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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 6h

In Colombia we also have "more lost than Adam on Mothers' Day."

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 16h

Learn more about publishing in @sjms.bsky.social!

@sjasmith.bsky.social (editor of @defencestudies.bsky.social) and I had a pleasant chat about publishing in Military Studies with Queen's University's On Defence and Security Podcast series

www.queensu.ca/cidp/podcast...

Publishing On Defence and Security | Centre for International and Defence Policy

Oct 9, 2025 | Podcast | Watch/listen to Episode 1 of 'Publishing On Defence and Security'. Listen on Youtube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify

www.queensu.ca

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Thierry @tkrombac.bsky.social · 2h

Congratulations to @jlsiweck.bsky.social and the Zeenenwiessel staff. Their reporting is outstanding, in depth and entertaining.
Also, a new series is coming out right now about platform economy. Great show!

Jean-Lou Siweck @jlsiweck.bsky.social · 3h

So happy about this: Carambolage, the Radio 100,7 podcast series about the Caritas affair, was recognised by a « Special Commendation » at this year’s prestigious Prix Europa in the Best European Audio Investigation category. /1

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 2h

This explains what people build in American suburbs.

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: North Korean scam workers now appear to have moved from freelance IT work to designing buildings for customers in the US. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/north-...

North Korean Scammers Are Doing Architectural Design Now

New research shows that North Koreans appear to be trying to trick US companies into hiring them to develop architectural designs using fake profiles, résumés, and Social Security numbers.

www.wired.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 8h

30-50 feral frogs

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 19h

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 16h

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 20h

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 16h

🌙 Sorcha the Starry Night Octopus (Callistoctopus luteus) 💫🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BlueSkyNightMarket #BSNM #Invertebrates #InsertAnInvert 🦑🐡

A vibrant red octopus sculpture with many white spots, depicting the species Callistoctopus luteus, also known as the Starry Night Octopus.

The octopus is holding several tiny Swarovski crystals, sitting inside a shell. It is hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted with acrylics. It is coated in epoxy resin for protection and shine.

It's being held up by the artist's left hand over a black background.

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bombona de 20L @djosef.bsky.social · 16h

*contra o flamengvs

Pedro @pglopes.bsky.social · 1d

falei com o companheiro Georgius, ele queria fazer a guerra contra a Gália, e eu disse: minha guerra é contra a fome

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Brian Galle @bdgesq.bsky.social · 20h

I have a book-length exploration of the economic and tax policy implications of this fact coming next month with @rooseveltinstitute.org : "How to Tax the Rich." You're going to like the retail price (it starts with 0 and ends with 0). Have your download fingers ready.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Jack-o'-Lantus @oxnardmantalvo.bsky.social · 18h

Instant classics, all.

A green road sign that reads,
⬆️ DUBOIS 10
⬅️PARADISE 3
⬅️DESIRE 5
⬅️PANIC 7

A green rectangular road sign that reads, "VIRGINVILLE, NEXT RIGHT"

A blue road sign with gold trim and lettering in the keystone/rectangle shape of many PA road signs that reads,
"EAST EARL TWP
BLUE BALL
NAMED FOR
"THE BLUE BALL" HOTEL
FOUNDED
1766"

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 17h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Glauber Macario @glaubermacario.bsky.social · 18h

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magdiel @137magdiel.bsky.social · 21h

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Quedesenholegal @quedesenholegal.bsky.social · 1d

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 17h

WuT Da fUcK!??!

Why in god’s name would the Qatari need a base in MFing Idaho (also, thanks autocorrect for capitalizing the mf) other than as an outright bribe!?!?!?!? Where da fuck are congressional republicans!?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 17h

supermassively happy for two of the most attractive things in the universe

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 17h

In space news, astronomers have not just confirmed but photographed the existence of a black hole pair finding two in a locked 12 year orbit of each other www.utu.fi/en/news/pres...

Scientists capture an image of two black holes circling each other for the first time

For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other. The observation confirmed the existence of black hole pairs.

www.utu.fi

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Ju Ronconi @exausta.bsky.social · 18h

Esse quadro me lembra uma piada que o padre que me crismou contava (é, galera). Tava o missionário na selva, um homem de muita fé, deu de cara com a onça e orou: senhor, dai sentimentos cristãos a essa onça! No que a onça junta as patas da frente e ora: senhor, obrigado pelo alimento que me destes 🙏🏻

Manfredovski @manfredovski.bsky.social · 1d

Misionario Comido pela onça, pintura do artista colombiano Noé León (1907-1978)

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 17h

(Not me, though, I think I attended a handful of lectures before deciding to take the mandatory course later in my degree)

Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 17h

My favourite bit of random US news, as he taught corporate law to my class in Brazil #smallworld

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 20h

Man is shooting rats in his yard. He happens to live next door to a synagogue and it happens to be Yom Kippur and he's a visiting professor at Harvard. Harmeet Dhillon of DOJ concludes this is antisemitism in the Ivy League: