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If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.

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The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.

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George Clooney, still dining out on “Batman & Robin”:

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Common American myths (🧵): - anyone can make it - business owners are job creators - regulation is bad for the economy - unions now irrelevant - capitalism & socialism incompatible

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

Made me laugh.

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God damn Sylvia Plath...yeah....

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 4 days ago • 609 comments

I’m not getting on another plane until Pete Buttigieg himself tells me the pilots are woke enough to keep us in the sky

submitted 4 days ago • 139 comments

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

Feeling this very much today. Via poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

I spent some time reading Elon’s tweets this morning (one of my least favorite activities) and it’s hard to overstate how much he and his allies have constructed an alternate reality for their audience to believe in. In their world, Elon is a superhero fighting government fraud, like fanfiction

submitted 6 days ago • 289 comments

I absolutely love this idea.

submitted 6 days ago • 648 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 6 days ago • 410 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

yeah the issue isn't that salmonella never appears here in the US, it does; the issue is that when it does, teams of dedicated civil servants track the outbreak, find the source, spread the word, and recall the bad food. and will they keep doing that? will "they" still exist in any meaningful sense?

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

absolutely wild. i went to youtube to watch a video and the autoplay ad was an AI fake of tom hanks spouting fake diabetes cures. google is making money off this???

submitted 8 days ago • 79 comments

Just paid my taxes via X, the everything app, but it said my payment went to something called $GOVCOIN. I emailed the IRS for help but they replied with just a poop emoji

submitted 9 days ago • 151 comments

we need to bring back words like wastrel, rogue, ruffian, ne’er-do-well. there is an epidemic of miscreants doing shenanigans and we have lost the vocabulary to describe them.

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.

submitted 10 days ago • 76 comments

Newsletter: The tech industry has turned on the consumer, using abusive, manipulative software as a means of extracting wealth from every corner of our lives. Both society and the tech media must fight back, as I believe many of us deeply love our tech. www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

submitted 11 days ago • 42 comments

I love it when a company reads the room and gets it right.

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I'm not going to read beyond the headline. I want it to be a surprise

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I can't get the characterisation of Musk as a Bond Supervillain out of my mind. Here's the AI list of Bond supervillain traits:

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It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...

submitted 15 days ago • 168 comments

A great website tracking all the companies that have bent the knee to Trump and eliminated their DEI programs, and all the companies that have stood strong. www.dei.watch

submitted 13 days ago • 176 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 14 days ago • 271 comments

just over here photoshopping muppets onto the cover of elle magazine: thread

submitted 14 days ago • 210 comments

Everything I learn about musk’s nazi minions is against my will

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You need this.

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Our team has launched a tracker account for flights in and out of the US naval base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The tracker is based on open data from ADS-B signals. Check it out here @gtmowatch.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 75 comments

Watching powerless from Europe how democracy is crumbling in the US, reminds me of those movies where someone is mind-controlled by an alien or ghost. I want to yell: "America, we know you are still in there. If you can hear us, you must fight. YOU CAN DO IT. FIGHT THIS!"

submitted 15 days ago • 1059 comments

Hey @microsoft.com, this fake climate news site you partner with on MSN continues to publish climate disinformation on your homepage. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

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Wi-Fi names in our neighborhood: Winner: FKNaziScum Honorable Mentions: Magichorse Horsemagic (Would love to know if these are related) Borgqueen PrincessProblems NefariousCreatures And my personal fave: WHEREARETHETURTLES It's the all-caps that sells it.

submitted 15 days ago • 316 comments