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once again I must tap my own sign

submitted 5 days ago • 236 comments

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 33 days ago • 40 comments

submitted 60 days ago • 416 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 65 days ago • 1110 comments

It took just two months to drive two of our closest and most important allies into China's arms.

submitted 71 days ago • 261 comments

The genAI thing gives a great deal of insight into how non-creatives and profiteers would treat and value creatives if they could. How far that exploitation would go if they could somehow keep the golden eggs coming without us. It’s not new info, per se, but it is an interesting quantification.

submitted 75 days ago • 8 comments

It's really starting to feel like Trump and Musk had a movie date last summer where they watched Idiocracy and took that future as an aspirational ideal.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Mark is beloved by millions of kids, which makes it particularly great that he’s teaching them how to inform their parents that Tesla is a danger to children. This is another one of those “we don’t need a ‘Rogan of the left’, we need normal men” examples.

submitted 86 days ago • 88 comments

Yo @durbin.senate.gov, no one is picking up your Senate phone and you don’t even have a voicemail. Vote no on cloture and the spending bill or I will do whatever it takes to make sure the next Senator from Illinois has basic constituent services set up during business hours.

submitted 90 days ago • 1084 comments

Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

submitted 106 days ago • 132 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 108 days ago • 991 comments

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

submitted 109 days ago • 20 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 110 days ago • 3396 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 115 days ago • 5536 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 115 days ago • 414 comments

You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

submitted 125 days ago • 119 comments

I still remember way back before Musk was illegally destroying US foreign aid that time when he claimed he’d give $6B to the UK WFP if they could tell him how it would solve world hunger & then he ignored the response & gave $5.7B to his own charity & no one ever found out where it went from there

submitted 127 days ago • 89 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 132 days ago • 3730 comments

I missed this entirely: The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines. Musk demanded he resign. He did. On January 20th. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

submitted 131 days ago • 1033 comments

My favorite fact about the NYC subway is that there are way more daily riders (about 4 million) than the number of people who fly in the US out of all airports every day (~2.5 million). The scale is hard to get a grasp on.

submitted 134 days ago • 57 comments

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 138 days ago • 2486 comments

Of course Earth is my favorite planet. It's home. But Mars is where my imagination lives. I've dedicated the last 8 years of my career to its exploration. I refuse to let billionaires ruin the home of my imagination and defile the frontier of the human experience.

submitted 139 days ago • 5 comments

If any Democratic politicians are reading this, I’m begging you to understand that a Nazi salute in your direction is not a reach across aisle.

submitted 141 days ago • 17 comments

TikTok shows you what you engage with the most. Twitter shows you what Musk wants you to see. Meta shows you what will make Meta the most money. Bluesky shows you what you choose to see.

submitted 142 days ago • 6 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=MEUh... @justinmcelroy.bsky.social @griffinmcelroy.bsky.social @plante.bsky.social @russfrushtick.bsky.social Besties Alert! Brandon Sanderson has a new Writing lecture series for this year that started 4 hours ago. (Griffin recommended the 2020 on an episode this fall)

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

Bezos spiked the Washington Post editorial endorsing Harris, saying that the paper needed to stay neutral to maintain the trust of its readership. Now the Washington Post editorial board is out with a piece urging Congress to rubber stamp nearly all of Trump's cabinet nominees

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submitted 154 days ago • 35 comments

Nice job, Strib. The right way to cover this buffoon

submitted 153 days ago • 363 comments

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

submitted 158 days ago • 332 comments

An excellent and informative thread 🧵

submitted 181 days ago • 34 comments

New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

submitted 198 days ago • 165 comments

Last year tried re-diving into models for the first time in decades, and took my first ever shot at weathering, with this Snow Speeder. Had some issues caused by leaving bare plastic on the grey panels, but really happy otherwise.

submitted 206 days ago • 0 comments