Reposted by FrancescaHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I am so jealous of this oblivious pile of fluff. 765416318
Reposted by FrancescaHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2025I just saw a TikTok like “the motivations of assassins don’t make sense anymore” but boy have they never. Hinkley shot Reagan to impress Jodi Foster. Oswald was such a complete mess people just assume the CIA did it. Guiteau killed Garfield because no one would make him an ambassador. 1786991726
Francesca @frafont.bsky.social · 23/07/2025If you see this, I implore you to post an image from your device without context. 010
Reposted by FrancescaPythonMaps @pythonmaps.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Few people realise the scale of the Himalayas because static maps are a bad way to convey topography. Fortunately, we can use interactive maps to explore topography. Here is an example using Pyvista. 3379
Reposted by FrancescaDr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌑 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 19/07/2025This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice 1326251503531
Reposted by Francescadraglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Excellent article on how the US is starting to weaponise its control over critical financial and technological systems against its own allies. Contains a good explanation of the sanctions stuff I've been talking about lately. www.wired.com/story/enshit... 042
Reposted by FrancescaBleuchz @bleuchz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Lou is writing an angry fax to Darche as we speak. 041
Reposted by FrancescaJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10/07/2025If you don’t understand how anything works, everything is a conspiracy. 421747
Reposted by FrancescaJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10/07/2025it is hard to fully appreciate just how incredibly *dumb* America’s Troubles will be. Our Years of Lead Paint. 1142996
Reposted by FrancescaPhil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 09/07/2025One of the things that *actually*, *truly* makes America great is NASA. And Trump has slit its throat. 19660206
Reposted by Francescanobody @petbugs13.bsky.social · 22/06/2025well it's obvious there was no intelligence involved in the decision 051
Reposted by FrancescaKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 29/05/2025Sci-fi view of The Future: We'll all have flying cars and holidaying on Mars! Disease will be fixed with a quick blast from a Star Trek thingy! The Actual Future: 361135431
Reposted by FrancescaAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Once again, @xkcd.com got it right. 151578438
Reposted by FrancescaDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event. 362121633579
Reposted by FrancescaEM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025There's a great investigative piece - or book! - to be written about who is actually governing in this administration. Who writes the EOs, who decides when they go to Trump, etc. This is a reality TV show masquerading as a presidency. 982513614
Reposted by Francescajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2025so who do we think trump is manipulating the market for today? 1142206374
Reposted by FrancescaCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2025The Republican administration is also ordering all current international students (and postdocs, I believe) at Harvard to transfer or leave the country. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05... 25302148
Reposted by FrancescaProPublica @propublica.org · 22/05/2025NEW: More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides made well-timed trades since Trump took office, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war.propublica.orgMore Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market PlungingRecords show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the ma... 891794839
Reposted by FrancescaDan @cultureoflosing.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Definitely can't wait to see how the guy who failed miserably for 11 years leading a team with all of the money, resources, cache and power in the sport handles running... the fucking Islanders. I'm sure it'll go very smoothly. 053
Reposted by FrancescaDan @cultureoflosing.bsky.social · 21/05/2025As I detailed on the latest episode of Islanders Anxiety... I've hated this douche ever since he whined his way out of Hartford. Not really feeling this. www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/...sportsnet.caMaple Leafs grant Islanders permission to speak to Brendan ShanahanThe New York Islanders have been granted permission to speak to Toronto Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan about an opening in their front office, Sportsnet can confirm. 371
Reposted by FrancescaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025"The bare minimum will reach the population - simply so the world doesn't stop us and accuse us of war crimes." www.bbc.com/news/live/cq... 9320491111
Reposted by FrancescaThe Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office announced Sunday.thedailybeast.comJoe Biden Diagnosed With ‘Aggressive’ and Spreading CancerThe former president, 82, was diagnosed last week after experiencing “increasing urinary symptoms.” 179327
Reposted by FrancescaHenning @geohenning.bsky.social · 18/05/2025On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this iconic photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s... 291793493
Reposted by FrancescaMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 11/05/2024NORTHERN LIGHTS: Take my picture! Please! I don't look great now but the photos will be spectacular, bursts of green and pink! Take as many photos as you can! THE MOON: Do not take my photo, if you little apes dare to photograph me I will be so tiny, I swear to god I will make myself so goddamn tiny 4349781331
Reposted by Francescasouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/05/2025It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex... 1041210308271
