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some assembly required... Cyborg updating 65%....error...

The pain is exquisite!
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July 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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kuvosa.bsky.social
oh they got this all wrong
May 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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carolinaforward.bsky.social
The saying that "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes" was true even a century ago. Today, in the age of social media, a lie can rack up millions of impressions in the time it takes to rebut it. Share responsibly!
May 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social
Wow, if the shoe fits???
May 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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foxylustygrover.bsky.social
Every piece Verity Johnson writes lately speaks to me deeply, I've criticised her and I will always hold a grudge for the dumb Jacinda we are breaking up with you piece, but this here again is the one bit you should read if no other today #NZPol

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
That’s categorically not how governments work. They don’t have fixed income (if they run out of cash, they can raise taxes, borrow from overseas lenders or get foreign investors.) They also don’t really have a fixed credit limit on what they can borrow. (They have something called a GDP ratio, ie. how much they’ve borrowed as a country versus how much their annual output is. In the UK, that’s 97%. In NZ, last year we’re at 45%. So by global standards, we’re actually doing really good.) And also, if the government doesn’t pay it back, no one takes the TV. As Andrew Dilnot, former head of the UK statistics authority said, unlike households, countries don’t die, retire, or ever really pay back their debt. So in a very literal sense, this metaphor is whack. Now, the Government knows there’s nothing similar between household borrowing and government borrowing. But it also knows that you don’t know that. (Because no one ever explains this properly.) So why use this metaphor if it’s so misleading? Because it’s the language of fear. And that’s bloody useful for distracting you.
May 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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adamconover.net
Why taking the World gig was an embarrassing mistake, why I’m turning down the money, and what I REALLY think of the Sam Altman’s crypto Orb.
youtu.be/eDsSg-Xm1ms
Why I Became a Crypto Shill
YouTube video by Adam Conover
youtu.be
May 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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rachelbitecofer.bsky.social
This has aged so unfortunately well.

Written in Oct of 2024
May 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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crockett.house.gov
I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver.

This is a political stunt—point blank.
May 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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debbshock.blue
now this is hard hitting journalism
an article in an Arlington paper headed "the owls are not what they seem"
April 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yaaay!! New book just arrived #booksky
New book to read!!
April 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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adelpreore.bsky.social
Real feels, y'all
April 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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cyberciti.biz
Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week as users look to avoid subscription costs. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix like systems www.computerworld.com/article/3840...
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week.
www.computerworld.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
What the actual fuck?
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Mar 12
Truly evil stuff from the new EPA administrator. Zeldin is going to kill and injure so many people so a few guys can get a little richer. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...
Mr. Zeldin said the E.P.A. would unwind more than two dozen protections against air and water pollution. It would overturn limits on soot from smokestacks that have been linked to respiratory problems in humans and premature deaths as well as restrictions on emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin. It would get rid of the “good neighbor rule” that requires states to address their own pollution when it’s carried by winds into neighboring states. And it would eliminate enforcement efforts that prioritize the protection of poor and minority communities. In addition, when the agency creates environmental policy, it would no longer consider the costs to society from wildfires, droughts, storms and other disasters that might be made worse by pollution connected to that policy, Mr. Zeldin said. In perhaps its most consequential act, the agency said it would work to erase the E.P.A.’s legal authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by reconsidering decades of science that show global warming is endangering humanity. In his video, Mr. Zeldin derisively referred to that legal underpinning as “the holy grail of the climate change religion.”
March 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
1. The DOGE website is garbage.

The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided.

And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract.

So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.
Introducing: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker
New tool reveals Musk has overstated verified DOGE savings by at least 92%
www.muskwatch.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
New York Times, Jan. 31, 1941.
March 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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brollbenny.com
I made this so you don't have to
February 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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clancyny.bsky.social
This was looked into by the Inspector General. They released an entire report about it in 2023. Some of the records for people born in 1920 or earlier didn't have death dates. Because it would cost $5.5 to $9.7 million to fix, they said, "Meh, why bother? They're not getting checks."
clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Feb 19
The Social Security Administration is aware of this non-harmful discrepancy. There is an entire Inspector General's report on it.
February 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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anicacihla.com
this happened to my buddy dave
photo of ants appearing to eat multicolored hard candy, with the colors of the candy corresponding to something in their abdomen. text below the image says “ fire ants are being laced with homosexual chemtrails to bite Christians and convert them to homosexuality”
February 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I guess it's time to try to get in on the ground before it takes off, so I'll start saying it.

Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
February 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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scifri.bsky.social
In the new series “Common Side Effects,” a scientist discovers a mushroom that can cure any ailment, but powerful people want to keep it a secret.

Show creators Steve Hely and Joe Bennett join us to talk about the science that inspired this fungal drama.
In ‘Common Side Effects,’ A Clash Over An All-Healing Mushroom
The show’s starring scientist finds a mushroom that can heal any ailment. But powerful people will do anything to stop him from cultivating it.
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February 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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scifri.bsky.social
The new animated series “Common Side Effects” is a mycology thriller—a fictional story about a rogue mushroom researcher who finds a ‘shroom that can heal any injury or disease.

In real life, scientists are searching far and wide to map the world’s unseen fungi.

✍️ @emmalgometz.bsky.social
‘Common Side Effects’ And The Race To Save Invisible Fungi
A “mycology thriller” imagines a hidden healing mushroom. In real life, scientists are searching far and wide to map the world’s unseen fungi.
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February 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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shannondrake.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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hearmeoutonthis2.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM