Trump Unable To Figure Out Why He Surrounded By Chinese People

kay but also my parents read to me the Hobbit and probably lotr (and the oz books, and narnia, and...) when i was ~5, which were all well over 30 years old at that point, and they were formative. so first off, who said the movies, and secondly, has op never fallen in love across time? that's sad.

well we did lose to legal Calvinball and we aren’t going to fight back. but at least we spent a hundred million dollars losing

Musk brings court case about OpenAI moving away from non profit status but correspondence shows he was in favour of doing this if ‘he was the controlling shareholder or allowed to merge it with his car company, Tesla.’ 👍 www.ft.com/content/c68b...

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

Capitalism lives in the eternal "now". It doesn't want you to know about history, it doesn't want you to know art has existed for tens of thousands of years, it wants you slavering for whatever's coming NEXT, whatever's HOT and NEW, and ignoring everything else. You do not have to do this.

Trump: "He's a good looking guy. I don't like good looking people. I don't like good looking men at all, believe me."

For folks who say that recent patterns of warming “prove” the climate models are broken, and other forces are “accelerating” the warming. Nope. Warming is as expected and within the range of estimates. Thanks to @michaelemann.bsky.social and team for this. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

(I was the original creator of this)

We sold a smoking device at my old shop called "the leaf blower." It was for parties with large groups and it worked exactly how you think it worked

every warning light on his dashboard is blazing

America has an armed forces spread pretty much only America can afford. Attempting to keep pace w/it is a losing game. And Russian will always lose it. I'm not saying this out of nationalism, I'm just stating a fact. The fact that they fucked up their "3 day military operation" speak for itself.

25 years after the B-2, and they STILL don't have a stealth bomber. I'm not saying, I'm just saying. Probably couldn't find a mole they could afford.

Russian tactics have always leaned on meat waves. They played at keeping up with tech for decades and made a good show of it, but what they couldn't steal via espionage, they fumble. Tsar Bomba was an incredible PR move, but they only developed massive bombs because they couldn't figure out aiming.

And I am DOUBTLESS that their Cold War stockpiles are already as run through as they can get.

it's been years already since the first reports of "the Russian military is hitting up museums"

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This is a very insightful interview, even though the outcome is very frustrating. Huge scoop. 👇

incredibly weird behavior for this website to allow one member of their team to singularly decide that any/all criticism of them is harassment to the level of a bannable TOS violation it cultivates an environment where no one is able to criticize bluesky and that makes everyone less safe

Here’s a more pleasant intellectual exercise: What’s the highest compliment you can give, can imagine, or have received? I’ll say that I was told the other day that I was cited in a discussion about hospitality & I was deeply touched.

Making a fuss is so low class. So low road. We are above all that. Fighting to win is so vulgar.

I wish I remembered the year this Spiderman sculpture existed 😂😂

Racists in the UK still manage to vote on racism even if their village hasn't seen a non-white person in 20 years. The theoretical possibility of one arriving is enough.

It is EXCEPTIONALLY delusional and a handy reminder that "Russian military blogger" is a job that requires zero qualifications other than a taste for Kremlin boot leather.

The "Nuclear-armed Iran (and N Korea) in Support" is laughable, at best. At the moment the most support Iran could send is emotional, and North Korea has already sold Russia their dodgy arty shells and sent a few soldiers. Also, Iran would only be nuke armed if Russia sent 'em some.

Quite, quite, QUITE literally: You and what army, bud?

This is why we need a push for more erotic and/or transgressive media similar to the 1970s. We can't keep playing it safe like this against our will! It's genuinely miraculous that Patreon hasn't been affected by this censorship bullshit, because if it does, people will REALLY be fucked...

Patreon is definitely already this way. They have been shadow banning adult work for years, and more and more content has been banned by them in the past few years. Patreon absolutely has been censoring people and fucking us over.

"Spicy comics are allowed!" "Sexually explicit comics are NOT allowed!" THEY'RE THE SAME FUCKIN THING LITERALLY

i have so, so many furious things to say about this but just to scream about one: when corporations declare themselves able to decide what art is or not made specifically for getting off, they are absolutely going to use that power to target even the tamest of queer art first.

A+ for effort and gumption, but let's talk about the body mechanics of punching a nazi. For a running overhand right, your hip and fist should arrive at the same time, driving through the target with the force of your legs. This is a flail or a slap, his arm is dragging behind. He outran his punch.

Reminds me of "people are just transitioning to become famous athletes". Lmfao, coming out as trans makes you a target for infinite harassment.

ALSO: “These users are shielding themselves behind their identity” falls flat as a defense when other users posting the exact same words are not subject to the same punishment overwhelmingly inflicted upon users sharing a single marginalized identity

Your overreaction to it all is the big problem here Aaron, from the start. If you’d just gone oh whoops thats an embarrassing mistake lol but nooooo

Im sure there are people amongst it all that crossed lines but we have seen plenty of people gotten strikes for the very mention of Aaron’s whoopsie. Is it now abuse to embarrass the mod by stating what happened?

Like i get its annoying and embarrassing but it is not abuse and maybe having a t&s guy with such emotional fragility is a recipe for disaster

You’d think that maybe Aaron would choose from this experience to learn empathy for members of marginalized groups targeted by internet hate groups and focus on developing smarter protections or nah, I guess

i love you grain weevil

Ted Lieu is sounding the alarm: the Iran War exposed just how unprepared we are. The U.S. started running low on defensive munitions in less than 60 days. Now imagine a prolonged conflict with China or Russia..

See also: C-sec being the only major abdominal surgery routinely done without effective anesthesia and with significant gaslighting of the patient because (mostly male) anesthesiologists don’t want to improve their airway skills.

I am hardly going to defend the speculum and this is a huge pain that shouldn't be necessary, but it may be worth trying to find a doctor who DOES believe you, because there are possible things that can help (which will, I'm sorry, also be very annoying to pursue)

Holy smokes I avoid obgyns like hell because of the speculum, I hope they adopt these. No doctor is understanding me when I scream that it's like they're ripping me in two. They think I'm being overdramatic.

I saw something a few weeks ago that was an attempt to re-engineer the speculum it was a plastic device that opened like a flower.

My partner and I were discussing how barbaric the tools of gynecology still are, there has got to be a better way to do a pelvic exam than using a speculum.

when some white cis dude tries to get a startup going around this, DO NOT GIVE HIM YOUR MATERIAL, UTERUS-HAVING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND THEYDIES make them pay you

“Every period is a failed pregnancy” more like every period is a chance to regrow someone’s severed limb, you squeamish little cowards that’s a whole-ass human-producing chamber getting flushed