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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 8h
Ukrainian refinery strikes continue, Putin fails to export diesel which doesn't actually exist, Trump inevitably blames Zelenskyy. Rinse and repeat. The Kremlin has never played a US President easier.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 9h
So Russia is apparently exporting diesel to the US which they themselves can't even put into petrol pumps around Moscow. Right.
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 7h
Context: 300k tonnes of diesel = 93 million gallons. US uses 160 to 170 million gallons per day - so 300k tonnes would last 13-14 hours. Total order of 1.8 million tonnes = ~82 hours of US use = ~3 days 10 hours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president said allowing Russia to sell petroleum products would prolong a war that must be ended.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 6h
The bullet-still-lodged-in-body is becoming ICE’s calling card. It happened in Austin too.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 5h
The neck-breaking hubris required to think that translation is a job so devoid of artistic power and imagination that AI could do it and readers won't notice...
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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 9h
What @emilymbender.bsky.social said. And also f/the journalists in the back: when reps of big powerful organizations tell themselves fictional fantasy stories they not only insist are true, but also insist everyone must believe them, follow them, or give them $$$...that sounds like a religious cult.
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🎃Komodo Dad [spoopy]👻 @komododad.bsky.social · 5h
It very likely could just be for content (given this administration), but I feel like a "here's how to identify an Iranian infantryman" chart does not bode well on the "hope we don't do something *really* stupid" chart.
defensenews.com
Official poster depicts the US Army’s newest threat: The Iranian soldier
The U.S. Army recently published a quick-recognition guide to help soldiers identify members of the Iranian army.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 8h
I've provided an explainer for @aljazeera.com on the African frictions of Ethiopia's war; why Eritrean soldiers have intervened on behalf of the rebels, what possible role could an alliance between Eritrea, Egypt, Sudan and Somalia play, the geopolitical mess in the Horn of Africa here for you.
aljazeera.com
Will Ethiopia’s neighbours intervene as Tigray war escalates?
Tigray’s renewed war is testing Ethiopia’s already strained regional ties.
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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 9h
Boo-hoo.
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Tiniest Violin
Alt: Tardigrade playing world's Tiniest Violin
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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 8h
For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
wired.com
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 8h
by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 8h
A firma do Dario Amodei usou seu eu-lírico para cometer crime de falsa comunicação de crime
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Jess Kali 🏳️‍⚧️ @jessicakali.bsky.social · 12h
I've been saying this for a minute. If your candidate might be harmed by trans people not voting for them, then why aren't you calling your candidate?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10h
Your reminder that ICE should be presumed lying when it claims someone "weaponized their vehicle" against them. It's never true. It never happens. It's always a lie.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 13h
Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ
archive.ph
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 16h
Just gotta love Finland: Google illegally felled a large forest area to build a data centre, which caused a huge outrage. The construction project was halted by the authorities and now the criminal code will be changed to include provisions for even jail sentences in such cases
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Ympäristöministeri Sari Multala: Luvattomista metsähakkuista voi jatkossa seurata jopa vankilatuomio
Ympäristö- ja ilmastoministeri Sari Multala (kok.) sanoo, että datakeskuksilla ei ole vapauksia rikkoa lakia, vaikka sanktiot eivät nyt olekaan mahdollisia.
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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 18h
Die ehemalige UN-Menschenrechtskommissarin Navanethem Pillay bekommt den Friedensnobelpreis. Zur Erinnerung: Vor vier Jahren wurde die südafrikanische Juristin von der Bürgermeisterin von Berlin wegen Antisemitismus-Vorwürfen boykottiert und ein Event mit ihr in Räumen des Rathauses verboten.
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Verleihung: Friedensmedaille an Pillay: Giffey sagt Teilnahme ab
Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Verleihung“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Friedensmedaille an Pillay: Giffey sagt Teilnahme ab“.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 18h
Ms. Pillay led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
nytimes.com
Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, Wins
Ms. Pillay, a South African lawyer, led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 18h
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
wired.com
Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18h
If people really want to see live executions they should just follow ICE agents around.
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Alexander Sliwinski @sliwinski.bsky.social · 18h
And here we are! It's happened. (Starship Troopers nailing the future. We live in satire.)
