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Firing programmers for AI will destroy everything
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More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile
Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
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Sydney-based Harrison.ai, which uses AI to analyze CT scans, X-rays, and pathology slides, raised a $112M Series C, after a ~$92.3M Series B in November 2021 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
SMIC reports Q4 profit down 38% YoY to $107.6M, below $193.5 est., revenue up 32% YoY to $2.2B, above $2.18B est., and $7.33B capex in 2024, vs. $4.5B in 2021 (Reuters)
Tel Aviv-based Voyantis, which uses AI to predict a customer's future propensity and lifetime value for marketers, raised $41M, taking its total funding to $60M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the "primary device for YouTube viewing in the US", indicating YouTube is "the new TV" (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
Boston-based QuEra Computing, which is developing neutral-atom quantum computing to help scale systems, raised $230M+ from Google's Quantum AI unit and others (Rishi Kant/Reuters)
Dublin-based Tines, which uses AI to automate tasks in cybersecurity and other business operations, raised $125M at a $1.13B valuation, up from $600M in 2024 (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
Chinese EV maker BYD unveils a "God's Eye" self-driving system and aims to install it on its entire lineup, including its ~$9,600 Seagull hatchback (Gloria Li/Financial Times)
The US and the UK did not join France, China, India, and other countries in signing an international AI agreement in Paris, without explaining their reasons (Liv McMahon/BBC)
Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 31% YoY to $2.8B, above $2.73B est., GMV up 26% YoY to $94.5B, a $465M operating loss, and 2024 revenue up 26% YoY to $8.9B (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
Elon Musk's $97.4B OpenAI offer could force OpenAI's board to reassess how it is valuing the nonprofit, which could cost Sam Altman even though he rejected it (Wall Street Journal)
Documents: Spotify co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon sold 2.5M+ shares in 2024, netting ~$1B, the highest sales since 2019, and now own ~16% of Spotify (Benjamin Stupples/Bloomberg)
Google Calendar removes Pride month, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and other events, saying it wasn't "scalable or sustainable" to keep them (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen criticizes rivals for seeking to buy successful new titles rather than creating them, saying the industry has stagnated since 2021 (Richard Milne/Financial Times)
Tencent's Supercell reports 2024 revenue up 77% YoY to almost $3B from its six titles and EBITDA up ~77% to $900M+; Squad Busters made $100M+ in revenue (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
How TSMC and Taiwan are rushing to avoid Trump's tariffs, as TSMC's board meets in Arizona for the first time; Trump has said TSMC "stole" the US' chip business (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)

