gronk
I'm trying to make the world a kinder, gentler place. One where you could bring the fuckin' children.
- Reposted by gronknever let anybody tell u that evil does not exist
- Reposted by gronkone of the great disconnects around public policy: it is often incredibly expensive to do invasive anti-fraud measures and you end up spending more money than the actual cost of the fraud you're preventing and of course it makes the user experience miserable every single time
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- Reposted by gronkThis dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10
- Reposted by gronkHide your donut. Ice, cream. On the way really . Too funny 🤣😃😁😄🤣😅🥹
- Reposted by gronkThings are going great at the ICC US staffers have been warned they risk arrest if they return home to visit family. Six senior officials have left the court over concerns about sanctions. Israel’s Knesset is considering making providing evidence to the court a crime. ICC increasingly paralyzed.
- Reposted by gronk“The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. The Hague-based court’s American staffers have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.” By @mollyquell.bsky.social
- Reposted by gronk🇫🇷🇺🇦 The first guarantee of security for Ukraine will be a strong army, — Macron 🗣️ He said that "since Ukraine will not join NATO", Europe must provide other security guarantees. In particular, this concerns strengthening AFU and deploying allied troops in strategic points on Ukrainian territory.
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- Reposted by gronkEuropeans need to grow some balls. In 2015 Turkish F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24 aircraft after it breached Turkish airspace for just 17 seconds. Today, Russian Su-35 breached Estonian airspace and interfered with an Estonian military operation to arrest a Russian oil tanker.
- Reposted by gronkHouston, we have a problem 🚨 #alwaysbecharging ⚡️⚡️ 🚀🚀
- Global EV sales (full EV & plug-ins) topped 17 million in 2024, up by >25% y-on-y, according to #IEA data (PHEV accounted for ~38% of those sales in 2024) #alwaysbecharging "over 5M barrels a day oil savings by 2030 - Javier Blas" full report: @iea.org www.iea.org/reports/glob...
- Reposted by gronkTHOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Stopping anthropogenic climate change is terraforming on "easy" mode. Until we can sort out global warming we have no business considering terraforming Mars.
- Reposted by gronkIn der Berner Vorortsgemeinde Köniz hatte sich Mitte April eine Stockente scheinbar nicht im Griff. Das Tier raste mit 52 Stundenkilometern durch eine Tempo-30-Zone und wurde dabei auf frischer Tat ertappt. Das Foto einer Radarfalle zeigt, wie das Tier scheinbar in viel zu hohem Tempo unterwegs ist
- Reposted by gronkDe insecten verdwijnen en Parkinson en ALS zijn met een opmars bezig: het is tijd voor sierteelt zonder gif www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
- Reposted by gronkThey get special white robes and hoods, courtesy of their fellow South African “refugee 🤨”, Musk. 👀
- Reposted by gronkI had no idea samurai in feudal Japan were that dedicated to troubleshooting Flash
- Reposted by gronkNYT: The Wisconsin judge arrested last month and accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday on charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of proceedings. 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
- Reposted by gronkPost-modern public diplomacy in the age of post-reality.
- Reposted by gronk"The world you move through was built by people who thought sideways. Who flapped their hands or didn’t look you in the eye. Who were told they were too much, or not enough, or broken in ways the world hadn’t bothered to understand. Neurodivergent minds imagined the future. And then invented it." 🖤
- This op-ed is freaking beautiful and everyone should read it www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
- Reposted by gronkDeportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer
- Reposted by gronkZeer zorgelijk! Of het toeval is of niet, maar mijn fruitbomen hebben op zich een goede bloei gehad, maar ze dragen weinig of geen vruchten. Als er een verband is met de hoge bijensterfte, dan zouden bv. fruittelers in de Betuwe (hemelsbreed vanaf 10km) hier ook schade van ondervinden.
- Reposted by gronktrue story! Jeri Ryan was previously married to 2004 Republican senate candidate Jack Ryan during the senate campaign, the Tribune got their custody records unsealed and it turns out Jack was a huge sex creep, leading him to withdraw Obama trounced Alan Keyes and the rest is history
- Reposted by gronkThe Most Important Slide of the Month China and Western economies lead emissions reductions #alwaysbecharging
- Reposted by gronkDie Frühjahrsdürre scheint sich auszudehnen. Das Europäische Wettermodell ECMWF prognostiziert für Juni bis August hohe Temperaturen und Trockenheit. Bei allen Unsicherheiten der Prognose: Wir müssen das Wasser in der Landschaft halten, Auen vergrößern,Moore vernässen und Wald klimastabiler machen.
