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Well, well, well. Guess who just got kicked out of Parliament, for—you guessed it—being white.

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The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

submitted 458 days ago • 61 comments

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 26,1948

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the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

submitted 19 days ago • 332 comments

This week, right-wing group ADVANCE has targeted millions of voters with paid ads promoting a Coalition attack on $1m of Indigenous breastfeeding research. It traces back to a Liberal-linked think tank's DOGE-like wish list of "wasteful" government spending to cut. www.crikey.com.au/20...

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

guys love to say “dude my balatro run last night was insane” then show you a screenshot like this

submitted 57 days ago • 237 comments

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

submitted 61 days ago • 86 comments

Amazing things happening to language and meaning over at @theguardian.com

submitted 53 days ago • 94 comments

The ancient people had all the raw materials to invent the computer but they failed to do this, instead creating "the wheel." Embarrassing lack of hustle

submitted 54 days ago • 34 comments

This is how insignificant humanity is on the largest scale. We have some dickheads ruining everything to enrich themselves, and the universe is just like "what, gold? You mean that stuff that some star just farted out onto a rock?"

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

Visiting friends in New York

submitted 57 days ago • 62 comments

it’s almost friday

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

change my mind: many of the "independent weather forecasters" are cranks and they all rely on BOM's work, while often criticising it. it's a direct parallel with journalism: many of the indie people's takes rely on the hard, expensive, often thankless work done by legitimate outlets.

submitted 63 days ago • 10 comments

JUST FYI EVERYONE, IF YOU SEE A POST THAT SAYS IT LINKS TO LUIGI MANGIONE'S SEX TAPE DON'T CLICK ON IT!! THERE'S A VIRUS THAT PUTS EVERYTHING YOU TYPE IN CAPITAL LETTERS

submitted 64 days ago • 541 comments

Oh is mango Mussolini up. Oh is the orange man going to talk. Not for me thanks'. I am going to jeep drinking this plaint

submitted 64 days ago • 17 comments

🎶tariff, dont like it

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

while you were partying, i studied the blade

submitted 65 days ago • 16 comments

AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.

submitted 70 days ago • 48 comments

VP of Universal Music Group at the first system of a down showcase

submitted 67 days ago • 51 comments

Whilſt we abſolutely forbid Garlick entrance into our Salleting [salad], by reaſon of its intolerable Rankneſs, and which made it ſo deteſted of old; that the eating of it was part of the Puniſhment for ſuch as had committed the horrid'ſt Crimes.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

rfk jr. coughing up a whole flattened armadillo with tire tread marks on it and suddenly talking normal

submitted 68 days ago • 10 comments

'Life in Hell' was GOAT'ed

submitted 295 days ago • 13 comments

YOUNG MAN, there's no need to feel down i said YOUNG MAN, pagliacci the clown you can SEE HIM he is playing in town you should go and have a good time

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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

submitted 81 days ago • 490 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 79 days ago • 453 comments