Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2026Read our full story w/ @bridgedet313.bsky.social:propublica.orgLeft in the Dust: How a Billionaire-Owned Concrete Plant Took Over a Detroit CommunityAfter a Moroun-owned company erected a concrete plant in a quiet neighborhood with the aid of the city, residents began battling clouds of dust and other problems. They say local and state officials h... 427099
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857921251
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottNE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/09/2026bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here 241363247
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottJ. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label. 10651434
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottSlideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 27/09/2026 61054375
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026if you think the way PBS is framing this issue (see QT below) is a joke, please read & share my latest essay, which flips that framing, exposing its many flaws: juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...juliaserano.medium.comOn Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Adsand more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses 8392155
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottJane @jane.meangirls.online · 14/09/2026dogs already have autism anyway 1555
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottsid @sidvicious.ca · 13/09/2026but veterinarian, I am Poodliacci 13911
baseball legend (s)mel (i)ott @smeliot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026last night I was going to play my #RNGdle but the cloudflare verification gave me an error when I tried signing in so I just decided to roll without logging in. and then I drew this. so I guess I need to post it here to prove that it happened 000
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottUS Out Of Chicago @raucousdukakis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Lincoln was not wrong about the house divided. Slave society relies on collective dehumanization. This is also why modern conservatives can't just take their political dubs and be happy. As long as wokeness has large cultural buy-in, their project is failing 191
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of most acclaimed American painters of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. Fitting that today is Labor Day since work & labor were among his most enduring themes. First up: Home Chores, 1945, painted soon after he returned from military service in WWII 8359123
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottABirdingNaturalist @abirdingnaturalist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Happy International Vulture Awareness Day from me and this kettle of Turkey Vultures (Cathartes aura)! Vultures are super important parts of ecosystems. They help decompose dead animals and prevent the spread of diseases! #vultures #internationalvultureawarenessday #nature 04916
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottRandom Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Of course, this isn't complicated. "Woke" is powerful and simple language that describes an awareness to various forms of discrimination and oppression. White people benefit (or feel that they do) from that injust arrangement so some of them want to discredit the term. That's the game here. 17319
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 28/08/2026For fans of @jamesstout.bsky.social and Natural Causes 321019
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottStrangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 27/08/2026But without police who will create decoy stalker cameras and then arrest people who are like hey fuck that shit? 17322
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"you have to admit, AI is useful for--" no i don't. no one needs to hold the devil's pitchfork and think of what it could poke 11255245
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottChrystal O’Keefe @chrystalok.bsky.social · 16/08/2026omg 129569
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/08/2025This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC... 22395722531
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottCrip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Very lepidoptresque thread here. 031
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 07/08/2026I haven’t seen this video in thirty years and yet it has been in my head for three decades 2313
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottConrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Amazing news!! 2336
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottLauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026well, yeah, I mean look at the dateline 213311
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottMarcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 01/08/2026It’s kind of interesting that everyone knows Stevens’s campaign is just AIPAC money, and she will talk about how important supporting Israel is to her, but none of the AIPAC-funded ads are about her support for Israel—the ones I see most often tout her work with Black elected officials 151
baseball legend (s)mel (i)ott @smeliot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I would be the type of person to say "this is he/this is she" to answer the phone and be a bitch about subject pronoun usage anyway, but on the occasions where I get to hit em with the "this is they"? simply exquisite 000
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026So many awesome artists have signed our pledge to boycott venues that use AI surveillance in the last week! Don't see your fave band? Send this to them! Recent signers: AJJ Apes of the State Dame Fai Laci Judy Chicago Jolie Holland Juan Alderete Pedro the Lion SOJI Veronica Swift Xiu Xiu +++banfacialrecognition.comBan Facial Recognition at Live EventsArtists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows. 9609191
baseball legend (s)mel (i)ott @smeliot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026ypsi drivers - be careful and watch out for Inchworm Men while driving 000
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottdamnarbor.bsky.social @damnarbor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Ypsilanti Mentioned 2368
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026A Chilean salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays. Ecoportal buff.ly/CwczkbP #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyAn island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their homeAn island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home and were all thriving. 111188416
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottStand.earth @stand.earth · 22/07/2026Tech giant @microsoft.com released its latest “un-sustainability” report last week and it’s certainly… something. 🥴 There's a lot of flowery language and yes, (some) legitimate progress in this report. But that's completely overshadowed by what it leaves out... 🧵 #GreenSky 2227
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottDan Wade @dwade.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Call the Twins bullpen Taylor Farms the way they're giving out runs 1598
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottrobert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 16/07/2026lolll 163695979
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Leave it to the New York Times to present the pro-genocide AIPAC candidate as a plucky underdog 16970111
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottClsn @clsn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Oh but when a skin teacher gets an OnlyFans everybody gets mad at that too. #smh 0157
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN 68216523419
baseball legend (s)mel (i)ott @smeliot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026whitmer really spending her last year in office making sure she is remembered in the company of the rest of 2020s dem governors unwilling to stick up for fucking anything 000
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottEric Ansley Díaz 🏳️🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?... 10778072900
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ott🦇 Hallow-Ina! 🎃 @ina-strangeworld.bsky.social · 09/07/2026yeah man that guy got canceled. his life got ruined. he has an army of guys that defend him and makes a few grand every month because of them. the woman who canceled him? yeah she did it for the clout only. she's famous. she's known as "the woman who can't go anywhere without immediate harassment" 546711280
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend. 1129301559
baseball legend (s)mel (i)ott @smeliot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026at this point the only thing keeping me going is my LinkedIn daily games telling me I'm smarter than 50-90 percent of CEOs when I finish a simple logic or spatial reasoning puzzle 000
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottDown Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"There are no role models for men" ever heard of Dr. Worm 23834261
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottMichigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 07/07/2026How a rural Michigan community stopped a proposed 1.4-gigawatt power plant michiganadvance.com/2026/07/07/h...michiganadvance.comHow a rural Michigan community stopped a proposed 1.4-gigawatt power plant • Michigan AdvanceResidents of Lima Township and surrounding areas who opposed a proposed Consumers Energy power plant celebrated a victory last week when the utility announced it had withdrawn plans for a 1.4-gigawatt... 0199
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ott𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖐-𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖉 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖊 ☭ @upthetwerx.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026Platner is a product of white people who are desperate for addressing classism but refuse to acknowledge that misogyny, transphobia, homophobia and racism are components of classism that need to be exorcised for the socialism they want. They want reprieve with no deconstruction of their bigotry. 81795480
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottLauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026futurism.com/future-socie... lol 178105192955
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g... 4426561467
Reposted by baseball legend (s)mel (i)ottlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/07/2026i want to apologize to any followers i may have inadvertently cost their once in a lifetime huge payout when i said on the day he was shot that people should be exceedingly cautious about what they post online. that was my bad. lesson about responsible social media use unlearned 342687345