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If you can see a show at The Sphere, go. It's the most incredible venue, and seeing U2 there was an experience of a lifetime. I'm not a Dead fan but I'm keeping an eye out for other residencies. There is truly nothing like a show there.

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Off into the wilds I go. A much needed break from socials for a long weekend.

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🩷🩷🩷

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Stunning 🩷

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Scotland is home to some of the darkest skies in Europe, offering breathtaking views of the stars, planets, and even the Northern Lights. Thanks to low light pollution and vast open landscapes, stargazers can experience the night sky in its full glory.

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Okay TL cleanse. Grunge. Hair metal. New Wave. And Laura Ashley. It was quite the combo 😂

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Still just can’t get over how stupid this all is, and that it’s all happening for literally no reason

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There is a fascinating correlation between billionaires and shameless stupidity. Who is going to read this when the WSJ exists?

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Unfortunately this isn’t even close to being true. Over the past half century, the wealthiest members of our society—a handful of people, relatively speaking—have extracted more than $50 trillion from the rest of the country. What’s happening now isn’t much of a phenomenon.

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Town hall meeting in Idaho. I watched the video. This woman, like others, was simply speaking her mind as a constituent. The representative called her a "little girl" and said she was getting what she deserved. Vile.

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Brilliant, just brilliant.

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Germany’s likely new chancellor Friedrich Merz: Look at what Musk has done recently in terms of interventions in the German elections. That is an unprecedented event. The interventions from Washington were no less dramatic, drastic and ultimately brazen than the interventions we had from Moscow...

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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This is also the political result of prosperity theology. If you’re good and virtuous, you’ll be rich and healthy. Poverty and disability are your own fault This is fifty-plus years of Christians using the Republican party to legally impose their poisonous doctrine on everyone

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👏👏👏

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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Which part of Germany was under Soviet control, ask yourself

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Having worked with more than one person from tech trying to “disrupt” another industry, I have experienced firsthand the arrogance of people who assume that other fields “can’t be that hard.” @brbarrett.bsky.social’s weekly banger DOGE newsletter sums it up👇 www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

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Here’s the pitch: They hire back the accidentally-fired bird flu folks and the accidentally-fired nuclear security guys BUT they put them in each other’s jobs — also by accident! It’s TRADING PLACES meets FAILSAFE meets CONTAGION — and maybe also FREAKY FRIDAY! Need a title.

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History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way” Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??” History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”

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I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue. www.the-reframe.com/the/

submitted 15 days ago • 122 comments

The whole country crashing is exactly what this feels like. Like a 17-year old who thinks he's invincible and goes on a meth-fueled bender, gets behind the wheel, floors it, loses control and flies right into oncoming traffic at 100mph.

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Where are the CEOs of @deltaairline.bsky.social @americanair.bsky.social @unitedairlinesual.bsky.social @jetblue2.bsky.social ? They’re good with this. Where are the leaders of business?

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Caught Brandi Carlile's performance of "The Joke" on SNL's 50th concert. Her voice, unmatched as always, and the lyrics never more apropos. "Let 'em laugh while they can Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends And the joke's on them"

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Sigh. Seeing way too many, "They didn't know what they voted for." Yes, they did and they're giddy.They also seem to be wholly ignorant of the history of authoritarianism and how this always turns out eventually.

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How's that Twitter deal aging? How's Tesla's car business doing? How's that bet on Elon's magic self-driving beans feeling right about now? Go ask the one analyst who is too smart to be popular how good SpaceX's business really looks. The real letdown is still coming, bro. The signs are all there.

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🤡🤡🤡

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 17 days ago • 164 comments

Now you get it, Trump wants revenge on his enemies and Musk wants to destroy the entire state as it exists along with a cabal of the biggest loser Silicon Valley dorks on the planet. Nothing else matters

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I've run out of words for "idiots."

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💯💯💯

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No they're not. They know exactly what they're voting for: The continued dismantling of our public health system. That's what they want. You know this. Why do we have to do this playacting goldfish brain shit every time.

submitted 18 days ago • 113 comments

Top tip. Don’t have insomnia in the middle of a coup. An executive order has now given DOGE oversight of all government departments. It’s a complete takeover of the federal government by Musk. A Musk ‘team lead’ will now make all hiring decisions according to a ‘data-driven’ model

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A few weeks into this shitshow and I'm still jarred by people posting from an alternate universe of delusional calm with things like "it bears repeating that what Musk and Trump are doing is highly irregular and likely illegal."

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The replies and quote posts are mostly addresses of dealerships…and not just in US

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It’s all so stupid

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every Donald Trump cycle: TRUMP: i'm gonna kill the easter bunny FACT-CHECKER: he has not stated how he is going to kill the easter bunny TRUMP SUPPORTER: i think he means he's going to kill evil bunnies TRUMP: beheads the easter bunny NYT: trump redefines relationship between bunny and head

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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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I have to wonder about the American strategy of spending three decades defunding and mocking the humanities, forcing kids into STEM fields whether they like it or not, and then rug-pulling the entire US science & medical sector because you got mad at women online.

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Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

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