More than a little scary this: big energy shock incoming, and even if the war stopped now, everything will take months to years to get back to normal.

“11 sperm whales huddled together at the surface, strangely still and taking occasional shallow dives. After about an hour, the animals seemed to start thrashing, and a plume of blood reddened the water. The researchers feared trouble, maybe a shark attack. But it was something else.” WHALE DOULAS!

I am getting a VERY strong late-February 2020 vibe about the omnicrisis bearing down on us right now, to be honest. Fuck Trump!

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Solid evidence Trump sexually assaulted a 13 year old girl. Yet the Republican Party still supports him, like the cult it is.

I’d posit that he can’t stand women, period. psychcentral.com/blog/recover...

Madness, insanity. 25th amendment now.

Windows 11 has an updated Minesweeper game

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Now there’s a name I haven’t heard for a long time. Ras Tanura is on the Persian gulf coast, used to have lots of expats working for Aramco.

there are logos. and then there are logos

mashallah he is gone, to celebrate I've made the piece I wrote last year about arguably the most embarrassing project I've ever worked on free to read: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/so-about-t...

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Mark Carney basically explaining that the US under Trump is destabilising the world and that a new world order for trade is being created Don't Americans understand how much damage Trump is doing to the international world order, and that it'll take years to repair and rebuild relations of trust?

That boy just ain’t right. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

This is complete insanity.

The president of the United States is extorting the Federal Reserve Board Chairman by threatening criminal prosecution if he doesn't lower interest rates. DOJ is compromised, legacy media is cowed and Big Law is AWOL. As I wrote last year: "We are on our own."

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Once again, “huh, that’s weird” Is the greatest sound in science.

i miss when this guy was the only LLM

The thing to understand about "[whatever] for oil" is that it's not a conspiracy of rational actors. Anything done "for oil" now, or in the last 20 years, is the thrashing of a death-cult convinced it must be allowed to brew its suicide-dose and shove it down all our throats.

A foreign head of state kidnapped?! www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...

Why are that so stupid, but got away with this for so long? as www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...

"We risk inheriting a future in which institutions answer to synthetic publics rather than real ones" rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...

If it wasn't apparent before, the extent to which the Epstein file release has been redacted by Trump's lackeys makes very clear that the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist does, indeed have a whole lot to hide.

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Chag Semeach, y’all! Behold the KRAKENORAH!

The oil barons and Murdoch will destroy the world if they’re not stopped.

Showing distinctly Trumpian behaviour.

Torment nexus times.

This may well be the most monstrous thing the Trump administration has ever done, and that's saying something. Shutting down USAID is a decision that will ultimately have a preventable death toll on the same order of magnitude as the Holocaust. I wish that was an exaggeration.

Our 249-year-old system -- two-party presidentialism -- has sometimes worked in spite of itself due to favorable conditions, un-codified norms, & a few periodic fixes. That run is clearly over. I argue below that we need a multiparty democracy with the legislature supreme and a limited executive.

He invited a bunch of known sex pests to his daughter’s 18 birthday? Fetchez Les Trebuchet! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Will Lewis has destroyed the Post both reputationally and financially within *two years* of taking over. Now, let's not forget to give due credit to Bezos here but man, what a loser.

I FRIGGIN knew it......🤣

Sad news.

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Who's your favorite Jedi? (wrong answers only)

Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid.

Bring me sunshine…

(this is not real)

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

I saw this today...