Luke MacKinnon

I retweet dumpster fires.🇨🇦

A Hatter, not too mad.

Retweets aren't endorsements & retweet things I disagree with but may in the future be salient.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Remarkable onboard footage from a Ukrainian Yak-52 backseat gunner shooting down Russian Shahed attack drones from an open cockpit with his rifle.

[もふもふ動画 @tyomateee2]

爬虫類のザラザラ感にハマってしまった猫さん…🐈

[Pizza @number_pizza111]

Is there a name for the Two Goombas Fallacy that isn’t “Two Goonbas Fallacy?”

It’s a very real phenomenon but you can’t say the term for it in any serious setting.

[Jaketropolis @jaketropolis]

"Your witty wordplay based on the prompt is admirable, but I've deployed a vulgar slur for my answer. That appears to be Quiplash, Mr. Bond."

[Ado🇧🇦🌻 @RiverBalija]

just saw someone with a quebec flag on their house in rural bosnia what are you doing here bro

[Daily Nancy Comic Strips. @Callicutt5John]

April 1,1952

[Kevin Fallon @kpfallon]

This is so candid and fascinating.

[Richard Amador @acuriocabinet]

There's this haunting tale by Arthur C. Clarke where a Tibetan temple hires some computer engineers to set up a supercomputer to print out all the names of God.

They believe that stating God's nine billion names is the entire purpose of the universe. And they've been working on it for millennia. But they reckon a supercomputer would be much faster performing this sacred duty.

The story ends with the two engineers coming down the mountain and laughing about the silliness of it all. Then they notice that "overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."

I really love that story because it shows the hubris of technology and how we might unleash forces far more powerful than we understand through it.

[🇮🇴WilliamTheBonqueror @BillTheKid1603]

UK Prime ministers pension was not designed for today's dependence ratio of 1 working PM to 9 former PMs

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

A floating research station resembling a giant aluminium igloo set out from France to begin a long-term mission in the Arctic that will see it drift with the polar ice to explore biodiversity and the impact of climate change.
https://t.co/P8TMPTaL57

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

Rosalind Byrne perfects the art of the silent "not a chance" ....with Buster Keaton in "Seven Chances" (1925)

[Lorcan🌹 @panamahatlover]

The Co-Operative party after joining a permanent electoral pact with Labour in 1927

[Veronique @prettier_sister]

A 43 year old HVAC technician from Ohio with a stay at home wife who reheats frozen quesadillas for their 3 overweight kids every evening is looking at this and nodding sagely.

[dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DandyGeorgism]

1995: oh cool you can buy books online now

2026: the company that owns Whole Foods and Lord of the Rings is experiencing setbacks with its space program

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Fascinating WSJ story showing that many Booomers are not only not downsizing their homes, they're instead upsizing and getting large ones. Empty-nest baby boomers own 28% of U.S. homes with three bedrooms compared with 16% for millennials with children.

https://t.co/RXhHleMFAA

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

If you ever suggested a link between voting and money that was this direct you’d have been censured on the House floor a few years ago. (That actually happened.)