Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting. 473355649 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Yes, yes, a disgusting sentiment and fully representative of his depraved cohort's worldview, they have too much power and too much money and we can't go on like this, etc. More than that we just need to build a society where we never see a pic of a guy that looks like this again on a news story. 851554215 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionAnil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean. 13668102261 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026As I’ve often said, my first fear, on learning that the UK had voted for Brexit, was that it might even be possible for Trump to be elected. 28794139 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/10/2026Corporations publicly celebrating LGBT+ equality is a good thing and I am glad to see it coming back. 262880346 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionMaddie Machine @theuglymachine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Fuckin finally some relief 332263 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Was just on Threads and this was my "For you" algorithm when I posted a comment debunking the story. Say what you will about BlueSky being a bubble, but its not designed to enrage and deceive its users 561207167 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Whatever one thinks about this place, all of the larger ones, controlled by Zuckerberg & Musk, are nothing but giant propaganda/misinformation/porn/surveillance machines owned by oligarchs actively collaborating with fascists. 9841228 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Random line that amused me 153125 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"A 2025 study proposed combining rice husk ash, wood ash and rice straw to make a low-cost, carbon-negative material that could eliminate the need for cement [which accounts for ~1/12 of global emissions]." 9566155 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 Commissionsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026NYT is explicitly using 2FA as a punishment to try to upsell existing subscribers. 54926117 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026a bunch of you said LOTR. A couple suggested Left Behind. Also had some Narnia and Discworld. A few Famous Five suggestions. All very successful series by authors who are famous for selling books by the ton Only one person got it right. The actual answer is Goosebumps 2844531 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 Commissionjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible 107106251803 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 Commissionthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026congratulations to my close personal friend* Anne Carson on her richly deserved Nobel *the poet I begged for a selfie at the national Book Awards 22195778 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning 8140351017 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The perfection of this. 12882136 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/10/2026You're walking down the street. We lock eyes. Then I pull out my phone. I look serious. Then I ask the question nobody expects: "You wanna see a shitload of pelicans?" 🪶 🦑 30834129 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” (Published June)propublica.orgHe Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob... 1781207611 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 Commissionsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026completely apoplectic at dan ryan's craven bid to make taxpayers pony up for a massive settlement after he intentionally destroyed evidence 950784 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 Commissiongamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026and on the third day, he was reassembled 1420326 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Congrats again to the New York Times on its long form journalism 21900139 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionThe Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 08/10/2026Happy birthday, Sci-fi Queen. 🥳 Sigourney Weaver has also voiced a spaceship two times (the Female Planet Express Ship in Futurama, 2002, and the Axiom from Wall-E, 2008). 302391351 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 19944411246 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 Commissione.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not 172437722 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I KNOW ITS SPOOKY SEASON BUT GOOD LORD 154730 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Look how easy it is to frame this issue! This handsome writer did it and he’s not very smart www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 7785157 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionNed Pyle @nedpyle.com · 07/10/2026The best thing about the Helsinki metro is the little cartoon signs asking people to be polite. There’s a dog who hopes you won’t use so much perfume 2038437 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionKatarina Hunt @katarinahunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026OH MY GOD. My time has come. Let me introduce you all to Berus. These are all my obvious faves. 2273728 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start. 582423547 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/10/2026tbh I’m kinda over it 1629118 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionCethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 07/10/2026Hi, I’m Cethan Leahy. You may remember me from such posts as… 724426 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 Commissionryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/10/2026a “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests 351576262 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionJaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I could never be on a jury because Law & Order has conditioned me to think a guy who looks like this is guilty of something. 1318515 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"politico.comSam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AIThe OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic. 38715223 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionSunshine Moon @sunshinemoon.zone · 05/10/202640k: this game originally started as a sci-fi twist on classic fantasy, so we have all the traditional kinds of elves Me: of course 40k: high elves Me: right 40k: dark elves Me: right 40k: clown elves Me: righ- 40k: wood elves Me: wait go back one 40k: and of course the elf cult that worships ghosts 17540137 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I still remember getting my first email address as a freshman in college. It was the coolest thing ever and no one was screaming YOU BETTER ADOPT THIS OR WE’RE ALL DEAD. 14905100 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionPhil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image. 5428491092 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard 1343525571 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionLouis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It’s cool how normal everyone is. 3866853 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026No one can fill this void left by the theft of basic research funding. 8534167 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 201875931 0
Reposted by 🌞Summer🌻 CommissionMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this. 27786308 0