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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 6 days ago • 230 comments

NO KINGS, ONLY TRAINS is a pretty great 2028 slogan for anyone who wants it

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

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

submitted 11 days ago • 5661 comments

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

submitted 15 days ago • 636 comments

Still one of the best pedagogical examples of a normal distribution I’ve seen

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

submitted 16 days ago • 724 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 16 days ago • 3902 comments

Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.

submitted 17 days ago • 772 comments

One of Elon Musk's DOGE teens is apparently linked to "The Com" - a literal satanic neo-Nazi child gore and sextortion network krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...

submitted 19 days ago • 35 comments

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

submitted 27 days ago • 328 comments

As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.

submitted 30 days ago • 607 comments

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

submitted 44 days ago • 113 comments

Something lovely for the weekend! A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍 An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping hunting dog opens and closes its mouth, as if barking, by using a lever below its chest. 📷 by me #Archaeology

submitted 47 days ago • 33 comments

why are they called porn bots and not intrusive thots

submitted 50 days ago • 163 comments

Let’s be clear—the fact checkers have not “been” politically biased as Zuck suggests, but have been perceived as such because of politically motivated efforts to smear them, one that Zuck is now participating in and capitulating to. 1/

submitted 51 days ago • 93 comments

As someone who worked on Birdwatch/Community notes at Twitter, I can tell you that the system was NEVER designed to work on it's own. It is is designed to work alongside fact checking systems. The eshitification of the Meta continues www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

submitted 50 days ago • 13 comments

This is nightmare fuel www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...

submitted 55 days ago • 390 comments

I stand by this.

submitted 54 days ago • 334 comments

This app is undefeated for earnest replies that completely misunderstand the joke

submitted 56 days ago • 119 comments

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

submitted 56 days ago • 131 comments

cant sleep, stewing, thinking about how easy it is for men to be taken seriously as intellectuals, and how much ground you have to claw and claw to be taken with a quarter of the gravity, as a woman

submitted 60 days ago • 240 comments

What didn’t kill me didn’t make me stronger. It gave me crippling anxiety, a lot of unhealthy coping mechanisms, some really nasty nightmares, the ability to drink enough caffeine to kill a horse, and made me into a cynic who cusses way more than necessary.

submitted 68 days ago • 763 comments

The police treat crimes against the rich differently.

submitted 69 days ago • 457 comments

I wrote a little reflection on objectivity and diversity in science. Could be useful if you are teaching research methods, as is the companion paper on objectivity interrogation. communities.springernature.com/posts/in-sci...

submitted 71 days ago • 6 comments

Museums really are leaving money on the table by not selling more reproductions of Little Guys

submitted 77 days ago • 46 comments

I’m sorry who asked for this. Why are we killing the planet for something nobody asked for.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Need genuine shitposting on this app

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Privilege allows luck to happen a lot more frequently, at the very least.

submitted 91 days ago • 82 comments

I think it speaks volumes that right wingers criticize bluesky for being “liberal” and “left wing”, when it’s really just that hate speech isn’t allowed.

submitted 96 days ago • 1636 comments

repost to brush

submitted 98 days ago • 9 comments

Explored on the internet today and found these amazing archive of tattoos during Soviet Union

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

submitted 104 days ago • 78 comments

donald trump gave elon musk the second controller and kept it unplugged

submitted 103 days ago • 86 comments

ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY ROLL THE CLIP

submitted 103 days ago • 211 comments

We’re so back

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

I love this era of bluesky. twitter gays stumbling around looking for each other. comical and beautiful. like something David Attenborough would narrate with circus music playing in the background

submitted 104 days ago • 116 comments

Each platform has some distinct community linguistic features and I’m interested to see what it’s gonna be like on this platform

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments