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submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

It's like they read the instructions

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

FFS. I’m old and retired so it’s moot; if I were 20 years younger I’d be packing my bags and taking my chemistry PhD to another, more welcoming shore.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

i’m here you fuckaas bitch

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submitted 4 days ago • 299 comments

From one of the world's leading Old Testament scholars, Richard J. Clifford, SJ, who has taught generations of students (and priests): "Why the Ten Commandments should not be posted in public school classrooms" www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

#OtD 24 May 1910 German shipyard worker August Landmesser was born. He is thought to be this worker defiantly refusing to perform a Nazi salute. He was later conscripted to a penal battalion then killed, while his Jewish partner was murdered in a camp stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9676...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Vetinari stirred his cocktail. Death watched, shaking the timer again. The last grain still refused to fall. "You must have seen the worst of us, as a species." The ex-Patrician said. BUT ALSO THE HEIGHTS TO WHICH YOU CAN SOAR Vetinari angled his head. "Really? Such as?" BUTTERED TOAST /1

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

IT IS TIME The man looked up from his beach chair. "Really?" He said. "I've only just retired." Death held up a timer. A single grain was about to fall. And then... It didn't. CURIOUS Vetinari shrugged. "I've only just discovered drinks with little umbrellas. I'll let it fall in a bit" 1/17

submitted 289 days ago • 41 comments

Oldthinkers unbellyfeel INGSOC!

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“Christian Nationalism” is heresy.

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And I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And its rider's name was Death.

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

Popehat’s Rule of Goats applies.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I’m a retired chemist and I know what habeas is. My take is that this is deliberate obfuscation on the part of Noem.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

at first you think "ah the dog is passively having fun" and then you realize the dog knows how to steer the skateboard and THEN you learn the dog knows how to PROPEL the skateboard

submitted 14 days ago • 93 comments

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 85 comments

Tradesmen, this is how it’s done…

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