christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Madtown Southpaw
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The league has to get rid of this Dundon guy. He bought the Blazers to hold the city of Portland hostage for arena money and now he's telling all of his underlings to shittalk the city so he can move to Kansas City or something. Cut this shit out or the league will be held hostage by similar ghouls.
Fischer 🛠️🚇@fischer.bsky.social · 6d agoif this is going to be the line then fuck these guys
Unabashedly sharing my very favourite photo from the Artemis II mission for the nth time
Not-That-Important Employee Snatches Best Donut In Box https://theonion.com/not-that-important-employee-snatches-best-donut-in-box-1819575292/
This happened to me on the Western Conference Finals. I tried to watch a game on my DVR but it was an Amazon game. I watched about a quarter before figuring it out
The Onion@theonion.com · last mo.No One At Bar Aware World Cup Game Rerun From 2018
reflecting pool girl summer [trying to change myself and making it worse]
Solar just produced more electricity than coal in the US for the first month ever and it won't be the last... Over the last two decades, the role of coal and solar in the US mix has changed drastically May 2006: 🪨 48%, ☀️ 0% May 2016: 🪨 26%, ☀️ 2% May 2026: 🪨 12%, ☀️ 13%
Turns out I'm actually *better* than all you name rememberers!
Psychologists say if you always forget the names of people you just met, it isn't a sign you don't care, it may be a sign your brain was absorbing more about them than most people do
You’ve just been introduced to someone. You shake their hand, you hear their name, you might even repeat it back — and within a minute, it’s gone. You’re nodding along to their story about moving from...
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Jun 8th 1998 - Peter Gibbons had a bad case of the Mondays and gets reminded about the new cover sheets on the TPS reports. Michael Bolton (not that one) tells the guys he could write a virus to rip off the company. 📽️📅 Office Space (1999)
How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump announces he will not attend his son's wedding
nothing could have prepared me for the part of the Britney Spears DUI video where she offers to make the cops a lasagna. world-historic bribery attempt
Look at this map of life expectancy by state and tell me whether you'd like the governance of the places where people live as long as they do in Europe or Asia or the governance where people die as early as people in Russia or Bangladesh.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoStephen Miller: "The major political divide in America today is between a first world vision of America and a third world vision of America"
“Electrify everything” is not as complicated as people think. Here is @mliebreich.bsky.social’s Electrification Ladder—what’s ready now, ready soon, ready later. mliebreich.substack.com/p/the-electr... Almost 10 years later, @drvolts essay holds up!
The Electrification Staircase is go!
You Loved the Hydrogen Ladder (I know, Version 6.0 is long overdue!), meet the Electrification Staircase. Electrify Everything is dead; long live Electrify Almost Everything. And here's the road map.
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David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3mo agoFrom 2017. True then, true today, true tomorrow.
In honor of yesterday’s official Millennial Song thread, I am putting on the official album of elder millennials, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds: Live at Luther College.
Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.
Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.
Absolutely wild how we all pay a higher tax rate than a company that made more than $60 billion in profit last year. We need to tax mega corporations and the ultra rich!
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3mo agoMeta's tax rate for the first quarter of this year was negative 23%. That's in large part because Zuckerberg's company received a tax benefit from the government of $8.03 billion.
