Will there ever be accurate information again?
12.08.2025 01:10 β π 20 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0@timhanshaw.bsky.social
Armchair futurist. Good at trivia. Worried about the country and the world. Trying to stay positive. Failing @TimH@mas.to on Mastodon
Will there ever be accurate information again?
12.08.2025 01:10 β π 20 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0hey remember when "serious thinkers" on the left were telling us this about roe
11.08.2025 22:58 β π 95 π 7 π¬ 4 π 0The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you youβre overreacting.
11.08.2025 16:47 β π 10744 π 3389 π¬ 483 π 125I guess weβre okay with this.
(Feel free to RT this over the next few days, weeks, years, forever)
An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...
10.08.2025 23:43 β π 657 π 414 π¬ 21 π 23No, heβs not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.
08.08.2025 22:40 β π 2032 π 588 π¬ 105 π 36The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
10.08.2025 18:09 β π 608 π 358 π¬ 88 π 55usually if you ask experts why an empire fell theyβll say itβs nuanced and multifaceted, so i think itβs kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like βoh they took the idiot train to moronsvilleβ
10.08.2025 03:36 β π 26591 π 5165 π¬ 413 π 216today at the park we saw wild turkeys and some dude behind us was like βbro look at those owlsβ so what Iβm saying is donβt ever let anyone make you feel stupid. you can visually identify a turkey
09.08.2025 23:09 β π 8731 π 910 π¬ 28 π 88Makes you wonder, huh?
09.08.2025 21:45 β π 4998 π 1104 π¬ 131 π 29A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:
30.07.2025 07:24 β π 3682 π 1316 π¬ 57 π 65A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al
You sure about this, Google?
09.08.2025 01:55 β π 40982 π 5718 π¬ 1226 π 482behold: a woman
08.08.2025 18:39 β π 9090 π 2163 π¬ 79 π 67Broadway musicals came up again on the Fire Escape Cast we just recorded.
08.08.2025 05:03 β π 118 π 10 π¬ 5 π 0The Constitution dictates that the census is a count "all persons" conducted every "ten years." Donald Trump has no power to alter either the timing or who is counted.
07.08.2025 12:05 β π 6123 π 2035 π¬ 455 π 154It is entirely reckless to abandon this lifesaving research.
Our country is a global leader in vaccine research and disease prevention and this will seriously undermine our ability to respond to future health threats.
This makes us less safe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
05.08.2025 22:54 β π 18088 π 6786 π¬ 558 π 289kennedy is going to kill a lot of people
05.08.2025 22:50 β π 22462 π 5836 π¬ 726 π 353WASHINGTON (AP) β Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
05.08.2025 22:28 β π 2980 π 1344 π¬ 550 π 1204Trump has an able liar and hypocriteβaka a propagandistβas head of his National Economic Council.
05.08.2025 18:57 β π 1042 π 190 π¬ 47 π 9I'd like Megyn Kelly to name one time when she walked into a room and apologized for being white, blonde, and blue-eyed.
In fact, it was these features that launched her career and earned her millions of dollars.
The disconnect between upper management and the workforce is worth noting: www.fastcompany.com/91378094/new...
05.08.2025 17:20 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 4 π 1Man who pardoned a convicted murderer because he liked who was killed makes illegal order backed by no law to arrest elected officials for a crime that doesnβt exist. You know, because they are the law and order party.
Release the Epstein files.
hey you want to see some old timey pictures of the toledo rockets mascot
www.utoledo.edu/mascot/histo...
the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that
03.08.2025 15:39 β π 4090 π 1380 π¬ 65 π 62Keep the two distinct in your head.
03.08.2025 22:57 β π 7586 π 1778 π¬ 84 π 50the ending of this explainer might surprise you
03.08.2025 14:22 β π 4775 π 1144 π¬ 100 π 109These VOA newscasters and reporters were given visas because there weren't experienced broadcast journalists in the US with native level skills in such languages as Bambara, Lao or Georgian. But since Kari Lake wiped out nearly all VOA's 48 language services there are indeed no jobs for them now.
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