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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

the company tells me that they're basically having to get into the real estate business because landlords have decided it's more profitable to have a big box store than a used bookstore. so they do a lot of shuffling and are very careful about how they expand:

A chain that believes in selling used books, movies, vinyl and more at, well, "half price," can only pay so much in rent, resulting in a shuffle of locations. In January, Half Price bought a building in Austin and announced it would move its South Lamar location to the new property. Thomas said that similar moves have happened in San Antonio and Pittsburgh. Half Price has begun buying properties in full when it can and paying in cash to avoid being kicked out of strip malls and developments it operates in. The company is in a good place, Thomas said, and is debt-free. Half Price's business mantra, she said, is that "we don't do anything we can't afford."

"If we got to the point to save the company, we'd sell the buildings, we'd sell real estate because we would not close the company down," Thomas said. "It's guaranteeing the company's success by giving us some tangible assets and kind of controlling our own destiny."

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Carter @ayymistacarter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The lesson I learned when the Kettle in College Station closed was that sometimes the biggest threat to your business isn’t profitability, it’s the out of town landlord holding the real estate beneath you thinking “I bet I could make more money with a drive-through salad shack.”

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"They're currently in detention. These men hold the key to what actually happened."

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It’s true, you never see a straight white guy in a bike lane

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Video appears to show no damage to the vehicle of the man ICE killed in Houston, who had lived in America peacefully for 35 years, despite ICE's claim that he "rammed" an ICE vehicle and "tried to run over" an agent. These people are not credible.

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Sesh Nadathur @seshnadathur.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is a good write up of the Nature anisotropy paper debacle. But while Sawala is right that it's unfair to the referees to expect them to have caught the big "elemental" mistake in the paper, he's also being very generous - there is another important error that the referees *should* have caught.

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Lomi Kriel @lomikriel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The @texastribune.org is investigating this ICE shooting, along with that of Ruben Martinez last year in South Padre Island. We are seeking any cell phone footage of either events and you can share anonymously to me at 832-729-3421 or on Signal or WhatsApp.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

i don't know how i can do or think about anything else after ice killed someone in my city.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

bluesky is being fucky but for those too lazy to click the link here is the meat of it: Salgado is driving, unmarked ICE vehicle follows, swerves, and tries to cut him off, and Salgado drives away. No indication that it's an ICE vehicle. Why would he pull over?

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Of all the people on the ballot in November, I sincerely hope voters send this one packing.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I think it’s an underrated or at least under-discussed problem that, like, everything gets counterfeited now. The economics and logistics of counterfeiting have improved so much in the last two decades such that it is now trivially easy to accidentally get a fake version of almost anything

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NPR @npr.org · 09/07/2026

Kalshi says it has blocked "dozens" of trades from campaign insiders, but experts say the company's approach leaves lots of potential loopholes. NPR has found at least one trade that slipped through. n.pr/4h8Xju2

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Campaign staffers keep trying to bet on races despite push to curb insider trading

Kalshi says it has blocked "dozens" of trades from campaign insiders, but experts say the company's approach leaves lots of potential loopholes. NPR has found at least one trade that slipped through.

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e.k. weaver @bigbigtruck.com · 09/07/2026

i dreamed you couldn’t post memes unless they had a wizard in them so i took a short break from work to doodle the one i kept posting on here in the dream

a rough sketch of a wizard holding his hat and staff, with impact text reading I HAVE NO QUALMS WITH YOU, FRIEND / BUT THIS TALK IS TEDIOUS AND I WISH IT CEASE

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Huge turnout tonight for a protest over ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday Magnolia Park, Houston. Video is from my colleague Macy Meinhardt, who is not on Bluesky but is on the scene.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

John Whitmire seems to think that if he keeps his head down nothing bad will happen in Houston, it's just not working at all.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/07/2026

ah, the rare "first as farce, then as tragedy"

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Happy birthday to Artemisia Gentileschi, born on this day in 1593!

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So much of natalism is based around the idea that your kids will share and perpetuate your politics even though every Drag Race contestant’s bio is “I’m from a town of 300 in Mississippi, I was raised by my uncle after my mother was beheaded for working on Sunday”

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

OK everybody...still working out some kinks but... A new daily game, with boards written and edited by John Green. hankgreen.com/smush

hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 8
348 pts · ★★ pangram first
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026

sex criminal solidarity really does transcend party

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026

I've been waiting to bust this gif out for MONTHS good riddance and stay away from the race

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Tombstone: Well Bye

Alt: Tombstone: Well Bye gif

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 08/07/2026

On Wednesday, community members reported seeing more ICE agents blocks from where the shooting occurred.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Far-right Islamophobe Aaron Reitz is expected to be named US attorney for the Southern District of Texas, which includes Houston. Reitz has called Islam "incompatible" with the West and as a recent candidate for Texas AG vowed to use "lawfare" to "destroy the left."

