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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 2h

In memory of:

Mohammed Alaa Fuad Afana / محمد علاء فؤاد عفانة
Age: 4

We will not forget you.

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 10h

I love how when I arrived in Japan in 2019 a colleague told me: “the good thing about Japanese politics is that it never changes”.

Since then, it’s been one insane thing after another.

Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 1d

Life as a Japanese politics watcher now

a woman says i love mess while talking to another woman

ALT: a woman says i love mess while talking to another woman

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
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Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

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According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Murphers Paradise @kerriemurphy.bsky.social · 2h

He makes it clear that he loves NYC and is here to make life better for everyone. That people like Cuomo lamely ape the form but not the function shows how skilfully Mamdani executes this.

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Murphers Paradise @kerriemurphy.bsky.social · 2h

It goes without saying that Mamdani’s policies are good ones, but as someone in PR I am impressed by what great communicators he and his team are. They artfully tie his messages back to a moment in history that underscores he is not proposing anything radical, but a continuation of NY’s story. 1/2

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 12h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

And now Stonewall National Monument under Trump has erased the very thing she fought for.

Love the support, Zohran. Thanks, sincerely.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jul 10

6. In one glaring example, Sylvia Rivera’s section originally stated, “At a young age, Sylvia began fighting for gay and transgender rights.” The revised version read, “gay and rights,” with the word “transgender” removed entirely, rendering the sentence nonsensical:

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 2h

frog

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 2h

Those are, in fact, both discrimination

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 2h

When incompetency meets cruelty...

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 2h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 13h

Labour in January: we will mainline AI into the veins of the British efonomy.

Bank of Eng now: “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”

Cool cool

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 13h

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 15h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 3d

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 12h

In memory of:

Misbah Hamouda Mohammed Badra / مصباح حموده محمد بدره
Age: 70

We will not forget you.

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BirGün Gazetesi @birgun.net · 12h

Evli olduğu kadını öldürüp "akıl sağlığı" gerekçesiyle tahliye edilen erkek: “Özgürlüğümüze kavuştuk çok şükür”

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Evli olduğu kadını öldürüp "akıl sağlığı" gerekçesiyle tahliye edilen erkek: “Özgürlüğümüze kavuştuk çok şükür”

Aydın’da 2 ay evli kaldığı Necla Aydoğdu’yu bıçaklayarak öldüren Mustafa Aydoğdu, “akıl sağlığının yerinde olmadığı” gerekçesiyle hastaneden tahliye edildi. Aydoğdu, sosyal medya hesabından paylaşım y...

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like these guys never got to the part of literally any color revolution or scifi movie or famous Super Bowl commercial where the regime's symbolic omnipresence just creates endless potential sparks of revolution.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hadn’t realized we reached the Fascist Leader Talking In An Endless Loop At Sites Of Mass Transit stage of the dystopia.

Good to know.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else going as the tariff tunic for Halloween

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible Congressional hearing opportunity here which is to ask Oz if he knows how numbers work.
Like, Katie Porter whiteboard stuff: "Ok, if the drug was $100 per month, and it was reduced by 650%, what would the price be?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Lmfao what an absolutely incredible chart.

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Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Dom Kelly @thetattooedjew.com · 1d

You actually don’t have to hand it to Donald Trump. You don’t have to give him credit for anything. He’s a horrible human being who has never known a day of suffering in his life. Nor does he care an ounce about the suffering of anybody else. Hope that helps.

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Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Many effects to process. Could start with this one: the newspaper Nikkei Shinbun ran a simulation of the October 2024 Lower House election. Without electoral support from Soka Gakkai vote-gatherers, the LDP would have garnered 20% fewer seats than their already dismal minority government result.

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Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Big upheaval in Japanese politics. Today (Japan time), after a ninety minute meeting between Saitō, head of Komeito, and Takaichi, the LDP politician who recently won her party’s presidency, Saitō announced an end to their parties’ 26-year-long coalition agreement.

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