Reposted by Howard Daltonc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2hYou've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust) 271151332
Reposted by Howard DaltonPé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 18hIt's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies. 682084779
Reposted by Howard DaltonJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 30/09/2026The secret to American tech domination isn’t innovation; it’s lawlessness. 163
Reposted by Howard DaltonCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I didn’t believe it at first, either. (via David Sacks) 108560131
Reposted by Howard DaltonGary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Greek life is so cool because, even if they aren't cooking meth in the basement and some are, they create similar disincentives to blow the whistle or confront other members as the mafia: doing the right thing risks blowing up your housing situation, current social life, and future networks. 516426
Reposted by Howard DaltonJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 23940161042
Reposted by Howard Daltoneva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT 55904200
Reposted by Howard DaltonElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...nytimes.comCouple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76. 281752570
Reposted by Howard DaltonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2631209315696
Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s been almost 35 years and I’m still having panicky nightmares about unfinished undergraduate coursework and not getting my degree. I’ve completed graduate school and had decades of professional experience in that time. w😬t😱f🫠 000
Reposted by Howard DaltonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology" 20871191507
Reposted by Howard DaltonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong." 33165431415
Reposted by Howard DaltonRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In 20 years the cultural divide between people who can and cannot actually read is going to be so, so dramatic 3548
Reposted by Howard DaltonBrittany @sameoldstory.co · 29/09/2026this feeling is just depression 2438840
Reposted by Howard DaltonJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed 3444891077
Reposted by Howard DaltonArturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Texas Tribune, one of the most reliable news outlets in Texas, just named the ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Gregory Feathers www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h... 5224134
Reposted by Howard DaltonSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Archaeologists excavating near Naousa in northern Greece recently uncovered a roughly 2,400-year-old school complex, or gymnasium. The site which stood in the ancient Macedonian town of Mieza, may have been where Aristotle taught in the 4th century B.C.E.” 🚨 allthatsinteresting.com/greece-ancie...allthatsinteresting.comArchaeologists In Greece Found An Ancient School Complete With Intact Benches Where Students Like Alexander The Great Listened To Lectures More Than 2,000 Years AgoArchaeologists excavating near Naousa uncovered a 2,400-year-old school that's believed to be where Aristotle taught a young Alexander the Great. 18724
Reposted by Howard Daltonrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks 191659256
Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026People are only reading the dialogue in books to meet their reading goals. Yep, you read that right because you DIDN’T skip over my post because it wasn’t dialogue.youtu.beHow are people reading so many books?YouTube video by Hidden Rabbits 010
Reposted by Howard DaltonBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026CEO: I have invented the off button. 932259230
Reposted by Howard DaltonDana McKay @danachatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026These are the (mostly men) who are creating the tech that shapes our lives. Making it difficult for women who expect consent to be normative to be part of the conversation changes the world for all of us 23313
Reposted by Howard DaltonJaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.devatlas.jazco.devAtlasA living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours. 1161399415
Reposted by Howard DaltonDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ah yes the circle of life 13594271564
Reposted by Howard Daltonjj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026this is a very good thread 13411
Reposted by Howard DaltonBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it. 2789249
Reposted by Howard Daltonrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility 191494239
Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every so often I remember that motherfucker stole sensitive, highly classified documents and kept them hidden in his bathroom next to a gold toilet. 1101
Howard Dalton @howarddalton.bsky.social · 28/09/20269 out of 10 of my job interview invitations on UpWork are to edit and revise content written by AI. 111
Reposted by Howard DaltonMark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies. 26878249
Reposted by Howard DaltonBrandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We should not assume our social connection is a guarantee of virtue, particularly when people present difference faces to different people. 0212
Reposted by Howard DaltonDcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026#caturday Kitty almost dies falling down the stairs 58899111
Reposted by Howard DaltonCage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"why would I deceive you?" 130105292092
Reposted by Howard DaltonDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195052193
Reposted by Howard DaltonScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Siegfried Woldhek 27430
Reposted by Howard DaltonRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I feel you, Daniel L 434354670
Reposted by Howard DaltonCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here's Laura Rutledge explaining that the secret service will not interfere with the radio communications at this game immediately followed by the broadcast audio going to hell 622075368
Reposted by Howard DaltonOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one 201213208
Reposted by Howard DaltonJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad. 8246711165