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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1h

Happy birthday Barry McGuire! 🎂
📷 Henry Diltz, 1967

Thought this photo would look good in my timeline ☮️🌺

California Dreamin':
youtube.com/watch?v=5W2s...

What, were you expecting another song?

McGuire sits on a park bench next to a large sign "Flower Power"

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 14h

Currently a small group of protesters including a green alien, and an pink axolotl, are on Lexington and 25th to see if the fence will be removed tonight.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 22h

It now appears the federal agents have left the intersection, after deploying more gas into the crowd. Still working to sort more details.

Feels almost trite at this point to bring up the federal court's restraining order, which included language meant to rein in agents' use of chemical weapons.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 23h

A confrontation between community members and militarized federal agents appears to be unfolding on Chicago's southeast side, near the intersection of E. 105th St and S. Ave. N.

Details still emerging. From what I've seen federal agents have deployed at least one can of some kind of gas.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23h

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

ow.ly

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23h

Who would have thought that 25 times as many people would be getting their daily news updates from a Boston College history professor (Heather Cox Richardson, who has 2.5 million subscribers) than from the Washington Post.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h

Trump is destroying U.S. cybersecurity defenses after the Chinese just successfully conducted one of the biggest and most successful hacks on U.S. telecom infrastructure in history

Trumpism is indistinguishable from a foreign attack

worse, because of hollow faith and patriotism rhetoric

Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 1d

The Trump admin is laying off nearly 200 CISA employees & forcing dozens more to take new jobs at other agencies (sometimes across the country) or quit.

Morale & productivity are sinking at the already-depleted agency, further jeopardizing US cybersecurity.

My story w/ new details: bit.ly/3KLoptn

Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA

Some CISA staffers have been pushed out, while others are being told to move across the country for jobs outside their skill sets.

www.cybersecuritydive.com

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: in chapter nineteen of the Second Treatise, John Locke writes that when the legislative power is usurped from that body in which the People have placed it, and exercised instead by a person or body not authorized to do so by the People, government is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres.

All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing:

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy policy advisor in the first Trump administration’s Bureau of Energy Resources in the Department of State while under former Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo.

As deputy assistant secretary for Energy Transformation and the special envoy for International Energy Affairs, McCarrick promoted exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and advocated for Asian countries to invest in natural gas.

The choice to hire McCarrick matches the intentions of OpenAI’s Trump-donating CEO Sam Altman, who said in a U.S. Senate hearing in May that “in the short term, I think [the future of powering AI] probably looks like more natural gas.”

It also aligns with the company’s early moves toward powering new data centers, huge warehouses full of linked-up computers that require enormous quantities of water and electricity, to run with gas. OpenAI’s U.S. Stargate Project site in Texas, which is slated to become one of the largest data center sites in the world, is already installing off-grid gas turbines to power its operations.

“Big Tech’s collusion with the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda for artificial intelligence is evident in their massive investment in methane gas power infrastructure — as well as pro-gas political operatives like McCarrick,” Tyson Slocum, director of consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said.

The “solution” of powering AI with gas is part of Trump’s AI energy policy platform. In a July speech to announce a $96 billion AI and energy funding package, Trump lauded fossil fuel and coal-powered data center development while flanked by oil and gas executives.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2d

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Naturehawk @naturehawk.bsky.social · 2d

It was lights out for this Crane Fly...
Had such an enjoyable morning photographing some of the last Swallows before they all embark on their 6000 mile journey to South Africa & Namibia...

#wildlifephotography

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Boo!-dlefax @poodlefax.bsky.social · 2d

It’s cold and a hurricane and some of these houses floated *miles* off their foundations with people in them.

www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/10/07/f...

Sunday 11:35 a.m. — Entire homes floated miles in flood waters Sunday
Category 2 hurricane-force wind gusts whipped through western Alaska Saturday night and Sunday morning.

In the Kuskokwim Delta, the Bering Sea is being forced miles inland.

In Kipnuk, Tamura Paul woke up to not only water in her home, but her entire house was not where it used to be.

Chief Meteorologist Melissa Frey spoke with her by phone Sunday morning. She said she was scared and hoping help would come soon. Her family also lives nearby, and their house is floating as well, they think upriver, several miles from where the home left its foundation.

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 2d

Holy hell. With people in them, in some cases. Pray for them...a far-too-warm Arctic Ocean is still an Arctic Ocean.

Angutekaraq Qakvalria @angutekaraq.bsky.social · 2d

From accounts with relatives from Kipnuk, the village is a total loss. One of my Elder relatives says it's wiped out. Those rectangular dots in the distance? Houses floating away

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

i thought this was interesting museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge...

Seasonal Time System | THE SEIKO MUSEUM GINZA

This page explains the temporal hour system used before the fixed hour system.

museum.seiko.co.jp

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Boo!-dlefax @poodlefax.bsky.social · 2d

A nearly sufficient number!

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Boo!-dlefax @poodlefax.bsky.social · 2d

Love to you Thomas. May his memory be a blessing.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Tracey 🖕🐸🖕THE DICTATOR @traceyannie.bsky.social · 3d

Another great tune from Guthrie. ✊️
#NoKings
#Resist

youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?...

Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand

youtu.be

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 3d

“I happen to own a little open source software company that is expressly anti-fascist, has a ‘No AI’ policy, and has recently been called ‘aggressively queer’ in case you’re interested in supporting tech companies like that.” ~ Danielle Foré

The thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS ⋅ elementary OS

The thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS

elementary.io

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Rigmarole Art @rigmarole.bsky.social · 7d

Bunch of Flixbus sketches out-of-the-window 🤧

#watercolor #aquarell #watercolorsketch #watercolorart #travelsketch #artshare #artsky #traditionalart #artoftheday #sketchbook #painting #watercolorpainting #urbansketch #urbansketching #urbansketchers #italy #travel #sketch #lifesketch #quicksketch

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 3d

Wassily Kandinsky with his painting
Dominant Curve, April 1936

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 4d

More on the CDC tonight: @jeremyfaust.bsky.social , who is impeccably sourced there (physician, Harvard faculty) has details on the divisions hit by the apparently illegal RIFS. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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