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Here bee dragons, roote of mandrake… some ever since have regarded the whole damn thing as a mistake.

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Demonstrators against the Gaza Genocide in Jerusalem tonight. Still from a video posted by @RSolidarityNet on X

Demonstrators against the Gaza Genocide in Jerusalem tonight. Still from a video posted by @RSolidarityNet on X

Jerusalem tonight.
"We must resist against genocide"

04.10.2025 22:24 — 👍 186    🔁 63    💬 1    📌 1

How exactly is this different from Kristallnacht?

04.10.2025 20:15 — 👍 1239    🔁 319    💬 46    📌 9

Honestly Bari Weiss being named as the editor in chief of CBS gives me a weird sense of peace. She’s a propagandist to be sure but she’s also an incredibly lazy charlatan and I don’t think her new owners nor her understand just how incompetent she is nor how badly this will end

01.10.2025 06:37 — 👍 198    🔁 29    💬 5    📌 4

It’s your senior year at barista college when they finally let you write insults to conservative customers on the cups

04.10.2025 02:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would a US version of M-19 do the funniest thing and capture the sword of Eisenhower

04.10.2025 02:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

03.10.2025 23:31 — 👍 7445    🔁 3115    💬 599    📌 396

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

03.10.2025 21:40 — 👍 26032    🔁 6629    💬 480    📌 155

The chemicals are turning the fires gay

03.10.2025 07:07 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Someday, we're gonna find out that the decisionmaking went like this:

Mamdani proposes city-run grocery stores. Conservatives say it'll never work. Mamdani supporters point out that DOD runs a bunch of grocery stores. Hegseth decides to close them to own the libs.

02.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 4674    🔁 1298    💬 117    📌 54

“I read theory”

02.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 163    🔁 26    💬 9    📌 1

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

30.09.2025 22:34 — 👍 16831    🔁 6364    💬 164    📌 96

sleep’s DOPESMOKER

01.10.2025 03:32 — 👍 150    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 1
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starting to think that an increasingly senile trump is being shown a different reality by his aides by making ai videos of shit and telling him it’s real news

30.09.2025 00:34 — 👍 6092    🔁 1204    💬 159    📌 133
Screenshot of The Princess Bride’s Inigo Montoya with text that says “Hello. My name is Pete Davidson. You killed my father. Prepare to laugh”

Screenshot of The Princess Bride’s Inigo Montoya with text that says “Hello. My name is Pete Davidson. You killed my father. Prepare to laugh”

Meanwhile at the Riyadh comedy festival

30.09.2025 00:41 — 👍 7429    🔁 1298    💬 94    📌 90

Please note that, unlike the president, the deputy chief of staff does not have immunity from prosecution for official acts per Trump v. United States

29.09.2025 16:44 — 👍 1977    🔁 541    💬 18    📌 34

Everyone in the kill chain should be prosecuted but we have an opposition leadership that thinks this is a distraction from funding rural hospitals in +70-80% trump country

29.09.2025 15:59 — 👍 234    🔁 36    💬 4    📌 0

i graduated from high school in 2002. 2002 was fucking awful. the music sucked, the games sucked, the fashion sucked, we were going to war everywhere, george w bus had a 90% approval rating, and it was largely all the fault of people who earnestly liked walmart

29.09.2025 15:07 — 👍 425    🔁 43    💬 37    📌 9
Him picking a Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane album

Him picking a Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane album

Him picking a Sepultura album

Him picking a Sepultura album

I finish off with this Star Trek the Next Generation season 3.

I finish off with this Star Trek the Next Generation season 3.

In times like these, you need to watch TNG to have some hope.

In times like these, you need to watch TNG to have some hope.

Delighted by the guitarist from The Viagra Boys doing What’s In My Bag? and picking Thelonious Monk, Sepultura, and Star Trek The Next Generation Season 3

29.09.2025 18:22 — 👍 152    🔁 8    💬 6    📌 0
For the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse. They held that only the constant interchange of talk united citizens in a p o l i s . . . . However much we are affected by the things of the world, however deeply they may stir and stimulate us, they become human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows.... We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it; and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human.

