A fragment cast adrift @a-fragment.bsky.social · 7h*Lots* of ads during tonight's Abbott Elementary - Walmart, Target, upcoming Disney shows, anti-Maduro/pro-war gross propaganda... 010
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftMicah @rincewind.run · 11hsince apparently the original article failed to upload:news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. 3961216
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftCalMatters @calmatters.org · 12hOpinion | He's trying to break generational ties to gangs. Los Angeles police keep targeting him L.A. police allegedly profiled and detained several young men the day they were set to graduate from a reentry program in Boyle Heights.cal.newsOpinion | He's trying to break generational ties to gangs. Los Angeles police keep targeting himL.A. police allegedly profiled and detained several young men the day they were set to graduate from a reentry program in Boyle Heights. 1175
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 12hEven if you are not gay or in an interracial relationship, just loving who you want to love as an equal is a radical act in these times. 016627
A fragment cast adrift @a-fragment.bsky.social · 16h"You should AI that" - Bad enough that ai exists as a noun, now Microsoft apparently has to be cute or hip or annoying and try make it into a verb. stfu 030
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftMother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.motherjones.comStudy: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteersAfter tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience. 62591411
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 06/10/202620 years ago today, #BattlestarGalactica aired Occupation & Precipice, Emmy-nominated episodes that kicked off its S3 New Caprica arc. I've posted a long 2006 #BSG interview with Ron Moore in honor of that anniversary. Some mo' New Caprica intel embedded within 👀🚀 www.moryan.com/battlestar-g...moryan.comBattlestar Galactica Rewind: Ron Moore Talks 'Occupation,' 'Precipice' and the politically charged New Caprica arcA 2006 interview with Battlestar Galactica executive producer Ron Moore, who talks about the drama's acclaimed New Caprica arc and much more. 2116226
A fragment cast adrift @a-fragment.bsky.social · 19hIn this morning's fresh hell, I encountered a Tally robot in the grocery store, supposedly checking inventory and not at all taking pictures of/filming customers.static.klipy.comHAL 9000: 2001 A Space Odyssey EyeAlt: HAL 9000: 2001 A Space Odyssey Eye 251
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftjosh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection 2029921079
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026After it rains, go outside and breathe in deeply. That wonderful earthy smell in the air? It’s called petrichor. And climate change could alter when and where it happens.scientificamerican.comHow climate change is altering petrichor, the glorious smell after it rainsAs the planet changes, so will this nostalgia-triggering scent 09430
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftUnited Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...unitedwizardsofthecoast.comDungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWAToday, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli... 10674182704
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores. 2854183353
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftThe Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"We're gonna take the HBO Max app that works well and makes sure everything sucks like the Paramount+ app." 117911
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftPete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The reason people love the Ea-nāṣir story is less the vitriol and more the fact that we couldn’t be more culturally different from a 4000 years dead Sumerian but we can totally relate. It shows us that no matter our superficial differences people are just people. 211456257
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftMemo Torres @eltragon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There’s a new ICE surge happening in the Greater Los Angeles Area now. At least 20 people have been taken by noon in Southern California, numbers we haven’t seen in a long time. @lataco.bsky.social 9234156
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftBex 🖤🏴 @thinlyveiledtruth.cryptoanarchy.network · 05/10/2026Hey that surge everyone's been talking about hit LA today. Panorama City is in the SFV, and there were other sighings in that area too. Gah. 02825
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators. 51067332
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 44059053745
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“We’re not going to just put our hands up and say, ‘Oh well, we tried.' When it opens, it’ll be even more important to pressure to close it. At that point, people are being harmed. We’re just going to keep making a stink of it. "We'll never go away until it’s closed." www.nola.com/gambit/news/...nola.com‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Louisiana's new ICE facility raises more questions than answersUnder the Trump administration's deportation blitz, ICE's new 'staging center' in Alexandria, Louisiana is run by the operators of Lasalle Corrections, a private, for-profit company with a history of ... 351011445
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftMax Granger @maxgranger.info · 05/10/2026They cut down the "grandmother" tree. 29500346
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftPBS News @pbsnews.org · 05/10/2026Work requirements for some Medicaid beneficiaries begin across the U.S. in January, the result of President Donald Trump's big 2025 tax cut and policy law, and a handful of Republican-led states are imposing tougher rules than the law requires. to.pbs.org/4xQHBc0to.pbs.orgAs work requirements kick in for Medicaid, some states are taking a tougher stanceAt least six states will require documentation that individuals are too sick to meet Medicaid work requirements kicking in next year. The rules are stricter than what the federal government is requiri... 78045
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 05/10/2026Join us in supporting banned and challenged books this #BannedBooksWeek 📚 Use code BBW26 to get 15% off select banned and challenged titles now through October 18. See the full list: bookshop.org/info/banned-... Expires 10/18/26. Discount off list prices, excludes ebooks.bookshop.org 8488206
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftAmerican Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Let books be. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, an annual observation started more than 40 years ago in response to a sudden surge in attempts to censor or remove books in libraries, schools, and bookstores. Sound familiar? Find ways to get involved and spread the word: bit.ly/4yvixbB. 261279637
