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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, English speaking, majority light skinned population, countries North of the Equator.

You're only missing Ireland then, otherwise there really are no other "peers"... 🤪

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 5h

Reading the headline, yeah, was gonna say if this actually goes down then at least some good will have come out of the whole story.

seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 6h

Um. This is a 2 months old story?

(Like, I had missed it back then, and it is pretty bad for the regime, but still - you need to point out its not current! )

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 7h

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 6h

There were almost definitely more Trump voters participating in the rallies than there were counterprotesting.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 7h

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 6h

Murdoch seems at least somewhat concerned that he might come out of a fascist entrenchment worse off
(completely justified, I'd say, because decision making is on a whim and arbitrary, and anyone can fall from grace with "dear leader").

seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 6h

Bit late, but came to me later:

Just one example of how the police are not in the regime's pocket (even if this ICE agent seems to assume they should be - perhaps with a helping of hoping for sympathy for being with his kids):

bsky.app/profile/davi...

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 7h

Considering joining after realising as a UK citizen (even if I don't have a passport yet, and haven't been a resident since I was a kid), I'm probably eligible :).

I want in :P !

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 7h

Really, what is satire?

These dudes in the US and the UK, they are beyond washed 🤣 .

I mean its sad for the people there of course, but I really am laughing here at the stupid, stupid, stupidity of it all :P .

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Marvin Oppong @marvinoppong.bsky.social · 7h

Um Mitternacht ist Ende - aber es fehlen noch 20 Prozent: www.startnext.com/neuanfang-am.... Jetzt zählt jeder Euro und jeder Share!

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 7h

And then you had a smug group of people so convinced of themselves there was little point (or at least that's what it felt like) to try to get the article renamed...

(They weren't even climate deniers, from what I can tell - actually pretty active and balanced contributors to climate related stuff)

seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 7h

Like, the article on Climate Change was for (what felt like forever) called "Global warming".

This made it totally sucky to find, and of course people would blindly link to the "Climate Change" article instead (which was about geological timescale changes in climate...).

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 7h

I used to be a pretty engaged "Wikipedian" (mostly on Wikinews though actually...).

But one thing that turned me off a lot was (at least back then - I'd wager now as well), a lot of articles were very "turfy" -> there were a couple editors that kept an eye on them, effectively claiming control.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

I think we can lay the groundwork to win this. @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an interview with the folks who won Build Public Renewables in New York, lessons there worth checking out

hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 7h

Brilliant messaging :) !

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 9h

Spread the word if you agree. Make an example out of one company, others will follow.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11h

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts

The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

www.snopes.com

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe they're thinking of changing doctrine and having generals lead their troops from the front again :P 🤣 - lol 🤪!

seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 7h

Just seeing Zelensky talking about Putin wanting to stay in power and needing Russian society to support him for that to happen:

Gave me the thought, maybe Putin just pointed out to Trump that as autocrats, they're in this together and should be sticking up for each other ?

seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 8h

I deselected biology in my last years of school, only to go on to study it at university later 🤣 .

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 8h

The problem is that part of this likely isn't *us* not making it better, but the world itself - after we've set it up - now making things worse...
(ie record wildfires + droughts -> more emissions, less sinks 🙁 ).

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 8h

Amazon’s Ring is partnering with Flock’s network of AI-powered license plate readers, to enable police and ICE request doorbell footage for investigations.

This is the first time I’ve seen cross-app integration built to serve law enforcement instead of end users.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

techcrunch.com

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 8h

Good of you to point it out, thanks!

seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe Putin has some dirt on him after all?

Dunno why he would reckon this is a good approach otherwise?

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 8h

Hmm. And posting a video of that is going to help with that exactly - how ?

(What I'm saying is, aren't you encouraging even more people to check it out - and in the end, perhaps engage as well??).

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 8h

I have my doubts whether sharing video like this is going to reduce that though, tbh...