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As we are processing the disastrous Saxony-Anhalt election result, we're being flooded by people explaining why everyone voted like that. And I wrote earlier that the explanations tend to be wildly disparate, and can't all be true: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/we-dont-know-why-people-are-voting-like-that/
@textfiles Yeah, like ICBMs.
｢ Tesla’s abrupt decision to kill its Solar Roof has left the third-party contractors who sold and installed the product absorbing the fallout ｣
https://electrek.co/2026/09/01/tesla-solar-roof-exit-installers-losses
I just saw someone actually say that women cannot write assembly code.
🙄
A woman wrote the assembly code that got humanity onto the moon. Be grateful
Unlike so many others, the @financialtimes nails the "OMG, 1.5℃ is gone" message:
"Temperature overshoot requires urgent action"
Yep. And every 0.01℃ matters.
Reminds me of my NYT oped with Costa Samaras: "The widely recited '12-year deadline' is wrong — and right." https://gwagner.com/12years
@p Santa needs to know if you’ve been naughty or nice somehow.
that does make sense i guess
Later this week, the Senate could vote on a bill that would turbocharge Trump’s corruption.
Republicans only need to peel off a handful of Democrats to pass this crypto legislation, so our senators need to hear from us.
Send an email and demand that your senators vote NO on the CLARITY Act: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/urge-democrats-oppose-and-stop-trumps-crypto-corruption/?source=mastodon
Voice nagging suspicions
It turns out, ICQ was foretelling the future of social media when they associated the sound of incoming messages with "uh oh"
Due to the immediate and constant criticism of their first concept, the White House has released a revised version of the Space Force uniform design.
Old version: Space Nazis
This version: Still Space Nazis, but at least they're hilariously ineffective.
#Spotted While Roaming In Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tall man (30?) in sturdy hiking gear is standing in line for coffee with his partner.
He reaches into his pocket for his wallet and pulls a very odd expression before pulling out a roll of toilet paper.
His partner exclaims: "What's THAT doing in there?!"
He shrugs. "Made sense at the time."
A tiny human (2?) is taking holding his little brother's hand very seriously as they cross the road.
Walking next to Little Brother's pram with great gravitas.
Big Brothering is a VERY serious business indeed.
A flock of seagulls are all bobbing on a tranquil stretch of river.
Convivially floating towards the sea.
Flashes of white feathers as they duck under the water, here and there.
A woman (80s?) wearing a big fluffy woolly jumper, with fly away silver hair and a fae air is wandering down a tree-lined street with a mishappen cup of coffee in hand.
A tubby black staffy waddling at her side.
Both stopping to admire (and water) some daffodils before wandering on.
A man (30s?) is blowing up a pink balloon as a tiny human (2?) watches on, doing a little excited dance.
Dad's cheeks puff.
And puff.
And PUFF.
And...
(OH NO!)
Maybe he blew it up a little TOO much.
Oh well, he's got a spare!
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair
Smart, but evil.
@lowqualityfacts I love the ones that sound legit.
Shiptember
#Canada PM #MarkCarney says #US demands could hollow out key Canadian industries & limit its #independence, while #Trump’s threats to Canadian #sovereignty have rallied the public behind him.
“Carney & Canada have become symbolic of resistance to him. And what he’ll want to do is make an example of Carney & Canada & theoretically terrify everybody else while in fact showing them that they need to remove themselves even further from the United States,”Canadian historian Robert Bothwell said.
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