John
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Just want to take a moment to appreciate the Pallas Cat. A species of beautiful little weirdos.
I love me some snow leopards and wolves, but there are so many wonderful creatures.
I love me some snow leopards and wolves, but there are so many wonderful creatures.
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Just want to take a moment to appreciate the Pallas Cat. A species of beautiful little weirdos.
I love me some snow leopards and wolves, but there are so many wonderful creatures.
I love me some snow leopards and wolves, but there are so many wonderful creatures.
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‘To be a good citizen of a bad state, one has to do scary things. It may be writing an opinion essay calling for your own country’s isolation…It may be using your body to shield someone more vulnerable…It may be withdrawing your economic cooperation’
- M. Gessen
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
- M. Gessen
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
‘To be a good citizen of a bad state, one has to do scary things. It may be writing an opinion essay calling for your own country’s isolation…It may be using your body to shield someone more vulnerable…It may be withdrawing your economic cooperation’
- M. Gessen
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
- M. Gessen
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
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And if free public transport is good enough for their favourite tax-haven, Luxembourg, it’s good enough for us too.
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
And if free public transport is good enough for their favourite tax-haven, Luxembourg, it’s good enough for us too.
In today’s trouser news, I have discovered Kuhl. Articulated knees and secret pockets. They seem to be made of sci-fi whipcord which is also pleasing, and less military-adjacent than a lot of other brands
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
In today’s trouser news, I have discovered Kuhl. Articulated knees and secret pockets. They seem to be made of sci-fi whipcord which is also pleasing, and less military-adjacent than a lot of other brands
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Rob your racist family members
November 27, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Rob your racist family members
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ALMOST! But he already disabled it!!
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
ALMOST! But he already disabled it!!
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Très (End of Triple) http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-tres-end-of-triple-p20133
November 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Très (End of Triple) http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-tres-end-of-triple-p20133
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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I have ready to sell, lemon curd, strawberry & raspberry jam, picalilli, mango chutney, sweet chilli jam, cranberry preserve, green tomato chutney, blackberry jelly, crabapple & rosehip jelly.
They’re all home made & mostly hand picked fruit & veg. Sugar & salt & vinegar the only preservatives.
They’re all home made & mostly hand picked fruit & veg. Sugar & salt & vinegar the only preservatives.
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I have ready to sell, lemon curd, strawberry & raspberry jam, picalilli, mango chutney, sweet chilli jam, cranberry preserve, green tomato chutney, blackberry jelly, crabapple & rosehip jelly.
They’re all home made & mostly hand picked fruit & veg. Sugar & salt & vinegar the only preservatives.
They’re all home made & mostly hand picked fruit & veg. Sugar & salt & vinegar the only preservatives.
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It's been obvious for years that many social media accounts are foreign trolls. The tragedy has been the utter complacency about it. All an enemy had to do was tinkle a little bell and the dumb doggies would bark away at each other. Why bother with a nuclear arsenal?
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's been obvious for years that many social media accounts are foreign trolls. The tragedy has been the utter complacency about it. All an enemy had to do was tinkle a little bell and the dumb doggies would bark away at each other. Why bother with a nuclear arsenal?
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If you’d be so kind as to share, I’d be *ever* so grateful.
If you’d be so kind as to share, I’d be *ever* so grateful.
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One community, thousands of brands, and a whole lot of second-hand style. Ready to get started? Here’s how it works.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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If you’d be so kind as to share, I’d be *ever* so grateful.
If you’d be so kind as to share, I’d be *ever* so grateful.
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If a $40 hoodie ends up stretching out, pilling badly, and looking like crap in a year, it will still cover your torso, but won't bring you any joy. Conversely, if it holds its shape and ages in a charming way, you'll want to *repair* and not *replace.* This is sustainability.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If a $40 hoodie ends up stretching out, pilling badly, and looking like crap in a year, it will still cover your torso, but won't bring you any joy. Conversely, if it holds its shape and ages in a charming way, you'll want to *repair* and not *replace.* This is sustainability.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
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Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
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This is a commissioned painting that was recently delivered to its new owner in Ontario. Do you recognize the location?
'The Tree'
24x36 acrylic on canvas
'The Tree'
24x36 acrylic on canvas
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is a commissioned painting that was recently delivered to its new owner in Ontario. Do you recognize the location?
'The Tree'
24x36 acrylic on canvas
'The Tree'
24x36 acrylic on canvas
You can blowtorch my brûlée
You can glaze my cherry.
You can frost my sugar cookie
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
You can blowtorch my brûlée
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Not much of a magician if he couldn't make the evidence disappear.
Thomas Massie says the FBI is sitting on information that implicates 20 other men in Epstein's child sex trafficking operation
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Not much of a magician if he couldn't make the evidence disappear.
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Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel
Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel
WASHINGTON—Calling the national crisis “a complete justification” for additional airstrikes on boats purportedly trafficking narcotics, the Pentagon issued a statement Tuesday blaming Venezuela for th...
theonion.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel
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Planning to start your Christmas shopping this weekend?
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
Good Gifts 2025
Use your Secret Santa or present giving to support charities, museums and small businesses.
madlinblog.wordpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Planning to start your Christmas shopping this weekend?
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
I've got you covered with over 100 links to charities, museums and small businesses selling interesting things which will bring joy not landfill.
#GoodGifts
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I know I’m still an eternal optimist because every time I open this app it’s with the hope of seeing the breaking news of that one really big thing.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I know I’m still an eternal optimist because every time I open this app it’s with the hope of seeing the breaking news of that one really big thing.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.