Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side 2449116294057
bobthevirus.bsky.social @bobthevirus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Although I fully expect the frontier AI labs to come crashing down when the money runs out, the efficiency of open source models is better and their capabilities aren't far behind. There are a lot of workflow improvements to make before we've extracted everything from the current models. 020
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I wrote about the zionism at the end of Schindler's List and how American liberal Zionists see support for Israel as core to support for liberalism and America. and yes, that's all bad. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/schindlers...everythingishorrible.netSchindler’s ZionismJews have become a fetish of American liberalism. That’s not good. 1214938
bobthevirus.bsky.social @bobthevirus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026(the fact you can stay tax resident where your parents live after spending more than 180 days in the year in another state sounds like the bug, not the voting rules). 000
bobthevirus.bsky.social @bobthevirus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026As someone from outside the US I really don't understand why you feel so strongly about this. In NZ half of students don't have financial ties to s parents any more. Why shouldn't the student body have a say in local politics - after all, it affects them lots more than that in their home town! 110
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026why would open-weight AI be dystopian 2918317
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialHenry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 19/07/2026EU approaching “peak sanctions” as France, Germany, Greece & others demand measures against Russia be cut to protect their companies “Around the table, the moral imperative is functioning less and less” said one diplomat w @alicemhancock.bsky.social & @chriscook.news as.ft.com/r/b8082481-c...as.ft.comEU faces crumbling support for new Russia sanctionsNational capitals refuse to support measures that could hurt big companies 22617
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/07/2026Wrote a post about JK Rowling threatening to sue Amnesty International for expressing their opinion of an org she founded. 312546
bobthevirus.bsky.social @bobthevirus.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It looks like he started writing the article trying to explain the jokes (that'll make it funnier!) and then forgot half way through and started taking them seriously. 010
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 29/06/2026TIL malls throughout the country are increasingly restricting minors. Some even require mandatory ID checks for anyone who looks young. So teens can't go to the mall, they can't be online...where exactly do we expect them to go? www.youthrights.org/issues/age-d...youthrights.orgMalls Banning Teens: Parental Escort & Chaperoning PoliciesHow many Malls Ban Unaccompanied Minors? Malls with Youth Curfews. Malls with Parental guidance policies, Youth Escort policies, Parental Chaperoning policies. 63439101
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026you are the Labour Party. raise fucking taxes on the rich and upper middle class. it's the one thing *people* expect from a labour government 925839
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/06/2026A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukRussia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC revealsEvidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups. 442011966
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation 546233037345
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 09/06/2026"There was never an agreement to give the US sovereignty over the internet. We are still inside UK borders when we use the internet. The infrastructure is here. The revenue is made here. The internet is eminently governable."jamesrball.comA teen social media ban is an admission of total and utter failure to govern online spacesThe UK government is currently calling for steps that fall short of a teen social media ban. Here's why it shouldn't take the next step. 37524
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialMariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 06/06/2026As @gregpak.net pointed out, this man is one of the most destructive in this admin with worldwide & longterm ramifications. I also want people to stop acting like he's just "stupid" or doing things for no reason. His reason is eugenics & wellness grifts. 311102410
bobthevirus.bsky.social @bobthevirus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026This is a good thing, but I hope they don't implement it in the terrible way where you end up paying a middleman twice that value of the parcel to put some numbers into a computer like some other countries. 220
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 18/05/2026so, I think a couple things are true. 1. there are various things called "AI" that have some reasonable uses. 2. the unrelenting hype around AI is a tool of oligarchs determined to destroy labor and democracy, and it should be mocked. 314425
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/05/2026At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that. 12563671573
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here? 11073071511074
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.social🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 19/04/2026IT’S THE SAME FUCKING MAXIMALIST SHIT. These aren’t negotiations, they’re demand sessions. And Trump continues warcrimes threats. “US officials to travel to Pakistan for talks as Trump warns US will ‘knock out’ every power plant if Iran doesn’t accept deal” www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... 59223
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Putin on the Ritz 52917111
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialSavchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 15/04/2026🇺🇸❗️🇪🇺🇺🇦 J.D. Vance: "We told Europe, 'If you want to buy weapons for Ukraine, go ahead.' But the United States is no longer buying weapons or sending them there. We've simply gotten out of that business. And that's a very good thing." 5710133
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026🇭🇺 507164532734
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialJesse Gamble @jessegamble.com · 11/04/2026I have lost the mines that were in the Strait and which you were probably hoping would go away Forgive me there were many so hidden and so deep 5691162
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialShipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 10/04/2026SoH transits from Lloyd’s List: 15674232
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialSimon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here: 464231437588
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialShaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Maybe the EU 🇪🇺 should send a delegation to work with the Democrats in the US. Absurd? Of course. So why is JD Vance doing exactly that in Hungary with Viktor Orbán? This isn’t diplomacy, but it is political interference. My article for LLB👇 londonlovesbusiness.com/jd-vance-in-... 1518445
