the not so hidden secret of the anti-anti-Trump punditry complex is that your random facebook uncle posting slight variations on “orange man bad” has been more insightful and correct for the entirety of the Trump era than every last one of them
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.This line from Ross Douthat’s final NYT column is something you see all the time from the soft-MAGA right. Sure, Trump’s *most* alarmist critics weren’t correct, but that’s basically true of every president. Trump’s *median* critic did in fact predict his presidency pretty accurately.
I somehow expect that prediction markets might not permit wagering on the life expectancy of CEOs. Call it a hunch.
Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 2w agoSomehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
Wrestling is fantastic, because you can find a photo like this and in all honesty you can say, "yes, this depicts two men who both had trade meetings with Fidel Castro against the wishes of their governments".
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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You ever think about how all this is happening after Orban lost in Hungary
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3w agoI guess Russian transfers stopped?
If you line up your DC Finests in order, Batman gets real depressed
Day2 M1 Fujinokawa 0-1 (L) Yz Ōnosato 0-1 (R) Pressure builds quickly on a yokozuna, so Ō needs to win this. Fujinowaka has won their only matchup so far, in March #nagoyabasho2026
From a historical perspective, it's very, very unusual for the EU Commission to argue for a narrow interpretation of the EU's external trade powers (the "common commercial policy"). Frankly, this looks like a political intervention by fans of the Israeli government, not a legal analysis.
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · last mo.Kaja Kallas, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Ireland are among those who support qualified majority (QMV), following an opinion from the EU Council's legal service. But the European Commission, which designs trade proposals, and Germany favour unanimity.
functionally every single person on earth was seeing a night sky with brighter and clearer stars than basically anyone on earth can see today, until about 150 years ago, due to light pollution.
Scott “Kostenki 11” Cave@hellabarnes.bsky.social · last mo.what is the reverse historical dorito? the thing from the past that would blow our minds in a positive way
Part of me would like to sit these people down in front of the episode of Blackadder the Third that satirises the concept of the satirical candidate and ask how this can be a malaise of modern Britain when it was commonplace enough to be the butt of mainstream popular comedy nearly four decades ago.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · last mo.I don't think I've ever seen a group of people take a joke quite as badly to heart as this lot have this week
NY Tmes exec editor Joe Kahn said in 2024 that the issue of democracy's survival was not a top priority in his newsroom's coverage. Now Trump is sending federal agents to NYT reporters' homes to deliver subpoenas over coverage he doesn't like. I wonder if democracy is a priority for Joe now.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · last mo.The Trump regime issued subpoenas to NY Times journalists over their reporting on Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One. NYT called the subpoenas “an extraordinary escalation in Trump’s efforts to threaten and intimidate independent news organizations.” The dictator Trump hates the free press.
I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)
Hegelochus: The Ancient Greek Actor We Only Know About Because He Really, Really Fluffed Up His Line
Around 400 BCE, Hegelochus really messed up his line. We only know about the actor because he was mocked about it for centuries.
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The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.
🇺🇸President Trump, looks like this one’s for you.😅😁 🇧🇪 Belgian PM Bart De Wever: “We’re providing €70 billion in military support to Ukraine. That’s a strong red card for Putin—and you can’t take a red card back.”
Not often you can say that there's too much good news
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Russian cities feel the pinch amid worsening fuel shortages
Pictures from a friend of mine who works on a crab-fishing boat off the coast of Newfoundland. I love the nightmare crab door.
to summarise my thread: 1) Balogun can't serve a suspension if FIFA say he isn't suspended 2) Belgium (or ANY future oppo) can, and likely will, appeal to CAS if he plays any games 3) That would likely cause the US to forfeit ANY game he plays in from now. Even retroactively. 4) LOL. Possibly LMAO.
John Bull@garius.bsky.social · last mo.That Belgian FA statement, with alt. The can of worms FIFA have just poured over themselves is huge. This has spooked all the European FAs. Their whole deal with FIFA has ALWAYS been that you don't let the leopard bite their faces. They just chomped on Belgium's nose www.rbfa.be/en/news/upda...
“President Infantino, we’ve got the King of Belgium on line 1, the Prime Minister of Belgium on line 2, the Minister-Presidents of Flanders, Wallonia, and the Brussels Capital Region on lines 3, 4, and 5 respectively, and the Minister-President of the German-Speaking Community of Belgium on line 6.”
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