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Wild Geerters @steinkobbe.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
Youtube video titled "Elon Musk: I'll put a man on mars in 10 years". Dated to 27 Dec 2011
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
London in the house!
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a red double decker bus with the number 938 on the front of it
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
My favorite scene from The Manchurian Candidate brilliantly explains why liars like Trump don’t care about the wild numbers they fabricate. This was the basis of McCarthyism in a nutshell:
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The Manchurian Candidate - Heinz57 scene
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Will never tire of watching Carney’s face listening to the imbecile. Art.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/04/2025
As I said once on the old site:
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We have truly entered the Age of Onanocracy*. (*Government by w#nkers)
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alanboucek.bsky.social @alanboucek.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
My very VERY offline suburban wine mom friends are now openly group texting about things associated with the French Revolution... today, a line got crossed.
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SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Don’t be sad. Be disgusted. Be angry. Tonight, we’re donating $5,000 USD to support Ukraine. If you’re feeling the same way, channel it into action - donate to organizations like UWC and others making a real impact. Stand with Ukraine. Do something about it.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A two-panel meme featuring characters from *The Simpsons*, with an added image in the top left corner. In the first panel, Bart Simpson looks distressed, saying, "THIS IS THE MOST EMBARRASSING DAY TO BE AN AMERICAN." In the second panel, Homer Simpson, kneeling beside Bart, responds, "THIS IS THE MOST EMBARRASSING DAY TO BE AN AMERICAN SO FAR." The added image in the top left shows convicted felon Donald Trump and weirdo JD Vance in conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the Whitehouse. The meme humorously suggests that American political moments continue to reach new levels of embarrassment.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
There are so many non-white English politicians and members of the commentariat who are painfully English, and part of what makes them English down to their very core—strip them to their root and they radiate Englishness—is a unique form of seething English bigotry and contempt towards humanity
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Lucie’s Human @cbk-of-md.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
BTC is over it and I’m here for it. Sometimes it’s hard to find the words to describe what’s going on but this pretty well sums it up.
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Callmebyyourdanniel @rdanniel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
First Piece on @mcsweeneys.net ! Thanks for letting me ramble!
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Why I Chose to Reenter the Matrix and Be a Living Battery for the Machines
Let’s cut the moral grandstanding. You think I sold out humanity by crawling back to the Machines? Please. I upgraded. While you’re out there doom-...
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is a quote from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT that was made into a protest sign, seen below, by Indivisible St Louis in 2019.
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alanboucek.bsky.social @alanboucek.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Chloe Cockburn @chloecockburn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Congestion pricing in New York City is a month old. What are the results? Less crime as subway ridership up, less cars, less traffic, more people walking around, and increasing popularity. Here's a thread of recent stories about it.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
THEY KNEW is on sale as an $2.99 ebook for one day only! There are 14 hours left -- get it cheap and get it fast! Kindle: www.amazon.com/They-Knew-Cu... Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/they... Barnes and Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/they-knew-... Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
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They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent - Kindle edition by Kendzior, Sarah. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
One more source: a prisoner who was a firefighter and speaks from personal experience. bsky.app/profile/hahn...
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alanboucek.bsky.social @alanboucek.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
nice gradient
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 14/12/2024
How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/12/2024
Weirdly, Freddie is the only one who seems to have captured my feelings about the insurance CEO. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/our-health...
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Our Healthcare System, a Reign of Terror
the question is not "was this act good?," the question is "why is your moral judgment only activated for certain kinds of victims?"
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Happening now at Washington Square Park: A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition, including people who intentionally and unintentionally dressed the part.
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alanboucek.bsky.social @alanboucek.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
our beautiful dystopia
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
There are a lot of poor people who have guns and who are very, very angry, and I'm sure history has nothing to teach us about what happens to the very wealthy when the anger reaches a boiling point. Nothing at all. Move along.
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a person is holding a carrot in a guillotine
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alanboucek.bsky.social @alanboucek.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
California autumn
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...
A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.
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Anagram Doe @anagramdoe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"Looking at it makes you feel insane, but seeing it makes you know you are not."
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 20/11/2024
I’m determined to get through the next four years with my sanity and humor intact.
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Surviving Another Four Years of Donald Trump
It’s going to be a long four years, and I’m determined to get through them with my sanity and humor intact.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/11/2024
Today on Volts: 20 years ago, @thestranger.com.web.brid.gy published a piece in the wake of GW Bush's 2004 reelection: "The Urban Archipelago." I talk with then-editor @dansavage.bsky.social about the politics of cities in a time of reactionary backlash. www.volts.wtf/p/dan-savage...
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Dan Savage on blue America in the age of Trump
Dan Savage joins me on Volts to discuss how NIMBY-captured city leadership is failing Democrats — and why making cities better is the key to building the party’s future.
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alanboucek.bsky.social @alanboucek.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
this is a great listen for all of us who love cities and want creative approaches to climate change
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alanboucek.bsky.social @alanboucek.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
what’s up?
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Shannon Palus @shanpalus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
read this by @ericholthaus.bsky.social to feel a little hopeful slate.com/technology/2...
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I Spent Six Months Selling Solar Panels Door to Door. Here’s the Thing About Renewable Energy.
Here's why renewable energy will survive under Trump.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/11/2024
"Relax. This resurgence of the Empire will likely be a temporary blip in the course of the galaxy, much like the last time the Empire was in control. "
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Here’s Why a Second Death Star Won’t Be That Bad
“Mr. Trump’s first term was better than expected… the authoritarian rule that Democrats and the press predicted never appeared. Mr. Trump was too u...
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 15/11/2024
their entire plan for years was to get what they dubbed "hero voters" - the UK equivalent of Haley Voters/Sensible Republicans/Liz Cheney voters. Labour won, but they did not get any of those voters.
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