- Reposted by gronkShell wil nieuwe olie en gasvelden aanboren om zo ruim 30x zoveel co2 uit te stoten als heel Nederland in een jaar. Laat Shell van onze aarde geen hell maken in hun eindeloze zucht naar meer, meer, meer aandeelhouderswinst. Steun de nieuwe Klimaatzaak: milieudefensie.nl/nieuwezaak
- Reposted by gronkSchon bei der Kommune nachgefragt, wie der Hitzeschutzplan für Ältere und Kinder aussieht?
- Wer genau hinschaut, erkennt die bevorstehende Klimakatastrophe. weather.com/de-DE/wetter...
- Reposted by gronkI'm currently reading 'On Writing Well' by William Zinsser. I'm always trying to become a better writer and wondering why it sometimes feels so hard. Well, I now wish I had read this earlier: 😂
- Reposted by gronkpeople need to bring this up more about reagan
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- Reposted by gronkDoes this mean they are going arrest our immigration-status-questionable First Lady? gizmodo.com/gop-senator-...
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- Reposted by gronkthis is not an exaggeration
- Reposted by gronkThe Afrikaner stunt is the kind of thing that has backfired so far -- it creates legal arguments for other refugees about animus. But holy hell he's not hiding the white sheets.
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- Reposted by gronkZelensky is showing exactly the right way to deal with Putin and Trump. Call their bluff, and show you won’t play their game. Hopefully this will help galvanise Europe to fully commit to the Ukrainian cause.
- Reposted by gronkyou want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen” the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety” who are people going to take seriously?
- Reposted by gronkSpain, you could do the funniest thing right now...
- Reposted by gronkwhat these people mean is that they themselves will work hard to paint her as an extreme leftist and sabotage her chances because they prefer being ruled as subjects by Trump and his ghouls to AOC gaining power
- Reposted by gronk“A fossil frenzy is going on with no end in sight. Rich oil-producing nations are expanding their production like there’s no tomorrow (and at the current pace, there really won’t be).” www.climatechangenews.com/2025/05/08/c...
- Reposted by gronk“I will not be a member of a party that overlaps with far right populists in any respect.” They’re fighting the 2029 election when they should be implementing the result of the 2024 election. And they’re fighting it cosplaying as Reform. Hard nope.
- Reposted by gronkThis is hardly the most important part of this, but I do think it’s worth noting that if President Obama, specifically, had accepted a half billion dollar gift from a Muslim-majority country, no one in right-wing media would be alive, because all of them would have suffered on-air aneurysms.
- Reposted by gronkHappy mother's day to all those motherboards out there
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- Reposted by gronkThis is a good interview and not because of the shout out (although thank you!). It accurately points out how anti-science tech has become. The thermodynamics point alone is worth the read. Because it’s become a folk theory among AI shills but their science is wrong!
- @adambecker.bsky.social I didn't know who you were when I woke up today, but an author quoting @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and Ursula LeGuin in an article about why, among other things, colonizing Mars is a delusional fantasy hits every checkbox I need to go buy your book.
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- Reposted by gronkSpotted on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn
- Reposted by gronk“Het algoritme is namelijk zo behaagziek als een lakei. De chatbot is jou nooit moe. Altijd beschikbaar. Oneindig geduldig. Nooit zal hij recht voor z’n raap zeggen dat je minder moet zeuren. Mooi geweest nu. Dit gelul slaat nergens op” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
- Reposted by gronkSometimes I wonder if the comparisons of the Trump administration to the Nazis are overdone, and then someone in the administration comes along and proves that they are not.
- Reposted by gronkSo let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
- Reposted by gronk🇫🇷🤝🇺🇦 Zelensky and Macron are not just allies, but close friends, - NYT The presidents of Ukraine and France no longer even use official diplomatic channels, but simply call each other on the phone - on secure lines, WhatsApp and Signal. In one interview, Zelensky called Macron "an expert on war."