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Public records reveal Durham County district attorney comes to the office roughly half of work days
NIH cuts will cost Triangle universities Duke & UNC hundreds of millions - will this end Duke / Durham as we know it?
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Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same
Scientists Detect Shape-Shifting Along Earth’s Solid Inner Core
A Sweeping Ban on D.E.I. Language Roils the Sciences
How Much Does a Dog’s Breed Affect Its Health and Behavior?
A Swearing Expert Discusses the State of Profanity
Why the Odds of an Asteroid Striking Earth in 2032 Keep Going Up (and Down)
A Fungus That Turns Spiders Into Zombies Is a Discovery to Haunt Your Nightmares
How to Boil an Egg? Scientists Claim to Have Cracked the Recipe.
Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language
Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway.
Trump Is Freezing Money for Clean Energy. Republican States Have the Most to Lose.
The Physicians Really Are Healing Themselves, With Ozempic
With Aid Cutoff, Trump Severs a Lifeline for Millions
Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
Humpback Whales Sing the Way Humans Speak
In Greenland, the Ice Doesn’t Just Flow, It Quivers and Quakes
What Lurks in This Flower’s Bizarrely Large Y Chromosome?
Susan F. Wood, Who Quit F.D.A. Over Contraception Pill Delay, Dies at 66
Plesiosaur Fossils Preserve Both Skin and Scales on Ancient Sea Monster
January Was Hottest January on Record, Scientists Report
Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu
Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment
Novo Nordisk Annual Sales Jump on Demand for Ozempic and Wegovy
The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil Record
The Physics That Keeps a Crowd From Becoming a Stampede
NASA’s VIPER Gave Up a Ride to the Moon. This Startup’s Rover Took It.
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General approach for synthesizing hexagonal diamond by heating post-graphite phases
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Room-temperature anisotropic in-plane spin dynamics in graphene induced by PdSe2 proximity
YBa2Cu3O7 as a high-temperature superinductor
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Probing the planet’s poles
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The Silene latifolia genome and its giant Y chromosome
Rapid and dynamic evolution of a giant Y chromosome in Silene latifolia
Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus
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Whale song shows language-like statistical structure
Does the mantis shrimp pack a phononic shield?
Supersaturation mutagenesis reveals adaptive rewiring of essential genes among malaria parasites
Overwriting an instinct: Visual cortex instructs learning to suppress fear responses
Moisture-responsive root-branching pathways identified in diverse maize breeding germplasm
Four-dimensional conserved topological charge vectors in plasmonic quasicrystals
Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants
Endothelial insulin resistance induced by adrenomedullin mediates obesity-associated diabetes
Nutrient-driven histone code determines exhausted CD8+ T cell fates
Squeezed dual-comb spectroscopy
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Antarctica in 2025: Drivers of deep uncertainty in projected ice loss
Advances and shortfalls in knowledge of Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity
Disappearing landscapes: The Arctic at +2.7°C global warming
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Gaza Cease-Fire Deal Hangs in the Balance Ahead of Trump’s Meeting With Jordan’s King
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Mace Takes to House Floor With Charges of Rape and Sexual Predation
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Silicon Valley is Embracing Christianity (With the Help of Peter Thiel)
Can European ‘Boots on the Ground’ Help Protect Ukraine’s Security?
Hispanics Bolted to the Right in 2024. Can Democrats Win Them Back?
In Hospitals and Hospices, ‘Music as Care’ Offers a New Kind of Comfort
America Is Full of People Trump Doesn’t Like
The Pharmaceutical Industry Heads Into Elon Musk’s Wood Chipper
Covid Learning Losses
John Oliver Interrupts Jon Stewart’s Monologue on ‘The Daily Show’
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RFK Jr. says vaccines aren’t tested enough. Experts say that’s baseless.
Trump pardons Rod Blagojevich, who tried to sell Obama’s vacated Senate seat
Gulf of America name change now official in U.S. and on Google Maps
Beverly Byron, Md. congresswoman and Armed Services member, dies at 92
New version of bird flu infects Nevada dairy worker
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Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds
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The Islamic State has regrouped in Somalia — and has global ambitions
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More than 170 World War II-era bombs found under U.K. playground
Monitoring the status of hostages still in Gaza after Hamas’s attack
Power cuts in Ukraine as Russia pounds natural gas sector in major strike
Tesla opens Megapack battery factory in China amid nascent trade war
Trump says ‘Let hell break out’ in Gaza if hostages aren’t returned by Saturday
Trump says he could withhold aid to Jordan, Egypt if they don’t take in Palestinians
Trump says ‘Let hell break out’ in Gaza if hostages aren’t returned by Saturday
Chinese tariffs take effect, ratcheting up nascent trade war with U.S.
Hamas says it will delay release of three Israeli hostages due to ceasefire violations
Canada to Trump: We’re not angry. We’re disappointed.
Israeli police raid storied Palestinian bookstore, seize books
Trump’s Gaza plan is the latest U.S. attempt to transform Middle East
Paralyzed Al Jazeera cameraman, stranded for months, leaves Gaza
Jordan, home to millions of Palestinians, fears Trump’s Gaza proposal
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Jordan, home to millions of Palestinians, fears Trump’s Gaza proposal
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Tesla opens Megapack battery factory in China amid nascent trade war
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Chinese Temu sellers use fake U.S. postage labels to boost their profits
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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams
Brazil’s push for comprehensive AI regulation
Non-Western founders say DeepSeek is proof that innovation need not cost billions of dollars
Meet Eva, the AI chatbot based on a woman in prison
India’s open arms approach to AI
Filipino tech workers demand protections in AI bill after Rest of World report
Vietnam’s unlikely innovator: a military-run postal service
“TikTok refugees” drove a global Xiaohongshu boom

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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | February 09, 2025
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When did the average American realize that the Nazis were carrying out genocide against the Jews during the Holocaust?
Fannie Lou Hamer was forcefully sterilized after undergoing surgery to remove a uterine tumor. Sterilization was so commonplace, people called it a "Mississippi appendectomy" How widespread outside the South was forced sterilize when Black women underwent surgery?
Why did officers use revolvers as a primary weapon in WW1?
How did Ancient Egyptions make sense of conflated deities such as Amun-Ra?
How did Hitler justify invading Denmark and Norway to his country?
During WW2 at what point did the German people realize it was going to end badly?
Google Maps has now started calling it the Gulf of America. How have countries historically decided the names of shared areas like oceans, or mountain ranges?
Gavrilo Princip sandwich story?
Why is the Ottoman decline thesis still so widespread in online spaces?
How do historians know/determine ancient borders of countries/tribes/other entities?
Why were grand juries abolished in most places outside the US, and why did they survive in the US?
Did the Soviet Union commit pogroms in the 1930s?
Why was the fleur-de-lis used so much by the Kingdom of France compared to other European Kingdoms and their respective symbols?
Mason Gaffney, an american economist, has claimed that much of neo-classical economics was created in order to discredit/undermine Georgist thought. Marxists have made similar claims for marxist thought. Do we have any evidence to back these claims up? What is the real history of neoclassical econ?
Is my grandparents Holocaust photo important?
What was the timeline of demobilization of intelligence workers after WWII in the US?
Monday Methods: Asking for histories of the present in r/AskHistorians
Why was wood strong enough for shields, but not armor?
Were ancient armies really that big?
How democratic was Italy before Mussolini’s March on Rome?
In the folklore and mythology of the Middle Ages, the "Court of Love", said to be presided over by Eleanor of Aquitaine and Marie of Champagne, was often featured. Did the Court actually exist, or was it a fabricated story?
Turkey historians/experts, does anyone know what's the most authoritative book on the Greek-Turkish war (1919-1922) & Turkish War of Independence published recently by a Turkish historian? (Ideally something published recently, not before 2010 or so)
Good history book on the industrialization of farming?
How much genuinenpopular support did Lenin and the Bolsheviks enjoy during the Russian Revolution and its inmediate aftermath? Can we say with any certainty if they ever were backed by a majority of Russians?
Chicago School neoliberals helped to implement a social experiment in Chile in which government was deregulated, privatized, and purged - similar to what is happening now. The bloodshed after is well documented. Yet, some regard Chile as an success story for laissez faire capitalism. Which is it?

