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I love to torture myself seeking fine-grained understanding of events over which I have no control.
The USA and Germany are full partners in Israel’s crimes.
Pentagon awards Boeing an $8.6B contract to build 25 F-15 fighter jets for Israel, with an option for 25 more aircraft.
Pentagon Announces $8.6B Contract for Boeing to Make F-15s for Israel
The contract will provide Israel with 25 F-15 fighter jets, with the option for 25 more.
truthout.org
December 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The USA and Germany are full partners in Israel’s crimes.
NGL, I love this film. It’s not great art but it’s deeply satisfying and totally true to the experience of playing ttrpgs.
If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.
December 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
NGL, I love this film. It’s not great art but it’s deeply satisfying and totally true to the experience of playing ttrpgs.
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Things that make people angry:
•Plumbers vs. Christmas Vacation 2
•Blues guitarists vs. Crossroads
•Doctors vs. every movie where someone's nose bleeds as a sign they have a terminal illness
•Death metal fans vs. Turbulence 3
•Everyone vs. someone types something and the computer makes noises
•Plumbers vs. Christmas Vacation 2
•Blues guitarists vs. Crossroads
•Doctors vs. every movie where someone's nose bleeds as a sign they have a terminal illness
•Death metal fans vs. Turbulence 3
•Everyone vs. someone types something and the computer makes noises
December 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Things that make people angry:
•Plumbers vs. Christmas Vacation 2
•Blues guitarists vs. Crossroads
•Doctors vs. every movie where someone's nose bleeds as a sign they have a terminal illness
•Death metal fans vs. Turbulence 3
•Everyone vs. someone types something and the computer makes noises
•Plumbers vs. Christmas Vacation 2
•Blues guitarists vs. Crossroads
•Doctors vs. every movie where someone's nose bleeds as a sign they have a terminal illness
•Death metal fans vs. Turbulence 3
•Everyone vs. someone types something and the computer makes noises
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Spreading opposing talking views with no critical analysis or counter-arguments, or restating them first, helps them win.
But if you must, serve it inside George Lakoff's "Truth Sandwich" 🥪
- Start with the truth. The first frame gets the advantage.
- Indicate the lie.
- Return to the truth.
But if you must, serve it inside George Lakoff's "Truth Sandwich" 🥪
- Start with the truth. The first frame gets the advantage.
- Indicate the lie.
- Return to the truth.
February 1, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Spreading opposing talking views with no critical analysis or counter-arguments, or restating them first, helps them win.
But if you must, serve it inside George Lakoff's "Truth Sandwich" 🥪
- Start with the truth. The first frame gets the advantage.
- Indicate the lie.
- Return to the truth.
But if you must, serve it inside George Lakoff's "Truth Sandwich" 🥪
- Start with the truth. The first frame gets the advantage.
- Indicate the lie.
- Return to the truth.
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Wish folks wouldn't screen cap famously right-wing people saying egregious things on Twitter or repost same.
Because now you're the one saying it. Why spread their hateful language and ideas?
It pollutes the platform and frankly many people don't like it. Share your own thoughts and insights pls.
Because now you're the one saying it. Why spread their hateful language and ideas?
It pollutes the platform and frankly many people don't like it. Share your own thoughts and insights pls.
February 1, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Wish folks wouldn't screen cap famously right-wing people saying egregious things on Twitter or repost same.
Because now you're the one saying it. Why spread their hateful language and ideas?
It pollutes the platform and frankly many people don't like it. Share your own thoughts and insights pls.
Because now you're the one saying it. Why spread their hateful language and ideas?
It pollutes the platform and frankly many people don't like it. Share your own thoughts and insights pls.
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Now imagine the line for pedestrian and cyclist deaths as vehicle size increases.
alt-text: a graph of deaths per 10k 2-vehicle crashs shows line of 1st vehicle deaths going DOWN as its weight increases, and line of the other vehicle's deaths going sharply UP as the 1st vehicle's weight goes up.
alt-text: a graph of deaths per 10k 2-vehicle crashs shows line of 1st vehicle deaths going DOWN as its weight increases, and line of the other vehicle's deaths going sharply UP as the 1st vehicle's weight goes up.
“In simple terms: a heavier car offers diminishing safety benefits to the person inside it, while imposing rapidly increasing risk on everyone else.” (Graph from The Economist)
December 31, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Now imagine the line for pedestrian and cyclist deaths as vehicle size increases.
alt-text: a graph of deaths per 10k 2-vehicle crashs shows line of 1st vehicle deaths going DOWN as its weight increases, and line of the other vehicle's deaths going sharply UP as the 1st vehicle's weight goes up.
alt-text: a graph of deaths per 10k 2-vehicle crashs shows line of 1st vehicle deaths going DOWN as its weight increases, and line of the other vehicle's deaths going sharply UP as the 1st vehicle's weight goes up.
