LCPW
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I reskeet things I like. And, well, things I don’t much like but am glad I learned about. And things that I am infuriated by, and want everyone else to be mad about too. But I try to minimize the latter.
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Unmute. This is amazing and I love him for it
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Unmute. This is amazing and I love him for it
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Hey Midwesterners! Please wear a mask!!
February 5, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Hey Midwesterners! Please wear a mask!!
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This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
February 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM
This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
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Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".
“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.”
People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence.
Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence.
Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Self-driving taxis are coming to London – should we be worried? | Jack Stilgoe
Waymo’s cars were first rolled out in San Francisco, but the English capital’s old roads, pelican crossings and jaywalkers may pose issues for AI, says science and technology professor Jack Stilgoe
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".
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This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.
January 29, 2026 at 8:47 PM
This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.
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trundle, trundle, trundle 😍
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February 1, 2026 at 11:09 PM
trundle, trundle, trundle 😍
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Achrioptera manga
January 31, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Achrioptera manga
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One of the things I want to do this year is start selling art. I thought I'd start small with a Valentine's card. I thought a knotwork anatomical heart would be both pretty and different.
Anyway, here's my cardiologist nightmare fuel, that may or may (k)not become a card.
#SciArt #watercolor
Anyway, here's my cardiologist nightmare fuel, that may or may (k)not become a card.
#SciArt #watercolor
January 30, 2026 at 11:02 PM
One of the things I want to do this year is start selling art. I thought I'd start small with a Valentine's card. I thought a knotwork anatomical heart would be both pretty and different.
Anyway, here's my cardiologist nightmare fuel, that may or may (k)not become a card.
#SciArt #watercolor
Anyway, here's my cardiologist nightmare fuel, that may or may (k)not become a card.
#SciArt #watercolor
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January 31, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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here we are peeps, 32 birbs #Birbfest2026
more or less got them all under 20min, with a few more shimmery poofy ones taking an extra few minutes
my fav is still that silly horizontal nuthatch
#SciArt #birds 🪶
more or less got them all under 20min, with a few more shimmery poofy ones taking an extra few minutes
my fav is still that silly horizontal nuthatch
#SciArt #birds 🪶
January 31, 2026 at 1:37 PM
here we are peeps, 32 birbs #Birbfest2026
more or less got them all under 20min, with a few more shimmery poofy ones taking an extra few minutes
my fav is still that silly horizontal nuthatch
#SciArt #birds 🪶
more or less got them all under 20min, with a few more shimmery poofy ones taking an extra few minutes
my fav is still that silly horizontal nuthatch
#SciArt #birds 🪶
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For us lady scholars, who have been known to critique homogenous male academic cliques and spaces as exclusionary… consider the money and elite networks that ALL these men benefitted from. All because those lady scholars were likely a bit less interested in sexually assaulting 14 year old girls.
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
Doo do doo
January 31, 2026 at 2:28 PM
For us lady scholars, who have been known to critique homogenous male academic cliques and spaces as exclusionary… consider the money and elite networks that ALL these men benefitted from. All because those lady scholars were likely a bit less interested in sexually assaulting 14 year old girls.
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Street art protest
January 31, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Street art protest
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Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
January 31, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
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Austin has authorized Tesla taxis and they are getting into crashes at a rate 10x that of regular drivers, despite having front seat safety monitors so they're not 100 percent self driving even sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
Tesla’s 29 Austin Robotaxis have crashed 8 times since June, as data suggests they perform much worse than human drivers
That’s a lot of crashes for such a small fleet....
sherwood.news
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Austin has authorized Tesla taxis and they are getting into crashes at a rate 10x that of regular drivers, despite having front seat safety monitors so they're not 100 percent self driving even sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
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It is legitimately shocking that a company's $1.6 trillion valuation is based on 5 cars in Austin, Texas and an unlawful marketing scheme.
Tesla can be summarized as illegal marketing and illegal market manipulation to meet milestones for an illegal executive compensation plan. That's it.
Tesla can be summarized as illegal marketing and illegal market manipulation to meet milestones for an illegal executive compensation plan. That's it.
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It is legitimately shocking that a company's $1.6 trillion valuation is based on 5 cars in Austin, Texas and an unlawful marketing scheme.
Tesla can be summarized as illegal marketing and illegal market manipulation to meet milestones for an illegal executive compensation plan. That's it.
Tesla can be summarized as illegal marketing and illegal market manipulation to meet milestones for an illegal executive compensation plan. That's it.
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New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car.
Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX.
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Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX.
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Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor
Tesla’s nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start. New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of...
electrek.co
January 30, 2026 at 5:09 PM
New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car.
Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX.
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Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX.
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It’s so heavy when you are going to get groceries and you find a car sitting with its windows broken out and it’s empty but still running and someone’s stuffed animals or pictures or papers are just laying all over the road. I have personally seen at least five of these in the last three days alone
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 6:29 PM
It’s so heavy when you are going to get groceries and you find a car sitting with its windows broken out and it’s empty but still running and someone’s stuffed animals or pictures or papers are just laying all over the road. I have personally seen at least five of these in the last three days alone
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DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
‘Abolish ICE’ has become an increasingly popular position and people are being shot in the streets over it why the fuck would you dillweeds roll over like this. Especially given that citizenship is much more friable than people think it is this is not as protective as dems want it to look.
January 30, 2026 at 1:43 AM
DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
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there’s gotta be a pokemon of this
Fun fact: the Agaricus bisporus is *the* domesticated mushroom.
As a baby mushroom you know it as the cheap white button mushroom, as a kid mushroom it's called a cremini, as an adult it's called a portabella.
Same mushroom.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricu...
As a baby mushroom you know it as the cheap white button mushroom, as a kid mushroom it's called a cremini, as an adult it's called a portabella.
Same mushroom.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricu...
Agaricus bisporus - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 29, 2026 at 4:37 AM
there’s gotta be a pokemon of this
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If Congress refuses to dissolve the agency that was only created ≈ 25 years ago, fine. But officers can't have weapons anymore. No firearms, tasers, chemical munitions, flashbangs, billy clubs, pepper spray, NOTHING. You're a glorified process server, you don't need weapons.
Someone said this before, and I agree -- an honest-to-god effective "reform" would be to require them all to wear day glo pink uniforms at all times. Every single item they wear has to be day glo pink. And they all have to dye their hair pink. If you won't do that, you're fired.
January 29, 2026 at 10:25 AM
If Congress refuses to dissolve the agency that was only created ≈ 25 years ago, fine. But officers can't have weapons anymore. No firearms, tasers, chemical munitions, flashbangs, billy clubs, pepper spray, NOTHING. You're a glorified process server, you don't need weapons.
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Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia
January 29, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia
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How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 PM
How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
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This. Remember they cut healthcare for this.
January 28, 2026 at 9:35 PM
This. Remember they cut healthcare for this.
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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
lpeproject.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."