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Q&A weekly thread - February 10, 2025 - post all questions here!
[META] Updated subreddit rules
Old Story, New Results and Analyses
Quantifying the Differences Between Lexical Categories: The Case of Pronouns and Determinatives in English
Q&A weekly thread - February 03, 2025 - post all questions here!
Spelling out C in simple and complex sentences in Wari'
French subject doubling. A third path. Liang, Donati & Burnett (2024).
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Theorizing about the syntax of human language: a radical alternative to generative formalisms
Voice Onset Time (VOT) in Bahdini Kurdish
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Singular-plural verb stem alternation: uncovering global and local drivers of typological variation. Inman & Vuillermet (2024)
Thematic content, not number matching, drives syntactic bootstrapping
Where does that fit in? Morphological variation and reanalysis in Georgian placeholder verbs
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Cognate reflex prediction as hypothesis test for a genealogical relation between the Panoan and Takanan language families (Blum, Barrientos, Ingunza, & List, 2024)
How (not) to do Phonological Typology: The Case of Pitch-accent
The indeterminacy of word segmentation and the nature of morphology and syntax
Phonological Adaptation and the Biblical Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew Reflexes of *i and *u
Fragments of Languages: From ‘Restsprachen’ to Contemporary Endangered Languages (Baglioni & Rigobianco, eds)
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Fundamental Operations of Language: Reflections on Optimal Design
The diachrony of verbalizers in Indo-European: Where does v come from? - Grestenberger, Laura. 2023.
Rhotic variation in Costa Rican spanish: a preliminary acoustic analysis
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Perception of social variables related to allophones of taps and trills
Sociolinguistic variation and the public interest

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Go and look at the moon.
Public records reveal Durham County district attorney comes to the office roughly half of work days
NIH cuts will cost Triangle universities Duke & UNC hundreds of millions - will this end Duke / Durham as we know it?
Is this your dog? She slept under my porch 2/7. I’ve brought her in since then and she’s safe but I know someone is looking for her. She’s a great dog and is clearly loved.
Found cat
hit and run at university / cornwallis roundabout
Update on Duke and indirects
Do you have an awesome single friend? Pitch them this Sunday!
Found dog at corner of infinity and snow hill
Queer Men’s Horror Movie Club
Triangle Stay-At-Home Dad Weekly Playgroup
Come celebrate Love (for Durham, for your friends, for yourself) with Liberty Arts on Third Friday, 2/21
Where are we shopping?
NYT predicts Durham insurance rates to double in the next 20 years?
Has anybody read this book? Highly recommend!
Don't Give Up!
Girl Scout cookies!
Alma Thomas Art Workshop for Teens and Tweens!
Looking for a therapist with experience treating mothers and daughters.
Is it hard to get a spot at wildflower cottage for 1 year old?
Never noticed this plaque downtown before. Pretty cool.
Where to Buy Flower Crowns?
Best on DPS closings/delays the next couple of days?
4,000 Garner Amazon workers part of upstart union, want $30 an hour
Live comedy show about unbelievable adult industry career - The Fruit on 2/15 at 7:30

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The Judgement Of History

Open Culture

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Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: Discover the Art of Henrique Alvim Corrêa
Tracing English Back to Its Oldest Known Ancestor: An Introduction to Proto-Indo-European
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Who Was the Greatest Scientific Mind in History
Hear an AI Chatbot, Masquerading as a Clueless Grandmother, Waste the Time of an Internet Scam Artist
Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Films Free Online: David Byrne’s True Stories, Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep & More
See Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Visualized in Colorfully Animated Scores
Behold Harry Clarke’s Hallucinatory Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Story Collection, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1923)
How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords: The Art of Traditional Sword Making from Start to Finish
When Charlie Chaplin Entered a Chaplin Look-Alike Contest & Came in 20th Place
How Wearing Ridiculously Long Pointed Shoes Became a Medieval Fashion Trend
Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition & Darkness” (1995)
Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn’t? Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains His “Feud” with Elon Musk
Watch the First 2+ Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981)
The Nature of Human Stupidity Explained by The 48 Laws of Power Author Robert Greene
Jean-Luc Godard Shoots Marianne Faithfull (RIP) Singing “As Tears Go By” in 1966

