Is the universe trying to hand the Senate to the Democrats by making Republican Senators drop dead?

In honour of Mitch McConnell's (possible) death, I will repost probably my favourite thing I have ever made.

Just bi-cycle curious

The posts most likely to provoke sneering odium on Bluesky are those sneering odiously about Bluesky. Their main issue seems to be that people can block them and it actually be effective.

At least he inspired something creative today

Do not build the Torment Nexus

It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.

Functional government is a left-wing idea. At best the right sees the government as a necessary evil that should be restrained as much as possible (at least when there's a Demo crat in office). The party that doesn't believe in government has no incentive to make it functional.

This is a pretty clear cut principle:

"Solar is moving fast. Really fast. Batteries are moving faster." "Solar is already creating the fastest shift in electricity generation..." reneweconomy.com.au/solar-is-alr... #energysky

Just finished the new Russell T Davies show Tip Toe with Alan Cumming and David Morrissey. It's a show with a message, and it's not subtle about it, but it's delivered with such charisma from Cumming and an amazing performance from Morrissey. Some great monologues ripe for clipping, too.

I hate that my instinct is "Shush, stop saying Trump lost the war or he will fucking start it up again just to spite us all!"

Should be bechamel in that layer

Simeon Brown firing people for - not being racists… 😬 “The documents outlined expectations that doctors understand how culture can affect health outcomes and how bias and systemic factors can contribute to inequities” #nzpol

SpaceX is certainly not worth 2 Trillion dollars, but if Elon is going to manipulate markets to make it seem like it is, he should be taxed into oblivion until there is no more incentive to do such things.

Is correlation causation? In this provocative article, we find that correlation is in fact correlated, and conclude that this means causation.

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

I'm old enough to remember when the spellchecker could actually spell.

I guess it's not fat phobia when we do it to him...?

remember how in the 70s the "six million dollar man" was this like hyperadvanced cyborg and now six million dollars of medical treatment is like oh you survived a real nasty leukemia

If Bluesky is an echo chamber, why are people complaining it's an echo chamber constantly showing up in my feed?

Reddit is fundamentally broken, imo. The fact that downvotes will literally make your post invisible by default *does* tend to create echo chambers.

Oh great. The YouTube app opens to auto-playing Shorts now. I hate it.

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

No, spell check. Just no.

Am I the onlt person who feels like it's a lot harder to learn nee information on the internet that isn't pushed by an algorithm?

Hey according to this chart voters believe propaganda isn’t that crazy

Shocked and ashamed that only 8,000 non-Māori have so far chosen to be part of history by adding their name to the Claim that Tania's talking about. Deadline is Monday. "Worse than the Treaty Principles Bill!" @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol 📝 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Solving world hunger is easy. Yeast doubles every 90 minutes or so, so just leave it a few days and you have tons of bread! (this is a tweet about AI)

i am begging you not to quote dunk the lame ass WaPo opinion podcast into doing numbers. let it die in darkness

Welcome to "Whose Country Is It Anyway?" Where the rules are made up and the votes don't matter.

"Don't be a dick" shall be the whole of the law.

It's been 16 months since I left X, and I feel so much better for it. I hadn't realised just how big an impact the daily tsunami of hate, trolling, sealioning and strategic incomprehension was having on my state of mind. I cannot understand why anyone who values their mental health is still there.

I wanted to get a pocket multitool, so I did a bit of research and watched a few videos. Now YouTube thinks I'm a knife guy, and wow there's a lot of content serving that market!

ICE have just transferred kidnapped new zealander everlee wihongi to arizona, the day she was due to meet with her lawyer in california. the valid green card holder has been in prison for 30 days. over on webworm, an essay from everlee's aunt, jen, writing from NZ: www.webworm.co/winstonpeters/

I know this isn’t the point, but that’s such an incredible shot 🤩 The way they’re both perfectly in crystal-clear focus, but the background is kinda hazy and dreamlike. What is that, a split-diopter? 🧐 Who knows. Very cool, though.

the GOP laid the foundations for this from the 60s to the 2000s, they are reaping decades of organizing work. it will take decades of work to take it back from them. it will take the rest of your life.

The question of what must be done to fix the US increasingly looks like rewriting large parts of the Constitution.

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

"Left and right should unite against the elites who oppress us" "Oh, so the wealthy capitalist class?" "No, academics, actors, journalists, and *you know who*" 🤦

For more detail

Bigots will be like: those foreigners aren't as tolerant of the [slurs] as we are!

Do i know any AoNZ rural people here who have experience with using air rifles or pistols for pest control? Im looking for some advice.

I feel like I'm going crazy. 5000 comments and I couldn't find a single one pointing out the obvious fake. youtube.com/shorts/yojR7...

There's a big difference between taking *a* piss and taking *the* piss.

Because it works

Someone should scrape imdb and load it into WikiData or something like that. A lot of it is non-copyrightable information anyway (I am not a lawyer)