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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

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I love to joke about OSHA (and NIOSH) but every single OSHA regulation was written with someone’s blood

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Unreal.

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The official US Army account is now reposting ‘Libs of TikTok’.

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Hey European friends, just in case you were still thinking of buying a Tesla…

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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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Said every tyrant and dictator in human history to justify his actions.

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Dictator for a day has gone full Napoleon.

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Share THIS if you're glad the government is spending less on waste and more on a fleet of Cybertrucks you can see from space!

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the beyond parody presidency

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I will never yield a nanometer in my open contempt and disgust for the drones and useful idiots who called Musk a free speech hero.

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In light of recent events, as a security precaution I've decided to sell my own social security number to hackers

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As a cybersecurity person, my professional opinion is: shit's fucked, yo

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Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls

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2025, we have a slogan

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Your leaders call this "hybrid war" because if they called it "war" they might have to do something about it.

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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

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Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.

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The rise of fascism in the 1930s led to genocide and a catastrophic world war, but it ultimately ushered in a period of unprecedented peace and prosperity in Europe and North America. Could the same thing happen again?

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COMMENTARY: FEMA's administrator, a longtime Coloradan, is being attacked as a "DEI hire" because she's a woman. Here's how we straight white guys, regardless of politics, should respond to that trendy slur. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqX2...

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The sun is in my eyes... I could just buy and install blinds, or I can use my design thinking and UX tools to solve the problem creatively

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If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”

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I'm still very proud that I was able to get this paragraph in a company announcement blog post

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Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

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I believe this storm is illegal to be viewed online in several of these states.

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He's not wrong. Diversity is our strength.

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Wow it’s the 25th anniversary of Y2K where nothing happened because a bunch of us did a metric fuck-ton of work in ‘99 testing and upgrading IT infrastructure systems. Wildest thing I worked on replacing was a CP/M system in a critical role - it booted from 8” floppies, and a VAX with a 9 Track tape

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Anyone wanting to check out #Severance this weekend… 9to5mac.com/2024/12/30/a...

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Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

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There are no rules in this no man’s land between Christmas & New Years. Read all night! Don’t finish a book! Read three books at once! Just go nuts.

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Asthma emergency admissions plunged as lockdown improved air, Oxford study finds. “First study to tally asthma exacerbations with air pollution during pandemic finds numbers admitted to A&E fell 41% in 2020.” Via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie because of the setting. It's a Christmas movie because it has The Christmas Plot: A man who is neglecting his family to focus on work learns What Really Matters through an improbable crisis around the holidays and rededicates himself to his wife and kids