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similarly, in the US there are far more people working in museums than in coal mining. there are some industries that have salience as 'working people' and 'hearts of the community' (often after decades of intentional managed decline) and some that do not.

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

submitted 28 days ago • 667 comments

Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye (photo by me)

submitted 52 days ago • 682 comments

☹️ Pepper got returned to the shelter. When he first came in last year he was the scrungliest stray but so sweet. He looked like he was 3x his actual age. He got adopted a couple months ago and I don’t know why he was returned but he is just the nicest gentleman. www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...

submitted 52 days ago • 210 comments

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

submitted 57 days ago • 24 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 60 days ago • 1111 comments

This stock market crash thing is so confusing. On one hand you have every economist and bank in the free world freaking out. On the other, there are some blue check accounts on Twitter with ancient statues as their profile pics doing 20 part threads on why down is the new up. 🤷🏻‍♀️

submitted 62 days ago • 1029 comments

I kind of want to go

submitted 62 days ago • 1888 comments

We are advising the US government on appropriate tariff rates on foreign players coming to MLS. Currently the plan is for the government to collect tariff revenue in GAM.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Them: “no ‘war plans’ were discussed” The chat:

submitted 71 days ago • 1468 comments

March 26, 1981: Footage from the Capital Classic in Landover, Maryland—where high school stars Patrick Ewing (18 PTS/12 REB), Michael Jordan (14 PTS), Greg Dreiling and Stuart Gray played in front of 19,035 people in the Capital Centre. Scott Garceau reporting for WMAR-TV:

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

WHATEVER THEY'RE PAYING THE ASSASSIN'S CREED SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER ITS NOT ENOUGH

submitted 72 days ago • 229 comments

Today my Bird of the Day is the California Scrub Jay. Seemed fitting to highlight this bird. It’ll likely be a while before I find the remaining North American Scrub Jay species but I fully intend to search out all the Jays in time. 🪶 #itsabird

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition—I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable.

submitted 72 days ago • 588 comments

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

submitted 73 days ago • 3117 comments

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

submitted 76 days ago • 3831 comments

"This ain't Fox News. You don't have to repeat everything idiots say every day." 🤣 -- The incomparable Charles Barkley (to his guys busting his bracket selections) #NCAATournament @nbaontnt.bsky.social

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

If anyone is still on Twitter, I would really appreciate this getting spammed at him.

submitted 79 days ago • 10 comments

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

submitted 78 days ago • 860 comments

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

submitted 78 days ago • 1444 comments

NEWS: The MeidasTouch Podcast has expanded its lead as the top podcast in the U.S. per the newly released Podscribe industry rankings, with 121.1M downloads and views in the past month—a 141% increase.

submitted 80 days ago • 814 comments

Musk is such a POS.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

City of Angels. City of Verde.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

H/T Ozzie 💀💀

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Those X servers are about as reliable as a SpaceX rocket nowadays.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Amplify Austin is live and you can help us fundraise for The Brad and Ashley Stuver Foundation at www.amplifyatx.org/organization...

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 92 days ago • 1289 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 92 days ago • 1570 comments

What a photo. Green must be the start of something, not the end.

submitted 92 days ago • 1354 comments

25% tariffs??? Jesus christ. Canadian fentanyl is expensive enough as it is!

submitted 93 days ago • 209 comments

the 'C' in "USB-C" stands for "cloaca" because it's one hole that does just about everything

submitted 97 days ago • 15 comments

ATX, y'all up?

submitted 103 days ago • 6 comments

The Google AI results at the top of searches are so pointless. We have a resource (the internet!) that knows everything, and instead of going to the source, it's like you asked your stupid cousin who is trying to recall the information from a podcast he heard last week.

submitted 104 days ago • 275 comments

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

submitted 105 days ago • 2060 comments

Here is a nice mushroom

submitted 104 days ago • 260 comments

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chimed in online after Canada beat the United States in the 4 Nations Face-Off final. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

submitted 105 days ago • 286 comments

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

submitted 106 days ago • 1325 comments

NO KINGS, ONLY TRAINS is a pretty great 2028 slogan for anyone who wants it

submitted 105 days ago • 59 comments

In 2019, RFK Jr visited Samoa to spread anti-vax lies, spurring a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of 83 people - mostly children. We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread. www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-m...

submitted 107 days ago • 892 comments

BREAKING: La Barbecue is taking over BBQ Corner at Q2 Stadium this year; Andy Loughnane believes it’s the first Michelin Star restaurant at any North America stadium (or possibly the world)

submitted 107 days ago • 5 comments

You know about our greatest players ever list. We did the same thing, focusing on defense. I'm sure you will all agree with our rankings. hoopshype.com/lists/78-gre...

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 113 days ago • 729 comments

Silicon Valley spent a lot of money on Super Bowl ads trying to impress me with a pair of glasses that can answer questions. Just fuck off. If I want for knowledge, I ask my friends or I research. Tech wants to rob of us meaningfully engaging with the world to buy their Mechanical Turk, get lost pal

submitted 115 days ago • 62 comments