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David
@scotinus.bsky.social
Liberal transplant from Scotland to the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Music, science, politics, software, American exceptionalism sarcasm, MMT, saving democracy and dogs. Crypto-naysayer; it's a bigger fool pyramid - fun until it's not. Post.News refugee.
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$40 billion here, $60 billion there. By 2030 it is estimated we will burn 219 gigawatts of power in data centers, constantly. All the time. 24/7. That is exactly 3.65 billion 60-watt lightbulbs. We went from Al Gore to AI gore. techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/s...
I don't understand the animosity, given Comey put the nail in Clinton's 2016 coffin giving Trump the win in the first place. www.npr.org/2026/10/26/n...
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NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting having already started in the state last week. “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief.
To celebrate another successful prescription take back event, police HQ are holding an all night party. 😜 www.koin.com/news/portlan...
Bill fucking Maher. The guy is and always has been, an egotistical misogynistic libertarian asshole. What anyone on "the left" still sees in him, is absolutely beyond me. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Today's world is a comic book. Elections across the globe are battles in the war of Good versus Evil. The global oligarchy against the liberal order. Deception and propaganda; 1984's command to disbelieve your own eyes against the lived experience of the working & middle classes. WE won this one.
It's sad that so many people live their lives, with such shallow and simplistic perspectives. Making your entire life about abortion, is a lazy, disingenuous way of *pretending* to care about something, while not actually giving a single empathetic fuck about anyone else.
apnews.com/article/trum... voted for Trump every time. Then came cancer and the bills How tragic that it took a potential death sentence to get her to give up her hateful, racist politics.
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WT actual F did Truman do, to get a shittier approval than Trump? "Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president since Harry Truman in 1946" www.nj.com/politics/202...
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The Supreme Court (of nine people) should never be involved in such a case. This is not a Constitutional matter. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
It's truly wonderful that he's home. But make no mistake, relaxing sanctions and shitting on Ukraine were the "swap". www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...
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I'm glad dems are getting the message: transphobia is not popular. www.erininthemorning.com/p/lets-make-...
They're trying to do as much possible damage as they can. This IS Project 2025. Destroy all the institutions and customs that make us collectively strong, then steal all the resources and make the population utterly dependent on oligarchs.
BREAKING: Trump's head of FEMA just told states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. The Trump admin's disaster chief told state officials they must increase their financial reserves and emergency capabilities to handle most disasters on their own — without federal help.
Oh my, this speaks volumes. The most empathetic Americans are non-religious (83%) while the least empathetic are White evangelicals (42%). The transition between these polls is exactly what you'd imagine. The message is clear: American religion destroys empathy. www.axios.com/2026/10/20/r...
Behaviors we've never seen before? Those are super-superconductors. www.sciencealert.com/new-form-of-...
If only they could for once, just shut the fuck up. Amazing they only blamed immigrants and didn't throw some trans-hate in there. "Trump, Vance blame immigration for French riots" thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Zelenskyy is highly regarded around the world and Europeans are grateful to him for holding the line against Putin. Trump on the other hand is despised around the world. And the BBC is complying in advance with the right-wing government it seems to expect to take over the UK in a couple of years.
Truly terrible stories. As Snyder says, this is what siding with Russia means. By appeasing Putin, Republicans enable these abuses and prolong the war. Republicans are letting Trump support Russia financially now. More women will be raped. More men will have their testicles electrocuted.
These courageous testimonies are very much worth knowing about, and also worth keeping in mind (as the author pointed out to me) as we consider what it means to take Russia’s side. "Rape as a weapon of war: The voices of Ukrainians" by Sara Cincurova snyder.substack.com/p/rape-as-a-...
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Ossoff is hitting the spot. It's very refreshing.
Ossoff: "Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the AI they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom ... I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become"
Total creep, caught. Such bravery by the women who brought him down. www.koin.com/news/portlan...
Guns, guns, guns. So fucking easy. Like chewing gum. Bang bang kids dead. Fuck every one of you who want to keep the status quo. Seriously, I mean it. Fuck you. abcnews.com/US/multiple-...