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Plenty of words are wasted on daylight savings or metric v imperial, but Americans all seem to embrace the madness of calendars starting on a *Sunday*

for the first time ever, solar power generation overtakes coal in the eu the change since 2011 is staggering (and will continue widening)

Genuinely never seen it with Ireland written before UK (or GB for that matter) before. Wegmans 🫡

Edsall-heads undefeated

New The coming battle between social media and the state Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength By me, in todays @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/917c...

Utter gibberish www.ft.com/content/a46c...

BREAKING:

There is a piece to be written on how many powerful men have had their brains curdled by Too Much Internet. We are reminded of the more obvious examples daily, but Putin is up there as one of the post-Covid vanguard as well as recent entrant Yoon Suk Yeol

Lin Manuel Miranda very much the Bruno Fernandes of the Disney lineup, gets a lot of stick unrelated to his strengths but you really miss him when he’s not on the teamsheet

I don’t get how a bike lane and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure is being blamed for a driver speeding and losing control of their vehicle before hitting and killing a pedestrian. It seems like drivers are never to blame; something else always makes them drive dangerously.

This seems over the top

When there’s a crackly old timey voiceover before the song kicks in. That’s the good shit

It is funny to me that the only thing in life that was designed with children in mind is the way shopping carts have the little seat. Literally nothing else.

The “Colm Quinn” effect

Cannot take pictures of Iceland seriously. AI slop ass Ireland

A great stadium worthy of a great team 🖤 🤍

Where are the bots repeating exactly what you said back to you in a very upbeat manner? How is this place supposed to survive without them

Havbing a sandwich 👍

Looking forward to deprogramming years of ironyposting and retvrning to “havbing a sandwich 👍” posting