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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Jul 13

lmao yeah she lives in moscow

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Jun 9

nightmare blunt rotation

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · May 22

embrace wrinkles and help the people of westport lose their jobs faster

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · May 22

all of the world's botox is manufactured in ireland. by aging naturally you are sabotaging the irish economy

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · May 21

different enough i think

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · May 21

💥🇷🇺 NEW INVESTIGATION: Under the banner of human rights work, a state-backed Russian organization has spent years advancing the Kremlin’s geopolitical agenda across the world — including by funding the legal defense of alleged spies, criminals, and propagandists. @occrp.org #dearcompatriots

Russian Foundation, Aimed at Helping ‘Compatriots’ Abroad, Supports Spies, Criminals, and Propagandists

For over a decade, ‘Pravfond’ has been providing legal aid to Russians across the world. Internal emails obtained by journalists show how it collaborated with spies, funded propaganda efforts, and bui...

www.occrp.org

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · May 21

listing all the ways in which "skinnytok" is different from the pro-ana forums of the early 2000s has irls reacting like this

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · May 21

as AI gets better I think it’s less likely that people will decide it’s sentient and more likely that people will decide a bunch of other people who aren’t as smart as the AI no longer need to be treated as sentient either

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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · May 21

The war in #Sudan has profoundly impacted its environment but these consequences have received little attention.

Our new overview details key incidents and trends that pose risks to Sudan’s people and ecosystems. ceobs.org/the-environm... 🧵⬇️1/7
#السودان

The environmental costs of the war in Sudan - CEOBS

CEOBS has been helping UNEP monitor the environmental consequences of the war in Sudan since 2023, here's what we have found.

ceobs.org

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · May 20

this is like 9/11 for slavic esl speakers

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Neon Genesis Jordan Peterson @hamantaschendog.bsky.social · May 8

The Catholics, in order to curry with Khagan Pritzker, have chosen a subject of his Horde as Bishop of Rome

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · May 8

so nervous what if i'm the new pope

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · May 7

Must-read new Bloomberg analysis: Most of the top holders of Trump’s memecoin - who are vying for an “intimate dinner” with POTUS and a White House tour - are likely foreign. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Top Trump Crypto Buyers Vying for Dinner Seats Are Likely Foreign, Data Shows

The majority of top holders of Donald Trump’s memecoin have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting many purchasers are based abroad

www.bloomberg.com

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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · Apr 29

Russia has returned the body of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna.

Her body showed clear signs of torture: broken ribs, bruises, injuries from electric shocks. Some of her internal organs, including her eyeballs, brain and trachea, had been removed.

Viktoria was 27 years old.

She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead

A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.

www.washingtonpost.com

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Apr 27

the planet is burning and we are out of time and there is literally no silver lining everything is very bad

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Apr 27

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Apr 27

just finished reading "flights" and i feel like it awakened something in me. thank you olga tokarczuk

ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Apr 27

drive your plow really stuck with me mostly because janina is a really singular narrator in contemporary fiction and i think about her from time to time

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Apr 27

janina duszejko did nothing wrong

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Apr 27

i think this. unironically

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Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · Apr 27

Deportation. The word you're looking for is deportation. I get this is all new to you, but the violence at borders is exactly that: violence. Always has been

There are no "good" or "just" ways for masked men to snatch someone off the street and banish them on precarious evidence

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Apr 27

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.

I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Apr 26

lol i was thinking about this earlier, even when someone like zelensky talks to trump the fidelity of the message being conveyed is already gone because trump is so fucking stupid, and then it gets progressively worse when trump repeats the dumbed-down version to his idiot supporters

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Apr 26

we've gotten to a point where the only people who can provide clarity on the matter of politics are admiral nurses and various other dementia specialists

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Apr 26

it's like the world's most terrifying game of demented telephone. his diminished mental capacity is multiplied tenfold by the sycophants around him

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ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Apr 26

in all seriousness i feel like his dementia is getting worse because whenever he's interviewed he just regurtitates whatever the last thing anyone told him is and presents it as his own opinion

ghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · Apr 26

starting to think that this putin guy is actually the belligerent party? is there any truth to this

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