This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · 2d agoThe polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
The defense budget is approaching one trillion dollars and somehow we are out of missiles? As Americans tighten their belts across the political spectrum, it seems like a smart politician could attract a lot of support with the slogan, “Where did the money go?” #WhereDidTheMoneyGo
Democratic governmental systems necessarily rely on candidates getting votes from the people. To win, you have to convince a plurality that it's you and them against the elites. Republicans have convinced ppl that unemployed college students and city council members are the elites in America.
To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. youtu.be/M8VRbaVNvSA?...
The Lathe of Heaven
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Morgiana, directed by Juraj Herz and starring Iva Janžurová. 1972. This poster is for the Hungarian release, made by Sandor Benko, 1973. budapestposter.com/posters/4203
Droning data centers is maybe the best use of both technologies.
Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 2w agoThe Iranian drone strikes on data centers owned by a U.S. company in the U.A.E. and Bahrain highlight the growing risks for tech companies as their civilian infrastructure becomes entangled with military operations, writes Adam Hickey, Veronica Glick, Rohith George, and Rachael O'Grady.
Refuse Uline
Uline is a purposely political company aligned with extreme right-wing ideology. Despite their politics, millions of small businesses and artists still use ULINE completely unaware of what their dolla...
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ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w agoThat cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial... A boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. (Published 2022)
Gil wrote a book about our tech fascist would be overlords and, *completely coincidentally* our tech fascist would be overlords are blocking him from speaking about the book.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w agoIt’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
Robot on robot violence is finally happening in real life.
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 4w agoUkrainian FPV interceptor drone downing Russian fiber-optic quadcopter using a net launcher.
1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.
Keeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...
Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
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“Even if the whole thing is ending, even if we’ve already lost, we’re gonna go and party. We’re gonna go down having fun.“
404 Media@404media.co · last mo.As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.
Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet lag of the self”: “a sense of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame”. [spacedaily.com]
Astronauts returning from six-month missions describe a persistent 'observer' sensation
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A travesty that we never got on a war-footing to combat #climatechange
Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · last mo.We could fix climate change in the most expensive possible ways, including stuff like carbon capture, for a modest fraction of global GDP share spent on WW2. Well over half of all production worldwide was spent on waging that wars. It's mind-boggling
Society of detective victims of infidelity: Clue Cucks Clan
if you see me at SDCC and ask for one of these i will give you one
Any astronaut will tell you that the true riches on Earth lie not in her minerals but in her ability to accommodate life. Mankind’s greatest crime is, in a geological instant, destroying the varieties of life that our garden planet took millions of years to evolve, for a few, dirty dollars.
Maxine Joselow@maxinejoselow.bsky.social · last mo.At the request of the Trump admin, a federal judge has stripped protections from a small lizard found only in the Permian Basin, an oil and gas hotspot. w/ @catrineinhorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/c...
A boycott is a vote you can take any day.
Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last mo.Consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress (2025-2026): SpaceX — $589,000 Home Depot — $536,500 Charter (Spectrum) — $407,000 UPS — $353,500 Chevron — $352,500 Walmart — $308,000 Valero — $297,500 New York Life — $295,500 Altria (Marlboro) — $279,000 Aflac — $278,000 (1/3)
Show me a comic book page you love, no explanation needed
gossip göre@britneyspheres.bsky.social · 2mo agoShow me a comic book page you love, no explanation needed
A protest group called The Secret Handshake placed a giant gold “Iran war participation trophy” for President Trump on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
The FCC approves the deployment of the first Reflect Orbital satellite, which will provide sunlight-on-demand to customers, dismissing objections from over 1,600 public comments on potential harm to astronomy and the environment. www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-app... #Astronomy
FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate
The FCC says the most controversial aspect of Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1 satellite, the giant mirror, falls out of its authority since the regulator mainly focuses on radio spectrum.
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