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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 2h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 8h

Put Hillary in one of your videos and see what it does to your numbers

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♡ Kate's haunted emporium 👻 🎃 🇬🇹~ FREE 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @katespeace.bsky.social · 4d

Obama's ICE deported my dad and millions of others like him. In my eyes, there is not very much difference between the violence both democrats and republicans engage in. Not to us immigrants. I'm glad you're finally paying attention now, though

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 9h

I listened to an epidode of Kill the Computer about people who've been tortured and/or died on stream so while I don't think you should shock a dog, let's be real about the culture we live in

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 9h

My cat just brought a mouse into the house and then carried it from the bedroom to the office and back a half dozen times.

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 11h

Right-wing people spend every waking moment fantasizing about committing the most brutal of atrocities yet get really scared at the idea of using public transportation

Brian O'Shea @brianosheaspi.bsky.social · 12h

Not really.If I‘m blocked by anyone in black masks with red & black flags I’ll run them down or shoot them.If they get mounted on my vehicle’s grill in my commission of such self-defense I’ll leave them there until I dump them on their parents’ lawns.& I’ll sue mom&dad for the damages to my vehicle

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14h

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 12h

The Democrats aren't incompetent, they just care more about laundering donor money to consultants than winning elections. Amy McGrath spending $80 million to lose by double digits was considered a success, that's why she's running again

🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 18h

Dems have been living in denial since at least the 2000 stolen election, basically pretending that by observing the norms they're holding back the collapse. Things are just getting so extreme that the absurdity of that behavior is impossible to ignore

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 21h

my genuine theory is that dems know once they admit to a little of the fascism they have to admit to all of it and they are trying to avoid that at all costs

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 21h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21h

lying

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22h

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals on.ft.com/4q0tjCV

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

on.ft.com

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 21h

trying everything i can to tamp down my sneaking suspicion that "they're running out of sauce"

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23h

There is no need to editorialize. Just quote.

“Why don’t we tattoo a Star of David on the forehead of every terrorist we have to release?” - My daughter

Proud father.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 22h

mr. xi pop our bubble

Cal M.🐀 @johcal.bsky.social · 22h

The thing is, his tweet was knee jerk. China’s restrictions are meant to break the AI gamble that has a stranglehold on propping up the American economy. This just may be the opening salvo

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2d

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
lithub.com/irish-noveli...

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

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Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the “Venezuelan Democracy Fighter” in question on Fox and Friends explaining her support for Trump bombing the fishing boats just last month

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

Love that they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the sentient version of this tweet

Jane
@Whooping_Jane
blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine
Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom
1:40 PM • 2/3/19 • Twitter Web Client

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Lee 'the J is for J' Carter @carterforva.bsky.social · 1d

Aaaaaaand it's gone

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 1d

Oh does the storm want to talk to the freakin manager

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