Simple Signifier
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you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
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Amazing to have so much attention brought to the wonderful topic of social insect evolution! 🐜
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/20/a...
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/20/a...
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Amazing to have so much attention brought to the wonderful topic of social insect evolution! 🐜
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/20/a...
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/20/a...
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finding out that sycophancy doesn't trigger everyone's fight or flight response might be among the worst discoveries of the 2020s for me, and trust me it has stiff competition.
In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 AM
finding out that sycophancy doesn't trigger everyone's fight or flight response might be among the worst discoveries of the 2020s for me, and trust me it has stiff competition.
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They're older than trees. And dinosaurs. And were maybe once as tall as the Himalayas.
Anything that old has to be riddled with spooky shit, obvs, but y'all. They are a SPECIAL KIND OF HAUNTED.
Anything that old has to be riddled with spooky shit, obvs, but y'all. They are a SPECIAL KIND OF HAUNTED.
the Appalachian mountains are so ancient they predate the evolution of bones.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
They're older than trees. And dinosaurs. And were maybe once as tall as the Himalayas.
Anything that old has to be riddled with spooky shit, obvs, but y'all. They are a SPECIAL KIND OF HAUNTED.
Anything that old has to be riddled with spooky shit, obvs, but y'all. They are a SPECIAL KIND OF HAUNTED.
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I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists
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Little 🧵 related to my ... vantage on all this, as ever, as DV survivor ... who thinks the mainstream media needs DARVO training ...
Just wanted to say: Have been reading versions of this a lot.
If you've survived an abuse situation, you understand the *point* is that he insults her AND that nobody speaks up. Of course nobody does. The entire presentation is the propaganda. It's about the witnesses' compliance and complicity.
If you've survived an abuse situation, you understand the *point* is that he insults her AND that nobody speaks up. Of course nobody does. The entire presentation is the propaganda. It's about the witnesses' compliance and complicity.
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Little 🧵 related to my ... vantage on all this, as ever, as DV survivor ... who thinks the mainstream media needs DARVO training ...
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Okay, so you're in your gmail, and you have a bazillion emails in your main inbox due to turning off smart features. What's the easiest way to go through them? Well you could go page by page.
Or...If you know specific companies send a lot of emails, there's a quick trick.
Or...If you know specific companies send a lot of emails, there's a quick trick.
For my laptop, while I do have a good amount of free space to partition/separate to try out Linux, I should also make sure I don't have unnecessary files and games taking up space.
And for email. (stares at tab showing the number 58,287) I uh. Don't think I need to import EVERYTHING.
And for email. (stares at tab showing the number 58,287) I uh. Don't think I need to import EVERYTHING.
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Okay, so you're in your gmail, and you have a bazillion emails in your main inbox due to turning off smart features. What's the easiest way to go through them? Well you could go page by page.
Or...If you know specific companies send a lot of emails, there's a quick trick.
Or...If you know specific companies send a lot of emails, there's a quick trick.
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Remember if you truly despise GenAI and its outputs you need to put a lot more time celebrating and lifting all the artists not using it and trying there best and learning. Share their art like that art and just talk about the stuff you like and enjoy. Don’t let the anger of GenAi stop that.
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Remember if you truly despise GenAI and its outputs you need to put a lot more time celebrating and lifting all the artists not using it and trying there best and learning. Share their art like that art and just talk about the stuff you like and enjoy. Don’t let the anger of GenAi stop that.
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Acquaint yourself with the major antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Acquaint yourself with the major antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
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Our work, led by @dl-arch.bsky.social and Miljana Radivojević on the Bronze Age site at Semiyarka (NE Kazakhstan) published today in @antiquity.ac.uk
Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Our work, led by @dl-arch.bsky.social and Miljana Radivojević on the Bronze Age site at Semiyarka (NE Kazakhstan) published today in @antiquity.ac.uk
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It’s strange how some people think being kind means being polite and deferential. I’ve seen kindness that can shatter bone, that will melt a face, that has brought grown men sobbing to their knees.
I’d like to see more of that. That would be nice.
