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The question here is: Who gives a you-know-what? Space travel used to be a grand & noble thing. 'We came in peace for all mankind'. Well, he shat all over that, smeared his filth over that glorious ideal, & promulgates drug-addled fantasies about our future. Not worth paying attention to. 🛰️🚀📰

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Every day is Willie John McBride day.

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I am currently reading @tom-phillips.com Humans book, published in 2018. A great read and wow — aren’t the sections on autocracies and democracies so relevant to what’s happening today. 😳

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Why Ea-nāṣir is (probably) unfairly maligned:

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

tenner says TBL is currently refreshing like a mad bastard, cackling as he searches for more wrestlemania gifs to post

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Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 20 days ago • 126 comments

If you're at the Hay Festival and at a loose end, come see @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and me discuss the end of the world this evening at 8.30 #HayFestival2025

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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

submitted 46 days ago • 121 comments

There's just something so ... shit ... about this. It's like inventing a time machine and using it to find out what happens next month on EastEnders. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04...

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

"He (King George III) has excited domestic insurrections amongst us [note: by enslaved Africans], and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages..." - the final complaint about British rule in the Declaration of Independence

submitted 57 days ago • 15 comments

Glorious

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"See that barn? I built that barn with my own hands. But do they call me John le Builder? They do not."

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

More geographical reckonings .... .The distance from London to Moscow is similar to that from San Francisco to Kansas City! Yikes! .The distance from SF to NYC is same as London to the middle of Kazakhstan. All those radically diff't cultures packed into a US-sized region. Just sayin' ...

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When a billionaire lyke Musk doth speake of "savinge civilization" he doth not meane savinge the beautye and complexitye of diverse cultures, languages, literatures, and philosophyes. For hym "civilization" ys a delivery mechanism for hair implantes, private jets, and wagyu beef.

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing

submitted 79 days ago • 181 comments

Don’t blame COBOL. Blame austerity. Delete DOGE. __ @histoftech.bsky.social logicmag.io/care/built-t...

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✨Bob Dylan & Joan Baez 1964 ✨

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The precedent set here is the end of Congress, which I don't think Congress will even notice

submitted 82 days ago • 52 comments

"We now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will." — Martin Luther King Jr., March 31, 1968

submitted 82 days ago • 29 comments

Les rosbifs

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Ho. Ho. Ho.

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Just finished reading this book by @tom-phillips.com and John Elledge, a glorious debunking of bullshit conspiracy theory throughout history, some top drawer nonsense in here. On the other hand if you are someone who believes the world is ruled by our lizard overlords, probably not the book for you

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

Putin is not fighting for territory (or for erasing Ukraine’s statehood). He is fighting for a thick red line limiting NATO expansion and for Russia’s non-subordinate status in relations with the West. He might be getting what he wants. @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/…

submitted 98 days ago • 6 comments

Oh so NOW it's a news story when a Tesla catches fire suddenly.

submitted 99 days ago • 12 comments

Yesterday was the 57th anniversary of the My Lai massacre. I don't think there has been a time where Hugh Thompson Jnr's behaviour, and his actions that day, have been more relevant to US history than they are right now.

submitted 100 days ago • 24 comments

#stpatricksday #minimuslatin Sanctus Patricius serpentes ex Hibernia agit... serpentes eum maxime vexant! (St Patrick drives the snakes out of Ireland... the snakes are annoying him a lot!)

submitted 100 days ago • 8 comments

Happy Saint Father day.

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Every mind-bending TV show:

submitted 103 days ago • 135 comments

Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry. The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations. And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

submitted 106 days ago • 32 comments

we need and deserve this

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From weird cults and failed prophets to alien invasions, people have always believed the apocalypse to be very f*cking nigh. Join bestselling author Tom Phillips on an exploration of armageddon through the ages 💥 OUT NOW: brnw.ch/21wQZsa @tom-phillips.com

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Disgusted of Weymouth was sickened that characters in radio dramas were answering the telephone with, "Hello" in 1954.

submitted 121 days ago • 14 comments