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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

Some thirteen year old from Arkansas: Mooooooooom, former president of Syria bashar al-assad is making fun of me on Fortnite

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 5h

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 17h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 16h

6-4 for Saskatchewan. They need to light up the Argos secondary so I can get my needed sleep time.

Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 16h

Will Saskatchewan blow out the hapless Argos?

I kind of hope so, because I’m tired.

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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 23h

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.

Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
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The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

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Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 19h

No point in messing around with 20, 30%. Gotta make it a hundred to show that you are President Deals.

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Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 19h

Luckily for the US, their shipbuilding industry largely collapsed years ago. As the article notes, a lot less ships would get hit by these Chinese fees.

Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 19h

Sharon entering her 30-50 feral hog posting era.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

I don't think there's any better example of leopards eating faces than the Lebanese immigrant who opened a Trump-themed burger restaurant and then got arrested by ICE.

Chron.com @chron.com · 20h

🍔 Houston’s Trump Burger appears to have shut its doors after a brief run on Chimney Rock: bit.ly/46LpQAx

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Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 19h

He’s got three weeks to chicken out in. That’s an eternity in 2025. Hellfire, a few hours ago the main crisis was the Nobel Peace Prize being given to Venezuela because of nefarious lobbying by Antifa.

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Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 20h

Although I am happy to argue that the United States cannot be forced to default on US dollar debts, an open-ended guarantee of Argentina would severely test that theory. Because Argentina.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20h

A meme saying “EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM: TARIFF GRANDPA HAS AWOKEN, TARIFFS TO 10000%”

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

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Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 20h

The straight faces of everyone behind him when he says that is the funny bit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 1d

Two solitudes?

Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 1d

“Get your animal-grade soybean sloppy joes here!”

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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 1d

lol.lmao even.

EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 1d

White House slams Nobel ‘politics over peace’ snub

The White House on Friday (10 October) criticised the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award ...

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

NEW CANADIAN JOBS DATA:

Employment Growth: +60k
Unemployment Rate: 7.1% (+0%)
Prime Age (25-54) Employment Rate: 83.3% (+0.6%)
Employment Level: 21.0M

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

sorry mr yang, force is fungible

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Brian Romanchuk @brianromanchuk.bsky.social · 1d

New word of the day: sickout. As in “They did a sickout all over the control tower.”

Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 1d

Air traffic controllers are enaging increasing sickouts around the United States to protest the government shutdown

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Air Traffic Controller "Sick Out" in Atlanta, Chicago and Nashville

Air Traffic Controller sick outs grow around the United States

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

wow she is bringing a new kind of energy and vision to the news business

a roundtable discussion with two older establishment Democrats and a conservative

could she get John McLaughlin to host or is that too far out there

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 1d

I was not quite prepared for the first UST currency intervention since buying USDJPY after the earthquake being selling USDARS instead of (as I had hoped, expected, and advocated) selling USDJPY above 150 which they have had a couple of occasions to do in recent years.

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 1d

Bet they pitched it as the
Arc de Trumphe

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