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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

amazing grace

“Brand has pivoted away from acting and has worked to refashion himself as an anti-establishment commentator, and made news last year announcing he'd been baptized.

The baptism came months after numerous women alleged they were sexually assaulted by him between 2006 and 2013.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russell-brand-charged-with-multiple-counts-of-rape-and-assault-in-the-u-k/ar-AA1CiBl8

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Gosh, I’m sure glad I’m not underemployed, closer than I’d like to retirement age, and planning to rely heavily on 401(k) investments that I was able to make when I was being paid well! Ha ha ha (sob) ha

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ZLabe@fediscience.org ("Zack Labe") wrote:

Happy Friday! Here's your latest ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data)...

• about 480,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 870,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,420,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,840,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Additional plots: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between February and May by looking at the decadal average line positions.

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calmeilles@mstdn.social ("Matthew Malthouse") wrote:

You just know that this is true, don't you.

#Politics #Economics #tariffs #Trump

Post by vfxgordon Also note that the tariffs are not broken down by country, they're broken down by top level internet domain. It's why islands that are populated entirely by penguins (the .hm domain) and why the Diego Garcia military base on BIOT (.io) are listed, also why Reunion (.re) and Gibraltar (.gi) are listed separately from France & the UK. They 100% used an LLM to generate this list and didn't catch the mistake because they're all dumb as rocks.

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Just one box?

RE: https://www.threads.net/@lisadubbels/post/DH%5FjswIPJ1V

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:

Periodically polish your luxury sports cat to maintain that showroom shine.

#Caturday

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TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben") wrote:

ⓘ 𝘜𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘴

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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Don't forget.

Via Harry Dunn:

This isn't just donalds doing. The Republicans in Congress own this. They had the ability to stop him and they didn't. This isn't donalds economy, this is the republican economy.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
petersuber@fediscience.org wrote:

Update. From #MikeTaylor (@mike): "#Musk…in the last few months has possibly done more to impede the progress of science worldwide that literally any other person in history…I will not submit any of my papers to #RoyalSociety journals, as I have done in the past, and I urge others to take the same step. Similarly I will no longer be providing peer reviews for Royal Society journals, and I urge every other scientist also to withhold voluntary professional labour. And I will no longer contribute to their conferences, and urge others to join me in this."
https://svpow.com/2025/04/04/the-royal-society-is-dead/

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rarepublic ("ruffy") wrote:

Meme; Panel 1: fourier Transforamtion transforming time-domain in frequency domain. Panel 2: courier Transformation transforming a undamaged package into a damaged package.

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augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Trump's Liberation Day is liberating me from my retirement plans. Screen caps are from The Financial Times, The Economist, and the Wall Street Journal. Make America Poor Again. 😡

If it endures, Donald Trump’s decision on April 2 2025 to enact sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on US trade partners will go down as one of the greatest acts of self-harm in American economic history. They will wreak untold damage on households, businesses and financial markets across the world, upending a global economic order that America benefited from and helped to create.
IF YOU FAILED to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States. It's hard to know which is more unsettling: that the leader of the free world could spout complete drivel about its most successful and admired economy. Or the fact that on April 2nd, spurred on by his delusions, Donald Trump announced the biggest break in America’s trade policy in over a century—and committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era.
The President’s ideological fixation on tariffs is crowding out rational judgments about the consequences. Americans are being told to accept the pain of higher prices, a slower economy, and shrinking 401(k) balances in the name of Mr. Trump’s project to transform the American economy into what he imagines it was like in the McKinley era of the 1890s. We wonder if the working-class voters who are supposed to be the vanguard of the new GOP will feel as good about the pain as they try to make ends meet paycheck to paycheck.

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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

Truly it is the year of linux in the trade war.

First they came for the lgbtq+ community and i said no. Then they came for the people of different races and again I said no. And when they came for the poor, I proudly said no. Now they are here for the penguins and I’m just fucking confused.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carstenfranke ("Carsten Franke") wrote:

Ooopsy

Chart of the S&P 500 stock index shows another steep drop of 3.6% two days after the tariffs were announced by idiot trump

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wi8x@mastodon.radio ("Chris - WI8X") wrote:

From N4RTD via WI8X@5:41a.m. EDT on 4/4/25:
Good Morning Folks! The Sunspot Number has dropped to 124. The Solar Flux Index has dropped to 178. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are likely. Chance of flares today: 70% for M-Class, 15% for X-Class.

