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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 8h

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 6h

Ungarische Spione trieben wohl jahrelang ihr Unwesen in Brüssel. Recherchen zeigen erstmals, dass sie sogar EU-Beamte rekrutieren wollten.

EU: Wie Ungarns Agenten in Brüssel Informanten anzuwerben versuchten

Ungarische Spione trieben wohl jahrelang ihr Unwesen in Brüssel. Recherchen zeigen erstmals, dass sie sogar EU-Beamte rekrutieren wollten.

www.spiegel.de

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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 13h

As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future—
a terrible festival of dead leaves.

~Anna Akhmatova

[The Orchard by Clarence H. White (1902)]

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 10h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 4h

I love what I heard from an editor once : We are the grit in the oyster

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ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, that's perfect!

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caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 6h

You broke my fucking heart, George. Fuck off.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 20h

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6h

I hope the women win their lawsuit & have all their medical expenses covered for the rest of their lives.

But tonight my heart is heavy for all we’ve lost.

The years I lost. The lives forever changed due to medical neglect. The lives lost to medical misogyny.

We must do better

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6h

You do not need your uterus to live.

We would never force a man to keep a diseased organ in his body because of what a hypothetical future wife might want.

The culture must change. We need full autonomy and equality, and we need it now.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6h

I spent years of my life fighting for a medically necessary hysterectomy.

I was denied because I might “meet a man who wants kids some day”.

I was put on strong hormones that I didn’t want.

One of those was Depo Provera, which we now know is linked to brain tumours 🧵

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

A really weird subplot to the Bari Weiss thing is the degree to which she was able to secure these sort of opportunities for herself even in cases like hosting the view where it makes no sense

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10h

“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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ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · 5h

same for translations! editors are so important

Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 6h

This is extremely accurate, and it's why I wish editors got a credit on books. Sometimes you learn who edited a bunch of your favorite books and you're like ah. I see. It's a job that requires a keen literary eye AND people skills, which is a tough mix!

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 11h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · 6h

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #ZaoWouKi
Zao Wou Ki (1920 - 2013)
COMPOSITION 149 (BAT), 1963
Etching on Arches paper

https://place-des-arts.com/en/artist/ZAO-WOU-KI/dBkEXNYM63Y4sf4fB/Composition-149-BAT/kRtWhvKamiCdCyTya

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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 14h

"The Church cannot be silent."

"Pope Leo XIV’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Mark Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States..."

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

elpasomatters.org

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 8d

Every sentence of this is an absolute banger, I think even if you don’t speak Judge.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 8d

New bench slap just dropped. They are coming at a truly astonishing rate.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 6h

Morning.
🖼️ Tunnicliffe

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 8h

The talking point “whatever you think of AI it’s here to stay” is a political position and a radical one, not a statement of fact.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 17h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 6h

But what could Antifa have been opposing in Weimar Ger…. Oh. Oh!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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redG @redg187.bsky.social · 18h

USA is a macro level Stanford Prison Experiment

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U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen @shaheen.senate.gov · 1d

If my Republican colleagues fail to work with us, 267,000 veterans will lose their health care, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.

These are Americans who put their lives on the line for our nation, who will be priced out of health care if Congress doesn’t act.

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ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · 1d

Many thanks to Matthew Janney for this review 🧡

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 1d

Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth — autocratic deception and unchecked desire on.ft.com/4occu6j

Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth — autocratic deception and unchecked desire

The acclaimed Hungarian author’s first work published in English is a delicately observed portrait of the alienating effect of authoritarianism

on.ft.com

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Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social · 1d

Heute vor 19 Jahren, am 7. Oktober 2006, dem Geburtstag von Wladimir Putin, wurde Anna Politkowskaja vor ihrer Wohnung in Moskau erschossen. Bis heute ist nicht aufgeklärt, wer den Auftrag zu ihrer Ermordung gab.

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