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A reminder of how a real American President confronts a tyrant.

I don’t understand why they haven’t put the Slow Horses on this. Didn’t Cartwright solve this in season 3?

There were a lot of tribunals in Star Trek.

I really feel like the middle ages were kind of recapitulated during the Sid and Marty Croft era

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.

Inventors of new 1950s food storage system: "How about Help Jar?" "No" "OK, what about Food Friend?“ "No" "Nutrition Wrap?" "No" "OK, Klaus, what’s your idea then?" "RUBBERMAID" 

While on a work holiday, Tom dreams about hats.

A wee #music one for you. We’re talking last century here - in every sense of the post #history #vinyl #IYKYK

Let loose the fireworks! I have completed my extremely modest goals!

Bluesky, by cubic weight:  - dogs - cats - outrage! - birds - virtue signaling - reposted from Reddit - comics - reposted from X - reposted from last month - over-shopped landscape pics - pile ons - art you didn't make - art you did make - dead pets - needless apostasy - original thoughts - lists

Hannah Mooney, Across Ballyglass landscape II, 2016, contemporary Irish painter #Womensart #SummerPaintings

Remember folks, any taint of socialism will destroy this country. If capital isn’t free, are any of us? 

Photographer Varun Aditya spent three straight nights in a hide with no flash to capture this pride of Asiatic lions, one of only 600 left in the wild, all confined to India's Gir Forest.

Lobster on a roll = lobster roll. Fried clams on a roll = clam roll. Not “lobster sandwich“. Not “clam sandwich“. Hamburger patty between two slices of bread, original name = hamburger sandwich. Hot dog on a roll = hot dog roll. Not a sandwich.

I think I know where it Is

This is the Mega Marvin, an instrument that gets used to make sounds in horror movies. [📹 MetalWOlf] Original post

Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...

Blues legend Buddy Guy turns 90 today 🎸 🎂 Here a 29 year-old Guy performs at the 'American Folk Festival of the Blues’ in 1965 on its European tour. (Original footage colorized by @blues.in.colour)

He thinks he’s Aragorn, but he’s Boer-omir.

A TIMELESS STORY Americans: I’m mildly worried about communists/immigrants. Chuds: vote for us, we’ll take care of it! Americans: great! Just don’t overreact OK? Chuds: sure thing! [massive overreaction, violence, McCarthy/Miller] Americans: I’m mildly worried about the overreaction  AND SCENE

Tout va bien.

Fika vs. FIFA

Strait of Hormuz, meet Strait of Form Ooze

I don’t want to hear anything about the Strait of Hormuz during pride month 🏳️‍🌈 #pride

War takes anyone it can find. It takes the reluctant, the frightened, the placid, the tired, the zealot, the fifth child and the only son. But it only ever takes the brave: those who found no excuse, showed up, didn't run, followed their buddy. It doesn't matter why you went, it’s that you went.

In the 90s, tech gave us e-commerce, reinforcing consumerism. 2007, smartphones led to social isolation, teen depression. 2009, social media increased both, and partisanship. In 2010, crypto with heavy eco demands. Now, AI to replace us. They’re breaking the world to "save" it.

Researchers in Dublin discovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library.

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE: “.. it’s difficult not to look at President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing this week and feel kind of bummed out. .. It’s hard not to feel that China is very serious, and we are not.” www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-visit...

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only 

I think we’ve moved beyond “hey at least Trump gets shit done" and past "Trump just does shit" to "everything Trump does is shit"

Excellent analysis. This really hits home: “Positioning himself as the custodian of a phantom center”

Patty or Joey?

So are we going to talk about how introverted/Incel/on-spectrum male tech lords are creating a world of robots, AI companions, and chatbots to add to current reality of shallow online “community“, Amazon shopping & contactless delivery? Can we have some women create stuff, please? 

Would you support universal healthcare if it were legally called TrumpCare forever?

Remember last week when we were worried about AI hallucinating and feeding us bad information? Great news, humans are already doing that job!

Unfortunately, the FBI Director sued the Atlantic OCEAN. And since he was on dry land, the courts have ruled he does not have standing.  But he will be permitted to appeal by placing a message in a bottle.

Italia, everybody’s got their elbows out, you can’t put nothing pasta nobody.

Kash Patel defends story of security team having difficulty waking him, saying “I simply refuse to be woke"

Capitalists: "Don’t worry about massive layoffs, new companies will create new jobs. That’s how capitalism works!" Also capitalists: "OMFG we have to bailout these mismanaged companies, or we’ll have massive job losses!" Wait, how does capitalism work again?