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All those hours in Microsoft Flight Simulator paid off.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I did it. I passed the Swedish national language test. I'm officially done with SFI.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

sometimes you pitch an article, black out, and then wake up 2000 words later with no real recollection how any of it happened www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

submitted 30 days ago • 597 comments

60 hours of KCD2 later.. The task is finished.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

The Hitler tariffs, announced on Friday, February 10, 1933, stunned observers. “The dimension of the tariff increases have in fact exceeded all expectations," a newspaper reported. But Hitler insisted they would help restore German pride and honor. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

submitted 53 days ago • 578 comments

We're looking for (two!) Senior Influencer Marketing Managers to join the team over at @heavenmedia.bsky.social; one based in the eastern U.S. and one in the EU. There are nine people on the influencer team across four countries (fully remote!) heavenmedia.com/careers/

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

and this is how these icons will look in your windows taskbar

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

No one could’ve predicted that Trump would put in exactly the kind of tariffs he repeatedly promised to put in

submitted 61 days ago • 42 comments

"And just like that, the age of American empire, the great Pax Americana, ended." @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

submitted 63 days ago • 50 comments

SAVE THE PENGUINS. STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.

submitted 64 days ago • 72 comments

55% CANADA 55% FRANCE 55% MEXICO 55% PERU 55% GERMANY 55% SPAIN

submitted 65 days ago • 62 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 66 days ago • 1018 comments

I discovered Vivaldi yesterday, and I don't think I'll ever be able to use another browser again.

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 72 days ago • 1903 comments

Game Informer is back! The entire team is returning and we can't wait to reconnect. Come join us to celebrate the best in games, the people who make games, and the people who play games from all around the world. www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-...

submitted 73 days ago • 306 comments

“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

submitted 74 days ago • 798 comments

This Marco Rubio quote yesterday on the U.S. Embassy in Sweden & Denmark Facebook pages about undermining national security aged like milk.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

This is ridiculously and laughably embarassing. We're getting roasted in the comments by the Swedes, chat.

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Opinion | Europe is a failed civilization. Here’s why we are begging Finland for eggs. by JD Vance

submitted 82 days ago • 22 comments

This sounds like a great opportunity for Sweden to trade its eggs for the rights to rare earth minerals in the U.S. www.yahoo.com/news/facing-...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Just got a notification that it's been 9 years since I took these photos... March 2016 was a much simpler time.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Ringing in my 30's with the ✨stomach flu✨

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

It's very nice outside in Stockholm today, BUT

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

what a terrible time to have the ability to think critically

submitted 93 days ago • 52 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 97 days ago • 3278 comments

This new video essay by @adamconover.net is a rallying cry for what we need to be doing going forward, with examples of it already working (after a 10 minute summary of the fire hose of events leading up to now — I've timestamped the link below to where it really begins): youtu.be/By1Z1nk31iE?...