RE: https://flipboard.com/@scimag/news-from-science-dgvs7ea7z/-/a-w1XCnGh5SY2WxkYQRcpUOg%3Aa%3A2427788627-%2F0 Never before has the president of the United States cowered in the face of the truth to this extent. Worse than merely a liar, he’s a weakling.

BREAKING, President Trump was just rushed off the stage during the White House Correspondents’ Association. Armed officers are yelling "Stay down!" #trump #USA

"There's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand […]

This is precisely correct. "The difference from corporate social media comes down to incentive structures. Platforms designed around narcissism & parasocial relationships produce content optimized for engagement. A federated network w/ no central owner produces something closer to actual […]

𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡: 𝐀𝐯𝐢 𝐋𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐿𝑒𝑤𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑎 𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒

Slavery m̶̶̶o̶̶̶n̶̶̶a̶̶̶r̶̶̶c̶̶̶h̶̶̶y̶̶̶ ̶̶̶i̶̶̶m̶̶̶p̶̶̶e̶̶̶r̶̶̶i̶̶̶a̶̶̶l̶̶̶i̶̶̶s̶̶̶m̶̶̶ ̶̶̶f̶̶̶a̶̶̶s̶̶̶c̶̶̶i̶̶̶s̶̶̶m̶̶̶ ̶̶̶e̶̶̶u̶̶̶g̶̶̶e̶̶̶n̶̶̶i̶̶̶c̶̶̶s̶̶̶ ̶M̶̶̶̶̶̶̶A̶̶̶̶̶̶̶G̶̶̶̶̶̶̶A̶̶̶̶̶̶̶ is doomed, and that within a few years. [It is] an evil, and an evil can’t stand discussion. In […]

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116451543481402135 @ChrisMayLA6 Can I be forgiven for suggesting that this sounds frighteningly like V for Vandetta?

Aluminium used to build cars can now be reused to build…cars. A new alloy called RidgeAlloy turns contaminated scrap into strong structural vehicle parts. This solves a longstanding problem where recycled aluminium from mixed or dirty auto scrap was too weak for structural uses, closing a big […]

Indeed.

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead." ~ James Thurber

Sam Altman @ 9 years old

CBC left out the quote played on their radio feed in which Ontario's Trump-Mini-Me says, 'You look at any state, you look at any governor...' No mention of other Canadian premiers, none of whom own a private jet at public expense. He thinks he's an American governor. (FYI to Doug Fraud's BFF […]

"Almost every day, there are new signs — from shocking news leaks to surprisingly indecorous public jabs, and legal opinions that read like cries for help — that the U.S. Supreme Court is at war … with itself. Looming large over this soft civil war inside one of America’s three branches of […]

"On Monday, Reid ran the intense 42.2 kilometre marathon in Boston dressed in silver pants, a Jaws T-shirt, a neck scarf and a grey top hat adorned with a feather — the same outfit Downie wore for his final concert in Kingston in 2016 just over a year before he died from an aggressive brain […]

𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚’𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐨𝐩 https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/21/Dishonest-Online-Campaign-Support-Alberta-Separatism/

A bit of good news. The Onion says it has struck a deal to take over Infowars https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/the-onion-alex-jones-infowars-studio/ And the announcement on The Onion’s site is hysterical. #media #theonion https://theonion.info

"The feeling of watching something go right and realizing, somewhere deep in your body, that you had forgotten things could go right. Because when something actually goes right, when the people in charge do their jobs well, speak in full sentences, make decisions that protect people instead of […]

RE: https://dice.camp/@artemis/116437031158241529 🧵 Interesting and edifying discussions down here … ↙️

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116437133693700259 Good!

When Samuel Samson, a snr adviser at the #state Dept, sat down privately with #farright German lawmakers in an office just steps from the White House, he was breaking with history. For 8 decades after WWII, the #us’ #foreignpolicy establishment had usually steered clear of #germany’s hard-right […]

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

How many girls are riding their bikes to school is a better measure of a country's success than GDP. Tells you about so much more, about education, gender equality, road safety, the environment... #kiatikakiapono

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 https://newrepublic.com/post/209214/donald-trump-begs-praise-social-media-iran "It is not clear what the war in Iran has accomplished. Together, the US and Israel have killed thousands of Iranian civilians and […]

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘-𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑟𝑢𝑛 𝑖𝑡. 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑠𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑑ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ. 𝐀𝐝𝐥𝐚𝐢 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 (1900-1965) ᴀᴍᴇʀɪᴄᴀɴ ᴅɪᴘʟᴏᴍᴀᴛ, ꜱᴛᴀᴛᴇꜱᴍᴀɴ

Not for nothing are they known as "Canada's natural ruling party" ... tolerance 'R Us --- 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨𝐧 […]