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@icarusfloats

English Language Arts video-maker at @KhanAcademy.org. Children's book author, bean evangelist, wife guy, bon vivant, bon-bon vivant. He/him davidrheinstrom.com

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What is that, an 80-cent jump in a week?

11.03.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the tendre croppes
the yonge sonne
hath in the ram
his halfe course yronne
and smale fowles maken melodye
that slepen al the nyght with open eye
so priketh hem Nature in hir corages
than lurken folk to goon on supportages

11.03.2026 14:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Farragut West! I'm sorry I didn't get his name!

11.03.2026 12:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Shout out to the WMATA employee standing just to the side of the flood of people leaving the faregates, wishing everyone that passed a good morning.

It reminded me, however briefly, that I was a person. πŸ₯²

11.03.2026 12:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Unironically yes. Sell the world a $5000 BYD sedan and a million acres of pv cells

11.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Chatham why aren't YOU running for congress

11.03.2026 00:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Holy shit, chicken-fried steak FOR TOMORROW
portioned for lunch
IS AN INCREDIBLE MANEUVER.

Alt text says it's awaiting gravy; are you taking it to work with a reheatable gravy sidecar?

11.03.2026 00:49 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think my problem is that my knowledge base consists EXCLUSIVELY of this stuff, which is scarcely load-bearing information outside of a handful of industrial processes and/or green witch herbcraft

10.03.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! I really appreciate you breaking this down.

10.03.2026 19:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

along the lines of the MUPPET MOVIE's bit where someone yells "That's a myth! MYTH!" and Carol Kane pops up and goes "Yeth?"

I cannot help, every time someone uses "forthwith", also hearing "with force" with a similar lisp. "We shall do it forthwith, with force!"

10.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I read about Iran harrying tankers, of courseβ€”but has the converse been true? are American and Israeli missiles striking Iranian tankers, or has Iranian transit through the strait been at the same dead stop as everyone else's?

10.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a dumb question about that: doesn't Iran have oil it would like to export via the Strait?

10.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

yeah this fuckin whips. Well done, Mr. Bier!

10.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Blooski," says Senator Kennedy, for some reason that it hurts to interrogate

10.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do we call that incompetence, malice, or inappropriate LLM use by the AUSA? I guess maybe all three, right?

10.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Genuinely heroic to come back under these circumstances

10.03.2026 12:16 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We don't even have the excuse of lead poisoning!

10.03.2026 12:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

10.03.2026 03:09 πŸ‘ 16580 πŸ” 4060 πŸ’¬ 282 πŸ“Œ 244

ohhh think of your career, your sweetheart dear, and your poor old invalid aunt

besides: you ain't no fool, you're a-goin to school and you're workin at a defense plant

09.03.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Easier. Like a day trip to the Isle of Man.

09.03.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Let's GOOOOO

07.03.2026 04:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And how's the headache flipboard tracker? How many days since the last incident?

07.03.2026 04:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i cannot get over how incredibly insane it is to think you can pull the same move you did on maduro against the entire regime of iran. in time this will be recognized as caligula-level insane. totally bonkers. hard to even fathom how someone could think this.

07.03.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 214 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1

we want functional tools, not to have to offer prayers to the machine spirit to get excel to work

06.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fewer want the U.S. to take an active role in global affairs - AP-NORC Forty-five percent of adults want the U.S. to take a less active role in global affairs, up from 33% in September 2025. Half believe the U.S. intervention in Venezuela will help stop the flow of illeg...

79% approval among republicans is scarcely an encouraging sign for a president that regularly puts up low 90s!

In this poll from january, 83% of GOP voters thought that the Venezuela Fiasco would stem the flow of illicit drugs into the US, which is, charitably, horseshit
apnorc.org/projects/few...

06.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It would be very, very grimly funny if this conflict destroyed enough oil refineries such that it ceased to be profitable to rebuild most of them. Like "augh, that's a 5-year project at least, by which time China will have made enough PV to pave the entire state of Arizona"

06.03.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm also not in a mood to doom. Here's an oil analyst making a pretty stiff assertion, though:
bsky.app/profile/rory...

I'm no newly-minted expert, but I will note that I looked at the price for brent crude in March 2022 when Russia first invaded Ukraine, and it was was like $120/barrel

06.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I hope it takes, Nick!! Best of luck to youβ€”you are gathering SO MANY STORIES this year.

"They cut me open! They shot me with lasers!"

Rasputin-ass trigeminal nerve, istg

06.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

06.03.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 2978 πŸ” 442 πŸ’¬ 115 πŸ“Œ 45

When they start singing the marseillaise in the barβ€”and you realize, holy shit, most of these actors playing French people are *FRENCH REFUGEES IN HOLLYWOOD* from the war that was ongoing during production!!

Man, it gives me chills

06.03.2026 02:59 πŸ‘ 140 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0