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Our latest maps with OpenStreetMap data from October 25 are now out. You can press "check for updates" in the app to see them and start downloading them.

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The French Quarter is about to get a bit more witchy with a one-of-a-kind New Orleans restaurant and bar making its return. bit.ly/4da7X0X

The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.

We’ve got an autocratic government releasing criminals to prey on the populace, we’ve got people who don’t understand the seashells, we’ve got Taco Bell as the resistance, we’re in full on Demolition Man future now hold onto yer butts

There's still time for everyone to unsubscribe from the Times. I promise you can find silly word games all over the Internet.

Members of a Florida county school board asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to quash subpoenas seeking depositions on their motives behind removing and restricting over 100 books within the district’s public libraries. www.courthousenews.com/florida-scho...

If you’re in Vancouver the sunset is worth seeing, despite its earlier crimes.

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:

In 60 days or so, we’ll face an election we can’t successfully win without a landslide. Any low-percentage win and they’ll do what we know they already know exactly how to do, and more. We’ve all seen it happen. So we need that landslide victory. We all must vote.

People who devote their lives to wielding power over others to cause them harm deserve no respect in life or death. “Respect the deceased no matter what” as a tenet of liberal civility only reinforces the idea that as long as you have power you will be respected, regardless of how you used it.

Tennessee: DONE! Idaho: DONE! 14 more states to go. Let's finish this so you don't have to see this map until 2027. givebutter.com/USS2026

I had a great time coming up with this list!

Everyone on Bluesky is talking about expanding the Supreme Court, but hardly anyone's talking about how the next administration needs to take on billionaire controlled right wing, pro-fascism media which is almost as bad of a problem.

Somehow my 12ft skeleton dressed in a garish shiny skirt made from a dollar store tablecloth looks more grand than anything I have yet seen from the White House celebration

"The extensive damage done to America’s sole naval base in the Middle East—along with hits to at least 20 U.S. sites across the region, including military installations and diplomatic facilities—has the U.S. re-evaluating its entire footprint in the region" gift link: www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Guys, guys... The UK and the US are both clusterfucks. No need to fight.

Elon Musk's broken promises (so far): www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The woman who won the lawsuit to protect the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio). PLEASE give credit where it's due. #BlackExcellence #KennedyCenter

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

On this World Oceans Day we are proud to unveil the latest extension of the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1, 2023, and running for three years through May 1, 2026 🪸🌎🪸

Hemingway observed in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises that one goes bankrupt “gradually and then suddenly.” The same can be said of armies. My latest at The Bulwark. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-rus...

#shark #Greenlandshark First whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark holds clues to their extreme longevity | Live Science share.google/juaE47cBxmC5...

#shark Hey folks, We now have whole genome sequencing for the #GreenlandShark www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Organ Pipe Cactus commissioned me to design this poster to celebrate their new dark sky status. www.spacearttravelbureau.com #art #spaceart #astronomy

We love to see it 🦆🦫

Schoolyard ones or Yakuza ones?

A one-bedroom apartment has a volume of 4,000 cubic feet. A 727 has a volume of 6,000 cubic feet. Imagine 300 people packed into 1.5 one-bedroom apartments. If there EVER was an appropriate place to mask up, an airplane is it.

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Keating to Hegseth on the administration's rationale for its deadly boat strikes: "We were given classified information on the second strike. I can't discuss it. But it's the most convoluted bullshit I've ever heard in my life."

Gamble said she wasn’t speaking as a victim. “I’m standing on the foundation of our democracy. If we don’t have free speech, what do we have?”

Over 1000 reposts and 4000 likes for something which even five seconds research shows is not correct? Why not celebrate Morocco's ambitions rather than spread around silly graphics? Solar power in Morocco's desert: Bold vision, mixed results share.google/jzzzUJ9zOrjR...

Good point. Many of the roads I have had issues on are narrow roads with no shoulders, high volume traffic commuter traffic. Personally, I would cycle on these roads for my own safety. Based on the replies I am getting, no cyclist should cuz they are terrified by motorists. Hypocritical imo.

Families fear US sailors are hungry on Iran war ships, packages in limbo www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!

Im convinced that one of the reasons I can use this website as much as I do and remain mostly sane is that any time I see something like this I hunt the person down and block them.

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

The deleterious effects of not having a hobby are becoming a defining point in this cultural moment—and who is poised to help? That’s right: the autistics. Job fair day where we all set up tables explaining our deep dives and give people a hand out, a path back to society.

Called It! “Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East theintercept.com/2026/04/01/i...

In Seattle today: Pedophile Trump, would like you all to look away, do not pay any attention to the Epstein Files, there is a war going on, and ICE in the airports and OMG, have you not noticed gas prices on the rise... Stop talking about the damn files! It hurts his feelings.