Alex
@snowserious.bsky.social
35; Student of History; Currently with 2 stacks of books beside my bed
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Alex
@snowserious.bsky.social
· Jan 22
My family fought Not-sees in occupied Netherlands and elsewhere. Ready to continue the tradition.
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The impact of USAID cuts sits at 88 deaths per hour. Over 2100 deaths every 24 hrs. Over 63,000 deaths every 30 days.
Over 422,000 children have already died since the Trump administration cut USAID.
Over 625,000 people have died.
Over 422,000 children have already died since the Trump administration cut USAID.
Over 625,000 people have died.
The world‘s richest man killing the world’s poorest children…
This is a documented case of public man-made death. Why? Because a government dismantled oversight, purged experts, and ruled by decree, all things our assessment highlights.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The impact of USAID cuts sits at 88 deaths per hour. Over 2100 deaths every 24 hrs. Over 63,000 deaths every 30 days.
Over 422,000 children have already died since the Trump administration cut USAID.
Over 625,000 people have died.
Over 422,000 children have already died since the Trump administration cut USAID.
Over 625,000 people have died.
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Halo Combat Evolved was released 24 years ago this weekend. 👴
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Halo Combat Evolved was released 24 years ago this weekend. 👴
Accessible entries should be standard on all vuildings being built in the modern day and enforced with pulling of licenses for those who don't.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Accessible entries should be standard on all vuildings being built in the modern day and enforced with pulling of licenses for those who don't.
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"he's not a pedophile because the minors he raped were pubescent" is not only trying to give cover for a pedophile but it's also linguistic prescriptivism, which is less of a moral wrong than the pedophile apologia but is still a moral wrong
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"he's not a pedophile because the minors he raped were pubescent" is not only trying to give cover for a pedophile but it's also linguistic prescriptivism, which is less of a moral wrong than the pedophile apologia but is still a moral wrong
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CTB-1. Medulla Nebula. A supernova remnant in Cassiopeia.
Data from September 2024.
65X300s
#astronomy #astrophotography
Data from September 2024.
65X300s
#astronomy #astrophotography
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
CTB-1. Medulla Nebula. A supernova remnant in Cassiopeia.
Data from September 2024.
65X300s
#astronomy #astrophotography
Data from September 2024.
65X300s
#astronomy #astrophotography
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Who remembers, having to get your film developed?
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Who remembers, having to get your film developed?
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SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens Quietly Released From Jail Sparking Trump Pardon Fears
Alexander Smirnov was quietly furloughed from prison months ago.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
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You will reap what you sow.
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
You will reap what you sow.
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Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
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“SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT” (1977) dir. Hal Needham
Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams and Mike Henry
🎬 Universal Pictures
Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams and Mike Henry
🎬 Universal Pictures
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
“SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT” (1977) dir. Hal Needham
Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams and Mike Henry
🎬 Universal Pictures
Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams and Mike Henry
🎬 Universal Pictures
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The thing I want to stress to people: Authors (and other artists you admire) don't *expect* you to be scintillating when you meet us, so don't worry about being clever. What *is* appreciated is if you're nice. Just be nice! Nice is good!
But what if I say something completely stupid?? My anxiety is too high to speak coherently when meeting an author. The most I can manage is something like "thank you for writing and sharing your work. It has become my friend and I brought it here for you to sign, please." Then I flee.
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The thing I want to stress to people: Authors (and other artists you admire) don't *expect* you to be scintillating when you meet us, so don't worry about being clever. What *is* appreciated is if you're nice. Just be nice! Nice is good!
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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News organizations are starting to call the New Jersey governor's race for Mikie Sherrill, and she recently called out one of my books as a recommendation, I'm not saying that recommending my books will nab you a governorship, but I am saying that the batting record so far is 1.000
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
News organizations are starting to call the New Jersey governor's race for Mikie Sherrill, and she recently called out one of my books as a recommendation, I'm not saying that recommending my books will nab you a governorship, but I am saying that the batting record so far is 1.000
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Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
Citizen-led pollution monitoring persists in Louisiana, despite law that limits its use • Louisiana Illuminator
Communities around Louisiana are taking environmental data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their findings can be used to enforce regulations.
lailluminator.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
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Fossil fuel lobbyists are now talking gas up as a ‘green’ fuel.
To be absolutely clear, this is nonsense.
Coal full life cycle emissions: 800-1,700g CO2e/kWh
Gas full life cycle emissions: 290-930g CO2e/kWh
Wind power full life cycle emissions: 5-15g CO2e/kWh
To be absolutely clear, this is nonsense.
Coal full life cycle emissions: 800-1,700g CO2e/kWh
Gas full life cycle emissions: 290-930g CO2e/kWh
Wind power full life cycle emissions: 5-15g CO2e/kWh
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Fossil fuel lobbyists are now talking gas up as a ‘green’ fuel.
To be absolutely clear, this is nonsense.
Coal full life cycle emissions: 800-1,700g CO2e/kWh
Gas full life cycle emissions: 290-930g CO2e/kWh
Wind power full life cycle emissions: 5-15g CO2e/kWh
To be absolutely clear, this is nonsense.
Coal full life cycle emissions: 800-1,700g CO2e/kWh
Gas full life cycle emissions: 290-930g CO2e/kWh
Wind power full life cycle emissions: 5-15g CO2e/kWh
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A New Image of the Red #Spider #Nebula Captures the Radiance of a Dying Star #Webb #SpaceTelescope
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/jame...
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/jame...
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A New Image of the Red #Spider #Nebula Captures the Radiance of a Dying Star #Webb #SpaceTelescope
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/jame...
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/jame...
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“It’s a slap in the face,” said a civilian who works in human resources overseas, and who is a military spouse and parent.
Civilians at the Pentagon continue missing paychecks while working alongside troops getting paid | CNN Politics
As the US passes the record for the longest government shutdown in history on Wednesday, civilian employees of the Defense Department — many of whom are veterans and military family members — are ques...
www.cnn.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“It’s a slap in the face,” said a civilian who works in human resources overseas, and who is a military spouse and parent.
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Today's word of the day:
REBUKE: (verb) to criticize sharply; to reprimand; to turn back or keep down
(noun) an expression of strong disapproval; a reprimand
REBUKE: (verb) to criticize sharply; to reprimand; to turn back or keep down
(noun) an expression of strong disapproval; a reprimand
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today's word of the day:
REBUKE: (verb) to criticize sharply; to reprimand; to turn back or keep down
(noun) an expression of strong disapproval; a reprimand
REBUKE: (verb) to criticize sharply; to reprimand; to turn back or keep down
(noun) an expression of strong disapproval; a reprimand
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
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shout out to the hardworking fetish artists of the internet on planet earth for making so much content that somebody at openai has fixing this as their job
Speaking of AI slop, here's something we can't unsee: Andrew Cuomo’s AI-generated attack ad against Zohran Mamdani that features a pregnant bill in the style of Schoolhouse Rock.
"The ad bears all the hallmarks of the sloppiest of AI trash."
"The ad bears all the hallmarks of the sloppiest of AI trash."
Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas
Uhh, is ChatGPT the dad or?
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
shout out to the hardworking fetish artists of the internet on planet earth for making so much content that somebody at openai has fixing this as their job