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China is mobilizing civilian ships that could help in an invasion of Taiwan — a mission that could surpass the Second World War’s Normandy landings. The PLA is devising concrete invasion plans and rehearsing new techniques aimed at speeding up beach landings.
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
Shadow navy: How China's civilian fleet could be a potent weapon in a Taiwan invasion
A Reuters visual investigation of China's annual naval exercises off the Chinese coast opposite Taiwan shows how Beijing's
www.reuters.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
China is mobilizing civilian ships that could help in an invasion of Taiwan — a mission that could surpass the Second World War’s Normandy landings. The PLA is devising concrete invasion plans and rehearsing new techniques aimed at speeding up beach landings.
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
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Heat pumps are the most efficiency heating technology ever invented.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Heat pumps are the most efficiency heating technology ever invented.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
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Local kitty swallows needle, which is now burrowed in her esophagus. Surgery is $4000.
I've included the news story, and there is a GFM set up at the end of the article.
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I've included the news story, and there is a GFM set up at the end of the article.
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www.yourerie.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Local kitty swallows needle, which is now burrowed in her esophagus. Surgery is $4000.
I've included the news story, and there is a GFM set up at the end of the article.
How bout a lil' repost love? @darthbluesky.bsky.social
@catsofyore.bsky.social
www.yourerie.com/news/local-n...
I've included the news story, and there is a GFM set up at the end of the article.
How bout a lil' repost love? @darthbluesky.bsky.social
@catsofyore.bsky.social
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Living with MG doesn’t define your life — embracing full experiences: https://bit.ly/3HN6YaE #MyastheniaGravis
I may be living with myasthenia gravis, but it does not define my life
For Charlotte Laycock, having MG meant rebuilding her trust in herself and learning to live with her disease, rather than in fear of it.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Living with MG doesn’t define your life — embracing full experiences: https://bit.ly/3HN6YaE #MyastheniaGravis
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C. Wardle and H. Derakhshan argue that the use of simplistic terms like "fake news" hides critical distinctions concerning wrong and malicious information, while focusing too much on "truth" versus "fake," although information disorder comes in different shades.
Wardle-Derakhshan Framework of Information Disorder - Profolus
The Wardle-Derakhshan Framework provides a model for analzing information disorder, particularly misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.
www.profolus.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
C. Wardle and H. Derakhshan argue that the use of simplistic terms like "fake news" hides critical distinctions concerning wrong and malicious information, while focusing too much on "truth" versus "fake," although information disorder comes in different shades.
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The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
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This is a must read. Written by a repentent pastor who helped create the MAGA furor gripping the most gullible and desperate in the Republican Party
"What drives the MAGA-religious is passion, identity, and even something so transcendent that it elevates a believer’s consciousness to unshakable sublimation to the leader—there are no unforgivable transgressions, and that includes pedophilia and sexual violence."
Why evangelicals couldn't care less about Trump's Epstein scandal
They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is a must read. Written by a repentent pastor who helped create the MAGA furor gripping the most gullible and desperate in the Republican Party
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As Jung noted, neurosis is “𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥". In the same way that spirit is trapped in matter, human vitality gets tied up in rigid structures of self-protection that may have once served a useful purpose but insulate us from the vitality of life.~David Fideler
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
As Jung noted, neurosis is “𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥". In the same way that spirit is trapped in matter, human vitality gets tied up in rigid structures of self-protection that may have once served a useful purpose but insulate us from the vitality of life.~David Fideler
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
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For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
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Contrary to some media reports, heat pumps aren’t new tech — they’ve been around for 100+ years!
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Contrary to some media reports, heat pumps aren’t new tech — they’ve been around for 100+ years!
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries www.openculture.com/2025/11/expl...
Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries
Look up the word architecture in the dictionary, and though you won't actually find a picture of Frank Lloyd Wright, it may feel as if you should.
www.openculture.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries www.openculture.com/2025/11/expl...
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My beloved Squeaky napping
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
My beloved Squeaky napping
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Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Selections from an artist whose phantasmagoric works defined an era.
publicdomainreview.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
February 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
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Dutch intelligence recently started scaling back intelligence sharing with the US over concerns of Trump’s increasingly autocratic actions.
My latest…
My latest…
Why the Netherlands No Longer Trusts U.S. Intelligence Because of Trump
Last week, something significant happened that should alarm every American.
olgalautman.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Dutch intelligence recently started scaling back intelligence sharing with the US over concerns of Trump’s increasingly autocratic actions.
My latest…
My latest…
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Synchronicities can produce the crack in our consciousness that expands our choices, our capacities and our consciousness of the divine. These mysterious moments go beyond our ego consciousness & open us to the sacredness of being a part of something larger than we are.~Laurence Hillman, Alignments
October 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Synchronicities can produce the crack in our consciousness that expands our choices, our capacities and our consciousness of the divine. These mysterious moments go beyond our ego consciousness & open us to the sacredness of being a part of something larger than we are.~Laurence Hillman, Alignments
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...