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Holy shit 😲

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Same shit as Twitter, where he brought in Tesla & SpaceX bros to 'fix things' in systems they knew nothing about, made employees print out their code, etc. Entirely performative, with goal of embedding the myth that the org is a disaster and he's the genius who will save it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Breaking: Federal workers have received another Office of Personnel Management HR email requesting bullet points listing the 5 best albums of the ‘90s.

submitted 22 hours ago • 57 comments

Nothing scary about this then

submitted 19 hours ago • 12 comments

Who is responsible for this? 🤣

submitted 1 day ago • 407 comments

This article is brilliant, but the people described here are fools.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

DOGE is an entirely ideological project, masquerading as an economic one. Thus it comes as no surprise to learn that many of its so-called ‘savings’ are pure invention.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

I’m watching Watership Down (1978) for the first time and realizing we just don’t scare kids with art like we used to.

submitted 1 day ago • 271 comments

BREAKING: Rihanna's next release to be double LP of high-concept prog

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I don’t like saying this but BBC News is utterly failing in its coverage of Trump. Go elsewhere to find out what is actually happening

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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 274 comments

#NowPlaying Beardfish - +4626-COMFORTZONE Been an age since I last played this. Had forgotten how good it is. insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/album/4626-c...

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Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeel. #HardForRhubarb

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NEW: Elon Musk, leading Trump’s haphazard effort to cut government overspending, is among the largest beneficiaries of federal government support. His empire was built on it. In the past 15 years, Tesla and SpaceX have sucked in $30 billion in public dollars #doge www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Legendary hater Charles Darwin

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

"Musk is a key figure within a US administration that is attacking science through executive orders that have systematically targeted the scientific community, cut funding, restricted research and silenced scientists" My op-ed in @resprofnews.bsky.social www.researchprofessi...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

submitted 3 days ago • 544 comments

Things…aren’t ok

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS. Stop referring to me as "Gulf Dukat" immediately or you will be sent to Ore Processing.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

record scratch noise knowing what this sounds like means you're old

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Right, social media site. Today is the day that the lovely people at @picadorbooks.bsky.social reveal the cover for my first crime thriller, The Cut Throat Trial. So here it is. And I think it’s rather splendid. If anybody wishes to preorder, links are below. bio.to/7zNmPU Eek.

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

#NowPlaying Del Amitri - Waking Hours The track "Empty" has one of my favourite song lyrics: Don't get so distressed If the good life won't arrive You've been seeing S.O.S. When it's just your clock reading 5:05 Perfection 👌

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Extremophile includes a lot of ecoterrorism, a bit of body horror, and some punk gigs. Playlist is below the praise. Buy it at a cool bookshop 'experimental, refreshing, and accomplished' - @lrlam.bsky.social 'Phenomenally imaginative' - @aptshadow.bsky.social open.spotify.com/playlist/3m3...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Remember when Trump posted that supposed Napoleon quote alluding to him being above the law? It was fairly clear what his intentions were. Can we stop using euphemisms now and just call him out for what he is, an authoritarian facist? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

From the horror-movie ambience of Shub-Niggurath to the cartoonish jazziness of Koenjihyakkei and beyond, here are the bands that grew zeuhl from a singular vision to a constantly evolving organism.

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Highly recommend signing up for Brian’s newsletter, he’s an incredible reporter doing excellent work. Help him keep doing it!!

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Fiona Fox’s recent article in Research Professional News cautions that expelling Elon Musk from the Royal Society could undermine public trust in science. I disagree... 🧵 1/25 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

#NowPlaying Rush - Counterparts Grittier & heavier than they'd been for a while - the sound of a band reacting to changing times, and trends such as grunge. I've always liked this one. It's so 'in your face', unlike its immediate predecessors. As punchy as Power Windows, but without the synths.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I’m not sure you can spend the last decade painting anyone who still supports membership of a trading partnership as a traitor then pivot to “we must give the authoritarian invader of Europe everything he wants” and not expect a teensy bit of Quisling chat back, if I’m honest.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Alongside the "for fuck's sake, you're richer than god, pay some copywriters" thing, the lack of care is fully jokerising me. Just..."our customers are dumb pigs who deserve slop. They're paying us, and they don't deserve human thought going into what they receive." I hate it so, so much.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Thank you, Amazon algorithm. You are quite right. I recently purchased a bucket. That's because I have a bucket fetish and from now on I want you to show me all the different buckets you have every time I log on because I bought a bucket so I'm obviously going to just keep buying many buckets.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The idea that it's okay for presidents to lie is fairly new. The current president is so far afield from what was shocking at the time from Eisenhower, Nixon, Johnson...yet today it's a collective shrug. Excellent with @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social #PresidentsDay #MustListen

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

dua lipa: if you’re under him you’re not getting over him mc escher: [drawing] actually,

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

oh oh no

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HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

the sound of an amplified guitar, played live in a room, a room you are standing in? it’s pretty nice

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

There are always times in politics where both sides of the aisle have to come together. Badenoch cannot handle that, she needs to use fictitious "culture wars" battles, because she can't comprehend real world issues which require unity. It is just appalling politics, as much as anything else.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

I like this one . Thank you to @adrianblack for today's #FoxOfTheDay

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

submitted 7 days ago • 230 comments

‘Cybertruck Man’ a cartoon in defiance of Musk #political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen

submitted 9 days ago • 113 comments

NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

submitted 9 days ago • 854 comments

I was inundated with Led Zeppelin too much in undergraduate dorms to become an aficionado, but after "Becoming Led Zeppelin" I might become one. A sanitized view of history, but also a compelling story of the magical spark of collaboration and the fierce fight for artistic integrity. Inspiring.

submitted 9 days ago • 95 comments

We do not throw away perfectly good food in this house. We put it in Tupperware & wait for it to go bad & then we throw it away.

submitted 9 days ago • 477 comments

The Regression to the Dark Ages proceeds apace...

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