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So Mirriam Webster has announced that 'FRIDGE' is an official word in their dictionary now, and sited me as the concept's creator in the definition. Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized. www.merriam-webster.com/slang/fridge

submitted 8 days ago • 109 comments

must i ask that you not call for political assassinations in my mentions

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

In Princeton.

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OPENS TODAY: Alasdair Gray: Works from The Morag McAlpine Bequest at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum feat. book cover art works for @aowensarchive.bsky.social In an interview Morag said: "I think that we probably had quite lonely times before we met. And we now know the value of being together.’

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Fernando Redondo youtu.be/O-7CECdXum4?...

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Learn more about the MN speaker who was assassinated in her home this morning. What a goddamned nightmare.

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As I noted in today’s post, this really was the most egregious thing that happened in LA yesterday and that’s saying an awful lot

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

You know what people with lots of money do when you give them more money? Stick it with the money they already have. You know what they don't do? Spontaneously start new business ventures... because if they wanted to do that, they already had the money to do it.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

I've seen no stories about this elsewhere, but on the D-Day anniversary last Friday, tens of thousands of veterans protested the creeping privatization of their health care system. Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early reported on the DC rally and satellite actions in over 250 cities:

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Felt it was important to chronicle the campaign against trans people that the Trump administration has been waging. You can advocate for women's sports and spaces, and high standards of evidence in youth medical care, without being gratuitously cruel. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 9 days ago • 71 comments

This is a lesson for Labour in the UK too “The only thing that can possibly work is a visionary, loud, appealing alternative, rather than a milder form of the same thing that the very charismatic aspiring autocrat is offering.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

i guess my main question for people with this perspective is if they think something of an ideological bubble is worse than being called a "nigger" whenever you post

submitted 9 days ago • 172 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 10 days ago • 171 comments

Turn it off. Stop using it. Turn it off. Stop. Stop. Stop. If every time I was wrong about something, a gallon of precious water was boiled into the sky, my neighbourhood got polluted and someone lost their job, people would stop asking me things.

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

I never understood the “manosphere” till I read this troubling article. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

BBC 6 Music News tells me Musk wants to set up a ‘centrist’ party. Is great replacement theory centrism now? Btw almost all stories on 6 Music heads were about immigration - Labour can’t get down asylum hotel costs; Pam Bondi clip. Barely a single story about an actual news of a real world event

submitted 11 days ago • 46 comments

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

submitted 12 days ago • 246 comments

👏👏👏 Bravo Merz for clarifying to Trump that while Russia terrorises & bombs civilians, Ukraine only targets military assets.

submitted 12 days ago • 47 comments

How the tech capitalists treat us like saloon sex robots. I’ve made the connection, now I can’t unsee it. joelmorris.substack.com/p/are-we-the...

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

No really. Salt your pasta water. 🍝 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjVc3LJS/

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Here's the latest episode of Better Offline. I'm joined by @internetofbugs.com to talk about the realities of software development, what coding LLMs can actually do, and how the media gets it wrong about software engineering at large. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

The pro life position is to let women die in a hospital parking lot while their partners scream for help

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

58 years ago today, The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper. 5 months later, The Carol Burnett Show did a tribute with Carol, Gwen Verdon, Bobbie Gentry and Phyllis Diller.

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