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Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

Autofahrer fragen entgeistert, warum sie den ÖPNV mitfinanzieren sollten, obwohl sie ihn gar nicht nutzen, während gleichzeitig wir alle ihre Parkplätze, Straßen, Unfälle, ihre Luft- und Lärmverschmutzung & ihre Klimaschäden laut Studien mit jährlich 5000€ pro Auto subventionieren und ertragen muss.

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

Vor 4 Jahren erschien übrigens mein Buch, „Amerikas Gotteskrieger“. Was gab es damals Empörung wegen des Titels (und Inhalts) - die Warnung vor christlichem Nationalismus & Theokratie (noch dazu von einer jungen Frau!) wurde als hysterisch abgetan. Jetzt titelt der Spiegel genau das: „Gotteskrieger“

I have a big request. My baby cousin, 15, is in hospital, non-responsive. I'd like to see her one last time & am trying to fly across the ocean *tomorrow* to make this happen. It would cost about £2500 or £3300 dollars. If you're able to contribute, this is my paypal: paypal.me/riversandfam

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

Hey authors! If your first novel came out in the onslaught that was 2020, please share it here. Tell us the title and at least one cool thing about it, plus give us a link to learn more and buy it.

*side-eye at Eurovision*

dear spiegel

You mean, exactly what people who opposed it said?

Ich denke wir sollten dazu übergehen amerikanischen Regierungsbehörden und den Informationen in etwa so zu trauen wie russischen oder nordkoreanischen. Das sind keine belastbaren Quellen, wo sich Propaganda und Information unterscheiden lassen.

SCOOP: The IOC’s panel that will determine policy on transgender participation appears to have excluded researchers whose work casts doubt on the need for bans

I was introduced to Borsook's work in grad school and still cite it regularly as it remains relevant!

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

Expert here: We were not, in fact, ever puzzled. It has been and always will be a writing tablet. www.indy100.com/news/ancient...

I don't like Newsom for a lot of reasons but I'm glad he's using this platform to get this message out. (Yes he's also doing it bc he wants to be president really really bad. But a lot of people will watch this and hopefully some new people will realize how dangerous Trump is for democracy.)

Q: Do you support defund the police A: No Q: Do you support defunding the police A: Yes

This is terrifying, and it’s the kind of thing we need to talk about and bring attention to.

I just wanna be a cheese wizard, or fromage,

Flights of Foundry is this weekend! I'm going to be on some panels (and maybe chatting with folks, or possibly reading, I don't know). Here's my schedule!

Expect the Court to formally, actually overrule Humphrey's on paper some time next year In practice though, the Supreme Court keeps saying people should proceed as if any law that conflicts with what Trump wants has already been struck down ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

I wrote a thing. A is for autocracy Absolute power for our new king B is for bible-thumping Which covers all egregious sins C is for censorship To hide the things that we don’t like D is for dictatorship A new name for the new Fourth Reich

it's like nobody remembers the French revolution any more and it's like they really should.

New essay up @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Behold my love letter and reflection on Perry Rhodan, both Classic and NEO, and why you should be giving them both a deeper glance at: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

the discovery in the tylenol defamation lawsuit is going to be incredible

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Tylenol ain't taking this shit From tylenol.com

Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.

Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.

Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson. If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.

Translation: we saw the money we were losing with everyone boycotting and our shareholders lost their shit so now we’re backpedaling as fast as we can. That said, we will continue to make similar terrible decisions going forward as long as it doesn’t affect our bottom line. See ya real soon!

It’s 10000% appropriate for Fergie to be canceled and for Ghislaine Maxwell to rot in prison. I just want the police and the public to bring this same energy toward the *men* who were besties with and enabled and abused women and girls with Jeffrey Epstein. Is that too much to ask?

Das Virus, dessen Name nicht ausgesprochen werden darf: ⏩[...] sagte Kapitän Fabian Reese nach Abpfiff. "Aber wir hatten 13, 14 Spieler, die in der Woche vier bis fünf Tage komplett krank waren - mit einem Virus, der schonmal sehr populär in Deutschland war.⏪ #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #TeamVernunft

Mir ist gerade klar geworden 🤯: Volksverpetzer-Bluesky-Posts haben mehr Quellen als die meisten der Artikel von Medien wie NIUS oder BILD. 🙈 bsky.app/profile/volk... www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/...

CJ Cherryh's books are in e-rights limbo (and a lot of them are out of physical print, too). This must not stand.

As we boycott vile companies, a reminder that many US public libraries offer: 1) Ebooks & audiobooks via the Libby app. Pro tip: use the “notify me” tag to request your library add books by trans, disabled, & BIPOC authors! 2) TV & film streaming via Kanopy 3) Language learning via Mango 💙📚 And:

Less than a day now! This book was a lot of fun!

Need 11 backers to reach 100. Thanks to everyone who has given my little Who Framed Roger Rabbit X Michael Chabon's Yiddish Policeman's Union a shot. Writing is not a solo endeavor. It takes a community of beta readers, editors, artists, and readers. www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

Nazis: You’re just fine with your tax dollars feeding EVERYONE ELSE’S kids lunch?? Me: Yes. And breakfast. And dinner. And two reasonable snacks. And everyone else in their family. Everyone. I want EVERYONE to have 3 meals and 2 snacks. And education. And healthcare. And homes. And water. And…

There are bots that do this. Seriously, just AI chatbots that are given access to an account and just disagree with posts at random just to stir up trouble. There's a Hank Green video about this but I was pretty sure about it before I saw the video

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

Rapture theology - that the holy will be beamed to heaven before a period of tribulation - is a concept younger than the steam-powered locomotive. It's neither widely accepted as a Christian doctrine nor widely believed outside the United States.

In 1983, 90% of U.S. media was owned by 50 companies. By 2012, that number was 6. Today, it's just 5. Decades of media consolidation made it "a lot easier for authoritarian government to exercise control," consumer advocate Gigi Sohn says. Much more in my new piece: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

i also want to note that "i don't want children to have to undergo genital inspections" is an extremely easy argument to make and the fact that elected liberals cannot manage it is because they are either incompetent or complicit and i do not give a shit which

I can't do millennial complaints, but my most GenX complaint is that cynicism should not be an excuse to roll over or tell others to quit. It's the armor you need to continue to fight when you know you won't be the one to benefit from it. Yeah, we're fucked. Now get your hands dirty.

BREAKING: Der Deutsche Journalistenverband wirft dem Generalsekretär der CDU Erpressung und Tabubruch vor. Linnemann versucht, die Finanzierung von ARD und ZDF einzuschränken, damit die öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender noch rechter werden. – Wehret den Anfängen!

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