Marten
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Secure in the knowledge that most things are too hard to have strong opinions on. Sadly in these polarised times, many people on social networks spend more time figuring out if you are "on their team or not" than engage in an exchange of ideas.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
Just wondering @bencollins.bsky.social - what's the story behind these vox pop pictures? This exact picture has graced the onion for yonks, so at this point, like the canned laughter people, she might really be getting on in real age ....
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Just wondering @bencollins.bsky.social - what's the story behind these vox pop pictures? This exact picture has graced the onion for yonks, so at this point, like the canned laughter people, she might really be getting on in real age ....
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The Rue Charles Baudelaire in Paris has undergone a major makeover, giving a safe space to children around their school. It is one of over 300 "rues aux écoles" in Paris, showing the success of their green city project.
📸 @emmanuelspv.bsky.social
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November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The Rue Charles Baudelaire in Paris has undergone a major makeover, giving a safe space to children around their school. It is one of over 300 "rues aux écoles" in Paris, showing the success of their green city project.
📸 @emmanuelspv.bsky.social
📸 @emmanuelspv.bsky.social
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Just sharing this cartoon made by Niels again.
Shieldwalls are awesome.
Regularly check in with loved ones to make sure they're perhaps in need of a shieldwall.
www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
Shieldwalls are awesome.
Regularly check in with loved ones to make sure they're perhaps in need of a shieldwall.
www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Just sharing this cartoon made by Niels again.
Shieldwalls are awesome.
Regularly check in with loved ones to make sure they're perhaps in need of a shieldwall.
www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
Shieldwalls are awesome.
Regularly check in with loved ones to make sure they're perhaps in need of a shieldwall.
www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
Just in case, like me, you doubt this is real: it is, I checked.
Actual people thought this was a good idea, not some AI slop fakery to attract clicks.
Actual people thought this was a good idea, not some AI slop fakery to attract clicks.
Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.
The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.
Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.
Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Just in case, like me, you doubt this is real: it is, I checked.
Actual people thought this was a good idea, not some AI slop fakery to attract clicks.
Actual people thought this was a good idea, not some AI slop fakery to attract clicks.
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Found the worst playground in England
October 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Found the worst playground in England
The thing I get: rich people trying to get richer by looking for opportunities, and not looking too far to the downsides.
The thing I don't get: mustache twirling evil such as actively dismantling news orgs, denying climate change, pretending you can talk to god.
The thing I don't get: mustache twirling evil such as actively dismantling news orgs, denying climate change, pretending you can talk to god.
October 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The thing I get: rich people trying to get richer by looking for opportunities, and not looking too far to the downsides.
The thing I don't get: mustache twirling evil such as actively dismantling news orgs, denying climate change, pretending you can talk to god.
The thing I don't get: mustache twirling evil such as actively dismantling news orgs, denying climate change, pretending you can talk to god.
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This Day in Labor History: October 11, 1979. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the chemical company American Cyanamid $10,000 for coercing women workers into sterilization if they wanted to work in jobs where they would be exposed to lead and chemicals!!!!!
October 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This Day in Labor History: October 11, 1979. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the chemical company American Cyanamid $10,000 for coercing women workers into sterilization if they wanted to work in jobs where they would be exposed to lead and chemicals!!!!!
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I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
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Where does COVID vaccine mRNA go?
There’s confusion & fearmongering out there. Let’s go through what regulators and studies actually show.
1) “Local” means the muscle where the shot is given + the draining lymph nodes. That’s exactly where vaccines are designed to act!
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There’s confusion & fearmongering out there. Let’s go through what regulators and studies actually show.
1) “Local” means the muscle where the shot is given + the draining lymph nodes. That’s exactly where vaccines are designed to act!
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September 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Where does COVID vaccine mRNA go?
There’s confusion & fearmongering out there. Let’s go through what regulators and studies actually show.
1) “Local” means the muscle where the shot is given + the draining lymph nodes. That’s exactly where vaccines are designed to act!
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There’s confusion & fearmongering out there. Let’s go through what regulators and studies actually show.
1) “Local” means the muscle where the shot is given + the draining lymph nodes. That’s exactly where vaccines are designed to act!
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AI is like the sun, can be good for us can be bad for us and one day will destroy us all. -Andy Zaltzman, the Bugle
September 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
AI is like the sun, can be good for us can be bad for us and one day will destroy us all. -Andy Zaltzman, the Bugle
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They erased the new Banksy mural in London, but the stain remains
September 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
They erased the new Banksy mural in London, but the stain remains
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When you have a hammer, everything looks like nails
September 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
When you have a hammer, everything looks like nails
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Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
September 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
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"I was told to preapprove the reccs of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric. That panel’s next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 18-19. It is imperative that the panel’s recommendations aren’t rubber-stamped." www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...
Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me
I was fired after 29 days because I held the line and insisted on rigorous scientific review.
www.wsj.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"I was told to preapprove the reccs of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric. That panel’s next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 18-19. It is imperative that the panel’s recommendations aren’t rubber-stamped." www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...
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This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time.
#CaptainAmerica
#CaptainAmerica
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time.
#CaptainAmerica
#CaptainAmerica
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Obsessed with the absolute shade of referring to Giuliani as “Former Masked Singer contestant”
September 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Obsessed with the absolute shade of referring to Giuliani as “Former Masked Singer contestant”
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trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
August 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be