El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

(trying not to think about how state capacity can be destroyed instantly yet takes decades to rebuild) video games are all about using four fiber to make cloth

"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show.

But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

You’re telling me it was all corporate pandering from the get-go? 🙀 www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

wealth can buy you the presidency and the most global influence ever witnessed in history but it’s clear that wealth, no matter how much you accumulate, cannot ever make you funny

Chicago, baby.

In case you're not feeling enough during your evening chores. @swindled.bsky.social

120: The Descent (OceanGate) // An experimental deep-sea submersible disappears during an expedition to the Titanic shipwreck.

LISTEN: swindledpodcast.com/podcast/120-...

Oh no, a self-serving billionaire who used AI to deny insurance claims has been stopped.

This feels adjacent to the Schlitterbahn incident. @swindled.bsky.social

abc13.com/post/video-s...

Like into madness or

Podcast Daddy they could never make me hate you 🥹🥹 @swindled.bsky.social

If you ever need proof, just listen to @swindled.bsky.social

Is my old faded @swindled.bsky.social shirt out of production now? This is making me feel old.

Also if you're on this app, you'll probably appreciate ACC's work on the podcast. Go listen.

If anyone’s looking for alternatives to GoodReads, I highly recommend StoryGraph. It’s owned by a black woman, and the platform is so much more accessible and easy to use.

I don't know who needs to hear this, everyone I think, but if you send a PDF to your kindle and put 'convert' as the subject it will change it to epub format for you, you're welcome

(I posted this on the other place and was surprised by how many people it helped so thought I'd do it here too.)

Hoping this app doesn't spiral into a fascism feeder too.