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Took me too long to realise that TikTok karaoke (words in the closed captioning highlighted as they're pronounced) serves the same purpose as a kid's finger tracking on a printed page. People are functionally illiterate.
December 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Took me too long to realise that TikTok karaoke (words in the closed captioning highlighted as they're pronounced) serves the same purpose as a kid's finger tracking on a printed page. People are functionally illiterate.
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Israel is banning the Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders from operating in Gaza starting on New Year’s Day. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza
The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said the organizations that will be banned Thursday didn't meet new requirements for sharing staff members, funding and operations information.
www.nbcnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Israel is banning the Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders from operating in Gaza starting on New Year’s Day. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
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Somalia’s representative at the United Nations had a history lesson to share with Israel’s envoy today. “To come to this place, and lecture us [on] humanity & genocide & human rights & independence & democracy. And we know what you’re doing on a daily basis. It’s just an insult.”
December 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Somalia’s representative at the United Nations had a history lesson to share with Israel’s envoy today. “To come to this place, and lecture us [on] humanity & genocide & human rights & independence & democracy. And we know what you’re doing on a daily basis. It’s just an insult.”
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Nobody is claiming that a single 2% tax on assets over £10m is going to create a utopia. But it is a no-brainer for helping to reduce inequality. The fact that Labour refuse to even do the bare minimum is not the point of pride they seem to think it is.
Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society
Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society
Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the Greens
The Green party leader, Zack Polanski, is offering voters “unicorns” and Labour must confront his “fantasy” solutions such as the idea that a wealth tax would fix the public finances, according to the Fabian Society’s general secretary, Joe Dromey.
Much of the government’s fire is trained on Nigel Farage. But in an end-of-year interview, the head of Labour’s internal thinktank urges his party to take on the “twin populisms” of Reform and Polanski. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Nobody is claiming that a single 2% tax on assets over £10m is going to create a utopia. But it is a no-brainer for helping to reduce inequality. The fact that Labour refuse to even do the bare minimum is not the point of pride they seem to think it is.
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🎥 Mouin Rabbani says a 2-state solution is “attainable” but no longer “desirable.”
“Reason I say it's undesirable is because I think genocide has consequences. I don't think there should be a diplomatic resolution with a genocidal apartheid regime. I think it should be dismantled rather than...
“Reason I say it's undesirable is because I think genocide has consequences. I don't think there should be a diplomatic resolution with a genocidal apartheid regime. I think it should be dismantled rather than...
December 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🎥 Mouin Rabbani says a 2-state solution is “attainable” but no longer “desirable.”
“Reason I say it's undesirable is because I think genocide has consequences. I don't think there should be a diplomatic resolution with a genocidal apartheid regime. I think it should be dismantled rather than...
“Reason I say it's undesirable is because I think genocide has consequences. I don't think there should be a diplomatic resolution with a genocidal apartheid regime. I think it should be dismantled rather than...
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December 31, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Drew this Ghost band art for my wife. She's a huge fan. We're going to see them in January. I haven't been but this is her 3rd or 4th time, I'm not sure.
I go to about 1 concert every 5 years or something like that. It'll be fun!
I go to about 1 concert every 5 years or something like that. It'll be fun!
December 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Drew this Ghost band art for my wife. She's a huge fan. We're going to see them in January. I haven't been but this is her 3rd or 4th time, I'm not sure.
I go to about 1 concert every 5 years or something like that. It'll be fun!
I go to about 1 concert every 5 years or something like that. It'll be fun!
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More recently, the median liberal who doesn't know much about Palestine has gone from "Israel is a democracy and I guess that's good" to "I don't know who is right in the big picture but surely they didn't have to kill so many kids"
I always try to emphasize this: in the big picture, the median liberal, aka the kind of person who donates to ActBlue, or is a campaign volunteer, or who makes up part of one of many of the legacy liberal organizations, is to the left of the median liberal think tanker or Congressman on Palestine.
The latter very feverishly thinks Israeli ultranationalism is just plainly good and that Palestinians should suffer under it for eternity and also that the US should for whatever reason underwrite this arrangement with its full soft and hard power
December 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
More recently, the median liberal who doesn't know much about Palestine has gone from "Israel is a democracy and I guess that's good" to "I don't know who is right in the big picture but surely they didn't have to kill so many kids"
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When I see people tweeting about how they tried to like Bluesky and just couldn’t (which is pretty frequent these days) I assume that’s the crushing weight of guilt for propping up a violently misogynistic, white supremacist platform speaking
December 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
When I see people tweeting about how they tried to like Bluesky and just couldn’t (which is pretty frequent these days) I assume that’s the crushing weight of guilt for propping up a violently misogynistic, white supremacist platform speaking
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the thing that perplexes me is i just moved from twitter to here and didn't change anything.
i post here the same as i did there. i use bsky like i used twitter.
the only difference is i don't have to deal with so much bad faith trolling or bigoted abuse etc.
but my actual usage is the same.
i post here the same as i did there. i use bsky like i used twitter.
the only difference is i don't have to deal with so much bad faith trolling or bigoted abuse etc.
but my actual usage is the same.
