What is happening in the world where Slate and @alex_kirshner can publish a piece about cross-continental travel for “day trips” and not even consider the environmental aspects?
slate.com/technology/2025/07…
When did we decide that the planet is going to be fine no matter what we do?
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Can we get 500 retweets on this video of Kamala Harris humiliating Donald Trump on Call Her Daddy
Congratulations @jasontlantz, muselab.com/ looks great! It sounds like you've pulled off some real magic moving Ford/VIIZR to the Produce Development Model. Much more impressive than most case studies I have read.
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Elon Musk calls himself a free speech absolutist, to justify turning a blind eye to hatred and bigotry on Twitter.
But when journalists report unfavorable news, they are banned without warning.
The devotion to free speech is apparently not that absolute. But the hypocrisy is.
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I politely declined. We are in New York, where there is no law or tradition regarding headscarves. I pointed out that no previous Iranian president has required this when I have interviewed them outside Iran. 4/7
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Very disturbing content warning but this is important. I can’t believe we live in a world where war crimes how-tos are shared in group chat
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Everything Everywhere All At Once. See it. Wherever you are, as soon as possible, perhaps multiple times.
American government is suppose to secure Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
French: Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
Canadian: Peace, Order and Good Government.
Serious Q: What would Russians summarize as the role of their government?
@millerman ?
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As a genocide scholar I am an empiricist, I usually dismiss rhetoric. I also take genocide claims with a truckload of salt because activists apply it almost everywhere now.
Not now. There are actions, there is intent. It's as genocide as it gets. Pure, simple and for all to see
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some of my family members are now trapped under russian occupation. the stories they share with us are literally the most harrowing shit that tests your humanity & sanity. men disappearing en masse, girls mass raped. there are hundreds of buchas happening across ukraine every day
In 2017, former Russian politician Alfred Koch was asked why Russian birth rates were plummeting. " People's income is falling ..., we have incessantly been fighting since 2014, ...we have broken off from the entire civilised world and poverty in Russia is shooting up"."
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This, out of #Ukraine, is 100% one of the most incredible videos I have ever seen.
This Russian POW has the heart of a lion 🦁
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In 2000, Putin promised to make Russia as rich as Portugal. In 2022, Putin is turning Russia into North Korea.
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Spoke with President @ZelenskyyUa today. I applauded his leadership and the courage of Ukrainians. Volodymyr, Canada and the world stand with you – and call for an immediate end to President Putin’s illegal attacks that have resulted in the deaths of civilians.
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Last 2 sentences of new @IPCC_CH report:
"The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet.
Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future"