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Well said, Andrea Vance — again. #PayEquity ✊

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Movie you've seen more than 6 times using gifs.

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don’t compose your own emails but do grow your own wheat

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There are people replying to this with "grow your own food". I continue to assume that such people have not actually cooked or grown anything.

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

late to this v good thread, my brain is breaking from reviewing the post-GFC recession studies on how countries that did austerity worsened their recessions & depressed growth, compared with Willis' 'Growth' platform that is just austerity i mean how hard do they want to fail, why is government.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

I'm very interested in Grand Alliances these days: The idea that, underneath partisan politics, we actually have more values and interests in common than we have in conflict, and we need to take notice when those moments arise, and reevaluate where everybody stands.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

normal people are cringe and we need a whole lot of normal people to show up if we’re going to get out of this and the pussy hat brigade did better organizing during Trump’s first term than anyone else today was good and should be encouraging to everyone

submitted 43 days ago • 52 comments

If I remember correctly NZ's political right lost their collective fucking RAG when similar 'conflicts of interest' occurred with Māori ministers under the previous govt. www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

submitted 45 days ago • 9 comments

"Late-stage syphilis or generative AI?" is the 21st century's "lead poisoning or late-stage syphilis?".

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Ummmm, I made this joke because I assumed the Cones Hotline is a dumb April Fools joke. Is it... not?

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

You bragged that you fed an aid agency keeping millions of the world’s most vulnerable people alive “into the wood chipper” and you’re whinging about someone dunking on your stock price?

submitted 51 days ago • 73 comments

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

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We spent in the ballpark of half a billion to not get delivered ferries. We weren't thinking large enough, as for just 7 times (currency conversion) that we could have not gotten god.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

submitted 57 days ago • 190 comments

Reading this missive from 2023, today, is honestly pretty funny. www.act.org.nz/_25_million_...

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Ever think about how Facebook convinced all the news outlets to pivot to video and then it turned out they were juicing the metrics so it didn't actually work but by that point lots of the media had cut all the resources for text-based news and we're still dealing with the fallout from that now?

submitted 68 days ago • 22 comments

Oliver is bang to rights here. It's not about the surcharge so much as it is the fee merchants have to pay so the customer can use the card/mechanism they want. It's unfair to retailers and the card schemes should be forced to stop charging it.

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is the story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

submitted 75 days ago • 118 comments

This is a wonderful story from Te Ao with Moana. Not only the waka emerging from the Chatham Island sands – which may be the most import find in Polynesian archeology – but the people around it. Young Nikau is a bit of a star. Find 20 minutes to watch it today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cnt...

submitted 76 days ago • 8 comments

I agree with Parker here: a significant chunk (if not most) of the leopards-eating-faces stories we are seeing right now are better framed as "the mainstream media knowingly misled their readers/viewers by covering Trump's obviously false campaign statements as though he weren't a pathological liar

submitted 80 days ago • 32 comments

So, wait. For basically ever, men were earning way more than their female counterparts, and the messaging was that women were "too emotional" or whatever. And the second women start earning more than men, men completely lose their shit and it's a "crisis" "gripping" them? What a bunch of losers.

submitted 78 days ago • 96 comments

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

submitted 78 days ago • 133 comments

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

submitted 78 days ago • 423 comments

Those who remember the splendid Blood & Treasure blog will want to follow Jamie K.

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Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

submitted 79 days ago • 159 comments

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...