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I don't description well. Not a bot, last I checked. Sometimes I crochet things. I like cats. I dislike billionaires and their apologists.

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 8h

1. NO ONE ON EARTH should be capable of dismissing the loss of "a couple of hundred billion dollars." No one should have so much in the first place.
2. If this doesn't make clear how eagerly they're all salivating at the prospect of worldwide slavery, I don't know what will. They keep telling you!

An excerpt from an article in Reuters dated October 8, 2025 and titled, "Markets face 'sharp correction' if mood sours on AI or Fed freedom, Bank of England says" (paywalled, but accessible via https://archive.ph/trjvZ) is subheaded, "AI VALUATIONS ECHO PEAK OF DOTCOM BOOM." Body text reads:

On AI, the Bank of England said that 30% of the U.S. S & P 500's valuation was made up by the five largest companies, the greatest concentration in 50 years.

Chipmaker Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google-parent Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook-parent Meta have all bet heavily on AI.

Share valuations based on past earnings were the most stretched since the dotcom bubble 25 years ago, though looked less so based on investors' expectations for future profits.

"This, when combined with increasing concentration within market indices, leaves markets particularly exposed should expectations around the impact of AI become less optimistic," the Bank of England said.

Last month Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said he would rather misspend a couple of hundred billion dollars than risk being late to the AI expansion.

In August, almost half of fund managers polled by Bank of America judged that owning the seven largest U.S. tech stocks was the most crowded trade in the industry.

Despite these concerns, the S & P 500 hit a record high on Tuesday, up 14% on the year to date.

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mivox is exHAUNTed 👻 @bs.mivox.net · 1d

Three people protesting outside the Portland, OR ICE facility, dressed in inflatable frog costumes, holding a small sign that says “Portland Frog Brigade”.

Over top of the photo is white text reading: “Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."”

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1h

EDITOR'S NOTE: "I teach my children that their lives have purpose. That they come from ancestors who made something out of nothing," Torsheta Jackson writes.

Editor’s Note | What Bees Can Teach Us About Community

Torsheta Jackson writes about how bees are wired for community and about her own role in her own “hive.”

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 1h

QT this post with someone you wish was still alive.

Joe Strummer, lead singer and songwriter for The Clash, is shown in a black-and-white photograph of late 1970s vintage. He is wearing a white t-shirt on which part of an illustration of a drum kit can be seen. He is holding a guitar and seated before a table, glancing slightly to his left, away from the camera.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 23h

I have to finish this research and turn it in because money …
But also

I can’t read glibly dehumanizing language masked in “community” for much longer, apply for jobs, plan on being evicted/ moving out, prep for a book tour, set up a consultancy

All ya once

I’m wiped

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 4d

The thing about this is, is this is how born-rich people *already* do it - whether it's making art, or starting a business, or whatever they successfully do. They already know it works.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 2d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 4h

Should have been Woody Allen.

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 12h

this, fyi, is why we keep insisting that you can care about more than one thing.

Fight transphobia.

Don't stop fighting climate change.

Abolish ICE.

Be antiracist.

Support your community.

Demand safety for Palestinians.

We can and must fight for all of it.

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 14d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 15d

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GᵣₐbₜₕₑWₑₙₑₛₛ @ayankdownunder.bsky.social · 4h

Wrong 79 year old.

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 4h

Look at her work here. ALL done with her face. She doesn't say a word.

She doesn't have to.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfAZ...

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 23d

They’re mad at anti fascism because they’re fascists

They’re mad at anti racism because they’re racists

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 6h

There’s a March for Health and Science being organized in DC for Wednesday, November 5.

MARCH FOR HEALTH & SCIENCE
Washington DC, November 5@4PM

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 9h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 6h

"People prefer screens to real life and that's why democracy is dying" is "nobody wants to work anymore and that's why everything's broken," but for possibly even lazier, chintzier douchebags. Projection is a thing. Especially, though not exclusively, among white people. We should knock that off.

pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 6h

If you have the time to attend city council meetings, if you have the transportation and the means, go for it. I think that's wonderful.

If you're mad more people don't go, figure out what they'd need to attend, and help them to get it.

...I mean, surely you don't prefer algorithms and screens?

pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 6h

I can tell who's never reckoned up how many hours it'd take them to hustle at multiple jobs to keep a roof overhead. It's plain who can't imagine life without the privileges with which they began it.

"People lazy, prefer screens to real life" is itself a lazy, victim-blaming take. Lazy? No. TIRED.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 1d

prescription drug commercials uphold ableism. MANY of them contain a line about how, “i won’t let my diagnosis stop me,” which is simply not how complex diagnoses or medications work (especially bc the 2nd half of the ad is just horrific side effects)

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 8h

Literally just blocked someone for beginning a post with "I don't know who needs to hear this."

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 8h

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Pick your play: givebutter.com/mfpdonate

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 8h

President Donald Trump and other high-ranking Republicans claim Democrats forced the government shutdown fight because they want to give free health care to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

That's not true. Here are the facts.

Fact Check: No, the Shutdown Isn't About Immigrant Health Care

President Donald Trump and other Republicans claim Democrats forced the government shutdown over giving free health care to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 8h

If a paper has been pure dogshit practically since its founding, should we still treat it with sadface and gentle disappointment when it's dogshit now?

www.nytimes.com/1938/03/20/a...

A NEW CHAPTER WRITTEN IN AN AMAZING CAREER; Adolf Hitler Has Risen From Obscurity to a Dominant Position in the European Scene (Published 1938)

www.nytimes.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, say you're a football fan & you hear a TV commentator say "they should have the wide receiver stand in the end zone & throw it to them as soon as they hike the ball." You'd think "why is this person on my TV?" That's what every historian & poli sci prof thinks when Trump speaks.

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 8h

I feel like, not you necessarily, but most people? are woefully unaware just how low that paper can go/has gone.

teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/silence...

Silence in the Storm: The New York Times' Coverage of the Holocaust During WWII

The New York Times, which began publishing in 1851, is regarded as one of the world's best newspapers. Its reputation for reliable, comprehensive coverage was secure by the early 1940s.

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