Reposted by FrancescaBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/05/2025Everyone’s going to correctly focus on the ethics problems, but Air Force One is supposed to also be a secure communications platform, right? Nobody sees the issue here? 19530129
Reposted by FrancescaBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025This will be vital during the restoration 521675
Reposted by FrancescaSickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 03/05/2025The Ref went down due to a collision. Don’t worry Jamie Vardy blew the whistle to stop play for him. 883599499
Reposted by FrancescaBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 03/05/2025If Biden, who is actually Catholic, posted a picture of himself as Pope there would be a thousand op-eds and cable news hits for months about how it was the most blasphemous thing an American president has ever done and we’d assume he had gone insane. 19245601021
Reposted by FrancescaStephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025We are living through the reverse 1930s. 13567124
Reposted by Francescamtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025this is what the "trade deals" are gonna look like. bribes for trump, giveaways for the regimes that bribe him. Hail to the thief. 191311432
Francesca @frafont.bsky.social · 30/04/2025🙁The restaurants where I used to eat have become tourist traps and my favourite café in the city centre is closing because they couldn't renew the lease. Piece by piece, the Como I used to love is gone. comozero.it/attualita/il...comozero.itIl centro di Como dice addio a un altro storico e amatissimo locale, chiude l'Arte Dolce Lyceum:E così un altro pezzo se ne va, il cambiamento è parte naturale anche della storia di una città ma ci sono mutamenti che fanno risuonare storie, ricordi, segmenti più o meno grandi di vita tra il seco... 040
Reposted by FrancescaPhillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025"If you strip out the effects of the cancer, the patient is actually doing great." 901674257
Reposted by FrancescaCarrie A Lee @carriealee.bsky.social · 29/04/2025He is gearing up to invoke the Insurrection Act, if that wasn’t obvious. 13384153
Reposted by Francesca🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Let me remind everyone that polygraphs are, in practice, pseudoscience interrogation tools not ‘lie detectors.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Furthermore, use of polygraphs enables interrogators (knowingly or otherwise) to launder their own biases & bullshit thru the machine.theguardian.comFBI using polygraph tests to identify sources of internal leaksTrump administration has been cracking down on people who leak information to the media since January 312642
Reposted by Francesca🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 26/04/2025he is, of course, an asshole, but this entire paragraph is extremely funny 561327275
Reposted by FrancescaGrabmacherjoggi Basel @grabmacherjoggi.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Unterwegs zur Rheingasse, vorbei an heimeligen Kleinbasler Fassaden am Lindenberg. 0322
Reposted by FrancescaJames Waterhouse @jameswaterhouse.bsky.social · 26/04/2025What a picture. Described as “a symbolic meeting that has the potential to be historic” by Zelensky. Two months after the shouting of the Oval Office, a seemingly calmer exchange in the Vatican. Is Pope Francis’ funeral the moment Donald Trump brought peace closer to Ukraine? 2123
Reposted by FrancescaMassimiliano Herber @herbermax.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Nella basilica di San Pietro vuota un’altra pagina di storia: #Trump #Zelensky #Macron #Starmer (Fonte RSI) 011
Reposted by Francescaryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/04/2025seen a lot of daft hippie bullshit in my day, but this might take the cake kyivindependent.com/cia-deputy-d...kyivindependent.comCIA deputy director’s son killed while fighting for Russia in Ukraine, investigation claimsMichael Gloss studied Human Ecology at Middlebury College in Vermont and was described by friends as an eco-activist, women’s rights supporter, and anti-fascist. 39416100
Reposted by FrancescaDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Gasparino's been right a lot and wrong a lot, but if he's right, he's unwittingly saying that the White House leaks information to friendly investors who can front-run the markets 12139721265
Reposted by FrancescaDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025TRUMP AND BESSENT: We’re negotiating with China, this trade war will be resolved soon. CHINA: WTF are you talking about. www.ft.com/content/3e07... 911755484
Reposted by FrancescaJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Tesla is now basically an EV credit arbitrage business. It’s not a successful car/robot/whatever the fuck company by any standard. 722943
Reposted by FrancescaJames Waterhouse @jameswaterhouse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Moscow reportedly dropping its demand to control four Ukrainian regions & agreeing to freeze the front line is not a concession, it would keep what it’s taken. Russian troops have never been close to taking all of Kherson & Zaporizhzhia. 1353
Reposted by FrancescaThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 22/04/2025Breaking: Tesla’s net income sank 71% in the first quarter, hurt by competitive pressure and a reputational hit from Elon Musk’s polarizing role in the Trump administrationwsj.comTesla Profit Sinks, Hurt by Political BacklashThe auto maker’s net income fell 71% in the first quarter. 2281923490
Reposted by FrancescaJosh (garik16) @garik16.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Not picking on the author of this tweet because this is a majority view but….lou basically worked with what Garth gave him and then did nothing to improve it other than hiring Trotz. Deserves so little credit 071
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