John Heasly

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

TIL about GitHub post-checkout hooks.

Excellent headlining @eugeneweekly.com

@tomtimm.bsky.social x.com/meninblazers...

Released 40 years and three days ago, the Bakithi Kumalo record, aka “Graceland”: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrFa...

Guys I drove the Slate truck! www.theverge.com/transportati...

In the last decade, a private investment firm has consolidated much of youth hockey, turning what was once a community-based activity into a profit machine for wealthy investors. I spent nine months investigating Black Bear Sports Group. Here’s our story: www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...

An excellent piece about the total collapse of Florida oranges. If you've read John McPhee's Oranges you kind of have to read this to see how it turned out (extremely badly). slate.com/business/202...

Mapped! Finally! ♥️

For the first time in over 50 years NASA will send astronauts back to the moon. Here's a closer look at the Artemis II lunar mission – and why it's historic.

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

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Currently listening to @billybragg.bsky.social talking about Nazis, Minneapolis, resistance, solidarity on KEXP. #InternationalClashDay

Happy International Clash Day to all who celebrate! kexp.org

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

Only 6.5 miles from home, a state park where cell reception is between one-bar LTE & No Service. 🙏

An independently owned Marriott hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota, fired an employee for leaking the names, emails and images of ICE agents.

Thanks @simonwillison.net, always enjoy your content. I also really like HTML tools. Thank you for all the resources! Was inspired to share them: www.briangershon.com/blog/make-to...

Since 1964, the Justice Department deployed specialized “peacemaker” experts to de-escalate violent confrontations. Trump shuttered the team in October.

24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska; 270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina; 4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii --> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

"Many people are hoping it's going to go away on its own, and it's not going to go away on its own." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

One upside of the Kimmel story is that it gives us another chance to remember that Trump is still suing Gannett and Ann Selzer over a poll he didn't like. Unlike Paramount and Disney, Gannett and Selzer are still fighting the suit. www.businessinsider.com/trump-kimmel...

@jackshafer.bsky.social

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

@jackshafer.bsky.social faroutmagazine.co.uk/dear-music-f...

LIVE: USA TODAY reporter @willcarless.bsky.social is live now in the Q&A and here to answer all your questions:' bit.ly/4p97WPs In Extremely Normal: The Manosphere, we explores why young men follow Andrew Tate and other influencers — and what experts say about the risks for vulnerable youth.

“us-east-1 is no longer a merrily burning dumpster fire of sadness and regret.”

First #monarch of the year! (And it appears to be female!)

Unlike the NFL, NBA and MLB, a few NHL teams are intimately involved in running the youth levels of their sport. In Dallas, the Stars spent decades turning youth hockey into a vehicle for profit, bullying families in the process. New investigative reporting: www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...

@brianboyer.net

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

But did they use ChatGPT to vibe code the new feature?!

The defense budget request is the biggest in U.S. history.

“A former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob…to kill police officers” on Jan. 6 “has been named as an adviser to the Justice Department task force that President Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

"I'm sleeping on the bathroom floor. It smells like piss. It smells like poop,'" "18 women there in a small room, with one toilet, and there’s a camera over the toilet." An ICE gulag in ... Burlington, Massachusetts. cc @warren.senate.gov Where has our country's humanity gone?

Re-upping this: The Trump administration has quietly dismantled the DHS office that oversees programs that aim to spot and prevent exactly the sort of domestic terror attacks that have been booming recently.

New figures from CBO about how Americans at different income levels are affected by the GOP's Big Beautiful Bill. Topline finding: Richest decile gets about 2% richer. Poorest decile gets about 4% poorer. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?