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dropsitenews.com
Greta Thunberg jumps with joy as ‘Free Palestine’ chants ring out upon her arrival at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden.

(Source: Alkompis/Instagram)
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Yarvin convinced a bunch of credulous tech billionaires that they needed to back an extreme, dumb, & wildly unpopular politics to “save western civilization.” We’re now getting that politics on steroids, and now he’s all “oh no, these policies are unpopular, must flee the country to save ourselves.”
helldude.bsky.social
mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass
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NEW FROM THE NERVE

Inside the church of (Nigel) Farageology!

We’ve signed award-winning investigative reporter @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social as our Reform UK correspondent. Here he previews a new series in which he will report on every UK county council now controlled by the party ⬇️
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drive-in-radio.bsky.social
i think this is basically the same deal but with photorealistic graphics, a profound level of intellectual property theft, unsustainable levels of energy and potable water consumption and billionaire backers
drive-in-radio.bsky.social
she's no patricia arquette.

more like that japanese mascot with turquoise hair (miku?)

i just don't see it

audiences seek to connect with performers and feel things (besides outrage at the interference of culture-blind venture capitalists).

this is just a hollow gimmick
drive-in-radio.bsky.social
definitely. it's an evil playbook, not just one thing.

of note, there's a worry that doge's data haul can be used to profile the population and automate the next purge of names from the electoral rolls.
drive-in-radio.bsky.social
voter suppression might be the bigger thing, though.

jim crow tactics.

kamala harris lost out on ~4.7 million votes last time, which was decisive.

@gregpalast.bsky.social has taken a deep dive on this - it's important stuff.
drive-in-radio.bsky.social
here's one of the doge hackers who stole all of that government data talking about his ballot rejection algorithm (this was a few years back). he went on to win an xAI hackathon, using grok to generate a fake tweets from real users.

i wonder how he fills his days
Ballotproof - Ethan Shaotran discussing their ballot rejection algorithm. #2024Election #50501
YouTube video by UncleMark
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drive-in-radio.bsky.social
tbh he's such a simple-minded bigot, he might think that murdering latinos in international waters is going to force "them" to give him the panama canal, "and you can't get me back because it happened in international waters! i'm so smart! they going to forget all about my best friend jeff epstein"
drive-in-radio.bsky.social
venezuela's a threat to whatever his oil plans are, certainly.
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Ah, 4 October! Happy fifth birthday to this marvellous thing…
Tom Hollander, A Life in the Day: I wake up generally at 3 or 4am. Not because I'm like Margaret Thatcher, but because I need to pee. I pee in the darkness using my phone screen to illuminate the target, then often take half a sleeping pill ... Sometime between 6 and 8 I wake again, turn up the Today programme gently. If my girlfriend is there we hold each other in different positions. If she isn't I wrap my arms around a pillow and continue listening to the bad news. Whoever gets up first will go downstairs and start baking porridge. ... It takes about 40 minutes to cook and we eat it in such large quantities with olive oil and salt that we negate any nutritional benefits. But we enjoy it. And while it's cooking it gives us time to look at our phones. Sometimes in this waiting period I try to do three slow sun salutations to stretch myself out, but often I don't. I brew the first of many coffees. ... Owing to forces beyond my control, life has not been as busy as it used to be. … I look at myself in the mirror and try to see what others see. Examine my bald patch, weigh myself and pull my stomach in. Then let it out. Then pull it in again. If I'm feeling positive I might get dressed at this point and go for my second coffee on the street below. I've lived in the same flat for 20 years and one of the rewards for this loyalty is that I know all the shopkeepers and stallholders on the street, for whom I have become like a piece of the old furniture they sell. Hello Glen, hello Kris, Ghino! … Then take it home and leave it on the sideboard with any post that has arrived from my stalker. Then I might call my agent. "Isn't she? No, no, nothing important... just checking in..." Soon it's time for my midmorning nap. Followed by the preparation of lunch, which I start at 12.15pm. … If it's sunny I might go for a cycle ride down the canal, ifit's raining I might masturbate and doze, or speculate on the extraordinary injustice of Philip Green's knighthood…