It is weird how proprietary some people get about their symptoms. Different people with different conditions may have the same symptoms. They are not trying to take anything away from you. Kindness and empathy go a long way.
I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.
Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
Crescent (partially illuminated) Moon and Earth facing the Sun. The Sun is just out of frame to the right leaving flares of light reaching out toward the left. NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill
This might be one of my favorites from Artemis II. A cinematic alignment of the Moon and Earth, each cradled within the warmth of sunbeams.
Taken from behind the Moon on April 6th.
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Which kind of reminds me…
I was alarmed when Trump made his speeches before the election. When I saw the people he picked for government. Now I am weirdly calm as things unfold the way that was quite clear at that point. Democrats still basically comatose, no resistance within the system, everyone obeying illegal orders…
"The press, because of its own conventions and time-honored practices, normalizes him, and thus fails to get across the extreme nature of this president’s behavior. Ten years of sane-washing have had their effect. He remains in power, reelected, undeterred."
Truth from @sulliview.bsky.social
The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild.
"Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
Bluesky seems fine to me, yet people are regularly claiming it is about to die, dying, dead. Maybe these people have better insight into the numbers than I have. However: they have been claiming this for about two years and yet here we are.
This is a horrific hate crime.
So are all the replies (i am not QTing antisemitism, but you'll find plenty) 'questioning' why 'they have their own ambulances'.
Hatzola is pretty similar to St Johns Ambulances, but no one is conspiratorial about that.
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Screenshot from a BBC educational website. The expanded section reads: "10. How to be polite and show respect In the old days of feudal Japan, a samurai warrior would shout You are trying to view Flash content, but you have no Flash plugin installed."
Remembering the ancient ways
I read „inexorable maternity“ and „Backpomegranates“. So I think I‘d better stop trying to read for a bit and attempt a re-boot.
Some context to the resignation of Joe Kent.
Joe Kent is a right-wing lunatic with a “PANZER” tattoo (yes, in the original German), has close ties to White Nationalists and extremist paramilitary groups, he has consulted with Fuentes about social media strategy, employed a Proud Boy on his campaign - and that’s just off the top off my head.
Len Deighton was one of the best spy novelists of his era. Or any other. I had a serious Deighton phase, even have some of his cookbooks. And learned to crack an egg with hand. May he rest in peace.
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An appropriate adaption of the Samson these days would probably be impossible. They call for a „Tinker, Taylor…“ kind of style. These days people would probably fall asleep before the first line is spoken.
Len Deighton was one of the best in his field. I had a serious Deighton phase, even have some of his cookbooks. And learned to crack an egg with hand.
It did yesterday. But if it doesn’t: maybe it is a sign from above.
All hail the Norwegian Consumer Council!
#enshittification #Forbrukerrådet
In Norway you are legally entitled to have something replaced for free if it goes wrong within five years, which apparently makes things very hard for Apple.
Mike Lee tweet. He's quote tweeting a tweet from "Leading Report" saying that Dems are now the favorites to win control of the Senate in 2026. Lee says: Let’s turn this around—by passing SAVE America Pass it on
Mike Lee quote tweeting MAGA influencer ALX saying: Senate GOP, this is your sign to start doing your job and stop subverting the will of the people. Pass the SAVE America Act. Lee says: Republicans will lose power—likely for a long time—if we don’t get SAVE America passed This shouldn’t be hard It is, but failure cannot be an option
Admitting publicly that you only want this bill that is designed to disenfranchise voters is necessary to make sure your party wins is quite a choice. The GOP has done away with subtlety and euphemisms and is now all "we need to cheat because the polls say people don't like us."
Great story. Must have been amazing to have accidentally been witness to it.
The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”
The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. trib.al/LmNKGxR
Which means half of Americans are against abolishing ICE or don’t care. Half the population either don’t have a problem with a fascist state terrorist organisation or actively support it. Which is fucking scary.
Ergo-Proxy und Psycho-Pass sind ziemlich toll.
Hab bislang nur gutes über den Film gelesen. Scheint aber wohl doch nicht ganz unproblematisch zu sein?
In Germany there was (or still is) a magazine called „Business Punk“, aimed at „unconventional“ business types. Who probably think that having tattoos or piercings while playing the exploitation game somehow makes them „punk“. The style outlived the substance.
Ich erinnere mich noch, wie Raab in seiner Sendung Bernd Begemann zu Gast hatte, und ihn - wie alle seine Gäste - mit seinem Schaumstoffhammer geschlagen hat und das sehr lustig fand. Begemann hat ihm angepisst den Hammer entwunden und hart zurückgeschlagen. Das wiederum fand ich sehr lustig.
He wasn’t completely wrong. The major difference is that Trump stopped pretending to be anything else.
