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Skeets forever! Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat. PhD candidate at UTS Sydney. Nothing here is the opinion of my employer. I have always hated emdashes. 💛💙🌻♥️💚🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 Aussie 🦘 https://katecarruthers.com/

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · May 3

It’s how I deal with my existential dread katecarruthers.com/2025/01/09/2...

2025 BingoCard | Aide Mémoire

In something of a tradition for me, at the start of each new year, I deal with my existential dread by creating a BingoCard. Here is my 2025 BingoCard: Here is a link to the pdf version

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 16h

Remembering poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) on her birthday. Her work was admired by Pasternak, Akhmatova, Rilke, and Brodsky, and Elaine Feinstein's nimble translations have brought a wide range of her poems to English-speakers. I'll post one of my favorite poems of hers in Comments.

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Jon Blund @jonblund02.bsky.social · 12h

Pappas investeringer i russebuss er verdt hundretusenvis og risikerer nå å gå tapt, meldes det fra FrPU. www.aftenbladet.no/lokalt/i/0VM...

Simen Velle til frontalangrep på Nessa Nordtun

Frps ferske utdanningssjef Simen Velle går hardt ut mot kunnskapsminister Kari Nessa Nordtun: – Ungdommen er luta lei.

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Nancy Georges 🇦🇺 @nancygeorges.bsky.social · 1h

This was exactly my objection to Merivale taking over Rose Bay RSL!! Any business that doesn’t pay its staff properly tells you they don’t value anything but money.
We seem to live in a world where bad actions have so little consequences for filthy rich. I know 1 day it will change.Hope it’s soon.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Take this source with a huge grain of salt but uh, “huge, if true” is an understatement

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17h

Wow:

Matt Gaetz says politicians at an AIPAC reception had to wear QR codes around their necks and go around and introduce themselves to potential donors. AIPAC members would scan the QR code to donate if they liked them.

If true, AIPAC is literally buying US politicians like groceries at a store.

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"At my first AIPAC reception, you had to wear a name badge with a QR code, talk to donors, and if they liked you, they scanned it to donate on the spot."
@mattgaetz on the surreal, humiliating world of AIPAC fundraisers.
[GAETZ interview video 1:40]
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 17h

🇪🇺👀 Violation of EU airspace is a hybrid war by the Russian Federation, it's time to call a spade a spade, — Ursula von der Leyen

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 10h

"A Palestinian... died on Tuesday, in an Israeli hospital after being held in occupation prisons for 16 months.

...Ahmad Hatem Mohammad Khudairat, 22, from Ath-Thahiriya town... in the southern West Bank.

...Khudairat... [was] held... without charges, since May 23, 2024."
imemc.org/article/pale...

Palestinian Detainee Dies in Israeli Prison

A Palestinian administrative detainee died on Tuesday, in an Israeli hospital after being held in occupation prisons for 16 months. The Ministry of Detainee ...

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 10h

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 1h

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It's Reem 🇵🇸🍉 @reeeeeeem.bsky.social · 18h

Sakher’s account was shut down — the only place where he spoke to the world about his pain and his suffering.

That account was his only voice, his way to survive and keep going.

Today, Sakher lost his last connection to the world.💔

Complement with comments, don't skip‼️
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 8h

Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal theconversation.com/renewables-h...

Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal

Even as clean energy progress slows in the US and EU, developing nations such as Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives are surging ahead.

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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 9h

This guy wants to be a dictator so bad.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

All current WSJ headlines

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 10h

If we did we’d also be responsible for all the sites Glencore haven’t rehabilitated very well AND counted as offsets for future habitat destruction.
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If their mining projects are not viable they should pack up and go.
The worst use of public funds.
#PubliclyFundedEcoVandals
#auspol

Ty Mick @tymick.bsky.social · 22h

Do taxpayers now have equity in Glencore? I guess it’s only socialism when poor people are thrown a few scraps.

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Mining giant gets $600m worth of taxpayer funds to keep refinery open

The last Australian copper smelter processing third-party product will stay open after its owner accepted a support package.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 18h

Every repost is new life, every repost rebuild our life, every repost appreciated from bottom of my heart

Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 22d

Here is Jamal from Gaza whose family lost everything and he is trying with all his might to rebuild their lives and help them with the crazy costs in Gaza and travel outside Gaza when the crossings open. I hope you support us. Your little support, even if it is $5

chuffed.org/project/1389...

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

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Euronews @euronews.com · 23h

On the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, Johann Wadephul praised himself of being "the one who always stands most clearly on Israel's side" when he is surrounded by his EU counterparts in Brussels.

#EuropeNews

I’m the clearest defender of Israel in Brussels, Germany’s FM says

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 1d

Yes indeedy: Doxed man petitions to have sovereign citizens declared domestic terrorists #aupol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Doxed man petitions to have sovereign citizens declared domestic terrorists

A man who says he was threatened after investigating sovereign citizens says the movement should be labelled a terrorist organisation, but an academic argues this could lead to more violence.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.

Bondi: What about the fires in California? Are the riots in LA serious?

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

“Bluesky claims to want decentralization and composable moderation, but they still enjoy abusing the power of arbitrary banishment.” - Link

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 1d

Russian air defense hitting a residential building in Belgorod. Russia causing its own blackouts 🙃

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois. They're calling them Meal Team 6.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

“History didn’t start on October 7. It’s been two years of the genocide, but it’s been 77 years, if not more, of the ongoing Nakba that started in 1948."

“Eyes of Gaza”: Palestinian Journalist Plestia Alaqad Chronicles Life Under Israeli Bombs

We speak with Plestia Alaqad, an award-winning Palestinian journalist whose on-the-ground reporting from Gaza captured global attention during the early days of Israel’s military assault two years ago...

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 1d

lol 😂 More Brexit goodness : EU steel tariff hike threatens 'biggest crisis' for UK industry

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy875px79po

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 1d

STOP THE WOKE AI! Had a chat with Mark Pesce on The Next Billion Seconds

https://nextbillionseconds.com/2025/10/08/always-imperfect-episode-4-stop-the-woke-ai/

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Even cats in Ukraine are resilient

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d

When you want to fund someone who believes that pandemics like the Justinianic plague were *checks notes after millions died in the 6th century* “inconsequential” so you give him $250000 of NEH money. news.okstate.edu/articles/art...

History’s Eisenberg receives NEH grant for collaborative research on the First Plague Pandemic - Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma State University Department of History assistant professor Dr. Merle Eisenberg recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaboration grant for nearly $250,000 to conduct res...

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