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🧵 1/4: I recently saw this vintage Qantas poster with a unique “flower” map projection centered on Sydney. I like how the map almost neatly divides the four largest continents (Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa) into the four petals.

#TuneTuesday (Oct 27) I’m not Australian so I wasn’t aware of “You’re the Voice”, a 1986 power ballad by John Farnham, until a few years ago. But I liked this anthemic song as soon as I heard it, and that bagpipe solo is the proverbial cherry on top! 🍒 youtu.be/tbkOZTSvrHs

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

Since 2004, this community has helped make Firefox and the open internet possible. Our “Come Back to Firefox” campaign reunites a few early internet icons to remind people what made the internet special, and why it’s worth protecting.

#SilentSunday #photography #throwback #Philippines #Aklan #Boracay #beaches #sunsets #silhouettes

Sure, AI-generated maps may eventually become way more accurate in the future, but in the meantime I will ridicule those that generate them.

I remember when media did a whole bunch of stories about Joe Biden’s shoes to emphasize that he was old. But Trump can randomly blurt out random noises, fall asleep constantly in meetings, and walk like a drunk failing a sobriety test, and we get almost nothing.

Several months ago …

"...prices began rising immediately after the broader tariff measures were announced in early March and continued to increase gradually over subsequent months" @econofact.bsky.social econofact.org/are-tariffs-...

This is a pretty unhinged interview conducted by @moreperfectunion.bsky.social. I am not an economist but I can see a lot of wrong stuff this interviewee is spouting. Sadly, too many Americans subscribe to his wrong ideas. youtu.be/IGb2210QyJw

Mike Rogers can keep his yachts and his McMansion in Florida.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Mathematical analyses of #Wordle is one of my favorite microgenres of YouTube videos. youtu.be/h-Rusd72W7U

#SilentSunday #photograph #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhite #monochrome #Alabang #Muntinlupa #Philippines

New — I wrote about Republicans beclowning themselves heading into the midterms with clearly bullshit narratives about James Talarico and Rep. Ilhan Omar, and how the favorable conditions for Dems have produced a noticeable shift to nipping deranged stories in the bud.

When I tell people that Donald Trump hates me, they often assume I mean it in a generic sense — that he hates Democrats and people who fight him in court. No, I correct them: he hates me personally. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...

Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

From The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment

I was surprised to recently discover that apparently the Dead Sea is smaller than what I was used to, as currently mapped in @openstreetmap.bsky.social. It seems the former southern portion is now a bunch of salt/potash ponds split between Israel and Jordan. www.openstreetmap.org/relation/935...

Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.

Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."

Why am I not surprised that a criminal who is a pathological liar is taking credit for something that he did not do?

Why would you believe this from the guy who wants to become the world’s next trillionaire?

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Memo to Democrats: you can't win the public's trust if you drink from the same corporate trough as the Republicans. Reject Big AI Money (and all corporate campaign contributions) and regulate AI. https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-election-spending-toxic

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail.

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Who had this growing up?

Any fool can see the absurdity of culling an animal that lives for 400 years and only reaches sexual maturity at 150.

He makes a good point.

Excellent infographic article about the numerous open-source software and libraries that are only maintained by one unpaid developer, leading to burnout and security exploits. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

A short PBS Terra video about the rare South American Hurricane Catarina in 2004 with a short sidebar on why the Philippines is the most vulnerable to disasters. youtu.be/KIQrTspJMM4