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Me, driving by in my Rivian

07.03.2026 12:57 👍 232 🔁 25 💬 8 📌 4

So Ailto is retiring and someone is softening the field?

07.03.2026 12:43 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

The next time someone says, "Oh, I'm just going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, what's the big deal?" you should show them this

21.12.2025 22:15 👍 241 🔁 85 💬 1 📌 5
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Pink Guy and an Orange Guy are sitting in the cinema. Pink Guy is munching popcorn and Orange Guy is slurping fizzy pop.
Pink Guy points up at screen and says “is that guy cool?”

Panel 2:
Orange Guy pauses drinking and replies “he just blew up a school full of kids”

Panel 3:
Pink Guy says “No, I know“

Panel 4:
We see the anti-hero on screen. He is wearing a purple t-shirt and a baseball cap facing backwards.

Pink Guy continues, “but his cap is so BACKWARDS”

4 panel comic Panel 1: A Pink Guy and an Orange Guy are sitting in the cinema. Pink Guy is munching popcorn and Orange Guy is slurping fizzy pop. Pink Guy points up at screen and says “is that guy cool?” Panel 2: Orange Guy pauses drinking and replies “he just blew up a school full of kids” Panel 3: Pink Guy says “No, I know“ Panel 4: We see the anti-hero on screen. He is wearing a purple t-shirt and a baseball cap facing backwards. Pink Guy continues, “but his cap is so BACKWARDS”

media literacy 2026

07.03.2026 12:19 👍 1952 🔁 361 💬 26 📌 15

Sephirothposting but make it incontinent

07.03.2026 12:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

that’s so ravenpilled

07.03.2026 03:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

maxxmaxxing

07.03.2026 03:12 👍 203 🔁 9 💬 7 📌 2
Page of forever stamps with a picture of Alex Trebek and a jeopardy style Answer reading “this naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! For 37 seasons”

Page of forever stamps with a picture of Alex Trebek and a jeopardy style Answer reading “this naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! For 37 seasons”

Spouse who is an immigration lawyer just got the world’s greatest USPS forever stamps for his mail

07.03.2026 02:47 👍 1723 🔁 262 💬 20 📌 27

Those time stamps are roughhhhhh

07.03.2026 02:12 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

It's both disingenuous to celebrate Proton (who are a business making money in a friendly nation) as bulletproof, and to compare them to Google, who make money by mining your email content. Understand your threat model and message accordingly. www.404media.co/proton-mail-h...

07.03.2026 01:38 👍 87 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 2

I hate him. I hate this reasoning. I have hated it when feminists in the us have tried to use hijab as a symbol of all oppression

Imma hate it I die .

And the fact it’s a discussion and not followed by someone yelling at this man loudly until he’s ashamed to come outside is a societal failure

05.03.2026 12:18 👍 116 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 1

TikTok has been one of my great pleasures. Essentially my fyp has been nothing but cute animals, cooking, queers, baking, and gym positivity. It’s made me happier and better at my skills. But in the last fortnight without changing my viewing habits it’s started to show me far right conspiracy vids

05.03.2026 12:16 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0

yes

05.03.2026 12:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

$100 sounds high for cost, even. I’ve seen TPMSs on my rtl_433 feed (using an RTL dongle for catching my backyard weather station). Didn’t know it was a unique ID, though. 😵‍💫

04.03.2026 23:26 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

So again moderation is turned over to an external source ( usually a woman)

While the data is corrected by an outside source ( usually someone in a heavily colonized country)

While it boils the earth

So one person can have the experience of having a digital yes man …

03.03.2026 22:37 👍 128 🔁 43 💬 4 📌 0

Also, shielding the rest of us from those impulses

03.03.2026 23:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There is also a chunk of those guys just hanging out with nothing else but being terrible in common, at bars, sports, on school boards, anything. pinning that on actual vets is such a bad thing to go be loudly wrong about.

03.03.2026 23:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They are literally rounding up immigrants right now. The police state that makes this possible was built on abusing and incarcerating Black, Indigenous and Mexican people. All of us are on the list, all of us are in danger, just different places on the white supremacy hitlist

02.03.2026 13:46 👍 400 🔁 139 💬 5 📌 1

the error budget is measured in equivalent tons of TNT

01.03.2026 21:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

there was one guy whose kids came to visit him and were extremely rattled because he was so kind of fuzzy and out of it and one of the guards said something about his “medication” and the kids were like “he’s not on any medications what are you talking about”

fucking sinister

01.03.2026 07:18 👍 144 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

Listening to the Simpsons’ Monorail song while driving home, I had a sudden realization that the line “Oh it’s no use. It’s more of SHELBYVILLE idea.” is how AI products have been successfully sold to management in every sector.

01.03.2026 07:18 👍 140 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 1

Reminds us practically that cops will lie. Cops will lie when they don’t have to. Cops will lie under oath. Cops will definitely lie on the street.

Don’t talk to cops.

26.02.2026 15:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hey why did the costco ceo actually reply to my email

24.02.2026 16:24 👍 7026 🔁 920 💬 153 📌 138

This is still a very ridiculous idea because fingerprints on a file that is nothing but a list of numbers are extremely easy to alter in ways that are entirely cosmetic but retain functionality.

25.02.2026 11:34 👍 51 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Gru bad plan meme labeled “Robin Hanson and the boys”

1. Prediction markets aggregate info on interesting questions 
2. Insider betting adds nonpublic info to aggregates
3. The best way to make money is for insiders to rig the market (Gru is shocked)

Gru bad plan meme labeled “Robin Hanson and the boys” 1. Prediction markets aggregate info on interesting questions 2. Insider betting adds nonpublic info to aggregates 3. The best way to make money is for insiders to rig the market (Gru is shocked)

25.02.2026 06:05 👍 165 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 1
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"SLOPPINESS": The Trump administration claimed that a man detained by ICE had a criminal convictions for marijuana possession in 2009.

The judge pointed out that the man was 4 years old at the time.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

25.02.2026 04:14 👍 5648 🔁 2031 💬 112 📌 108
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For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.

lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

24.02.2026 16:13 👍 4003 🔁 1423 💬 44 📌 74

I remember the gymnastics my right wing classmates in 1L would do to try and justify it. “It deters people from doing serious crimes!”

::points at statistics:: it doesn’t!!

24.02.2026 13:46 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is also a story about caste! Hindutva apologists are far more likely to buy into this kind of MAGA-adjacent eugenicist horseshit if they are also caste supremacists! (Special fuck you to Gavin Newsom for vetoing the bill that would have banned caste discrimination in California.)

24.02.2026 08:13 👍 2164 🔁 598 💬 39 📌 16

Eventually there were about 8 people standing around me looking down and the tutor asked "how does it feel now to have all these people here at your birth" and I said "oh I feel very safe and looked after, I'm glad so many skilled professionals are here to help" /

24.02.2026 12:49 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0