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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · 4d

two years into the Israeli mass-extermination campaign and the Berlin Police see fit to spontaneously ban any expressions of sympathy for Gazans. nie wieder Deutschland, aber diesmal im Ernst.

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · 7d

alarmed (but entirely unsurprised)

Signal @signal.org · 8d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · 7d

"especially American ones, with whom the Belarusian émigré is fighting his own personal cold war" is an absolutely insane qualifier for a link to an NLR piece that has nothing to do with any of this

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 8d

Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily. | NOEMA

If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.

www.noemamag.com

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · 9d

worth being critical about what the point of Western recognition of Palestine even is amidst a Western-backed genocide of Palestinians, but it is extremely funny that FDP zombies are even worse than the AfD on this count 🤡

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 10d

And the countries that pride themselves in being apparent democracies have abandoned their own citizens, including elected representatives, to the whims of a government currently committing an internationally-recognised genocide

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · 10d

case in point, if there's one thing this dumb fucking website is good at its papering over far-right rhetoric with toxic wholesomeness

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10d

This is the response to someone asking if Jesse Singal has been banned from BlueSkty yet.

SIngal is, ofc, a dangerous hate-monger whose mission in life is the destruction of trans people, the same trans people who carried this app, especially in its early days.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10d

WAFFLES

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · 22d

this also feels inevitable in Europe — years of real-estate speculation + creating infinite short-term lets for bottom-feeders doing professional shitcoin speculation have created the perfect storm that the far-right are very well-equipped to capitalise on

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 22d

So yes it appears that Trump’s housing policy is mass deportation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Fed Gov Stephen Miran: "If you close that border and you have negative net migration - & there's been reports thus far that 1.5 million migrants have left the US just in the first half of the year -- that's gonna have a very disinflationary effect. And so I'm expecting quite a lot of disinflation."

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darth @comradedarth.bsky.social · 24d

Hab das gelesen und dachte ok vllt bisschen sehr inflammatory, und 3 Posts später die Nachricht das der Bundestag den israelischen anti UN think-tank UNwatch eingeladen hat um sie zu briefen 🙃

Manche deutsche haben mittlerweile ein ähnliches Verhältnis zur un wie Hitler zum Völkerbund

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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 25d

It was really engaging to think about imperialism with Costas Lapavitsas and Claude Serfati at Historical Materialism this summer - with a lively French audience! Promising that so many young people are interested in Marxism and (anti-)imperialism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLwW...

Briser l'engrenage impérialiste - HM Paris 2025

YouTube video by Historical Materialism Paris

www.youtube.com

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · Sep 11

the closest thing to a peep out of bluesky was doubling down on suspending the accounts of people being shot at, bombed, and starved to death by israel. bluesky's efforts to deny palestinians access to aid will be studied in the future

political violence is bad, unless you can do it with a keyboard

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Sep 11

FYI multiple members of the Bluesky community have been shot without anyone at the company making a single peep about it

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · Sep 12

why is bsky moderating so egregiously? because they're tech fash who are trying to keep a brave face for the liberals with money

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · Sep 11

Abundance (of brain rot)

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · Sep 11

Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · Sep 11

I fucking hate Bluesky, anytime anything *happens* the platform-mandated wholesomeness algorithm kicks in and you get endless cat videos and other twee garbage forced down your throat

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · Sep 2

I mean it has been abundantly clear for a while now that Bluesky is a whiter, more middle-class version of Linkedin

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW: Bluesky is becoming place to discuss scientific research - it gets more proper engagement & attention, new study finds.

For all the talk of decline - borne out by several metrics - the science community seems to have adopted Bluesky more than others.

Story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds

Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform

www.theguardian.com

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · Sep 1

everything also makes more sense once you realise that he genuinely believes this stuff and isn't just a terrible political operator

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you just work under the assumption that Starmer always chooses the far right over marginalised groups, nothing he does would surprise you

14:25
I 'completely get' concern over asylum hotels - Starmer
Starmer is asked how he would feel if a hotel housing asylum seekers was at the end of his street.
"I completely get it," Starmer says, adding:
"Local people by and large do not want these hotels in their towns, in their place, and nor do
I. I'm completely at one with them on that."
Starmer says he understands why people want the hotels closed and he wants that too
"as quickly as possible".
Asked to put a date on it, Starmer reiterates his commitment to do so by the end of this Parliament.
When it's put to him that is four years away, he says he would like to bring that date forward, but does not commit to another date.

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · Aug 31

probably calls himself Phoenician

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · Aug 17

ngl this is an improvement

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 16

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Aug 10

A reminder that the Israeli government does not allow any international journalist into Gaza. That’s how they have killed more journalists than most conflicts combined since WWII while claiming that all the journalists they’ve killed were actually enemy combatants.

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · Aug 10

never forget how many "respectable" western publications and journalists bear direct responsibility for enabling this

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · Aug 3

this is what happens when you live in Germany tbh, you will face absolutely zero pushback for genocide denial

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · Aug 2

to absolutely nobody's surprise they have now blocked me

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · Jul 29

Liberal theories see universities and the press as inherently pro-democracy bastions of civil society. Marxist/materialist theories sees them as sources of the defense and reproduction of structures by which rich exploit poor. If prediction is the best test of theory, Marxism is winning right now.

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vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social · Jul 28

European Century of Humiliation

Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · Jul 28

My latest on the spectacularly one-sided EU-US trade deal.

Europe's Surrender

Thoughts on a spectacularly one-sided trade deal between the EU and US

open.substack.com

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