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It is becoming apparent that Donald is not very good at brokering ceasefires.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves... If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future. - Carl Sagan

Solidarity

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

She is a tourist from Chile, and these cops left her teenage daughter on the streets of New York City alone. Why anybody would come to this country right now blows my mind.

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

Elon crying on TV, people booing JD, Tariffs on all imports, Fetterman in gym shorts, Governmental shutdowns, Democrats are letdowns, Laura Loomer banging Trump, Chuck Schumer’s a useless lump, We didn't start the fire…

This lull in the first digital nuclear war—a pocket civil war in the United States—is likely caused by Musk huddling with his lawyers to determine whether Trump really can deport him as Trump’s generals (e.g., Bannon) are urging him to do. Things are getting quite serious, now.

The feud crashed Truth Social

It started No popcorn but this will do

20x stemmen per sim dan gaat het vooruit in de sommige landen.

godzilla except it’s david bowie: thread

“We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again.” A 98-year-old WWII veteran demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. (Love the replays from several camera angles.) [kottke.org]

characters at this year’s met gala: thread

Laten jullie ook het aantal boterhammen 's middags afhangen van het aantal soorten beleg of zijn jullie normaal?

It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Hi @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social This is me and my youngest child. Would you like to tell him face to face I'm not his mum and in fact a man? Or are you only going to do that on national TV where you can't see the consequences of your words?

‘Voor de gelegenheid droeg premier De Wever zijn camouflagepak.’

Hi @octopus.energy! We know you care about the planet, so why are you helping Elon Musk fund climate deniers and fossil fuel junkies by promoting Tesla on your website? octopusev.com/cars/tesla-m... #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla #StopMusk

Great London, great.

La scène à laquelle on a assisté hier soir à Washington n’était pas du mauvais cinéma mais la vérité profonde de ce qu’est devenue l’Amérique sous Trump, une puissance impérialiste violente, sans foi ni loi.

🌹 it says a lot about the world that if you figure out how to mitigate your own disabilities and create compromises to make life work, you’ll be told ur actually not that disabled

I am genuinely, viscerally terrified of what might happen to PubMed.

Here’s something easy you can do today. Block USA Today on Blue Sky. If thousands of us can do it, we can have an immediate impact on their reach on social media.

reese with her spoon

I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE. 🧵

He orchestrated a coup. It failed. He was a convicted felon. He rose to power on a wave of divisive propaganda and hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. He promised to make things great again. He threatened to annex his neighbors. I'm referring, of course, to Adolf Hitler.

The Washington Post heeft een cartoon van Ann Telnaes geweigerd. Zij heeft ontslag genomen. Lees hier haar verhaal: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...