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The truly astonishing thing is how the headline assumes there’s a distinction between the two. Iykyk

11.03.2026 20:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This has been my autocorrect conspiracy theory for ages

11.03.2026 20:43 👍 261 🔁 70 💬 13 📌 2
Capture d’écran d’un titre d’article Web du site de France Info avec ce texte :

« La justice ordonne à la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes de communiquer à l'association Anticor les notes de frais de Laurent Wauquiez »

Capture d’écran d’un titre d’article Web du site de France Info avec ce texte : « La justice ordonne à la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes de communiquer à l'association Anticor les notes de frais de Laurent Wauquiez »

-Des dîners à 1000€ tête
-Plus de 120 000€ de restaurant à la tête de Région en 2 ans
-Refuse de publier ses notes se de frais 2021 2022 2023 d’argent public

Laurent Wauquiez EST l’assistanat

11.03.2026 20:53 👍 273 🔁 137 💬 4 📌 3
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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …

Thank you! It was a pleasure to speak my own version of truth to that version of power. And I'd been prepared for questions like that for years.

11.03.2026 15:40 👍 345 🔁 57 💬 9 📌 2
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

10.03.2026 14:19 👍 6089 🔁 2648 💬 753 📌 1126

Really makes you realize why they think AI is “genius.” It must look like magic to the illiterate.

11.03.2026 02:26 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

10.03.2026 20:55 👍 1478 🔁 182 💬 30 📌 86
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

10.03.2026 15:11 👍 752 🔁 300 💬 12 📌 24
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

09.03.2026 10:15 👍 2995 🔁 876 💬 84 📌 53

Merci à @lepoint.fr pour cet article.
Ces travaux sur la relativité intriquée sont le fruit de plus de dix années de recherche et de réflexion. C’est un plaisir de voir aujourd’hui cette aventure scientifique racontée au grand public.

07.03.2026 09:02 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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We don’t need talkers right now. We need fighters.

And no matter how many times they knock me down, I’ll get back up and fight with you. Every. Single. Time.

07.03.2026 22:06 👍 6969 🔁 1464 💬 110 📌 79

the defining characteristic of art — what distinguishes it from other forms of cultural production — is its potential to elicit controversy in the absence of a determinate concept of taste…ie every work fits this description

07.03.2026 19:28 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0

Y’a pas photo quand même

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07.03.2026 19:11 👍 176 🔁 109 💬 4 📌 12

your we-just-did-it-cause we-had-bills-to-pay defense waving bye

08.03.2026 07:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

06.03.2026 19:45 👍 16368 🔁 7379 💬 530 📌 385

The Defenders of Women, lads

07.03.2026 14:33 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Ten-day countdown to paperback #PubDay for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, @ucpress.bsky.social! Here's a thread of book excerpts. Get 30% off by ordering from the press w/code discount code UCPSAVE30.
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

07.03.2026 14:14 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0

Vous vous souvenez de tous ces “intellectuels” de centre-droit, de centre-gauche et de droite qui s’étaient coalisés pour alerter sur les risques de censure par les “wokistes” ? Si vous en croisez un, mettez lui une gifle de la part des sociologues de Floride 😡

06.03.2026 21:01 👍 93 🔁 45 💬 4 📌 3

Sam Raimi’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar

06.03.2026 10:39 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Inspired by #QuitGPT, please join me for what is already the largest boycott of anything in history of all humanity: the #QuitCoke campaign

Already, fifteen million people have considered the thought of signing a pledge to #QuitCoke

Here's a video, with some discussion of alternatives to consider!

06.03.2026 11:26 👍 97 🔁 29 💬 19 📌 3

A lot of you are saying pretty negative stuff about Markwayne but I respect the man for writing Tom Sawyer

05.03.2026 18:53 👍 991 🔁 66 💬 42 📌 5
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Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

05.03.2026 21:09 👍 3895 🔁 1804 💬 409 📌 350
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ https://theonion.com/netanyahu-these-so-called-genocide-experts-have-probably-never-committed-a-genocide-in-their-lives/

05.03.2026 22:00 👍 2838 🔁 594 💬 33 📌 28

This is the kind of “leader” that historically views “glory and honor” as the amount of casualties racked up.

Absolutely unfit to lead a drunken conga line, let alone this nation.

06.03.2026 04:41 👍 1989 🔁 314 💬 66 📌 11
South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

05.03.2026 20:32 👍 7070 🔁 1232 💬 90 📌 91
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[Exit Murderer.]

05.03.2026 18:25 👍 5472 🔁 1276 💬 46 📌 45

❓📝Tuto : votre parti est-il en train de devenir fondamentaliste?

Ce thread collaboratif et participatif à destination de la VraieGauche™ (qu'on aimerait bien voir gagner plutôt que perdre une 4e fois) vous est offert gratuitement par @cleoschweyer.bsky.social et @jostavodebauge.bsky.social

05.03.2026 09:43 👍 100 🔁 45 💬 1 📌 13
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