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I'm alive, but it's not happy about that.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Scotland could expect to separate from the UK and become an EU member within seven years (or less) of its Declaration of Independence. Here's a description of how. If you like this sort of analysis please do subscribe and share my substack. It's free. #RejoinEU open.substack.com/pub/yesinpic...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

This is why disabled people have been begging you to mask up for years. This is why we’ve said that mask bans pose a threat to our survival. This is why we don’t want folks to say ICE agents are “wearing masks”. Society is being conditioned to see masking as “bad”. It will kill us.

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

This would go some way to explaining the $3,600 a month on candles

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments

The Wikipedia page for Foundation characters is an absolute mess. The intro section is over-long and recaps the plot. TV series characters clearly based on book characters are listed as "Introduced in the TV Series". It also seems to take a lot of opinions from just two Gizmodo articles.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Dungeons & Dragons Bluesky is great an full of original art and some of the biggest names in the hobby. Woodworking Bluesky is still a little empty. Ocean Science Bluesky is more active and vibrant than post-2012 Ocean Science Twitter.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily

submitted 3 days ago • 270 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 3 days ago • 595 comments

Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).

submitted 4 days ago • 215 comments

The Southern Baptist Convention — the scriptwriters for MAGA's Christian Nationalist agenda — have just passed resolutions demanding the overturn of marriage equality, a ban on Plan B and the outright criminalization of adult content. In case you want a preview of the coming legislative session...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

It feels like more prominent figures should be pointing out that these people actively want us all to live much shorter, poorer, more brutal lives.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

I am furious — incandescently furious — over the attacks on science by Trump and his regime, especially the actions of RFK Jr., which, as history has plainly show us, result in deaths upon deaths. You want the receipts? I've got the receipts. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/standing-u... 🧪

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Seeing what's going doen in LA, seeing him test the waters with US troops, and having realized a decade ago, that if any sort of violent insurrection, revolution or civil war happens here I'm not surviving to the other end, I just wanted to get that out now, while I still can.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Derogatory slurs or misinformation can be considered to be in the public interest?

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Punchy, ice breathing, pengu hippo dragon! #sauroarts #art #artwork #artph #fingerart #fingerartist #digitalart #digitalartist #oc #ocsky #ocart #dragon #dragonart #mephyra #darakilachroniclesofmephyra

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Two babies have died from whooping cough in Kentucky. Neither they nor their parents had been vaccinated. The current whooping cough outbreak in the U.S. hasn’t grabbed the media spotlight as much as measles has, but it’s important to update your vaccination if you’re going to be around babies.

submitted 7 days ago • 205 comments

Look at the footage. It was intentional; and he knew it was a reporter; he shot her point blank; which is a crime. Cops.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Notable clip today👇 in light of the news that the Trump administration successfully pressured ABC into suspending Moran

submitted 6 days ago • 426 comments

assortment of brown dwarfs at various stages of cooling (explanation in the alt text) #art #b3d

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

"If you got arrested then you weren't protesting peacefully" is a lie. Stop spreading it.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

THIS IS AMAZING! Researchers have made a SIGNIFICANT breakthrough in the quest for an HIV cure. By developing a method that enables the delivery of an mRNA-based therapy to make the virus VISIBLE WITHIN white blood cells, this approach paves the way to FULLY CLEAR the virus from the body. 🧪🧵⬇️