NYT > Technology

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Elon Musk Leads $97.4 Billion Bid to Control OpenAI
5 Notes from the Big Paris A.I. Summit
Early Crypto Traders Had Speedy Profit on Trump Coin as Others Suffered Losses
How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump
Vance, in First Foreign Speech, Tells Europe That U.S. Will Dominate A.I.
Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same
Macron Pitches Lighter Regulation to Fuel A.I. Boom in Europe
What DeepSeek’s Success Tells Us About China’s Ability to Nurture Talent
Cyberattack Disrupts Publication of Lee Newspapers Across the U.S.
Microsoft and Nvidia Take a Quieter Approach to Trump
Big Tech Keeps Its A.I. Data Center Spending Boom Alive
A.I. Military Start-Up Anduril Close to Deal That Would Value It at $28 Billion
OpenAI Close to Deal that Values Company at $300 Billion
Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
The Musketeers Take Washington + Spotify’s Ghost Music + Tool Time
C. Richard Kramlich, Early Investor in Silicon Valley, Dies at 89
Amazon Reports 88% Rise in Profits but Says Growth Could Slow
As Elon Musk Attacks DEI, Tesla Quietly Addresses Racism Complaints
Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring Daniel Penny
Google Unwinds Diversity Goals, Citing Trump’s DEI Orders
Pro-Trump Media Sees Nothing but the President ‘Winning’
NASA’s VIPER Gave Up a Ride to the Moon. This Startup’s Rover Took It.
Is Waymo Friend or Foe to Uber?
A Professor Put Her Class on TikTok. Thousands Enrolled in a Digital H.B.C.U.
‘The Antiquities’ Review: Relics of Late Human Life in 12 Exhibits
Alphabet Earnings Fall Short of Expectations as Google Cloud Sales Disappoint
Elon Musk’s X Becomes Weapon in Government Cost Cutting
With China’s Antitrust Investigation Into Google, What’s at Stake?

NYT > Arts

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The Bangles, One of the Biggest All-Female Bands, Want to Reclaim Their Legacy
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: The Peak of All Rap Battles?
The Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials, Ranked
As Off Broadway Crews Unionize, Workers See Hope, Producers Peril
The Next Hot Playwright? They Prefer the Ones Who Cooled Off.
How ‘The Lion King’s Resident Dance Supervisor Keeps the Musical in Motion
The Weeknd Hits No. 1 for a Fifth Time With ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’
In ‘Festen,’ a Nightmare Birthday Becomes an Opera
The Greatest ‘Saturday Night Live’ Episode Ever*
‘Anora’ Wins Big at Producers and Directors Guild Awards
Three Men Convicted of Playing a Role in Ring That Preyed on U.S. Museums
What an Instagram Reel Has in Common With a 4-Hour Documentary
The Agony of Adoring Online Dogs
What to Know About the Karla Sofía Gascón and ‘Emilia Pérez’ Controversies
Ye Advertised Website Selling T-Shirts With Swastikas in Super Bowl Commercial
Akram Khan’s ‘Gigenis’ Is a Dark Tale Told Through Indian Classical Dance
With Clicks Into Oblivion, Frying Your Brain Is Fun
In Hospitals and Hospices, ‘Music as Care’ Offers a New Kind of Comfort
In Civilization VII, Empires Rise and Stereotypes Start to Fall
A Sly Stone Primer: 15 Songs (and More) From a Musical Visionary
A New York Home Designed for a Real-Life Couple and Their Imaginary Muse
John Oliver Interrupts Jon Stewart’s Monologue on ‘The Daily Show’
100 Years of How Black Painters See Themselves
Trump Names Richard Grenell Interim Leader of Kennedy Center
Breaking Down Kendrick Lamar’s Drake-centric Super Bowl Halftime Show
Watch Demi Moore Transform in ‘The Substance’
‘The Substance’ | Anatomy of a Scene
At 83, Anne Tyler Has a New Novel. She’d Rather Talk About Anything Else.
14 Valentine’s Day Children’s Books
Why Allison Janae Hamilton Turned Her Studio Into a Family Archive
‘The White Lotus,’ Plus 9 Things to Watch on TV this Week
Kendrick Lamar’s Bell Bottoms Steal the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92
Rutherford Chang, Who Turned Collections Into Art, Dies at 45
Amy Lau, Interior Designer and a Founder of Design Miami, Dies at 56
2 Books for Anxious Minds
For Morris Chestnut, R&B Is Therapeutic
Civilization VII Is Filled With Simulated Crises and Real Lessons
Critics Choice Awards Winners 2025: See the Full List
Arts Endowment Cuts Grants Dedicated to Underserved Communities
Tony Roberts, a Nonchalant Pal in Woody Allen’s Films, Dies at 85
An El Greco Is Pulled From an Auction as Romania Objects
9 Spellbinding Songs About Magic
Mort Künstler, Renowned Painter of Epic Historical Scenes, Dies at 97
Ye Takes Back Apology and Calls Himself a Nazi in Social Media Rant
Doechii’s Victory Lap, and 10 More New Songs
In Ratmansky’s ‘Paquita,’ Worlds Collide to Make a Ballet Big Bang
Rami Malek and Brie Larson Try Sophocles in London
A 311-Year-Old Stradivarius Violin Sells for $11.25 Million at Sotheby’s
Review: Heartbeat Opera Compresses Strauss’s ‘Salome’
Brooklyn Museum Will Lay Off Employees and Scale Back Exhibitions
A Katt Williams Interview Made Shannon Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” a Hit
Five International Movies to Stream Now
How a Family’s Life Is Upended in ‘I’m Still Here’
‘I’m Still Here’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Barbara Kingsolver Uses ‘Demon Copperhead’ Royalties to Build Rehab Center
‘Paint Me a Road Out of Here’: Faith Ringgold’s Gift to Prisoners
Troubled Volksbühne Theater Announces Another New Director
7 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
A New Hammer Museum Show Traces Alice Coltrane’s Influence
5 Children’s Movies to Stream Now
Ralph Macchio on Getting In His Final Kicks in ‘Cobra Kai’
‘Love Hurts’ Review: A Valentine Full of Action

