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Meh Pluribus Unum

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Homemaker, farmer, inventor by necessity, maker and fixer by curiosity and necessity. they/them/theirs

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Meh Pluribus Unum @pluribus-unum.co · 5d

economic enshittification
noun | ek-uh-nom-ik in-shit-uh-fuh-KAY-shun

When an economy is made worse for all but the value extractors and hoarders, in order to increase the wealth gap and implant or further entrench autocracy, kleptocracy, plutocracy, oligarchy, and/or tyrannical minority rule.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

"So far in 2025 companies have announced 946,426 job cuts, the highest YTD since the pandemic year of 2020... Not a good sign... Add in the huge reversal in both ADP numbers yesterday and some are starting to smell recession... Not us, not here, but we can see it in the yield curve."

- NatAlliance

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Meh Pluribus Unum @pluribus-unum.co · 53m

Hey. Congrats on the new follows!

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Meh Pluribus Unum @pluribus-unum.co · 1h

Apply the "Proud Boys into Soy Boys" solution.

There's one clear, fermented curd-centered solution.

The "beef sticks and organ meats" crew go 60% tofu and save U.S. soybean farmers overnight.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 1h

Sorry, but that thin white edge on the top there just bothered me

Happy International Lesbian Day 💜

Lesbian pride flag with “international Lesbian Day written on it”

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 1h

Fresh words ✨

allyfromnola.medium.com/why-black-st...

Why Black Student Found Hanging in Tree Dismissed as Suicide

In the early morning hours of September 15th, a faculty member at Delta State University discovered the body of 21-year-old Black student…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Meh Pluribus Unum @pluribus-unum.co · 1h

Apply the "Proud Boys into Soy Boys" solution.

There's one clear, fermented curd-centered solution.

The "beef sticks and organ meats" crew go 60% tofu and save U.S. soybean farmers overnight.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 17h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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FL RN ✡️🎗️ @beu4ic.bsky.social · 1h

This is the type of message that I’m sure Oregonians are relieved to hear. I’d feel a lot less anxious if these words were spoken by other military leaders.

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 17h

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Meh Pluribus Unum @pluribus-unum.co · 1h

Hypermasculinity is actually hypercompensation for perceived or actual failings and shortcomings.

Muscle-headed emotional unintelligence is a massive attack surface for psyops like the "mind your own business, creepy weirdos" from Walz in 2024.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2h

jesus fuck what the hell we sold out in just under 24 hours

oh my god

what

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 2h

Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“
I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.

A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.

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Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social · 2h

Tomorrow 9 October @vox-pol.bsky.social launches this excellent new report by @antoniavaughan.bsky.social Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia.

I'm chairing, @audreygagnon.bsky.social is discussing. Do come along!

Sign up below. Webinar - 9 October - 6pm BST 🕸️

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New VOX-Pol Report Online Launch - VOX - Pol

09/10/2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - VOX-Pol is publishing a new report titled Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia: Current Practices and Constraints by Dr Antonia Vaughan on Thursday 9 October 2...

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2h

The Unofficial Jobs Numbers Are In and It’s Rough Out There

In a federal data blackout, Wall Street numbers and surveys are filling the void

WSJ: www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

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Meh Pluribus Unum @pluribus-unum.co · 2h

Dump ALL Republican politicians into the void of history with the ballot box.

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2h

The Unofficial Jobs Numbers Are In and It’s Rough Out There

In a federal data blackout, Wall Street numbers and surveys are filling the void

WSJ: www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 7h

Scientist on three-week off-grid hike finds out he's won the Nobel prize

Dr Fred Ramsdell was "living his best life" offline when the Nobel committee tried to contact him.

www.bbc.com

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 7h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Meh Pluribus Unum @pluribus-unum.co · 2h

Decency is worth attempting to elicit in others.

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

Just keep watching.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

Just keep watching.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 2h

My professional timeline right now is made up of four distinct silos wrt the principal global threat/challenge we face, in roughly this order:

1. AI

2. Russia

3. China

4. Climate

I'd reverse the order and eliminate the silos.

But most notably, Trump II has no plan for dealing with any of them.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 2h

Don’t listen to anyone who minimizes the threat of a government that “only” wants to tighten the authoritarian surveillance noose for “some” people. THATS ALWAYS HOW IT BEGINS YOU FASCISM ENABLERS.

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 3h

On social media and their website, the Liberal Democrats have claimed “Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID”.

But this isn’t the case, and we can’t find any evidence the Prime Minister said it was.

Digital ID won’t be mandatory for ‘everyone in the UK’ – Full Fact

The Liberal Democrats have claimed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said everyone in the UK will have to have digital ID, but that’s not the case.

fullfact.org

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10h

Just have to take a beat to say that the people that have long warned about state violence and the militarization of law enforcement were right.

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Meh Pluribus Unum @pluribus-unum.co · 2h

Republicans as a party are corrupt, criminal, fascist, cruel, and sadistic.

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The Holocaust History Podcast @holocaustpod.bsky.social · 3h

An amazing story from 1997.

A pawnbroker, presumably a relative of Sonderkommando 7a Leader Walter Blume, held a small fortune, including gold teeth.

www.nytimes.com/1997/09/23/w...

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Meh Pluribus Unum @pluribus-unum.co · 3h

Beyond the paywall.

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A Nazi's Trail Leads to a Gold Cache in Brazil (Published 1997)

Special Brazilian committee probing Nazi war criminals who fled there from Germany with looted Jewish property, as well as those who helped them flee, is investigating case of Albert Blume who fled to...

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