bluesky is fun, you talk to yourself and sometimes someone responds
bluesky is fun, you talk to yourself and sometimes someone responds
Reminder that Tehran has a population greater than London, this is not a trivial amount of people weβre talking about here.
This aged well. No really - it did.
Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion and The Terror, dies aged 77
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
this is all a giant boon for Russia btw who gets a much needed price boost to their sanctioned oil exports.
The Washington Post sacked all of its Middle East correspondents a couple of weeks ago. Useful.
I think we are heading towards a power struggle and a civil war at large.
BREAKING: Iranian state TV has confirmed that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in Israeli and US air strikes today.
A tearful host on state TV's channel one announced the news live on air.
Pete Hegseth announces that the U.S. has gained control over Iran's alcohol production facilities, will perform personal inspection.
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The family of Nurul Amin Shah Alam waited for hours at the county jail, expecting a joyful reunion with the Rohingya refugee unjustly locked up for a year
No one told them CBP had arrested him, then dumped him at a closed donut shop to die
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Jesus. Netflix calls it quits, the Ellisons and Paramount will get all of Warner, including CNN. Bari Weiss's sphere of influence grows. And no matter what you think of CNN or news in general, it's a big legacy brand with a lot of reach, that will now shift rightwards pretty hard.
The best thing you can do in light of the Ellison takeover of Warner Brothers invest your time, energy, and money in supporting independent creators and independent distribution networks and independent venues. It is absolutely crucial to make independence a viable option.
CNN is gonna be a shit show now that Paramount has become the only bidder in town for WBD.
46.8% ?π that's less than half of the constituents voting
pete hegseth convenes emergency push up contest over cuba crisis
The state of the onion
Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.
Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
If we are really serious about βAustralian valuesβ we should float them on the stock exchange to see how much theyβre worth in relation to other countryβs values
I had ALP winning a minority government. Really took me by suprise, when they secured the current majority that they have.
SAM ALTMAN: "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an Al model ... But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."
βEvil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.β - Terry Pratchett
what do you mean they didn't realize this before
"Users now, Profits later"
ok but how is the opposition party supposed to win over his supporters now, have they even thought about that
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