Bender
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Old timey euphemisms for gay sex
They all sound quite like euphemisms for shitting yourself
September 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Old timey euphemisms for gay sex
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I can't articulate this well at the moment, but it feels like a lot of our problems stem from the concept of organization becoming female coded and therefore considered kinda gay by society at large.
August 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I can't articulate this well at the moment, but it feels like a lot of our problems stem from the concept of organization becoming female coded and therefore considered kinda gay by society at large.
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In a city that has literal building sized murals glorifying the actions of terrorist organisations.
Belfast anti-racism rally: Woman wearing Palestine Action t-shirt arrested
Belfast anti-racism rally: Woman wearing Palestine Action t-shirt arrested
The 62-year-old was taking part in an anti-racism rally in Belfast City Centre.
www.bbc.com
August 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
In a city that has literal building sized murals glorifying the actions of terrorist organisations.
This would be great in London
Montreal’s Bixi which designed the bikeshare technology Toronto’s Bikeshare is based on, now has rentable bike trailers.
#topoli
#topoli
August 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This would be great in London
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AV, negative voting, (fractional) approval voting, range voting, D21, and Borda Count are interesting voting systems which have weird strategic incentives for politicians or voters in niche situations.
To resolve this, I propose (half-jokingly) the random count system of elections.
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To resolve this, I propose (half-jokingly) the random count system of elections.
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August 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
AV, negative voting, (fractional) approval voting, range voting, D21, and Borda Count are interesting voting systems which have weird strategic incentives for politicians or voters in niche situations.
To resolve this, I propose (half-jokingly) the random count system of elections.
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To resolve this, I propose (half-jokingly) the random count system of elections.
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Unionist/Loyalist groups are increasingly mobilising along general anti-immigrant. Northern Ireland is integrating with GB politics in the worst way possible.
People behind protesting this hotel were pictured attending court with a loyalist killer. Loyalist terror group South East Antrim UDA claim this area.
These mobilisations are in loyalist paramilitary stongholds.
Of course no action from PSNI or DoJ, they are complicit. [1/3]
These mobilisations are in loyalist paramilitary stongholds.
Of course no action from PSNI or DoJ, they are complicit. [1/3]
Large crowds gather for anti-immigration protest outside Co Antrim hotel
Hundreds of anti-immigration protesters held a demonstration outside a Co Antrim hotel.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
August 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Unionist/Loyalist groups are increasingly mobilising along general anti-immigrant. Northern Ireland is integrating with GB politics in the worst way possible.
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Let’s talk about driver solidarity: whenever there’s a news piece or social media post about a driver clearly at fault for hitting a pedestrian or cyclist, other drivers flood the comments to justify the driver’s actions and victim blame the person who’s been hit. Like clockwork. Why is the case?
August 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Let’s talk about driver solidarity: whenever there’s a news piece or social media post about a driver clearly at fault for hitting a pedestrian or cyclist, other drivers flood the comments to justify the driver’s actions and victim blame the person who’s been hit. Like clockwork. Why is the case?
The NIMBY-industrial complex has given up on even bothering to write 'think-pieces' about actual attempts to build housing, and make up fact attempts to build stuff to be angry about.
These people will never be satiated by any actual policy solution.
These people will never be satiated by any actual policy solution.
incredible piece that frames the story as "This plan is bad" when actually it would be good if there were any such plan, but there isn't
‘We have to move’: historic village of Tempsford reels from plan to swell its 600 residents to 350,000
July 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The NIMBY-industrial complex has given up on even bothering to write 'think-pieces' about actual attempts to build housing, and make up fact attempts to build stuff to be angry about.
These people will never be satiated by any actual policy solution.
These people will never be satiated by any actual policy solution.
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AC is SO MUCH EASIER to decarbonize than heating...we're already like halfway to carbon free AC in the US, while heat is like 10% of the way there.
How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington
How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington
Yes, temperatures are rising. But more and more AC means more and more CO2 – and then more and more global heating. Let’s have some long-term thinking instead, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
AC is SO MUCH EASIER to decarbonize than heating...we're already like halfway to carbon free AC in the US, while heat is like 10% of the way there.
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Well, Well,Well, Not So Easy To Find A Government That Doesn’t Suck Shit
By King George III
By King George III
July 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Well, Well,Well, Not So Easy To Find A Government That Doesn’t Suck Shit
By King George III
By King George III
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Should note on Azerbaijan: It is a horrible dictatorship that kidnaps, imprisons and murders any who oppose the regime. The fact that Azerbaijan is a Western ally does not change that fact. In fact, it should matter more to us.
