The trouble with right wing political theology is its stupidity rather than its malice, which Bonhoeffer identified as the greater threat to the good.
worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · last yr.This is so embarrassing
worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · last yr.
Southwest Research Institute: Study Finds Evidence of Liquid Recently Flowing on Pluto’s Surface www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...
SwRI study finds evidence of liquid recently flowing on Pluto’s surface | Southwest Research Institute
Researchers use New Horizons imagery to identify evidence for liquid nitrogen flowing from underneath Pluto’s famous heart-shaped glacier
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At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.
Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4w agoThis from the guy who has to hire people to play his video games for him.
🚨 OPEN CALL: Run your code in deep space! For the first time, we are opening access to a living mission. We’ll be turning our Hera asteroid mission into a flying software lab 150M km from Earth. Open to AI, robotics, gaming, etc! 💻 Submit your idea 👉 t.co/Sn54Xne6Oz
Happy 60th Birthday Revolver, and in a months time Star Trek the original series
Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 6h agowe should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something
My latest on @mcsweeneys.net where I try to help out with our current, heavy baggage. Meet me on the bridge, you dear long-lost Americans!
Travel Tips When Encountering Fellow Americans Abroad
“When spotting another American in a foreign country, your first instinct is usually the correct one: run in the opposite direction. Like you, this person ha...
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Great passage!
A.V. Marraccini@saintsoftness.bsky.social · 10h agoNew today: me in the Berlin Review, responding to @sentantiq on Nolan's Odyssey, but also on the collapse of literacy in contemporary America, senses of apocalypse in the humanities, and a relevant new Hölderlin translation: blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
This thread is such a journey
qdot@buttplug.engineer · 2y agoOk, it's friday night and thanks to @defaultfriend.bsky.social's cursed Gorean Culture class idea that very much needs to happen, I will use this prompt to repost my story of having to be tech support for Goreans when I was at Linden Lab as a developer of Second Life. 🧵 follows
Okay, small thread time regarding the intrusion of intra-corporate vocabulary into the common vernacular. The term "content" was used by businesses for decades internally without this issue. The difference is now that corpo-speak has infected casual conversation
Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.
I really think we gotta explore why Republicans keep voting for guys whose whole personas are "serial killer with a chip on his shoulder." What is it about these obvious pieces of shit that draws these voters in.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."
suspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile
You can see the very obvious throughline from “men could transition and easily dominate women’s sports” to “women’s sports are lesser and shouldn’t be taken seriously” to “women shouldn’t play sports” to “here are the acceptable life choices for women”
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2d ago"It's about protecting women's sports which, by the way, I hate more than anything in the world."
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
"The Rainbow Fish" Blatant propaganda from the LGBToomanyletters community. Not to mention, the fish makes friends by giving away its silver scales, making it an ordinary, ugly fish with no accumulated wealth. A bunch of communist crap.
Dangerous Children’s Picture Books That Could Be Lurking in Your Home
“Where the Wild Things Are is a horrifying story of lawlessness and open borders.” 3/2/25 7/31/26
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You'd have to be total morons to buy this, so...
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · yesterdayTrump has made big threats and given Iran a one-last-chance at least 8 times now, backing off without getting anything every time. "A whole civilization will die tonight" was April 7! He has claimed Iran is making concessions, desperate for a deal, and a deal is imminent too many times to count.
agents of the state and trial lawyers tend to take away bullshit very fast. anthropic and others will likely clam up very quickly if, the next time they say “damn bro it might be alive,” they get a sudden inspection by child protective services
hello, i was already aware of the superb fairywren, but today i learned of the existence of the splendid fairywren and the lovely fairywren, and tbh i think we should let australians name more birds fairywrenproject.org
Paramount execs bribed the FCC into giving approval for their acquisitions and megamergers? (And nobody was surprised, not even a little bit) www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Fantastic shot sir. You are the greatest golfer since Jack Nicklaus sir. I’ve never seen a finer shot.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d ago43-time Club Champion.
Gelis agilis is a wingless wasp that gives other parasitoid wasps the heebie jeebies. It's a hyperparasitoid that parasitises the cocoons of parasitoids, and it protects itself with a full spectrum ant disguise 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2015/02/geli...
<i>Gelis agilis</i>
It's a bug-eat-bug world out there and the same applies to parasitic wasps - even parasites can themselves become parasitised - which is wh...
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WaPo alone found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, namely to spy on girlfriends or ex-wives. They interviewed ~seven victims w/ stories of abuse that are really awful. One police chief "watched every single move" his ex made.
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d agoNew: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
it is International Owl Awareness Day! May you now be aware of the weird and wonderful Blakiston's fish owl! 🦉
