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Video: We caught Elon Musk's AI company flouting EPA rules using a thermal drone xAI’s Grok chatbot is powered by unpermitted gas turbines at a Mississippi power plant. Here's how we know.

xAI’s Grok chatbot is powered by unpermitted gas turbines at a Mississippi power plant. Here's how we know.

09.03.2026 21:02 👍 302 🔁 110 💬 4 📌 20
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Tag yourself

10.03.2026 21:16 👍 478 🔁 119 💬 34 📌 17
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Badab War Veterans -

10.03.2026 16:08 👍 254 🔁 70 💬 3 📌 0

Excuse my French but 'How tall is the London fucking eye?' What a stupid fucking question. The hostile environment is hostile to common sense

10.03.2026 12:56 👍 72 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 1
Pit pit on a pile of skulls saying "severed is the head that wears the crown!" death to the wizard kings!

Pit pit on a pile of skulls saying "severed is the head that wears the crown!" death to the wizard kings!

Chop chop!

08.03.2026 23:14 👍 947 🔁 204 💬 3 📌 1

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

07.03.2026 23:52 👍 7806 🔁 2447 💬 240 📌 62
Screenshot of "Large adult son" on twitter telling Omid Djalili "This is your Linehan moment you stupid cunt" and Omid replying "And @Glinner was proved right". He is being ratioed with 64 comments to 51 likes

Screenshot of "Large adult son" on twitter telling Omid Djalili "This is your Linehan moment you stupid cunt" and Omid replying "And @Glinner was proved right". He is being ratioed with 64 comments to 51 likes

Oh he's GONE holy shit

07.03.2026 12:32 👍 450 🔁 66 💬 16 📌 24
An ominous black rabbit idles in the distance behind some tufts of grass as drops of blood lead to it.

An ominous black rabbit idles in the distance behind some tufts of grass as drops of blood lead to it.

The Black Rabbit of Inlé.

07.03.2026 03:23 👍 1823 🔁 572 💬 8 📌 1
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Polish rail operator launches special "unhurried" weekend trips in 1980s trains

Polish state rail operator PKP Intercity is launching a series of special "unhurried" weekend journeys along picturesque routes in restored 1980s carriages with historical locomotives to celebrate its anniversary.

06.03.2026 20:38 👍 103 🔁 32 💬 4 📌 10
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Du'aine Ladejo, explaining to his grandkids: "No no, that was just my 'Gladiators' name. This isn't a news headline. No, I am *not* on a regis... what? I don't know why, I didn't choose it, they probably just thought it was a cool-sounding... yes, I know what 'hiding in plain sight' means. Listen -"

04.03.2026 07:14 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I actually don't have words as to how angry I am.

Wonder what happened in these countries that people on student visas in the UK found themselves needing to apply for asylum instead of going home post 2021.

UK Labour are heartless bastards & apparently have bo idea whats happening in the world.

04.03.2026 07:27 👍 716 🔁 238 💬 17 📌 10

"'Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' said Werner Von Braun."--Tom Lehrer

01.03.2026 19:05 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night

28.02.2026 07:51 👍 1317 🔁 199 💬 14 📌 3

@greenpartyhan.bsky.social

27.02.2026 09:08 👍 1318 🔁 240 💬 3 📌 1
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Dooneen Check out Dooneen - <p>Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that – there are no cars; there are moving fo...

You can pre-order my debut novel Dooneen on @bookshop.org here. It's my sixth debut novel. Pre-orders, as I'm sure you know, are essential to the healthy continuance of society. If you don't pre-order right now, you're basically destroying everything beautiful.

26.02.2026 21:37 👍 39 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 2

You're 1 closer

25.02.2026 14:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
24.02.2026 09:21 👍 304 🔁 79 💬 9 📌 1

I mean, this could be about any number of things.

24.02.2026 17:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

23.02.2026 21:43 👍 19301 🔁 2927 💬 345 📌 1
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Hou Hsiao-hsien, he's just like us.

23.02.2026 14:38 👍 55 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

Taiwan Travelogue has been the book I keep thinking about since I read it. It's about language, food, privilege and occupation.

23.02.2026 07:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Mantis Warrior fighting in the Badab War. Their armor is daubed with tropical camouflage.

A Mantis Warrior fighting in the Badab War. Their armor is daubed with tropical camouflage.

Everyone loves a goofy Rogue Trader camouflage scheme!

21.02.2026 18:18 👍 157 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 1
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aaaand have a wip
i got distracted by the shields, yep

21.02.2026 19:54 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Minotaurs or Raptors (both in Rogue Trader schemes)

21.02.2026 13:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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No to homilies prepared with Artificial Intelligence The Pope therefore invited the priests to enter into real life and called for vigilance when confronted with artificial intelligence and internet use. He warned against "the temptation to prepare homilies with Artificial Intelligence".
"Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die.
The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity," he said.
Moreover, "to give a true homily is to share faith," and Al "will never be able to share faith," he insisted.
"If we can offer a service that is inculturated in the place, in the parish where we are working, people want to see your faith, your experience of having known and loved Christ."
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Vatican News No to homilies prepared with Artificial Intelligence The Pope therefore invited the priests to enter into real life and called for vigilance when confronted with artificial intelligence and internet use. He warned against "the temptation to prepare homilies with Artificial Intelligence". "Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die. The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity," he said. Moreover, "to give a true homily is to share faith," and Al "will never be able to share faith," he insisted. "If we can offer a service that is inculturated in the place, in the parish where we are working, people want to see your faith, your experience of having known and loved Christ." vaticannews.va

PAPA LEONE YES

21.02.2026 02:35 👍 2002 🔁 476 💬 17 📌 154
OGNI VOLTA CHE MI BACI MUORE UN NAZISTA

OGNI VOLTA CHE MI BACI MUORE UN NAZISTA

“Every time you kiss me a Nazi dies”

Seen in Ferrara

20.02.2026 21:29 👍 39 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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In 1909, as Ursula records, Maurice Ravel popped over to London to visit the Vaughan Williams's. Just when I thought I couldn't love him more, this.

20.02.2026 12:33 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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The Hundred: IPL-linked teams 'not considering Pakistan players' Four sides in The Hundred with links to the IPL are not expected to sign players from Pakistan in next month's auction.

This is outrageous, and I would expect that anti-discrimination legislation should apply. The de facto ban on Pakistan players in the IPL is bad enough, but for it to be extended across the world can't be allowed.

19.02.2026 14:44 👍 48 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 6
A graphic from erdavis.com with the title, "Names most at risk of going extinct in the United States"

A graphic from erdavis.com with the title, "Names most at risk of going extinct in the United States"

By the always excellent Erin Davis, a chart of the first names that have seen the greatest (estimated) drop in living Americans with that name. Much more here, including an interactive to look the trends for any first name: erdavis.com/2026/02/16/i...

17.02.2026 04:19 👍 150 🔁 37 💬 23 📌 32

I’m giving up for Lent.

17.02.2026 06:27 👍 90 🔁 7 💬 13 📌 0