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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 3h

The piss tank on the ISS is now 22% full.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 4h

habeas corpus is the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 14h

The piss tank on the ISS is now 17% full.

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Pavel Lokshin @lokshin.bsky.social · 15h

Russische Drohnen, Raketen und Marschflugkörper kennen keine Gebietsgrenzen in der Ukraine. Sie explodieren einfach. Mal häufiger, mal weniger häufig. Was sich auch von Woche zu Woche ändert. Den Schweizer Asylbehörden ist das Wurscht.

Eine beschämende Entscheidung des Bundesrats

Balthasar Glättli @bglaettli.bsky.social · 22h

Meine Stellungnahme zum S-Status-Entscheid des Bundesrats:

Richtig ist die Verlängerung bestehender Schutzstatus S bis mindestens 4. März 2027. Das gibt Sicherheit und Perspektiven. Ich kritisiere dagegen scharf die Unterteilung in sichere und unsichere Regionen. 1/

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ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 15h

The piss tank on the ISS is now 27% full.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 16h

These videos are produced in-house by a small animation cell in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, working mainly in After Effects + Blender

In a TikTok posted after Israel's June attacks on Iran, soldiers describe working weeks under “prime-minister-level secrecy” to prepare visuals

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Pavel Lokshin @lokshin.bsky.social · 16h

And both notions and their timing are honestly a load of BS

Alexander Etkind @sashaetkind.bsky.social · 16h

It’s exciting to see how the expectations of Russia’s collapse are changing here (and elsewhere), from “this cannot ever happen” two years ago and till this summer — to “it is imminent”

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ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 17h

The piss tank on the ISS is now 44% full.

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Pavel Lokshin @lokshin.bsky.social · 1d

Tiramisu mindestens einmal pro Tag, ich fände es super

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Ricarda Lang @ricardalang.bsky.social · 1d

Die #Chatkontrolle ist ein massiver Eingriff in die Grundrechte. Wenn sie kommt, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sichere Kommunikation in Europa mehr geben.

Das gilt es bei der Abstimmung im EU-Rat nächste Woche zu verhindern. Denn es geht um unsere Freiheit.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans ca. 1985: Gulag Archipelago 😭
Republicans ca. 2025: Gulags LetsFuckingGo! 😁

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 1d

Not an expert on this stuff but I have the sense that no one backing Weiss understands that what she has done her whole career, opinion-based news-flavored content, is distinct from news reporting.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Pavel Lokshin @lokshin.bsky.social · 1d

Die oligarchische Übernahme von CBS bei mediasres im @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy komplett zu einem „Experiment einer jungen ‚etwas konservativen‘ Journalistin“ o.ä. verklärt. Dieser Gast, diese halbgaren Fragen, ne, Leute, das geht so nicht

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Nils Markwardt @fjmurau.bsky.social · 2d

Was man Franz-Josef Wagner stets lassen musste: Er war im positiven Sinne der vielleicht unberechenbarste Autor im BILD-Kosmos.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not even generic pasts, it’s one past: suburban America from ca. 1975-2005

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Pavel Lokshin @lokshin.bsky.social · 2d

You guys are crazy. We gave up after a day

Pavel Lokshin @lokshin.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody looks great, true. But nobody but Merkel defends her failed policies so nonchalantly

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 2d

The core problem with Merkel's argument remains the same it's always been: If you believe that (a) Russia was a significant threat and (b) that good relations with Moscow were necessary to buy time for Ukraine, why would you prepare neither yourself nor Ukraine for conflict?

Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 2d

Merkel never said that Poland and the Baltics are to blame for the invasion. I don't know why she does these interviews or why she seems to be incapable of recognising that her Russia policy failed, but there's no point in being angry at her for something she didn't do

Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social · 2d

You've probably seen a lot of angry posts today about how "Angela Merkel blamed Poland and the Baltics for the Ukraine war" in a recent interview.

They're far off the mark — she did no such thing! 👇

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Wiebke Hollersen @wiebkehollersen.bsky.social · 2d

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 2d

The international refugee protection system is effectively on its last legs. Ukrainians will get their status extended in most European countries, but beyond that we’re looking at the end of asylum as we know it.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Pavel Lokshin @lokshin.bsky.social · 2d

Reichlich spätes Gefühl, zwei Jahre, nachdem Putin angefangen hat, im Donbass Pässe zu verteilen

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Denis Trubetskoy @denistrubetskoy.bsky.social · 4d

In Sachen Drohnen fällt mir seit Wochen nur eine Frage ein. Wir kriegen es in der Ukraine wirklich nur sehr bedingt hin. Bei der Masse auch eine Riesenaufgabe. Was habt ihr in der EU aber seit Oktober 2022 eigentlich überhaupt gemacht?

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