July 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Should note on Azerbaijan: It is a horrible dictatorship that kidnaps, imprisons and murders any who oppose the regime. The fact that Azerbaijan is a Western ally does not change that fact. In fact, it should matter more to us.
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Since Mamdani won the Dem NYC mayor nomination with a free bus proposal, let's talk about free transit.
Research suggests that free transit:
a—increases ridership
b—doesn't get people out of cars
c—benefits youth, elderly & low-income ppl
d—doesn't add employment
e—maybe ups operational efficiency
Research suggests that free transit:
a—increases ridership
b—doesn't get people out of cars
c—benefits youth, elderly & low-income ppl
d—doesn't add employment
e—maybe ups operational efficiency
June 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Since Mamdani won the Dem NYC mayor nomination with a free bus proposal, let's talk about free transit.
Research suggests that free transit:
a—increases ridership
b—doesn't get people out of cars
c—benefits youth, elderly & low-income ppl
d—doesn't add employment
e—maybe ups operational efficiency
Research suggests that free transit:
a—increases ridership
b—doesn't get people out of cars
c—benefits youth, elderly & low-income ppl
d—doesn't add employment
e—maybe ups operational efficiency
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Honestly, y'all, this is the best of both worlds here, copyright is still enforceable, pirating training material is punishable, and this will likely force training to require explicit copyright licensing and push more models to be trained on entirely public domain/fair use sources.
🚨BREAKING: Federal judge concludes that using copyrighted works to train generative A.I. is transformative and ultimately a fair use. (Nevertheless, Anthropic can’t beat the lawsuit because it pirated books for another purpose too.) First of kind ruling. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Bartz
www.documentcloud.org
June 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Honestly, y'all, this is the best of both worlds here, copyright is still enforceable, pirating training material is punishable, and this will likely force training to require explicit copyright licensing and push more models to be trained on entirely public domain/fair use sources.
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I think Labour may be underestimating the electoral impact on them of London feeling a bit shabby, especially in ways that visitors notice (public transport and street crime).
It acts as a shop window for Labour policies, whether they want it to or not. 1/3
It acts as a shop window for Labour policies, whether they want it to or not. 1/3
Can make a reasonable political argument that of the £110bn extra in infrastructure spending, there's no political benefit even in London from DLR or Bakerloo extension. Can make a policy argument that Met needs reform not money. But struggle to conceive of an argument against a tourist levy.
As per Playbook this morn, a row is brewing between HMT and Sadiq Khan over what London is to get - or not - in the SR. The Mayor's office big asks are: DLR & Bakerloo Line extensions, powers to introduce a tourist/visitors levy, and 'adequate' Met Police funding. Currently, they expect to get none.
June 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I think Labour may be underestimating the electoral impact on them of London feeling a bit shabby, especially in ways that visitors notice (public transport and street crime).
It acts as a shop window for Labour policies, whether they want it to or not. 1/3
It acts as a shop window for Labour policies, whether they want it to or not. 1/3
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As Toronto prepares for its first heat wave, it’s important to recognize the impact waste heat from cars have on city temperatures.
Car traffic can generate up to 3 times as much heat as all a city’s body heat… even in cities where most people don’t drive.
www.preventionweb.net/news/how-tra...
Car traffic can generate up to 3 times as much heat as all a city’s body heat… even in cities where most people don’t drive.
www.preventionweb.net/news/how-tra...
How traffic increases urban heat stress
Waste heat from cars, together with sealed road and car park surfaces, contributes to the generation of urban heat. This affects the quality of life and poses a health risk. As temperatures rise, it i...
www.preventionweb.net
June 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
As Toronto prepares for its first heat wave, it’s important to recognize the impact waste heat from cars have on city temperatures.
Car traffic can generate up to 3 times as much heat as all a city’s body heat… even in cities where most people don’t drive.
www.preventionweb.net/news/how-tra...
Car traffic can generate up to 3 times as much heat as all a city’s body heat… even in cities where most people don’t drive.
www.preventionweb.net/news/how-tra...
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The "slavery was unsustainable" theories largely ignore that maintaining slavery was more desirable to the white South than economic progress.
Slavery was a social structure more than an economic one; it's why poor white people willingly gave their lives to defend it.
