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Not really having a great time to be honest IRL: music, climate, politics, gaming

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younger trader joes cashier: have you tried these scallion pancakes yet

me: (with the terrified sternness of a third grader with one line in the play) It’s Giving Dinner

12.06.2024 17:26 πŸ‘ 162 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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11.03.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 164 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, β€œneed groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, β€œeh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, β€œneed groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, β€œeh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy

11.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 9799 πŸ” 2212 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 27

You may not like what you're going to see.

10.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

gender turns out to be a harder problem to solve society-wide than decarbonization

10.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 419 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 7

You also get to zero out the transportation costs of oil/coal/etc and the environmental threat externalities. It's a great tradeoff!

10.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just for clarification, why is efficiency the thing we're concerned about here? IME that refers to the proportion of solar energy received which can be captured by current solar panels, which isn't AFAICT even close to the limiting factor of current implementation

10.03.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"for sale baby shoes never"

10.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That is extremely fun

10.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the marketing and operations ppl at solar companies also know more about battery storage and its cost horizons than you seem to

10.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

08.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 4755 πŸ” 1411 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 72

The dream of these AR goggles is "hold L2 to activate Detective Vision" but unfortunately that's not how looking at objects works IRL

07.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

espn decided this was an urgent matter they should push to the Home Screen of your phone asap instead of the inane ramblings of an elderly fascist with soggy cardboard for brains

07.03.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 985 πŸ” 108 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 3

It doesn't solve everything but it's increasingly mandatory for constituency management

06.03.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
post from the White House's official account on bigotry aggregation site X, with a shot of Pokopia's title card modified to say "make america great again"

post from the White House's official account on bigotry aggregation site X, with a shot of Pokopia's title card modified to say "make america great again"

willing to be convinced this lawsuit was inspired by the posting incels doing this to Pokemon kotaku.com/nintendo-sui...

06.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

protect the hive

06.03.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

data visualization

06.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You think a former disinformation reporter would just ... make things up for his social media audience? /s

06.03.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I totally get that people need paychecks to live but I don't think very kindly of anybody still at WaPo

06.03.2026 14:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
06.03.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Look we're all allowed to trail off during the verses, as long as you hit that first line of the chorus at full force

05.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Creep? Sorry, the white person madness rune song of the mid-nineties is Say It Ain't So.

(The white ppl madness rune song of the early nineties is Friends In Low Places)

05.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Then we can start making that ask after the primary, in June

05.03.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Your instinct will be to assume that this is new information offered in good faith, but what Grim doesn't share here is that his source for this claim is a Substack post from VDARE's Peter Brimelow, a notorious white supremacist

05.03.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Farm lad > navy lad > graphic designer

Shopkeep from age 13

04.03.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Susan Collins just gave Donald Trump the green light to take further unilateral military action that could push the United States into another endless war without oversight.

She doesn't have the courage to stand up to the President, even when American lives are on the line.

04.03.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 767 πŸ” 232 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 11

this is a different Jon Favreau - this guy was a speechwriter for Obama. Which still means he has fuck-all in the way of relevant expertise here

04.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a real bracing amount of "Joined November 2024" in OP and replies

04.03.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The party has fully outsourced its logistical competence, though! Their comms are run by aligned media outlets, and they gutted a kajillion gov't jobs without actually cutting budget. Even within the deportation stuff their panopticon-in-process is licensed from eg Palantir.

04.03.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0