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/04/2026Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal. 39792772996
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialAnkit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026A deliberate, symbolic strike on civilian infrastructure with no case for military utility. As clear cut as LOAC violations come. 301717383
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialSpooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 31/03/2026In April, the health part of universal credit to be halved (or frozen for new claimants) unless their condition is terminal or severe & lifelong. Multiple sclerosis, learning disabilities, bipolar, Parkinson’s, ME may not meet new eligibility criteria. More cruelty towards people with disabilities.theguardian.com‘A cruel penalty’: disabled people face lower benefit payments if conditions not deemed lifelongForthcoming rules mean debilitating conditions may not meet strict ‘severe and lifelong’ criteria, say charities 411354
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 30/03/2026To be clear with how I feel about it. Anyone in the military who directs or carries out strikes on desalination plants should be in prison when this is over. 604978840
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2026My latest for @dissentmag.bsky.social:dissentmagazine.orgThe Epstein Class - Dissent MagazineThe real scandal of the Epstein saga is not that a billionaire cabal runs the world. It’s that there is a billionaire class. 814654
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/03/2026this is a great piece about what epstein was doing (raping large numbers of children) and what he was not doing (most of what Qanon claims.) 03412
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialSonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 23/03/2026This list of so-called "safe" countries includes those which are very dangerous to queer people e.g. Nigeria and Ghana. Home Office routinely disbelieves the identity of queer people in the asylum system, rendering the "safeguard" referred to in the article useless www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2185...express.co.ukLabour civil war looms as Mahmood dusts off Blair-era deportation lawsShabana Mahmood is deporting thousands of foreign criminals before they can use human rights laws to block removal in one of the biggest crackdowns in years. 17525
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 17/03/2026pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/t... the main essay is strong on the problems of crude genealogical critiques of tech. And not just tech! So many good things - social democracy, feminism e.g. - have all sorts of shitty historical connections which should not be ignored, but aren't bloodguilt eitherpluralistic.netPluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher (17 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 24712
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.social🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 14/03/2026❗️EU calls US lifting of sanctions on Russian oil “very alarming” This decision has consequences for European security, European Council President António Costa stated. 1031470
bobthevirus.bsky.social @bobthevirus.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I thought globalist was a positive thing. I've always preferred calling myself a globalist rather than an Internationalist, is it ok to use it for self description? Internationalist has too many soviet connotations. 100
bobthevirus.bsky.social @bobthevirus.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Also people only protest when they think it could make a difference. With Biden there was a chance the protests would reduce his administrations support. The only way of stopping Trump is through elections or the courts. 000
bobthevirus.bsky.social @bobthevirus.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Reading is a skill one gets better at with practise. For most people some of the human written excepts are just too difficult. We shouldn't look down on people for that! 000
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialACLU of Idaho @acluidaho.bsky.social · 09/03/2026BREAKING: An Idaho House Committee passed HB 822. This dangerous and unconstitutional bill would require trusted adults, such as teachers and counselors, to monitor children for signs that they are not conforming to gender stereotypes. Learn more about the bill: buff.ly/7kw0CXu 1191176603
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/03/2026Two people confirmed that Moscow had provided Tehran with intelligence on the location of US military assets in the region, including planes and warships. ft.trib.al/cZbGDEU 1316786
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialPalesfenian 🇮🇪❤️🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺 @iamamnot.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Iran pink, Iraq red, Afghanistan green 1359
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/03/2026Had some more thoughts on the latest between Anthropic and the Defense Department. The story is less about the specifics, and more about the way Anthropic now feels it needs to act to grovel before the Trump admin. 15719
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialLawrence Moss @lawrence-moss.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Extraordinary joint statement by 29 independent UN human rights experts: “We cannot pick and choose when international law applies. Unlawful military intervention is not a solution to the nuclear issue, countering alleged terrorism, or the human rights situation in Iran www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...ohchr.orgIran: UN experts call for de-escalation and accountabilityGENEVA – UN human rights experts* today condemned the unlawful military attacks launched by the United States of America and Israel against Iran.“Unprovoked attacks by the US and Israel — launched ami... 021
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialThe Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 03/03/2026⚡️IPC bars Ukrainian team from wearing uniform featuring map of Ukraine at the Winter Paralympics. The International Paralympic Committee barred Ukraine’s Paralympic team from wearing their ceremonial uniform for the upcoming Winter Games, saying the design featuring a map of Ukraine was political.kyivindependent.comIPC bars Ukrainian team from wearing uniform with map of Ukraine at Winter ParalympicsThe International Paralympic Committee barred Ukraine’s Paralympic team from wearing their ceremonial uniform for the upcoming Winter Games, saying the design featuring a map of Ukraine was political,... 35352122
bobthevirus.bsky.social @bobthevirus.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I think it depends if you mean the government or the people of Israel. Isn't this a good thing for Israeli citizens in the long run? With enough pressure the government will be forced to accept a proper two state solution which helps everyone except the (illegal) settlers. 000
Reposted by @bobthevirus.bsky.socialKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 01/03/2026the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also 123999920
