This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)

The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...

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There is SUCH a strong cultural push for parents to raise kids in the suburbs in the US. It’s part of why I post boring photos/stories of our days, to show what raising kids in a city is really like. I genuinely think a lot of Americans don’t even entertain the idea & don’t know what’s possible.

RIP Charlie “Cunningham called bicycles the “perfect means for ‘right living.’” “They make people healthy and happy, and they free us from the tyranny of cars and the guilt of waste,” he said. “Of course, there’s a time and place for cars, but most of us use them too much.” “ @biketalk.bsky.social

Charlie Cunningham, Mountain Bike Innovator, Dies at 77 (Gift Article)

In the late 1970s, he built what is considered the first off-road bicycle with a frame that was aluminum rather than steel, one of his many inventions.

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I like to think this is Walter Sobchak 20 years after the events in The Big Lebowski.

JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy@progavalanche.bsky.social · 2w ago

Who said the Republicans are lacking diversity? They welcome every kind of crazy! The Colorado Republican nominee for Gov claims that he is an exorcist & can exorcise demons over the phone “just like Jesus”. I, for one, cant wait until he gets on a Zoom with Stephen Miller.

After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.

Elon Musk’s tired schtick

Why does the media keep debasing itself for a man who despises them?

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“Les marchés prédictifs ne sont pas dépourvus d’utilité. Ils peuvent fournir des prédictions plus précises que celles des firmes de sondage, comme on l’a vu pour plusieurs élections” Affirmation basée sur une analyse? Une horloge brisée donne la bonne heure 2 fois par jour: est-elle utile?

La Presse@lapresse.ca · 2w ago

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@ben-train.bsky.social · 2w ago

J’ai contacté le cabinet de la mairesse pour savoir pourquoi un segment démographique qui se déplace beaucoup à vélo - les moins de 18 ans - ne peuvent répondre à l’enquête “La place du vélo à Montréal”. La réponse est que le site web ne sera pas modifié mAiS que …

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The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

Le NIMBYisme à Chambly ou ailleurs en Amérique du Nord, c'est l'anxiété de la circulation automobile, la haine des futures générations et l'incapacité intellectuelle de se demander pourquoi nos villes sont dépendantes aux larges podiums multi-résidentiels dotés de deux cages d'escaliers.

J’ai contacté le cabinet de la mairesse pour savoir pourquoi un segment démographique qui se déplace beaucoup à vélo - les moins de 18 ans - ne peuvent répondre à l’enquête “La place du vélo à Montréal”. La réponse est que le site web ne sera pas modifié mAiS que …

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« La place du vélo à Montréal »: quelqu’un sait s’il y a un « bot » ou autre manipulation qui explique tous les marqueurs rouge « à retirer » à intervalles réguliers le long de rues comme Sherbrooke, Verdun? Arguments et fautes répétitifs, exemple ci-dessous

Sure you've got your Count Binface, but when it comes to eccentric British candidates, retired Royal Navy officer Bill Boaks was a force to contend with. By all accounts Boaks was a terrible campaigner, but his single-minded dedication to the cause of road safety was a force to be reckoned with. 🧵

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@ben-train.bsky.social · 3w ago

….Qu´elles sont plus à risque de se faire frapper par un vehicule moteur sur rue non sécuritaire. on va voir de nos yeux ces gens qui socialisent où les trottoirs sont élargis, où des pistes mènent à une aire publique

….Qu´elles sont plus à risque de se faire frapper par un vehicule moteur sur rue non sécuritaire. on va voir de nos yeux ces gens qui socialisent où les trottoirs sont élargis, où des pistes mènent à une aire publique

@ben-train.bsky.social · 3w ago

  « les personnes très âgées ou en situation de handicap, pognés dans le trafic. On leur dit quoi ? » 1. on les écoute 2. On réalise que son ressenti n’est pas là vérité 3. On réalise que près de la majorité des gens avec un défi de mobilité à Montréal n’ont pas de char. ….

  « les personnes très âgées ou en situation de handicap, pognés dans le trafic. On leur dit quoi ? » 1. on les écoute 2. On réalise que son ressenti n’est pas là vérité 3. On réalise que près de la majorité des gens avec un défi de mobilité à Montréal n’ont pas de char. ….

La Presse@lapresse.ca · 3w ago

It's World Emoji Day, so here's a friendly reminder that we have 🚷 and 🚳 but not

Sounds like gender-affirming care to me.

yup

PaulyMac 🇨🇦@mrpaulymac.bsky.social · 3w ago

My guy, carbon capture WOULD have been considered the biggest scam of all time, but AI datacentres are here. I know you know better.

Trump’s talking about Lindsey Graham like he’s a past drummer of Spinal Tap.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

GREG KELLY: Do you think we know the whole story about Lindsey Graham's death? TRUMP: Well, I *think* we do. We have great doctors and they talked about a certain part of his body literally blew up.

Carney calling Lindsey Graham a defender of democracy and freedom when the man made jokes on his official X account about taking over Canada is just the last straw of many last straws for me.

They say "The purpose of a system is what it does" in which case my purpose is endlessly to log into the microsoft programs that I'd already logged into

Atmosphère Regardez cette vidéo, « j'aimerais faire de la bicyclette avec toi » www.google.ca/search?hl=fr...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing half the population that the "manly" way to get around is on a giant rolling couch controlled by gently depressing your toe.

Achievement unlocked: going out for a late afternoon bike ride on the West Island, deciding impromptu to stay over for dinner in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue because there is a nice bike path to the REM, which runs every 15 minutes past midnight to go back home.

Traditional masculinity or "manliness" in the context of cars, much like in the context of everything else, is not about physical fitness or ability but about dominance. It is about consumption. Taking up space. Putting one's needs over those of other people. Etc.

Warren Wells, AICP@warrenjwells.bsky.social · 3w ago

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing half the population that the "manly" way to get around is on a giant rolling couch controlled by gently depressing your toe.

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Thomas Fuchs@thomasfuchs.at · 3y ago

If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.

it's brutal out there.

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La Presse@lapresse.ca · 4w ago

Incroyable d’écrire ça! S’il y avait une telle hégémonie disons que le monde serait différent « Mme Meloni … partage … le souci de lutter …. de briser l’hégémonie culturelle de la gauche. » @lapresse lp.ca/jEnyBj?shari...

Radioscopie | Pourquoi les relations entre Trump et Meloni se sont-elles dégradées ?

Donald Trump et Giorgia Meloni sont à couteaux tirés depuis quelques mois. Eux qui s’entendaient pourtant à merveille. Mais que s’est-il passé ?

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