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do you remember before social media when the web was an infinite mysterious forest of things people had created, for free, for other people like you'd just stumble on this guy's Geocities page where he'd posted the sketches he'd done of every vegetable in his garden the web made me love humanity

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

looking forward to the future where they have optimized higher education into a one-click experience where a bunch of models boil the oceans for 35 seconds and at the end it prints a degree and a receipt for how much debt you're in

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

TOP GUN was released 39 years ago today. One of the definitive 1980s action films, and among the most popular of its star, Tom Cruise. The story behind the scenes will take your breath away… 1/45

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 760 comments

Zuckerberg and Musk are crushing news organisations like Byline Times. But we’re not taking this laying down Don’t Switch Off, Fight Bac #BigTechFightBack subscribe.bylinetimes.com/six/

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

“Yippee ki-yay…” We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.

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Fun fact: Florida's orange harvest is now only 8% of what it was 20 years of global warming ago. Increasing hurricane activity and more hospitable environment for disease and pests, has already destroyed the Florida orange industry. citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/f...

submitted 81 days ago • 9 comments

Trump continually hiring from his TV favorites, like a 5 year old staffing up with muppets.

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The destruction of science in the US that has already happened is going to be at least century-long process of decay, affecting every single aspect of life. A mindbogglingly vast and complex act of repeatedly shooting oneself in the dick.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

This is a historic fuckup that has led to damage to this country that will not be repaired for my entire adult life unless we do Reconstruction 2: Electric Boogaloo

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 16 days ago • 2310 comments

I feel really stupid asking again

submitted 17 days ago • 229 comments

Ethnic cleansing was always the plan — and our government cannot pretend it didn’t know. A statement from the Independent Alliance.

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

Folks in the Southhampton UK area, seats still available for Wednesday's #ScienceUnderSiege lecture @unisouthampton.bsky.social, based on my forthcoming book (via @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social & @scribepub.bsky.social) w/ the great @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

You know that Twilight Zone episode where the kid has amazing psychic powers and can make people disappear with his mind and the entire town is hostage to him and has to cater to his every whim? That’s us right now.

submitted 18 days ago • 990 comments

The Court of Appeal has this week ruled that anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are UNLAWFUL It has not been mentioned on a single news show this morning. If they won’t cover it let’s do it ourselves

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

submitted 22 days ago • 237 comments

You get a lot of centrist YIMBY types going on about planning and "get government red tape out the way and just build build build!" but impossible to look at this graph and draw any conclusion other than "oh, shit, the shortfall is just state housing"

submitted 35 days ago • 25 comments

keep in mind the FDA was already so far behind its inspections under Biden that we got actual lead in children's applesauce. there are kids with lead poisoning because of that now. things are about to get so fucking bad you cannot imagine

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Petition to ban driven grouse shooting petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... trending as 3rd-most signed in past hour. Plz add your name - thank you.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

I always post my workouts and progress, because this was me. I have #myastheniagravis (neuromuscular disease) which is in remission. Press forward. Don't give up hope. #KHANQUER

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

THE BLUETOOTH DEVICE IS CONNECTED-A SUCCESSFULLY #loveanddeepspace #Caleb

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

America has no consistency in justice… and no broadly shared moral foundations. Oddly, perhaps, Europe seems to me to be a more cohesive “demos” than the US at this point in time.

submitted 51 days ago • 17 comments

Editor: You get that shot of Kristi Noem violating human rights? Photographer: Sure did boss, real sexy just like you asked. Editor: what

submitted 57 days ago • 25 comments

Well-known rocks

submitted 57 days ago • 16 comments

Had a great and I hope interesting chat with @peterjukes.bsky.social and @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Making sense of the world's wrongs

submitted 64 days ago • 4 comments

Iguanas rafting 8000 km represents the longest documented transoceanic dispersal event (i.e. vagrancy event) in a terrestrial vertebrate www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🌎

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

"But if we tax the rich, they will leave the country!" Good! If they are so greedy, they would starve disabled people, rather than pay their way, I don't just want them to leave, I want to requisition every last one of their assets first. They are parasites, utter parasites.

submitted 66 days ago • 14 comments

@bungiehelp.bungie.net you okay hun ?

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Look who came up the driveway this afternoon!!!! You've never seen me grab my camera so fast. Unfortunately, I had to shoot through a dirty window in low light, so it's a bit fuzzy. Still! Lynx!! In my yard!!! Look at those big fluffy paws! 🦊🌿

submitted 78 days ago • 817 comments

The desexualisation of media (everyone is beautiful, and no one is horny) combined with an increasing hysteria around the 'pointlessness' of sex scenes is a key part of the fascistization of western culture and if we're going to fight back we're going to need to make it normal to be horny again.

submitted 78 days ago • 72 comments

Painfully accurate

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🔴Holocaust Survivor Summoned for Police Interview Over Gaza Solidarity March Stephen Kapos, 87, is among dozens of activists interviewed or charged by police for their part in the January 18th pro-Palestine protest in London bylinetimes.com/2025/03/04/h...

submitted 78 days ago • 10 comments

🤦🏽‍♀️

submitted 79 days ago • 25 comments

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

submitted 82 days ago • 215 comments

RIP legend. So much great modern music owes its existence to New York Dolls.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

BOOOOKS! Regularly adding great #books at super cheap prices to www.jambookshop.co.uk Unsold stock from the #bookshop.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Free UK postage. Doing a post office run this afternoon.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

another movie with a Queen soundtrack too

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

The only way forward other than dictatorship and constant wars

submitted 91 days ago • 10 comments

A significant cyber op is actively trying to take this VERY IMPORTANT news article down and erase its existence.

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In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

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