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Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot

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If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

06.03.2026 04:31 👍 1019 🔁 286 💬 15 📌 10

One thing that people lower-down-a-status-hierarchy absolutely do notice is if another person is only friendly to them in a context wherein by being seen to be as such they gain greater access to or kudos with someone higher-up-the-status-hierarchy. They notice this and talk about it.

06.03.2026 06:51 👍 43 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2

have you watched the Powell and Pressburger wartime movies? Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Canterbury Tale, A Matter of Life and Death, all stone-cold classics, especially the first.

06.03.2026 07:26 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

some hilarious new shiv builds possible for Silent. also very good new boss design.

06.03.2026 07:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

did my first successful runs with everyone tonight, I like the way the Regent feels like you're playing the level boss of another game.

06.03.2026 07:22 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dude gets his info from a neo-Nazi site, which he shares as fact, defends going on a neo-Nazi podcast, defends having a Neo-Nazi tattoo, and defends retweeting a Neo-Nazi.

It’s incredible

05.03.2026 18:14 👍 105 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0

Ryan grim inadvertently outing himself as a hardcore antisemite to try and claim Platner isn’t one is VERY funny

05.03.2026 18:10 👍 176 🔁 31 💬 11 📌 3
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 👍 5155 🔁 2825 💬 337 📌 378

People defend Bullshit Jobs with a fervor that's almost religious but more ... have you ever seen someone moved by like really shitty art but they were 12 and going through a rough patch and they get mad about people criticizing the art but can't defend it?

It's like that, but for nonfiction.

05.03.2026 15:24 👍 122 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 4

$40,000/year for 2 hours/day of AI-assisted education? Scam artists are apparently convinced there’s a nonzero population who’d like to pay a lot of money not to educate their kids.

05.03.2026 12:37 👍 137 🔁 19 💬 9 📌 3

Folks will be - legitimately - furious with the Ds that voted no (leadership whipped hard for yes), but I think it is worth looking on the other hand: 98% of House Democrats (and 1% of House Republicans) just voted to try to block the president from waging war on Iran.

Iran! The Great Evil!

05.03.2026 22:00 👍 732 🔁 127 💬 13 📌 5

The whole "The Dems would be a center-right party in Europe!" line is so old and moldy that having it in your apartment would open you to eviction. This was true in like 1998, maybe, but the past 28 years have seen America move significantly to the left while Europe stagnated.

05.03.2026 22:37 👍 391 🔁 87 💬 8 📌 0
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DeKalb legislator not seeking reelection to Georgia Senate Sen. Elena Parent, D–Atlanta, announced March 5 that she is not seeking reelection to state Senate District 44 this year. Parent has served in the state Senate since 2015 and previously served in the ...

she was the minority chair in the georgia house, btw. not just anyone. there was a lot of anger in our community over her refusal to fight for trans kids, especially. other democrats should take note

05.03.2026 22:32 👍 267 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 2

I would never pressure my writers into sobriety.

05.03.2026 21:59 👍 29 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

getting really into it like a mid-day soap opera

05.03.2026 21:58 👍 59 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0

dog ghost appeared in mirror

05.03.2026 21:54 👍 138 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

05.03.2026 21:04 👍 3707 🔁 604 💬 86 📌 10
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I can read a bunch of stuff on the computer and diagnose myself, but if a company does that and misdiagnoses me without a medical license they would be liable. This isn’t hard to understand, is there some kind of gas leak happening over there?

05.03.2026 21:42 👍 729 🔁 62 💬 28 📌 17

Man. Why did the FBI bother interviewing my family and 10 years of people I’d ever met and literally interrogating me over some weed usage in college when I could have just been a 19-year old with a ChatGPT account and gotten into the SCIF at work with no one watching

05.03.2026 21:42 👍 158 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 0

this point gets me slightly odd looks from both sides of the atlantic

but on a day the dems are moving towards accountability for the crimes of 'immigration enforcement' the labour gov are lying to the public to justify policies that attempt to meet the fascists halfway

05.03.2026 21:22 👍 155 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 1

"We have successfully recruited [1]... a former journalist for the Western Mail and an aide to the then Welsh First Minister. Truly we have penetrated the heart of the British state!"

[1] allegedly

05.03.2026 21:44 👍 43 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

I’ve been asked if I would support Sen. Mullin as Noem’s replacement.

The answer is a resounding NO. The rot in DHS is deep, much deeper than any individual.

It’s a question of policy not personnel. The Senate should not consider any DHS Secretary nominee until DHS and ICE are reined in.

05.03.2026 21:30 👍 10705 🔁 2309 💬 1362 📌 283

It would be great if every Dem could stay on message that every Republican is a piece of shit with no principles other than "Got mine".

05.03.2026 21:36 👍 132 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0

what I love about all this is that the actual product getting back to Beijing was probably incredibly trivial stuff. Like, 'smart Google search' levels.

05.03.2026 21:39 👍 116 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 1

I mean after they booted us out the USAID HQ was just kind of left open with doors to SCIFs and other secured rooms propped open. If you could get into the building (relatively low bar of entry with human engineering) you could get access to TS/SCI level systems.

05.03.2026 20:38 👍 216 🔁 54 💬 0 📌 3

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

05.03.2026 20:14 👍 6341 🔁 1776 💬 139 📌 81
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‘Price to pay for Berkeley’: Jeffrey Epstein paid law student’s tuition in exchange for ‘assistants’ Records show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein funded a student’s UC Berkeley School of Law degree in return for referring female “assistants.”

INBOX: First reported by the Daily Californian, records show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein funded a student’s UC Berkeley School of Law degree in return for referring female “assistants.”

www.dailycal.org/news/nationa...

05.03.2026 21:17 👍 95 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 3

There is a remarkable process of elite radicalisation - based on a cartoonish caricature of the Great British Public

bsky.app/profile/sund...

05.03.2026 21:13 👍 65 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0

you're right, I thought the Oman ports were closer to conflict than they are.

05.03.2026 21:14 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0