Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 02/09/2026The court gets what 7,000 to 8,000 petitions a year, and only has decisions for around 80. That only 0.1% of cases get consideration is a problem. We should fix that issue. 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 02/09/2026Philips Hue refresh last year leveraged existing smart lights for motion detection using zigbee. Requires enough lights and a Hue Bridge Pro. Not WiFi, but still using wireless signals for more than they were designed for.philips-hue.comMotionAwareTM: Transform Your Hue Lights into Motion Sensors | Philips Hue 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 02/09/2026We are into uncharted and unmeasured territory this year.arstechnica.comEl Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds“One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.”... 000 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34895854674 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/08/2026So if this was supposed to be Trump targeting Canada, there’s a pretty big problem the name he actually replaced was Indigenous in origin. He took a centuries-old Native American name and replaced it with “Lake America.” Trump is a fool! 50930128 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 27/08/2026In case you had doubts about how bad the rename is. 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 23/08/2026It is too early to still be up from yesterday... 001 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Paws-itively stealing hearts ❤️ Meet Itsuki, a sweet 11-year-old male red panda at the San Diego Zoo. He's a busy boy getting to know his new surroundings and finding the best places to perch. 631280 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Toripy, a hybrid of a pear and a bird, is the mascot of Tottori Prefecture. 946182 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 11/08/2026Whole thread is worth a read, or go straight to essaypluralistic.netPluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 000 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Our America as WE know it💔 245176273848 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The president's authority as "commander in chief" refers to the military only. The president cannot use executive orders to expand the definition of who is eligible for birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The president's aide saying these things is a virulent white nationalist. 36566942061 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026standards covering math and literacy instruction, class sizes, health screenings, home visits, and other core services. It would even eliminate the requirement that children brush their teeth after meals. The Trump administration’s overall goal with these changes is to completely gut the program.nytimes.comTrump Administration to Deregulate Head Start, Antipoverty Program Created Under R.F.K. Jr.’s UncleWhile administration officials say the changes will save money by lifting onerous requirements, advocates fear the anti-poverty program will be gutted. 33519170 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The Trump administration announced that it is moving forward with plans to eliminate hundreds of federal regulations governing Head Start, a 61-year-old program that provides early education and support to some of the nation’s lowest-income children. The proposal would strip away many long-standing 1251427673 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."npr.orgA veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suingMilitary veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home. 21207411 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 05/08/2026Know what? Financial help is what all students need. We need social workers, even though we underpay them. We need teachers, even though we underpay them. There will be shortages of key fields simply because they don't pay enough. This will not end well. 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 05/08/2026Another reason this is bad for everyone. 000 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Kurawanko, a laid-back dog, and Hiranyanko, a capricious cat, are the mascots of Hirakata City, and both wear loincloths. 235160 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 05/08/2026Another excellent reason this is bad for everyone. 000 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 02/08/2026With at least 7 states experiencing disruptions to water utilities, @istorg.bsky.social and @JoshCorman.bsky.social were featured on DC’s local WJLA to outline the danger of increasing attacks on our critical infrastructure systems and share #CyberCivilDefense solutions. wjla.com/news/local/m...wjla.comMinnesota probes cyberattacks on water plants; Iran suspected, FBI warns utilitiesA new FBI warning is raising concerns about the vulnerability of water infrastructure to cyberattacks, as authorities in Minnesota investigate what they say is 25811 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 03/08/2026This needs wider discussion and awareness. 000 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The intensity of this wildfire season is calling attention to the fact that the Trump administration closed all nine regional offices of the U.S. Forest Service, and shut down 57 of its 77 research facilities. 7467183 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 24/07/20261-3 in 1000 die 1 in 1000 Encephalitis 1 in 20 long term breathing issues deafness & blindness sometimes SSPE 1 in 25000 degenerative & fatal brain disease occurring years later 20-40% get immune amnesia, so can get sick and possibly die from a disease they had ...sigh...this time line sucks... 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 16/07/2026So the CDC parasite surveillance team was cut from 11 to 3. The result is our inability to track down the source of the explosive diarrhea spreading across the country. Voting or not voting has consequences. 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 05/06/2026You need more cute Mascots in your feed. 000 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses 138137334419 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 29/05/2026It's horrible. Also did they hire and late 90s web designer? Looks like someone took those tacky blinky text websites and translated it to a modern webbrowser. 000 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!beloved Mothra @audleyzdarke.myatproto.social · 29/05/2026Tin pot dictator shit. 0151 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 13/02/2026This is how you get the "hellish 'hothouse Earth'". The rich will die too.theguardian.comPoint of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists sayContinued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 13/02/2026Read stuff like this and wonder if my child will even have a future? How much famine will the US face?theguardian.comPoint of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists sayContinued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware 000 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/02/2026The EPA plans to repeal its own conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the planet and threaten public health.abcnews.comEPA to rescind landmark 2009 'endangerment finding' on greenhouse gases' harmful effect on climateThe Trump administration is rescinding the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 'endangerment finding' on greenhouse gases' environmental harm. 92714256 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 13/02/2026Yes that is the real quote. This is the person in charge of health and human services. So it is fine an healthy to do that? 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 12/02/2026Couldn't even read the article I was so upset. 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/02/2026In case anyone had doubts about how back Asimov was. 000 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/02/2026Thread. 5487103 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/02/2026The whole thread is worth reading. But thinking of how many women were discouraged from how Asimov treating is disheartening. Remember that this happened throughout the world, not just writing, and it continue today. 100 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/02/2026Just read the article, not the transcript. This is troubling example of the rule of law failing in the US.lawdork.comThe unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..." 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/02/2026That reality simply described is the best satire a satire acount can do is telling for the situation in the US. 010 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 29/01/2026Why the hell do people come to office sick? Especially after we got an email in the fall from the chief engineer of the entire project saying in very nice terms to stay the fuck home? Overheard yesterday "I've been sick for like two weeks now." 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 24/01/2026World Cup and the Olympics? In the US? With ICE just kidnapping people of the streets? Why would anyone go to the US? 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/01/2026in a crazy news day just one more unending bit of crazy (to be clear crazy is still horrendous, wrong, and a dishonor to the capitol police) 000 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/01/2026fuck outta here 19743601097 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 05/01/2026I guess Stephen Miller thinks America should still be a colony of Great Britain. 0194 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 23/12/2025Music videos may not be on MTV, but at least bands post them to YouTube. 000 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 09/12/2025Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros. Think the shareholders should take that offer! lol!share.googlePlex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Disc... 020 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 06/12/2025Read the sample on Google books, it will be in my library shortly. It will not be unread for long. 000 0
Reposted by Virr brought brain slugs for friends!Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/12/2025The Nodfather. 30855951358 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 12/11/2025New steam controller!! Early 2026! The steam controller is all I use for PC gaming. No worry about mine wearing out anymore.store.steampowered.comSteam ControllerYour games at your fingertips 020 0
Virr brought brain slugs for friends! @virr.net · 29/10/2025One person not getting due process before being deported, means no one is safe from being deported. This is one case, there are VERY likely more. Citizens have likely been deported.independent.co.ukICE deported a man who claims US citizenship after federal judge blocked his removalA federal judge had blocked ICE from deporting Chanthila Souvannarath, warning ‘inherent and obvious harm’ in deporting a citizen 010 0