One of my favourite things is cross cultural covers.
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
One of my favourite things is cross cultural covers.
Musk responding to Joyce Carol Oates…
a man with a mustache wearing a black hat says " don t call me stupid "
ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a black hat says " don t call me stupid "
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Musk responding to Joyce Carol Oates…
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this was the most hilariously bad defense of Elon I saw in her responses
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
this was the most hilariously bad defense of Elon I saw in her responses
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Not getting owned by Joyce Carol Oates by defiantly recounting all the books I was made to read for GCSE English Literature
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Not getting owned by Joyce Carol Oates by defiantly recounting all the books I was made to read for GCSE English Literature
Interesting SF perspective from one of the best local journalists.
Nancy Pelosi can be succeeded.
But she cannot be replaced.
Latest column from @esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2025/11/nanc...
But she cannot be replaced.
Latest column from @esksf.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2025/11/nanc...
Nancy Pelosi can be succeeded. She cannot be replaced.
The Speaker Emerita directed heaps of money back to San Francisco and used vast influence to elevate her city. Nobody can step in and replicate that.
missionlocal.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Interesting SF perspective from one of the best local journalists.
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Mark Carney’s first budget quietly provided Canada with the ingredients for something the country has lacked for a century: a truly national electricity backbone. An East-West renewable energy grid.
#cdnpoli #onpoli #climate #Budget2025
cleantechnica.com/2025/11/08/a...
#cdnpoli #onpoli #climate #Budget2025
cleantechnica.com/2025/11/08/a...
A Second Golden Spike for an Electrified Canada: Using Carney’s Budget to Link the Provinces - CleanTechnica
Canada’s electrified future depends on linking provinces through HVDC transmission. Carney’s budget may be the catalyst to start building it.
cleantechnica.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Mark Carney’s first budget quietly provided Canada with the ingredients for something the country has lacked for a century: a truly national electricity backbone. An East-West renewable energy grid.
#cdnpoli #onpoli #climate #Budget2025
cleantechnica.com/2025/11/08/a...
#cdnpoli #onpoli #climate #Budget2025
cleantechnica.com/2025/11/08/a...
My interest in student party politics died within two terms because of this.
The people who cut their teeth in student sections of political parties are among the most cynical, cold-hearted and morally bankrupt psychopaths you could ever wish to meet and many of the soulless robots are the architects of our national malaise.
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
My interest in student party politics died within two terms because of this.
On January 6 2021 a group of Antifa FBI agents did nothing wrong in peacefully touring the Capitol not having been told to do so by Trump who correctly thought they should demand that the stolen election should be stopped by the Vice-President. Pelosi is to blame for not calling the National Guard.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
On January 6 2021 a group of Antifa FBI agents did nothing wrong in peacefully touring the Capitol not having been told to do so by Trump who correctly thought they should demand that the stolen election should be stopped by the Vice-President. Pelosi is to blame for not calling the National Guard.
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Watching a teenage driver text as he blissfully breezes over the pedestrian crossing which I am in the middle of...every day is a challenge to survive as a pedestrian in Oxford
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Watching a teenage driver text as he blissfully breezes over the pedestrian crossing which I am in the middle of...every day is a challenge to survive as a pedestrian in Oxford
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1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️
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Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.
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One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
Kind of sad that they didn’t bring back Wilko Johnson for an episode in a later season of Game of Thrones (after he recovered) so Arya could cross Ser Ilyn Payne off her kill list.
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Kind of sad that they didn’t bring back Wilko Johnson for an episode in a later season of Game of Thrones (after he recovered) so Arya could cross Ser Ilyn Payne off her kill list.
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Today is Viola Desmond Day in Nova Scotia.
On this day in 1946, Viola Desmond, an African Nova Scotian entrepreneur and mentor, was arrested for daring to violate racial segregation in a New Glasgow theatre, marking a watershed moment for civil rights in Canada.
On this day in 1946, Viola Desmond, an African Nova Scotian entrepreneur and mentor, was arrested for daring to violate racial segregation in a New Glasgow theatre, marking a watershed moment for civil rights in Canada.
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Today is Viola Desmond Day in Nova Scotia.
On this day in 1946, Viola Desmond, an African Nova Scotian entrepreneur and mentor, was arrested for daring to violate racial segregation in a New Glasgow theatre, marking a watershed moment for civil rights in Canada.
On this day in 1946, Viola Desmond, an African Nova Scotian entrepreneur and mentor, was arrested for daring to violate racial segregation in a New Glasgow theatre, marking a watershed moment for civil rights in Canada.
This is going to become increasingly weird. If we make it to 2050 imagine the commentators trying to explain who she is…
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This is going to become increasingly weird. If we make it to 2050 imagine the commentators trying to explain who she is…
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Good piece: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
Inside Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: ‘Small acts have huge consequences’
In Chicago, the resistance to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission has taken many forms. A movement has grown through acts large and small.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Good piece: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
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Time after time, Homeland Security’s accounts of its violent incidents in Chicago turn out to be lies. Local journalists and a federal judge have done a good job of calling them out. I wish the national political media had the same level of skepticism toward “official” accounts by proven liars.
Judge blasts Trump’s Chicago border ‘Blitz,’ extends curbs on use of force that ‘shocks the conscience’
Judge Sara Ellis said Trump's Justice Department lacks credibility, partly because of a lie told by U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Time after time, Homeland Security’s accounts of its violent incidents in Chicago turn out to be lies. Local journalists and a federal judge have done a good job of calling them out. I wish the national political media had the same level of skepticism toward “official” accounts by proven liars.
Unsurprising but still shocking. Hate not heritage.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Unsurprising but still shocking. Hate not heritage.
The quote that keeps hitting me in various obits is E.O.Wilson describing him ‘as the most unpleasant human being I had ever met’.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The quote that keeps hitting me in various obits is E.O.Wilson describing him ‘as the most unpleasant human being I had ever met’.
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The 11am silence on Armistice Day, London, 11th November 1925.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The 11am silence on Armistice Day, London, 11th November 1925.
Pitch: ‘Celebrity Traitors’ - but they are all Game of Thrones cast members.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Pitch: ‘Celebrity Traitors’ - but they are all Game of Thrones cast members.
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incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
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do you remember the post a while back where someone suggested a sitcom where Cuomo and Dershowitz are roommates in new york city and every episode Cuomo loses an election and Dershowitz is refused a pierogi?
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Like, yeah, yeah, you have your Groundwork of the Metaphysics for Morals and What Do We Owe Each Other and Man's Search for Meaning but in the end there's still no greater philosophical analysis of the plight of humanity than this.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Like, yeah, yeah, you have your Groundwork of the Metaphysics for Morals and What Do We Owe Each Other and Man's Search for Meaning but in the end there's still no greater philosophical analysis of the plight of humanity than this.