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Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
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How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
39,000 year old RNA!
I continue to be amazed by the field of ancient genomics!
I continue to be amazed by the field of ancient genomics!
🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
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If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:
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November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
39,000 year old RNA!
I continue to be amazed by the field of ancient genomics!
I continue to be amazed by the field of ancient genomics!
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epstein tried to fund a pronatalist endeavor that would collect the sperm of every nobel laureate to repopulate mankind with geniuses. apparently only 2 contributed
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
epstein tried to fund a pronatalist endeavor that would collect the sperm of every nobel laureate to repopulate mankind with geniuses. apparently only 2 contributed
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“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
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"there has been constant gene flow between populations for essentially the entire history of the human race, we passed through a genetic bottleneck only a few thousand couples wide, intelligence is our key adaptive trait, and the most genetically diverse population of humans on earth is all dumb."
apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"there has been constant gene flow between populations for essentially the entire history of the human race, we passed through a genetic bottleneck only a few thousand couples wide, intelligence is our key adaptive trait, and the most genetically diverse population of humans on earth is all dumb."
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Basically going about as well as progressives/Democrats could possibly hope.
What we know so far, 9:30pm
—Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani up
—Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy.
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—PA: Dem justices up big
—Maine anti-mail vote measure down
—Krasner wins
—Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani up
—Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy.
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—PA: Dem justices up big
—Maine anti-mail vote measure down
—Krasner wins
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Basically going about as well as progressives/Democrats could possibly hope.
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In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis
November 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
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Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
Finally got smart/lazy and just poured my blueberry muffin mix into a square pan and baked it like a cake. Am I the last one to do this?
October 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Finally got smart/lazy and just poured my blueberry muffin mix into a square pan and baked it like a cake. Am I the last one to do this?
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Happy Indigenous People's Day
October 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Happy Indigenous People's Day
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I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc
October 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc
Love having a car guy in the small town where I work. Took my car in because it sounded like my dash was full of sand every time I turned. The AC drain was clogged, water splashing on a fan. New cabin filter and $100 later car is back to normal.
October 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Love having a car guy in the small town where I work. Took my car in because it sounded like my dash was full of sand every time I turned. The AC drain was clogged, water splashing on a fan. New cabin filter and $100 later car is back to normal.
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The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life
It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...
October 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life
Michael and Aubrey really laugh their way through this one. It’s great 😂😂
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Seed Oils
Podcast Episode · Maintenance Phase · 08/26/2025 · 1h 19m
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September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Michael and Aubrey really laugh their way through this one. It’s great 😂😂
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What a thread!
Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵
IG msviciousdesign
IG msviciousdesign
September 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
What a thread!
Really great pod about the current state of electricity supply/demand/usage/futures. Learned a lot.
A sleeper political issue of the next few years is the rising costs of electricity. AI & data centers are driving up demand & the Trump Administration is making it harder to add clean energy supply. I joined @chrislhayes.bsky.social on #WITHpod to talk about it: open.spotify.com/episode/32ps...
The Electricity Crisis with Costa Samaras
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September 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Really great pod about the current state of electricity supply/demand/usage/futures. Learned a lot.
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"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
JFC. JUST STAY HOME AND ENJOY YOUR TRILLION DOLLARS.
Elon Musk is trying to violently overthrow the government of the UK and replace it with a far-right racist regime, a fact that will not inform how US elites see him at all
September 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
JFC. JUST STAY HOME AND ENJOY YOUR TRILLION DOLLARS.