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"Anyone who entertained this conflagration of horseshit is guilty of felony stupidity. And it is beyond any reasonable doubt that this process was clearly rigged.
The only question is: rigged by whom?"
#NewCollegeOfFlorida
When you hear "Woke" listen for "Ka-Ching."
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"This virus isn’t just a pathogen. It’s an architect of cognitive collapse."
🚨 Thread by @jamesthrot.bsky.social on Twitter
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listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly
07.10.2025 22:47 — 👍 7375 🔁 2033 💬 114 📌 260just wow. lol also I loved this, which is true of everyone in the regime:
"Like so many bullies, Trump has skin of gossamer”
Am now picturing a LOTR bonus ep that goes from Leonard Nimoy through Enya to KLF, with a bonus tag about the movie soundtrack.
07.10.2025 17:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Young Marble Giants with Lee Ranaldo (on the choruses).
05.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of my fav historical accounts ever is two cousins who were brought to the court of King Bimbisara for punishment(so we're talking like 300 BC) because they would stand at the town square loudly arguing with each other about affairs of the kingdom and disturbing the peace
05.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 252 🔁 26 💬 6 📌 1
🦅 Bearded vultures as time capsules
Researchers found centuries-old artifacts and bones in ancient bearded vulture nests in Spain, revealing how these birds preserve ecological and cultural history.
🔗 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SciComm #Ecology 🧪
"Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number—
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you—
Ye are many—they are few."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The fact that Donovan and Pink Floyd slip in there seamlessly is a source of delight.
04.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now
04.10.2025 19:50 — 👍 3172 🔁 569 💬 19 📌 12#RankedChoice
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Black-and-white photo of Mark Twain in a dark lab, holding a glowing experimental lamp created by Nikola Tesla; his face and hands are lit by the bright light while the rest of the room remains in shadow.
Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla's lab is such a cool photo.
It was taken with Tesla's own electric fluorescent lamp and photo setup.
ppl dunk constantly on things like philosophy and sociology and then turn around and go "maybe the computer *is* actually talking to me"
04.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 659 🔁 179 💬 12 📌 1
Screenshot of text reading In 2023, storing enough energy to meet the daily needs of the average home would have required about 45 cubic meters of ec³, roughly the amount of concrete used in a typical basement. Now, with the improved electrolyte, that same task can be achieved with about 5 cubic meters, the volume of a typical basement wall. “A key to the sustainability of concrete is the development of ‘multifunctional concrete,’ which integrates functionalities like this energy storage, self-healing, and carbon sequestration. Concrete is already the world’s most-used construction material, so why not take advantage of that scale to create other benefits?” asks Admir Masic, lead author of the new study, MIT Electron-Conducting Carbon-Cement-Based Materials Hub (EC³ Hub) co-director, and associate professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at MIT.
Huh. This seems pretty neat, and potentially promising.
"Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage systems"
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A town in Finland just switched over to a sand-battery for power and heat:
newatlas.com/energy/large...
Been thinking about Chenoweth’s 3.5% rule lately, mainly as model for another question.
What proportion of US population would need to revert to media habits circa 2010 before Trumpism collapses?
MAGA is the platform architecture it weaponizes, but platforms will reject it under populist pressure.
#Florida newspaper celebrates 100 years of service www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/l...
04.10.2025 17:59 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Hanging in my office is a framed display of various WPA murals from Post Offices that were built during the Great Depression. Truly treasures that should be preserved.
I desperately hope that if an iconoclastic Federal government is happy to let this art decay that we can find some way to save it.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
04.10.2025 15:27 — 👍 86 🔁 64 💬 3 📌 2
billboard in black and white reading OBEY
sticker in a shop window reading CONSUME
an open book, one page reads BUY the other DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY
a hand holding money which reads THIS IS YOUR GOD
John Carpenter's 'They Live' (1988)
dir: John Carpenter
I'm gonna get my Kellis-Amberlee after all!
04.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 325 🔁 49 💬 25 📌 5Some things that skeeve me out:
* Immediately wants to capture and use your likeness
* Content it makes is semi-regularly indistinguishable from reality
* Lots of content featuring dead celebrities I have to assume couldn’t consent
* seems like it uses lots of proof pre-canned memes as templates
The parade uniforms for cadets at the US Air Force Academy were designed by Cecil B DeMille!
Diagonal sash, high collar, buttons off to the sides….
Why is he showing up in my inbox now? Today?
Am I being replaced? Is it a Grant singularity? A ripple in Grant-sensitive spacetime?
No idea.
Huh.
8/8
…this song about the sports doppelgänger shows up. Both names the same in his case, led to a fun wedding dinner once in Minneapolis when he was pitching for the Twins and some guests didn’t know I wasn’t him, I was me.
But that was like 15 years ago. That guy retired ages ago.
7/8
…when the OTHER rock star whose web stuff I help with, John Roderick, introduced me and some other folks to his manager, Grant McCallum. Nice to meet another Other Grant, I’ll probably see Other Grant this Saturday, you don’t meet too many Grants out there, ok welp, cheers, be in touch. But then 6/8
04.10.2025 15:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So for my friends and I, Other Grant was my nemesis (jocularly), and then a decade later Lind (who I’d befriended at the tabloids) met Other Grant through the acoustic music scene, they’ve done WLRN shows, we finally met, he’s a lovely man.
I told this mildly interesting story earlier this week…5/8
