The Economist

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“How shall we beguile/The lazy time, if not with some delight?” asks Theseus in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. For those in the northern hemisphere, here are some musical suggestions for the ideal summer evening

Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee

@tikitrocious.bsky.social

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! An indolent guest and his chauffeur challenge the gentrification within the ranks of a manor’s servants between those favored by the late lady and those not allowed into the attic recreation room. “Return to Upper Finsbury (2008).”

@whybirdstop.bsky.social

Unwelcome reminder today at a broader team building day that misogynists and sexist tendencies still pervade in the modern male. I am fortunate I rarely encounter it so blatantly, but ew

David Harvey

@topladave.bsky.social

The achievement shows kinetic energy from charged exhaust particles can be converted into useful electricity, but it's still not a working commercial reactor.

https://www.iflscience.com/nuclear-fusion-startup-transforms-plasma-energy-directly-into-electricity-in-first-for-private-sector-83986?fbclid=IwdGRzaAS19V1jbGNrBLX1WmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHrPMnfOS24TcKNngUiHA4qB_1UW4hHJ0FijGdGTkDvwy68OSXZt8FyO6uWKE_aem_u_He3sY0opyU2FVoxsqUhg&sfnsn=mo

Lionel B

@bakes4ever.bsky.social

Okay trump is immune from everything, his sycophants are promised pardons and therefore believe they’re immune too so will taking back congress and dems having subpoena power even matter? How about not issuing subpoenas and instead arresting and jailing those mofoers! A pardon is after conviction!

@lizcurses.bsky.social

So hot and humid.

Ice coffer for the win!

Jem Roberts: Author &c.

@jemroberts.bsky.social

I wonder, if Donald J Trump were in any way actually *intelligent*, even averagely, rather than intellectually subnormal, would that mitigate his crimes in any way, or perhaps prevented them?

The Petroglyphs

@petroglyphs.bsky.social

more girls need to incorporate aphrodisiac venom into their hunting techniques

Matt Cameron

@mattcameron.bsky.social

Trump v. Barbara may go down as one of the most expected outcomes in SCOTUS history and these people are holding it until the last minute just to look as beneficent and fair-minded as possible when they side with the plain text of the 14th Amendment over a memo that Stephen Miller wrote for Trump

Chris Gooch

@chrisdg.bsky.social

I would quibble over a few points, but the cost:profit ratio for pubs is probably right. This is why it is so easy for pubs to slip into making a loss

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r59fHAfdm8M&pp=0gcJCWQCo7VqN5tD&ra=m?v=r59f...