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"The kinship between work and stuff is that work is like unto weight, manifolded by the fourside of the haste of light."

Welsh-Brazilian in London
Cymro Brasilaidd yn Llundain
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We may have realised we live on a planet only because the Moon looks like a solid ball in the sky, but this is a freak situation that only happens on Earth as far as we know. No other planets have a ball in their sky.

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Venus has phases just like the Moon. The difference is that Venus is too small for us to see those phases with the naked eye. In fact, Venus was one of the first objects Galileo pointed his telescope at, and one of the first strange things he observed was precisely that Venus had phases 1/16
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The detailed data is very interesting. Plaid is polling first among people under 55 but crucially its support is roughly the same (30%) throughout Wales regardless of region.

But also: '24 Labour voters are more likely to vote Plaid (40%!!) than Labour.
January 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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i can't explain it but he looks exactly how i imagined
January 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Now that Stranger Things is over, mapping out the chain of events that kick-started started all the bizarre stuff and then ended them is very interesting. It gives a more definitive shape to the kind of story it is telling.

SPOILERS for series 5
January 7, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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It’s worth noting that Brazil just straight up banned Twitter, and Musk then gave it everything it asked for.
January 6, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Last night I dreamt I took an Uber to Manderley again.
reading moby-dick and getting brainwashed by Big Spermaceti
January 7, 2026 at 1:52 PM
All this US talk of "our hemisphere" is obviously not true since there are only two hemispheres: the Portuguese one and the Spanish one. A straight line between Laguna and Belém extends to divide Greenland down the middle.
January 7, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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MP gets stabbed? Online safety bill!

Trans girl gets murdered? Online safety bill!

Annoying leftists calling you a dickhead on social media? Oh, you better believe that's an online safety bill!

Elon starts up a self-service all you can eat CSAM/revenge porn machine? Oh, uh, concerning, hmm 🧐
January 7, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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Dreamt overnight that Odessa A'zion was translating Roland Barthes’s seminar notes into English. The dream became postmodern metafiction when she rang me from the set of I Love LA and shouted, ‘Boys aren’t supposed to have *this* kind of dream about me. Is that the best your unconscious can do?’
January 7, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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“You know what? I’m going to be the very best.”
“Yeah?”
“The *very* best.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah.”
“How?”
“Like no one ever was.”
“Like no one?”
“Yeah. Like no one. No one.”
No One:

No One:

Me: "...Marty Supreme but it's about Ash Ketchum."
January 6, 2026 at 9:52 PM
yes because you can even digitally order a clown
starting to wonder if hospital beds in Brazil are the comfiest in the world
January 6, 2026 at 10:52 PM
But it's bizarre to hear Stephen Miller talk about Danish control of Greenland like it's those random territorial claims that almost every country has on Antarctica.

No, Greenland is not the same as Antarctica!
Unfortunately there's a serious answer (the US and Russia both want control of the sea routes through the Arctic when the ice cap melts), and then there's why Trump wants to do it, which is Look Big On Map. Save us, thrombosis, you're our only hope :(
January 6, 2026 at 10:40 PM
If I see one more joke about "Arctic adversaries" mention penguins I'll flip out
January 6, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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Lots of folks learning about Lebensraum this week.
January 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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Did people in Jan 1926 think 'the first quarter of the century was terrible, the second quarter cannot possibly get any worse'?
Full White House statement to the BBC:
January 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Yes, but even on the Wikipedia page about the Northwest Passage it says things are different since 2009 and that there are competing sovereignty claims. We're seeing this play out, including talk of "annexing" Canada. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwe...
January 6, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Yes, but even on the Wikipedia page about the Northwest Passage it says things are different since 2009 and that there are competing sovereignty claims. We're seeing this play out, including talk of "annexing" Canada. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwe...
January 6, 2026 at 10:18 PM
A navigable Arctic Ocean will change Russia's standing as a naval country since it will tremendously increase its coast. As I see it this is the US trying to anticipate the imminent Russian rise to be caused by global warming
The threat to Greenland is a literal geopolitical effect of climate change, since the USA wants to be prepared to control the Arctic Sea when (not if) the pole becomes navigable.
January 6, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I'm rather puzzled by people's surprise at the Arctic justification. Global warming means that the North Polar Circle will very soon be navigable for the first time in human history.
January 6, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Interesting to compare this to the situation in Brazil where the prosecution and conviction of Bolsonaro were carried away quite detached from the presidency
I mean, the role of the president is obvious- just ask about the DoJ's current investigations into Trump. The Biden administration-including his DoJ appointee made a series of decisions that led here.
January 6, 2026 at 8:29 PM
damn they were spitting
Excerpt from the Nuremberg judgment…
January 6, 2026 at 8:24 PM
This Nolan Odyssey casting is so bad it's good

It's like casting Alanis Morissette as God
January 6, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I think someone told Trump the Fae are responsible for trans
Trump: "Transgender for everyone! Bring your kids in, we're gonna change the sex of your child. Just send them our way. In some cases, like in Minnesota, they don't even tell the parents. Nobody believes it when I say it. They operate on the kid, they don't tell the parents. It's not believable."
January 6, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Eu acho muito legal como Bolsonaro se transformou em sinônimo de "viciado em hospital" na internet.
Bolsanaro calling my insurance company on my behalf and instantly getting them to turn on the MRI machine.
January 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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Perae que dá pra aumentar
January 6, 2026 at 5:09 PM