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The Oregon Trail generation speaks

submitted 10 days ago • 162 comments

This is so good.

submitted 19 days ago • 626 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 2271 comments

(Support me by subscribing/donating) Ontario Federal Polling: LPC: 43% (+4) CPC: 39% (+4) NDP: 9% (-9) GPC: 4% (+2) PPC: 2% (-4) Others: 3% Mainstreet / Feb 3, 2025 / n=1200 / Online (% Change With 2021 Federal Election) Check out federal details on @338canada.bsky.social at: 338canada.com

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

submitted 20 days ago • 201 comments

Via Mastodon #USpol

submitted 20 days ago • 271 comments

LMAO

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

Tariffs are bad.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The "great" thing about making a post like this is it brings out not only the usual trolls and chuds but also the sort of fartwallow who is all, "watch me slip the word in by using a reasonable tone" and then they're blocked because WHAT PART OF DON'T USE THAT WORD IN MY COMMENTS DON'T YOU GET

submitted 20 days ago • 69 comments

Ontario - "Did what you read, see or hear in the last few days leave you feeling (X) towards each leader and party?" Net Favourable Impression Based On Recent News: Stiles/NDP: +30% Crombie/Liberals: +3% Ford/PCs: +3% Innovative / Jan 31, 2025 / Online

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

unfortunately for these folks the odds are that they aren’t going to go after violent criminals at all — too hard — and going to go exclusively over the easiest targets, which are law abiding workers

submitted 21 days ago • 797 comments

The fact that the richest man in the world has these programs in his sights doesn't go over my head. That was to be expected.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

submitted 20 days ago • 1571 comments

Something I wrote elsewhere but is relevant here, as we start this first full week of February 2025:

submitted 20 days ago • 111 comments

A thread of when Canada and the United States worked together and celebrated as friends. Canadian soldiers with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry talk with American soldiers from the Second US Armored Division in France on Aug. 27, 1944. 📸LAC 3397189 🧵1/20

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

A day after signing steep new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, President Trump acknowledged what economists, members of Congress and even some of his own aides – in their previous lives – have been saying: Americans may find themselves paying the costs.

submitted 21 days ago • 348 comments

😔

submitted 27 days ago • 727 comments

This can't be real

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk: "race mixing is bad. Italy for Italians!" woman next to him moves as far away as possible

submitted 28 days ago • 1507 comments

Alt title: Why malignant narcissists are horrible at leadership and fuck shit up in the worse possible way.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

suspending CEQA for to rebuild LA but making the only legal use for any parcel of land either "single family house" or "parking lot" is the end game of california brain

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Joe Rogan’s theory of politics being “I’m just a little podcast man who just asks questions” is starting to ring hollow even for some folks in his audience.

submitted 29 days ago • 840 comments

Do you enjoy The Hardy Boys books? Well, 19 of the first 25 books were ghostwritten by Canadian Leslie McFarlane. He received $85-$100 for each one he wrote. Not only that, he also directed an Oscar nominated film and his son is a HNIC legend. Let's learn more :) 🧵1/14

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

Fuck Gibson. Fuck Stallone. Fuck Voight. Go off, Arnie!

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

By expressly pushing for the forcible transfer of population from territory subject to International Criminal Court jurisdiction, Trump opens himself up to liability under Rome Statute Article 25(3)(c) prohibiting aiding, abetting or assisting the commission (or attempt) of a crime against humanity.

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

Crown shyness is a phenomenon where trees' uppermost branches avoid touching, forming natural negative space

submitted 29 days ago • 67 comments

nazi speaks at nazi rally columnists, pundits, journalists: this is so cryptic.

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

Welcome Back. 🐕

submitted 30 days ago • 171 comments

Here I am, a factory worker enjoying his lunch in the North End of Boston on January 15, 1919. I’ve survived the influenza pandemic, I’m feeling good about life, and I’ve never been more confident I will not be swallowed up by a flood of liquid sugarcane extract

submitted 30 days ago • 78 comments

On this day in 1978, the nuclear-powered Kosmos 954 satellite broke up over the Northwest Territories. It spread radioactive debris across 600 kilometres and led to Operation Morning Light to clean up all the pieces of the satellite. 🧵1/12

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

On his orders, his henchmen murdered my former colleague and chopped up his body with a bone saw.

submitted 31 days ago • 500 comments

I think it’s really important we identify the companies that are doing the right thing and reward them with our business.

submitted 30 days ago • 669 comments

As a reminder, I recently translated and published my late lovely grandmother's memoirs of what it was like to live during the WWII fascist occupation of France. The third part is still missing (the end of the war, but there are already from 1939 to 1943). Part I: www.patreon.com/posts/memori...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Today I am giving a seminar at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center about my research on the causes and consequences of shark conservation misinformation. Yes, I’m available to give a seminar at your institution! 🦑🌎🧪🐠🦈 #SciComm

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

Some #warhammer40k painting I've done this month.

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@wtyppod.bsky.social does this count for the bet?

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

They took away affirmative action, DEI, the equal employment opportunity act, and told you it’s to center merit. Some of you actually believe you’ll finally be able to prove your worth without these things. Newsflash: it was never about merit, they just don’t want you in their spaces lol

submitted 31 days ago • 452 comments

I believe the general internet tradition on these kinds of things is well known. techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/m...

submitted 31 days ago • 153 comments

Bleak. I'm sorry to refer to Orwell like any terminally online idiot (which I am), but it reminds me: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” NASA should be so much better than that. This is a major blow to its legacy.

submitted 31 days ago • 112 comments

Veterans are DEI hires. They can be purged from government positions along with others under the president’s EO.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

One way that you can tell a shark scientist from a non-expert enthusiast in online discussions is that the non-expert enthusiasts will say things like "Look at that Galeocerdo cuvier! " and professional shark scientists will say "that stripey boi is chonky!"

submitted 32 days ago • 31 comments

The Handy Boy (1994)

submitted 32 days ago • 88 comments

[Žižek voice] And what is it the hippos were hungry for? The empty, white sphere of fantasy, onto which they—and the children who controlled them—could project their desire. Once captured, each hippo releases this desire, unconsumed, into a pen to contain it, before beginning the search for more.

submitted 32 days ago • 39 comments

While French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia, born on this day in 1879, is best known for his affiliation with Dada, I am (characteristically!) drawn to his animal portraits. First up, his painted portrait of Gertrude Stein's pet poodle, Basket

submitted 32 days ago • 81 comments