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“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. … We want to put them in trauma.” –Russell Vought, Trump’s director of OMB, speaking in 2023 Evil people.

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The 2018 Kīlauea eruption triggered a large phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific. Nutrients released from lava flows fertilized the nutrient-poor ocean waters, demonstrating a direct link between volcanic activity and marine ecosystem response. 🧪 #Kilauea #Phytoplankton #OceanScience

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Lutnick will have torched his and Cantor's credibility in the struggle to remain Trump's consigliere only to get sacked as a scapegoat anyway because he isn't batshit insane enough after all to survive MAGA court politics

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Male Red-headed Barbet, a master of subtlety and camouflage. La Minga Ecolodge #Colombia #birds #nature 🌿

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Bluesky does have kind of an issue where unbalanced people will go “that is NOT funny, how DARE you” at anything outside of an extremely narrow orthodoxy that exists mainly in their head but thing is in 2025 those people command no divisions whatsoever, you can totally ignore them to no consequence

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Something that both older Disney movies and Ghibli are good at is kids that actually move like kids.

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a fun James fact is that I was friends with Liz Bruenig's supervisor at Cambridge, a wonderful man who also existed within a series of theological and political venn diagrams in which he was basically the only person in the center, but at least he knew that.

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For fans of the purplest of prose, I present to thee - www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap....

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One of Prince's prior transportation contracts murdered - through stunning and multilayered incompetence - three members of the unit my wife was serving with, including the CO.

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Many such cases: “Kids used to be raised by extended family networks!” “Would you want to live next to your extended family and also help raise their kids?” “Lol fuck no” “People need to live closer to the land!” “Would you like to work on a substance farm?” “Lol fuck no”

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i uh. don't think the canadian conservative sphere is capable of recognizing objective conditions at this point

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I found the most incredible graph on the other site

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Apropos of nothing, I very much enjoy the fact that the guitarist widely regarded by the pantheon of guitar gods itself as the greatest ever to do it, Allan Holdsworth, looks not like a stage-bestriding colossus but the bloke from the brewery who's come to service the beer lines.

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someone reminded me of this old column I wrote a few years ago and oh for fuck's sake that's the song at the back of my brain sorted for the next few months, again www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023...

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“Bluesky is too much of an echo chamber” have you spent five minutes in a political discussion here

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The argument that Putin is a protector of Christianity becomes moot when faced with his repeated attack on Christians. In Syria, Putin bombed Christian neighborhoods repeatedly and in Ukraine he strikes cities on Christian holidays showing his disdain to a faith he claims to defend.

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What if there was an opposition party that just said "If you give us a majority in congress we'll remove these freaks and criminals from power"

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Maybe it's slightly beyond living memory for Millennials/Z but I urge people to talk to an old person in the 60s/70s who worked in a factory or at least read or watch stuff about conditions. There's good reason why there was massive labour unrest & a push for the expansion of education in the 70s.

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Remember when a Cabinet secretary would say something and you could just assume it reflected the unified thinking of an administration and not merely one tiny part of a six-sided screaming match?

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On day 3 of the onslaught, Zamzam IDP Camp is now under RSF control. Mass exodus of civilians from the camp, and mass killings of those trying to escape. The screenshot below is from the Sudanese American Physicians Association, the last message from their team on the ground. #KeepEyesOnSudan

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The American tendency to react with seething rage and jealousy to upper-level workers and managers and then treat the Big Boss with fawning adoration and sycophancy is extremely Psychological.

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Biggest wins by runs in County Championship 504 Yorkshire v Worcestershire at Leeds 2025 TODAY 483 Surrey v Leicestershire at The Oval 2002 470 Sussex v Gloucestershire at Hove 1913 470 Hampshire v Essex at Southampton 2014 462 Nottinghamshire v Durham at Nottingham 2022 #CountyChampionship

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I am not sure that I have ever seen a post that so fundamentally misunderstands the motivations and skill set of federal employees. Set aside the meaning of "productivity." The federal employees that the Trump administration has sought to remove are not going into manufacturing.

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I've said this a million times at this point: I've worked in extremely "woke" social justice spaces my entire adult life and this simply didn't happen.

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Swapsies.

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There's a book called "Mothers of the Disappeared" about people being disappeared in Argentina. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read it. www.amazon.com/Mothers-Disa...

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steve buscemi in famous works of art: thread

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Throttling imports of medicines, ingredients needed to make medicines and machinery needed to make medicines before you have expanded your own production capacity for medicines means you end up with whacking great shortages of medicines

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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

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You cannot simultaneously do “industrial policy” while gutting state capacity.

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I know that the comparison is a bit fraught to discuss but “decadent elites with government jobs need to learn to mine” is more or less indistinguishable from Down To The Countryside shit from the Cultural Revolution

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They definitely voted for this

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happy ten year anniversary to this post

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musk's post genuinely only makes sense if you adhere to jesse watters's theory that using a computer for your job will make you a lady

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