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i just cant understand why voters are flocking to outsider candidates instead of sticking with the establishment picks
Brian BeutlerI was appalled (though not surprised) when I learned Sunday that Senate Dems intend to help Republicans fund the government through the election, with one minimal concession that has nothing to do with election subversion or ongoing Trump theft of federal dollars from blue states. And I remain so.
they let me on the internet as a kid and all that really happened was i learned gamehacking and heard a bunch of good music and figured out a bunch of etiquette the embarrassing way which is imo better earlier
aegisiondure this isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again
Copywriting is such a noble, beautiful profession, man.
InfoWarsThey turned the friggin' frogs gay. Buy one now at store.theonion.com.
I know most of everyone on here couldn't care less about Electronic Arts products, but now you can care EVEN LESS THAN THAT
Game DeveloperEA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Here's a photo of JD Vance's new chicken coop, from the Washington Post. It's in Queen Anne style and cost around $120,000. I am reminded of Marie Antoinette playing peasant at her Hameau de la Reine.
honestly can't stress enough, as a former family law attorney, how depressingly common Max Miller's behavior and words are, right down to the petty fixation on custody procedure and rules when faced with allegations of shocking violence.
Aaron RuparRep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One NoticedThe next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.www.bloomberg.com
Today in least shocking news ever. Of course Griffin was never leaving NYC. www.curbed.com/article/ken-...
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Do I have yet another book in progress? Yes! This is a reprint of a book originally available as a limited letterpress edition. Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It collects 10 stories in a 128-page hardcover about type, printing, & language. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It, 2nd EditionA collection of Glenn Fleishman’s reported articles on type, printing, and language, now available in a hardcover, offset edition.www.kickstarter.com
Signal’s secure messenger can easily work across multiple Android devices and iPhones now. www.theverge.com/tech/975407/...
Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal accountSignal in sync.www.theverge.com
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray BradburyThe voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car.
The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…short-stories.coAdam RawnsleyToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Also... maybe I'm crazy but... I just downloaded the two files made available under the Supplemental market value roll released at www.nyc.gov/site/finance... and uhhh.... I don't see Scott Galloway on either of them?
Property Assessments - DOFwww.nyc.gov
reminder: property records are very public! I wrote this three years ago, have fun:
How to Snoop Through Property Records Like a Reporterwww.thecityreporter.nycMaris KreizmanI cant stop laughing at this. nymag.com/intelligence...
The chart keeps rising: airline profits on one axis, human suffering on the other. @jensorensen.bsky.social illustrates the truth about modern-day air travel: for the executives flying private, everything is working exactly as intended. inthesetimes.com/article/airl...
it would be incredible if even one programming community was safe from Big Companies Doing Capitalism in Open Source
André ArkoI wrote an update on the dispute with Ruby Central over Bundler and RubyGems. I'm sad it's reached this point, especially since Ruby Central's conferences are a big part of what convinced me to join the Ruby community back in the day. andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/rub…
post quantum is theoretically cool but actually running outside of weenieOS would be cooler
hey that's our @autonomynews.co story leading Drudge for Lefties www.autonomynews.co/trump-attorn... (republished on Mother Jones)
🗽LOLGOP🗽Leading the day newsfor38yearolds.com
Scheming on "scenes" for leaflet: - works with any standard.site.publication - pubs can only belong to 1 scene - scene page lists pubs, new posts, maaaybe leaderboards - start w/ limited set of scenes, have a bootstrap process for new ones - you can mark a post a "reply" to a post in your scene