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Prediction: ten years from now there will be a lot fewer people learning English as an additional language

submitted 51 days ago • 125 comments

Not now, plague of atomic rats.

submitted 52 days ago • 32 comments

hello NC voters. if your name is on this list, you have two weeks to rectify your voter registration, or your vote in the supreme court election will be tossed: thegriffinlist.com

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

anyone setting a meeting start time for something like 09:17 deserves the anxious mess i’m going to be when i get there

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

anyone else expecting schumer’s next financial disclosure to be illuminating?

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

open question: i am considering emigrating from the US. europe is potentially faced with a two-front conflict with the US west and Russia east, so that’s not really a safety improvement. i’m leaning heavily toward #Uruguay. is there anyone who has made this move and/or can offer some insights?

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

tfg helping leon hawk teslas on the white-house lawn is going to be the visual for this administration for every history textbook in the future. assuming there is a future that includes history textbooks.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

my fave film genres: 5. love is complicated, fantasy or sf edition 4. it’s not what you think it is, macro scale 3. bad things happen to bad people 2. turns out we’re all a little weird 1. unlikely heroes overthrow the evil status quo bonus: person gets into trouble, then gets out of trouble

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

oh: “she’s the kind of person that tells her restaurant employees to check with their accountant”

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

sometimes i scroll too fast—kinda playing bluesky roulette—and the hashtags start to blend together with other words anyway, happy #worldherringday if you celebrate

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

you would not believe how much time & money some companies could save by teaching their engineers to 1: BUY good services, instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars writing poor copies of them 2: put those services behind a simple adapter instead of hardwiring them into code

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

\meme{:screaming-flower} {morning wind and rain} {afternoon sun}

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

i didn’t watch the speech or response because i value my sanity, but i was expecting one or the other to close with “hail hydra”. since it hasn’t been in the news, that didn’t happen… …right?

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

somebody help me out here because i am not a lawperson: when a federal judge orders a thing to be done that is not subsequently done by the person who is supposed to be doing it, does that judge have the power to incarcerate the person in contempt? for how long? if so, why isn’t this happening?

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

take a second to remind yourself that TFG didn’t do this to america. the american voters did this to america.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

as of this moment, the dow jones industrial average has fallen below its jan 20, 2025 value.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

This is clearly a dark wave group that broke up in 1988 shortly after releasing their third LP. This photo is from their reunion album that came out in 2004.

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

i haven’t been paying attention to the state of the art in single-page app frameworks for clojurescript for a few years and now i need to and looks the landscape is exactly the same. not sure if that’s good or bad.

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

if you’ve never been to washington dc and seen the monuments and museums, now might be a good time to go likely they won’t be there in the future i wouldn’t fly, though.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

For my far north Chicago friends: We're having a brief reprieve of the cold, but the temperature is going to plunge again starting Sunday. If you can kick a few bucks over to Edgewater Mutual Aid, they can make sure those in our community who are unhoused can get some shelter.