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"According to a report from recruiting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas released on Thursday, 275,240 people lost their jobs last month. That is a fuckton of people. In fact, it is the third highest number of jobs lost in a single month since they first started tracking job cuts in 1989, the other two being the first two months of the COVID pandemic.

~ Robyn Pennacchia

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #jobs
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/here-come-the-layoffs

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

#Trumpcession

Via Kyle Griffin:

JPMorgan has published a research note raising its odds of a global recession to 60% in response to #Trump’s #tariffs.

#TrumpTax

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cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Poll: AOC leads Schumer

by double digits

in head-to-head New York primary matchup

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/04/schumer-aoc-poll-primary-new-york-030621

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augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now down 10% since inauguration day, less than three months ago.

With the stock market plunging, Trump is golfing today.

Four years of faux outrage over the Biden economy, and Trump is manufacturing a recession, possibly a depression, while right-wing media and the GOP fall in line. FOX News removed the stock ticker from the screen for the first time in 28 years. The hypocrisy is infuriating.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

what a tone-deaf and slimy move... dead soldiers are just "suckers and losers" to this [redacted]

"Donald Trump has been criticised for his absence during the dignified transfer of four U.S. soldiers who tragically lost their lives in a training accident in Lithuania. Instead, he was spotted playing golf at his Trump National Doral Miami golf course for a LIV Golf event."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/2036890/donald-trump-slammed-missing-transfer-dead-soldiers-golf

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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

Suckers and losers.

In more way than one

A GOVX Poll reported 66% of active-duty personnel and 68% of veterans voted for Trump in 2024

Why would he honor you?

Headline Donald Trump slammed for missing dignified transfer of 4 dead US soldiers for golf event Donald Trump was slammed for missing the dignified transfer of four U.S. soldiers who were killed in Lithuania during a training accident, in order to play golf If you voted for this man at any time but especially in the last election you are literally worthless

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b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

working on this drawing for the “secret rules of the terminal" zine

a black & white line drawing of a house that says “haus of terminal”

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art ("Michael Whelan") wrote:

Cover illustration for FOUR-DAY PLANET AND FOUR STAR PLANET by H. Beam Piper (Ace) 3/3

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/four-day-planet/

Book cover for FOUR-DAY PLANET AND LONE STAR PLANET by H. Beam Piper, published by Ace Books.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeff@newsie.social ("Jeff (of the internet)") wrote:

Feels very 2007

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MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art ("Michael Whelan") wrote:

FOUR DAY PLANET (1978)
Acrylic on Masonite - 30" x 20"

With science fiction covers, I’m more interested in having a painting be about the figures in the composition, so the technology almost always takes a back seat to whatever else is going on. 1/3

#sciencefiction #scifi #scifiart #sff #illustration #hbeampiper

A long necked sea monster with a snake-like head, huge lidded eyes, and prominent fangs looms large on approach from the cockpit of a low flying spacecraft. The immediate foreground is saturated red, a contrast to the rough blue seas outside. The pilot grips the controls, studying the targeting screen in a tense moment of action as he locks onto the creature.

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Callers to my radio show—as well as when I posed this question [of why Trump is crashing the economy] online—overwhelmingly responded that Trump is doing this because he is a 'Russian asset.' His goal is to 'Make Russia Great Again' at the expense of the United States."

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #crash #SmootHawley #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction #Putin #PutinsPoodle
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"CNBC’s Jim Cramer warned two weeks ago that Donald Trump was 'manufacturing' a recession with his potential massive tariffs. As Cramer correctly explained, history books tell us that the massive tariffs imposed in 1930 known as 'Smoot Hawley' by GOP President Herbert Hoover 'was a direct cause of the of the Depression.'”

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #crash #SmootHawley #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction
/5

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-is-following-herbert-hoovers

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Brian Stelter points to an AP article in March drawing attention to these words of Trump last August:

"If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash, a 1929-style depression. 1929. When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand new Trump economic boom."

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #crash #recession #inflation #MobBoss #stupidity #incompetence #destruction
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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17437726770173f149ef9ebf8/raw

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

My career.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/04/the-real-secret/

Q: How do you stay happy in such a boring job? A: It's about perspective. I'v e been here thirty years and the entire time I've imagined every action I took as part of a specific elaborate ritual to summon Satan's kingdom upon Earth.

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Well, let's see what the stupid people have in store for us today shall we

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Please, Jeremy Boreing, go away. Your movies and media are bad, and you are bad.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/04/the-end-of-the-daily-wire/

Jeremy Boreing trying to sell shaving products and the conservative agenda