Geography

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The Future of Rule 4: Games in r/Geography
No more Gulf of Mexico posts (for now)
Now According to google it’s officially gulf of America
What is stopping people from walking from russia to us (or vice versa) during winter?
Your favorite landscape
What is this an outline of?
What countries have recently improved politically economically or socially?
Pamir in Tajikistan -- The beauty of geography
Are there any cities with significant historical relevance that failed to capitalize on their legacy and are now just ordinary urban centers?
Most common language spoken at home in each state other than English and Spanish
What countries are most dominated by a single city?
What are the similarities and differences between Sardinia (Italy) and Corsica (France)? Both geographically and culturally?
What cities in your opinion has the worst climate in world? Me: Dhahran - Saudi Arabia
Astana has been chosen to represent Plains/Steppe! Which city best represents SKYLINE?
What are some regions around the world that look cold but are crazy hot in the summer?
Google maps seen from Europe
A little island territory of the Netherlands I discovered last week and have been very fascinated by. Saba.
Is there a name for this region of SEA? And what is life like in these places?
Gabriel Lopez, Colombia - the cloudiest inhabited place on Earth?
The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic is the only sea in the world without a coastline, its boundaries being determined my ocean currents instead.
What!?
Hindu Kush, the boundary between Pakistan & Afghanistan
If you had to name the Top 10 National Parks in Contiguous US, which would they be?
Ireland & Continental Shelf where colourbar removed from bathymetry and above sea level (apologies for low resolution - image I have had from 2004 research)
What factors caused the massive circle of flat land in Sichuan to form? Seems really out of place considering it is parked up against some the tallest mountains on Earth. (Images credit: Yarr65. Top L-physical map; Top R-3D rendered satellite map; Bottom L- physical; Bottom R-relief map)
Which French cities are settled on inferior geography and which parts of France are not well exploited according to the argument below?
Why is central Pennsylvania so empty?

The Public Domain Review

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Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes
Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution
Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)
Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)
Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)
Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive
Happy Public Domain Day 2025!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2024
The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet
“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s Thirty Years a Detective (1884)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)
Strange Gods: Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned (1919)
Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)
Karel Čapek’s Letters from England (1925)
Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2024
“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)
“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)
Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)
“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”: Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)
Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)
Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)
The Man and The Crowd (1928): Photography, Film, and Fate
Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)
Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)
“Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)
Talking Lightly About Serious Things: Henri Rochefort and the Origins of French Populism
A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)
Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)
Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)
Gottfried Mind, The Raphael of Cats
Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)
Luigi Cornaro’s Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 edition)
Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)
Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard
The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)
The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)
Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)
Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries
Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)
A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914)
“A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s The Learned Maid (1659)
Sensitive Material: Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Motion Pictures
Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)
American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century
Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907)
From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)
Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)
The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser!
The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)
“Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)
“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech
“On This Desolate Island”: Sodomy Punish’d (1726)
Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (1922)
Same as It Ever Was?: Eternal Recurrence in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)
The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)
The Little Journal of Rejects (1896)
Professor Megalow’s Dinosaur Bones: Richard Owen and Victorian Literature
Mayday, Mayday: Capital and Labor (1907)
Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)
Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)
Pseudo-Boccaccio, Yiddish Pulp Fiction, and the Man Who Ripped Off Joyce
Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Occult Chemistry (1908)
Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany
Distortions and Grimaces: Jean de Bosschère’s Weird Islands (1921)
Windows Onto History: The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997)
Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)
[Door creaks open. Footsteps]: Fredric Jameson’s Seminar on Aesthetic Theory
Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)
A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)
Little Boney: James Gillray and Napoleon’s Fragile Masculinity
Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)
Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)
The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)
From Snowdrop to Nightjar: Robert Marsham’s “Indications of Spring” (1789)
Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)
I Also Am Formed Out of the Clay: Animated Putty (1911)
The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners (1774 edition)
“The Substantiality of Spirit”: Georgiana Houghton’s Pictures from the Other Side
Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)
Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)
Lithographs from Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s Java-Album (1854)
Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective
Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)
Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911
Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints
As Loud as a Mouse: Mickey’s Sonic Debut in Steamboat Willie (1928)
Through the Cheval Glass: Reproduction in the Photographs of Clementina Hawarden

