It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5
I hate the whole framing of the "putting trans kids on hormones" debate CIS KIDS ARE ON HORMONES TOO. They just came free with their puberty. It's the same hormones, as well. And if the kid is intersex in a way that means their body doesn't make sex hormones, guess what we do? PUT THEM ON HORMONES
Premiere Smith’s illegitimate attempt to end run the system after the system failed to produce her desired chaos is a master class in ratfucking. Here’s how the question is structured: Should Alberta stay in Canada? Yes - Alberta should leave No - Alberta should stay
That’s NOT how you splice a camera negative. F-
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4mo agoSabrina Carpenter at the Met Gala.
@tawnynewsome.bsky.social Listening to your Greatest Trek appearance on Starfleet Academy episode 5, and I just wanna say. Incredible job. I know a lot of people have been down on Academy but I've been watching Trek since 1990 and I loved it.
@waternotcoalab.bsky.social I'm interested in signing but I'm seeing most of the Edmonton locations are concentrated around the Whyte Ave area. Any locations north of downtown in the works?
In the TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom" a bunch of AI weapons destroyed an entire civilization. The entire points of the episode is warning against things like the Doomsday Plane and Grok. These two idiots. You can't make this stuff up.
Cyrus Farivar@cfarivar.bsky.social · 8mo ago5 strips of latinum says that the Secretary of Defense has never actually watched an episode of Star Trek. gizmodo.com/star-trek-re...
Remember, not all new tech has to be evil.
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 8mo agoIncredible story. Garmin has a feature in some of their new glass cockpit systems that can detect if a pilot becomes unresponsive. This weekend it activated in a non-test scenario for the first time www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
Evan Torner@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · last yr.There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
No science fiction movie has ever made a prediction as accurate as the mega-popularity of Ruby Rhod, a flamboyantly annoying little bitch who livestreams himself yammering nonstop about nothing and everyone is like “damn, goals”
We don’t give ground on who is protected because they might come for us next, we don’t cede ground because we all deserve to be here. There’s no prerequisite of value to being human. Why are you here if you’re not going to protect your vast and vivid human family? What is this for?
Really appreciated this conversation with Matt Galloway of the CBC. We got to talk about tuberculosis, the implications of defunding USAID, and the future of the disease in a world where human health is not being prioritized. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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if you were ever a fan of the comic Pictures for Sad Children & wondered what happened to the artist, these days she's out as a trans woman and has been struggling with poverty & access to medical care but still making art, & could use some help with stable housing www.gofundme.com/f/help-simon...
I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."
Fake George Julian@smhten.bsky.social · 2y agoMy kid lives in Siddall Hall and sent me these yesterday. First is what was put up by the school, second is the students’ alteration of the administrations’ cowardice.
I watched this video this morning and it really has been instructive for understanding, well, a lot of behavior. youtu.be/bNOol5OTasw
You're not addicted to tiktoks/reels, you're addicted to the scrolling
YouTube video by HGModernism
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PS fact checks don’t suppress speech, fact checks are actually MORE SPEECH. /end
people need to start thinking about social media like a party. when you comment on someone's post, you're doing that thing where you're trying to ease into an existing convo. "you're all whiny assholes" and "books are hard, why do you read them?" is gonna make everyone think you're an asshole
We've agreed that this will henceforth be known in popular discourse and technical literature as the Magic Carpet fallacy. It needs a name on an emergency basis because of the growing threat this specific fallacy poses in American political discourse.
Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 2y ago
Damn it, got Whammed and it's not even a week into December
If you want to go and sip chai with me I mix the spices in the back and I’m friendly Oh why does it taste so great? (Hey, must be the honey!)
Don’t order. Don’t open the site. We stand with workers ❤️🩹✌🏼
CBS 42@cbs42.bsky.social · 2y agoAmazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.
Wow that’s a pretty dirty move from Canada Post. Rather than negotiate with the workers, it’s violating the Canada Labour Code and laying people off during the strike. The strike going on longer is going to be at their feet. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Canada Post says it has been temporarily laying off striking workers | CBC News
The union representing Canada Post workers says the Crown corporation has been laying striking employees off as the labour action by more than 55,000 workers approaches the two-week mark.
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