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I've watched an unfortunate amount of cable television the last couple weeks and I'm left with one main question: what is up with all the "whole body" deodorants?

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EarthquakeSim’s YouTube channel has gone viral by exploring how visual storytelling could help disaster preparedness. Temblor Earth News talks to the creator of these videos of potential destruction. ⚒️ temblor.net/earthquake-i...

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AOC: Mayor Adams.. the only permissible way to refuse to answer a question during a congressional proceeding is by pleading the fifth amendment. Is it your intention to plead the fifth?

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Now to convince people on the flights I want to take...

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HGTV: How can we make all these unique, old, and sometimes dirty houses look the same?

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The Tinkerbell effect. CLAP BACK HARDER MOFOS

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Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is the story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

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in california they let dogs play basketball. teams of nothing but golden retrievers. they're pushing the human children out of sports because the rulebook doesn't explicitly say they can't play.

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Heartbroken to share my father-in-law's obituary. My mother-in-law has been in the hospital fighting cancer for the last several months which just compounds the feelings. We miss him greatly. www.roperandsons.com/obit/wayne-w...

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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Vance goes on to spout Russian talking points to President country who was invaded by Russia. Zelenskyy is not the one disrespecting the Oval Office here.

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I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

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A fun thing to do with this supposed Napoleon quote is to do a google search to see what forums it appeared on with this exact wording before 2022. I'm no computer whiz, so maybe I messed up, but the only hits I got were these two...for Stormfront, a neo-Nazi forum.

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Man, you make one trip to Omaha and end up in the news huh www.forbes.com/sites/amanda...

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minor in the scheme of things but wow who could have guessed that a guy who was one of the smarmiest and most sanctimonious people in the senate was also corrupt www.alligator.org/article/2025...

submitted 33 days ago • 308 comments

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

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Elon has a really good track record of vetting people, right? Definitely no foreign agents in the mix, right?

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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

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An unelected billionaire, with no actual Congressional authority or govt experience, has access to Treasury payment systems and sensitive information about millions of Americans who receive Social Security checks, tax refunds, and other payments. What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 36 days ago • 433 comments

The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.”

submitted 36 days ago • 48 comments

20 January 1905 | A Czech Jewish woman, Herta Melzerová, was born in Pilsen. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 October 1942. She did not survive.

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❄️🦌 Enter a winter wonderland with Sierra On-Line's "A Computer Christmas" (1986). 🎄💾 This charming vintage software showcases early PC graphics & underscores the importance of preserving our digital history. Enjoy the full classic. ➡️ archive.org/details/sier... #preservation

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Brief thread on how we got here: Since the GOP won control of the House 2 years ago they have not passed a single appropriations package into law. Government has operated at funding levels set by Dems 2 years ago via continuing resolutions every few months. This is not normal.

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My cartoon in this week’s issue of The New Yorker. Huge thanks to all my middle school and high school math teachers for inspiring this cartoon by wasting years of my life.

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Storytime. In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.

submitted 92 days ago • 103 comments

Sick.

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Happy #POE2 day to all who celebrate

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Well, sorry I jinxed it. Here's a work-in-progress Feed for #Huskers stuff: bsky.app/profile/jord...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Not to jinx it, but the #huskers might become a 7-win team for the first time since 2016. (But really I'm just testing a custom feed I'm making)