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Anne Roth @anneroth.bsky.social · 18h
Wo gibt es Offene Briefe von aufrechten Vertreter*innen der Mitte wegen CDU und BSW in #Sachsen-Anhalt? Oder ist das womöglich gar nicht so schlimm? Weil rechts doch irgendwie näher ist? Und die Angst viel größer, *noch immer* selbst als links zu gelten? Kostet das das nächste Aufsichtsratsmandat?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
wapo.st
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Courtney Love Lies Bleeding 🫦 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 21h
if your life falls out of the ever-narrower bands the government of the day decides is “tolerable” then you must be monstered by the press and media until the in-group accepts that you are A Problem That Must Be Dealt With.
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Courtney Love Lies Bleeding 🫦 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 21h
the report, from professionals in the relevant fields, says that ADHD and autism is under-diagnosed and people affected by that are not given enough support in an appropriate and timely manner. but that’s not the result the government wants, so that means the spin apparatus has chosen this form.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
if Trump posts a trans slur on Truth Social which is aimed at you, and you say anything other than "can you guys fucking believe the President of the United States is out here posting trans slurs on Truth Social, fuck him into the sun for all eternity," you have failed the most basic of all tests
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the only correct answer is "so what if I am? you're the one being a jerk about it"
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
for example: you can tell a lot about a straight man who identifies as progressive and says he's fine with gay men by how he reacts to a nasty dig from other straight men about how he's wearing a salmon-colored polo shirt or how much he loves musical theatre
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have actually rather strong feelings about the right way to handle being called a slur for a thing you actually aren't, because it can accidentally be extreeeemely revealing a panicked "GROSS, NO I'M NOT!!" forever undercuts anything that sounds like allyship you might ever attempt to say again
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money
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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All this. The contract is unacceptable, and the people with the clout need to be very clear that even trying this nonsense will result in artists and authors walking away without further discussion.
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Coureur de Fembois [Big Bad Bæddel Borg]🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐔 @droctorock.northsky.social · 08/10/2026
we need to kill the passive voice for cops, it didn't just happen person shot, like another person didn't do the shooting
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 08/10/2026
There’s nothing I can post about this that won’t get me banned for life
variety.com
David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a lie, and it's a lie they've been telling since the 1950s. They push the story that technology will give the white-collar populace 4 or even 3-day work weeks, but that never materializes. 5-day work weeks with exponentially greater output expectations does.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
lol the number of gays is the same it’s just that kids aren’t idiot marks so they’re not going to volunteer that information to the nazis
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 08/10/2026
Oh my god this is it, this describes exactly what’s happening to me too and why it’s so upsetting
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Gabor Karacsonyi @stubborngab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bessere Kontrolle der Nachrichtendienste, statt sie zu bewaffnen und ihnen alle Werkzeuge in die Hand zu geben, den eigenen Staat sabotieren, die eigene Bevölkerung verfolgen und schikanieren zu können.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
"threatened to report someone's marriage as fraudulent to chase them out of a rent-controlled apartment" is about the most evil thing I've ever read that didn't involve physical violence
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026
Thread. And yes, if we're going to bat back this nonsense then we have to all have each others' backs and say this is unacceptable.
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Xydexx Unicorn 🦄💕🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @xydexxunicorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There is a well-worn path from "uwu no politics" to "how was I supposed to know they were bad?" The fandom we get depends on who and what we support. Folks who ignore the shitty people in their spaces don't realize how it pushes the cool people out of that space until only the shitty ones are left.
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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 06/10/2026
Psiphon, a software company spun out of the Citizen Lab that helps internet users living under oppressive regimes evade censorship, says it will leave Canada if Bill C-22 passes in its current form.
theglobeandmail.com
Toronto-based VPN provider plans to quit Canada over lawful-access bill
Psiphon, which helps people living in oppressive regimes evade online censorship, says Bill C-22 would compel it to help build a surveillance system in this country
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Most of AI (in business terms) is driven by a false belief that TECHNOLOGY is what drove the internet and telecommunications booms of the last two decades. Technology unlocked better communication and business processes. THOSE then drove the boom. Tech was a means to an end, not the end in itself.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026
Asimov's trying to grab all the rights to @donatoarts.bsky.social's work is egregious but it's not in isolation, either. Other publishers are attempting other rights grabs and restrictions that they weren't doing a couple of years ago. Why? Because fuck you, that's why. Remember the power of "no."
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Actors may not want to weigh in on politics but I assure you politics will be weighing in on the entertainment industry
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Don't know why people report stuff like this instead of just asking "your company is one of the biggest AI users now. How many of your staff moved from 5 day weeks to 3 day weeks?"
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