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Novelist: ANY HUMAN POWER Mytho-political thriller. Also Boudica: Dreaming Podcaster @AccidentalGods (R)Evolutionary Economist, Regenerative Smallholder #Thrutopian narratives: toward a future we'd be proud to leave behind #Shropshire #LBTQIAA+ #Writer
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mandascott.bsky.social
At what point are there so many ex-FBI who know each other and can co-ordinate that they represent an effective mechanism for resistance?
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muellershewrote.com
NEW: Andrew McCabe and I discuss the Comey arraignment, the James indictment, and the ongoing purge at the FBI. Free to listen and subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Bad Facts
Podcast Episode · UnJustified · 10/12/2025 · 1h 9m
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thecanaryuk.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: UNRWA tells the Canary Israel is still mounting a 'strangling siege' on Gaza

Despite the ceasefire, aid is still not fully getting in - with UNRWA telling the Canary that 6,000 of its trucks are held by Israel at Gaza's borders
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EXCLUSIVE: UNRWA tells the Canary Israel is still mounting a 'strangling siege' on Gaza
Despite the ceasefire aid is still not getting in, with UNRWA telling the Canary that 6,000 of its trucks are held by Israel at the border
www.thecanary.co
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muellershewrote.com
Back in the 90s when neo-nazi skinheads were everywhere, people wore colored laces in their Doc Martens to signify which side they were on. Red meant nazi, one black one white meant anti-racist, blue meant neutral, and green meant you like frogs and were anti-fascist. Been thinking about that a lot.
mandascott.bsky.social
Essential reading from John Fullerton over on Substack

Nora Bateson and Zak Stein explained...that abductive reasoning is essential...for paradigm shifts since induction and deduction within the same old paradigm cannot resolve the persistent anomalies we observe

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Here's Why I Wrote a Book When the World is on Fire.
Regenerative Economics: Revolutionary Thinking for a World in Crisis
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lrb.co.uk
‘Domestic judges cannot undo the case law of the Strasbourg court that so irritates a section of the political class and its journalist outriders. But they are doing everything short of that to make human rights as much of a domestic legal irrelevance as possible.’

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act
The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. None of this is being done in secret – the...
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jamellebouie.net
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
thomaszimmer.bsky.social
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
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wyrdscience.bsky.social
“John, why do you keep trying to shoehorn politics into games?”

“Because the Orlok impersonating vampiric presence that currently is the shadow president of the United States is about a week away from demanding he’s called Asdrubael Vect, that’s why”
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wyrdscience.bsky.social
“Ok yeah so what you have to understand is the reason the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Venezuela this weekend is because of a major misreading of a key plot point from Dan Abnett’s Horus Rising, yeah kinda sucks doesn’t it”
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wyrdscience.bsky.social
Totally not terrifying that there’s a very good chance that we’ll before the end of Trump 2, magazines like Wyrd Science will be required reading to understand why and how the most powerful people in the world are trying to immanentize the eschaton
sharonk.bsky.social
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
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thecanaryuk.bsky.social
Muslim Social Justice Initiative issue statement on murder of Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim

The judge gave the murderer of Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim a life sentence - saying that his defence was an absolute lie
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Muslim Social Justice Initiative issue statement on murder of Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim
The judge gave the murderer of Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim a life sentence - saying that his defence was an absolute lie
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patriotprogressive.bsky.social
Trump escalates his war on public health: RIFs slash CDC disease detectives and MMWR, data erased, ACIP replaced, BLS chief fired, jobs report halted, unions sue, Vought scripts the purge as RFK Jr reshapes HHS and Musk's USAID woodchipper.
Donald Trump's war on public health enters a new phase
Another bad day at the CDC
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patriotprogressive.bsky.social
At its worst yet: Chicago immigrant advocates face authoritarian ICE intimidation. 800 calls in a day. Rapid responders pepper sprayed, slammed, tailed, even detained though citizens. Civil society under siege for merely documenting arrests.
‘It’s Never Been This Bad’ - The Atlantic
Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.
www.theatlantic.com
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socialmedialab.ca
"Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation, as he strongly backed a free, independent and objective press." apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
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boldpolitics.bsky.social
"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"
mandascott.bsky.social
River-cat (Maine Coon) totally *not* ceding lap space to the new pup...

#Caturday (late)
#CatsofBlueSky
#DogsofBlueSky
#NewPup
Silver blue Maine Coon hogging person's lap with small red brindle lurcher pup to the side learning who has priority space.