As a construction professional that has worked on data centers the idea of putting them in space is total nonsense. Sure, let's take the two biggest challenges on earth, power and cooling, and massively complicate them for no reason. The $420/share is the cherry on top of it.

lmao what the fuck there is no way on gd's green earth that there is a valuation of 1.5T in that company. Also an initial stock price of 420 b/c it's the weed number? Get the fuck out bsky.app/profile/pear...

Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal

A while ago, someone replied to me with “I want to see less of this”, which at the time I thought was just a deliciously brutal kiss-off. Then they did it again, and then I realised that they genuinely just had a very different understanding of “who runs the accounts they follow” than I do.

Just building on @josephpolitano.bsky.social ‘s point here, the press just STEADFASTLY refuses to report this

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

lol, lmao, lol

washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch

It's been a chilly weekend but not for the cat adorably bundling herself up in the blankets.

Speaking of the ShamWow guy - in 1938 Kansan radio pitchman Wilbert Lee O'Daniel won the Texas governorship, and also defeated Lyndon Johnson when he took his first run at US Senate in 1941. When people challenged him on being from out of state, he basically responded "what's more Texan than that?"

I see that Yashar Ali is on my timeline a bunch and I'm just curious if we've all forgotten about this article?

I have encountered Nick Decker (captain gouda) in different discord servers with otherwise non-overlapping memberships and they've all banned him for insane takes like racializing intelligence or justifying slavery. Honestly nuts to see this guy being promoted by the governor of Colorado.

That thread can be found here. Very different figures, obviously, but worth considering as transphobes try to frame trans identity as an online social contagion or elite-driven phenomenon.

Between this thread and @mikedavis.bsky.social's thread about Boston politician Althea Garrison, there are plenty of reminders that a world without trans people has never existed.

Assigned's mentions for this post are flooded with people who want to jeer at Biden so may I just say: When a Democratic former president makes a point of standing up for trans rights in a situation where he is absolutely not required to do so, for God's sake, just take the W.

When Chief Justice Roger Taney died, an anonymous 68-page pamphlet was published condemning him for the Dred Scott ruling. Historians have speculated that Charles Sumner wrote it based on the writer lauding the Declaration and that Sumner was the type of guy to write a 68-page hater pamphlet.

That's why so much of Middle Age Consumerism is also "buy 20 of the thing that works, the moment it goes on sale at Costco"

Actual rank-and-file MAGA voters know perfectly well that Trump loves brutal military violence and they like it that way. Trump the Peace Man is a fiction created by people on the nominal left whose only real commitment is "fascism > liberalism" bsky.app/profile/prof...

I'm sorry does he think efficiency laws are what ended the station wagon body style? Station wagons held on through the 90s. They were still making the Dodge Magnum in 2008

we're within sight of getting these kinds of pictures from his golf courses

this is AI, as should be obvious by the PICE vest, please stop sharing it.

from a state party director

Bob Crumb coming out of retirement just to say "RFK Jr. is right about vaccines and my ex-wife should've taken more advice from me" is such a fitting end to Boomer Americana and everything the "alt-comix" movement claimed to stand for

Well it's time for a seasonal ritual for my wife and me - marathoning TV Christmas junk, mainly on Hallmark. We used to do a lot of Ion TV ones too but it looks like they moved their Christmas lineup to a channel we don't get. Anyway, every year some of the films are actually cute, and this one was.

I have these on Laserdisc because I am the only person I know with a laserdisc player (my mom got it as a birthday present from one of her brothers in the early 90's and it's still trucking). I'm glad the original films will see the light of day (or a projector) again.

I took this a month ago when there was a bit more fall outside and I'm just getting around to posting it now.

People in the administration have done TONS of shit like this. I’d really like to see a comprehensive report on all of it—pictures removed, or altered, buildings renamed, all of the hamfisted attempt to rewrite the history these institutions tell themselves

bradley ought to be in chains

This is a journalism scandal, not a "sex scandal," and with prominent outlets still running cover stories sanewashing RFK Jr. as more and more children die, it's far from over www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/the-...

This man is a menace to political strategy

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

While RFK's decades of anti-vax work would be extraordinary in the field of opportunism for attention, it is definitely a thing people do. I've seen people become soldiers for causes they don't believe in the substance of because they do believe in getting invited to parties with important people.

There’s a lot to rip on here but let’s not miss that it used an elevation drawing of a patio door and decided that was a deck on the floorplan

Point being that nuclear weapons are not actually that complicated to build, although a good thermonuclear weapons (and miniaturized to fit in a delivery system) does pose more of an engineering challenge It’s getting the plutonium that’s the tricky part

Building nuclear weapons is so dead simple that they were able to do it with a few thousand guys in the desert of New Mexico with early 1940s machine tools. Obtaining the HEU or weapons grade plutonium? Yeah that took hundreds of thousands of men and the energy output of entire dams.

incredible to see the U.S. right echoing the Chinese Communist Party.

As someone who has spent the last decade working in commercial and industrial HVAC the Data Center Water Discourse is disappointing. It's become a Glonzo idea. There being water shortages due to it being eaten by DC's is about as true as a electrical rates being hiked by Glonzo eating power lines.

I don’t really have a lot to say about the OU thing except 1) it’s obviously about the trans instructor and 2) red state publics are all so, so vulnerable to this

Also I rather resent a guy who used his platform as a Gawker/Deadspin columnist to argue against voting in 2016 opining on how to win elections. Someone who doesn’t take the power consequences of elections seriously would advocate an approach precepted on people not taking the outcomes seriously.

If you think that the absence of the rule of law means that the powerful people you hate are going to be strung up instead of people like you, you are dangerously stupid

TPUSA is an organized faculty harassment network and every university administrator who is good at their job should be trying to remove the organization from their campus. If I was a professor I would be terrified of any student who is a member because they are trying to get me fired for wrongthink.

This is a scam to separate Michael Bloomberg types from their money

Beyond the fact that this has been tried without success, left leaning voters often don't care enough which party the Speaker or Majority Leader is while right leaning voters get that it's THE electoral bottom line and will vote for a Republican that will elect a Republican Speaker/Majority leader.

The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

"we predict the coming year will have a vibe of grayish despair."

Olivia Nuzzi has blood on her hands through RFK jr's policies and should be seen in the same disdain as Walter Duranty.

Propaganda works