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CAH has done a bunch of things like this over the years and it's great.

27.02.2026 18:21 👍 195 🔁 34 💬 6 📌 1

holy shit. hell of an analysis

16.02.2026 13:15 👍 1347 🔁 625 💬 14 📌 4
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Laws restricting abortions linked to rise in 'abhorrently high' maternal mortality rates Rising state-level abortion restrictions in the United States were linked to a similar, parallel rise in maternal deaths from 2005 to 2023, according to research presented at The Pregnancy Meeting. ...

Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.

14.02.2026 16:53 👍 4739 🔁 2304 💬 248 📌 160

New Muppet show. I've just realised, kermit is a vampire. Ageless, possessed of mind control powers.

06.02.2026 19:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"The system sucks," or what a federal lawyer's comments really tell us about the Trump admin Julie Le's comments are shocking, but they are a problem of the Trump admin’s own making. And it goes way beyond one lawyer new to the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office.

The New York Times not linking to anyone who’s been reporting this — and then pushing it — is quite annoying!

Also, my story is much more detailed and actually explains things going on, in addition to linking to three other reports from other outlets. www.lawdork.com/p/the-system...

04.02.2026 21:14 👍 518 🔁 143 💬 7 📌 4
Silver cufflinks with gold details, circular sort of planetary logo with Preservation Alliance and a space ship with pretty wings (we know ART is pretty, right?) and a star emblem…

Silver cufflinks with gold details, circular sort of planetary logo with Preservation Alliance and a space ship with pretty wings (we know ART is pretty, right?) and a star emblem…

Because they just popped up on my dash: some pretty things I had made for my spouse a couple of years ago—cufflinks with Preservation Alliance on one and an ART (Perihelion) of University of Mihira and NewTideland on the other…

Referencing, of course, the Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com

29.01.2026 10:25 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

29.01.2026 16:45 👍 21007 🔁 5075 💬 546 📌 180

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers.

Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024.

And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary.

The system is rigged.

29.01.2026 17:01 👍 18702 🔁 6630 💬 922 📌 389

What if Musk was right about AI dooming us, but not because of hyper intelligence?

Ok off to work at a modern tech company...

29.01.2026 07:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At least they saved time and money with the new automation system!

29.01.2026 06:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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24.01.2026 22:43 👍 3865 🔁 1008 💬 107 📌 42

I would really like the world to stop dropping geopolitical bombs over the weekend. Give us just one week to follow up on anything.

25.01.2026 11:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah they're gonna do a World Cup in a country in the middle of a dictatorship that is kidnapping people and sending them to torture prisons... AGAIN.

24.01.2026 21:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.

Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

19.01.2026 19:23 👍 16830 🔁 7236 💬 113 📌 195

I spoke to the Secretary-General of NATO, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni.

Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.

18.01.2026 21:04 👍 14323 🔁 3328 💬 630 📌 226
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This is quite a post

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

17.01.2026 06:26 👍 8093 🔁 2731 💬 255 📌 754
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

17.01.2026 07:12 👍 14741 🔁 3148 💬 193 📌 113
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The ‘Bush Legend’ is bringing us short videos of an Aboriginal person teaching us about native animals. But he isn’t real.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/this-ti...

15.01.2026 03:30 👍 111 🔁 81 💬 9 📌 20

Toasters are just small ovens. And big ovens I mean really, big, are very very very political. So I think you being political is you staying in your lane.

13.01.2026 17:00 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to build a radically truthful news outlet The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.

My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.

12.01.2026 17:21 👍 1355 🔁 446 💬 36 📌 43
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The Difference Between Judicial and Administrative Warrants | Motion Law Understand The Difference Between Judicial and Administrative Warrants. Contact Motion Law today if you have any quesitons about immigration!

TIL
"An ICE administrative warrant is NOT a judicial warrant. ICE administrative warrants do not give ICE officials authority to enter a place where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, without consent."
www.motionlaw.com/the-differen...

12.01.2026 17:42 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Reminder that these kind of door-to-door “general warrants” are both explicitly illegal and also a major trigger for the American Revolution.

12.01.2026 15:48 👍 944 🔁 437 💬 31 📌 11
Error Handling in a Correctness-Critical Rust Project

As is sled.rs/errors.html - and I agree with their conclusion entirely.

12.01.2026 11:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."

11.01.2026 19:45 👍 15364 🔁 7141 💬 356 📌 295
Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them | FastLabs / Blog We develop fast Rust crates and release them fast.

fast.github.io/blog/stop-forwarding-errors-start-designing-them/ is an interesting read for Rustaceans

12.01.2026 11:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

10.01.2026 00:53 👍 11096 🔁 11202 💬 352 📌 1500
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

05.01.2026 16:12 👍 28537 🔁 14043 💬 1512 📌 1947
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Trump crony has embarrassing meltdown after more Kennedy Center performers quit The Trump administration is lashing out at performers who have chosen to cancel performances at the Kennedy Center following Donald Trump’s recent decision to deface the cultural institution with ...

Trump crony has embarrassing meltdown after more Kennedy Center performers quit www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

30.12.2025 17:15 👍 434 🔁 89 💬 36 📌 21

Does my network contain a California tax lawyer who can help a widow straighten out a horrifying post-death earnings boondoggle? @dataandpolitics.net is the widow in question

28.12.2025 00:39 👍 103 🔁 52 💬 3 📌 3