Perfection.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 8mo ago

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

I think we're all just pretending that the pandemic that happened a mere 5 years ago didn't traumatize us all

Dearborn getting ICE raids lol

Mehr Standort-Patriotismus wagen und die Bremsen lösen: Unsere #Automobilindustrie wird von gewaltigen Eruptionswellen erschüttert. In der WELT skizziere ich, was es braucht, damit unser Standort gestärkt und neue Technologieführerschaft erobert wird. www.welt.de/debatte/plus...

Cem Özdemir: Mehr Patriotismus wagen - WELT

Gewinneinbrüche, Sorge um Arbeitsplätze, drohende Wohlstandverluste: Um seine Automobilindustrie zu retten, muss Deutschland seine Standortprobleme lösen. Und an die Kosten ran, sagt WELT-Gastautor Ce...

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“With 470 trees planted and 4,000m2 of nature in the heart of the 14th arrondissement, the Place de Catalogne has been radically transformed in 2024!” — Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, continuing the green transformation of central Paris. Greening, cleaning and cooling the city for people.

Anne Hidalgo@annehidalgo.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Avec 470 arbres plantés et 4 000m2 de nature en plein cœur du 14e arrondissement, la place de Catalogne s'est radicalement transformée en 2024 !

“Critics think they’re sticking up for women’s rights, but they’re dismissing that we have a voice and a choice in what we do. Nobody asked us; they just assumed we were banned … but women feel comfortable in a women’s space.” - the implication being that women feel uncomfortable in a mixed space.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 10mo ago

Muslim women do not need saving, says female leader of mosque at centre of charity run row

yaaaaaaay

Barry Deutsch@barrydeutsch.bsky.social · last yr.

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

They did it. They gentrified gentrification.

Saad Asad@realsaadasad.bsky.social · last yr.

Housing is genocide sign seen at a NIMBY protest today against a mixed income high rise. The new homes are less than a few blocks to a trolley stop. And the neighborhood is majority white and middle to upper income.

opening screen for my new video?

Credit where credit is due.

David Sanderson@dizzylimit.bsky.social · last yr.

It lays it out so clearly and convincingly. China is becoming the world's environmental and energy leader and winning economically while it does it.

Friendly reminder that while the Schengen zone's theoretical lack of passport controls on borders hinges around Freedom of Movement the two are not the same thing. Several EU states outside faced checks for years even with Freedom of Movement.

Thinking right now about that period 14 months ago when lefties were portraying Joe Biden as something akin to a fascist dictator. I took a lot of heat for saying people were being ridiculous and that those attacks on Biden would age extremely poorly if Trump won. And now here we are.

“This is a historic moment! 100 years after it was banned, I'm signing the decree authorizing swimming in our three designated areas in the Seine. In [less than] a week, we'll take the plunge!” - Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social

Anne Hidalgo@annehidalgo.bsky.social · last yr.

C'est un moment historique ! 100 ans après son interdiction, je signe l'arrêté autorisant la baignade dans nos 3 sites aménagés dans la Seine. Dans une semaine, nous ferons le grand saut !

lmao americans gonna fafo?

Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump and Miller are intent on building an unaccountable domestic secret police force that would be the world's third-biggest security force by funding levels, after the US and China's *militaries*. That kind of funding dwarfs its stated purpose, which tells you what its real purpose will be.

Or the classic "how dare you have fun/make jokes about X under active genocide/fascism"

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · last yr.

i've been trying to think of a nice way to say this but some of the people on this site desperately need to realize that not everything has to be about american politics 100% of the time. stop replying to people's unrelated anecdotes and pictures of their dogs with unfunny jokes about donald trump

a story about Iran 1/

I don't even know what to say anymore.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last yr.

Telegram billionaire founder and Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov plans to leave his vast fortune to the more than 100 children he’s fathered, according to an interview with France’s Le Point magazine

Also pretty clear that BYD and others are expanding their carship fleets to move stuff into export markets asap - to escape domestic saturation. My impression is they underestimated the need to have dealer networks in Europe - another bottleneck they are tackling.

Hungary now being the poorest nation in Europe is kinda funny tbh.

Trying to take credit for the strikes while STILL offering Iran a deal. First he distanced himself, now he claims success. Israel’s been building this plan since last year. Maybe it worked because they left him out of the loop after all, as some reports suggested.

Three of our four Coalition for Change leaders are now jailed by the Russian regime in Georgia: Zurab Girchi Japaridze, Nika Melia, and Nika Gvaramia. All four of them believe firmly in our victory.

Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · last yr.

Regime court sentenced another opposition leader, Nika Gvaramia, to jail. Gvaramia didn’t attend his trial and literally showed up at the prison entrance with a packed bag before his sentence was even out because we all knew the outcome of the circus. What a badass move!

New thread #3 A US defense official tells the WP this attack, which Israel says will continue over multiple days, will provoke a significant Iranian response that the Israelis will then ask the United States to help counter.

🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · last yr.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

The strike on the Revolutionary Guard HQ was during a crisis meeting of senior Iranian leaders.

And this is why “well, nothing new’s happening so we might as well just try to win some villages or whatever in the local elections” pessimist thought by some political groups is impermissible.

Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · last yr.

Well, tonight in Georgia is a yet another proof that the situation/resistance is very unpredictable, on edge, and ready to be sparked up even when it seems routine. Until the end! ✊🏻 #GeorgiaProtests

The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.

Authoritarianism isn’t imposed on people against their will. It often emerges through their will, distorted by systemic failures that reframe cruelty as justice and power as truth.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.