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftBuy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026read this, trust me 03210
Reposted by A fragment cast adrift𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Occured to me that I can collect all of these in a single post, on account of the carousel. Anyway, some postcards from elsewhere: 311269435
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftYochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Searchable scans of public domain art! insideoutlibrary.cominsideoutlibrary.comInside Out LibraryOrbital diagrams, suits of armour, pulp sci-fi covers and wood type, from the pages of public-domain books. Free to use for anything. 114270
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026this is the most video game villain coded shot I think I've ever seen irl 19833146
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately. 261538420
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"María" is harvesting sweet potatoes. "I work 8 hours a day and earn CA minimum wage of $16.90/hr. The hardest part for me is having to get up at 2:00am to pack my lunch, wait for my ride and drive to the site. My shift runs from 4am. to 12:30 pm." #WeFeedYou 822471781
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The man is desperately looking for every single avenue for mass vote buying he can possibly come up with but nobody believes him any more 1259
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftDeep Sky Detail (Mark) @deepskydetail.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I tried reprocessing this image of the Pleiades from a few months ago, using only simple techniques. I feel like I overstretched the original. #astrophotography 1213
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think if your job is looking at a screen, you should be able to sit down. The airport. Credit Suisse. Walmart. McDonald's. Rockstar Games. I don't care. Have a seat. 129146
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftFrancesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026THE TWILIGHT ZONE debuted OTD in 1959. One of my absolute favorite shows ever. Been blessed to not only have provided several covers to the comics series over the years but to also co-write w @francazilla.bsky.social & draw our own episode, “SILENT WARNING” currently in stores by @idwpublishing.com 227768
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...404media.coFederal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and UnconstitutionalFlock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote. 141521489
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026BREAKING: Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Jeff Merkley are introducing the Ban Flock Act. This bill would effectively put an end to AI surveillance cameras that track Americans. /1 151640356
A fragment cast adrift @a-fragment.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you see this skeet a vampire that isn't Dracula 020
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftL.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Most of these photos, showing global subcultures and inked-up artists, are unpublished and only on display at this weekend's gallery in Echo Park, opening tomorrow night. The full story: lataco.com/joe-altmann-... By Héctor Zaldívar 24213
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2026"Surveillance is not safety," EFF's Rindala Alajaji said, via @nbcbayarea.com. "That’s why EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are suing the city of San Jose on behalf of SIREN and CAIR - because in a single year, San Jose PD ran over 250,000 warrantless searches on this location data."nbcbayarea.com'Surveillance is not safety': Protesters push San Jose to shut down Flock camera networkProtesters issued a renewed call for San Jose to shut down its network of roughly 500 automated license plate reading cameras. 616751
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftBrandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp... 5456112475
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftSimeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I hinted that there would be more images from the Juice flyby, so here is the timelapse of the full event! It's always amazing to get these views of our fragile Blue Marble from the spacecraft we send out to explore the solar system! 🔭🧪 #planetsci 824764
A fragment cast adrift @a-fragment.bsky.social · 01/10/2026QTP with a game you played as a teenager! 120
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftDeb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we honor the survivors, remember those we’ve lost, & stand with everyone facing breast cancer & the families who stand beside them. Early detection saves lives. Let’s keep raising awareness, encouraging screenings, & supporting those impacted by breast cancer 💗 03312
Reposted by A fragment cast adrift404 Media @404media.co · 01/10/2026As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.404media.coHow Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student JournalistsAs the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets. 318168
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftWHRO Public Media @whropublicmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A new study by the University of Chicago reveals that food insecurity affects 43% of households on the Southside and Eastern Shore and 50% on the Virginia Peninsula.whro.orgHalf of Hampton Roads’ households may not know where their next meal is coming from, study showsA new survey revealed the highest food insecurity rates among adults with chronic illness, seniors and households with children. 054
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftL.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yesterday, community groups and immigrant advocates started a 96-mile pilgrimage from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center to the Metropolitan Detention Center in DTLA to call for an end to all detention centers and an end to cruel immigration policy. 🎥: Erwin Recinos and Aisha Wallace-Palomares 6311144
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftnico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 01/10/2026happy pumpkin season! (art from 2014) 10936258
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Los Angeles Times is running a full webpage advertisement promoting tourism to Israel. The ad is backed by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. The ad also includes a map of Israel that erases Palestine. 16358157
Reposted by A fragment cast adrift404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.404media.coUSPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. 2314389
Reposted by A fragment cast adriftSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Google and Apple immediately update their maps. 392476545
