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okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

submitted 75 days ago • 428 comments

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

submitted 80 days ago • 93 comments

New Study Finds Human Beings Were Never Meant To Wake Up From Sleep theonion.com/new-stu...

submitted 82 days ago • 77 comments

fuck this is a perfect way to start a story

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

this might be the funniest message you could have leaked due to poor OPSEC

submitted 90 days ago • 118 comments

Can’t imagine the amount of front lobe damage it would take to get a normal person to seriously sit there and chide others about “free speech” while their boss threatens to criminally prosecute journalists in his own country.

submitted 99 days ago • 27 comments

Telekom-Chef Tim Höttges said at #MWC2025 that Europe should have a #DOGE department to get rid of regulators! He wants 3 pan-European mobile networks, so consumer prices can increase. Demands an end to #netneutrality. Wants payment from CAPs. #polisky #eusky #econsky #draghi #fairshare

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

Great writeup of the budget bill

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: Ashley St Clair sues Elon Musk for custody of new son. Musk is pictured with his latest baby in a lawsuit filed by St Clair, seeking sole custody and paternity. www.usermag.co/p/scoop-ashl...

submitted 121 days ago • 142 comments

Scoop: Three former FCC chairs are speaking out against Brendan Carr's crusade against media companies. In a text message to me, Carr responded, writing, “Lol. Just three?” Then he sent a GIF. And then a lengthy tirade. All the details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

submitted 124 days ago • 21 comments

Free speech absolutist

submitted 126 days ago • 36 comments

In advance of SpaceX/Elon engineers causing more airliner catastrophes here's a remind that American commercial aviation has had a near perfect safety record going back 23 years. Totally unprecedented in aviation history. Here's a graphic that gives the overview.

submitted 125 days ago • 67 comments

well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

submitted 130 days ago • 103 comments

BREAKING: The US government’s primary foreign aid organization is losing the vast majority of its staff, forcing the agency's lifesaving work to screech to a halt.

submitted 136 days ago • 54 comments

Happy 3rd anniversary to the cherry tomato that rolled under my refrigerator.

submitted 146 days ago • 238 comments

Finally some good news

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly this. The entire dance was done specifically to benefit Trump and make sure everyone knows that it's he who "saved" TikTok. It's a very successful PR stunt for Trump.

submitted 155 days ago • 30 comments

@reckless.bsky.social help! The Verge comments have been broken for my account ever since I became a subscriber :( I have reached out to support twice, but have not heard back. ✌️❤️

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

(learning my neighbor clark is actually superman) so when you said you couldn’t help me move,

submitted 157 days ago • 25 comments

googled this because I assumed I was being had but: oh my god, oh no, who thought this was a good idea, fucking hell

submitted 165 days ago • 12 comments

PolicyTracker journalists couldn't agree on the biggest spectrum policy story of 2024 so they nominated 5 stories and invited the public to vote on them - www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

jesus christ this guys needs genuine help

submitted 171 days ago • 666 comments

Man Says ‘Fuck It,’ Eats Lunch At 10:58 A.M. theonion.com/man-says-fuc...

submitted 187 days ago • 288 comments

Steven Bartlett is a moron and a disinformation peddler. He brought on an anti-vaxer referring to them as a brave truth-teller similar to Gandhi and Martin Luther King. I know Vodafone was paying him to be a brand ambassador at one point. I wonder if they still are... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

New from me: SpaceX's Starlink has now launched a total of 349 satellites with direct-to-device (D2D) capabilities In less than a year, far outpacing its competitors. www.policytracker.com/starlink-get...

submitted 195 days ago • 1 comment

Doing more than occasional AI-powered reporting demands scalable mechanisms for obtaining data to analyse. That’s why editorial data engineering has become a major strand of our work in the FT‘s AI team, as my colleagues @lizlohn.bsky.social and Katie Koschland describe: medium.com/ft-product-t...

submitted 196 days ago • 5 comments