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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 8h

this is great so here’s a gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 8h

How is this noteworthy?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 16h

So I buy physical books, tear them apart, cut off the spine and scan them with my Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500

Those PDF files are mine and the comments I put in them will be there as long as there is software that can read PDF files

Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 16h

I am most critical of digital books not because they're tactile and nicer to read - they aren't

What I dislike about digital books is not owning them. If I knew that the notes I put in Kindle books would stay forever, I would spend time on it. But they don't

Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 18h

My dad died recently and one of our shared interests was Terry Pratchett. Precisely because our books show years of shared reading they are so special. Mort has a note in the back where my dad wrote the code to my bike lock and they're the most meaningful four numbers in existence @rhi.bsky.social

Final page of Mort with my old bike lock code in my dad's handwriting

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 16h

Wo ist eigentlich das Versprechen hin, dass wenn unsere Arbeit durch Maschinen übernommen wird, es uns allen besser geht und wir weniger arbeiten müssen???

Statt dessen bedeutet "Weniger Jobs" = "mehr Milliardäre"

Warum lassen wir uns das gefallen?

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 16h

Wo ist eigentlich das Versprechen hin, dass wenn unsere Arbeit durch Maschinen übernommen wird, es uns allen besser geht und wir weniger arbeiten müssen???

Statt dessen bedeutet "Weniger Jobs" = "mehr Milliardäre"

Warum lassen wir uns das gefallen?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

I posted about this on X, and Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson, QTed me to say the kid was actually a hardened criminal arrested with a knife and a gun.

So far she has provided no evidence of this. I share this to give DHS's response, and for the possibility she is telling the truth.

My original post on X: "This makes NO SENSE. A 13-year-old was arrested by local police for unknown reasons, and then turned over to ICE, which is detaining him far away from his mother — who is going through immigration court, has an asylum application on file, and is legally authorized to work." Underneath that I posted a link to the opening paragraphs of the article and the headline.

In response, DHS Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, @TriciaOhio, wrote: "Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property. He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested."

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Narkosedoc @narkosedoc.bsky.social · 1d

Es gibt Einmalvapes mit Lithium-Ionen-Akkus.
Die kann man nicht wieder aufladen. Die werden nach Gebrauch weggeschmissen und landen im Restmüll oder im Wald.

Aber dem veganen Schnitzel, dem ham wa es so richtig gezeigt 💪🏻

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

BZ Titel: „Merz und Klingbeil sind bereit, Opfer zu bringen“

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

Uhm… no

The problem is the cloud dependency of devices not what kind of device they are

www.tomsguide.com/news/e-bike-...

E-bike maker VanMoof declares bankruptcy — how to make sure your bike doesn't get bricked

VanMoof has gone bankrupt and it's not good news for e-bike owners

www.tomsguide.com

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

Ja

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

The public gains massively when workers use public transport so the government should be happy to pay for this service with taxpayer money instead of itching to privatize every single route that operates profitably

80 years and the west is still unable to copy Japan. Just suck it up and pay

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

Pathetic article

Privatization has failed miserably and spectacularly and pretending that the government is doing a worse job than companies that literally went bankrupt over failing to operating at a profit is ridiculous

The takeaway should be: commuter rail doesn’t need to be profitable

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

Vielleicht helfen noch ein paar Steuer-Geschenke an Reiche?

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

I mean yes but this clearly is a competition of assholes

When the yard stick is „is the online BSky left wide than Bari fucking Weiss“ then MAYBE rethink your fucking online behavior

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

Hakeem Jeffries has still not endorsed Mamdani. The winner of the NYC democratic primary

They are STILL doing the thing where don’t give a shit what the polls say and only care about how to collect money and spend it

Mamdani won with volunteers

They cost nothing

Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

Because you can write big fat checks and collect big fat checks when you put ads around morning shows but can’t when you put up a pro Palestine speaker at the convention

They thought leaning into the culture war with soccer moms would work again so WHY should EVERYONE ELSE now be to blame?

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

I can also call you a dipshit for your rancid whataboutism

Or Gavin Newsom and the whole pundit class for immediately throwing trans people under the bus bus after the election when it is CLEAR that Schumer and the consulting intelligentsia chose to target wine moms in suburbia BEFORE the election

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

Who says I don’t? I can do multiple things at one time

I can both yell at Stephen Miller, Donald Trump AND Joe Biden and Kamala Harris all at the same time

I contain multitudes

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

I‘m 2 Old for this Shit

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

Keep feeding antibiotics to chicken and pigs like candy

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Sebastian Peitsch @speitsch.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump didn’t please all people and won the election

The blame she gets is for continually choosing to repel 70% of the voting age population

75 of 245 million eligible voters is barely 30%

Not getting elected when the other guy is literally a fascist deserves blame

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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t love Gavin Newsom, but
I voted for him because I understood the assignment. I don’t have to get everything I want because I don’t hold politicians up to some impossible purity test. Governing kinda sucks. But am I wrong for finding myself swayed by him lately?

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