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Bwgan Buzz @bwganbuzz.bsky.social · 21m

Chaos magick has a new age ideas and terminology thats never seen or treated as new age. Funnily wicca has more roots in ceremonial rituals in its origins but is seen as new age

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

An expert in artificial intelligence says a fake image depicting missing four-year-old Gus being abducted in South Australia's outback highlights the dangerous link between AI and the spread of misinformation.

Expert says AI-generated image of missing boy Gus case raises serious concerns

An expert in artificial intelligence says a fake image depicting missing four-year-old Gus being abducted in South Australia's outback highlights the dangerous link between AI and the spread of misinformation.

www.abc.net.au

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Coach Julio @fitnessfoundry.bsky.social · 2h

📣 María Corina Machado is an inspiration—especially as a 🇺🇸🇩🇴Latino witnessing the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. Her courage and commitment to peaceful resistance remind me of Maya Angelou’s timeless words.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1h

A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security from using riot control weapons against journalists covering protests and immigration enforcement operations in the Chicago area.

Judge orders halt to DHS agents’ targeting of journalists in Chicago

The temporary restraining order comes amid clashes between protesters and federal agents in the Chicago area, where journalists have repeatedly been hit with pepper balls and tear gas.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 1h

I really tried with House Of The Dragon but everything looked so green and murky all the time, it felt like such a slog. This at least looks brighter.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 20h

First trailer for ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ ⚔️

The ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel series premieres January 18 on HBO

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 6h

Is the Thames Water bailout plan – which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years – lawful?

Our director Jo Maugham breaks it down.
@goodlawproject.org
https://www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/is-the-thames-water-bailout-plan?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1o8vlm

Is the Thames Water bailout plan - which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years - lawful?

A group of Thames Water’s senior creditors, London & Valley Water (“L&VW”), has submitted to Ofwat proposals for them to be relieved from fines for past or future sewage dumping for a period of up to ...

www.whatthelawdoes.com

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 1d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 7h

I hereby nominate the Portland Frog for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 1d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

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Bwgan Buzz @bwganbuzz.bsky.social · 5h

Whimsy forces are prepared

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 8h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 6h

First thing in my feed: Portland's protest frogs.

And #tea.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 8h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 14h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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Bathroom Quest @bathroomquest.bsky.social · 6h

C'est demain !

Bathroom Quest @bathroomquest.bsky.social · 8d

LANCEMENT de l'Odeur du fer le samedi 11/10 à la librairie la Dimension Fantastique (à côté de Gare du nord) !!!

⚠️ Les dédicaces se font sur inscription auprès de la librairie !

Flyer de l'événement, représentant le personnage d'Elaine en train de marcher le long d'un rivage
Les informations sont :
Lancement la Dimension fantastique (paris 10e)
Samedi 11/10
15h - 18h (sur inscription)

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 7h

The Cass review into children's gender services in the UK continues to be terrible.

A new report from Australia led by the fantastic Dr. Julia Moore - and featuring me - looks into the issues in detail.

My new piece.

gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-r...

The Cass Review Continues To Be Severely Flawed

A new paper from an Australian team shines a light on the problems with the review

gidmk.substack.com

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Bwgan Buzz @bwganbuzz.bsky.social · 6h

I learned more about kings and queens than people like this at school

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6h

#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6h

#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...

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rasalvatore.bsky.social @rasalvatore.bsky.social · 19h

Context matters!

Daniel Collins @superdan.net · 20h

@rasalvatore.bsky.social corrects the record: He will NOT be retiring after his newest book, thank goodness! #dnd #books youtube.com/shorts/Tpepf...

R.A. Salvatore Retirement? What He Really Said #shorts

YouTube video by Wandering DMs

youtube.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 16h

for context, Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas are already down to declare assault weapons bans unconstitutional, and in June, Kavanaugh indicated that he was *almost* ready, too

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/kavan...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16h

"... With her baby in her placenta"

This is what most people, who hate trans people, sound like to trans people when they talk about trans people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 17h

any notion that circumcision & autism are linked is laughable. Now please excuse me while I go shake this very particular set of four plants in an extremely specific way next to this hut I build every year following a painstaking set of minute guidelines

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 19h

The Amish have some of the highest incidences of genetically-heritable conditions (like deafness) in the world. They're not healthy people, thanks to generations of insularity and inbreeding.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "You're talking about the Pennsylvania Dutch, or you were talking about the Amish, where they don't take any of this stuff and they have virtually no autism."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

Something is going on in Oklahoma.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18h

The hood is off... literally

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 18h

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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