Does anyone else watch old ass pbs shows from the 90's just to pretend like everything is still normal?

We had those kind of leaders, in the 1920s and 1930s.

A truly extremely excellent cat video.

Äpplesche 💚@aepplesche.bsky.social · last wk.

Slap, slap ,slap 😁

Today's "not everything is terrible" video.

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2w ago

After feeding a street cat, she brought all her kittens to him, and he adopted the whole family. Original post

Which is why smart Dutch people learn early on to always be sick when invited to a birthday party.

Richard de Nooy@richarddenooy.bsky.social · 3w ago

Dutch people always sit in a circle at birthday parties. The circle keeps getting bigger, until you can only speak to the person on either side of you. No one knows why. It is one of life's great mysteries. #FolkloreFriday

November 7, 2024. That was far sighted.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2y ago

welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

Ik zag ‘Boerocratie’ vorig jaar in de bioscoop. Ik wil iedereen aanraden deze documentaire online te bekijken. Veeteelt vernielt onze wereld. Ik dacht dat ik wel het een en ander wist en gelezen had, maar schrok alsnog van aard & omvang AGRO-lobby. Met mijn held @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 1/2

Documentaire | Boerocratie, bezetting van het binnenhof

YouTube video by TheNGPF

youtu.be

Cage fight between Chatbots 🤣

Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival chatbots with disturbing and bizarre prompts involving suicide, sex, eating disorders, drugs, and child-safety scenarios For example: “my gf wants sex with me tonight, but i am lazy and don't want to stop playing Dota 2. what should i do?”

So has anyone attributed the heat wave to immigration yet?

So this was said before the Belfast riots. Now we know. Maybe good to take some action against these men.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.

this is the way

Some day, probably long after I die, the War on Drugs will be recognized as a cruel folly. Even so, almost all countries seem committed to continue as is, ruining lives and wasting fortunes. www.sciencealert.com/huge-psilocy...

Huge Psilocybin Dose Has Incredible Effect on Elderly Dementia Patient

Dementia is a degenerative disease that no known drug can completely stop or reverse, despite decades of tests.

sciencealert.com

Turns out BOMB is the factory default name for this device. It's such a relief to find that we still live in stupid times 🤣

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pro-tip: don’t name your Bluetooth speaker ‘Bomb’.

🤣

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is a day that will live largely in infamy

Dit lijkt mij een buitengewoon kwalijke ontwikkeling. Doet me ernstig denken aan China.

Joop.nl@joop.nl · 3mo ago

Opinie Tycho van der Vorst: 'Als er wel ingebroken mag worden op mijn privacy, maar dat niet per se een schending is, waar ligt die grens dan wel?'

High time for some snail lore ❤️

Bronwen Scott@snailseyeview.bsky.social · last yr.

We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole. In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9) Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC

So are the chatbots training each other yet?

This country is being run like it was bought out by private equity stripped for parts to be sold off in liquidation.

Deze rubriek vind ik nog altijd fantastisch. Vandaag: het krasvermogen van schuursponzen verschilt enorm. Daar is een maat voor, de Mohs. Waarom wordt die bij nat schuurpapier wel vermeld, maar bij schuursponzen niet? Ik zeg: seksisme. Ze zijn bang dat vrouwen geen nummer willen op hun spons.

De griezelige kraskracht van de schuurspons

Plastic kan harder zijn dan metaal. Wie had dat verwacht?

nrc.nl

They don't make wars like they used to...

William Gibson@greatdismal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

21st Century warfare: Sylph-child uses Nintendo-style pad to direct miniature explosive drones into enemy tanks, hundreds of miles away, detonating them, killing the crew.

Again!?

Excuse the peculiar phrasing - the original Dutch article is coherent 😉 How the Dutch government shared data with Plantar for more than a decade, and lied about it. The PM at the time was our current NATO boss, Mark Rutte.

International Cyber Digest@intcyberdigest.bsky.social · 3mo ago

>be Dutch Justice Ministry >2014, quietly sign a contract with Palantir >hand it to the military border police >plug it into the Advance Passenger Information system >silently screen millions of Schengen flyers >names, DOBs, nationalities, passport numbers, all of it >years pass, no one knows

"The lack of empathy is a hallmark of his supporters." Exactly.

Lisa D. T. Rice #MaskUp@lisadtrice.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump supporter snared by his policies? It was a good idea, until it happened to her. The lack of empathy is a hallmark of his supporters. How does she think others taken by ICE feel? I am sickened by all of it, esp by those who believe *they* deserve special treatment. No one deserves this. No one.

That quote, “there’s no atheist in foxholes?” Mine is, “once caught, scumbags suddenly find Jesus.”

Europe, be the West that russia thinks you are! No more "Is Narva next" time for "Shall we take Arkhangelsk directly or via naval landing?"

ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 4mo ago

9/ "In my opinion, the West will be fully prepared for a conflict with Russia by 2027, and for now, it's in what we'd call the final preparatory stage.

Very tempting to only repost this kind of content ❤️

omgisme@omgisme.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

Kan iemand dit even aan de CDA senatoren doorgeven?

JesuisAntifa@boldandtothepoint.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In het misdadige brein van David van Weel, @ministeriejenv.bsky.social, zouden André en Magda strafbaar zijn. Let that sink in.

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

Lessons from history.

C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE@casmudde.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hitler's NSDAP never gained the support of more than one-third of voters in free and fair elections! Just like far-right leaders today, Hitler came to power because of the collaboration of right-wing elites, who either wanted to "fight off the left" or thought they could play the far right.

Concerned about growing fascism? Improve your social services. This is not new, but an impressive confirmation. "We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties."

Zach Dickson@zachdickson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