s feet to keep their jobs. What a victory.
Absolutely but that doesn’t mean you can’t ask politicians to represent your beliefs in order to get your full support. The phrase purity test gets thrown around to label a lot of things I wouldn’t call a purity test.
Another way to say this is that republicans have won for years by not standing for anything but winning. I’m not defending the extremes that some on the left take it but this doesn’t feel like the right lesson here.
Fail by what definition? Bluesky is exactly what I need it to be: a place where generally informed and well meaning people discuss the events of the day and share jokes. Will it fail as a business? Maybe but that’s not my job. I’m enjoying my stay and wouldn’t subject myself to X again.
I have that shirt! I’ll add it to my rotation of subtly political shirts.
We need our institutions to show bravery. It’s the only way.
Time for an emergency episode of the pod, right?
I wonder how many people in the Trump administration have also committed the crimes he listed in this video. I’d love to see some of those very bad people arrested too.
Hey @iamhectordiaz.com, saw some great shitposting on LinkedIn today.
This is a picture of a thumb.
this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.
the internet today
I used to listen to it nonstop and fell out of the habit years ago. I've always been meaning to get back into it—as recently as last week! Such a shame but I hope what's next brings him joy.
My million dollar idea: Bring Back Rescue 911
College softball is outstanding
I don’t know why the NYT spends so much energy finding new ways to describe illegal, unethical things in a way that makes them sound not illegal.
Wait so the government gets blamed for things it has nothing to do with? He’s so close to getting it.
I dunno that looked like .5 to me.
You know what I would love AI to do? Offer a reasonable autocorrect. I feel like it’s gotten worse over the years. I don’t need it to write movies. Just autocorrect please.
I loved her so much and think she would’ve made a great president but the electorate did not like her. That was one time where I looked at a candidate I adored and realized there wasn’t much hope of convincing the masses.
Maybe it’s having a revival! It’s at target in California. It tastes different than I remember it though. Very hard, but maybe i need more milk.
The idea of a courtroom sketch artist gets more and more bizarre the longer I think about it. “We can’t let in a photographer but we have this guy who will make an unhinged sketch of something that didn’t exactly happen but is representative of what happened.”
We just don’t go to Ohio diners enough, apparently
I had no idea they still made this stuff. You’re telling me there’s been 30 years of people eating this stuff without a peep?
Some quotes are too good to cut on.ft.com/4jkssZ0
Congratulations @katiehonan.bsky.social on writing the best piece of predictive science fiction of all time