The implication they made an operational profit is incredible and I absolutely wouldn’t have expected that. The fact they decided to set it all on fire, though, that’s no surprise.

This is our poverty elimination plan.

I never cease to be amused by how this app has a community that hates the staff and a staff that hates the community and both sides are completely open about it

this isn’t a retirement home it’s a Waffle House

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I am willing to give Mirror Universe Putin a chance.

Aaahaha your avatar!
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I‘d forgotten how much this harebrained escalation was *just* trump demanding it. Ahhhahaha

This is all obviously still deranged, but I think he’s saying hegseth is blocking the plot.

This is going in a textbook someday.

I think everyone read that @waytowinus.bsky.social report today.

We can (and should) always dream.

They hired *who*??

Famous infographic by Charles Minard depicting the strength of Napoleon’s army during his invasion of Russia and retreat by width of line tracing the route. Starts with 422,000 soldiers and ends with 10,000, steadily decreasing throughout the campaign due to disease.

I haven't had a long enough breath to talk about how AI is ruining the open web. API after API I used to use is closing - literally because paying the $$$ required to feed these impersonation machines is prohibitive.

The whole web is built on a primary grace: that the people visiting you are trustworthy. It costs a little something for me to serve my webpage to everyone who goes there. When the number of scrapers outnumbers the number of humans by an order of magnitude, this grace is fragile.

I’ve always thought the one plausible use case is spontaneous perfect cat videos.

I generally read social media stone faced, and I literally can’t stop laughing.

Palestinians and Palestinian buildings are presumed guilty.

Actual rationality involves emotional *integration,* not severance from your own emotions.

Just because you are so emotionally stunted that you are *unaware of the emotions you are feeling* doesn’t mean you are more rational. Quite the contrary, in fact.

Chicken sneezes are so good though 😭

Partly because in an urban area people are necessarily exposed to a lot of other people. In a rural area it’s much easier for the rest of the populace to be an abstraction mediated by tv news.

Jake Mangum spots kid in the crowd, tosses the ball, and her brother catches it and gives it to her. Dudes rock.

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote.

Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California.

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One part of this delusion is that programming as an industry is attached to being world-changing innovators, and resent that it has stabilized into a regular trade. The other part is programmers simply losing sight of how much non-computer work is involved outside their field.

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

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People always wildly underestimate the cost per mile of operating a car.

These trend pieces are absolutely amazing to me. Instead of exploring the pathology of a huge cohort of men who decided they'd rather completely opt out of participating in society rather than think of women as equals, it's treated as a failure of society (and specifically women).

In their small-mindedness and absolute belief in the purity of Israel, the solution establishment democrats came up with for this was to force TikTok to be given to republicans.

Editors ✨manifesting✨ the world they desire
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Page 1 of a legal Judgment document from the United States District Court, District of Oregon for Case No. 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on 04/18/26. The plaintiffs are listed as "STATE OF OREGON, et al.," and the defendants are "ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, et al." The document is from United States District Judge Kasubhai. It outlines that final judgment is entered in favor of the Plaintiffs on Counts I, II, III, and IV. Item 3 states the Court holds unlawful, sets aside, and vacates the "Declaration of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services RE: Safety, Effectiveness and Professional Standards of Care for Sex-Rejecting Procedures on Children and Adolescents".

Page 2 of a legal judgment document for Case 6:25-cv-02409-MTK, filed on April 18, 2026. The text outlines a court order declaring that defendants lack the authority to unilaterally establish standards of care that supersede professionally recognized standards for gender-affirming care in the Plaintiff States. It permanently enjoins defendants and their agents, including the HHS-OIG, from enforcing the "Kennedy Declaration" against providers in those states. The document is dated April 18, 2026, and is signed by United States District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai.

Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics.

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