Wild what you can get away with in articles about cycling. This is objectively false! A city with less driving and more biking is far safer for pedestrians. Hate cyclists all you want but that’s an empirical fact

Absolutely essential* watching from @theabigailthorn.bsky.social. Educational, entertaining, heartbreaking - and through it all, a powerful call to informed action.

it's hard not to keep coming back to the fact that they could simply have Not Done This they could have not bombed Iran! the strait would be open! we wouldn't be staring down a massive global economic crisis! none of this had to happen!

Antizionist Jew here to say explicitly: they're gonna kill Jews over this. American Jews who have no ties to Israel. And some of that blood will be on the hands of Jewish zionists who allowed themselves to be used as shields by Christian Nationalist Zionists.

Poppers

Are you also impacted by the brightness of motor vehicles lights at night? Transport Canada wants to learn more. Have your say and provide feedback here. #VisionZero tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

I think you probably can't understand modern America and recent elections without understanding that: 1. evangelicals have more kids 2. they vote 3. they sincerely believe that all the Jews have to be in the Holy Land in order to trigger a big war & all convert/die so that Jesus will return

“Spring in Canada is so beautiful” says woman about to experience months of grimy dirt snow on the side of roads

They're good oils, bront

8/8 The fact that Platner is obviously a guy who has a Nazi-adjacent past--tattoos, Blackwater, history of racism--and is now running as a leftist is a BONUS for these guys. To them, it's not a red flag, it's proof of concept. They can't tell you that, though, because they know how that sounds.

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldn’t give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me

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Paedarchy. Pedoarchy? Nonce occupied government in any case

Man, Leverage was something else.

powerful academics getting to retire after being linked to a child sex trafficer is not "accountability" or "facing consequences" or "a reckoning" or "justice" it's just them retiring. These institutions continue to beclown themselves. Divest.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

This previous post seems relevant again.

The time to prevent the thing from happening is *early*, as it is gaining steam. These things always start small, with efforts to weaken the norms against discrimination, with casual, unreflective slurs. They start with wedge policies (not gays, just gay adoption! not trans, just sports!).

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

Prince Andrew arrested over Epstein ties on the same day South Korea’s ex-president was jailed for life for attempting a coup. Lord, I have seen what you’ve done for others 🙏🙏 www.bbc.com/news/article...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Scientists: if you have pursued/secured philanthropic funding in the wake of federal research funding cuts, I want to talk to you. Reposts appreciated!

Gonna show my age but film cannisters being great weed storage will not leave my brain til i say it.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The study does not remotely say that science “leans hard left.” Nor does the fact that academics left the Nazis-and-child-porn website for a different website mean they’re producing biased evidence. All of the major threats to science in 2026 come from the right.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

"cooled by the vacuum of space" - huh, neat. hey does anyone know how thermoses work

I am truly impressed by the number of motorists whose objection to this boils down to "but I am not a safe enough driver to handle it and I would prefer not to improve"

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Alright, where are my gifted kids at? You were smart and you never had to study and then you went to college and suddenly had to learn a new skillset overnight, that everybody else had years to learn, or flame out spectacularly? That’s what talent is like.

you're doomscrolling I'm plumposting we are not the same

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

Ross (Steve Urkel voice) “Did I” Douthat??!

Discontinued Food News! This will be especially devastating for those of you, who like me, have the childhood sensory memory of clunking a cylinder of orange slush around in a plastic pitcher of water with a wooden spoon to produce the most underwhelming OJ imaginable, burned into your brain!

"This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data" should be grounds for being fired out a cannon into the sun.

Ep 301 of Leverage Redemption S3 had a villa in France full of evil billionaires colluding to pillage trillions in public goods who were keeping a small town activist in the basement until they could execute her led by a guy who admired Putin, and we did not, in fact, go hard enough. Apologies.

European Scientists who said NO to Epstein-funding are the heroines of this hour🦸‍♀️ They show: It was your choice to SAY NO to Epstein's $ as scientist- you just had to have ethics & a spine Kudos to Physicist IVETTE FUENTES who said NO She was working at @quantumunivie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

You guys, I just can't get over the "put data centres in space for cooling reasons" thing Vacuum, the thing they famously use in thermoses to make them insulate better, is what space is made of. This idea is incoherent.

Imagine trying to argue that Lupita N’yongo is NOT the beautiful woman in the world 😮💜

i do not understand groundhog day. six weeks is literally the spring equinox. this is baby behavior.

Anne Frank died of typhus