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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

And in fact the PNA very much does not want him out because the PNA is headed by an autocrat who has rendered twenty + years of his "service" to the liberation struggle as nothing more than a quisling and knows his time is expriing.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 4h

Salesforce CEO says he suddenly supports Trump and wants the national guard patrolling San Francisco

‘Slap in the face’: Marc Benioff’s Trump turn stuns San Francisco

The tech billionaire's comments put the longtime Democratic ally at odds with city and state leaders.

www.politico.com

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 2h

In memory of:

Mohammed Ismail Mohammed Farina / محمد اسماعيل محمد فرينه
Age: 23

We will not forget you.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 2h

societal collapse?

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 2h

Three in one day in a single state. What are we doing here?

What we know after MS homecomings see 14 shot, 8 killed in 3 shootings around football games

At least three separate shootings across Mississippi left several people injured and dead, including an expectant mother.

www.clarionledger.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 12h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jane N @jdopinkie.bsky.social · 1h

We are amphifa

Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 5h

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 55m

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 54m

In memory of:

Saleh Riyad Shaaban Ishbeir / صالح رياض شعبان اشبير
Age: 35

We will not forget you.

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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 5h

In memory of:

Mohammed Alaa Fuad Afana / محمد علاء فؤاد عفانة
Age: 4

We will not forget you.

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 13h

I love how when I arrived in Japan in 2019 a colleague told me: “the good thing about Japanese politics is that it never changes”.

Since then, it’s been one insane thing after another.

Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 1d

Life as a Japanese politics watcher now

a woman says i love mess while talking to another woman

ALT: a woman says i love mess while talking to another woman

media.tenor.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

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Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

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According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Murphers Paradise @kerriemurphy.bsky.social · 5h

He makes it clear that he loves NYC and is here to make life better for everyone. That people like Cuomo lamely ape the form but not the function shows how skilfully Mamdani executes this.

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Murphers Paradise @kerriemurphy.bsky.social · 5h

It goes without saying that Mamdani’s policies are good ones, but as someone in PR I am impressed by what great communicators he and his team are. They artfully tie his messages back to a moment in history that underscores he is not proposing anything radical, but a continuation of NY’s story. 1/2

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15h

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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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

And now Stonewall National Monument under Trump has erased the very thing she fought for.

Love the support, Zohran. Thanks, sincerely.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jul 10

6. In one glaring example, Sylvia Rivera’s section originally stated, “At a young age, Sylvia began fighting for gay and transgender rights.” The revised version read, “gay and rights,” with the word “transgender” removed entirely, rendering the sentence nonsensical:

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 5h

frog

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 5h

Those are, in fact, both discrimination

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 5h

When incompetency meets cruelty...

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 5h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 16h

Labour in January: we will mainline AI into the veins of the British efonomy.

Bank of Eng now: “Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis”

Cool cool

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 16h

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 18h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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