The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.
'Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.'
Richard Hughes, British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays, born on this day in 1900.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants.
“And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”
Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes.
That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services.
This is why people are mad as hell.
Quick and easy way for states to tackle energy affordability and boost clean energy: cut permitting barriers for home solar and battery installation. @permitpower.bsky.social
It’s cool how the people who control the US government right now just openly take it as a personal attack when the Pope says something like “God will not reward evil men”
NEW: the #AlabamaPenis has been freed!
WTF is the point of stating BREAKING NEWS? All news is breaking. We need a Breaking News Triage System. On a scale of 1–10, how is this "breaking" news going to make us broken today?
Senator Wyden can’t say it plainly without losing his security clearance, but this raises the alarm that Kash & crew have decided they can illegally surveil Americans without a warrant.
curated meme by The Trek Memes; a mock movie poster for "O Brother Where Art Thou" with "2 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS: BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY" but edited to be Data, Lore, and B-4 from the Star Trek TNG universe, starring Brent Spiner, Brent Spiner, and Brent Spiner;
i'll read any article of any length. i'll read any book. but i will not watch a youtube explainer or monologue that is longer than three minutes. write it down buddy
Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did.
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It’s actually incredibly difficult to vote these sociopaths out of office.. both parties. Our campaign finance laws make it almost impossible. People think voters choose these candidates but actually that’s not true. Corporations & foreign lobbies do. We get to select from the plutocrats draft picks
It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.
Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States
Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months:
"This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."
As an American. I make the decision to buy a gun and go shoot somebody. I get convicted and go to jail.
An a health Insurance exec. I make the decision to deny care and kill someone. I get a bonus.
Congress should establish a method where The People can recall a President.
Batman breaks a gun and exclaims, "THIS IS THE WEAPON OF THE ENEMY. WE DO NOT NEED IT. WE WILL NOT USE IT."
GenAI memes used to dunk on the enemy are still GenAI memes.
Make cheap electric cars and we won't have to deal with this Straits of Hormuz oil bullshit. We will get cleaner air as an added benefit.
finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...
Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.
They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.
That energy is all around us.
And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
My family fled Fascism in the 30s. To see its resurgence is gut-wrenching & heartbreaking. I’ve been sharing this poem a lot, but it’s my history. Words are all I have. Forever grateful to @poetrywales.bsky.social for publishing: joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/2023/11/here... #Trump #Orban #poetry
To everyone who insists that voting doesn't matter and it can never make a difference: Hungarians just voted out an autocrat who had been in power for over 15 years.
Voting works.
Fact;
Netanyahu blackmailed Clinton over a racy voicemail
between Clinton and Lewinsky.
Release the Epstein files.
BOOM!
South Australia's power prices have plummeted as they near 100% renewables, proving to the world that relying on wind and solar with battery back-up is possible, more reliable and costs people less.
THIS is how we avoid the next oil crisis.
#EnergyRevolution
The Strait of Hormuz crisis is doing something a decade of subsidies and mandates struggled to achieve:
making millions of people want an EV who previously discounted them.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mama Tigga taking a break from her babies, she is just a baby herself and raising 6 kittens is a whole lot of work!
Sweet girl doesn't know it yet but this will be her only litter ever before she gets spayed and then hopefully adopted herself 🤍
#spayandneuter #Virginia #Tabby