I’m sure a lot of people genuinely don’t like Bluesky and very well may have valid reasons for it, but the faux “I tried” attitude is giving “I’m weak and I know it”
December 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
the thing that perplexes me is i just moved from twitter to here and didn't change anything.
i post here the same as i did there. i use bsky like i used twitter.
the only difference is i don't have to deal with so much bad faith trolling or bigoted abuse etc.
but my actual usage is the same.
i post here the same as i did there. i use bsky like i used twitter.
the only difference is i don't have to deal with so much bad faith trolling or bigoted abuse etc.
but my actual usage is the same.
“The laws we’ve profited from for years now stand in the way of profits so we’ll make an exception. But it’s still somehow evil if you pirate a tv show.”
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work.”
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
December 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
“The laws we’ve profited from for years now stand in the way of profits so we’ll make an exception. But it’s still somehow evil if you pirate a tv show.”
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Tapping the sign
December 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Tapping the sign
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Papa: Smurfette, give this magic potion to Gargamel and he'll stop being evi--
*snickety snick*
Smurfette: Oh I just LOVE chainmail and a smurfy blade!
Papa: Oh my smurf!
*snickety snick*
Smurfette: Oh I just LOVE chainmail and a smurfy blade!
Papa: Oh my smurf!
December 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Papa: Smurfette, give this magic potion to Gargamel and he'll stop being evi--
*snickety snick*
Smurfette: Oh I just LOVE chainmail and a smurfy blade!
Papa: Oh my smurf!
*snickety snick*
Smurfette: Oh I just LOVE chainmail and a smurfy blade!
Papa: Oh my smurf!
I was at Claire Danes’s Halloween party because reasons and I went as Hunter Thompson and was wearing dark aviators at night as a result. So when I was introduced to her I could only see, to quote Buster Bluth, a brown area with points - couldn’t tell you what her costume was.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I was at Claire Danes’s Halloween party because reasons and I went as Hunter Thompson and was wearing dark aviators at night as a result. So when I was introduced to her I could only see, to quote Buster Bluth, a brown area with points - couldn’t tell you what her costume was.
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A million years ago on a subway in Toronto once, I saw a guy holding an air conditioner and turned to my friend and whispered “look at Michael Cera with his sad little air conditioner”.
The guy looked up having heard me anyway and gave me a dirty look. It was 1000% actually Michael Cera.
The guy looked up having heard me anyway and gave me a dirty look. It was 1000% actually Michael Cera.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
A million years ago on a subway in Toronto once, I saw a guy holding an air conditioner and turned to my friend and whispered “look at Michael Cera with his sad little air conditioner”.
The guy looked up having heard me anyway and gave me a dirty look. It was 1000% actually Michael Cera.
The guy looked up having heard me anyway and gave me a dirty look. It was 1000% actually Michael Cera.
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Anything useful from using Duolingo can be done better or more efficiently somewhere else.
December 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Anything useful from using Duolingo can be done better or more efficiently somewhere else.
I’ve been wondering about this and it’s time to change my ways. Putting plastics in the dishwasher releases a ton of plastics and microwaving plastic containers introduces them directly into my food. #health #fossilfuels
See my previous skeet about regular drinking from plastic water bottles.
See my previous skeet about regular drinking from plastic water bottles.
Washing This in Your Dishwasher May Be Harming Your Health, Study Finds
Experts explain how to stay safe.
www.prevention.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I’ve been wondering about this and it’s time to change my ways. Putting plastics in the dishwasher releases a ton of plastics and microwaving plastic containers introduces them directly into my food. #health #fossilfuels
See my previous skeet about regular drinking from plastic water bottles.
See my previous skeet about regular drinking from plastic water bottles.
I’m low-key obsessed with debunking the propaganda on terrorism. Calling non-terrorists terrorists and vice-versa for political reasons doesn’t make it a meaningless term. Most of us have a good intuition about why the word exists and recognise it when it’s done to our people. It’s *not* arbitrary 🧵
December 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I’m low-key obsessed with debunking the propaganda on terrorism. Calling non-terrorists terrorists and vice-versa for political reasons doesn’t make it a meaningless term. Most of us have a good intuition about why the word exists and recognise it when it’s done to our people. It’s *not* arbitrary 🧵