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Making really big computers, won’t go to Mars until it’s unionised. He/Him
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Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

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Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be *legislators* right now. We need them to be *politicians.* There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 19 hours ago • 136 comments

A great distillation of the issue!

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One thing that I haven't seen calculated yet is just how expensive the current Governments cancellation of years worth of work, and reviews, and on the ground projects has actually been. Not the *savings* they claim, but how much had already been spent on being at the point it was before austerity.

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No 'official record' of school lunch feedback. David Seymour says he's getting lots of feedback that kids love the lunches - but neither he, his office, the MOE, the School Lunch Collective, nor their PR company could provide evidence of this claim. So it is 💩!!! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Luigi Mangione, accused of killing the UnitedHealth CEO, was back in court on February 21. Hundreds of supporters packed the courthouse and the streets outside.  Read more from @miasato.bsky.social on the ground: www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

submitted 3 hours ago • 32 comments

Uhhhhhh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

mistrial, mistrial, mistrial, mistrial, mistrial, weeee

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Current status: we're smuggling eggs in from Mexico now. So let's talk about WHY Mexico's egg industry has been stable- while US egg prices are through the roof! 1. Mexico puts people in jail for price-fixing. 2. Mexico lets farmers vaccinate their chickens against bird flu.

submitted 5 hours ago • 24 comments

@barneyfarmer.bsky.social

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Most Ukrainian cities have not been destroyed. Ukrainian law prohibits holding elections in wartime (unlike the US Constitution, which requires it). isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

Ukraine has not suffered "millions" of losses by any reliable estimate, either in terms of civilian or military casualties. isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

What a wonderful mural for efeso

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

We used to respect the… uh… we respect friend computer

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Comic: somethingpositive.net/comic/find-b...

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

Mister "I used to run an airline" seems increasingly out of his depth.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Te Atatū MP Phil Twyford has written to the charities regulator asking for Destiny Church to be struck off. "Destiny's actions were certainly oppressive, which meets the definition of wrongdoing in the law, and so they should lose their tax deductible status," he said. #destinychurch #kiwi

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This dude... Leopards are so full already but you know they push on.

submitted 16 hours ago • 95 comments

Elon Musk Sparks Communist Revolution Since Nobody Realized the Federal Government is the Only Employer in Rural Communities

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"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 20 hours ago • 146 comments

Any countries building Starlink into their telecom systems should be thinking twice right now.

submitted 19 hours ago • 35 comments

NZ media really did say "we're literally going to stop covering Tim Jago and not challenge ACT about their role at all", didn't they. Any "NZ media defenders" still out there who want to have a go?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

Sacking one security officer (who will undoubtable get reemployed) should not let Foodstuffs and the police off the hook. They are just as culpable

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Regulator: We’re coming to audit you next week. Me: Hooray! I have questions. Regulator: Wait, what? That’s not the right reaction.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

why is learning arm anatomy so hard for you Jessi?" LOOK. LOOK AT WHAT ARMS DO.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

In deep space the speed of light solves a lot of instant communication problems if you want it to, otherwise you can always have a proton storm mess with your communications, or have a direct hit on your communications array or whatever

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Because ‪ @0xb04t.bsky.social‬ brought it up, yes, someone has thought of laser foreskin removal. Yes, someone has asked for Halakhic ruling on it. ‬Also, "laser labial resurfacing". If this is the nightmare fuel you needed for the weekend, you're welcome.

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Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is a brutal read and quite the legacy for the former Provost of Victoria & President of NZs Royal Society.

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#Privatised #power companies: After #NZ’s major gentailers were listed their investment in #renewables “fell off a cliff”, & power prices went sky high. #nzpol #climatechange #poverty #inequality #profits newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/07/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I think @owillis.bsky.social likes to point this out: In DC Comics, when Lex Luthor ran for president, he divested from LexCorp because the idea of him winning an election without doing that was obviously just crazy.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

⚡️ UK, Norway discuss Arctic defense pact over Russian threat. "The U.K. is determined to play a leadership role on European security... and showing our adversaries that we are united in our determination to protect our interests," U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey said.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Just dipped my toes in the bilge water that used to be Twitter.It's like the John Birch Society and 1930's Germany had a hate child and taught it how to spit.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

In the least surprising news this week...

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The U.S. Navy has relieved Captain Dave Snowden of his command of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman following a collision with a merchant vessel. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/american-sup...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"Public Service Minister Judith Collins said “unions are very clearly wanting to take on the government and the New Zealand taxpayers”. Ummm, union members ARE tax payers. In fact, since union members get paid a little better, they're paying MORE tax. And people on PAYE prob pay more than business

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www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/h... The enshitification of Hewlett Packard HP Inc is trying to force consumer PC and print customers to use online & other digital support channels by setting a minimum 15-minute wait time for anyone that phones the call center to get answers to troublesome queries.

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