Invest in my new ethical business: a click farm powered by green energy that pays workers a living wage to influence foreign elections

oh my god I was going to joke "he's actually centre-left" and turns out he IS

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 4d ago

Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.

I don't think maternity wards should have all these pictures of cute babies up. They should have pictures of the ugliest babies so that people feel better about their little squished looking gremlins

I believe the point of alt text on social media is to provide an equivalent experience of an image, not an exhaustive description of it. That often means translating a visual joke into text. It requires some thought. But you're a witty person. You can do it!

Why are memoirs lyyyying to me? I know for the purposes of entertainment some parts might be condensed and some people amalgamated, but if I wanted a smooth narrative I would be reading fiction! If you're going to completely remove or change the context of key parts just do "based on a true story"

Saw a baby today and gave it very normal complements (nice round head, not overly alien looking) and important facts (the brain's natural state for hiccups is on, and this has to be overridden)

Sorry about your country :/

This is only scratching the surface but the new Brazilian congress includes: 12 of 14 deputies who voted to sack the treasury to bail out the Banco Master, the biggest corruption scandal since Petrobras Two people who ran over pedestrians and got away with it.

This is fascinating (although also very sad) article. I think LRC was the first trans man I ever (knowingly) saw, and I was kind of bowled over by what his images said about the potential of transition. (Content warning: the article does discuss LRC's self-inflicted death)

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Lots of trans guys I’ve talked to have had a Loren Rex Cameron story, and this is mine …” www.thebeliever.net/looking-for-...

"Some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make"

Politico@politico.com · last wk.

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI politi.co/4rJE8dI

No-one is talking about the impact of AI girlfriends on the international catfishing market

Secret queer dystopia level

Kimmy W@ghostynewt.bsky.social · 10mo ago

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

We must abolish this

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w ago

Daylight saving time will kick in this weekend. Here's how to prepare

thinking about how rich I'd be if I didn't have chronic anxiety. because I would have started a lucrative cult by now

There are obvious humanitarian issues with harsh sentences and the death penalty, but one of the more subtle problems is that they give the illusion of justice. And this distracts people from looking at and addressing the underlying causes

True crime is a fraught genre, but a little tip that will improve your experience is that any time a cop describes the suspect as "smart", you're about to encounter some of the most bumbling criminal moves you have ever heard of, followed by an absolute mess of an investigation

After a lifetime of never being able to see a magic eye puzzle, I finally figured it out last year, and they were horribly oversold?I was expecting some psychedelic wonder image and instead it was silhouettes the whole time? Why would you deceive me like this

Well this is definitely the funniest name for blood type that is almost impossible to find donations of

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w ago

Lab-grown blood offering hope for Queensland family with ultra-rare grouping

Sometimes positioning the argument in the greater framework also takes away any possibility that the minority group HAS done something wrong. Are trans women causing problems in bathrooms? No, it's that we're misogynistically policing womanhood to uphold patriarchy

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Personally I think it's fine to point out that policies intended to harm minorities also harm the majority! People respond to messages rooted in self-interest and it also emphasizes that we're all connected. "Trans bathroom bans harm cis people" isn't the only argument, but it's true & worth noting

The third book in a series introduced men as characters and I realised ohh that's why I was having a good time up until now

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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I am being so Normal about life circumstances. Not being depressed or despairing! If you catch me staring into the distance that's just calibrating to be extra Normal. Everything is fine and very Normal

My cat meowed to awaken me at 6am and consequently I will no longer be proceeding with the cloning process

I'm bisexual in the sense that I love women kissing and sometimes a guy gets stabbed

"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief."@nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 2y ago

MOTHER OF GOD.

Imagine researching your family tree and coming across this

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 3w ago

Tay & Taylor Lautner have welcomed their first child, Lennon Taylor Lautner.

New dystopian use of technology just dropped

gamera obscura october edition@ohrobin.bsky.social · 3w ago

The humans had always considered the ocean tragically deficient in both advertising and imaginary whales. At last, technology had solved both problems.

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w ago

6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.

Fully electric aviation has some major challenges (mostly: batteries are heavy and don't get lighter as they get used up) but I love the idea of decreasing aircraft emissions through a hybrid approach, perhaps as a step toward new, clever solutions for fully electric air transport in the future.

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 3w ago

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version. buff.ly/i3f0PhR #ShareGoodNewsToo

Ok who doesn't want to go see the Tasmanian doomsday monolith recording our imminent demise though

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3w ago

Every friend group has that one friend who has started talking of nothing but an enormous plinth of basalt jutting out of the abyssal depths, and who keeps trying to get everyone together to go on a road trip to see it and touch it

I am glad people are reading books but some people need a bit more practice before they start posting reviews online