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submitted 5 hours ago • 57 comments

We went through this with zoning, and now we're going through it with building code: trillion dollar industries depend on these things, yet a bunch of precocious bloggers can swoop in and expose these institutions as full of pseudoscience. Does nobody do their job? @aarmlovi.bsky.social

submitted 4 hours ago • 16 comments

Fun cold war era HO scale kit. I wish there was a finer scale version of this out there today. The rotating radar makes it extra fun.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

The accuracy of the political cartoons recently is incredibly painful.

submitted 9 hours ago • 144 comments

Long-range Ukrainian drone attack reported overnight against the Bashneft refinery in Ufa, Russia - more than 1300 from the border. Russia is claiming this was a "technical issue"

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

Can someone PLEASE hire me to build them a futuristic layout? (with recognizable elements from the past included for realism) Come on all you well paid Bay Area #Furries & #tech , I'm available to build you cool layouts you never thought possible! interurbanera.com/hire-me/

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

"The net worth of the top 20% of earners has risen by more than $35 trillion, or 45%, since the end of 2019... an increase of $14 trillion for the bottom 80%." It's about destroying the lives of Americans to channel more of the nation's treasure to its richest citizens. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

With Open Source/Free Software as well as Creative Commons we have build pipelines to contribute to the commons (great!) but we never thought about how to defend those commons against appropriation.

submitted 55 minutes ago • 2 comments

It's a style of architectural aesthetic, based on celebration of cast-in-place concrete. The name comes from French "béton brut", or "raw concrete"

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submitted 6 hours ago • 29 comments

AP headline about “No Other Land” winning an Oscar VS Politico headline for the very same AP story about “No Other Land” Absolutely shameful

submitted 5 hours ago • 36 comments

This same sitting GOP senator voted to confirm accused Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence.

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-hundreds-of-millions dollar contracts at fed and state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that repeatedly delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

submitted 15 hours ago • 50 comments

Never let them feel welcome in public. Use your voice, it’s legal.

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

Walking & biking for transportation means I can pause to notice and appreciate cute doggie prints on the sidewalk. 🐾

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Brandon Johnson is a really cool guy, it’s a shame he’s not suited for mayor

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submitted 12 hours ago • 206 comments

I’m pretty sure this is what voters want from their elected officials www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 522 comments

yeah we basically have lacked elite accountability across the board

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

back at my favorite place in St Louis, the combination Amalgamated Transit Union Hall/Beer Garden

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I was trying to teach Orin a lesson about the world today and I asked, “what percent of earth’s land is our country.” And he stood there and thought for a second and said, “Like three percent?” And I was like, “well, pretty much yeah 😒.” He’s getting too old, I need new tricks.

submitted 15 hours ago • 71 comments

I know this isn't the point but emotions can be fuel and the older I get the more I think the idea that you shouldn't be "driven by your emotions" isn't just sexist but it deprives us of a very necessary power.

submitted 12 hours ago • 33 comments

The NYT asking with a straight face: “Why, after more than a decade of TV representation would transgender Americans be losing ground?” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

It is March 2, 2025. My plan was to leave the world on March 2, 2024. What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day. Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚

submitted 16 hours ago • 1166 comments

It's like watching a building about to collapse, but when you try and tell people inside to get out they tell you that the shaking they feel is actually the building getting taller

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

When you put it this way, it's a very interesting question!

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

submitted 17 hours ago • 179 comments

working on a planning thing

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

My prayer for all of us is that we can reach the level of guilelessness born of freedom that i had when i wrote the line "wanna put my tender heart in a blender" and not only did not crumple the paper and throw it in the trash but recorded it to tape

submitted 12 hours ago • 128 comments

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

submitted 16 hours ago • 537 comments

In the last light of the day, 50008 'Thunderer' departs Peterborough with 43312, 43238, 43319, and carriage 10551 in tow on 5M43 Dereham UKF to Burton Ot Wetmore Sidings.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

This is basically Johnson's views on any topic where reality and data does not match with his beliefs. See also elections: thehill.com/policy/natio...

submitted 10 hours ago • 54 comments

My gf's 90-something year old great uncle is telling a very funny story about how he took a Too Strong Edible and spent the rest of the night walking around on all fours like a dog, and I figured he was talking about the 70's or something but come to find out this happened like five months ago

submitted 11 hours ago • 20 comments

So... what are we getting up to today? Sincerely, Dr. Crepes.

submitted 16 hours ago • 317 comments

I know everything is terrible, but one bright spot is that my teen was voted by their teachers this month as exemplifying as one of the school's core traits: Caring 🥰 At least something is going right.

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submitted 13 hours ago • 110 comments

New: Cuomo for Mayor website is live ag.ny.gov/CuomoIndepen...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

My brother worked for DoD back in the day writing software that would automatically steer submarines around mines underwater and I was looking at some of his old documents and found they named the one process Mary J. Bilge Pump and I was pretty proud

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

I was just on American flight 3083, for LaGuardia. As we touched ground, the plane suddenly sped up and climbed back up. The plane strained to quickly gain altitude. After something like five harrowing minutes, the pilot finally announced, “there was a plane in the ground that was too close to us.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 196 comments

He’s such a dicktator.

submitted 14 hours ago • 569 comments

He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.

submitted 20 hours ago • 973 comments

I've been beaten into a state of not caring how corny I sound. Kindness is love and love is the only thing that matters. Be kind to people. Also listen to CDs

submitted 13 hours ago • 71 comments

Notice how the king doesn’t mind the dress code

submitted 15 hours ago • 355 comments

One from yesterday's shunt shift at Maritime. 66503 "The Railway Magazine" approaches 66508 "City of Doncaster"

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submitted 13 hours ago • 753 comments

kitchen nightmares needs to expand to small business in general. Gordon Ramsay walks in and fucks around in a small accounting firm, a barber shop, a dentist's office, a model train store...