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Reitz Slated to Be US Attorney in Texas’ Southern District (1)

Aaron Reitz, a former Trump administration official and top lawyer for the state of Texas, is set to be the next US attorney for the Southern District of Texas.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 08/07/2026

some real horror shows in the crowd here

Houston Reggae Summer Fest Flyer, made with AI

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 08/07/2026

Houston Mayor John Whitmire declined to seek a city-led investigation into the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, saying there cannot be a city investigation while a federal investigation is ongoing. bit.ly/4h0M2Mm

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Chron.com @chron.com · 08/07/2026

"My father did not deserve this." The son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is speaking out after ICE officers fatally shot his father in Houston. Federal officials and the family have offered different accounts of the moments before the shooting: bit.ly/44PAX9F

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/07/2026

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth

“It amazes me how the news you have so neatly fits the space available,” Lord Vetinari went on, staring down at the page Boddony was working on. “No little gaps anywhere. And every day something happens that is important enough to be at the top of the first page, too. How strange—oh, ‘receive’ takes an E after the C . . .”
Boddony looked up. Lord Vetinari’s cane swung around with a hiss and hovered in the middle of a densely packed column. The dwarf looked closer, and nodded, and took out a small tool.
It’s upside down to him, and back to front, thought William. And the word’s in the middle of the text. And he spotted it.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Instead, confirmation of his death came in the cruel form of videos on social media. 'I recognized him immediately: not from his appearance, but from his voice crying in the street as he was bleeding out,' Ronaldo said through tears." www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Oh cool, an Easter egg feature that traps you in a driverless car and kidnaps you when it's decided you've misbehaved. Imagine what a hacker group or ICE can do with this. The fact that this is even functionally possible is horrifying.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

well, fuck, it happened. 12 years ago I was excited about self-driving cars and a friend of mine said "you know they'll just drive people to jail, right?" So I wrote a story called One Star and sold it to Vice. www.vice.com/en/article/o...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

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ETX Gov @etxgov.myatproto.social · 08/07/2026

Was wondering what percentage of it was actually legit and ya this tracks: 98% fraud "An investigation by the Iowa attorney general’s office found that 98% of transactions through Bitcoin Depot’s kiosks in the state were scams"

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm a big believer in the "any fool can be taught how to write pretty well if they work at it" because I am one of those fools and I do OK and I can tell you from experience that it is not "natural talent" so much as, well, experience, that does the trick.

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Mike Crassweller @zoomba.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don't think folks yet understand how badly this is going to hurt the Dallas game development scene. It's been struggling for years, but to lose id as the centerpiece of things is awful beyond words.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Biden-era FCC updated the broadband-label rules to require that these companies, like Comcast, show you one clear label with all the costs. Now that rule could be eliminated. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees

FCC to let ISPs stop listing all passthrough fees, give single "up to" price.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In the Post newsroom, there was signs quoting Marty Baron and saying "the story's out there." IE - you should be hitting pavement not locked into your computer. Anyway, yeah, frigging obviously a strict RTO for reporters is stupid

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Union Market wheatpasters stay winning

Two posters, one showing Trump’s bruised hand which is covering one that is a mocked up newspaper cover declaring “Vance sent to negotiate with the algae”

Poster of mocked up “Capitol post” front page with picture of smiling Trump and headline “we’re at war with algae”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Our media will of course learn no lessons from this, but the initial ICE narrative about the two murders it committed here in Minneapolis was 100% false, slanderously depicting the victims as aggressors attempting to kill federal agents. Literally zero reason to believe ICE here. Zilch. None.

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 07/07/2026

back when i worked at petco i would always say "goodbye [dog name]!" in a sweet voice and one day i did this for a big biker lookin guy walking away with his pomeranian and he turned around and walked back very serious and stopped and (gently) grabbed that dogs paw and made her wave goodbye to me

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you haven't read it before, it's a new book! 🤷‍♂️

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

guy who wears a lot of button down shirts: listen snowflake that's just how tough guys talk! sorry you're such an HRcel! actual tough guy: this is my shih tzu Princess Fluffy she has a different sweater for every day of the week and if you look at her wrong i will beat you to death with your own leg

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

still not as funny as this bsky.app/profile/musi...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/07/2026

the other thing about twitter is it ruined the ability of a lot of people to even believe that character concerns are real like there’s a lot of “lmao look at the woke scolds on bluesky” but even that is tinged with a belief that it’s all for clout, that nobody could REALLY care about this stuff

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

your honor in my client's defense it was lezz out summer

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Patreon: "If we provided an AI tool to help you with your taxes would you use it?" Me: "do I look like I want to go to jail for conspiring to commit tax fraud"

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