"Germany is not poorer than the US. It has just chosen to cash out more of its productivity in the form of free time than the US has. The other Western European countries have made similar decisions." peoplespolicyproject.org/2026/08/04/w...

Western Europe Is Richer Than the US

Let's put an end to the stupid GDP discourse.

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i pick a handful of these grubs off my potato plants every day and feed them to our chickens. in this way the world alchemically transmutes potato plants into chicken eggs. nothing is impossible if you know the right middleman

they're talking about you

Good Trailcams@goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 2d ago

Not incidentally, sex ed and social media, two of the big things the Think of the Children crowd want to restrict children's access to, are the first place a lot of kids encounter the concept that a person with nominal authority over you doesn't get to touch you without permission

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2d ago

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Trib Ed board deciding how to react to young people downtown

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4d ago

From the Editorial Board: Sparkly, semiattired Lolla kids are this weekend swarming around such oft-deserted environs as Van Buren Street, Jackson Boulevard and State Street. Welcome. Your presence and youthful energy could not be more timely.

'It is generally a mistake, in American politics, to say “let’s wait four years and build.” It is wiser to seize every momentary advantage and push it as hard and as far as you can.' www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...

AOC Must Run For President

History is calling. Sorry!

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here's my venmo

gigantic sweetiepie Christian leftist hive assemble

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · last wk.

Our foremost new action star being a gigantic sweetiepie Christian leftist is really an incredible coup

Marvin, it’s your cousin Chuck! Chuck the Martian! You know that Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator you’ve been looking for? Well listen to THIS! [phone is actually just a stick of dynamite, explodes]

not only is he right about this, he wrote a book in which he's right about a whole bunch of stuff

Such Great Heights

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and...

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Chris DeVille@chrisdeville.bsky.social · last wk.

The zoomer belief that The New Abnormal is the best Strokes album is even more egregious than the young millennial belief that In Rainbows is the best Radiohead album

do a deer my kids aren't here re i'm estranged from my son me the named in this lawsuit fa i'm driving on the run so my ex-wife wants me dead la i'm running from the feds ti a drink to clear my head that will bring us back to do!

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last wk.

Only Illinois residents can claim a roadkill deer, according to state law. The only stipulation is the resident claiming the deer cannot be delinquent on child support payments.

allow me to surf on odyssey hype to repost an old piece from 2013 Penelope, Queen of Ithaca - 30x40cm ink on claybord

it would also be weird to expect either of them to be any good at film criticism, a whole other job from theirs

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · last wk.

it would be pretty weird if Emily Wilson and Christopher Nolan, who have wildly different skillsets, backgrounds, goals, and media, interpreted the same source text in the same way

nice cow. is it of bunga?

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

Everything is on fire, but I just saw one of these drinking from the pond. We cannot let the fascists destroy our world.

Tfw mothra gave you power of attorney

these Young Male Christians should form some sort of Association, then they could offer services beyond gymnasiums and shower facilities, such as short-term lodging at which it might be fun to stay

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

foolproof 👍

if this flag offends you i'll help you pack

heaumeau e. rotacism@vashwood.bsky.social · 2w ago

joining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell

we need to ban Mark Zuckerberg's Pervert Glasses immediately

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2w ago

jesus fucking christ

The secret, of course, was comics.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

The rise of the ‘hot literati’: how reading became sexy

We've got a good as hell two-parter today. An excerpt from the forthcoming Tattooed, Pierced, & Fucked-Up: A Scene Memoir 2004–2008 by Lauren Napier and Zack Budryk on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, Oppenheimer, Trump's war on Iran, and the ravaging of the American people by ICE

A level of hubris: The Odyssey / Reagan Youth

Zack Budryk on The Odyssey and Lauren Napier on Reagan Youth

welcometohellworld.com

they stopped putting cloaca in it decades ago, but kept the name

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bsky is where I keep all my intrusive thoughts

Happy Defector.com redesign day to all, and to all a good site

"I use chatgpt as a search engine" "I use minesweeper as a website browser" "I use the lego pirate ship when I want to boil an egg"

my husband won’t stop saying “the ʷᶦᶜᵏᵉᵈly talented Yamine Lamal”

for the jamiroqrime of illegal heat canning, my client pleads virtual insanity

We can make a society that exists for the care and thriving and enjoyment of the actual people rather than for the enrichment of parasitical greed freaks and the comfort of creepy-minded religious bigots. All that's needed is for more people to stop fearing good things and start fighting for them.

"what radicalized you?" "when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."

cops are just serial killers without the go-it-alone, can-do entrepreneurial spirit

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3w ago

Maine ICE shooter has history of severe mental illness, multiple psych hospitalizations, mil PTSD, chronic violence agst at least two wives, and threats against mutiple family members and more. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mus...