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Portland And Beyond This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

Attempts to deploy federalized National Guardsmen to Oregon, California, & Illinois, also, signs that Trump, or at least someone around him, is starting to think seriously about the Insurrection Act. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

07.10.2025 04:57 — 👍 1234    🔁 419    💬 86    📌 21

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

07.10.2025 09:32 — 👍 1765    🔁 653    💬 35    📌 33
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St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

07.10.2025 06:24 — 👍 145    🔁 60    💬 3    📌 4

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

06.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 2651    🔁 919    💬 11    📌 35
A corgi bumping a human’s hand with his nose in an effort to get more petties.

A corgi bumping a human’s hand with his nose in an effort to get more petties.

Stopped paying attention to him for half a minute and he was like, “Bestie, respectfully, ✨NO.✨”

06.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 201    🔁 7    💬 7    📌 0

i just remembered that some people got genuinely upset when i pointed out that live action little mermaid's sebastian would die underwater

07.10.2025 03:57 — 👍 187    🔁 18    💬 5    📌 1
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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

🇨🇳 added renewables > RoW combined -> 2% drop in fossil fuel use in the 1st 1/2 2025 compared ‘24.

🇮🇳 renewable energy grew by more 3x ⚡️ demand – causing “coal & gas use to fall by 3.1% & 34% respectively”.

But demand for ⚡️ in 🇺🇸 outpaced renewables, “leading to a 17% increase in coal generation” 🔌💡

07.10.2025 03:45 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

06.10.2025 22:45 — 👍 7310    🔁 2670    💬 166    📌 51
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Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍

07.10.2025 01:26 — 👍 850    🔁 383    💬 13    📌 19
A black tshirt design with a bald red cardinal in a circle surrounded by flames, with the word bloodcheep in red death metal style letters above it.

A black tshirt design with a bald red cardinal in a circle surrounded by flames, with the word bloodcheep in red death metal style letters above it.

Working on a bloödcheëp shirt. I'm proud of those letters.

07.10.2025 01:15 — 👍 757    🔁 114    💬 25    📌 10

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

07.10.2025 00:45 — 👍 13084    🔁 4052    💬 237    📌 251
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The Mountain Goats - Cold at Night / Rocks in My Pockets Choose your preferred music service

ahem

30tgrs.ffm.to/coldatnight-...

07.10.2025 00:38 — 👍 241    🔁 26    💬 10    📌 3
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1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

05.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 566    🔁 275    💬 46    📌 79

READER: I have to tell you, I teach English to a group of young men and last year I taught What Moves The Dead.
HEROINE: Oh, cool!
READER: And when we hit the scene where the dead rabbits get back up again, one of them said “I didn’t know words could do that!”
HEROINE: 😭

06.10.2025 13:09 — 👍 375    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 0

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

06.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 23641    🔁 11441    💬 498    📌 467

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

06.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 6412    🔁 1270    💬 145    📌 40

as a reminder, i wrote a book that came out this year and you can read it!! people say it's pretty ding dang good!!

06.10.2025 08:34 — 👍 42    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 3
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A Mouthful of Dust Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...

Hey. Hey.

On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.

06.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 148    🔁 45    💬 4    📌 9
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China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

Oh:
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

06.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 174    🔁 79    💬 5    📌 12
me, fiasco, a fluffy grey tabby with a white bib and white toes, on very high alert, lying in a rectangular grey cat bed with my front paws over the edge, looking to the left.

me, fiasco, a fluffy grey tabby with a white bib and white toes, on very high alert, lying in a rectangular grey cat bed with my front paws over the edge, looking to the left.

SQUIRL OUTSIDE

I CAN HEAR HIMS BUT NOT SEE HIMS?!!?? WHAT IS HIDING

PROLLY STOLEN GOODS

06.10.2025 19:53 — 👍 2204    🔁 120    💬 39    📌 3
Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

06.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 103    🔁 81    💬 8    📌 15
Drawing on a train ticket of the head, neck, and shoulders of a rutting red deer stag, facing right. The words 'London' and 'Beeston' are still visible at the lower left corner.

Drawing on a train ticket of the head, neck, and shoulders of a rutting red deer stag, facing right. The words 'London' and 'Beeston' are still visible at the lower left corner.

It's rutting season. This older drawing on a train ticket is from c.2013 (eek), but I'm still fond of it. I'd visited Wollaton Hall and deer park in Nottingham (wollatonhall.org.uk), hence the ticket to Beeston.

Red deer.
Pencil and sepia powder on train ticket primed with gesso.

06.10.2025 02:39 — 👍 195    🔁 31    💬 3    📌 0
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

06.10.2025 17:52 — 👍 17422    🔁 5070    💬 303    📌 320
An illustration of a flying Mothman. He is airborne and has a dark body with red webbing in his wings and red antenna. His face is pale with his mouth twisted in an open scream, his eyes are wide and are red. The background is a pale pink

An illustration of a flying Mothman. He is airborne and has a dark body with red webbing in his wings and red antenna. His face is pale with his mouth twisted in an open scream, his eyes are wide and are red. The background is a pale pink

The man, the myth, the legend: Mothman

06.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 647    🔁 185    💬 8    📌 1
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Last week Jesse Watters spoke to man named Eric who claimed he was formerly a member of antifa. Two years ago Watters interviewed Ramon "Mundo" Mendoza, a former Mexican Mafia member. Some folks thought the men looked similar. This is a side by side comparison. 🤷‍♀️

06.10.2025 07:45 — 👍 7686    🔁 2433    💬 708    📌 375

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

06.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 950    🔁 453    💬 6    📌 8
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The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

For more like this:
tiktok.com/@drewharwell
instagram.com/bydrewharwell

06.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 1777    🔁 741    💬 40    📌 145
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i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

06.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 495    🔁 183    💬 11    📌 20
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What can physicists do? Interviews offer a glimpse of how physicists get into—and thrive in—myriad nonacademic careers.

Physics students are told their degree is a ticket to anything but during their time at university, it's rarely elaborated on. So Toni Feder has gone out and interviewed physicists with varied careers away from the field (Posts the physicist whose job title is digital experience director...)

06.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 107    🔁 29    💬 7    📌 3

A bona-fide, feel-good news story with long-run implications. 🔌💡

06.10.2025 15:16 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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