The Quietus

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Califone – The Villager’s Companion
40 Years On: The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder Revisited
Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for February
Someone Disappears / Someone Reappears: Jules Reidy Interviewed
Sophia Djebel Rose – Sécheresse
PJ Harvey, Jarvis Cocker and More Contribute to ‘Los Angeles Rising’ Benefit Compilation
Compilation of the Week: Sensitive – An Indie Pop Anthology
Manic Street Preachers – Critical Thinking
Femi Kuti Unveils New Album, ‘Journey Through Life’
Max Richter Warns UK MPs of Effect of AI on Music
Oliver Ho Details New LP as Broken English Club, ‘Songs Of Love And Decay’
Banshees & Creatures Drummer Budgie Announces Memoir
The Evil That Men Do: Cowards by Squid
Organic Intelligence XLI: Toronto Goth of the 80s & 90s
Heartworms – Glutton For Punishment
Houghton Reveals First Wave of Acts Playing 2025 Edition
Rockfort! French Music for January, Reviewed by David McKenna
The Strange World Of… Fugazi
James Brandon Lewis – Apple Cores
Divide And Dissolve Details New Album, ‘Insatiable’
London Mayor Sadiq Khan Launches the City’s First-Ever Nightlife Taskforce
Patrick Wolf Unveils New Album
Lina Tullgren – Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking
Discordant of Tunbridge Wells: Joeyfat Interviewed
Subscriber Playlist: Everything we Wrote About in January
A Retreat Into Silence: Slowdive’s Pygmalion At 30
Rum Music for January Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Prison – Downstate
Joy Orbison Shares New Track, ‘Bastard’
tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: January 2025
tQ Subscriber Release: 2rana 3crana
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of January 2025

Bandcamp Updates

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Squid on Experimentation, Apathy, and Their “Album About Evil”
Helen Ganya, “Share Your Care”
Melvin Gibbs Defined Downtown
A Second Life for The Avant-Jazz of Leo Records
A List of Special Releases Benefiting Wildfire Relief
Essential Releases, February 7, 2025
Oklou, “choke enough”
Irish Rap Group Kneecap on Their Breakout Year
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, January 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, January 2025
Bob Marley and The Wailers, “Soul Rebels”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, January 2025
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, January 2025
Various Artists, “Praise Poems 10”
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, January 2025
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, January 2025
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, January 2025
Lawrence English, “Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds”
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, January 2025
MIKE, “Showbiz!”
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, December 2024/January 2025
The Tape Label Report, January 2025
Essential Releases, January 31, 2025
Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, “Jazz Is Dead 22: Ebo Taylor”
Tracking the Spiritual Jazz Revival
Zangoma’s Cross-Continental Rock ‘n’ Roll
Mogwai, “The Bad Fire”
California Wildfire Relief Fundraiser and Bandcamp Fridays in 2025
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, January 2025
Studio, “West Coast”
Diving Into Beirut’s Revolutionary Ruptured Records
Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta, “Mapambazuko”
Music With John Lurie
New Villain Is a Hip-Hop Antihero Shaping Toronto’s Underground
Keeping Baltimore Jazz Weird
Century, “Sign Of The Storm”
Essential Releases, January 24, 2025
Ghais Guevara, “Goyard Ibn Said”
An Introduction to Amiga Hardcore

dusted

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Mogwai — The Bad Fire (Temporary Residence)
Robert Ascroft — Echo Still Remains (Hand Drawn Dracula)
Haley Heynderickx — Seed of a Seed (Mama Bird)
Eden Lonsdale — Dawnings (Another Timbre)
Spiral XP — I Wish I Was a Rat (Danger Collective)
Luciana Bass — Desatornillandonos (Relative Pitch)
Tori Kudo — Studio Village Hototoguiss 2007-2022 (Bruit Direct Disques/Archeion)
xGAARGOYLEx — City Is Mine (Self-released)
Bruce Russell — Demonstration Record (Carbon)
Sam Moss — Swimming (Self-Release)
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory — s-t (Jagjaguwar)
Squid — Cowards (Warp)
Dust Volume 11, Number 1
Susan Alcorn
RORO and Snapir — Colors Left (Booa Music)
BELLIGHTNING — Page of Pentacles (Eukaryotic)
Various Artists — Brian Dolphin & You, Volume 1 (Self-Released)
AMM — Aura (Matchless)
Amayo — Lion Awakes (Self-Release)
Liam Grant — Prodigal Son (VHF Records)

