Jared Leto Atreides
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I use this account to follow the news mainly. Deliberately kept anonymous-ish and generic Feel free to steal my jokes
the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 💀
Calling yourself a Heritage American makes you sound like a breed of farmed turkey that I'm sure is delicious when fattened on acorns and mealworms
Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
Sun Yat-sen's "Three Principles of the People" cited on the stamp (nationalism, democracy, livelihood) are often said to be inspired by the ending passage in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and are also included in the Constitution of the Republic of China (Taiwan) --
Another find that is laser-targeted at me in particular:
I'd argue most full-size pickups are luxury makes. The car price crunch is real, but there's more than a few "Candle Budget $3500/mo" people out there
PLAN Admirals sitting there like "No, no, it's fine, we weren't planning on using it anyway"
this headline reads like a hardy boys novel www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
Largely unreported cursed fact I know about this show was the subreddit for it was founded and ran by the worlds most annoying arms dealer Palmer Luckey web.archive.org/web/20160220...
16 years ago today, ‘Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls’ premiered on YouTube.
Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026
Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.
amnesty.org.uk
one of the most important things you need to do when developing a new product, especially in tech, is sit down and think about how it can be misused by bad actors and nowadays it sure seems like the bad actors are less “people to be guarded against” and more “the target customer base”
FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
like, I know people get mad when you say liberals prefer fascists to leftists but they keep saying it
⛔️ Democratic socialists who want free healthcare, better transit, human rights for all, and a government which works for the people 🫂 Republicans who orchestrated or supported the slaughter of over 1 million Iraqis
Here is a gift link: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
When One Nanny Isn’t Enough, ‘CEO Parents’ Hire a Whole Team
One nanny isn’t cutting it anymore. Some parents are spending upward of $250,000 on teams for their children. Luxury services offer potty-training, baby chefs and bike-riding lessons.
wsj.com
I’ve been writing about the rich for years and ho boy, this one
Well... bsky.app/profile/mich...
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NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /
WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.
The federal immigration agent who shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford has been identified as David Michael Brouillette. Brouillette, who is 37 and lives in Manchester, was identified by an ex-wife as the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
It amuses/scares me to no end that the right wing take economy is run by several group chats made up of the world's richest men and the people they pay to pretend to be journalist.
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