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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 17h

Ukrainian MoD reported that Ukrainian strikes have knocked out over 51% of Russia's oil refining capacity.

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Brad Ackerman @brada.bsky.social · 10h

They could probably have made a better print by dodging the person’s head and burning the right sleeve.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 30/09/2026

I have a Big Ask from our community. Many of you will remember our graduates Pikachu and Eevee, who were adopted together. Eevee had dealt with some very challenging chronic diarrhea while she was a kitten, but before adoption, we figured out a food that worked for her & she was all better (thread)

Eevee, a soft dilute torbie cat, hunched over looking uncomfortable and thin.

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Once again - the problem isn't "ooo AI models are too scary and powerful". It's that the developers of these products are irresponsible dolts, who have absolutely no intention of changing how they behave. Stop making excuses, use existing laws and make them responsible for their own actions.

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Willow, but not Vamp Willow @salixwrosette.bsky.social · 16h

The frequency with which conservative pols invoke “rapists” as an excuse for bad policing, deportation, and cruel detention just doesn’t seem consistent with how few actual rapes get seriously investigated, much less prosecuted.

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Brad Ackerman @brada.bsky.social · 17h

I tried to read the first book and it landed in a recycling bin before the end of the first chapter.

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 26/08/2026

Reminder that Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 is a film about three women taking over an office and introducing free childcare, paid vacation, and flexible hours, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19h

The fortress of their bigotry is immune to new facts and evidence, because their racism composes the first principles through which they interpret all other facts - racism is for the helmet crowd *more true* than the historical evidence, in that sense.

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Brad Ackerman @brada.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Going by what avowed socialists do in office, it’s allowing people who own property in residential areas to build apartments on it using their own money. Which isn’t traditionally considered socialism, but I’ll vote for anyone who likes property rights for people instead of property rights for cars.

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Brad Ackerman @brada.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seattle needs paid parking seven days a week, and in most areas 363 days a year. If it’s not important enough to charge for, it can be removed for wider sidewalks, trees, and/or protected bike lanes.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

We have so many good young adult cats who have been waiting for over a year because they just don’t do well at busy adoption centers. Ferrari here was even at a local Petsmart for four weeks and not a single application for her 😭 if you’re nearish Elkton, MD, check out our cats: bit.ly/4cOmi21

Ferrari, a brown tabby cat with cute round cheeks and yellow eyes.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you can't adopt there are lots of other things you can do to help. Foster, volunteer, fundraise, do a supply drive, sign up for your local shelter's newsletter to find out other ways to help. Remember that volunteering doesn't necessarily mean physical labor - shelters need all kinds of skills!

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pope Gregory XVI (r. 1831-46) opposed building railways in the Papal State using the expression, "chemins de fer, chemins d'enfer." The Papal State was subsequently conquered by the more industrialized Piedmont-based Kingdom of Sardinia.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I missed this decision. FRA gave Brightline West a Buy America waiver to buy ten trains from Siemens, two of which will be made in Germany. Alstom sued FRA, saying they shouldn't have granted that waiver. District Court dismisses on standing. DC Circuit: You do have standing—but you still lose.

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Brad Ackerman @brada.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do I want to know which pantheon(s) they represent?

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Brad Ackerman @brada.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rondo is a block or two away and really good Japanese. They also have one of the highball machines if you’re into that.

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Brad Ackerman @brada.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If those numbers are even accurate, that’s a housing shortage; the minimum vacancy rate for rentals that can stabilize rents is 10% and Berkeley needs enough housing starts to crash them.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.

Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month! "The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

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The Job by Elizabeth Bear

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is not possible to manifest military competency out of the current meh-ness of the Saudi military. Even with MBS threatening everyone’s family. If the Saudis try to do this it is going to end galactically badly.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed

Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve

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Brad Ackerman @brada.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sounds like CISSP Group B to me.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 02/09/2026

Takeshi Kitano for Canon 📽️

magazine ad for Canon cameras featuring a stoic Takeshi Kitano in a black suit impassively holding said camera

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Why It’s Cheaper for Louisiana to Buy Fertilizer Ingredients from Peru Than Florida" www.cato.org/blog/why-its... "The Peru example isn’t an outlier"

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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Housing has become a primary engine of inequality, reinforcing divisions between the asset-haves and have-nots and disproportionately affecting minority groups. Far from offering security and safety, for many in Europe housing is now a primary cause of suffering and despair." Tim White

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Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

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Bill Robinson @billrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In which I explain how I ended up with a shelf-load of Japanese dictionaries once owned by one of Canada's early codebreakers. luxexumbra.blogspot.com/2026/09/in-s...

The words "Examination Unit, National Research Council, Ottawa, Ont." stamped in red ink on the title page of a Japanese dictionary from 1942. Only the stamped part of the page is shown.

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Ben Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Your #iPhone just got a hidden anti-scam upgrade in iOS 27: How to enable it - ZDNET buff.ly/7nRJxph Have to hope that not only do people enable it, but also that they take it seriously. Too many users click right past security warnings and into trouble. #cybersecurity

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Your iPhone just got a hidden anti-scam upgrade in iOS 27: How to enable it - ZDNET

New with iOS 27 (and iPadOS 27) is a setting called Impersonation Risk Detection that aims to warn you of suspicious activity that could trap you in a scam.

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Brad Ackerman @brada.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I found a Rarity-85 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. OUTLIER · 864 points · 10 rare words. 10 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/YNFSE3

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OUTLIER · Day 133

bobbyt4bles scored 864 on Day 133. Can you beat them?

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you are invited to her gallery opening

A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.

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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eric Scmitt: You were assisted by an FBI agent, correct? Jack Smith: I'm not familiar with this Schmitt: He let you into his Toyota Supra to escape the police. Said he owes you a 10-second car. Smith: I believe, I, uh. I don't recall that but it sounds like the plot to the Fast and the Furious

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

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Brad Ackerman @brada.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Drop and rebuild as housing.

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The official US policy on Taiwan is bad, actually, and I do not actually believe it would """"provoke the Chinese into taking action"""" to change it. The reason no one does it is because America likes dollars and cheap goods.

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kurin.bsky.social @kurin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

you ever think you're just a background character in someone else's isekai called I Put All My Points In Failing Upward

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Brad Ackerman @brada.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do you know if there’s a monitoring requirement?

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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Somehow not a problem when you don’t codify anything and players generate billions for schools and broadcasters without any compensation for decades. Then the people who never had to pay their workforce complain they can’t adapt to paying workers and here comes the Corporate Dem Senate Caucus.

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