Cool Tools

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Bikes Without Cars
Oversized winter scarf/Shogun/I Don’t Have Spotify
Gar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #194
Remote New Zealand/$15K Hiking Fee/Southwest Airlines to Europe
What’s in my NOW? — Kern Kelley
Appetites: A Cookbook / Pride and Joy
Windshield
Calling out room dynamics/Teeny phone tripod/Purse hook
Airtags Data Sharing/Currency Declines/2025 Flight Prices
What’s in my NOW? — Leonor M.

McMansion Hell

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on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism”
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza
namesake mcmansion
the motel room, or: on datedness
texas gothic revival
ode to a faux grecian urn
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book!
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven
pre-recession, post-taste
Bonus McMansion Hell: Ye Olde Barrington
mojo dojo casa house
BONUS MCMANSION HELL: liminal edition
dome sweet dome
Hi everyone: I’ve written a long deep-dive on the present state of the McMansion, from farmhouse…
In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors - I…
In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually.
in which i take on the argument that windowless bedrooms will somehow solve the housing crisis (lol)
In my latest column for The Nation, I take on the specter of AI and the idea that it is coming for…

Serious Eats

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This Sweet and Sour Curry Is Iconic in Northern Thailand
These Homemade Real-Deal Thai Drunken Noodles Are *Way* Better Than Takeout
Make 2-Ingredient Chocolate Truffles With This Dead Simple Ganache
This Comforting Persian Stew Is the Cure-All for Your Winter Blues
This Easy Sheet-Pan Dinner Has Everything You Want in a Weeknight Meal
The Hearty All-American Sandwich Bread I'm Baking All Winter Long
Score Major Points on Game Day With These Fiery Chicken Wings
This Classic Italian Pasta Dish Is the Adult Way to Eat Ham and Cheese
Stop Serving Your Food Hot! The Scientific Argument for Room Temperature Food
We Taste-Tested 7 Graham Crackers—Here Are Our Favorites
Save Up to $277 on Le Creuset, All-Clad, and Other Tested Favorites at Williams Sonoma
These Homemade Beignets Are as Good as Café du Monde's
Steak Diane: A Retro Restaurant Classic That's Shockingly Easy to Make at Home
When It's Freezing Outside, These Soups Will Take the Chill off Your Bones
I Come From a Family of Chinese Restaurateurs—These Are the Kitchen Essentials We Used Every Day
Ohio's Shredded Chicken Sandwich Is Basically a Chicken Pot Pie on a Bun and It's Amazing
The Surprising Reason You Shouldn't Double Dip (It's Not Just Germs)
This Hearty Beef Stew Is French Country Food at Its Finest
Is the Ninja Slushi Worth It? I Made Frozen Cocktails and Frappés to Find Out
Le Creuset and Staub Dutch Ovens, Braisers, and More Are on Sale at Amazon—Up to $130 Off
Philly Fan or Not, You'll Love These Crispy Cheesesteak Egg Rolls
Your Oven Lies—These 5 Oven Thermometers Will Keep It Honest
Stop Tossing This "Garbage" Ingredient—Use It to Boost Your Stocks and Broths Instead
31 Valentine’s Day Gifts You’ll Want to Keep All for Yourself
I Tested 9 Popular Pie Weights to Find the 2 Sets Actually Worth Buying
Your Kitchen Is Missing This Fantastic Lodge Cast Iron Griddle That Doubles as a Grill
My Family’s Nourishing Mexican Meatball Soup Is Perfect for a Cold Day
These 17 Taco Recipes Will Make You Want Every Day to Be Tuesday
The Crispy, Cheesy Buffalo Chicken Snack I'm Making for the Super Bowl
14 Recipes Our Editors Are Cooking in February, Because We're All Just Trying to Make It to March
This Is the Best (and Easiest!) Thai Stir-Fried Noodle Dish to Make at Home, According to an Experienced Chef
Our Favorite Skillets From Le Creuset, Made In, Lodge, and More Are Up to 50% Off at Amazon
The Easy Method for Making Restaurant-Quality Garlic Naan at Home
14 Hearty Casseroles You'll Want to Bake All Winter
We Taste-Tasted 12 Sour Creams—Here Are Our Favorites
The Simple, Science-Backed Technique for Perfect Cacio e Pepe Every Single Time
The Gorgeous Masienda Tortilla Press Lets Me Make Fresh Tortillas on the Fly
