Gillian🇺🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪
@gilliancarrin.bsky.social
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Brit in Berlin, law.
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counseloroh.bsky.social
The bumblebee bat is the world’s tiniest mammal.
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sorrowscopes.bsky.social
Pisces: No matter what your sports watch says, what you just did in front of the computer doesn’t count as exercise.
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governor.ca.gov
Children deserve to feel safe at home & in school. This new bill I signed:

➡️ Bars childcare facilities & state preschools from collecting immigration info
➡️ Protects parents’ legal rights & kids’ security if separated
➡️ Ensures schools have safety plans in times of crisis
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jemima.bsky.social
For this week's column I wrote about the way that the countercultural intellectual energy of the right - and lack thereof on the left - is drawing in young people, esp men, who would once have been drawn to radical leftist thinkers

on.ft.com/3L72ug5
The fashion for the young: turn to the radical right
The intellectual energy of new rightwing movements is drawing in young people
on.ft.com
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malena.bsky.social
SMILE! Why not?

When the world's gone mad...make fun of lunatics.

Thank you so much, Governor Newsom & Happy Birthday!

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gilliancarrin.bsky.social
I woke up and there it was - right next to me!
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electproject.bsky.social
A reason why we got here is that the media stopped reporting facts and replaced reporting with making everything a reality tv show where contestants fight one another. It turned lying from a liability into an advantage since it would no longer be punished
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barristersecret.bsky.social
This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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cajunblue.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2
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sardonicus.eu
Conservation of Hagia Sophia mosaics, Istanbul, 1931-1964. Study of Light, 1948

archive.org/details/tete...
light streaming in from the openings on the dome of a huge mosque
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.
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twmcltd.bsky.social
Estonia has shut a section of the border with Russia after the appearance of armed Russian groups.

It sparked fears of a repeat of Russia's "little green men" who invaded Crimea.

This is how Estonia state news is reporting the incident.
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davidbowienews.bsky.social
David Bowie, Peninsula Hotel, Beverly Hills, 1993 by Michel Haddi.
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plawman.bsky.social
Had dinner tonight with a friend who’s a middle school teacher in the southwest. They told me schools now have trainings for when ICE agents sweep through schools to take children, and it’s worse than active shooter trainings, because it’s the government kidnapping children.

This is where we are.
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eliasisquith.blog
i think it’s noteworthy that a lot of centrist pundits have decided to just take it as a given that jd vance lies constantly and to treat this as almost part of his intellectual program so that only gauche rubes would bother to mention or care about it.
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wavesblog.bsky.social
"With AB 325 now law, companies that rely on or are considering pricing algorithms must re-evaluate their practices and controls to mitigate exposure" what a tiny bit of regulation can do... t.co/1TXiMTl2ld
https://scl-llp.com/californias-new-frontier-in-algorithmic-pricing-pleading-standards-ab-325/
t.co
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jamesrball.com
The kind of stuff I’d always posted stopped doing numbers. The kind of stuff I liked seeing stopped getting posted. The site stopped sending people to stuff I write. I stopped getting commissions from it. The fun stopped ages ago. And crucially, it got *boring* to spend time there.
explaintrade.com
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.
gilliancarrin.bsky.social
They have had Wikipedia in their sights for a long time.
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deanbarker.bsky.social
For the right, it is no longer enough to disagree with and refute information.

The corruption that total power has brought it demands that all information conform to *its* bias and goals, that those who hold different views be stigmatized and criminalized.

This is as anti-American as it gets.
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okwonga.bsky.social
Berliners, get involved! Lovely club.
gabrielflynn.bsky.social
My football club has a brand new women‘s team and they‘re recruiting players. Affordable membership fees, pro coaches, regular training and games. Please share with any Berlin friends who might want to play football in a friendly, & LGBTQ+ inclusive environment. Newcomers and returners welcome.
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peipolitical.bsky.social
A 6-year-old immigrant child is handcuffed with hands behind their back and arrested.
Trump’s America.