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Stephen King 👑

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Look what Liutauras found yesterday - one of the Lego life rafts lost overboard from the Tokio Express 28 years ago. In 1997, 28,700 of these fell into the ocean 20 miles off Land’s End but few have been found. Many thanks to Liutauras and his family for giving us permission to share their video.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

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CISA controls the .gov domain registrar and the national public key infrastructure (PKI). This means Elon Musk has the ability to shut down any federal, state, or city government using a .gov domain. Musk can also now prevent .gov agencies and officials from registering their .gov BlueSky handles

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

The US State Department is forcing all of its employees to cancel subscriptions to any Trump-unfriendly media.

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America abandoned Europe in its darkest days, and only Pearl Harbour spurred it to take on Fascism Russia has none of the economic nor military might of Nazi Germany. We will survive along with Ukraine. And its occupied territories will be liberated. This is us in 1940

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Churchill reminds us of Munich’s mistake—big powers deciding over smaller ones.

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Denmark MP Rasmus Jarlov: "[US] has taken no casualties in Ukraine ... paid 4% of US defence budget for one year and that was too much for them ... they will surrender to Russia. We can not trust such spineless people ... If Russia invaded Poland tomorrow, they would make excuses and do nothing."

submitted 4 days ago • 363 comments

A new documentary about ‘Maus’ author and cartoonist Art Spiegelman reveals his influences — in both his parents' survival of the Shoah and 'MAD' magazine — and what keeps him up at night.

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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It's barely been three weeks and the government doesn't really exist anymore in a clear structure of regulations, laws and enforcement way.

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What do we do when working within the system no longer works? This is the great and for many, unaskable, question looming above Washington on this dark, cold February night. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

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Today, on behalf of 27 Jewish and Christian denominations and associations, ICAP challenged DHS’s rescission of the “sensitive locations” policy, which had limited federal immigration enforcement action in places of worship for over 30 years. Press release: www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...

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Man who lost bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill

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The Mill was a small NYC Korean restaurant two blocks from Columbia University. It closed in August 2021. For more than 60 years it quietly stood for the best of the United States. If I had to guess, I would say very very very few people know this story. Thinking about the Mill this week. 🧵

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i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

submitted 17 days ago • 48 comments

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

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We show up when our representatives do the same. It’s the very least, the minimum that is being asked of you. Speak! Show up!

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Little earthquake just now!

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The Trees of Jas de Bouffan, 1876 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11894/

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

André Derain, Poplars, c. 1900 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134897

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The Diplomat is still a ton of fun and a fantastic Keri Russell showcase. But at only six episodes, s2 is much too short. Some thoughts:

submitted 114 days ago • 9 comments

Most of the headline-grabbing copyright battles over the past few years have been over AI. But the Internet Archive is fighting its own war over copyright—and it's in grave danger. www.wired.com/story/intern...

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Maggie Smith 💜

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It's almost 27 years since nearly five million pieces of Lego plummeted into the ocean. These are some of the elements to look out for. In all, 100 different types of brick or element fell overboard. There's a more comprehensive list in our book.

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