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All you need is a slow talking white man to get these crypto scams off. Cause NFTs were literally the saddest scam.

CAUSE LIKE WTF WAS THAT EVEN

Hell of a My Girl reboot.

One view in political philosophy is that the minimal requirement for a legitimate state is that it protects the human rights of its members and respects those of outsiders, with allowance made for less than perfect compliance. If legitimacy in this sense is necessary for the “right to exist”, then …

I am here for every "Zohran was once a rapper" post.

The impact of the defeat of the Arab spring and the ensuing counter-revolution of the last 14 years cannot be overstated. Egypt, Jordan and others' total support for Israel's aggression wouldn't be possible if the Arab street hadn't been completely subdued.

White people were treating NFTs like they had an original MATISSE lmaooo

Solidarity. Everyone in the streets today.

Which Justin Bieber’s dumbass found out the $120 million hard way

Hot neighbor has shaved his head and has a mustache. And Im sorry. This mustache trend SCREAMS incel Nazi to me. I have not seen one person with a mustache that looks like a good person lmaooooo

See also: Libertarians Or the “I wanna fuck Latinas and Black women and still be invited to the cool parties but support fascism because ECONOMY”

Running around with the kids singing “no kings, no kings, la la la la la la!!”

Seven Lies about Israel’s Attack on Iran zeteo.com/p/seven-lies...

I think what people do not realize about these 'crackdowns' is that the quality of life in your community is going to shift. I lived in immigrant communities or adjacent to these communities my entire life.

This is very smart!!!

I agree with nothing about Iran’s government & never said that. It’s unreasonable, & only possible with the exceptionalism & impunity granted to Israel, to expect that a country not fight back when it is attacked without an actual pretext. So they have a right to self defense. Not to harm women.

FYI - This is where the bounty hunter profession has it's roots. Often, people talk about slavery vs. slave owners. However, there were people who became rich by 'catching' enslaved Africans who escaped to freedom. This is sick and also why the U.S. is on human rights watch lists right now.

Thank you for all of your birthday wishes yesterday! I had a lovely day looking at art and drinking Beamish 💕 Today I'm going to read in bed because of course most of my gifts were books 📚

Chomp, in toddler fashion, has recently been asking me to draw him lots of things. Tâf, daddy, house, camel, etc. Today he said ‘draw church!’ So I drew a church and he let out the most exasperated sigh and went ‘NO. draw RAINBOW church.’ which. okay! that is a fair description of St Nicks I guess

Suddenly they ALL become centrists. “I can see both sides.” No. Dont ask them about their beliefs directly. TAKE THEM AT FACE VALUE. Do you wanna date someone making sexist jokes, racist comments? What do they do in their free time? Who do they hang with? That is indicative of their beliefs

Now they can concentrate on dangerous places like universities, science labs, & hospitals. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

Cause baby the SEC came in and EVERYBODY got sued for promoting that scam rug pull variety.com/2022/digital...

It is interesting to me to see something like this considering how fractured the country is right now. Pardon me for saying this, however this doesn't seem like it fits the America first narrative and framework. If this is about oil, we could trade with Africa, Venezuela, etc. Cont.

Yall love falling for libertarians trying to court centrists AND fascists.

Today does indeed have the potential to be a turning point in this regime. He has his pathetic dictator pageant. We have the people, and one of the best ideas we can call American: No kings!!!

Men dont even wanna DISCUSS the massive scam that was NFTs.

Gambling is being revamped as “investing” and “cryptocurrency” It is sick

I love this show so much, but this cover is… A choice. 👎🏻

It’s so common when dealing with men that their woe is me attitude will overwhelm you There is ALOT to complain about. Life is hard. But there is nothing more unattractive than a defeatist, nihilist attitude about EVERYTHING and that is the core of alot of issues being manipulated in the manosphere

This is an interesting map. I agree that the best school districts are in middle America. I would bet these school districts often outperform other districts in the U.S. I am really surprised that Iowa isn't on this list. However, I have concerns about the the southern school districts listed. Cont.

Men in particular dont realize how EXHAUSTING it is to hear complaints ALL. THE. TIME Men don’t value emotional intelligence and arent societally given permission to be vulnerable with one another, they lay the ENTIRETY of that burden on women in their lives & then get mad when we’re OVERWHELMED

"A primary requirement for being a leader in AI... is to be a herald of the impending arrival of our digital messiah: superintelligent AI... Before you get nervous about all the times you were rude to Alexa, know this: A growing cohort of researchers...aren’t buying [it]" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/arti...

lotta posts of screenshots on my feed not many with source links for some reason thought we were better than this here

A lancaster bomber has just flown overhead and now nothing can ruin this day. #UncleWallyRIP

I didnt evolve from s monkey, i dont have a tail!

I often tell people that sometimes you go to something and the best thing that emerges is that you find the other people who care and value the same things you do. And that alone is a solid, durable good to build on. (I go to a lot of stuff with this spirit, & it has served me. YMMV.)

