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Esoteric order of sashimi
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Art, science, and (generally left-wing) politics. Mostly reposts.
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Did you know that smoking increases caffeine clearance by over 50%, meaning you have to drink more coffee more often to get the same effect?

And that birth control pills do the opposite, extending the biological half life by almost half?
February 19, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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This is correct and also one of the main theories about the end of the Bronze Age civilisations and as a fun aside to give you context, the eruption of Samalas was at least an order of magnitude greater than Santorini.
The ancient minoan civilization was essentially wiped out by the island of Thera, or Santorini, exploding in a gargantuan eruption.

This is most likely what Plato referenced when he developed the story of Atlantis, and is a possible interpretation for the 10 biblical plagues of Egypt as well.
Still can't get over how there's a whole civilization with a capital city at least as big as Pompeii buried deep under miles of volcanic rock from the biggest eruption in like 10,000 years on Lombok in Indonesia and all we know about them is that they existed till they were destroyed
February 19, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Still can't get over how there's a whole civilization with a capital city at least as big as Pompeii buried deep under miles of volcanic rock from the biggest eruption in like 10,000 years on Lombok in Indonesia and all we know about them is that they existed till they were destroyed
February 19, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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I’m still livid about this.
February 19, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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First Nations people in America and Canada have been being murdered like this for decades.

Look up "starlight tours".

It is straight up evil, and the message to take away is what you have just seen is STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE for law enforcement, it's just becoming visible in cities now.
Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.
As the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are ordered to release people they've kidnapped, they do it in the dead of night to make sure it's as cruel and brutal as possible. Fortunately, compassionate Patriots are there to meet them and make sure they're ok and driven to their homes.
February 19, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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How much of tech is just wizard of oz mechanical Turk flimflam scams these days, because it feels like a lot
February 19, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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Just saw an ad that started out "your kids won't remember their best day of screen time" and while I of course broadly agree with the sentiment that you should do activities with your children, don't tell me i don't remember beating zelda a link to the past
February 18, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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live abrams reaction
this is one of the funniest production photos i’ve ever seen
February 19, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up
February 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Very disappointing. NYCers, please take action using the link below.
Public libraries are actually existing examples of the world we want. We should not have to fight for them under a democratic socialist mayor.

@nycplan.org is organizing a response. Tell Mamdani to make good on his commitment to baseline funding for libraries!

nycplan.org
NYC Public Library Action Network
Read our response in our latest newsletter Mar 21 at Make the Road New York (in Queens). Learn how you can advocate for increased public library funding, hear more about the services that libraries…
nycplan.org
February 18, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Reading something from a person 500 years ago, on the other side of the planet, that speaks perfectly and with profound specificity to some private part of your soul, and finding, across those chasms of time, that you’re not alone is, IMO, the greatest pleasure literature can provide.
If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so
Meanwhile, on threads, which actually is like what people on twitter think bluesky is like, a "teacher, author, poet" speaks...
February 19, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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THE JOKER (in his capacity as a podcast host): You agree Bats has completely lost it?

GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: I thi--this is

THE JOKER: It's a simple question. Do you think Birdbrain is the real menace facing Gotham.

NEWSOM: So, this is interesting. It's interesting. You may have something there,
February 18, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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it used to be normal to breathe cigarette smoke any time you went out. we changed that via education and public policy. it doesnt have to be normal to breathe covid.
I mean the proper answer is doing to air quality what we've done to water quality over the past two centuries, filtration/exchange. Tackling all airborne diseases/pollutants in one fell swoop. But I ain't seeing that either.
February 19, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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I have seen this claim several times on here and it is abject fucking madness. bordering on antivax sentiment
February 18, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
www.mprnews.org
February 19, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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Gar are the only surviving members of the ginglymodi clade of fish that first appeared 240 million years ago.

The ginglymodian lifestyle is slow, their DNA mutates about a thousand times slower than everyone else.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginglym...
Ginglymodi - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 27, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.

In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
February 19, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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nobody understood cloutchasing like the Medicis
there is a reason patronism led to some of the greatest creative output in human history

“you don’t have to spend your time and energy working on anything except your art” means more art
The fucking Renaissance artists whose names drip off your tongue without much prompting had fucking PATRONS!
February 19, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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I love when people quote post me incandescently furious that I have “turned off replies” having not noticed that you can, in fact, reply, you just have to follow me first

thus immediately proving my point about why I have restricted replies to people who follow me
February 19, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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The Scion of Oklahoma City’s largest McDonald’s franchisee family pissed himself at a peaceful anti-ICE protest in Mustang, OK this week when he tried to start shit and attacked protestors
I'm surprised this guy hasn't gone viral
February 18, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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"Israel has arrested several people, including army reservists, for allegedly using classified information to place bets on Israeli military operations on Polymarket."

www.wsj.com/world/middle...
www.wsj.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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ICYMI- the clergy ordered to be granted access to ICE detainees came for their scheduled visit AND THE FACILITY WAS EMPTY
The 2 Catholic priests and Sister who entered the Broadview, IL ICE facility, to provide Ash Wednesday services to those inside, have come back out.

They gave brief statements to press before leaving for an Ash Wednesday mass in Melrose Park.
February 18, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 19, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO
February 18, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day
February 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM