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It’s so easy that China hasn’t been able to do it for nearly 3 decades

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Short term, I shoot myself in the foot. Long term, it's good news. I learn to walk without the foot. I do a three-legged hop, a tarantulan creep. Babadook-like movements. People will ask "why do you do this?" and I will say "it's important I blow my foot off for no reason." They respect this.

submitted 3 days ago • 473 comments

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

submitted 3 days ago • 993 comments

Watching a recorded church service from a local Progressive Christian church. Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is mentioned. I am laughing. I can’t escape this.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

delusional. he’s 2 years old tops.

submitted 6 days ago • 222 comments

The main reason UK electricity prices are so high isn’t net zero but the fact that gas sets the price 98% of the time.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Some belting quotes in here

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Tim Cook once again proving himself as the greatest political operator of our times. I reckon he could set up a supply chain in Hades www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The saddest looking person you know just made a goofy point.

submitted 12 days ago • 123 comments

One of the best things I've read on tariffs: "For the past week reporters and pundits have warned us that the president’s economic policy does not make sense. The only prospect more frightening would be that it does.":

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Huge and mental scoop from @willdunn.bsky.social. ‘Australian media advertises the fact that a UK state pension worth “thousands of dollars” can be bought cheaply by Australians who live in Australia: “It almost sounds like a scam – too good to be true,” it observes.’

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The king has spoken

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

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submitted 13 days ago • 297 comments

Americans are currently hearing more 'bad news' about the economy than at any time on record

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy, not only for non-citizens but for Americans as well. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data:

submitted 14 days ago • 87 comments

This is, surely, a war crime (among many others) "An airstrike on a media tent in Gaza has reportedly killed two journalists & injured seven more, as well as dozens of non-journalists. The IDF said it was targeting a photographer who was with Hamas on October 7" (Committee to Protect Journalists)

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 16 days ago • 845 comments

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

submitted 15 days ago • 1291 comments

my offer to america: we bring woke back

submitted 15 days ago • 316 comments

In other news, I just bought a bottle of scotch from myself for one quadrillion dollars. By the end of the night I’ll probably only be a billionaire though. on.ft.com/41OQ2rw

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Intently trying to work through a theory of how Covid punctured the Climate Movement. I'm not sure how yet, I've just got a sense that it did; and it turns out the data backs me up. Big levellings-off for a range of climate terms on Google Ngram post-2019: (CC @climatewords.bsky.social)

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

A yes, my favourite part of the 1940s: the 1950s

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

the left wing in Britain basically thinks debt doesn't exist and isn't a problem. It's not like Clive Lewis is saying 'we should do a land tax rather than welfare cuts to curtail our huge debt payments'. he's saying 'just forget the huge debt payments don't exist'. but they do

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely goated notification from @theatlantic.com

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

A government so preoccupied with why it won that it hasn't thought at all about why Sunak lost:

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

Think this piece on hippy punching from last year still stands up www.economist.com/britain/2024...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

There has never been a better time for Rage Against The Machine to come back with a new album that seems tepid compared to their original work and gets a 5.6 from Pitchfork

submitted 37 days ago • 67 comments

When UBS bought its rival Credit Suisse in 2023, it got roughly a half of a trillion dollars in assets as well as customers and offices around the world. It also took on a fleet of model ships and more than 13,500 artworks.

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.

submitted 37 days ago • 171 comments

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

submitted 38 days ago • 1398 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 38 days ago • 765 comments

I've asked ChatGPT to cite its sources and it's just given me blank bullet points and said it has cited specific sources but can't tell me what they are??? This some childish-ass withholding of information man

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This is great and the photos really make it. Hat tip to photographer Alberto Bernasconi. Follow a gold bar as it makes its way from London to NY via Switzerland. www.ft.com/content/2289...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Another @louisashworth.bsky.social classic: www.ft.com/content/d6c3...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Tired: everything is romantic Wired: everything is computer

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

little land grab here little land grab there this is not normal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... / www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

My saga continues – I've been put on hold by my case handler for 20 minutes because he's so desperately useless ... it's a little bit adorable

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

sigh time to break this one out again, huh

submitted 52 days ago • 32 comments

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

submitted 52 days ago • 3299 comments

If you missed today's newsletter, in which I said 'look, come on, we really do need to be increasing spending back to 1966 to 1990 levels and it's mad to think you can get political consent for that without increasing spending elsewhere', don't worry: I will be saying it for most of the year I think

submitted 64 days ago • 18 comments

Why is this person who is usually so swift to reply not replying to me, I ask as I uncover my email in draft folder

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 64 days ago • 750 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 64 days ago • 598 comments

every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

submitted 68 days ago • 216 comments

Between all the utterly mental and terrible things sometimes he just says something so mental it’s uncommonly sane. Here we have it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments