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Random geography trivia: There are exactly 90 non-overlapping 50km radius circles with over 10 million people. India has 27 of then and China 16. HT @OwenWntr

When they tell us "there is no alternative," what they mean is "stop trying to think of alternatives." To imagine radically is to move beyond the helplessness of prediction: a radical imagination dares to insist that history is what we make, not what happens to us.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

@moderation.bsky.app you got the labelling wrong on this post

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

I mean it really is this

If Brits want access to the Single Market or EU membership they need to accept a hierarchy of trade offs shaped by European pooling of sovereignty. If British voters accept this the UK gets back in. If British leaders cannot have opportunities and strength to convince voters, the UK stays out

taz.de/Proteste-und... Gewaltexzesse führen dazu, dass der Bedarf nach Schutz und Sicherheit den Wunsch nach Wandel und Veränderung verdrängt, und dann hat nicht die Linke, sondern die Rechte die unpolitische Mehrheit auf ihrer Seite

„Donor“? Musk ist kein wohltätiger Spender. Er investiert und will kaufen. Mit Riesensummen unterstützt er zB den republikanischen Kandidaten für den Senat in Texas, Ken Paxton. Musk möchte nicht nur Space Ex, sondern auch seinen eigenen Senator haben.

Trump and Musk are just stringing Ukraine along and letting Russia attack it with impunity. And the American press is foolishly falling for blue smoke and mirrors, arguing whether Musk or Trump are responsible. Hint, they both are!

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

There is genuine public rage about Musk, which is what Congress is responding to, so when he says he will come for the people pulling the strings, he means the voters.

Thanks for always having my back ❤️ see you on the campaign trail.

Harry Enten: Trump is bringing the Republican party down with him. The Republican party's brand is the worst ever with a Republican in office. 28 points underwater

Every accusation by these crooks is a confession

Stephen Miller claims Somali-Americans in Minnesota are "buying Mercedes, buying BMWs, they buy a nice house, all their kids fly first class all over the world" (This is a lie!)

In a different direction - I wonder who is selling all this insurance?

First year's heat pump calcs are in. The overall bill is about the same as when we had gas. HOWEVER, I averaged about 16C through the heating season, vs 19C now. The quality adjusted gain is about £600 a year - ie, that's how much the gas to keep the house at 19C would've cost.

Ask Anne: My Toddler Is Always Frowning, Is It Too Late To Give Them Botox? https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/20/ask-anne-my-toddler-is-always-frowning-is-it-too-late-to-give-them-botox/

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

The right is spending the day complaining that Abdul El-Sayed was "rude" and "a bully" to Tommy the Republican Operative at his town hall, which is hilarious given how they had nothing to say about a woman getting beaten up at a Trump rally as the president cheered on.

remember that "BIDEN IS SENILE" was a stop the presses, every day story and they just let this shit go like its normal

"In Arizona, a Trump Administration immigration judge ordered a 1-year-old baby appearing without a lawyer to file an asylum application, according to court filings..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...

Scholars argue that the anonymously authored play Edward III (1596) is a William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe collaboration, four years before Marlowe's early death. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Sunday photo Looking up in the Duomo di Monreale, Sicily. One of the most glorious examples of Arab-Norman architecture

Russian military satellite Kosmos 2612 is now closely shadowing ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite supporting Ukraine, after maneuvering into nearly the same orbit. Such proximity could allow Russia to monitor or interfere with transmissions and potentially position itself for an anti-satellite operation

"Disavow" is inapplicable as a neutral description in a case where somebody had no previous avowal they're walking back. That's why it's being used as a manipulative term regarding El-Sayed, because it implies it's some kind of reversal of his past position, which is of course baseless nonsense.

I agree with this. One amendmwnt that I think could pass is to modify the electoral college so that winning > 50% nets you some number of bonus electors but that if no candidate reaches 50% there is a second round of voting.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

Those who preach peace through capitulation won't tell you what russian occupation means. russians occupied Izyum for less than 6m. After liberation, we found mass graves of 447 ppl, most of whom were civilians, incl 215 women and 5 children. Bodies had multiple signs of torture.

And not only will the authoritarians do these horrible crimes, they will make you, you personally suffer these crimes, or they will make you - again, you personally - be complicit in them (and in many cases, both). And that moral horror and outrage needs to sit and solidify into resolve: not here.

This is also why I think it is so important to include the crimes of Italian fascists and Japanese militarists (and even of the Soviets) because the lesson is not 'the Nazis were uniquely bad' but rather 'if you let authoritarians take and hold power in *any* country, this is what they will do.'

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: nom nom nom gimme dat seed corn i have to eat all the seed corn bsky.app/profile/twil...

7 of 9 months in 2026 have set new record lows for grid carbon intensity in Ireland. September was no exception, with emissions totalling roughly 565k tonnes of CO2 -- down more than 50% from just a few years ago 🏭️ 🔎 Much more in the latest edition of "Irish Grid Monthly", available now!

Cars are weapons

Free weekend update is out. This was the week when the USA-Russia alliance was made formal, to even the most ardent skeptics. And its reality was signed in Ukrainian blood. Hopefully now Ukraine, and Europe, will understand what they must do. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

15/ So it's not just SpaceX that will suffer; governments buying equipment or services from the US will almost certainly now be asking how they can de-risk themselves. The obvious answer will be to not buy American in the first place. /end

1/ The Musk-Trump decision to degrade Ukraine's Starlink access as a pressure tactic is a disaster not just for the United States' reputation but for the entire US defence industry. Musk's action may end up burning the whole industry. ⬇️

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Let's be honest: Pete Hegseth is far more incompetent than Katie Zacharia. The besotted defense secretary has done nothing but fall on his face for two years. He's continually rolling out comically stupid "policy" ideas. And he's too afraid to actually hold press conferences. But he's male.

this is disqualifying for any leader of the democratic party, no matter how you look at it.

Antisemitism is genuinely rising, and there are people like Tucker Carlson using genuine horror at Israel's genocidal actions to launder real antisemitism into mainstream discourse. But we can't fight this without a strategy of rhetorically separating Jews as a people from Israel as a polity.