Ben
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There’s so many runaway tipping points that really the only question is which happens first. My money still on the Atlantic conveyor
“Thwaites holds back the vast icy plateau that scientists call the West Antarctic ice sheet. The greater peril would be if Thwaites collapsed and caused the broader ice sheet to melt away, adding another 10 to 15 feet to sea-level rise.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/c...
Bound for Antarctica: A Voyage to Earth’s End Is Underway
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
There’s so many runaway tipping points that really the only question is which happens first. My money still on the Atlantic conveyor
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happy 14th birthday to this "I'll put a man on Mars in 10 years" interview with Musk. It is now old enough to get radicalized into christofascism on an Escape from Tarkov Discord server 😭
December 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
happy 14th birthday to this "I'll put a man on Mars in 10 years" interview with Musk. It is now old enough to get radicalized into christofascism on an Escape from Tarkov Discord server 😭
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45 years of John Young's papers and the Cryptome archive have been added to Stanford's archive and is available for researchers to request access to:
searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000...
searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000...
John Young papers and Cryptome archive, circa 1980-2025 in SearchWorks catalog
Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more.
searchworks.stanford.edu
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
45 years of John Young's papers and the Cryptome archive have been added to Stanford's archive and is available for researchers to request access to:
searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000...
searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000...
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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it’s hard to think of a bigger grift than the claim that predictive text aka gAI is ‘conscious’ and thus “deserve rights” like the ability to vote
December 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
it’s hard to think of a bigger grift than the claim that predictive text aka gAI is ‘conscious’ and thus “deserve rights” like the ability to vote
Flat earth reeks of this but most are far too dumb to understand the liturgy
A type of practice that I find interesting historically is the rigorously untrue. Astrology, for instance, was often a very tightly defined practice with a seriously requirement of learning: it just wasn’t actually real.
December 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Flat earth reeks of this but most are far too dumb to understand the liturgy
I believe the allowance is classically defined as “one fuck, two shits and a glass of white wine” in case brevity isn’t your thing
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I believe the allowance is classically defined as “one fuck, two shits and a glass of white wine” in case brevity isn’t your thing
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I mean, when the Israeli government says stuff like “What, America bombed multiple cities flat on top of their civilian residents and had most of the men over the age of 12 killed, and none of you complained about that shit”, they are not exactly wrong, are they www.theguardian.com/world/2017/n...
After the liberation of Mosul, an orgy of killing
The long read: In the dying days of the battle of Mosul, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad followed Iraqi soldiers during the last push against Isis. But following their victory, a new wave of savagery was unleashed
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I mean, when the Israeli government says stuff like “What, America bombed multiple cities flat on top of their civilian residents and had most of the men over the age of 12 killed, and none of you complained about that shit”, they are not exactly wrong, are they www.theguardian.com/world/2017/n...
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as a somerset'ian stop saying 'rural people' when you mean upper class toffs who murder animals for fun. 🙄
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Labour ‘alienating rural people’ with plan to ban trail hunting, says Countryside Alliance
Poll released by group as people gather for traditional Boxing Day hunts finds 76% of voters believe Labour prioritises urban issues over rural ones
Keir Starmer’s government has been told it has “alienated rural people” as traditional Boxing Day hunts gathered across the UK ahead of plans to ban trail hunting.
The warning came from the Countryside Alliance pressure group, which released a poll suggesting 65% of voters think the Labour administration unfairly neglects country communities. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
as a somerset'ian stop saying 'rural people' when you mean upper class toffs who murder animals for fun. 🙄
You can try to leave BT but you can never be free of them. Internet has been down since last night.
December 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You can try to leave BT but you can never be free of them. Internet has been down since last night.
Time to start pluribus
December 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Time to start pluribus
And enough facebook
"[A]fter years of looking at how authoritarianism rose and how various groups were targeted around the world in the last 130 years, I can say that given enough funding and enough time, propaganda can remake society..."
You're soaking in it
Propaganda, transphobia, and an end to manufacturing hate.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
And enough facebook
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TL:DR - Get ready for PM Nigel Farage because if it comes to a choice between that and any kind of government involving the Green Party, then that is not even a choice to the people who have always been holding all of the microphones.
December 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
TL:DR - Get ready for PM Nigel Farage because if it comes to a choice between that and any kind of government involving the Green Party, then that is not even a choice to the people who have always been holding all of the microphones.
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Can't be true. No way there are three Labour voters left.
One in three Labour voters thinks Starmer should go, shock poll finds
One in three Labour voters thinks Starmer should go, shock poll finds
One in three Labour voters thinks Starmer should go, shock poll finds
www.independent.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Can't be true. No way there are three Labour voters left.
Kool-aid
Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.
I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it.
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
December 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Kool-aid
Sounds like the president got some extra potent ritalin for xmas
December 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Sounds like the president got some extra potent ritalin for xmas
We all lived in a.. wait, what
December 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
We all lived in a.. wait, what
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Transgender for everyone! 🏳️⚧️
a woman in a red dress is holding a microphone in her hand and dancing on a stage .
Alt: Oprah giving out cars to everyone in a red suit
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Transgender for everyone! 🏳️⚧️
I wonder what it’s like to live in a country where “unelected ruling family of billionaires visits church” isn’t the headline 1 day every single year
December 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I wonder what it’s like to live in a country where “unelected ruling family of billionaires visits church” isn’t the headline 1 day every single year
I'd settle for someone just asking what 'transgender for everyone' means
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I'd settle for someone just asking what 'transgender for everyone' means
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I love that Shaq is on tv dressed as Santa’s bookie for Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I love that Shaq is on tv dressed as Santa’s bookie for Christmas.
the only remaining good bit of facebook is it reminding you when you used to enjoy being there, via "memories"
December 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
the only remaining good bit of facebook is it reminding you when you used to enjoy being there, via "memories"
Circling the actual point here aren't we
J. D. Vance has "clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid," Franklin Foer argues. theatln.tc/aaUENxUw
December 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Circling the actual point here aren't we
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The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.
December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.