True but if you know anything about the area you don't have to tell me how a Brooklyn Park resident voted. That bet is easy money.

Feels like a healthy political culture

love love LOVE this feature

I can smell a weak man. And these dating gurus who try to teach men how to manipulate women into sex? Losers “Agree with everything she says” - who TF wants that? “Don’t offer any information. Let her talk.” - so you’re boring AF? lmao “Lie about your beliefs.” - THE MOST OBVIOUS OF THE BUNCH

please do not put ai slop into my feed i will cry

I would be absolutely mortified to be with one of these gambling addict men too. The crypto bros The day traders The Draft Kings This epidemic of gambling within men of all ages (down to the casinos) is SICK and it impacts how they approach women. They cant take care of themselves so they need YOU

Im so protective of my body. My womb especially. Like Im TERRIFIED of these weirdo men out here. Being celibate just keeps the riff raff away from me. And so many people try to convince me to end my celibacy and just fuck whomever. The only supportive person has been my very best friend Taylor

Men are staying at home longer. I met a man in his 40s who had a roommate (his cousin allegedly) and brother…would BRAG ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY HE HAD. It aint adding up

It's so dangerous that putting terms into a search engine now generates fake sources of LLM slop that pretend a vague category is now a specific real thing. Collectively we don't have the reading comprehension to survive the proliferation if this.

Earth definitely *has* a climate, & knowing about it is critical for people to plan their lives & make business decisions. Depriving people of that information comes with an extremely heavy cost. Sacking the entire staff of climate.gov is a huge act of self-harm. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It was my great pleasure last night to give a lecture about *The Slave Ship* at Schwarze Risse Bookstore in Berlin. Thanks to Rainer for the invitation, Max for the translation, Leonidas for the photos, and so many friends for attending!

It's all well and good to wonder about what happens if AI can do all jobs, but I'm far more interested in what happens when AI displaces 1 out of 4 workers within a short period of time, and a large percentage of those people either find a new lower paying job or no job. Violence happens absent UBI.

I dont get jealous of couples IRL because you NEVER know what that person settled for or is settling for. Actually I was actually jealous of ONE streamer couple and it just came out buddy was cheating. Lmao. You NEVER know what people have going on.

Even in romantic relationships, of all the women I have EVER known, I have never seen a romantic relationship that I ever wanted to emulate. Not one. Even when both people were very happy

These men are really out here trying to find a “nurse with a purse” as their financial plan. The military released a report (they collect their own data for comparison) and found that men’s college enrollment rates, rates of entering the workforce, and rates of enlisting have all lowered.

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Y’all. “When the devil can’t reach you, he will send you a man” is so absolutely true. I thank Christ every day I’ve celibate 8 years. These men are so poor out here they’re trying to baby trap women for their own egos and to slow down your success in life.

Among the civilians killed in Israel's strikes on Iran was poet Parnia Abbasi. "but I will end I burn I’ll be that extinguished star In your sky like smoke" www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

A new essay from Iowa City resident and famed writer Marilynne Robinson. www.nybooks.com/articles/202... Notes from an Occupation | Marilynne Robinson | The New York Review of Books

I was very wrong to describe the US as being dragged in. Everything we’re seeing now suggests the US provided intelligence, the go ahead, and of course, as always, the weaponry. Every drop of blood is on US hands too.

"To begin w/...[Brutus] obliged [the ppl] to swear an oath that they would suffer no man to be king in Rome ('adegit neminem Romae passuros regnare'), lest they might later be turned from their purpose by the entreaties or the gifts of princes." (🚫👑) the Republic's founding, 509 BCE Livy, AUC, 2.1

The now 1500 grantees is still 25% less than the usual number of graduate fellowships awarded annually, but a development in the right direction.

I feel like reporting these as two separate facts (www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...) is cheating, right?

كن صبورا - الى متى؟ - الى الابد

The thing to note about Israel's war on Iran is that Palestinians in Gaza are still being murdered while hunting for food.

"A metastasizing swath of media is controlled by private-equity vultures and capricious billionaires and other people who genuinely believe that they are rich because they are smart and that they are smart because they are rich, and that anyone less rich is by definition less smart.”

Loki's best friend is a cockapoo. Can't help but think of this 80s banger whenever they hang out.

Looking forward to listening to this latest from @davidolusoga.bsky.social & @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social 🏴‍☠️ I’ve a huge one-sided crush on Calico Jack. Basically owing to this song by Karliene youtu.be/pkvk6g3ZDz4?...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If people are opposed to being called fascists, they should stop behaving like fascists.

We all collect various types of autists for our own portfolio, right? So we have our own train autist, a plane autist, a horse autist, a plant autist and so forth, so we can complete the set

I enjoyed these somewhat Carollian musings on whether a stopped clock is actually right twice a day. www.scmb.xyz/post/stopped...

