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Engineer. Musician. Wily Chaote. Full-Stack Acerbic Humanist. Bandcamp: https://thebellmechanical.bandcamp.com/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical Musings: https://nopeanutsinchurch.com/ Middle of Massachusetts.
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Remember when Biden tried to forgive some student loans based on a plausible statutory argument and people freaked out and thought it was dictatorship?

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Battle Chess. Electronic Arts, Interplay, 1988. #Commodore #Amiga

submitted 12 hours ago • 98 comments

GNSS Galileo 🧭 “The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” Galileo Galilei

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I tell my undergrads that my 20th c lecture course revolves around two big questions — what is America and who counts as American?

submitted 15 hours ago • 28 comments

"liberals won't talk about birthrates," bruenig says. "that's why you'll never see an actually good essay on the subject at a website called liberal currents" www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

Wishing a very Raymond Chandler Evening to Mr. @robynhitchcock.bsky.social.

submitted 10 hours ago • 33 comments

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

submitted 11 hours ago • 178 comments

Bill Maher can try and frame it any way he wants. He NORMALIZED a dangerous authoritarian. Period. Full stop.

submitted 16 hours ago • 395 comments

One thing that still blows my mind, even though nothing matters anymore, is that Zuck jerked off with Rogan for four hours or whatever and *never once* even mentioned the metaverse, even though five minutes ago it was so important he renamed the entire company after it! And nobody even noticed!

submitted 20 hours ago • 38 comments

Sad to learn Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst has been living w/ pancreatic cancer for 2 years. An extraordinary drummer and songwriter, he supercharged the Oils. Wishing him strength. theaustralian.com.au/nation/facing-death-midnight-oils-rob-hirst-wants-to-be-useful/audio/9404d82fc29c83e306e9d242c46336f4

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Become ungovernable #BecomeUngovernable

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

you'll never be rid of him

submitted 16 hours ago • 74 comments

Explore regenerative therapy for joints: activate endogenous repair instead of relying on exogenous cells. 100% promising! PMID:40045009, Nat Rev Rheumatol 2025, @NatRevRheumatol https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-025-01222-z #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk really is huffing some Khmer-Rouge-flavored shit right now.

submitted 12 hours ago • 31 comments

Elon Musk is literally proposing that the only way for liberals with professional-class jobs to survive should be “toiling in the mines.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1099 comments

Aristarchus, the brightest crater on the Moon visible from Earth. This is an amazing region, with lots of fascinating features and detail. Apart from Aristarchus the most conspicuous is the winding Scroters Valley, about 100 miles in total length. Image captured on the 10th April 🔭

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

It's so funny how they rant and rave against Marxists and what not, but man, do they sound like failed Soviet leaders. "You have been reassigned from hospital doctor to toaster maker. Please go to factory at 5 a.m. for shift."

submitted 12 hours ago • 39 comments

With all the chaos that’s going on around us, we needs some baby goats in our lives. Enjoy!

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

hello the real reason billionaires are pushing these weird pro-natalists is that they're Nazis and when they talk about "people not having enough kids" they only mean that for white people and they can't say that out loud

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

CAMP OF THE SAINTS?!?!

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

The U.S. White House is considering using the country's gold reserves to purchase Bitcoin, according to statements from White House officials. They also posted their token

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Gomez: It doesn't matter if you're young, old, or Gen X, Gen Z. We are now a new generation. We are the fuck around and find out generation. Gomez: Fuck around Crowd: Find out

submitted 15 hours ago • 149 comments

I gave the rottweiler who killed all of my friends' babies a big, juicy steak and I'm here to tell you that you're all being a little melodramatic about Murderer the Rottweiler.

submitted 15 hours ago • 312 comments

Big anniversary next week: “250 years ago, the Battle of Lexington and Concord would spark the American Revolution” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/12/m...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Really enjoyed the late season snow storm in Worcester Massachusetts.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump's EPA just moved to reverse state and local bans on toxic "forever chemicals" that can lead to birth defects and cancer.  So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals

submitted 16 hours ago • 264 comments

Tim Apple made the call

submitted 20 hours ago • 219 comments

What Dems need to be doing now is registering voters at the rallies and setting up mechanisms so those already registered have the documents they need to vote. Challenging the new law’s legality is also good.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Who has two thumbs and told everyone Bill Maher was garbage years ago?

submitted 16 hours ago • 948 comments

“Hush now, be still. Soon you shall be one of us.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 137 comments

Tech Guy: Birth rates are dropping. Humanity is in peril. There is only one solution Everyone: Free maternity care? Universal pre-k? Child tax credits? Tech Guy: I must personally impregnate as many people as possible

submitted 696 days ago • 15 comments

If an administration can get away with falsifying social security records to target individuals, then there is no bottom. There's also no such thing as a "citizen" because that can be changed with a couple button presses too. Mark your SSN and passport as dead then ship you to El Salvador.

submitted 19 hours ago • 17 comments

Not sure why she needed a full article when fourteen words would have sufficed

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

Even after today's China exemptions, the effective tariff rate on all goods coming into the US is still roughly TEN TIMES what it was before Trump came into office. Via Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics:

submitted 16 hours ago • 14 comments

Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?

submitted 17 hours ago • 1667 comments

9‑Year-Old Edward Hopper Draws a Picture on the Back of His 3rd Grade Report Card

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

So we’re gonna screw over the Etsy businesses but Apple gets exempted.

submitted 21 hours ago • 67 comments

I never realized there was a class of people for whom the History Channel version of WWII was “too complicated”

submitted 1 day ago • 145 comments

BTW don't overanalyze Maher prostituting himself to Trump Maher works for the same fascists at Warner Bros Discovery who took over and corrupted CNN I've known Bill since 1978. He was a shameless opportunist with no real principles then and he remains so This is so he can keep his HBO show

submitted 18 hours ago • 90 comments

This is happening in spite of the fact that the president is not in charge of the Smithsonian. It's not an executive branch government agency, rather it's chartered by Congress and under a board of regents created by statute, none of whom are even appointed by the president.

submitted 23 hours ago • 82 comments

Many doctors, especially Marty Makary promoted this myth regarding Covid. It’s all come full circle. Discussed in the 2nd part of this article. sciencebasedmedicine.org/well-have-he...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

“what would you have done?” is no longer a hypothetical thought exercise. if you’re not doing anything, there’s your answer.

submitted 19 hours ago • 18 comments

One thing I find frustrating is the learned helplessness of "why bother Republicans won't vote for it." OK, fine, those other people won't do the right thing. What's your excuse? The inherent implication of "but we don't have the votes" is congressional Dems should shut up and do nothing.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments