'SWIMS' upside down is still 'SWIMS.'

Trump learning how wars work one mistake at a time.

Whatever that Nonono nonono song is.

What is the quintessential TikTok song?

Also good advice for video editing

I just want to say, by the way, that the Wikipedia pages about the MJ allegations are obviously controlled by stans

The Jackson estate can't hide Leaving Neverland from those who've already seen it A suppressive legal battle turned the moving Sundance documentary Leaving Neverland into a ghost haunting the Michael Jackson biopic.

I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.

Jaafar Jackson Is Electric in 'Michael', a Love Letter to His Uncle | Black Girl Nerds Jaafar Jackson stuns in his feature film debut, embodying uncle Michael Jackson with uncanny grace in Antoine Fuqua's Michael

If you’re going to tackle a biopic about the King of Pop, you have to bring your A-game; and Antoine Fuqua does just that with Michael, a deep dive into the life of the greatest entertainer of all time.

GALLEGO: Earlier today, you told Sec. Kennedy that Trump never demanded you to cut interest rates. Is that your sworn testimony?

WARSH: That is, senator.

GALLEGO: Okay. Well someone here is lying then. Because Trump confirmed he pressed you on interest rate cuts.

EU says it does not 'oversee' Türkiye's influence in neighborhood after von der Leyen's remarks EU Commission chief had said 'Europe should not be influenced by Russia, Türkiye, or China' | Anadolu

Well, that’s awkward.

The European Commission has been forced to clarify Ursula von der Leyen’s words about Turkey after she said: “We must succeed in completing the European continent so that it is not influenced by Russia, Türkiye, or China.”

Yeah, like... it was a Telegram channel or whatever, but people got bits and pieces from the story and constructed something completely different, screaming at anyone who tried to correct it.

The replies to a Snopes article correcting people's misreading of the article was just filled top to bottom with people telling Snopes that they need to STFU and that it doesn't matter if they have the information wrong.

62 million. That's the amount of views by men the rape academy got. Started by men for men. And they ask women why we're choosing to be feminists and misandrists. 54 40 (24 • 5h If you are defending any part of the rape academy or the motherless website, GET FUCKED. "The 62 million was hits on the porn website, not the rape academy." YOU MEAN THE PORN SITE WITH VIDEOS OF THE RAPES??? "There were women on the site too." AND FUCK THEM TOO. JAIL THEM. TF?? Predators of all genders can rot in prison for all eternity. "You didn't read the article, I see." Yes, I did. It's all horrible. Go fuck yourself. Don't bother trying to argue with me. I'll just block you. 1/2 People are requesting a note on this post Write community note O279 Q43 C239 1

"It's not 62 million men, it's 62 mi..." Stop talking. Stop. Talking. If your impulse is to try and reduce and explain away the appalling monstrousness of some online rape academy, then I'm going to assume you're one of those site visitors. And the only thing you should be hearing right now besides the pounding on your door from the authorities is the sharp mechanical click of a safety switched to the off position coming from the direction of the woman who lives with you. 1/3 • 14.1K Q 380 C 1.2K > 76 22h Your argument of "it wasn't 62 million men it's 62 million hits" is not helping you??? Hello? It was still visited SIXTY TWO MILLION TIMES. 1/2

How many "good guys" knew about this online rape academy and didn't say anything? How many "good men" saw it mentioned in a group chat or forum and just kept scrolling? Because if it got 62 million views in a month, it wasn't just the bad guys visiting who knew it existed. Being a good guy who didn't do it isn't the flex you think it is if you also didn't say shit. Help decide whether a proposed community note should be shown on this post. Rate community note ©2.3K Q143 C)208 → 28

+ Not all men but 62M men A CNN As Equals Investigation Exposing a global 'rape academy" In shocking group chats, men encourage one another to drug and assault their wives - and swap tips on getting away with it By Saskya Vandoorne, Kara Fox, Niamh Kennedy, Eleanor Stubbs and Marco Chacon, CNN Published March 26, 2026 36 58 C) 5 E 2

Oh! I saw the same thing happen on Threads. Anyone who tried to correct the misinformation got yelled at and accused of being pro-"rape academy."

someone is literally doing it on this very post with their replies turned off

again, unmoderated porn websites should not exist and should be held accountable for hosting rape videos, but that is something different!

if you search "62 million men" you'll find a bunch of it on here too. An unmoderated tube website (so a site with 1000s of other videos too) that unwittingly hosted porn made by guys in this chat got 62 million *hits*, including bots and webcrawlers. that is an entirely different thing

but when people point out it's wrong the people spreading the misinfo are just like "but even 1 is too many". ok so then why are you saying it's 62 million if 1000 i just as bad

it's a horrible article about a horrible thing, and it is surely a reflection of some despicable cultural attitudes about women, but repeating a fake statistic that like 1 in 3 american men were interested in this is not helpful to anyone

thinking abt this bc there is currently a controversy on tiktok where people are misreading and spreading a statistic from this article, saying that 62 million men were either in or interested in a telegram chat about drugging and raping their female partners when really it was like 1000 people max

Want to take the opportunity to call out the State Department for replying to my question on whether the dead Americans were CIA with "Off the record, we have nothing to add at this time..."

