France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
A white garment with some kind of food stain. Humiliating.
A pair of dirty hands rest on a car engine. Rough, tough, cool.
Here is an easy solution:
Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves.
Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled.
Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.
BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology.
This is a serious escalation.
Vatican gearing up to declare a 9th Holy Crusade specifically on JD's ass.
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
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I'm not sure "reveals" is the verb I would have chosen here; perhaps "confirms"
New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government.
Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵
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o shit the NYT has a story about popes involved in politics, GET IN HERE THEY'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT MY BOY GREGORY VII
... ok, maybe Leo X ... or surely Boniface VIII ... Urban II?
oh, no, it's all popes since 1940. Like you'd get from an AI list.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...
catholics: oh hey u guys are back early
me: pope's woke
catholics: what?
me: *grabs rosary, heads toward the confessional* pope's woke
404 BCE: Squads in Athens are tearing residents from their homes. Some are thrown out of the city. Others are murdered in cold blood. What happens next? Listen to the full episode with Roel Konijnendijk to find out...
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what the heck
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The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate battle flag that belonged to the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, the flag was brought to Minnesota and exhibited at the state's capitol for several years before passing into the permanent collection of the Minnesota Historical Society after 1896 where it has remained since.
Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up.
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A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
The amazing thing about writing is it's basically time travel and whenever I think about that it blows my mind. It's a genuine miracle.
I mean, just think about it: a Chinese general from 2,500 years ago can point out the President of the USA is a fucking idiot.
It's incredible.
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
A stylized red and green background depicting tomatoes jars, with black text in foreground announcing an "Ask Me Anything" about Egypt and tomatoes happening at the subreddit r/AskHistorians on Friday, with a series of potential questions
This Friday I am going to park myself on Reddit to answer as many questions as I can about the TOMATO in EGYPT. Bring your questions! I will do my very best to respond!
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Yellow candy box with figures in a long wig reading Pepya marshmallow diarists
I hate most Easter candy. HOWEVER...
ABCTR has been asked to help these two young coonhouds who are scary-skinny.
ok y'all Dog-mergency (but seriously)
If anyone can help these two, as a bonded pair, please let ABTC know asap. Transpo to you can be arranged!
Just need mention the hounds in Raleigh that Molly posted about while filling out info here:
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Ok I’m sorry but this headline rocks. It is clearly making fun of him
here's the clip of Gorsuch on "Roman law sources"
There were more voters who didn’t vote in ‘24 than there were those who voted for Trump.
Remember: You don’t have to waste your time or breath on MAGA cult members. They are lost. Focus on the apathetic.

It me
Wanna know if your school uses Flock? Through records requests and audit logs, FOIAball found over 75 universities that have surveillance cameras installed on campus.
There's almost certainly many, many more.
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They gotta chance if Mitchell can start scoring
It’s unfortunate that it took this long for the Pentagon’s ridiculous policy to be thrown in the trash
And it's shocking that this sweeping prior restraint was the official policy of our federal govt and that DOJ lawyers had the nerve to argue that reporters asking questions of the govt is criminal
