Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany. We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.

IMO, the key problem companies like Meta are having with these concepts is that even their original products are mostly worthless by themselves. Nearly all of Meta’s profit stems from a secondary purpose: surveillance. And crypto, VR & genAI aren’t immediately useful surveillance tools.

A few years ago I ran a bot on the Other Website that posted random stills from Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine twice a day. One of the best looking films ever made.

Also a gentle nudge in the general BSKY Dev people to make alt text required by default.

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Serieus mannen, fret kak

Going boldly

I think it’s terrific that the betrayal of manners that is “watching videos on your phone at ear-splitting volume in public” crosses all generational, ethnic, and cultural borders

Meta paid an effective fed tax rate of 3.5% on its latest tax bill — its lowest on record. Mark Zuckerberg's net worth just hit $222 billion. And Meta is pumping $65 million into elections this year to boost AI friendly candidates. Now it's reportedly planning to lay off 15,000 workers. Hello?

This is like not understanding why you keep getting the shits when you eat lunch at Chipotle every day

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Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

@ljosmyndun.bsky.social keitof je te horen bij POM over studio 100 :)

National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent resigned effective 15 minutes ago, citing the decision to attack Iran as the reason.

Als je iedere keer dat je in publiek, je mond langer als 15m open doet in de problemen komt, ben je of gewoon een slecht mens of toch in ieder geval geen briljant strateeg.

Our government is run by extremely serious and sober people.

That's a wholesome brain fuck

[Sade voice 🎵]

i'm sorry this is so funny. great stuff www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-...

It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle

Een managersfunctie innemen in een bedrijf is toch ook wel enorm verbaasd zijn hoeveel eigenzinnige shit mensen uitvreten die radicaal ingaat tegen het algemene doel. Echt hoe fucking koppig kunnen mensen zijn.

Laughs in Chinese and Russian.

Ik ben natuurlijk geen business genie, maar aan de ene kant vaststellen dat Amerikaanse afhankelijkheid in software en datawarehousing een slecht idee is en aan de andere kant vol willen inzetten op Ai van Amerikaanse bedrijven lijkt me gewoon verschrikkelijk dom.

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

Michael B Jordan proving he can win without Scottie B Pippen.

Well, then. This is even more shameful & inexcusable.

In a survey of 1,000 hiring managers, 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles.

Conservatives built an economy that requires two incomes to do what one did and then blamed women for going to work

Where's @berlincompanion.bsky.social when you 'need' her

I just can't stop drawing, I guess..😅 This time I brought you some boobies. I hope you like him😅 He's performing his best for you! #boobies #birdart #birds #bird #art #drawing #digitalart #nature #birdlover

Everything about this picture is how I pictured trump's second term

Morning Bluesky.

Waarschijnlijk impopulaire mening maar One battle after another is een grote stinker van een film.

Het hele energiebeleid van rechts lijkt toch vooral: Waarom in duurzame onafhankelijke energiebronnen investeren en zo energie goedkoop en nationaal houden/maken. Als je voor evenveel geld een buitenlandse dictatuur kan steunen en je land afhankelijk kan maken van derden.

Eind vorig jaar na bijna 10 jaar m’n job verloren. Ik heb inmiddels wat balletjes in de lucht, maar mijn profiel (Marketing & Communications Manager) is blijkbaar niet zo gezocht. Dus, gooi ik mezelf even in jullie feed. Als jullie opportuniteiten kennen, shoot! www.linkedin.com/in/guntherma...

Een Iraanse drone vliegt ongestoord over een Amerikaanse basis in Irak. Maar vertel me nog eens hoe ze geen Oekraïense hulp nodig hebben.

Italy has 60 million people! Look at their share. Poland (37 mln people!) also pathetic. Norway (5 mln) fantastic. Finland suprisingly low? Germany solid and generous. UK doing far more than France, Spain, Italy put together. Filthy rich Belgium (11 mln people) a truly bad look

From the Czar for Propaganda:

Niet dat iets Iraans ooit Oekraïne aangevallen heeft ofzo.

Did you know the sub culture of scale model trains with cats just around them is a thing and just really good for the second screen

BDW zesjes cultuur, ballen kleiner als een mier.

Hamburg mal wieder stabil. #PruefDemo

Unsurprising after they fired military planners and analysts to hire bullies and abusers. Bullies never expect adversaries to fight back. SoW's truculent rhetoric is dismaying. They have no idea of what they're doing. But "Deus vult!", they won't stop.

Kuwait has an exit visa that's trapping people in the country and it's in times like these you realize states consider people like cattle

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

Heute! #pruef @pruef-demos.de

Always assume, that you as a designer know as much about code as a developer about design.