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Coffee Thought: At some point the old saw about having the second best military becomes moot because any war will be so devastating that it will cause worldwide calamity. I wonder if the Prime Minister understands this?

Trans and Queer Prisoners Share Stories of Vulnerability and Discrimination — Assigned At a Georgia prison, being queer makes you a target, and the staff may not be on your side.

ONLY on Assigned Media, a look at the experiences of discrimination trans and queer people in prison face, and how it is exacerbated by staff and state neglect.

By B Speaks, a queer journalist who reports powerfully from the inside of a prison in GA.

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Mia Mulder — What Happened To Big Ideas? | Mia Mulder What happened to Big Ideas? And why can't we have Abundance? I know the secret answer. And I think Papua New Guinea is neat.

New Video: What Happened To Big Ideas?
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YouTube video by PBS Big Head Todd and the Monsters perform “Bittersweet” | Colorado Soundstage

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I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.

This was indeed a big pain in the ass, but it's literally the very least you can do to oppose these maniacs threatening to take the sky.

YouTube video by Novo Amor Novo Amor - Anchor (official video)

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I have long held that use of facial recognition should be punished the same as uranium smuggling, and double for police. I now think that police should be forbidden the use of computers entirely.

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To: YouTube Producers

As an addendum to my advice that one should buy a microphone and lights before they buy a camera, I want to add a prompter to the list. A cheap one is less than $100.

A friend of ours was able to be a test subject for an mRNA vaccine for an aggressive form of breast cancer. Completely worked. It is one of the greatest miracles of science and like 40% of the country turned it into The Jab because they are mushheaded simpletons.

We have never built a permanent human settlement on Antarctica, a place with natural radiation shielding and ready access to air and water.

I got Kool and the Gang downloaded to my phone just in case the Internet stops working from everyone trying to play Kool and the Gang.

A Brief History of Children Today Are Growing Up Too Fast

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"We Keep Us Safe" by The Whistle Crew The Protopasta Fil-anthropy Fund is proud to partner with the Whistle Crew, "a loose federation united by our love for 3D printing and community safety." Across the nation, our communities' lives are ...

If you have been waiting a super easy way to support the printing folks without giving 'zon your money, @protopasta.bsky.social stepped up with a solution! Every $20 you give them at this link helps produce 500 whistles.

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To: Android Messages UI Designer

If I zoom, I want to see the picture bigger. Making me click into and then click again to zoom and then still not letting me zoom it as much as I want and leave it zoomed is complete garbage. It's a bad interface and you should feel bad.

We'll be told "there are millions of people who are uncomfortable with that, and we have to learn to live with them."

No, actually. We already are living with each other, including them. They're uncomfortable with some of us. THEY have to learn to live with US. If they won't, that is their problem.

Hating the Game The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

"I always struggled to recommend a book to others who asked me for a recommendation on the topic [of Japanese spiritality]. Now I know the answer." The Japan Society UK reviews @hirokoyoda.bsky.social: www.japansociety.org.uk/review?revie...

Macbeth: SHIT

The guy who is my bellwether for where the dumb money is going—he had a cloud engineer phase, crypto phase, nft phase, AI phase—has pivoted back to DJing, which is what he was first doing when I met him 20 years ago.

🚨🚨IT IS BASEBALL SEASON

Oh my God, these Super Bowl ads just get crazier and crazier!

A screenshot of the spreadsheet known as The Gizmotron™. Tonight's rehearsals were: All You Need Is Love Hey Jude Hotel California Long Train Running My Back Pages One Rhymes and Reasons The Real Folk Blues The Way What It's Like

Fired up The Gizmotron™ and did a set.

breaking news chryon labeled breaking news, cat angry as fuk cat too angry god help us

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I love it. He arranged, recorded, mixed, and mastered that, then told the label, "No, no. It's a make-out record. You have to put that on the cover." And they did!

All about "reactionary centrism" Michael Hobbes joins me to diagnose the pundit class's obsession with scolding the left while the right burns down the house.

Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.

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An American Reckoning | Ben Rhodes Robert McNamara’s failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War contributed to fifty years of foreign policy failures. It can help us understand the crisis ...

“Were we—was I, was Kennedy, was Johnson—a ‘neo-imperialist’ in the sense that you are using the word?” McNamara asked. “I would say, absolutely not!” To which Giap responded, “Excuse me, but we correctly understood you.”