Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Matt

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 16h

Agreed.

And you could argue that the real reason Biden and Trump let Israel rampage for 2 years was because they were striking decisive blows against Iran, Syria, and their proxies.

At immense moral and human cost, US enemies in the ME come out of this war vastly degraded (some of them gone/

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1d

I am relieved at the chance for peace in Gaza, and credit where it's due - Trump likely sped that up out of sheer frustration with Netanyahu's intransigence.

But the end result of the last two years seems like a massive Israeli victory, with them emerging as a mostly unchallenged hegemon

3 8 59

Reposted by Matt

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20h

God keep me from ever completing anything.

6 120 340

Reposted by Matt

Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 1d

Big scoop by Nicky Hager newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. A series of Official Information Act requests on this su...

newsroom.co.nz

2 11 22

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 3d

guy at the pub this weekend watching an endless loop of videos with that awful emotionless AI-generated voiceover. no headphones and the volume up high and he didn’t stop even when he was literally ordering a drink at the bar. pathological behaviour!!

Reposted by Matt

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

270 920 3K

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 4d

it’s autumn in london. scarf and jacket season is here, motherfuckers

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 6d

Cory Doctorow gamed this out in Walkaway in 2017: you get at these guys (non-violently, if it needs to be said) via their social graph

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 6d

should be a simple matter to doxx the unmasked guy here right

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 6d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

3 1

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 6d

today i used a (physical) technology that was quite complex but like, *exquisitely* well designed and it was just so … nice, in this age of bullshit useless digital charlatanry, to interact with a product that had actual serious thought and genuine care for the user behind it.

Reposted by Matt

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6d

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

www.liberalcurrents.com

42 400 1.3K

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 6d

reported almost identically by Al Jazeera…

2

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 6d

more deranged café behaviour: a woman had her bag on the last free counter seat and refused to take it off and put it on the floor so a guy could sit there because she “didn’t want to forget it” when she left. the manager had to come over and gently remonstrate with her. 🫠

2

Reposted by Matt

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 6d

took a break from blocking people on social media to write a post about some places in Jewish London that I love:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

just because you know. it is nice to think about some lovely parts of my culture and heritage.

Jewish London: a celebration in 13 places

a very non-impartial, non-comprehensive guide to some stuff I like

open.substack.com

22 69 320

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 6d

anyway, I just spent an hour verifying an incredibly basic fact that numerous government agencies had failed to include in any of their press releases about the topic 🫠

1

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 6d

basically the institutional version of the observation made elsewhere that AI writing won’t advance to the level of human writing but rather human writing will devolve to the level of AI slop.

1 1

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 6d

i think another consequence of the flood of AI slop ruining the internet is that people/agencies will also gradually lose the ability to produce useful information.

1

Reposted by Matt

thebes @vgel.me · 7d

is fiction a superstimulus?

3 50 340

Reposted by Matt

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7d

You’re conflating the discredited Conservatives with a new populist right party, and polls with election results. Yours with love from the barely developed UK

1 9

Reposted by Matt

Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 8d

There's a guitar attachment that turns it into a sort of hurdy gurdy www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT88...

The Water Is Wide 広い河の岸辺スコットランド民謡 #Cantareel #カンタリール

YouTube video by Keizo Ishibashi

www.youtube.com

1 1 1

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 12d

apparently in the NE too!

1 1

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 12d

butcher’s hook

1

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 12d

i read about a specific cockney rhyming slang word in a novel the other day and i have since heard it deployed at least three times in random casual conversations around London. how good.

1 1

Reposted by Matt

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 13d

Now this is Content

17 1K 3.3K

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 13d

three MONTHS? i’ll take one every three days tbh

Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 13d

whomst among us etc

4 13