You wouldn’t know it from #auspol social media posts but we already have a version of “Mamdani-style” public grocery stores in Australia. It’s a Fed Govt owned entity called Outback Stores & there’s also a Low-Cost Essential Subsidy Scheme for 100 remote stores. Arguably a pretty similar model
Dmitri. #freeLink
@momus.bsky.social
WWLD : what would Link do? someday i would like to try real bossam kimchi 보쌈김치 he/him
kennedys shall be scraped with a paint scraper, no, a rusty paint scraper
This may be the first time U.S. forces have retreated in Europe during a major conflict. Not before the Nazis. Not before the Soviets. Not before Al Qaeda. Not until the Trump administration.
Over on Instagram, people are saying they voted for this. 😭 I’m pretty sure the deported people in this video did not vote for this.
With the help of Republican officials, ICE has quietly arrested hundreds of people in Florida per day. Watch the latest dispatch from journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) out of southwest Florida:
i promise u, u can critique the hell out of that awful podcast guy who is talking out the side of his neck, without being anti-fat. anti-fatness = antiblackness blacksky.community/profile/did:...
#Blacksky periodic reminder to prioritize reading "Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness" by Da’Shaun L. Harrison" are there folks on Blacksky that would be up for doing a virtual reading group of Belly of the Beast? (does this app have polls?)
Brin spent 0.77% of the cash he stands to lose if the billionaire tax passes if he spent a quarter of what he will lose to make people's lives better, that would be $3.25 billion, or $88 per Californian, he might have helped win but he didn't, & he should be taxed, & billionaires shouldn't exist
PAY YOUR TAXES - PARASITE!! fortune.com/article/how-...
Rahm Emanuel pls give back Donald Trump's 1999 schtick
Brett Banditelli is DOWN in pounds and vegetables are UP! We truly love to see it.
another record! this has been a great year for giant vegetables
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
For sure. There were times when I would quote the lone opposition from a town meeting & he would remove it. Same with insane letters to the editor he wouldnt publish. I was covering Eastern Connecticut. I always tell people the trolls & MAGAs arent new, we just didnt hear from them.
didn't know this became a trend here but i also subscribe to @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social "A Very British Bigotry" list set to block weird how that works 🤔
Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters.
right up until now, thought the only non-round manhole cover in the US was in Nashua, New Hampshire, which installed triangular ones in the 1920's while searching for a picture this #manholecoverMonday, realized how wrong i was please tell me where this is! now on a quest for irregular manholes
the Hound of the Baskervilles. had no problem with the rest of Sherlock Holmes as a bedtime story, not even the Speckled Band, but always had my mom read just the beginning of the Hound, then skip to the end
In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
nytimes.com
my best friend worked at University of Mississippi at the time when nearly the entire faculty and student body was demanding the Confederate statue at the entrance be taken down but it wasn’t, because apparently the answer to Mike’s question is “a handful of very rich football families”
As I’ve asked many times now, what constituencies does a university president represent? Because too often, the answer seems to not include anyone who works or studies at the university, and that seems like a problem.
It's October 4th -- the Sputnik satellite was flung into orbit 69 years ago today, beginning the age of space exploration. I dug into the Russian archives and got some documents on its creation. Check it out if you're interested.....
Sputnik was 66 years ago today. I curated a set of about a dozen original Soviet archival sources (translated!) on the origins of the world's first satellite, hosted by The Wilson Center in Washington, DC: www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ne... #histsci #histtech
all power to the soviets! —but this time, for real. who couldn't benefit from a democratic workplace?
Why shouldn't faculty be able to remove the university president or a provost?
In the 1920s a chapter of the Indiana Klan became convinced that the Pope was secretly traveling through the area by train, so the members dutifully hijacked a passing train and forced a millinery salesman to prove that he wasn’t the Pope in disguise.
No matter how bleak things may seem, just remember that in the 1960s the US Coast Guard received reems of earnest letters begging them to save those poor castaways on Gilligan's Island.
I don’t think you need to have a sociology degree to figure out how allowing the usage of these in schools creates the exact conditions of impunity that leads to a Cornell frat situation
the most predictable consequences ever: Strikingly, every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.
If you are commuting behind ICE in Miami/Fort Lauderdale, I’d love to follow behind you!
I really, really wish it was possible to track and film ICE detainments in Doral.
the most predictable consequences ever: Strikingly, every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.
Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
futurism.com
Buried in this story that everyone’s leaving out of the conversation is that he blames Jews for creating the FDA to ban “holistic” health treatments and make everyone sick to profit off of them. It always, always, always comes back to antisemitism. It’s the core that rots everything from center out
"holistic influencer"
as i've said before : schadenfreude is still joy one of the worst people on line is not having a very good day
Happy Saturday
A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/
Sukkot commands us to welcome guests and to find joy together. You never know when strangers might turn out to be angels. It was an honor to welcome @mayor.nyc.gov — and some very special ushpizin (exalted guests) — to our sukkah this week.
if you want to quit Duolingo but aren't sure what to do next, here are some ideas. - Mango languages is available for free through most libraries. - LingQ is perfect for anyone reading focused - Language Reactor can help you understand TV + movies - Anki can help you remember everything
the Saudi government now enjoys a 15.1% equity stake in the new, bigger Paramount Warner Brothers
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.