Slavery was a social structure more than an economic one; it's why poor white people willingly gave their lives to defend it.
various theories of "the South's model of chattel slavery was unsustainable and therefore the Civil War was unnecessary" have floated since before the Civil War itself and it represents one of the most studied topics in Economic History as a profession. Nobody but cranks & confederates believe this.
June 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The "slavery was unsustainable" theories largely ignore that maintaining slavery was more desirable to the white South than economic progress.
Slavery was a social structure more than an economic one; it's why poor white people willingly gave their lives to defend it.
Slavery was a social structure more than an economic one; it's why poor white people willingly gave their lives to defend it.
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Amazing to hear how much discussion there is over dangerous "e-bike" riding (usually always electric motorbikes) compared to the amount of discussion over the constant dangerous driving everyone encounters daily.
It's so normalised we don't see it any more.
It's so normalised we don't see it any more.
June 20, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Amazing to hear how much discussion there is over dangerous "e-bike" riding (usually always electric motorbikes) compared to the amount of discussion over the constant dangerous driving everyone encounters daily.
It's so normalised we don't see it any more.
It's so normalised we don't see it any more.
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There are some big things driving social disconnection and undermining cohesion: but don’t underestimate the impact of smaller soulless, price of everything mentality things like this.
Rather a society where traffic went a bit slower & kids high five the lollipop man
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rather a society where traffic went a bit slower & kids high five the lollipop man
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Howden lollipop man told to stop giving kids high-fives
Neil Cotton says he has been told the gesture 'upsets drivers' by causing extra seconds of delay.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
There are some big things driving social disconnection and undermining cohesion: but don’t underestimate the impact of smaller soulless, price of everything mentality things like this.
Rather a society where traffic went a bit slower & kids high five the lollipop man
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rather a society where traffic went a bit slower & kids high five the lollipop man
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Kathleen Stock turning into a firebreathing anti-choice campaigner is one of those things that was in retrospect both entirely predictable but is also just so funny to witness
June 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Kathleen Stock turning into a firebreathing anti-choice campaigner is one of those things that was in retrospect both entirely predictable but is also just so funny to witness
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This floating bus stop design in Vancouver,WA is one of the best I’ve seen for both bikers and blind/disabled transit riders. I’m guessing the large blind community there had a big part in shaping this. 4/
June 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This floating bus stop design in Vancouver,WA is one of the best I’ve seen for both bikers and blind/disabled transit riders. I’m guessing the large blind community there had a big part in shaping this. 4/
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For me as a low vision biker, high contrast edges are important, especially- for instance these curbs on downtown Seattle are really hard to see for me. We mark car lanes with reflective paint, why not edges of bike infrastructure? 2/
June 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
For me as a low vision biker, high contrast edges are important, especially- for instance these curbs on downtown Seattle are really hard to see for me. We mark car lanes with reflective paint, why not edges of bike infrastructure? 2/
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I’ve been getting a lot of questions about what makes bike lane design accessible for disabled biker. First, making sure lanes are wide enough to offer clearance for a range of adaptive, family and cargo bikes! Crossings where car traffic is expected to fully stop! 1/
June 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about what makes bike lane design accessible for disabled biker. First, making sure lanes are wide enough to offer clearance for a range of adaptive, family and cargo bikes! Crossings where car traffic is expected to fully stop! 1/
Not even nearly the same thing, but as a _sweaty guy_, there are journeys that I should be able to make by bike, but because cycling in mixed traffic makes it both substantively safer to cycle fast, and induces a stress reaction, I can't cycle and the Tube becomes even more overcrowded.
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A big thing for me as someone with a fatigue disorder is that low-stress, well protected facilities are easier to ride within my physical capabilities.
Riding mixed with cars makes me feel the need to go faster and accelerate harder, which expends a lot more of my very limited energy.
Riding mixed with cars makes me feel the need to go faster and accelerate harder, which expends a lot more of my very limited energy.
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about what makes bike lane design accessible for disabled biker. First, making sure lanes are wide enough to offer clearance for a range of adaptive, family and cargo bikes! Crossings where car traffic is expected to fully stop! 1/
June 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Not even nearly the same thing, but as a _sweaty guy_, there are journeys that I should be able to make by bike, but because cycling in mixed traffic makes it both substantively safer to cycle fast, and induces a stress reaction, I can't cycle and the Tube becomes even more overcrowded.
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I intentionally make stuff look crappy because it’s funnier to me
June 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I intentionally make stuff look crappy because it’s funnier to me