Joel

Joel

@snufkinlib.bsky.social

Cosmopolitan, liberal | Catholic | 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇮🇪🇬🇧🇦🇹🔶 | Mark 8:36 | he/him Doing an MSc in Environmental Technology Formerly: Harris-Walz, Kingston Council

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Our Hera spacecraft can now see Didymos and Dimorphos as two separate asteroids! 👀 Coming closer, it will study the effects of NASA's 2022 DART impact and help advance asteroid deflection as a planetary defence technique. The first detailed images of Dimorphos are expected on 25 November.

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I don't think it's even slightly right wing to be aware that forcing up pay without increasing the value of the work being done is a terrible idea. We're facing a youth unemployment crisis and the government are literally making it MORE expensive to hire people.

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1. Lose election 2. Assume Trump will steal election for him 3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election 4. Oh shit oh fuck

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In all seriousness that piece of rhetoric will go into history. Brazilian politics people will be able to recite it generations from now like the Kinnock ‘a labour council’ speech

I think it demonstrates the political power of being genuinely furious, which I think we’ll see as a big factor in 2028

Oomf was telling me they thought Jeremy Thorpe was judged too harshly and it turned out they forgot he was trying to murder someone (allegedly)

Breaking: Evidence Shows Lula Campaign Did All the Things I Want to Do Anyway; Enacting My Preferred Strategy “Key” to Comeback

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TBH, with a literal handful of exceptions, you can have the old high street back if you are willing to knock down and densify the actual buildings on, in and around the high street.

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"Victory Boogie Woogie". Piet Mondrian. 1944. Image: Gemeentemuseum

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Nusseibeh’s supporters say she entered the race after it was clear Latin America couldnt produce a viable candidate. it’s incumbent on me to point out that the security council has an viable alternative front runner and their unwillingness to converge on her is not inevitable, but a political choice

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The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

Guess what man I don’t even have a US birth certificate and I’m still more American than you are. Because I love the Constitution and you hate it

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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It was the postwar consensus that world leaders should stop looking fly as hell. Previously violated only by rogue leaders like Gaddafi, now even core states are allowing leaders to look unbelievably sick

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it is worth thinking though about the insane level of chance it took for that combo to happen. If you wrote a story where the guy who planned Gallipoli ended up PM with the Major who may literally have been the last guy out as his DPM, they'd call it too forced.

Some really exciting events are going to happen in the USA over the next two years or so, which makes it a great time to be across one of the larger oceans from them

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Did you like Project Hail Mary? Want more first contact shenanigans? Need more Crab Aliens in your life? How do you feel about epistolary fiction? Check out my original work "Shades of Life are Ringing," already completed and ready for your reading pleasure. archiveofourown.org/works/421183...

archiveofourown.orgShades of Life are Ringing - Chapter 1 - KingoftheUzbeks - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

just to gently challenge a popular theory among some leftcaths

Owen Winter@owenwntr.bsky.social

The swing to Lula was larger in municipalities with more irreligious or evangelical residents, while municipalities with more Catholics swung towards Bolsonaro

An important avenue for mainstreaming this!

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”