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As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 22 hours ago • 252 comments

This MF’er just brought Andrew Tate, a rapist and human trafficker, to Florida! 🤬 The hypocrisy is astounding!

submitted 20 hours ago • 1838 comments

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3852 comments

NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

submitted 6 days ago • 130 comments

Co-signed.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

One thing I’m seeing is people saying “I’m not leaving Substack just because there are people there I disagree with.” Ok but Substack is PAYING those people to be there. They are paying Bari Weiss, for example. It’s not like Wordpress which is just a host. Substack is making editorial decisions.

submitted 31 days ago • 44 comments

From the guy suing advertisers for not wanting their brand associated with his platform.

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New York's (de)congestion pricing, which charges $9 to drive into Manhattan below 60 St, has reduced traffic, increased ridership, reduced subway crime, and is raising funds to fix the decaying transit system. Rare for a public policy to have this many benefits!

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For all the white folks asking what yall can do. This. Use the power you have that we don't. Say the things that you can when we can't. That's what's helpful. Not following random Black people and hoping for a protest playbook. "Allyship" is cool, but what we need is overt solidarity. Show it.

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Ok that made me laugh

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“As state crackdowns go, a single arrest leading to a conditional discharge is pretty lame, which is why campaigners have to engage in such energetic hyperbole about it – claiming falsely that simply praying at home if you live near an abortion clinic is now criminalised.”

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"Judeo-Christian" is what people say when they'd like to be racist but know they'd get into trouble if it was too blatant.

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"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we also steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

submitted 73 days ago • 231 comments

Excellent piece by @tomcalver.bsky.social debunking the myth that migrants who come on "dependant" visas don't work/contribute (1/2) www.thetimes.com/article/48e9...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Because of DOGE, countless Americans are going to die.

submitted 15 days ago • 618 comments

We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.” Who needs a gallon of ketchup?

submitted 15 days ago • 2188 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 21 days ago • 486 comments

Coed Cadw, the Woodland Trust in Wales, has secured an additional 140 hectares of land in south Wales, as part of an ambitious project to create and restore woodland and natural habitats across a 236-hectare landscape

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Chelsea Clinton on misinformation and disinformation (lies) that she and her family personally benefited from USAID funds.

submitted 21 days ago • 210 comments

Memo to journalists: There's a high likelihood the thing you are writing about does not "raise concerns" about something bad happening -- it is in fact the bad thing happening. Reevaluate your language and maybe your entire approach to the story. Tell the whole truth.

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

Is it bad that the president is insane?

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BREAKING: Judge McConnell in Rhode Island — who previously blocked the funding freeze in the states' challenge — issued a follow-up order at the states' request, including specifically restoring "appropriated funds" in the Inflation Reduction Act and infrastructure act and resuming NIH funding.

submitted 21 days ago • 35 comments

Politico helped Trump launder lies during the campaign and he’s been on a week-long rampage against them anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

submitted 23 days ago • 296 comments

Can't get over how confused this kid must be, how often do you get fired for the exact same reason you got hired

submitted 25 days ago • 103 comments

NEW: Lib Dems respond to Yvette Cooper ruling out plans to negotiate a youth mobility scheme with the EU Foreign affairs spokesperson @calummillerld.bsky.social says:

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Last summer was the safest on Wales’ roads since records began, according to new police statistics nation.cymru/news/last-su...

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Lord Sugar, "The biggest disaster in my lifetime was us leaving the European Union" "If I was Prime Minister, I would be coming along on my bended knees asking to be let back in" "How do we get out of it? Get back in the EU"

submitted 32 days ago • 82 comments

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

submitted 31 days ago • 893 comments

If you like Office (I’m one of the people who does) I strongly recommend buying one of the older versions – Office 2021 for Mac, for example – that’s still a one-off payment (usually under £50) and staying WELL away from the subscription product.

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨

submitted 38 days ago • 297 comments

"People are rightly fed up by inequality and the establishment parties that have let them down. The door is wide open for political chancers such as Farage to exploit this anger. The real reason we face such stagnation and poverty in Cymru is people like Musk, Strimpel, and Farage."

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🚨Government’s own shocking data shows a staggering 97% of new patients who try to get an NHS dental appointment fail to get one People are forced to pull out their own teeth with pliers - it’s not Victorian it’s medieval. We cannot allow this to become normalized youtu.be/UtqAtGAnuC0?...

submitted 60 days ago • 35 comments

California forcibly sterilized hundreds of women. Then, it 'allowed' them to apply for compensation. But only ≈15% of the affected women have gotten compensation so far. Many were denied. And the deadline to apply/appeal is in just 10 days, leading to an unfair rush many don't know about:

submitted 71 days ago • 28 comments

babe wake up indulgences are back

submitted 68 days ago • 16 comments

Merry Christmas to all, comrades and scabs alike ❤️💚

submitted 69 days ago • 12 comments

I hate doing that but with the current state of crisis (loved one in hospital + other stuff I won't go into), I'd love to have some income. If looking for last minute Xmas presents, please consider my book? It has space jellyfish and martial arts and sapphic romance us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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'Pope Francis has condemned an Israeli airstrike in Gaza which resulted in the murder of seven children from the same family in the Jabalia refugee camp, describing the attack as "barbaric".' english.pnn.ps/news/47280

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

To be added to the list of things Liz Truss is wrong about:

submitted 68 days ago • 32 comments

Makes you wonder if the “robbery” wasn’t an inside job? There are unexplored depths to Die Hard.

submitted 69 days ago • 11 comments

my 3 year old is trying to pronounce “masquerade” and it keeps coming out as “master race!” with a big smile and in my attempts to get him off that it very predictably resulted in something much closer to “masturBATE!!” We’re about to go to a family gathering I’m so screwed

submitted 69 days ago • 70 comments

The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

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At a Christmas party. Hosts parents were reading the Quran. I popped in to say hello, we shared a Christmas cracker, they put on the hat, we had a chat, then carried on reading the Quran, with the hat on 😁 The joys of living in a multi faith multi cultural society. Everything goes ☺️

submitted 70 days ago • 27 comments

irony found dead in the gutter

submitted 73 days ago • 120 comments

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

submitted 72 days ago • 1057 comments

And on Christmas Eve, when the ghosts assembled to save Elon Musk's eternal soul, they saw the latest news and said, "actually, bring out even more chains, this motherfucker's not worth saving"

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