Off-the-record is not achieved by unilateral decree, it requires a negotiation between source and reporter.

U.S. Considers Financial Support for Oil-Rich U.A.E.

Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...

Electricity demand in the EU increased by a modest 0.5% (+13.5 TWh) in 2025, below the 2024 increase of 1.9%. Solar had the largest absolute increase in electricity generation in the EU in 2025, growing by 20% (+60 TWh). The EU added over 65 GW of new solar capacity in 2025, nearly equally split between utility-scale solar farms and rooftop installations. Wind generation declined by 2.5% (-12 TWh) in 2025, following a modest increase of 2.8% in 2024. Exceptionally low wind speeds at the start of the year led to a dip in generation in the early months of 2025. However, a return to normal wind conditions later in the year, along with further fleet expansion, meant wind remained the EU’s second-largest electricity source, at 17% of generation. The EU’s wind capacity continued to expand, growing by 6% (+13 GW) in 2024 and a further 6% (+15 GW) in 2025. EU hydro generation declined by 43 TWh (-12%) in 2025, following an exceptionally strong year in 2024. Hydro generation in 2025 was 21 TWh (-6%) lower than in 2020.

Not great to see such a huge increase in gas use in the EU power grid, even if all that money Europeans are overpaying for electricity goes straight into the Norwegians-buying-a-second-or-maybe-even-third-home fund

Despite similar fossil shares, US carbon intensity in 2025 (384 gCO2e/kWh) was below the global average (458 gCO2e/ kWh), reflecting the country’s heavier reliance on gas over coal, a fuel with lower emissions intensity. Per capita electricity demand in the US reached 13.1 MWh in 2025, more than three times the global average (3.9 MWh), roughly double the EU average (6.2 MWh), and 75% higher than China’s (7.5 MWh). Per capita power sector emissions in the US stood at 5 tCO2e in 2025, nearly three times the global average of 1.8 tCO2e.

Americans use 3x the global average amount of electrical energy per person (same for emissions from power)

Although gas-to-coal switching led to an increase in coal generation in the US in 2025, coal power has fallen by nearly twothirds (-1,279 TWh) since its 2007 peak. In contrast, wind and solar have risen by 818 TWh over the same period. Gas-to-coal switching in 2025 caused US power sector emissions to rise by 3.1% (+52 MtCO2e), despite fossil generation growing by just 0.9%. However, US power sector emissions remain well below their peak in 2007, which coincided with the peak in coal-fired

In the US power sector, fossil fuel use grew only 0.9% but emissions grew 3.1%. This is because of a huge amount of gas-to-coal switching (thanks to rising gas prices)

Not great!!

ectricity demand in the US grew by 3% (+131 TWh) in 2025, similar to growth in 2024 (+132 TWh, +3.1%). This is well above the average annual growth of 0.6% recorded over the previous decade (2015-2024). The increase was partly driven by the rapid expansion of data centres, which are projected to account for around half of total US demand growth through 2030. Colder winter temperatures also drove up electricity demand for heating in 2025, although this was partially offset by milder summer temperatures and reduced cooling demand. Almost two-thirds (65%) of the rise in electricity demand in the US in 2025 was met by solar growth (+85 TWh, +28%). This was the second-largest increase in solar generation globally in 2025. Wind generation rose by 12.5 TWh (+2.8%), meaning that wind and solar together met 74% of the increase in US electricity demand.

About half of demand growth in the US was driven by data centres -->>>

Gas' growth slowing down

The globalk growth of gas is really shrinking pretty noticeably

a chart showing falling coal use in india and china

holy moly this is a pretty wild one. The increase in coal use in the US was greater than the decrease in coal use in China

per capital solar

per capita coal

Australia has the highest per capita solar generation in the world 🍾

Australia also has the highest per capita coal generation the world 😱

Data centres are also expected to become a significant contributor to global electricity demand growth in the coming years. International Energy Agency (IEA) projections suggest data centres likely added around 60 TWh, or 7% of the global increase in demand in 2025, though uncertainty around this estimate remains high. The IEA’s forecast expects data centre demand to grow four times faster than overall electricity demand, from around 500 TWh in 2025 to around 950 TWh in 2030. However, even at this rapid pace, data centres would account for less than 3% of global electricity demand by 2030, though regional impacts will differ significantly.

Data centres are never the major core driver of global power demand, but they're *something*, and they're materially different to heating, cooling, electrification, etc which are all vital services improving societal outcomes where DCs are.......a mixed bag at best, with the bad outpacing the good