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Ilze Islandē @ilzenoislandes.bsky.social · 12h

Bērni spēlējoties sastrīdējušies un skaidro attiecības:

- Beidz mani komandēt!

- Bet tu! Bet tu! Bet tu… beidz… beidz būt stulbs!!!

Ģeniāls ieteikums. Katrai dzīves situācijai.

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Ivars @pirxlv.bsky.social · 10m

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Ivars @pirxlv.bsky.social · 10m

It's a misguided argument. Those 841 are not "russian speaking minority", they are russian citizens who for whatever reason wanted to live in Latvia.

Ivars @pirxlv.bsky.social · 10m

It's a misguided argument. Those 841 are not "russian speaking minority", they are russian citizens who for whatever reason wanted to live in Latvia.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 14h

why do nazis keep showing up

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Ivars @pirxlv.bsky.social · 17h

Tu esi mūsu leišu dārgums 😉

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Ivars @pirxlv.bsky.social · 18h

Pieglabāju, tikšu pie audiosistēmas (dēls tagad okupējis ar Twisted Sister) paklausīšos.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 20h

I can't wait for this "big tent" to provide funding to some communist trans catgirl collectives who are working on F/OSS. After all, it's not some mealy-mouthed bullshit to provide cover for the fact that they're just funding fash.

Arya 🏳️‍⚧️ @aryafairywren.bsky.social · 1d

The Framework forums thread got insanely unwieldy, so I wrote up a (somewhat shorter) summary post of the situation

crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20h

Sanctions arrived to Bashneft oil refinery in russian Ufa 🔥👀

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Ivars @pirxlv.bsky.social · 21h

Lato Lapsam Maksā

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Existential DREADward @dvrdsscks.bsky.social · 21h

Dievturu lieta ir tāda no vienas puses forša daudzveidība un live and let live, bet no otras puses tur tāda nacionālistiska neopagānu piešprice, ka nez.

Neizbēgami jau, bet nu tomēr.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 1d

imagine overhearing your 12-year-old threaten to fuck their opponent’s mom over Xbox live and they are speaking to Bashar al-Assad

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Ivars @pirxlv.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not 100% sure, but I think I have heard of similar thing happening in Nordics.

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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 1d

I’m writing to let you know that today (Oct 11th) our team will release a major report. It covers nearly a decade of tank production across various variants. This document-based report will uncover Russian plans to expand and modernize its tank fleet. I hope you’ll have a chance to read and share it

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Radio killed the video star

MTV to axe its music TV channels in the UK

The broadcaster will stop showing music videos in December, but its main channel will remain on air.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sam Derboo @samderboo.com · 2d

Never would have guessed that the murderous driver on the Carmageddon cover comes from this old Clive Barker comic. I think it's also my first comic book reference that isn't a Marvel one. @hg101.bsky.social told me about this one. samderboo.com/tracing.php?... #TracingTheInfluence

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 1d

Just because someone isn't Trump, doesn't mean they are the last hope for liberal democracy

Yes, Machado does lead the opposition against an authoritarian leader

But to temper your excitement: she also just spoke at Spain's far-right party VOX conference alongside Orbán, Kickl, and Milei...

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Viesturs Ķerus @vkerus.bsky.social · 1d

Interesanti, kā diskusijās par budžetu izgaismojas, kas kuram traucē. LDDK uzskata, ka vajadzētu mazināt finansējumu dabas aizsardzībai un NVO (Sabiedrības integrācijas fondam), Armands Krauze gribētu piegriezt skābekli Tiesībsarga birojam un... Satversmes tiesai. 😆

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

they're running out of money. also they need $20bn for this unless their expectation is that the round is cut in half because OpenAI won't convert to a for profit

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

Sources: SoftBank is nearing a deal for a $5B margin loan secured by Arm shares in order to fund additional investment in OpenAI later this year (Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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LTV Ziņu dienests @ltvzinas.lsm.lv · 1d

Valmierā atklātas Latvijā pirmās zemas īres maksas daudzdzīvokļu mājas. 120 dzīvokļus sāks apdzīvot ap 300 iedzīvotāju – to vidū ārsti, inženieri, skolotāji un karavīri. Pieprasījums bijis ļoti liels, tāpēc nākotnē plānots būvēt vēl divas šādas ēkas.

🖥 youtu.be/e_sU_wmSaTo

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Latvietis Vidējais @videjaislv.bsky.social · 1d

Kad runa ir par minoritātēm, tad nackonservu dubultās morāles adeptu dežūrarguments ir: priekš kam niecīgai sabiedrības daļai īpašus likumus un privilēģijas?
Dievturu Latvijā noteikti ir mazāk par gejiem, mazāk par musulmaņiem, iespējams, mazāk pat par transpersonām.

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Ivars @pirxlv.bsky.social · 1d

No šī posta iedvesmojoties, šodien brokastīs apēdu biezpienu ar tomātiem un krējumu. 👍

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Ivars @pirxlv.bsky.social · 1d

Padoms pašā laikā. Man gan atcelšanas maksa sanāktu diezgan maza, bet vienalga :)