How to Make Perfectly Crispy Tostones, According to a Puerto Rican Chef
Le Creuset’s Huge Sale Ends in 2 Days—Here's What's Still Worth Buying
Vitamix Has Seriously Good Deals at Amazon Right Now—Up to $131 Off
Love Shakshuka? This One-Pot Tuscan Soup Was Made for You
9 Chicken and Tomato Recipes to Savor When It's Dang Cold Outside
My Go-to Weeknight Meal Takes 10 Minutes to Prep and Requires Barely Any Cooking
I Tested Paper Towel Holders by Going Through Dozens of Rolls and Cleaning Up Lots of Messes
I Tried 21 Nonalcoholic Wines to Find Ones I'd Drink Any Night
The Surprising Trick to Achieving Bakery-Quality Apple Fritters at Home
This Clever 2-Minute Trick Takes My Salads From Good to Great
I Tested Fellow’s New Coffee Maker, and I’m Probably Done With Pour-Overs
I Tried This Air Fryer With a Glass Basket to See If It Stacks Up to Our Top Picks
This One-Pan Lemon-Pepper Chicken Is a Weeknight Hero
This One-Bowl Lemon Dessert Is Paul Hollywood’s “Favorite Cake of All Time”
Serious Eats Editors Can't Go a Day in the Test Kitchen Without These 11 Essential Tools
How to Make the Beloved Bento-Style Meal Thousands Enjoy in Taiwan Each Day
The Surprising Method for the Easiest 5-Minute Granola
How to Make a Restaurant-Quality Flourless Chocolate Cake
These Easy 5-Ingredient Crackers Are Scottish Grandma–Approved
Meet the Crispy, Crunchy, Juicy Pork Sandwich That's as Big as Your Head
Chicken and Rice Recipes: 10 Comforting Dishes From Around the World
11 Pescatarian Recipes That'll Have You Cruising the Seafood Aisle
FryAway Promises to Make Getting Rid of Cooking Oil Easy, But Does It Actually Work?
What Is Curry Powder? A Comprehensive Guide to the Spice Blend That Spans Cultures
5 Game-Changing Ways to Use Baking Soda for Better Meals
Winterify Your Taco Tuesday With This Cheesy, Tortilla-Topped Taco Soup
10 Hearty Beef Stew Recipes Because It's Soooo Cold Right Now
This New Countertop Milk Frother Is From a Space Heater Company, but Can It Make Smooth Foamed Milk?
10 Greek Yogurt Recipes to Use up That Tub Deliciously
12 Cozy Recipes Our Editors Are Making Right Now
After Testing 18 Aprons, I Found 7 (Stylish!) Options That’ll Keep Your Clothes Clean
A Steaming Bowl of This Filipino Beef Soup Brings Unparalleled Comfort
The Cheesy, Comforting Potato Dish Getting Us Through January
This Spin on Mississippi Pot Roast Is Seriously Delicious—and Doesn't Require a Slow Cooker
Is It a Bierock or a Runza? These Savory Midwestern Buns Are Delicious Either Way
Breville, Vitamix, and More Brands We Stand by Are Up to 50% Off at Amazon’s Winter Sale
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Why aren’t there mass protests in the US?!
Paid for dinner with my card, and my friend handed me these for his portion of the bill….
This makes me cry
Oligarchs Oppress Workers
Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support
As of yesterday the odds that the asteroid "2024 YR4" will impact Earth have increased to 1 in 42. The asteroid is estimated at 130 to 330 feet long, and would impact on December 22nd, 2032. The risk corridor crosses parts of India, sub-Saharan Africa, the Atlantic Ocean and Northern South America.
Talking is easy..
Trump signs executive order to establish a White House Faith Office
Thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.
AIO: My bf left me at the airport by myself after he made us late for the flight but miraculously made it.
A tree after it survived getting stuck by lightning.
How Google Maps Labels The Gulf Of Mexico (Gulf of America) In The US, UK & Mexico
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This needs to stop [OC]
Danes launch bid to 'buy California' and turn Disney World into Hans Christian Andersenland in retaliation for Trump's Greenland threats
Corporations have no business buying residential property
2 children dead, apparently froze to death in Detroit casino parking garage
Wer AfD wählt ist ein egoistischer Reicher oder ein Narr, der gegen die eigenen Interessen wählt
My mom named me after Naruto
Stay safe out there
Mcdonalds refuses to serve mollysnowcone
1967 - Me (front) and my Dad's band. Dad is left rear.
Kendrick Lamar’s Drake-baiting at the Super Bowl was a smokescreen - his Super Bowl show represented a righteous nation baring its teeth