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Math is hard

submitted 5 days ago • 2027 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 5 days ago • 1195 comments

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

submitted 5 days ago • 617 comments

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show. But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

submitted 8 days ago • 763 comments

This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬

submitted 9 days ago • 73 comments

The US is going to push itself to the brink of destruction, if not right over the cliff.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

In addition to being civic degenerates these people are in every case infantile, sloppy and incompetent. Grand flourishes of performative cruelty followed by entitled pleas of "I don't know how to do this. Can you help?"

submitted 9 days ago • 103 comments

For all their talk of making america great, they really hate this country

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

submitted 11 days ago • 230 comments

One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment. I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face. And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

submitted 16 days ago • 91 comments

they are going to do the tariffs and fly the country’s economy into the side of a mountain

submitted 53 days ago • 246 comments

Bertrand Russell wrote this over 100 years ago, in 1923. Hasn't aged a day.

submitted 54 days ago • 178 comments

This comic gets shared every year with the date changed. It is by Brazilian cartoonist Glauco Villas Boas (1957-2010).

submitted 54 days ago • 38 comments

Wikipedia is the last good website, the one staple of the early internet that hasn't been degraded by pursuit of profit. It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources. We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.

submitted 58 days ago • 25 comments

find it genuinely delighting that people with enough money to never work again (and do literally anything they want anywhere in the world at any time) seemingly have nothing going on in their lives and are so miserable they are just spending the holidays frantically posting

submitted 58 days ago • 149 comments

I’m giving away some of my unplayed games to increase my presence on Bluesky. Repost with a holiday comment and I’ll choose a random winner from all reposts on the 25th, 27th, 29th, and 31st of December. Free shipping in US only. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

submitted 61 days ago • 88 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus just sounded off on Trump. "So yes, they are our neighbors, but we've stood up to them. We're in a different situation with Trump, a convicted predator, who's seriously undermining the democratic process in the US. And he thinks he can just push us around. He insults us."

submitted 74 days ago • 731 comments

I did my first "Sounds interesting, let's touch base after the holidays" today, and it felt great. Did not specify that I meant Easter. They'll figure it out.

submitted 76 days ago • 89 comments

submitted 80 days ago • 121 comments

“A moment which, for many, feels so overwhelming, is a great moment to remember that some of the most meaningful acts of resistance are actions that can, in practice, look more like workplace procrastination than like outright battle.” thecycle.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

submitted 82 days ago • 41 comments

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

submitted 82 days ago • 848 comments

despite the world becoming scary i still have a perhaps niave but unwaivering belief that a better world is possible

submitted 95 days ago • 817 comments

Blue sky is Twitter but we're all worried about our knees, @paulisci.bsky.social and @rasterweb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy ?

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment