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Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

submitted 2 days ago • 221 comments

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

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Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

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I am full sorry That he approves the common liar

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"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." - FDR

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Kurt Vonnegut man

submitted 7 days ago • 252 comments

For whatever reason ICE doesn't have a Bluesky account. So I thought I'd drop this in here. Note the Free Speech crowd has now put the good folks at ICE in charge of stopping, detaining and deporting "Ideas".

submitted 6 days ago • 109 comments

the jamelle bouie secret to presciently anticipating the behavior of the president is to just ask myself what a dumbass bully would do

submitted 7 days ago • 128 comments

It’s the stupid, economy.

submitted 8 days ago • 125 comments

the monster horribly wallowed in his blood, overwrapped himself in impenetrable, mad, boiling spray

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This is high art

submitted 10 days ago • 535 comments

Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

Bette Davis forever. #BOTD #filmsky

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Whatipu beach today, an hour from downtown Auckland. #auckland #tamakimakaurau

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It's extraordinary how many wise people still don't realise that much of the right-wing media and political establishment can never turn on Trump simply, and only, because he has made base bigotry mainstream & 'acceptable' again. 'Anti-woke' was always about being pro-racism, lies & misogyny.

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We could one day fix the damage Trump had done to our institutions. We could get back on our old economic growth trajectory, salvage our ability to push the technoscientific frontier. But we’re not getting back the geopolitical trust we have pissed away for absolutely no reason or gain

submitted 13 days ago • 29 comments

NINETY PERCENT OPPOSED thespinoff.co.nz/atea/04-04-2...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

submitted 14 days ago • 180 comments

Seven billion of us being held hostage by the dumbest people alive.

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With Trump starting a trade war that could cause a global recession, here’s my piece on power and stupidity—which explains why so many idiots end up in charge. www.forkingpaths.co/p/on-power-a...

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

thank you donald trump for your diligent work as you make the US a stagnant, backwater pariah state and playground for sociopathic tech oligarchs

submitted 14 days ago • 171 comments

Because nuking the economy might actually effect their bosses and owners in a way that ending democracy didn't.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 14 days ago • 156 comments

Finally we will be liberated from the tyranny of disposable income and a functioning economy

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Good Lord, what madness rules in brain-sick men

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Big night for the woke mind virus.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social ‘I am a woman who has been told at crucial times that I am not believable & that I was confused & that I was not competent to deal in facts’ Rebecca Solnit advocates for equality & democracy of voice in a work that should be required reading.

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Pretty much every kid dreamed of going to Disneyland. I did too, but I knew it wasn’t going to happen. So instead I focused on the achievable goal of going to the Buried Village in Rotorua and read eagerly about the 1886 Tarawera eruption. I still get excited thinking about those trips.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 19 days ago • 673 comments