bigkafka
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The truth is, I am Big Brother
I hate Illinois Nazis.
If you post/repost X content here, I will have to mute you
I hate Illinois Nazis.
If you post/repost X content here, I will have to mute you
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I am very excited about getting my first footage of a cougar. This is a rare sight in Manitoba.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I am very excited about getting my first footage of a cougar. This is a rare sight in Manitoba.
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Je devrais écrire une liste de conseils de rédaction concise en anglais pour les francophones.
Conseil numéro 1: La plupart des "Note that" et des adverbes en début de phrase ne servent à rien.
Conseil numéro 1: La plupart des "Note that" et des adverbes en début de phrase ne servent à rien.
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Je devrais écrire une liste de conseils de rédaction concise en anglais pour les francophones.
Conseil numéro 1: La plupart des "Note that" et des adverbes en début de phrase ne servent à rien.
Conseil numéro 1: La plupart des "Note that" et des adverbes en début de phrase ne servent à rien.
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Je trouve cette image, prise par le robot Perseverance depuis la surface de Mars, absolument dingue.
(Phobos fait une vingtaine de kilomètres de diamètre mais n'est qu'à 6000 km de la surface de Mars, ce qui explique qu'il puisse partiellement éclipser le Soleil.)
(Phobos fait une vingtaine de kilomètres de diamètre mais n'est qu'à 6000 km de la surface de Mars, ce qui explique qu'il puisse partiellement éclipser le Soleil.)
this is Mars’ moon Phobos eclipsing the sun. this is what passes for a total solar eclipse there. second-rate planet. just sad
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Je trouve cette image, prise par le robot Perseverance depuis la surface de Mars, absolument dingue.
(Phobos fait une vingtaine de kilomètres de diamètre mais n'est qu'à 6000 km de la surface de Mars, ce qui explique qu'il puisse partiellement éclipser le Soleil.)
(Phobos fait une vingtaine de kilomètres de diamètre mais n'est qu'à 6000 km de la surface de Mars, ce qui explique qu'il puisse partiellement éclipser le Soleil.)
Consistency over intensity
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Consistency over intensity
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Tech's current model seems to be
1) overpromise to get financing
2) lend to each other
3) burn through unreal amounts of money
4) ruin existing products
5) embed it into as many sectors as possible
6) count on a bailout
1) overpromise to get financing
2) lend to each other
3) burn through unreal amounts of money
4) ruin existing products
5) embed it into as many sectors as possible
6) count on a bailout
*OpenAI Would Like Federal Backstop For Data Center Investments, CFO Says -- WSJ
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Tech's current model seems to be
1) overpromise to get financing
2) lend to each other
3) burn through unreal amounts of money
4) ruin existing products
5) embed it into as many sectors as possible
6) count on a bailout
1) overpromise to get financing
2) lend to each other
3) burn through unreal amounts of money
4) ruin existing products
5) embed it into as many sectors as possible
6) count on a bailout
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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In the 1600s, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a nephew of Charles I of England, won a bet about whether a tunnel can be cut through a cube to allow another cube of equal size to pass through. Today, mathematicians study this “Rupert property” in many shapes. www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In the 1600s, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a nephew of Charles I of England, won a bet about whether a tunnel can be cut through a cube to allow another cube of equal size to pass through. Today, mathematicians study this “Rupert property” in many shapes. www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
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Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
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October 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
correction territory ?
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
correction territory ?
How about internet-connected air fryers?
For a few hours, a service outage at AWS triggered malfunctions across the internet.
But it perhaps was felt most by those sleeping on these smart beds that rudely awoke them with upright inclines, unbearable warmth, flashing lights or alarms.
But it perhaps was felt most by those sleeping on these smart beds that rudely awoke them with upright inclines, unbearable warmth, flashing lights or alarms.
Smart beds flipped out during the AWS outage, and so did their sleepy owners
Some Eight Sleep mattress users had a rude awakening after the Amazon Web Services outage, with reports of beds stuck upright and haywire temperatures.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
How about internet-connected air fryers?
Jeffrey, what did you do again?
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Jeffrey, what did you do again?
They paid the wrong fee.
Should have been $959
Should have been $959
October 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
They paid the wrong fee.
Should have been $959
Should have been $959
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We are not yet in a dictatorship. Trump and his claque are making a run at it. But if you want to keep a democracy, you have to actually remember that you still have one.
This thread illustrates imo why screaming that America is now a fascist dystopia doesn't really work because the terminally online people greatly underestimate how hard it is for the median voter who isn't plugged in 24/7 to wrap their heads around the idea that we are now in a dictatorship
Okay. Let me try this another way, and see if that works.
I was a boy with relatives in Greece during the time of the Colonels, a pretty scary military junta. Some would say it was fascist: Militarism, anti-communism, nostalgia, etc.
But no.
/1
I was a boy with relatives in Greece during the time of the Colonels, a pretty scary military junta. Some would say it was fascist: Militarism, anti-communism, nostalgia, etc.
But no.
/1
September 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
We are not yet in a dictatorship. Trump and his claque are making a run at it. But if you want to keep a democracy, you have to actually remember that you still have one.
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I love these!
September 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I love these!
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By Luis Enrique Camejo Vento (Cuban, b.1971)
"Mirror Reflection," 2021
#Watercolor
76 x 56 cm
#ArtSky #Art
"Mirror Reflection," 2021
#Watercolor
76 x 56 cm
#ArtSky #Art
September 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
By Luis Enrique Camejo Vento (Cuban, b.1971)
"Mirror Reflection," 2021
#Watercolor
76 x 56 cm
#ArtSky #Art
"Mirror Reflection," 2021
#Watercolor
76 x 56 cm
#ArtSky #Art
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if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
Les tensions sont très vives, et la douleur est écrasantes pour nous tous.
September 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Les tensions sont très vives, et la douleur est écrasantes pour nous tous.
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Senator Rand Paul directly and forthrightly takes on JD Vance:
"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."
"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."
September 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Senator Rand Paul directly and forthrightly takes on JD Vance:
"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."
"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."
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Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
This whole thread is more damaging to my brain than a pound of cyanide
Apparently you don't need any formal education at all to be a traffic engineer in the state of Missouri.
September 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This whole thread is more damaging to my brain than a pound of cyanide
She did not disapoint.
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
Trump's niece says he 'can't tie his own shoes' after 'cognitive decline'
Mary Trump, Donald Trump's niece, has slammed his 'reign of idiocy' as she claims he 'can't tie his own shoes' and accuses the president of 'mixing cognitive decline with narcissism'
www.irishstar.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
She did not disapoint.
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...