bloftinsk8
@bloftinsk8.bsky.social
dirty old skateboarder, compulsive blogger, science fiction reader, Unproud Texan. On the Fediverse at @bloftin2@bloftin2.blog . Find all posts at https://bloftin2.blog
Main blog: https://concretelunch.info
Do you have a skateboarding blog? Tell me!
Main blog: https://concretelunch.info
Do you have a skateboarding blog? Tell me!
This what you get when you have the worst person in the country in charge of the country, and a law enforcement agency hiring tons of the unqualified, uneducated, ignorant, violent thugs as agents.
January 8, 2026 at 12:25 AM
This what you get when you have the worst person in the country in charge of the country, and a law enforcement agency hiring tons of the unqualified, uneducated, ignorant, violent thugs as agents.
Anyone who supports what the Trump administration has done to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting it's just a fundamentally ignorant and bad person.
January 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Anyone who supports what the Trump administration has done to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting it's just a fundamentally ignorant and bad person.
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New in PN: Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye
"We’re in thrall to a con man who denigrates the very idea of truth and uses media only to distract and divide. And so the CPB board members broke their plowshares lest they be beaten into swords by a deranged demagogue."
"We’re in thrall to a con man who denigrates the very idea of truth and uses media only to distract and divide. And so the CPB board members broke their plowshares lest they be beaten into swords by a deranged demagogue."
Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye
Better nothing than a MAGA mouthpiece.
www.publicnotice.co
January 7, 2026 at 12:43 PM
New in PN: Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye
"We’re in thrall to a con man who denigrates the very idea of truth and uses media only to distract and divide. And so the CPB board members broke their plowshares lest they be beaten into swords by a deranged demagogue."
"We’re in thrall to a con man who denigrates the very idea of truth and uses media only to distract and divide. And so the CPB board members broke their plowshares lest they be beaten into swords by a deranged demagogue."
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"STOP CALLING IT AI SLOP, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT IS PROGRESS AND GOOD FOR THE HUMAN KIND"
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
"STOP CALLING IT AI SLOP, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT IS PROGRESS AND GOOD FOR THE HUMAN KIND"
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Welp there it is. If you still subscribe, now you know exactly what you're funding
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Welp there it is. If you still subscribe, now you know exactly what you're funding
Hoping for a less orange 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Hoping for a less orange 2026.
Reposted by bloftinsk8
A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas' abortion laws
In the more than four years since the state of Texas significantly restricted access to abortion, medical researchers have been studying the health effects of that policy change.
medicalxpress.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
Young people going through a period of figuring out who they really are deserve the support and love of the adults in their lives. Any adult who doesn't support that young person is an absolute asshole. This realization has changed my view of some people today. It is jarring. Upsetting.
December 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Young people going through a period of figuring out who they really are deserve the support and love of the adults in their lives. Any adult who doesn't support that young person is an absolute asshole. This realization has changed my view of some people today. It is jarring. Upsetting.
Good night, shoe-booty. #RIP_Rob_Reiner
December 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Good night, shoe-booty. #RIP_Rob_Reiner
Being rich should not be something people are famous for.
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Being rich should not be something people are famous for.
"The problem is capitalism." This is pretty much true of every problem.
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"The problem is capitalism." This is pretty much true of every problem.
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Every week brings a new story that vindicates my decision to hold on to all my physical media including a nice cookbook collection amassed over 30 years. It's discovering new recipes that is now in question thanks to the AI BS.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Every week brings a new story that vindicates my decision to hold on to all my physical media including a nice cookbook collection amassed over 30 years. It's discovering new recipes that is now in question thanks to the AI BS.
This has nothing to do with skateboarding, but there seems to be no interest in skateboarding here so I'm going to talk about one of my other areas of interest. Independent websites, linking, and killing the big social media silos. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/the-sub...
The Subversive Hyperlink
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
blog.jim-nielsen.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This has nothing to do with skateboarding, but there seems to be no interest in skateboarding here so I'm going to talk about one of my other areas of interest. Independent websites, linking, and killing the big social media silos. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/the-sub...
b.loftin2 skateboarding -
This is one of my favorite moves on flat banks of adequate size.
bloftin2.blog
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
FYI - I decided not to federate my posts here, as there seem to be almost ZERO skateboarders on bluesky.
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
FYI - I decided not to federate my posts here, as there seem to be almost ZERO skateboarders on bluesky.