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Disaster assistance is increasingly a question of who deserves help and who doesn’t blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

What if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas, indeed.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

this 48-second video of a protest in ontario, california is top-tier storytelling 🤌🏽🤌🏽

submitted 13 hours ago • 102 comments

By the way, what's happening with the Russia/Ukraine war I was assured was ongoing only because Joe Biden was a bloodthristy warmonger obstructing the negotiations Vladimir Putin was definitely willing to pursue in good faith?

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

When writing about pop cultural artefacts it's vitally important to not get the how it relates to anything else.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

That's because they were a publicity stunt, and no longer useful.

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

'"We're all under pressure to churn out endless non-stories just to satiate the editors' unhinged bugbears," says one weary Telegraph hack' I thought this was a satirical summary reflecting the mood of the quoted piece, but no, it's an actual direct quote.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

They wouldn’t let me leave until I gave them all my valuables

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Pornified Star Trek without the porn.

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I am furious — incandescently furious — over the attacks on science by Trump and his regime, especially the actions of RFK Jr., which, as history has plainly show us, result in deaths upon deaths. You want the receipts? I've got the receipts. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/standing-u... 🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

submitted 2 days ago • 273 comments

Wow not even the person who wrote the dumb contrarian troll piece in the Atlantic declaring that Trump's military parade was fine believes her own bullshit, good job, the Atlantic

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Underlying all this is a profound cultural rot where accountability and honor have died a total death, leaving a mass of utterly self-obsessed mediocre misanthropes with immense power and influence which they dedicate to broadly petty interpersonal catfights and public masturbation whenever possible

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

African officials express concern that the nuclear armed, ethnically volatile former British colony is sleepwalking towards a human rights disaster. #NewsIfUSAWasAForeignCountry

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Sly Stone and now Brian Wilson, in two days. Two of the most significant forces in American popular music, gone like that. Brian's "Smile" show at the Sydney Opera House still resonates. Full of joy and wonder.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

My favourite one like this is Don Henley getting Brian to autograph a copy of Pet Sounds. Brian signed it "thanks for all the great music" then thought for a second, crossed out "great", and wrote "good"

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This is not a tactical discussion, but an observation of a fact that keeps getting lost in these discussions: non-violence requires discipline in the face of guaranteed brutality on the part of the people you’re protesting. You simply cannot expect it from a spontaneous protest

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Well that’s embarrassing for AI. It would be a shame if it got around.

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Every day the authoritarianism grows worse - Christopher Rufo calling for the Trump administration to "dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking" christopherrufo.com/p/trump-shou...

submitted 3 days ago • 184 comments

read the entire thread. absolutely fucking horrifying.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes. Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 121 days ago • 5 comments

I have asked white nationalists (including Jared Taylor) about how “peaceful” mass deportations would work in practice and they always hand wave for precisely this reason. Mass expulsions require mass coercion and they don’t have any historical counterexamples

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

it is imperative that the media and the dem party begin to explain that whats happening in LA is what “mass deportation” is, there is no way to do it without jackbooted government thugs kicking down doors and ripping your neighbors and friends from their family

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

this is just a masterclass in why you shouldn’t believe news outlets reporting on police violence. just literally ignoring the most clear video evidence you could ask for. the only thing missing is the guy yelling “shooting specifically that woman now.”

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

They have been literally targeting and openly slaughtering journalists in Gaza. Which is where they test techniques. It’s normalised now. Why would anyone expect a press jacket to protect you when the press has been silent on what has been happening to their colleagues in Gaza?

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Remember how last week Deputy PM Richard Marles talked about our “shared values” with the United States and specified that those values were “democracy and the rule of law”.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

My producer sent this to me and off the headline I was like "oh right, so she got hit by a loose round"... but then when you see it... like, that officer saw she was a reporter and shot her ~on camera~. Absolutely wild. Hope @laurentomasi.bsky.social is ok.

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

A cis women's rugby team played a trans women's rugby team and won 34-7. Naturally, Oliver Brown, who likes that his job gives him free reign to attack women, is not pleased, perhaps because he's spent years telling us how shit cis women are at everything

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Watch this ICE officer casually raise their rubber-bullet gun to shoot an unassuming Australian journalist in the back from behind as she does a standup at the LA protests. Now consider again who the “lawbreaking terrorists” are in this situation. bsky.app/profile/dell...

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Hell of a thread.

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"By 2028, the researchers estimate, the power going to AI-specific purposes will rise to between 165 and 326 terawatt-hours per year. That could generate the same emissions as driving over 300 billion miles—over 1,600 round trips to the sun from Earth." www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

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"I'm sorry to be so clear" is very revealing about how modern political discourse is meant to be conducted.