Should we return to the era of direct great power conflict that led to hundreds of millions of people dying? Yeah idk seems like a bad idea

I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out

Every day he's more like a character from Napoleon Dynamite

The correct question

No Gin? Still issue

Some nighttime photos from the Chinese urban fringe.

Identity is endlessly fascinating. Especially where it crosses boundaries. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Every cyclist experiences this. In every city. Good infrastructure gives way to scary, uncomfortable, dangerous. It's why people don't ride bikes everywhere. They don't line having the sh!t scared of of them. Also they don't want their 5 & 12 year olds to get killed, nor their grandparents.

@kels316.bsky.social this Chinese electric bus has what appears to be a pretty basic dashboard. A voltmeter, temperature, tachometer, and speedo. I don't know what's on the LCD, but I'm taking this as it's possible to make a simple EV after all.

"They bought or inherited aging apartment buildings, hoping to bring home a little extra cash" ... bought, or inherited, whole ass apartment buildings

No-one under the age of 18 seems to say "look it up" anymore. This battle was lost before i even knew it was a battle

sure the us is sliding into authoritarianism but on the other hand, south korea is completely paralyzed by dubai chocolate fever. in a couple of weeks they went from dubai chocolate chewy cookie to dubai chocolate raw amberjack fish to dubai chocolate grilled short ribs

What makes me procrastinate? The fear I won't do the story justice. The fear I won't accurately represent what has happened. The more painful the events, the harder it is. The fear I won't write in a way that makes people read. Sometimes you just have to start writing.

Holy fuck. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

I watched Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri on the flight today. I quite liked it. Francis McDormand is always good.

Not my plane.

I got one of these today, and it's the best tool I've bought in ages. Supercheap had a security device on the rack, so obviously other people see the value in them too.

I'd like experts to talk about the cognitive load AI forces even non-AI users to take on, because we're now forced to filter through scads of junk info daily without the social and structural supports that once guided us. The decision fatigue alone could be causing serious social and health fallout.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I am a historian who has written about insurgencies. This is true.

Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.

How the right wing Atlas Network is shaping your life in Australia, even if you've never heard of it #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-2…

From a journalist from #Iran whom I managed to connect with (the internet is still largely out). Sharing with permission. “I don't know anyone who doesn't know a person that has been killed. I can't describe the hell we experienced.” 1/2

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

Led by Donkeys— "BOARD OF PEACE - Season 1"

Everything old is new again. This house, Villa Mairea, was built in the late 1030s.

The ancient mystic society of No Canadas.

My youngest has been annoying his older sister by asking what 6+7 is, then when she says 13, he tells her no, it's "6-7" ! I shouldn't condone this, but I find it pretty hilarious.

Housing shouldnt be a tax strategy for the wealthy.

Yup. Connect every second station to the coastal tram trunk, maintain the 7.5–15m frequency, and any need for the “Connector” would likely be gone.

I feel like this, at least in part, is training the public, other law enforcement, and ICE officers, to accept that ICE can do shit like this without being stopped. Which will become more important when Trump asks them to do something like seize the voting machines or ballots after next election.

a few nights ago i rode a bus for about 15 minutes or so. once it got close to the stop near my home i hit the button to request a stop. soon after, the bus driver stopped the bus and let me off

It's a good bunya season in SE QLD this year. Plenty of trees in parks if you keep your eyes open.

Also crucially we get paid when libraries buy our books! There is nothing to be sorry about ever in borrowing a fave author’s books from a library! It is one of the few “everybody wins” situations in life!

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Worth revisiting this @desmog.com @stellalevantesi.bsky.social piece from a few years' back analysing how fossil fuel companies sold gas as an "energy security" solution Now Europe is being threatened by America: the country it turned to for 'secure' gas supply www.desmog.com/2023/02/24/e...

Feeling not too well? Perhaps some Keystone Australian fortified burgundy will help your morning along?

Jfc, how much coke did he do before this interview.

Today I learned for the first time the hypothesis that the end of cigarette smoking is behind the rise in adult ADHD diagnoses. Nicotine tickles the brain in a way not unlike Ritalin and back in the day, people would've chain-smoked their way to some sort of stability. 🚬 Everything has a reaction!

You can tell that Dracula is the villain in the book of the same name, because he wants to own multiple properties.

An overwhelming force for evil in the world

For all those still echoing conspiracies about vaccines, ongoing pandemics, immune damage, accumulative damage, etc.....

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

Whats up fellas, welcome to breakfast fascism. We’ve got a cereal that tastes like testicles and if you don’t eat it you’re gay

For 18 months, I had to keep the secret that I didn't just voice The Flying Dutchman in the SpongeBob movie, but I also played him in live-action sequences. The hours it took flew by thanks to superb makeup artists Gage Munster & Marcel Banks who were both so kind AND hilarious. 🤣 Thanks fellas! 🙏

Aljazeera seems to have a very soft approach to events in Iran.

Just finished caulking the joint between my wall and path beside the house. Let's see how it goes with the rain that's coming in the next hour or two. 🫤

In response to our questions, the North Carolina GOP’s comms director, Matt Mercer, wrote that ProPublica was waging a “jihad” against Republicans in the state, which would “not be met with dignifying any comments whatsoever.”

Short thread on cops and local governments.