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gpogue.bsky.social
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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 64 days ago • 373 comments

Kendrick brought America together the way that "Country Roads" ad was supposed to.

submitted 126 days ago • 74 comments

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 130 days ago • 224 comments

🚨Trump’s first major tariff hike has officially gone into effect—a 10% tax increase on all imports from China, including the suspension of the “de minimis” exemption for small packages (like from Temu/Shein) is effective as of 12:01 am. That hits roughly $430B in US imports

submitted 132 days ago • 43 comments

This kid slightly misunderstood their homework assignment and we could not possibly love it more. 12/10

submitted 139 days ago • 117 comments

The President did not lift the ban or extend the deadline for TikTok. He ordered the Attorney General not to enforce the law for 75 days. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/application-of-protecting-americans-from-foreign-adversary-controlled-applications-act-to-tiktok/

submitted 146 days ago • 3 comments

In high school I won second place for my Christmas story. The story was about conscious Christmas trees sent from Russia as a present. The trees then use their pine needles to kill all of Congress and the president and vice president.

submitted 173 days ago • 1 comment

A Brief History of Music Today Is Just Noise 🧵

submitted 190 days ago • 10 comments

Wow, gold, frankincense, AND myrrh. This is so great. My wife’s boyfriend’s baby is going to love it. Thank you so much.

submitted 190 days ago • 55 comments

@caspiancey.bsky.social You have an imposter.

submitted 200 days ago • 0 comments

A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz 🧵

submitted 212 days ago • 29 comments

A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.

submitted 202 days ago • 38 comments

Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...

submitted 204 days ago • 95 comments

Here’s a crazy fact for you: Spain and Germany have now seen basically the exact same amount of economic growth post-2008. Would have been unthinkable to people during most of the 2010s. Spain has seen ~10 percentage points more cumulative growth since 2017.

submitted 205 days ago • 50 comments

Cool calendar swag in the Bean Club box from @ranchogordo.bsky.social Now I must prepare myself for a half hour conversation about future bean meals.

submitted 205 days ago • 0 comments

I've been avoiding "the news" and reading books since the election but this video Is worth a watch. It has some great ideas worth considering. Thanks @hankgreen.bsky.social for taking the time to add context to this moment.

submitted 205 days ago • 0 comments