Rebecca Jane
observeatree.bsky.social
Rebecca Jane
@observeatree.bsky.social
Arts/musical theatre/book-loving queer covid-cautious IT professional, 45ish, Australian, bsky.app tourist checking out if this is really a nicer place than the usual social media lineup
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Fresh from endorsing the German far right, Musk is now defending the French far right.

When people show you they are, believe them the first time.
Elon Musk slams Marine Le Pen guilty verdict as arch-conservatives unite in fury
Key adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump signals he will make the French far-right standard-bearer a new cause célèbre.
www.politico.eu
March 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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From the UK.
What could possibly be impacting the ability to work "post pandemic" 😡🤷
March 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Korea: New human coronavirus detected in infant with pneumonia, for 1st time in Korea.

The virus, which belongs to the alphacoronavirus family, was detected in a 103-day-old infant with pneumonia symptoms.

"Most likely originated from a wild rodent in Korea, the dormouse"

Source: archive.md/rlDEA
March 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Backing this up: the @altnps.bsky.social account is BlueAnon Hashtag Resistance grift.
Almost 800,000 people on here are following a totally-not-real account claiming it's a group of rogue park workers and who are now posting cryptic nonsense to make it seem like they're sending messages to the deep state. Also they're selling resistance merch. WTF are we doing man?
March 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Fourth to go awry recently from SpaceX 🙄
SpaceX rocket debris crashes into Poland
Debris from a Space X Falcon 9 rocket lit up skies across Europe before crashing into Poland.
www.bbc.com
February 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Szach i mat...
February 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“This Post report bolsters a Reuters article which reported that according to a European Union document, the “Russian media have deployed a “significant disinformation campaign” against the West to worsen the coronavirus's impact, generating panic and sow distrust…”
COVID-19 Masking: Hundreds of Thousands of Russian Social Media Bots Have Tricked the Public
Kevin Kavanagh, MD, discusses how Russian bots have tried to convince the United States public that masking is unnecessary. What do the latest studies say?
www.infectioncontroltoday.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Satire, to be clear.
“You were ONLY supposed to be RACIST”
February 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here

Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved
How to Access the EOT Web Archives

Visit web.archive.org
Scroll to 🔎Collection Search section
Select "End Of Term (US Gov 2024)" from the menu
Type in your query term and click search

Or download bulk WARC files from eotarchive.org/data/
#EOT2024 #EOTArchive
February 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Referring back to the optimism of my bio when I joined, it seems it’s more complicated. Don’t envy the Bsky devs…. though if bloody good and looking for a meaningful tech job they might have hit the jackpot.
The Reply Guys as a Service network are back out in full force today. Report as "frequently posts unwanted content", and contrary to the instructions in this older thread, you can just put "ChatGPT reply argue bot" in the comments -- the important keyword is "bot".
#BadActorBingo note for the morning: the last few days have seen an increase in accounts that automate "Reply Guys as a service" by pulling random posts and having ChatGPT write a comment that superficially agrees but pivots to trying to start a fight halfway through.
January 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check

Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
January 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM