Magically Hip

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Scientist in real life but not online, high-functioning slacker, hübsch Räuber. He/him. Canadian immigrant living in Berlin. Nothing to promote, no clout to chase, happily skeeting into the void. Sacha Baron Cohen is Banksy.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

Finally framed!!! Thanks to @tessfowler.bsky.social for allowing me to adopt Tank Girl.

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just watched it again, great every time

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

Gato: You won't believe what I saw. I saw this pack of guys, and they act real hard.

Urgente: Gato

The conservative "value" of never admitting to a mistake means they're stuck defending all the things they got wrong in science class.

“it’s basic biology” – person who got a C in high school biology

I have no idea how those modifications got put on my diesel truck's exhaust system.

You charge me That I have blown this coal. I do deny it.

NY Times now trying to skew the UK election in favour of the right smdh www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/w...

The King and Keir: Is Charles About to Get a Prime Minister He Likes?www.nytimes.com The British monarch is constitutionally barred from any role in politics. But experts say that Charles and the leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer, have much in common.

Nothing but love and respect for Regina's own Tatiana Maslany! ...now when are we getting that Orphan Black spin-off where Felix and Alison travel around in a Winnebago solving mysteries? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tatiana Maslany expresses human rights concerns while being honoured at event in Regina | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca Marvel actress Tatiana Maslany criticized the Saskatchewan government's Parents' Bill of Rights and called attention to the Israel-Hamas conflict while celebrating her 2022 Canada's Walk of Fame induction.

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There is so much darkness and pain in the world today, the least you could do is use a photo of the the melting Lincoln statue from the angle where it looks like he’s getting insane dome

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The Board still loves you, oh great one!!

"you can't wash the Cyber truck or get it wet" "the ceiling is held on by clips and the clips often fall off" "they glued the gas pedal on and when it falls off it traps you in accelerate" at what point is this thing like..... no longer a car

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There were 16 trans youth suicides after gender affirming care restrictions were implemented in the UK in 2020 compared with only 1 in the 7 years prior. Staff at the NHS attempted to cover it up. Hilary Cass knew but minimized what was happening. This is a massive scandal. Cass lied, kids died.

The Board still loves you, oh great one!!

Worms have Haig-Zachary Syndrome.

[god inventing worms] make its face look exactly like its butt

Excitedly trying to manifest the Necrotruck into existence

Literally every noun can be improved by adding the prefix “necro-“

Well, at least industry will stop caring about it then.

it'll lay on the jargon with a mix of self-loathing & fear of being exposed

Hammer is for non-hammering purposes only.

THEY WER SELLING IT FOR 700 BUCKS??? Oh and that note at the bottom really drives it home.

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It's really weird to see these posts about Linda keep popping up and I still don't know quite how to talk about her. But she called me a couple months ago and made me promise I'd tell the truth when everyone started saying nice things. 1/?

Thank you for everything, @killermartinis.bsky.social and thank you David Schuman for having me over in the studios to share about Linda's impact on me www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Journalist shot by Minneapolis police during 2020 protests dying from injurieswww.cbsnews.com Linda Tirado was in Minneapolis from out of state covering the protests and rioting when police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet, also known as a "less-lethal" round.

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Duke Nukem is now Dyke Nuke-They/Them. Like and repost if this post seems like something a woke society would do to an iconic alpha male character and you’re already so furious about this hypothetical scenario that your girlfriend quietly went into the other room with her dinner

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Bitcoin consumes about 2.5% of US electricity, about the same as all residential cooling. An article decrying *that* electricity usage as a personal moral failing would be much less tone deaf.

Interesting article to run prior to a weekend where we expect a devastating heat wave and label it as “climate solutions”

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Calling up the retired army sharpshooter, asking him to come back for one last job. youtu.be/akoBMHUFUYA?...

The thing here is that the NFU bloke can only think, if you didn't drive a car into a cow twice, you'd have to be shooting it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

Police who rammed cow did right thing, says union leader and farmerwww.theguardian.com NFU’s Hugh Broom says incident in Surrey ‘looks horrendous’ but the cow could have hurt someone

Derek Edwards (Sniper for....)youtu.be for tour info see www.shantero.com "Derek Edwards is hysterical Rick Mercer raves" Calgary Sun.YOU MUST SEE THIS MAN LIVE

In retrospect, letting the Klan's Ladies Auxiliary (UDC) control the history textbooks was unwise.

We really failed to teach about the brokenness of the Confederacy in this country. Not just that it lost but that it was fundamentally unhinged as a premise. Instead, we get “heritage, not hate” and comparisons to foreign fascist movements. We’ve been here before! All of it!

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This is an excellent description of the editorial failure behind The NY Times' decision to run Alina Chan's lab leak article. What's the value proposition to the readership of presenting a one-sided argument that most scientists find lacking? Did no editor bother to ask that question?

Nancy fed up with the discourse

COMICS ON PARADE No.50, September 1945

Let's manifest this. If we have to be aware of these people, they should make it interesting.

I have yet to see a single official photo of Princess Charlotte where she DOESN'T look like she'll eventually seize the crown. And you know what, good for her. It's good to have ambitions.

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Shin Godzilla is one of my favorite movies about government I've ever seen. It's like that and In The Loop

it's been interesting watching some americans act like shin godzilla and minus one were surprising for being "political" as though those always been themes the franchise returns to.

"If the numbers implied by my calculations are correct, the speed of sound under standard atmospheric conditions is 7.138x10^17 km/lb."

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The Best Of Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 20,1955