Robert Barat (volt4ire)

Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in the borough.

Preservationists just discovered an Underground Railroad safehouse hidden in an East Village mansion
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permabanned from the karaoke bar for doing Koyanisqaatsi 3 nights in a row

L’historien et résistant juif Marc Bloch, assassiné par la Gestapo en 1944, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin Le président Emmanuel Macron avait annoncé la panthéonisation de Marc Bloch en 2024, pour saluer « son œuvre, son enseignement et son courag

French Jewish historian and Resistance hero Marc Bloch will be reburied in the Panthéon this June www.leparisien.fr/societe/lhis...

The superb owl of Minerva flies only at dusk

Pan American Unity by Diego Rivera

Current mood

Times article has an incredible illustration

If you're an Olympic ski jumper slide into my DMs

Letterboxd review reading "There's a certain strain of Italian movie that is like, "what if instead of having gay sex with my male friend, I...became a fascist?" This is the longest one"

Guess the movie

Stop Blaming DoorDash for the Affordability Crisis One DoorDash Discourse to rule them all: Food away from home is down. Groceries are up. This is especially true for young people. Affordability is a real problem.

DoorDash Discourse is entirely wrong.

Since the pandemic, percent spending on groceries are up, food away from home is down, and this is especially true for young people. Trends point to food affordability being a real problem.

Dig into the CEX with me!
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It’s funny how people speak of Das Kapital, but never Die Traumdeutung.

This feels like the mirror world at work, except this time it’s the left/progressives mirrorin'g the right's going deep down a conspiracy rabbit hole. I’m open to being convinced otherwise, but a coincidental overlap in timing is not proof of directed orchestration.

Pretty simple story. The Post was primed to get a massive influx of subscribers and interest in the Trump 2 era — and they've produced major scoops consistently in this period — and then something very obvious stopped it all from happening.

From @benjysarlin.bsky.social:

Opinion | Abandoning Trans People Would Be Costly For the Democratic Party: Here's the Simple Math Our votes cannot be taken for granted.

As there's yet another push to blame trans people for the obvious results of Dem party higher-ups' incompetence and complicity with fascism, here's @madycast.com's sharp analysis of how badly abandoning trans rights will work out for them.

If Michael Parenti was alive today he would play as Caesar's Legion in New Vegas

Socialize em. Competition is petit bourgeois claptrap.

Genuinely insane to imagine that like random impoverished Yupiks in Siberia have any kind of control over Vladimir Putin

Guy who thinks Timor Leste is named after Timur the Lame

"director of Adafruit, writing in a YCombinator forum, "This happened after I sent an email reporting the"

Mad props to The Register for referring to Hacker News as "a Y Combinator forum" www.theregister.com/2026/01/15/s...

Yeah I believe in Havana Syndrome
Havan a nice day syndrome!

"Helped eliminate waste from ❓❓❓❓❓ disposable plastic bottles"

They filled MissingNo.'s water bottle

Lenovo is flipping its naming conventions upside-down, "Yoga" will no longer imply a 2-in-1 laptop It's not easy categorizing a growing lineup of products for consumers to understand when new models are constantly being introduced. Lenovo will be changing its Yoga branding to something more self-ex...

smdh Lenovo changed its naming convention such that "Yoga" no longer necessarily means being foldable www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-is-fl...

going after a somali representative while her community is being targeted by stormtroopers for the crime of not voting in a uncontested primary is something I would not be caught dead doing.

also, what the hell was with using Moonlight Sonata during That Scene in Heated Rivalry

there are plenty of Russian composers! baffling and distracting

This isn't true at all. RMS, the FSF, and the entire free software movement have always been against field of use restrictions (and rightly so IMO)

Time ball - Wikipedia

This is where time is stored en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_ball

JFC

i don’t think everyone needs to like every film but the way people refuse to even take the avatar series seriously in any capacity feels so performative in a way no other series has ever been treated, very odd to me

Captain Planet was literally blue-skinned, and the Planeteers were majority POC (but I agree with your wider point)

The mom from Goodbye Lenin: "we have Frankfurt at home"
The Frankfurt at home: