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excog @excog.bsky.social · 8h

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😼 Truly, Deeply Mad.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 8h

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This may be true, but we need to point out Gaza has been flattened and so many have died, many 1000s under the rubble, through deliberate policy and plan.

There are no universities schools or hospitals, libraries or national archives. Utilies have been destroyed. Gazan agriculture ploughed up.

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 10h

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#Trump

Donald Trump’s Deep White Supremacist Roots: From His Father’s Klan Membership to the Klan Supporting His Presidency

Lynn Burnett, Medium, 2 Oct 2020

burnett-lynn.medium.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump’s Deep White Supremacist Roots

In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was one of seven men arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally that turned violent. Although some people have…

burnett-lynn.medium.com

excog @excog.bsky.social · 11h

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Brings to mind Solzynitsyn's, The Gulag Archipelago. There the names and many of the faces of the Soviet slave labour system, here the short lives snuffed out by a psychopathic impulse to destroy the other.

Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 22h

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

excog @excog.bsky.social · 11h

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😼 You've begun the screenplay! Don't stop.

Mind you, once worked as a student at a chocolate factory. My wife too. Me night shift, her day. She was pregnant. Sick one day at work. Dismissed immediately. Demanded a meeting with management. Amazed at how unbending they were. Rigid mindset.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 12h

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Thanks so much! Not listened yet, but see there is stuff below. Excellent.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 12h

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We need to know the facts, but I have always wondered what the employees at various levels think. They can't be immune to what is being said. Time to check that out.

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 12h

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#BBC
#iPlayer

Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

⚪ Awe

Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth

David Attenborough looks into the ocean's depths to discuss the coelacanth, a primeval fish hidden for 400 million years.

www.bbc.co.uk

excog @excog.bsky.social · 13h

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#RobertJenryk

Robert Jenrick, senior Conservative MP and Shadow Justice Secretary, has been given 48 hrs to give documentary and photographic evidence he eats kedgeree every morning for breakfast, or risk deportation to Eswatini formerly known as Swaziland, The Land of the Swazis.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 13h

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😼 Companion pieces!

We all know by now 47 filters the world through Fox.

What a field day novelists, script writers, are going have with this.

In my 'script to do' list is: Who runs first when 47 formerly know as 45 pegs it? Death by falling into a bunker is a clear favourite at the moment.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 13h

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Embedded in Greg's article, one from Mike Masnick, techdirt, 30 Sept 2025

So Donald Trump Is Declaring War On US Cities Based On Fake Fox News Footage And Nonsense His ‘People’ Tell Him

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/s...

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 14h

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#BAE

defence-industry.eu/bae-systems-...

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 15h

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#Gaza

“We die standing, and we will not bow to hunger.”

"History repeats itself: from the Balfour Declaration to supporting the modern genocide, the British role remains present at every stage of attempts to uproot Palestinians from their land."

Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 16h

Two years of genocide www.declassifieduk.org/two-years-of...

Two years of genocide

Gaza did not die despite a world that willed its erasure.

www.declassifieduk.org

excog @excog.bsky.social · 16h

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Trade between Germany and Israel is healthy.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 16h

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Apparently the NHS is the biggest buyer of drugs in he world.

They don't all come from British manufacturers.

This is how the NHS can beat them down on price, which is only to good of the patients it serves.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 16h

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#BBCSounds
#EMForster

Wakey, wakey, BBC. Let's get this back:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

BBC Radio 4 Extra - EM Forster - The Machine Stops

Written in 1909, a tale of the future where the machine has become an all-powerful god.

www.bbc.co.uk

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 16h

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Portland seemed to be the area where the KKK and union-busting businesses operated 100 years ago.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 19h

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An old debate (or rather cry of the Right since the Ark), rehashed by a woman desperate woman who herself did IT/engineering and law.

But it does echo the US university assault. It's apogee, Turning Point USA (Farage was at the opening of TP UK)

excog @excog.bsky.social · 19h

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😼 But behind a paywall! And some us would not in any circumstances subscribe to a New Corp pub.

Are you allowed to put your Times articles elsewhere once published?

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 19h

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More widely:

In 2011 Assange said: Facebook was "the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented", although he had previously said the internet was the "biggest spy machine the world has ever seen".

Now it's all in massive data centres.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 20h

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We of course assume it's about parroting US right positions on education. Though Heaton-Harris demanding for details of course teaching Brexit was in 2017.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 20h

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One assumes it was PPE, but no it's engineering, law and working as a systems analyst.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Ba...

excog @excog.bsky.social · 21h

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#KKK
#Trump

The KKK, Immigration Law and Policy, and Donald Trump

Kevin R Johnson

2024

Go to this page and click link to get the paper in pdf

www.hastingslawjournal.org/the-kkk-immi...

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The KKK, Immigration Law and Policy, and Donald Trump | UC Law Journal

www.hastingslawjournal.org

excog @excog.bsky.social · 21h

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"....the parallels between 1920s and 2020s America are hard to miss."

"..During string of labor conflicts in 1911-12, Patterson organized and led the citizens’ committee vigilantes as they beat, jailed, and deported men, women, and children from the Harbor.

www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/a...

America’s Far Right and the Further Right: the Klan and a Coup in 1920s Lumber Country

In Grays Harbor, Washington, which for decades made headlines for its record-setting lumber shipments and bloody labor wars, the mid-1920s witnessed the rise of a dominant Right-wing coalition with a ...

www.counterpunch.org

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 22h

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Progress / modernity
Computing / AI
Politics / government

Authenticate thyself

Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything

Marion Fourcade & Kieran Healy, Aeon, 21 Aug 2025

aeon.co/essays/the-s...

The sovereign individual and the paradox of the digital age | Aeon Essays

Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything

aeon.co