Trust me, as a historian. When the veterans show up, you might be in trouble.

I know this is a serious situation, but if a drag queen out there doesn't name herself after this law, then what are we even doing. I'd even settle for a roller derby name.

The conservative movement is just three internet scams wrapped in racist trench-coat.

Of course, this undercuts the entire premise of administration’s idiotic and draconian immigration policy. Outside of racist minds, immigrants aren’t dangerous. They are just people here to work and try to make a better life for their families (and we all benefit from that).

I also think this, the US's model of distributed empire involved plenty of client states and proxies that engaged in this sort of crude machismo but part of what stabilised it all was the perception that the US itself represented an attractive ideal where that sort of nonsense didn't happen.

I only eat the most nutritious and well rounded of lunches

Lucy Nolan & Meera Maharaj play Bach beautiful interwoven with Carnatic ragas to open JLF @britishlibrary.bsky.social

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Got a whole box of peaches that are not surviving the heat, what is your favourite peach cocktail?

That's Ginger Baker!

Nothing nicer than being a punter for once! #JLFLondon @britishlibrary.bsky.social begins!

Dammit the answer is "it's complicated and it depends" (philsci-archive.pitt.edu/18523/) why is that always the fucking answer bloody hell

A lot of the things that I had thought were the explanation for Ghana's recent economic success* should also have gone for Senegal, I am kinda confused as to why they diverged so much. Does anyone know of any comparative work on these two in particular?

I love my cat and how she comforts me when I need it. Grateful for her

this also has happened more than once, impressively, in the other direction: somebody goes 'oh... are you related to Michel?' and i'll say he's my husband's dad and they say 'grandfather, surely?' and nope, not grandfather, my man really just had a kid at nearly sixty

Is HARKing bad if you are a Bayesian? It feels like a thing frequentists might care about but Bayesians less so, but I have never actually devoted any thought to this. I presume someone already knows the answer and the social media website for angry millennials with PhDs can tell me what it is.

The level of rage I feel every time this #homeaglow ad comes on. The glee that hag has proclaiming she fired someone.

Israel is calling them "concentration areas" so please don't call them Gaza concentration camps because that would be antisemitic. Remember that the Germans called the Warsaw Ghetto the "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw" and it would have been Germanophobic to call it a Ghetto

unrelated and I’m going to be vague to protect the living but also the deserving: if you are, for example, a genetics tech at a hospital, and somebody tells you the ages of their parents and grandparents, don’t accuse them of getting the dates wrong because you think somebody was too young 🙃🫠

I feel deeply that the lo-fi cannot itself be the object of the nostalgia, it should merely be the occasion for it.

I’ve been thinking all week about the “salami tactics” from Yes Prime Minister in 1986 about pressing the nuclear button. What WOULD make international science organisations really speak up publicly about the damage currently being done to US science? Clip here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-U...

"The Extinguished Star", a poem by Parnia Abbasi (2002-2025), a young poet killed yesterday by an Israeli airstrike on Tehran www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

This was interesting and clarifying for me in that it helped me realise that my own guess would be - we will see convergence on moral understandings and even practices but the causal explanation for this will be somewhat discrediting or debunking. eschwitz.substack.com/p/does-the-a...

Sharon Horgan came into the room I was in and I shouted OH MY GOD YOU’RE AMAZING SORRY BUT YOU ARE.

Paper is finally up and open access (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...), it's a sequel to an earlier paper where we'd argued that there's not good evidence that pre-publication peer review is a net benefit (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...). So in this one we suggest an alternative.

Your daily reminder that Sgt. Charles E. Hutto, one of the few men to stand trial after My Lai, was acquitted despite confessing that he shot unarmed civilians - and he was acquitted *because* he had 'only' been following orders. The Nuremberg defense worked just fine for him...

Screw the negativity of this woman. Let’s play a game. “If I had a gazillion pounds I would…” Me? I’d be @realdollyparton.bsky.social. I’d put as many books into the hands of people the world over that couldn’t afford them. And I’d build a museum for @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social

Poems by Parnia Abbasi, a young Iranian poet killed yesterday by an Israeli airstrike on Tehran ://www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-abbasi-2002-2025

What a miserable way to spend all that influence. She could have changed the world for the better. This kind of universal dismissal of trans women is sad. I sat and had a deep conversation with a trans woman who I respect and admire and the upshot was that after living what felt like a lie from…

Hooray that the big UN ocean summit this week made some progress. The two biggest ocean scandals (of many) still continue: the horribly destructive practice of bottom trawling still happens, and many Marine Protected Areas still allow fishing. More work needed! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Gaza genocide is structured, the Israeli tactics are clear and easy to understand - because they are just telling us what their plans are. The only thing that can stop a final solution right now is if Israel is forced to by its allies. We're at that stage. www.972mag.com/gaza-expulsi...