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Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 18 days ago • 3216 comments

Something the "so you think the law means anything now" doomers fail to grasp: the importance of buying time. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has infinite resources and infinite capacity for managing complexity. Make your opponent work. Make their every decision complex and their every move costly.

submitted 23 days ago • 127 comments

can you imagine if Alex Soros and a team of nameless progressive programmers locked themselves in the Treasury building and began rewriting code

submitted 23 days ago • 25 comments

People often ask where the megalithic construction elements at early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe come from and how people were able to transport them. So let‘s have a closer look. A thread🧵 #archaeology #göbeklitepe Photo: extraction pit for a large megalithic construction element

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Hey Laravel devs, here's a gem for you! 💎 Find routes quickly with the new --action option! Filter route:list by controller or method name. #Laravel

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I’m not sure people quite grasp how much of the crypto world is reacting to the Trump memecoin launches.

submitted 39 days ago • 446 comments

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submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

The election "was not just an event,” Machado told me. “It’s a process that has brought our country together. And regardless how many days it takes, Venezuela has changed forever and for the good" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 67 days ago • 30 comments

an hour ago, france connected its first nuclear reactor to the grid this century. construction was to take 56 months. timeline: • decision: 2004 • initial works: 2006 • reactor concrete: 2007 • grid connection: 2024 • commercial operation: 2025Q1 …20+ years end to end.

submitted 69 days ago • 80 comments

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

submitted 71 days ago • 90 comments

“My life as a homeless man in America” by Patrick Fealey in Esquire: www.esquire.com/news-politic...

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

Far-Left hammer and sickle guys support genocide in Syria, they are indistinguishable from far-right Zionists denying genocide in Palestine.

submitted 85 days ago • 45 comments

One of my favourite UI patterns is using `backdrop-filter` to create a “frosted glass” effect. When I see this effect in the wild, though, it’s almost never as lush and realistic as it could be. There’s an important optimization that nobody makes. ✨ I share the secret sauce in my brand-new post:

submitted 87 days ago • 47 comments

Some thoughts on this platform, that platform, and the things you carry with you. aaronfrancis.com/2024/reputat...

submitted 87 days ago • 31 comments

Russian Ruble collapsing youtu.be/SOEZwOflraI?...

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Why does nobody like the surf and turf turkey?

submitted 89 days ago • 1870 comments

This one never gets old 🏺 #archaeology

submitted 90 days ago • 8 comments

Pixel&Tonic have released a starter for Craft CMS intended to ease the pain of migration from WordPress to Craft. Specifically intended to work with the wp-import script, it mimics (kinda, but better) the stock WP content types and categories. #CraftCMS #WordPress craftcms.com/blog/introdu...

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

CSS for detecting device posture 🥼 @media (device-posture: folded) { h1 span:first-of-type { opacity: 0.25; } } some cool future opportunities 🤙

submitted 93 days ago • 16 comments

Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.

submitted 93 days ago • 399 comments

What We Do In The Shadows.

submitted 94 days ago • 144 comments

A stunning find from my hometown #Rottweil: a #Roman hot and cold water tap. It was not a mixer tap, but was used to tap either hot or cold water. The spout has not been preserved. The picture of the reconstruction was taken in the...🧵1/2 📷 taken by me 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

Or won’t…

submitted 95 days ago • 87 comments

I'm sure this will work out well! restofworld.org/2024/buenos-...

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

I don’t understand why the ABC don’t ‘both sides’ stories about housing the way they do about climate change Why not add ‘while landlords and banks celebrate high rents, concessionally taxed capital gains and high profits’ to the headline?

submitted 96 days ago • 11 comments

Been thinking a lot lately about that episode of Parks and Rec where Leslie and Tom have to rebrand fluoride in the water as TDazzle in order to get the public to support it.

submitted 95 days ago • 394 comments

This copper alloy arm purse found in the #Roman settlement of Nida (Frankfurt-Heddernheim) was used as a secure method to carry coins. To spend the money, the purse had to be removed from the arm. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt 🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology

submitted 96 days ago • 9 comments

The idea that those on the left will ever agree enough to be an “echo chamber” is rather funny to me. We couldn’t even agree whether to refer to Kamala Harris by her first or last name.

submitted 96 days ago • 1252 comments