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A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad: 1. The Swimming Pool.

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

submitted 5 hours ago • 125 comments

I do not want your app. I do not want to register. I do not want your newsletter. And, from the bottom of my heart, I do not want your notifications. Please just let me buy what I need without entering into a long-term relationship with you, you freaky fucks.

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

Can’t do a trade deal with these bastards.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

New post just out: A guest post from Greg Treverton, Chair of the U.S. National Intelligence Council from 2014 to 2017 under President Obama. On US intelligence - and the "five eyes" relationship - in the age of Trump. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Be still, and know that I am cool

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

A vacancy has recently opened up at the Big Green Bookshop for a new customer. The ideal candidate will have a regular urge to buy lots of amazing books. Please email [email protected] with a list of books you'd like to buy. The position is available straight away.

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

Looking for whims of affection is not a trade policy.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

If you've never watched the tide rise for yourself, it might be difficult to imagine just how quickly the sea moves...

submitted 16 hours ago • 27 comments

Trump is playing it by the book. Don’t let him finish it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Thank you, Jim @stonekettle.bsky.social

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1017 comments

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

submitted 13 hours ago • 98 comments

This is sadly the logical conclusion of the argument they are making.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

NEW: The Supreme Court is creating a due process gap through the redistribution of rights. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-suprem...

submitted 9 hours ago • 77 comments

I don't know much about Yglesias except lots of people on here hate him but his thread in this QT is obviously a joke? Even without the context of the first post in the thread (see screenshot):

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

Lettuce now praise fascist men

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Of course I'm rooting for the bats

submitted 76 days ago • 27 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

Even in the darkest moments, you can count on someone on social media to pull out a classic like "oh, so you hate waffles?"

submitted 19 hours ago • 34 comments

Today, Trump with Bukele, Oval Office: They love you. They love what you do. I want'em to do yeah home grown criminals next. [Louder] I said home growns are next. The home growns. You gotta build about 5 more places. [laughter] It's not big enough. link: x.com/nayibbukele/...

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 21 hours ago • 641 comments

I really feel that among all the other norms currently being violated in the US, one that really could stand a little light violating is the norm that former US presidents keep their mouths shut on what the incumbent is doing.

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

When he says “home-growns”, he’s talking about US citizens. He wants Bukeke to build more torture prisons in El Salvador for Americans. Not me saying it, Trump saying it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 20 hours ago • 280 comments

“The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” - US Constitution Article II, Section 4 IMPEACH

submitted 21 hours ago • 16 comments

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

submitted 21 hours ago • 34 comments

one of the clearest signs that Trump is a dictator is what he's done to the oval office

submitted 21 hours ago • 25 comments

📷142,875! That’s the amount of wet wipes we have collected with the help of our volunteers from the Thames foreshore since 2017.🧵⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

finding this stick has been the highlight of my year

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments