Happy 60th Birthday Revolver, and in a months time Star Trek the original series
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It's always been this. The pig people are talking back! That's 100% of it, and the change is really that they're just not lying about it any more.
What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.
Me - markets are really complex, not reducible to the mode of production and not straightforwardly a power relation (although so easy to weaponise by power that it is hard to see this). Chuds - state grocery bad. Me - wtf, I'm a Maoist now. Plan all the things.
let’s be honest, a big reason why markets are so bad at distributing resources is that these very same people that love the free market also do everything they can to make governments police the markets in favor of the rich.
Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
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There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
August 11 will mark one year since the federal occupation of D.C. began. We want to know: What will you remember about this time? And what questions do you have as the takeover continues? Our survey:
Reflecting on a year under federal occupation
On August 11, 2025, life in D.C. changed overnight as President Trump announced a federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department and the deployment of National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officers throughout the city. In the months that followed, we've also been subject to the ongoing incursion of the Safe and Beautiful Task Force, the summer of America 250, and the continued meddling of the federal government in our local affairs.
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I came across this drawing I did five years ago. Very little in my house has changed since then.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OumN... Y'all watch this animated Russian short film adaptation. It's fucking incredible. #Filmsky
Watch: There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) | The Rediscovered Soviet Animated Warning
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Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day to all those who celebrate.
Former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92 www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92
Canadian journalist Lloyd Robertson, who covered everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the 9/11 terrorist attacks during 35 years as chief anchor of CTV National News, has died. He was 92.
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there are two types of fans of things- those who treat it like a hobby and understand it's ok to laugh at things you enjoy and those who use it to replace church or whatever in their lives and are very vigilant against Blasphemy
Again, the art direction in the first season of TNG was absolutely top notch, regardless of what you think about the season as a whole.
The two major alien ships introduced in TNG's first season are some of my favourites and I would argue hold up better today than many of the others that followed in terms of originality and refined detailing. The Warbird is a fan favourite but I feel like the Ferengi Marauder is somewhat slept on.
"With the end of those missions, Canada’s only commitment to UN peacekeeping would be a contribution of four personnel to a truce-monitoring mission in Jerusalem." Beyond parody.
Literally the end of an era. Canadian peacekeeping over. www.hilltimes.com/2026/08/04/c...
Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats
Reminds me of the Terry Pratchet joke about Pascal’s Wager, where upon waking up in the afterlife the philosopher finds themselves surrounded by smiling gods going “oh, someone thinks they’re *clever* do they? someone thinks that they’re a *such* a smart boy?”
If you go onto Bluesky and trash Vimes’ Boots you are quite plainly looking for a fight. The quality of your argument is beside the point, you are here to push buttons.
One of the guards is a reply guy who assures you he would never do the thing you’re venting about and the other one is a reply guy who jokingly does the thing you’re venting about; choose how you proceed
What is our government doing? This project defies common sense - this is corporate welfare on a surreal scale, giving a gift to an industry making $90 billion in excess profits this year, and which still refuses to pay for its own infrastructure.
As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News
Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...
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I'm pulling the trigger, I'm ringing the bell, I'm lurching into the fray: DASH PLATYPUS will finally be available to the public at the end of August! Read all about it here: www.patreon.com/phantasmicta...
The Final Sprint for Dash! | Adam Prosser
Dash Platypus has been the best-kept secret in webcomics for a year or more now--only you smart and forthright people who subscribe to my Pa
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Today Tegan looks at Vector #1, from 1986 and NOW Comics, by Jim McGreal and Rich Mrozek!