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"You Name It", says MapQuest. Here's mine.

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It just occurred to me that if I change my preferences in Wikipedia to include my time zone, edit history pages will use it and the age of edits -- particularly if they're today's edits -- will be much more readily apparent. I mean that should be obvious, but who besides dedicated Wikipedia […]

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

In other news, billionaire technology wizard doesn't know a ridiculously obvious enhancement artifact when he sees one. Think about the fact that there are people who want a man this stupid to put chips in their brains […]

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I just learned that Canada owns about $350bn of U.S. debt. Everybody sing it now: Owe Canada! We stand in debt to thee...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. [via @adzebill.bsky […]

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Apparently the swift, direct, modern, and well-appointed train service that currently exists between these two cities has the defect of not dumping enough carbon into the atmosphere, eh? https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1409644/from-brussels-to-bordeaux-new-flight-connection-to-launch-in-march

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

So for those of us trying to keep up, it's now fine to do a Nazi salute while white, but it's still not okay to go down on one knee while black, right?

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The Map Room blog, on the Gulf of Mexico. Short version: the name predates the United States by centuries, and goes just about back to the time when the term "America", meaning the entire Western hemisphere supercontinent, was coined in the first place […]

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Over on BSky I've started blocking anyone who replies with "Actually [thing I just made up]". It's remarkably satisfying.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Mexico to rename the Western United States to "Occupied Mexico"

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Just watched the 2013 film "Coherence". Easily one of the best "soft" #SciFi screen works I've ever seen; like a long-form, really superior episode of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits or Black Mirror. Also, very impressive use of no budget whatsoever. Somehow it ends up being a strength of […]

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Y'know, if Greenland wanted to, they could try driving a really hard bargain. They say, "okay, but we get to define 16 states within our shores, and therefore get 32 US Senators." At a stroke they'd become incredibly powerful on the world stage.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I guess it works like this: if I go around saying "Costco is giving away free TVs today" and Costco says to people who show up expecting one, "no, we're not", Costco is censoring me.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Number of migrants Ron De Santis has picked up at the Texas border and flown to Martha's Vineyard: around 50. Number of firefighters Ron De Santis has sent to California: 0

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Wikipedia's figures suggest that Mexico has around 100km more Gulf coastline than the US does. But I suspect that depends on how fractal you want to get around Louisiana; measuring coastline is tricky that way.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Well, that's done and dusted. The man in charge of the world's most powerful military may not legally possess, receive or transfer a firearm.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

https://www.memedroid.com/memes/detail/4394638/repost-probably

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

When someone continues to go on about something despite you giving no indication of sharing their outrage, never say "how about I just give you my proxy, so you can care about it twice as hard for both of us?" On account of it smarts, if their reaction the dozen or so times I've done it so far […]

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

This, from bluesky. Aaaack.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Alternatively, how about the Gulf of Texaco? Or for strong historical reasons, the Gulf of Shell? Ooo, I know, the Gulf of Gulf!

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

If anyone were in charge of Canada right now, he or she should probably suggest that the U.S. be renamed to "The United States of Central North America"

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments