Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialassbutt @nasboat.org · 29/09/2026the current discourse stinks, so here, have this Billboard Modern Rock chart from 25 years ago today 7729644
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How it started/how it’s going 753771686
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wait for it . . . 521128229
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty." 513353644
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard! 1347851228
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election 20278341894
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move 963536567
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialIan Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026 111116082806
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Two examples of politicization today: 1/ Political appointees putting out reports under the Census banner that is bunk. There is a reason the authors won't stand behind their work. Any serious data researcher would be embarrassed. Creates doubts both about the election and the integrity of Census. 212452
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... 381556448
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialKristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Her: is it cool if I come over? Me: 1655071
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialOrwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026'look at me! im so fair-minded! im so fair-minded that i can't deduce objective reality! love me! elect me!' she said. 21206
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/09/20261. Rick Steves has spent $2 million of his own money to rescue a single-screen theater in Edmonds, WA. This is part of a multi-million-dollar effort he has made to invest in community properties in order to preserve local institutions and keep them serving the communities they were built for. 268103841888
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Uh what? www.newsweek.com/allison-guer...newsweek.comWoman who exposed FBI official for working with Russian oligarch found deadA judge praised Allison Guerriero for her "extraordinary contributions" to counterespionage ops on behalf of the United States. 30143152283
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026donmoynihan.substack.com/p/which-stor... 15612
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026so unfair that you might be attacked for just wanting a white ethnostate anyway after like a decade plus of usage i canceled my @1password.bsky.social subscription and switched to apple passwords. took 15 minutes. 773090536
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Is there a candidate who is not invoking the end times as an outcome that might result from his actions? 1820733
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialmediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026American cops have officially started killing cute viral petting zoo pets abc11.com/post/heehaw-...abc11.com'HeeHaw' the donkey shot, killed by police amid search for missing child"HeeHaw" the donkey was shot and killed by a police officer over the weekend. 153
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously. 4331341632
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It was never just about undocumented immigrants, or criminals. 14817247
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Note: never say this when you are Treasury Secretary 521741268
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialGore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hell yeah 0142
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky 604609723
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialCasey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The Brewers are up 22-0 over Seattle, and one of those runs came because Julio Rodríguez caught the second out and threw it into the stands thinking it was the third. 1032301434
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Shocked to learn that the political party led by pedophiles and dedicated to protecting pedophiles has created a police force filled with pedophiles. 451897730
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The world’s highest IQ score carries the same authority as the highest score in Donkey Kong at a local Dave & Busters. 2694153404
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Wife: The trash is overflowing. Can you-- Me: Well I can't take it out but here's what I'll say. We need a strong trash can. And I'm committed to reforming the kitchen so the trash doesn't pile up 415153641
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialRobert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Iranian F-5s Bombing U.S. Forces In Kuwait Should Be A Wake-Up Call: Ex-USAF General www.twz.com/news-feature...twz.comIranian F-5s Bombing U.S. Forces In Kuwait Should Be A Wake-Up Call: Ex-USAF GeneralRetired NORAD commander gives new credence to the reported Iranian bombing mission and says it shows an urgent need for new thinking about air defenses. 1424335
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Tremendous insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration that the NSA/SecState was allowed to go down in a fireball but the person who posts AI slop for the President qualified as needing to survive at all costs. 883344882
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.social💥Richard with an💥R @rbwaltonthereal.com · 11/08/2026Last week, Oxygen took Potassium on a date, and it was just OK. Then yesterday I saw Oxygen on a date with Magnesium, and I was like, OMg. 1013512
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialJason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Worth clicking through to the documents linked here and reading donor emails. Lynne Redleaf, whose family foundation gave $3m to UofM in 2024 according to tax filings, analogized Segal's appointment to making Byron Donalds head of an African American studies department ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul... 13010
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 08/08/2026I used Claude earlier this week to pop up a quick, simple tool that does one very simple thing: let you select a series of clips from a video to export as a CSV file of timecodes. (I didn't want this tool, I just needed it to do the thing I really wanted to do.) Perhaps it could be useful to you.github.comGitHub - waldoj/cutty-sark: A simple tool for creating a list of clips from a longer video.A simple tool for creating a list of clips from a longer video. - waldoj/cutty-sark 2203
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialJennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“We need data centers to stay ahead of China” seems to be a common belief of AI supporters. Why can’t we ever want to stay “ahead of China” when it comes to high-speed rail or EVs or low cost of living or public safety? 1242252520
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...donmoynihan.substack.comGoverning without AccountabilityTrump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America 391802789
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialCSketch @csketch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Oh my god I think I found the video. 503122903710
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions. 5153141378
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Once you have a lot of money it becomes easier to get more money by doing nothing, which disincentivizes work. This is why all our billionaires post insane bullshit all day. If they had to work they'd be too busy to act like this, doubly benefiting society 274487653
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialCarter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 28/07/2026After Luis Arraez fouls a ball off his face, William Contreras asks him how many fingers he is holding up and gives him a little slap #ThisIsMyCrew #SFGiants 1232
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialPatrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S... 603041781
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 26/07/2026A solar eclipse. On Saturn. By Titan. Photographed from Earth. 📷: AJ Smadi (StardustAstro/Correct_Presence_936) 473132543
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Media framing is powerful. I'm pretty much The Kind of Guy Who Really Should Know This but I didn't. 👀👀👀 758896
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026“Compared to what?” is always the essential question when asking about critiques of higher education & universities, whether we’re discussing declining trust, freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, or any of the other things. 17461148
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Child support 759939
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its... 341034360
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialKgusler @kgusler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026sciencedaily.comGoodbye, cavities? New gel could regrow tooth enamelResearchers have developed a fluoride-free gel that could help rebuild damaged tooth enamel, something the body cannot naturally replace once it is lost. Inspired by the proteins that guide enamel for... 621474366
Reposted by @rectangular555.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 23/07/2026What an ass-whooping lol 511610
