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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 27m

I was being fascecious but in all seriousness it's time to get rid of the gentocracy on both sides. The Palestinians are the only people who should be choosing their own rulers.

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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 30m

It may not be flashy but slowly and surely its getting done ! Slavia Ukrania

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 1h

😎🇺🇦 Our troops advanced up to 3.5 km, destroying a significant number of Russian occupiers and taking prisoners — the General Staff on the situation in the Zaporizhzhia direction.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 1h

🇺🇦✌️ Mali Shcherbaky, Shcherbaky has been completely liberated, Stepove has been almost cleared by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, — Ukrainian soldiers write.

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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 34m

The only solution is to disarm Israel and Hamas and rebuild civil society from the bottom up.

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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 1h

Crypto isn't a legitimate business end of

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h

In a huge coincidence, a Bitcoin billionaire just-so-happened to put up massive leveraged bets against Bitcoin and Ethereum right before Trump posted about new tariffs on China, prompting a market crash.

$200m in profits instantly. $200m we know about, because they likely used many accounts.

Early Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B Right Before Tariffs, Now Up $27M - How Did He Know?

Satoshi-era whale shorted $1.1B in BTC and ETH 30 minutes before Trump tariffs, banking $190M-$200M as liquidations hit $19.33B.

cryptonews.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 21h

Things I did not know 5 mins ago (I mean I knew Tom Morello was cool af but I didn't know he was related to Kenyatta)

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22h

Tom Morello not only has a social sciences degree from Harvard, his great-uncle was also JOMO KENYATTA

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22h

Tom Morello not only has a social sciences degree from Harvard, his great-uncle was also JOMO KENYATTA

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23h

I can't emphasize how important it is for people to understand that unless something FAR BIGGER than an election win happens, this is a pipe dream.

It would take quite a bit to get past qualified immunity.

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 23h

I can't emphasize enough how important it is that the next attorney general set a team to go through ICE records with a fine tooth comb and prosecute individual agents.

It's the only way to stop this from happening again.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 22h

Yoink also

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

Alas, somebodye took the German holidaye fruit breade. It was stollen!

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

In August, Russia's profit from the sale of ALL energy resources (crude oil, petroleum products, gas, LNG, and coal) reached its lowest level since 2022, at €546 million per day.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 22h

Plus we already got the best Tron update we'll ever have: Wreck-It Ralph.

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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 1d

Technically not handed out by the state if another prisoner stabbed him so alles gut. Wont be missed.

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 1d

The Mansion House, At Helen's Square, York. Commissioned by the Lord Mayor of York in 2018, so he could sell it for charity, at the pencil stage.

#MansionHouseYork
#pencil #drawing
#ArtShare

Pencil drawing of a three storey building in the Classical style.

Pencil drawing of some railings in front of a Classical style building with sken people passing the building.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 1d

“Frogs, sir. Thousands of ‘em.”

Stanley Baker and Nigel Green, in Victorian red army uniform, in Zulu

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 3d

These are by John Aldridge and are being shown (and are for sale) at Rowe and Williams in Yoxford. They were used to illustrate When Adam was a Ploughman.

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

It's Bookshop Day.

*looks in the mirror*

I'm a bookshop!

So, it seems like a great time to encourage you to buy books from me.

BUY BOOKS FROM ME PLEASE.

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 1d

Hope in Fiction,

Are we living in the darkest timeline? Probably.

Can storytelling still inspire us? Absolutely.

Is the future set? You tell us.

These collections from our Clarke Award authors may just be the creative fire you were looking for!

👉 uk.bookshop.org/lists/hope-i...

Text: hope in fiction. short story collections to inspire

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

📌 Reverend David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks out after being shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

I found the war on Christianity

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Take, take, take.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d

Since many of you cannot read my 2019 piece on tear gas in Nature, I will kindly replicate it for you:

Kaszeta, Dan. "Restrict use of riot-control chemicals." Nature 573.7772 (2019): 27-29.

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