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andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 6h

Bari knows how to stir a pot and sell outrage. It's not news.

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andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 10h

This one features into so many of my presentations. Always a fun crowd antagonizer.

andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 11h

Life comes at a regime pretty fast when parts of its military start joining the demonstrators. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Madagascar soldiers join protestors, refuse orders to shoot demonstrators

Groups of Madagascar soldiers joined youth-led protests in the capital of Antananarivo on Saturday after police used stun grenades and tear gas. The soldiers, who said that they would refuse any orders…

www.france24.com

andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 11h

Knew I picked the right starting point on the map!

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andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 12h

More people should read Antony Lowenstein's "The Palestine Laboratory." Turning occupied people into test subjects for a future export industry of oppression tech is a longstanding practice.
antonyloewenstein.com/books/the-pa...

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World - Antony Loewenstein

How Israel makes a killing from the occupation. Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable…

antonyloewenstein.com

andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 12h

ICE is planning to buy Israeli spyware for domestic use in the U.S. to help access location data from nearly any mobile, and potentially scrape social app information.
newrepublic.com/post/201294/...

Very Soon, ICE Will Know Exactly Where You Are All the Time | The New Republic

ICE is planning on buying a tool that will let it see hundreds of millions of phones’ location data.

newrepublic.com

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andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 14h

It's no accident that these are the fuckwit thugs Israel and the US wanted at those "aid sites" in Gaza.

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites

BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

www.bbc.co.uk

andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 1d

Huwaida’s a political prisoner. Abducted by Israel’s occupation forces from international waters for nonviolent direct action against a genocide.
#FreeHuwaida

Free the US Citizen Huwaida Arraf&10;Abducted by Israel from international waters&10;Held hostage in brutal Shikma Prison

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 2d

oh boy, i hope ukgov isn't betting the farm on AI

(handed paper from offscreen)

my APES

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“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.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 1d

Gonna tell my kid this is our family crest.

My Imaginary Brooklyn @myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social · 2d

Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium, c. 1760.

#illustration #1760s #Alchemy #Rosicrucian #esoterica

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 1d

Shocking. Hard to imagine this Administration making shit up 😏

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

www.nytimes.com

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andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 1d

Social platforms could do well to figure out how to incorporate more indicators of media provenance to show a video is authentic, or fairly and transparently flag it as generated. This is my volunteer C2PA PSA.

andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 1d

Expect domestic use of NSO kit by the U.S. against "the enemy within."

Original post: infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/1...

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
@lorenzofb@infosec.exchange
SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Israeli media said it's Hollywood producer and financier Robert Simonds.

The "this is fine" dog in the room on fire saying "they can't do that, it's illegal."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 1d

There have been numerous think pieces about the flaws of the DNC that never get it — in all their words — as right as this.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1d

Y’all dont want a functioning democracy.

You wanna feel like good people and forget that other people in the world exist and are willing to sacrifice whomever for your own comfort.

You’re just as selfish and delusional as Trump supporters.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot BELIEVE Kamala admitted that shit in that book. You couldn’t waterboard that out of me that I let old ass loser ass Hillary Clinton and senile ass Joe “lil bro” my campaign to where I had no power.

How you let 2 losers tell you how to win?

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andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 1d

That seems like BS to me. As an aside, I'm having good cross-posting experience via OpenVibe and through Micro.Blog. Both have their usability quirks but have been pretty solid overall across the different protocols.

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andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 1d

For any political parties out there that may have ignored this topic to their own detriment with the idea that enough of their prospective voters weren't interested, opposing genocide is a "kitchen table issue."

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 1d

"Its because I'm Jewish"

The great Miriam Margolyes sets the record straight

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andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net · 1d

In response to numerous people pointing out that it's clearly AI they've just turned off replies. That's very dodgy.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

“The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Militia drone strike kills at least 30 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group

RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter on university grounds in western city, says resistance committee

www.theguardian.com

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Rory Peck Trust @rorypecktrust.bsky.social · 1d

Proud to share the #RoryPeckAwards News and Features longlist and to announce our new Award category sponsor Dataminr.

Congratulations to the #freelance journalists selected from 100s of entries. Watch this space on October 28 when we'll be announcing the finalists! 🎉

rorypecktrust.org/awards/

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