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mrbellek

@merijn.nu

I feel like im living in a '500-mile email' story right now. Had a build fail because of a single failing cypress test that checked of delivery info was displayed on an order. Test hasn't been changed. Turns out the test uses fixtures (fake data) but the backend does not.

Tomorrow is Christmas. 🙃

December 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM

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amy brown

@amybrown.xyz

disney should go back to making movies about how it’s ok to steal from rich people

December 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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Tyler King

@tyleraking.com

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.

There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.

Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...

archive.org

December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM

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Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM

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Mike Masnick

@mmasnick.bsky.social

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.

www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

Showing highlights of paragraphs 202 through 206 in a doc with 203-205 blacked out. Text in next image

202. Defendants also actively obstructed law enforcement by denying investigators
access to Little St. James beyond its boat dock.

203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse
conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their
attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct.

204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories
about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being
trafficked and sexually abused.

205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to
destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex
trafficking and abuse conduct.

206. Defendants also concealed their fraud on the Government in obtaining unearned
tax benefits by providing false testimony and submitting false and inaccurate reporting to the
Economic Development Commission to prevent detection of Defendant Southern Trust
Company’s non-compliance with requirements concerning the nature of its business and the
residency of the persons it employed.

December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM

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Midnite

@m1dn1t31d10.bsky.social

December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM

mrbellek

@merijn.nu

Ok so i just found out "IT: Welcome to Derry" is not a spinoff off "Derry Girls", or "The IT Crowd", and it looks like something that would be fun to watch. 👍

December 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM

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Dr Allison Andrews

@doctorallisona.bsky.social

Two pane meme:

‘Merry Christmas’ with a very joyful and happy Gandalf on top.

‘Pippin Christmas’ with a solemn, stoic Gandalf below.

December 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM

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Michael Hobbes

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

There were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination. Across women screened at all ages, biopsy confirmed pre-cancer (HSIL) detection rates have also declined, by 21%, most likely reflecting a lower detection of disease among participants returning for their second round of HPV-based screening. Lower rates are expected, as most prevalent disease was detected and treated in the first round (age-standardised rate per 1,000 women screened was 7.5 in 2024, compared to 9.6 in 2019, the corresponding year in the first round of HPV screening) (indicator 3).

December 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM

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tinybaby

@tiny.baby

lol this is fucked. this developer made a neat little javascript thing that lets you transfer files between computers on your network via the browser. set up a .net domain and hosted it there. got popular. LimeWire "acquires" the project... and just redirects to LimeWire github.com/SnapDrop/sna...

GitHub - SnapDrop/snapdrop: A Progressive Web App for local file sharing

A Progressive Web App for local file sharing . Contribute to SnapDrop/snapdrop development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

December 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM

mrbellek

@merijn.nu

Gritty reboot movie concept

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 5d

As a kid I loved George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. I tried to recreate it by pouring tiny bits of every bottle under the sink into a long round camera film tub. I drank it and became violently ill and was taken to hospital. I never told the truth about it.

December 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM

mrbellek

@merijn.nu

Someone: oh no google's search results are 90% ads and ai bullshit, this is baaaaad it's literally unusable

Me: Just use another search engine

Someone: but it won't find the stuff I'm looking for

Me: 🤦

some people just want to suffer i guess

December 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM

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Cooper Lund

@cooperlund.online

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM

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CuntGPT

@cunexttuesday.wtf

'TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY

A still shot from that video of that guy punching a Nazi where the puncher is labelled "boughs of holly" and the Nazi is labelled "the halls" because 'tis the season to be jolly and deck the halls with boughs of holly

December 14, 2023 at 8:37 AM

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"fart"

@jonhendren.com

AVATAR: FIRE & ASH review embargo has lifted and once again we are treated to a journey into the mind of one of the masters of the form, James Cameron. This time, the conflict is deeper and more visceral than we saw in the original AVATAR and THE WAY OF WATER. MY REVIEW BELOW 👇🧵

December 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM