"Sometimes you have to ask yourself: How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine?" I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Young Republicans chat uncovered by @politico.com are chilling: ▪️ using gas chambers ▪️ raping enemies ▪️ supporting slavery ▪️ using physiological torture to root out those who aren't true believers These aren't just kids - it includes the general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans

Ma joie botanique du jour

Et pendant ce temps, l'Espagne, qui a misé sur un refinancement massif des services et aides publiques et une politique pro immigration, voit son économie s'améliorer durablement Le réel donne raison aux gauchistes

Le saviez vous ? Le gouvernement Lecornu est tombé avant que les sondes Voyager 1 et 2 ne reçoivent l'information de sa nomination.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Greta Thunberg, à son arrivée en Grèce. "Les mauvais traitements qui nous ont été infligés, ce n’est pas ça l’histoire ! Nous ne sommes pas des héros ! Nous avons fait le minimum parce que dirigeants et médias sont complices de ce génocide et c’est notre responsabilité de mettre fin à ça !"

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

PTDR #sarkoentaule

Avez-vous déjà vu... un tardigrade faire le tour de sa petite planète de cellules d'algue Volvox ? Maintenant oui 😊 Cette vidéo a été classée 4ème au concours de microphotographie Nikon Small World 2025. www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... cc @eloscicomm.bsky.social 😉

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Read the headline - they're just saying it out loud. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

A second mass shooting of a homeless encampment in Minneapolis. Five more people died. Meanwhile, congress is working on passing the ability to jail homeless people for up to 30 days or charge them $500. It bans camping on public property. abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...

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A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

The Washington Post has fired @karenattiah.bsky.social — the last Black woman on their opinions staff — for quoting Charlie Kirk’s racist words in the aftermath of his shooting (in a series of skeets decrying gun violence and political violence). Support her by signing up for her class.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.

Here’s the thing and I know this isn’t going to be a popular opinion but that’s not really that much damage or loss of life considering. ICE has killed 14 people this year.

Depuis 2005 aux USA, 93% des assassinats commis par des extrémistes sont le fait de l'extrême droite. Partout, l'antiwokisme s'impose pour invisibiliser ces crimes dont il est complice par ses silences et ses outrances.

Il y a urgence à (ré)imposer des normes plus élevées de ce qu'on considère être un échange d'idées. "On ne discute pas recettes de cuisine avec des anthropophages. Le débat, l'échange des idées comme celui de la nourriture obéissent à des règles." (Vernant). www.lemonde.fr/archives/art...

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

People assume there is a First Amendment right to any speech anywhere at any time, then get mad when i try to play The Internationale at 120Db on the floor of the NY stock exchange.

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

i want to hump jump for somebody so fucking bad that would fix me

ok I synthesized a few ideas and I think I figured out how to explain basically all goth music

Bathroom sign at an ice cream spot out here

Spéciale dédicace à tous les droitards "Gaullistes"

Should we move away from trans rights,like sports, which affect "very few" people? Once you decide that [one group] can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third. (Judith Butler)

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This was like lancing a boil.

This is just textbook 1930’s fascism

The best thing to have is enough.

Un drapeau américain flotte fièrement à coté du drapeau russe sur ce tank qui attaque les positions ukrainiennes. S'il fallait résumer l'alignement de Trump avec la Russie en une seule image..

Now they have to take the most difficult steps of all: recognising that relying on the US to find a solution has failed, and that if they are not prepared to confront Putin in Ukraine, they are likely to have to confront him in the Baltic states or Poland. “If not us, who? If not now, when?” 16/16

Lire le texte complet, il est inouï. Alignement total de Mélenchon/LFI sur la Russie. "Les dirigeants de l’UE ont accepté le scénario conclu en 2008 à Budapest en faveur de l’annexion par l’OTAN de l’Ukraine et de la Géorgie, véritable déclaration de guerre à la Russie." melenchon.fr/2025/08/14/e...

I am in absolute love with this new piece of art from the Leagues of Votann codex of Buri Aegnirssen facing down a massive Tyranid. It just got posted alongside a stack of the new background in said codex. #WarhammerCommunity www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

UN chief António Guterres says the world is on the brink of climate breakthrough. More than nine in 10 renewable power projects commissioned in 2024 were less expensive than their fossil fuel equivalent. Solar was 41% cheaper on average and land wind 53% cheaper. buff.ly/EWOfRu6 #ShareGoodNewsToo