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Is it just me, or should the very first announcement when there's a heatwave be: we are shutting down the data centers to prioritize residential power until there's less stress on the grid. Not : set your thermostat to an uncomfortable temperature so that the data centers can still suck power.

Countdown to you know who announcing that he's ended yet another war. What's the count now? 11? So peace.

There’s a reason people read the classics.

Def rooting for Venezuela in the WBC

I think I'd have a greater sense of pride if our athletes were competing under the Minnesota state flag.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot" #everynightapoem As ever.

Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170

This is masculinity too

Dental floss as a potential vaccine delivery system? "To test this idea, Gill and colleagues at Texas Tech University had to do something no scientist had done before: Try to floss a mouse. It was a “quite difficult” two-person job, Gill says..." 👀 🐁

The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship. That's just a true statement about the world!

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An old time favourite of mine, for giving hope when times feel dark 👇 #Tolkien

Love Albert