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Jim Zub @jimzub.bsky.social · 7m

Some #nycc cosplay photos.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 8m

The guy who keeps invading cities and bombing foreigners whenever he feels like it and keeps dangling invasion of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela didn’t win the Nobel peace prize this year

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 6h

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

New museum on life of Ernest Shackleton opens in Kildare

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

www.rte.ie

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 19h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 8m

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T E S T I C L E S

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 9m

Our only hope may be the IRS? Though if he's smart* he's filed an amended return declaring it on his taxes since then

* SPOILER: he isn't

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 19m

The Nobel Peace Prize this year went to a Venezuelan opposition politician, but it was clearly a signal to all pro-democracy, anti-authoritarian movements globally. Indeed, I read the speech given by the Nobel Committee today as a direct signal to Trump: www.nobelpeaceprize.org/articles/nob...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado - Nobel Peace Prize

for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

www.nobelpeaceprize.org

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 1h

Given how thoroughly the BBC, CNN, and Sky News etc were duped by this fabricated video content they should all be publishing headlines today about Israeli military lies used to justify the bombing of hospitals

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

The TikTok outlines that a specific goal of these animations is to multiply their reach by cultivating secondary coverage

And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 26m

...but wasn't Jared Leto also made by actual humans?

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 40m

Nicely done

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 28m

Lem or Dick or Sladek could also go to town on that premise

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 1h

The Attorney General of Texas has ordered an undercover investigation for terrorist conspiracy of anti-fascist and trans groups. The forcefem fiction practically writes itself...

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Ms Chatelaine @theelaineg.bsky.social · 44m

I know the homework requirements for infiltrating anarchist groups was considered beyond the ability of most cops.

I don't know if it's true but the cat herding aspect leading to meetings being nothing but infiltrators trying to egg each other into violent acts is plausible and Chestertonian

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 36m

Trump, a vocal war crimes enthusiast for more than a decade, is mad he didn’t get the nobel so his aides are gonna spend all day humiliating themselves in competition over who can kiss his ass better

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

DHS Fascism Barbie Tricia McLaughlin in response to a video of Pritzker literally walking the streets of Chicago: "Get out of your mansion. Go walk around Chicago. Go see the rampant crime."

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 1d

Problems with pharma don't mean that quackery works.

Problems in aircraft design don’t mean that magic carpets can actually fly.

- Ben Goldacre

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 32m

⚡️ German finance minister 'sure' that EU will find more ways to use Russia's frozen assets.

"I am sure that in the end we will get there, that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin will pay for this war," Germany’s Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said.

German finance minister 'sure' that EU will find more ways to use Russia's frozen assets

"I am sure that in the end we will get there, that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin will pay for this war," Germany’s Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said.

kyivindependent.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 32m

Trump’s plot to turn the “War on Terror” on Chicago was years in the making:

Inside his administration’s plans to terrorize the great American city and metropolitan area, and how we got here:

zeteo.com/p/inside-tru...

New this am from me; subscribe to @zeteo.com plz 🙏

Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

zeteo.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 7h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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She's got Bette Exorcise™ @karilas.bsky.social · 49m

No wonder women would rather chance bears

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WIRED @wired.com · 1h

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

www.wired.com

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1h

Sex workers use Discord.

This could literally get us murdered.

404 Media @404media.co · 20h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 35m

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 59m

Postal services in other countries have already cut off package mail to the US. Now UPS bails. All because of Trump's tariffs.

Churn that in your brain a bit. We live in a country so backward it's cut off from mail from the rest of the world.

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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