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Timmy O'Danaos
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Fleeing the smoldering ruins
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marieke.bsky.social
Als je per se wilt doen alsof je als journalist/medium geen eigen moreel kompas hebt - want “neutraal” ofzo, krijg je dit. Een glasheldere buitengerechtelijke moordpartij wordt vervaagd tot “omstreden” en “mogelijke oorlogsmisdaad” in een laf ‘zij zeggen dit, maar anderen zeggen dat’-stukje.
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
odanaos.bsky.social
When you want to place "Gérard Depardieu" in Name Scrabble but you don't have all the letters
Gaël Perdiau, the French mayor sentenced to prison for sextape blackmail
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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julianbushoff.bsky.social
Elke dag opnieuw verdwijnen mensen met long covid verder uit het zicht. Terwijl buiten het leven doorgaat, liggen patiënten binnen in het donker, soms al 667, 1129 of zelfs 1520 dagen.

Wat een indrukwekkende als schrijnende reportage in de Volkskrant. ⤵️
www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
667 dagen in het donker: hoe postcovidpatiënten uit de maatschappij verdwenen
Ze leven achter gesloten gordijnen, aan bed gekluisterd. Voor de allerziekste postcovidpatiënten in Nederland is er nog steeds geen passende hulp of zicht op genezing. Vier van hen gunden ons een blik...
www.volkskrant.nl
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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mattnegrin.bsky.social
The true journalism scandal is a pathological liar can’t ask for better propaganda than a headline that’s just what he said as if it’s true and the entirety of the story is just his quote with zero context or explanation or skepticism, all published under the name of an established news brand
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income By Reuters PALM BEACH, Florida, Nov 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration may slash income tax completely over the next couple of years because of government revenue generated from tariffs. "Over the next couple of years, I think we'll substantially be cutting and maybe cutting out completely, but we'll be cutting income tax. Could be almost completely cutting it because the money we're taking in is going to be so large," Trump told U.S. military service members on a video call. Reporting by Jeff Mason and Ismail Shakil; Editing by Tom Hogue
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
odanaos.bsky.social
Zojuist gehoord op Radio 4: "het Oosterse Romeinse Rijk"
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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jetjocko.bsky.social
Yep, here's your problem
gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.
gizmodo.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
I'm sorry, I know this is not your problem, but I just felt like screaming into a void seeing that now Dems may cave and end the shutdown without getting anything they were supposedly fighting for. We've been put through hell for weeks, constantly having our ability to simply feed ourselves dangled in front of our faces, our survival used as a bargaining chip, told it was for a reason. Our suffering would prevent even more suffering and that it would be temporary and worth it to save healthcare for millions. And now it's all for nothing. They stood for nothing. They caused suffering for no reason. They'll cause even more suffering for no reason. It wasn't 40 million people starving that made them cave. They were willing to put up with that. But the threat of holiday traveling being disrupted seems to be the thing to push them to give in. They have failed everyone. I'm so angry.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Nov 2
The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself
itsafronomics.bsky.social Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Oct 31
Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:

- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital

SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
In 1519, the year Spaniards arrived in Mexico, the population there was between 15 - 30 million.

By 1600, that dwindled to 2 million.

For lots of reasons, but as much as 70% of those deaths were the result of an UNKNOWN hemorrhagic fever.

Let's talk about the mystery of the COCOLIZTLI epidemics.
it's a population graph (filled area type) where year is the x axis and population in millions is the Y axis. It shows a steep decline from 1520 to 1545m and by 1576, the population has bottomed out. "Collapse of population in Mexico during the 16th century, attributed in part to repeated cocoliztli epidemics" "Figure 1. The 16th-century population collapse in Mexico, based on estimates of Cook and Simpson (1). The 1545 and 1576 cocoliztli epidemics appear to have been hemorrhagic fevers caused by an indigenous viral agent and aggravated by unusual climatic conditions. The Mexican population did not recover to pre-Hispanic levels until the 20th century."
October 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Universities across the world seeing this:

"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC Published: 12:01 am, 22 October 2025 Updated: 06:10 pm, 22 October 2025
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
6. The revolving door between Amazon and the Bezos Earth Fund is particularly concerning, as Amazon’s carbon emissions have increased by over 50% since 2018, largely driven by increased energy usage associated with AI. Bezos Earth Fund argues that AI is part of the solution to climate change.
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
3. The Bezos Earth Fund reportedly pressured a leading environmental standards group, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), to relax its rules around letting corporations use offsets to meet carbon goals.
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
2. Most of Bezos' charitable giving ($2.3 billion) has gone to the Bezos Earth Fund. But the organization has developed a reputation less as a sincere effort to combat climate change and more as a vehicle for the corporate infiltration of the key climate organizations.
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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groene.nl
Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kamerleden.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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rincewind.run
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · Sep 21
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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edithmayhall.bsky.social
My daughter has just found this in Istanbul
September 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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joshuaholland.bsky.social
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM