the people in LA putting their safety on the line right now to try and stop ICE are the bravest people we have got

We need to bring back the ‘weird’ allegations you guys

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

looks like its lid up

I hate that bluesky only has 1 minute videos because I have too many 1 minute and 1 second long videos I want to share

Ich brauche eine Regierung, die uns gegen diese Welle von Wahnsinn verteidigt, die offen widerspricht und hart dagegenhält.
Das ist eigentlich mein einziges Kriterium diesmal.

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia joins growing DOGE team under Elon Musk Joe Gebbia is the latest tech guru to join Elon Musk's growing team of staffers within DOGE.

As if you needed another reason to never use AirBnB again:

www.newsweek.com/airbnb-joe-g...

Ein klassisches Gemälde zeigt drei junge Katzen mit getigertem Fell, die auf einem bestickten, rötlich-braunen Tuch neben einem runden Goldfischglas sitzen. Zwei der Katzen liegen flach auf dem Bauch und schauen konzentriert in das Glas, während die dritte, mit einem rosa Halsband und Schleife geschmückte Katze leicht aufgerichtet hinter ihnen sitzt. Im Glas schwimmen mehrere kleine Fische zwischen grünen Wasserpflanzen. Der Hintergrund ist eine schlichte, warme Wand mit angedeuteten Holzvertäfelungen.

🎨 Horatio Henry Couldery

(1832–1893)

"Cats by a fishbowl"

i really wish the media took the online world seriously because these people are all fucking nazis

NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more.

Thanks to NIH, we have:
💉 Cancer immunotherapy
❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins
🩸 Insulin for diabetes

Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.

Canada invests $72M in system that will monitor wildfires from space The Government of Canada says it is investing millions of dollars to build a satellite constellation that will monitor wildfires across...

“A $72 million contract has been awarded to Spire Global Canada to design the future WildFire Sat constellation, the federal government said in a news release.” www.pentictonnow.com/watercooler/... - Penticton Now

#cdnpoli #wildfires

Crosstich that reads: fuck you I won’t do what you tell me

Trump’s federal hiring freeze halts onboarding of federal firefighting crews ahead of wildfire season | CNN The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers: firefighters.

“Trump’s federal hiring freeze halts onboarding of federal firefighting crews ahead of wildfire season” www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/u... - CNN

#Wildfires #WildlandFirefighting

Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Drill, baby drill? Trump policies will hurt climate ― but US green transition is underway Market forces could undercut the administration’s plans to increase the use of fossil fuels such as oil and petrol.

Higher greenhouse-gas emissions, fewer jobs and dirtier air that kills more people: researchers have plugged Trump’s energy and climate policies into their models, and early results suggest far-reaching consequences for health, the economy and the planet.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We will not go quietly.

Reading and playing BG3 when I feel the panic and need to disconnect. Staying informed as much as I sanely can. Focusing on changing and controlling the things I can (if anyone in the Vancouver area knows someone hiring an ecologist hmu)

Purge Begins As DOGE Enters FBI To Obtain Names Of 5,000 Agents Who Worked January 6 Cases And Face Firing - Ny Breaking News The FBI is being forced by Elon Musk's DOGE to hand over the names of 5,000 officials who worked on January 6 cases.

The USA's SS is named after a stupid dog meme... weirdly poetic yet infinitely depressing

nybreaking.com/purge-begins...

US Media's Credulous Depiction of 'DOGE' as a Good Faith "Efficiency Panel" Has Aged Poorly New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN took a pathological liar with a clear ideological agenda at his word for the sole reason he’s rich and powerful.

in which I argue it was probably a bad idea for major US media outlets to spend months treating Musk's "DOGE" committee as an aw shucks, good faith effort to "reduce waste" and "find efficiencies" in our government.

just fyi a contract that says "you can't do anything if i breach this contract" is not actually a contract

The depressing thing for me about the hot coffee case is how many people were so keen to side with the massive corporation.

Even if all the mythology for true - that the plaintiff got millions just for getting a slightly-too-hot coffee - I'd still be somewhere between on her side and indifferent.

So that’s a federal subsidy for the media platform owned by the president’s biggest donor, which he’s made a gathering place for nazis

Just saw someone refer to a Cybertruck as a Douche Panzer and I can’t stop thinking about it.

autocorrect changing gayming to gaming

how dare you

@ifbookspod.bsky.social have y'all ever considered doing Guns, Germs, and Steel or any of Diamond's other books? I admittedly have no idea how good/bad they are, but they get my bs spidey senses going