Hannah Arendt,
Men in Dark Times

For the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse. They held that only the constant interchange of talk united citizens in a p o l i s . . . . However much we are affected by the things of the world, however deeply they may stir and stimulate us, they become human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows.... We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it; and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human. Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

28.09.2025 00:04 — 👍 60    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

Laura Ingraham asked Tom Homan if he took a bribe and Homan started ranting about how he has to subsist on a government salary.

25.09.2025 00:13 — 👍 2044    🔁 402    💬 167    📌 105
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

24.09.2025 20:30 — 👍 29537    🔁 9944    💬 731    📌 1558

He dances in front of their bulls

25.09.2025 00:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

23.09.2025 12:04 — 👍 3178    🔁 981    💬 48    📌 0

The funniest thing about Charlie Kirk was that his entire shtick as a teenager was “watch this college dropout DESTROY these undergrads.” And he then went through the entirety of his 20s and into his 30s … still debating undergrads.

23.09.2025 04:43 — 👍 843    🔁 116    💬 27    📌 3
A still from the Jerry Springer show. A cherubic boy named Shaun, 14, “says he believes in everything GWAR represents.”

He has black lipstick and a sort of long side bang and he’s a dear.

A still from the Jerry Springer show. A cherubic boy named Shaun, 14, “says he believes in everything GWAR represents.” He has black lipstick and a sort of long side bang and he’s a dear.

i stand with shaun

23.09.2025 04:55 — 👍 109    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 0
For 16 hours on Sunday, Sept. 21, the entirety of power generation in Alberta, from Zama to Taber, and from Lloydminster to Edson, went for a price at less than one singular Timbit.

That’s right – the entire province (except for there they may be a side deal or two), every pumpjack, streetlight, factory, hospital, hard-wired welder, refinery, LRT, air conditioner, computer and hair dryer was powered at a cost of precisely zero dollars for two-thirds of the day.

That’s because during that time, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) pool price was $0 per megawatt-hour. And one Timbit at least costs something.


AESO pool price on Sept 21. AESO

 

Some people have questioned why Pipeline Online doesn’t report a lot about the times when wind power generation does well. The reality is there aren’t many days when wind output exceeds 50 per cent. but when it does, such as on Sunday, Sept. 21, there are other impacts. Wind did exceptionally well in Alberta throughout most of the day. And as a result, all power generators on the Alberta grid who received the pool price got paid precisely zero for 16 hours (and counting at time of writing.)

At 8:44 a.m., the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) declared a supply surplus in effect, but it ended at 10:12 a.m. Another supply surplus was declared at 10:14 p.m. It ended at 12:08 a.m.

For 16 hours on Sunday, Sept. 21, the entirety of power generation in Alberta, from Zama to Taber, and from Lloydminster to Edson, went for a price at less than one singular Timbit. That’s right – the entire province (except for there they may be a side deal or two), every pumpjack, streetlight, factory, hospital, hard-wired welder, refinery, LRT, air conditioner, computer and hair dryer was powered at a cost of precisely zero dollars for two-thirds of the day. That’s because during that time, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) pool price was $0 per megawatt-hour. And one Timbit at least costs something. AESO pool price on Sept 21. AESO Some people have questioned why Pipeline Online doesn’t report a lot about the times when wind power generation does well. The reality is there aren’t many days when wind output exceeds 50 per cent. but when it does, such as on Sunday, Sept. 21, there are other impacts. Wind did exceptionally well in Alberta throughout most of the day. And as a result, all power generators on the Alberta grid who received the pool price got paid precisely zero for 16 hours (and counting at time of writing.) At 8:44 a.m., the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) declared a supply surplus in effect, but it ended at 10:12 a.m. Another supply surplus was declared at 10:14 p.m. It ended at 12:08 a.m.

huh, the entire alberta energy grid was free for 16 hours yesterday

wind power was overproducing, so it just... goes to zero apparently

23.09.2025 04:06 — 👍 883    🔁 244    💬 23    📌 60

Being designated a terrorist organization means basically nothing whatsoever— this is even true for FTOs

23.09.2025 04:57 — 👍 151    🔁 17    💬 8    📌 0

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

22.09.2025 22:35 — 👍 3547    🔁 811    💬 3    📌 0

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