I’d like to see more of that. That would be nice.
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It’s strange how some people think being kind means being polite and deferential. I’ve seen kindness that can shatter bone, that will melt a face, that has brought grown men sobbing to their knees.
I’d like to see more of that. That would be nice.
I’d like to see more of that. That would be nice.
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Its easy to feel gloomy about climate change. Theres a lot of urgent work to be done-- but its also truly amazing how fast nature can heal if its allowed to do so.
Owámniyomni Okhódayapi just announced the Dakota-led design for the restoration of five acres at Owámniyomni (St. Anthony Falls), adjacent to the Upper Lock on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Project construction is targeted to begin in spring 2026. Very exciting!
owamniyomni.org/design/
owamniyomni.org/design/
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Its easy to feel gloomy about climate change. Theres a lot of urgent work to be done-- but its also truly amazing how fast nature can heal if its allowed to do so.
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Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
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like yes the world is constantly on fire, but if you surround yourself with good people who want to help? it is a lot easier to handle. because I just see a lot of good people all the time.
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
like yes the world is constantly on fire, but if you surround yourself with good people who want to help? it is a lot easier to handle. because I just see a lot of good people all the time.
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we are doing a thing on our discord where folks having a rough year can fill out a form with their likes/wishes and people in the 3D Printing channel will make them gifts for themselves/kids/loved ones, and other people are insisting on donating filament/shipping money & honestly y'all. 💓😭
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
we are doing a thing on our discord where folks having a rough year can fill out a form with their likes/wishes and people in the 3D Printing channel will make them gifts for themselves/kids/loved ones, and other people are insisting on donating filament/shipping money & honestly y'all. 💓😭
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I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
Trump: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene…”
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
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right like it genuinely IS an important moral distinction that the left doesn’t want anyone being persecuted for their speech - even MTG - while the right wants it to happen to everyone they disagree with and only thinks it’s bad when it pivots to them
November 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
right like it genuinely IS an important moral distinction that the left doesn’t want anyone being persecuted for their speech - even MTG - while the right wants it to happen to everyone they disagree with and only thinks it’s bad when it pivots to them
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I respect the game, man, even if I'll never respect the player.
I think most of us know that this is a cynical & opportunistic pivot now that It Is Going To Happen Soon to position herself for the next age of the GOP, but picking "Charlie Kirk Radicalized Me" as the excuse is gonna work for many.
I think most of us know that this is a cynical & opportunistic pivot now that It Is Going To Happen Soon to position herself for the next age of the GOP, but picking "Charlie Kirk Radicalized Me" as the excuse is gonna work for many.
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I respect the game, man, even if I'll never respect the player.
I think most of us know that this is a cynical & opportunistic pivot now that It Is Going To Happen Soon to position herself for the next age of the GOP, but picking "Charlie Kirk Radicalized Me" as the excuse is gonna work for many.
I think most of us know that this is a cynical & opportunistic pivot now that It Is Going To Happen Soon to position herself for the next age of the GOP, but picking "Charlie Kirk Radicalized Me" as the excuse is gonna work for many.
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MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked
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GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study in MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically LONGER than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study in MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically LONGER than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.
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May your lair be warm and hide you from trouble
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
May your lair be warm and hide you from trouble
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ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
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This is a VERY interesting read, now that I've had time to sit down with it, and it has me thinking about the interactions of learning abilities, especially dyslexia, with how we teach reading.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is a VERY interesting read, now that I've had time to sit down with it, and it has me thinking about the interactions of learning abilities, especially dyslexia, with how we teach reading.
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to sum up: WE CAN HAVE NICE THINGS IF WE SPEND MONEY ON THEM.
A similar story from Sweden when the government decided to fund music education. If you wanted to learn an instrument, wherever you lived, you could do it for free.
One result was ABBA, which led to *decades* of pop music and massive worldwide cultural impact.
One result was ABBA, which led to *decades* of pop music and massive worldwide cultural impact.
I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
to sum up: WE CAN HAVE NICE THINGS IF WE SPEND MONEY ON THEM.