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Jacob's Ladder ☭🇨🇺🇵🇸 @coleraineyid.bsky.social · 11h

You’ll hear how much these children ‘cost society’ next.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 13h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 13h

Jared Leto may have a toxic reputation, he may have a wildly unappealing screen presence, but say what you will, he also can't open a movie either.

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Amazon Piss Jugs @amazonpissjugs.bsky.social · 13h

Who are the 11,000 Palestinian hostages Israel is holding in its torture cells

Guardian article: "Who are the 20 hostages believed alive and expected to be freed from Gaza?

Ceasefire deal could end more than 700 days of captivity after hostages were taken during attacks of 7 October 2023"

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jacob's Ladder ☭🇨🇺🇵🇸 @coleraineyid.bsky.social · 16h

#smearthebejaysus Catherine Connolly claps when the plane lands

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 19h

Catherine Connolly built the RTÉ Player #Smearthebejaysus

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Jacob's Ladder ☭🇨🇺🇵🇸 @coleraineyid.bsky.social · 1d

Over to you Alanis…

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Multiple people are dead and several others are unaccounted for after a blast in Tennessee at a military explosives plant, according to law enforcement reut.rs/4obX8ym

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 1d

This is why you see the Bank of England, the Financial Times, and so many more warning about the risks of all economic growth depending upon AI, and yet perfectly rational-short-term investors throw even more money into frontier model development. Correction is coming. 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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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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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

theonion.com

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Jim Killock @jim.killock.org.uk · 2d

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

#onlinesafetyact #wtf #wetoldyouso

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/09/hack-age-verification-firm-discord-users-id-photos

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

www.theguardian.com

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Jacob's Ladder ☭🇨🇺🇵🇸 @coleraineyid.bsky.social · 2d

Antifa

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Jacob's Ladder ☭🇨🇺🇵🇸 @coleraineyid.bsky.social · 2d

Easiest boycott ever. Who the fuck wears Reebok?

Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 2d

Pledge to boycott Reebok until they permanently cut ties with the IFA and end their “proud” sponsorship of Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. actionnetwork.org/petitions/bo...

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Jacob's Ladder ☭🇨🇺🇵🇸 @coleraineyid.bsky.social · 2d

I love gallivanting myself

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Jacob's Ladder ☭🇨🇺🇵🇸 @coleraineyid.bsky.social · 2d

‘Unhinged’ is being kind.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 2d

A tearful Kim Robinson reports that God showed her that Charlie Kirk was rewarded with a horse ranch in Heaven and she saw "Charlie riding on a horse, with Jesus."

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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight on the box. Robert Redford (RIP) double-bill on BBC4

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Jacob's Ladder ☭🇨🇺🇵🇸 @coleraineyid.bsky.social · 2d

Judging by the quality of Netflix recently. I’d say AI is writing a lot of utter shite.

"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 2d

Blum too. At least find a new way to say "it's here to stay" jfc

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Jacob's Ladder ☭🇨🇺🇵🇸 @coleraineyid.bsky.social · 2d

Young fogeys

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Jacob's Ladder ☭🇨🇺🇵🇸 @coleraineyid.bsky.social · 2d

Well done Sir Keir. Wanker

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

What qualifies Kate Middleton to co author with Prof Robert Waldinger from Harvard Medical School on the subject of screentime and smartphones?

Her degree is in art history and her career was spent working for a clothing company.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kate warns too much screen time damages family life

The Princess of Wales says that smartphones and digital devices are causing an

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jacob's Ladder ☭🇨🇺🇵🇸 @coleraineyid.bsky.social · 2d

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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