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The lack of critical thinking in teenagers plus the echo chamber of social media is terrifying. We’ve failed a whole generation.

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I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

submitted 22 days ago • 367 comments

Because you have two homes?

submitted 22 days ago • 418 comments

One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

submitted 25 days ago • 263 comments

As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.

submitted 25 days ago • 972 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 297 comments

#microsoftHack I’m getting login attempts every few minutes from across the globe on my Microsoft account. please use a password manager (bitwarden is great) and turn on 2 factor authentication.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Trump would have locked up and/or expelled your founders for dissent.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

One of the best books I have ever read ! A true goldmine. Thanks a lot @mara.bsky.social marabos.nl/atomics/

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

#handsoff on so many things. Rise up.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Yes! And no need to put “of the 90s”. The build of the Dum dum dum de dum dum dum de dum dum bass line, then the echoey snare….chills!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform USA: Hold my beer...

submitted 31 days ago • 344 comments

The most expensive 40 seconds of video - it cost trillions of dollars to make this. Trillions!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Who did this?

submitted 31 days ago • 1447 comments

That massive thud heard around the world was the coin dropping when the MAGA crowd realised they paid Trump’s tariffs.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

submitted 32 days ago • 354 comments

Where does all the money from tariffs go? Into the mythical “trickle down” funnel?

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

All of this. I know American’s aren’t this stupid, at least the ones I know aren’t. I just don’t get it. Genuinely. It’s like a genuine mass delusion. Speed running the destruction of America rule of law, soft, and hard power.

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I’ve stopped using email as a todo list given I had 100s of unread “todo”s. I’m much more organized and now have 100s of neglected Apple Reminders. But yes, the next software I chose will solve the problem…

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

ETA to enter UK - Cost: £16 - Lasts: 2 years - Covers: 1 country - Introduction: non-EU citizens already, EU from April 2 - RW papers: silent or supportive ETIAS to enter EU - Cost: 7 euro - Lasts: 3 years - Covers: 27 countries - Introduction: 2026? - RW papers: beside themselves with rabid fury

submitted 34 days ago • 14 comments

I did an amazing “hello world” once. Elegant. Simple. No bugs. It was a one-liner: “println(“hello world”). The pinnacle of Software Engineering, the heights of which I’ll never touch again. Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about that beauty. Those were the days.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Mother’s Day, with special space for those who find it particularly challenging. Be loved.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Another (well written as always!) interesting view into the chaos that is HTML and CSS :-). The days of “But it’s simple, you can just use notepad to write it” are decades past.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

kindle “read anywhere” - so why when I try and read a book on my phone does it say I’ve reached the download limit and need to remove it from the kindle I’m reading it on at home? Amazon gets worse each day…

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

WHATEVER THEY'RE PAYING THE ASSASSIN'S CREED SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER ITS NOT ENOUGH

submitted 40 days ago • 229 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 40 days ago • 1067 comments

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 41 days ago • 1506 comments

Somewhere along the line Apple lost the “fun” element and became bland, slow, and unfun. I miss the awesome welcomeAfterInstall screens and fun UIs of yesteryear.

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And kids these days think they have it tough :-)

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone seen the real @teamlabouruk.bsky.social party? Withholding winter fuel, penalising the ill, suppressing jobs, no new safe and legal routes, protecting the rich… I thought the nasty Tory Party lost the election!

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Why is “no innocent Israeli nor Palestinian should suffer for their leaders” such a controversial view? Killing women and kids is wrong, full stop. “Well what should they?” No idea. Honestly. But I know they shouldn’t do this.

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@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social awesome effort on Politics Live. You kept your cool with that awful hypocrite who was the only one “one siding” the argument. October the 7th was a horrific terrorist attack. It’s not a blank piece of paper to do criminal war acts. Palestinians aren’t Hamas.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

FirstWorldProblem, but I’m appalled at Amazon Prime Video’s adverts, even for paid Prime members. Watching Wheel of Time but it’s ruined by multiple really loud ads each episode, that jar you out of the vibe. Rage inducing. A real crappy move Amazon. Yet another reason to not renew Prime.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Truenas has built in backup (with iX) for $150/year for 5TB including ZFS snapshots? Sign me up!

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 61 days ago • 1202 comments

A reminder for these times.

submitted 64 days ago • 671 comments

Seems like a pretty important detail

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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 65 days ago • 3131 comments