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to be genuine for a moment, working for the onion in this era has been one of the greatest experiences of my life so far. good things will continue to come

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(we are not on the brink of a total internet collapse)

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s Back in the 1990s, floppy disks "had a mere capacity of 1.44MB," remembers XDA Developers, "which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about." Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we got "superfloppy" formats that were physically...

Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s

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All this shit is a heat check by mainstream press to see if they can still pull off a “there’s equally bad guys on both sides, and here’s the guy we decided is just as bad as Nick Fuentes.”

It’s:
1 - A way of avoiding the real problems: Trump, Vance and Netanyahu
2 - Probably not gonna work anymore

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic, because Israel and Judaism are not one and the same.

Here’s proof:

‘For leftist Jews, the Bund is a model’: the radical history behind one of Europe’s biggest socialist movements

A new book by Molly Crabapple documents the rise and fall of a revolutionary Jewish party that fought against Zionism and for ‘solidarity across difference’

the domino meme, with "Rupert Murdoch starts a cable news channel" on the small end and "global armegeddon" at the big end

HAPPY LELAND MELVIN DAY!!!! Give your pup a smooch!

the israelis putting on a puppet show for peepaw while the nsc mostly hems and haws — with the exception of jd vance BERSTING in to declare “im the only sane one in the room” like a dollar store littlefinger

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

“every time you hit us, we hit the petrostates, and the harder you hit us, the harder we hit them” doesn’t really seem like a sustainable state of affairs, but it’ll go on a lot longer than any of us want it to

still have my steelbook, the flight felt SO GOOD

In Far Right's Growing 'Remigration' Talk, Echoes of KKK America Listen closely to what far-right figures are now saying about immigration, and you will find few differences from the xenophobic debates of the 1920s.

Listen closely to what far-right figures are now saying about immigration, and you will find few differences from the xenophobic debates of the 1920s. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/in-far-rig...

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A brief summary of what the #Trump regime has achieved in its war with #Iran after 5 weeks:

a)
The Strait of Hormuz is closed. It was open before the war began.

b)
#China and #Russia observe that the #US has not adapted to drone warfare.

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This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

I think a lot about the graffiti on Buran: "Before climbing to the stars, a person should learn to live on Earth!" but, just one country

Trump’s Holy War Abroad and at Home Investigative Journalist Sara Posner on how the Christian right’s end times views are shaping U.S. foreign and domestic policies.

We spoke to journalist @sarahposner.bsky.social about how the Christian right’s end times views are shaping U.S. foreign and domestic policies.

This is very funny. no, career prosecutors in Chicago would never behave badly, how dare you sir/ma’am

Emirates must figure they can demand this given how much $$ they've invested into the Clown Prince & Witkoff.

Again, this is why it is UTTERLY CRUCIAL to get those fucking bozos out of this issue. They're working for Gulf States, effectively, & have a financial incentive to risk American lives.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

This is why I don't engage with the majority of under 19 year olds on here

Everyone saying this is just a cover for anti-lgbtq censorship is right BUT

It's also a way to prevent new entrants into online social media as only large incumbent companies can afford to comply with these onerous rules. It's anticompetitive.

You can use this tool to contact your lawmakers: badinternetbills.com

I love games and so many of the people who make them. It was an honor to accept the award on behalf of the team and a privilege to be able to speak to what I believe in. ♥️

"College Republicans" are somehow infinitely worse at every turn than whatever cults people have imagined existing to indoctrinate their children