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Randall Munroe

@xkcd.com

Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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Endless Screaming

@infinitescream.bsky.social

AAH

November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM

Åsmund

@agjare.bsky.social

Rakk iallfall den siste halvtimen av kampen. Fekk med meg alle bytta... 😴

November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

probably something an innocent man would do

November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM

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The New York Times

@nytimes.com

Breaking News: House Democrats released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein alleged that Donald Trump knew of the convicted sex offender's conduct and “spent hours at my house” with a victim.

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.

nyti.ms

November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher

@aleddilwyn.bsky.social

Helt utrolig hvordan ytre høyre nå dikterer NRKs og andres dekning. Media er så redd for eventuell kritikk og mulige søksmål, at de gjør et knefall for Trumps agenda FØR noe konkret skjer. Tror ikke ytre høyre selv hadde sett for seg at dette skulle være så lett! Lover ekstremt dårlig for framtida.

NRK går gjennom Trump-dekning

NRK går nå igjennom materiale fra dekningen av stormingen av Kongressen 6. januar i 2021. Utenriksredaktør Sigurd Falkenberg Mikkelsen sier at i lys av det som har skjedd i BBC, går vi gjennom nyhetsp...

www.nrk.no

November 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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Dates in Movies

@datesinmovies.bsky.social

Nov 12th - The Hill Valley clock tower was struck by lightning, George decked Biff and saved Lorraine, Marty travelled Back to the Future.

📽️📅 Back to the Future (1985)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Back to the Future" (1985): First, a close-up of a young man and woman dressed in 1950s attire, gazing affectionately at each other on a dance floor, evoking a pivotal romantic moment. Second, a digital display showing "Nov 12, 1955" as the destination date, central to the film's time-travel plot. Third, an image of the town clock tower at night, with a dramatic lightning bolt striking the clock

November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM

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Ole Svarthumle

@svarthumle.bsky.social

Har tenkt litt og landa på at det nesten må få vere greitt.

November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM

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Anine Hartmann

@aninehartmann.bsky.social

Vi har avdekket at forskerne fikk avslag på fritak fra taushetsplikten og fra å innhente samtykke til forskning fra pasientene - tre ganger.

De gjennomførte forskningsprosjektet likevel.

Forskere felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner – nå er de klaget inn igjen

Forskerne som er felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner, har også tidligere villet forske på den samme gruppen.

www.forskning.no

November 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM

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Dan of the Year

@downwithdan.bsky.social

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Joyce Carol Oates
@Joyce... 17h O
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the
"most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk
X.com
Oates is a liar and delights in being mean.
Not a good human.

November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM

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Christopher Pahle

@tophepahle.bsky.social

Sjokk og vantro. Jon Helgheim er grunnleggende uredelig i sin åpenbart ideologisk motiverte anklage om at forskere ved Politihøgskolen er uredelige og ideologisk drevet når de mener hardere straff mot ungdomskriminelle ikke er en god idé.

www.khrono.no/helgheims-bl...

November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM

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Little Greenis

@durtmchurtt.bsky.social

Christmas puns will ruin this place.

Yule see.

November 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM

Åsmund

@agjare.bsky.social

Tenk deg ei nettavis der folk faktisk måtte kunne noko om temaet før dei skreiv kronikk 🙄🙄🙄

Kontekst: Økonom klagar over at ungdom ikkje lærer om økonomi på skulen, før han ramsar opp ei rekke punkt som er NØYAKTIG kva elevane lærer både på ungdomsskulen og VG1.

www.nrk.no/ytring/penge...

November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM

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S. Ole Glad

@kontorkonsept.bsky.social

God dag, og takk for tråden.

Har i dag lest et intervju med heiskontrollør W. Sverdrup og lært mye.

www.nb.no/items/77f658...

Et konstruktivt bidrag til alminnelig heiskultur vil han imidlertid gi oss: Lytt til erfarne heisfolk, rygg aldri inn i heisen. Se om den er der før du legger ut på tur. - Det har faktisk skjedd noen få ulykker ved at heisføren har latt seg åpne uten at heisen har vært inni. Når man da vandrer freidig inn, bærer det jo litt for raskt nedover.

November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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Bill Grueskin

@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM

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Mathias Kilsti Hals

@kilstihals.bsky.social

kan vi legge dette tullet dødt nå?

vi har allerede funnet opp verktøyene vi trenger. vi har allerede kollektivtransport i verdensklasse. vi har en kompakt by, som bare blir mer kompakt og enda bedre å gå og sykle i.

fokus på det vi har som funker!