Reposted by Butcher PeteYoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026French ‘est’ and ‘ouest’ look a lot like ‘east’ and ‘west’. That’s because they were borrowed from Old English, along with other nautical terms, which points to naval contacts. French passed on the words for the wind directions to the other Romance languages. My new graphic tells you more: 1/ 510425
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Anthropeum.com · Jun 14 2026 🟩🟩🟥🟥🟩🟩🟩🟨🟦🟩 63,766 · top 38% of players today!anthropeum.comAnthropeumA daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank. 001
Reposted by Butcher PeteElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13/06/2026Surveillance pricing incentivizes all businesses to harvest as much of our personal data as possible. So we support a California bill to ban it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgYes to California's Bill to Ban Surveillance PricingCorporations harvest and monetize ever-growing amounts of our personal data, such as our browsing history and physical location. One bitter fruit of this poisonous tree is known as “surveillance 614948
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Anthropeum.com · Jun 12 2026 🟦🟩🟦🟩🟩🟩🟩🟦🟨🟦 80,469 · top 3% of players today!anthropeum.comAnthropeumA daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank. 010
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Anthropeum.com · Jun 11 2026 🟦🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟦🟥🟦🟩 73,841 · top 21% of players today!anthropeum.comAnthropeumA daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank. 000
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Anthropeum.com · Jun 10 2026 🟦🟩🟨🟩🟦🟩🟩🟩🟦🟦 82,713 · top 2% of players today!anthropeum.comAnthropeumA daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank. 000
Reposted by Butcher PeteScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Out-of-touch elitists www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/out-...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comOut-of-touch elitists - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyThe entire Republican Party is now committed to believing or pretending to believe that a D-list MAGA reality star was a viable candidate to become mayor of a city where Trump is widely despised. But ... 2124
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Anthropeum.com · Jun 8 2026 🟦🟦🟩🟥🟩🟨🟨🟨🟦🟩 65,935 · top 24% of players today!anthropeum.comAnthropeumA daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank. 000
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Anthropeum.com · Jun 4 2026 🟩🟦🟨🟩🟥🟥🟦🟦🟩🟦 66,060 / 100,000 · top 31%anthropeum.comAnthropeumA daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank. 010
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Anthropeum.com · Jun 3 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨🟨🟩 71,101 / 100,000 · top 21%anthropeum.comAnthropeumA daily game. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank. 000
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Anthropeum.com · Jun 2 2026 🟦🟨🟨🟦🟦🟩🟩🟨🟥🟥 62,440 / 100,000 · top 22%anthropeum.comAnthropeumA daily game. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank. 000
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Anthropeum.com · Jun 1 2026 🟦🟨🟩🟦🟩🟦🟨🟥🟩🟦 74,047 / 100,000 · top 5%anthropeum.comAnthropeumA daily game. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank. 000
Reposted by Butcher PeteAlexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 26/05/2026Today on @indicator.media: A handful of anonymous bots have taken over fact-checking on X. This isn’t hyperbole. In the first three weeks of May, just eight AI contributors wrote 50.3% of all visible Community Notes on the platform.indicator.media8 AI bots now write 50% of X’s Community NotesThe crowdsourced moderation project faces a choice between scale and legitimacy 8343146
Reposted by Butcher PeteAmy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...fortune.comAI generated identical resumes for a man and a woman: Hers was more likely to be labeled 'weak,' while his got a 97% approval rating | Fortune“If people believe they will be judged more harshly for using AI, they are less likely to adopt it—regardless of their capability." 591812727
Reposted by Butcher PeteWeedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Exactly one year ago today: 448280399337
Reposted by Butcher PeteKate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 27/03/20262021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so 393431918
Reposted by Butcher PeteJeremy Peterman𓅪 @jeremypeterman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026"ICE OUT" banners seen in the Timbers Army during the National Anthem. #RCTID 7569101180
Reposted by Butcher PeteMollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Five-time draft dodger says what now? 577203746759
Reposted by Butcher PeteInvalid Handel @invalidhandel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026”In conclusion, Hillary Clinton is a land of contrasts” 01162
Reposted by Butcher PeteDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026FIFA Peace Prize winner drives out FIFA World Cup team 16557127
Reposted by Butcher PetePhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years 409253217181
Reposted by Butcher PeteDex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 09/02/2026i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute 2181631455
Reposted by Butcher PeteMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 02/02/2026ChatGPT is Trump’s biggest donor and is used by ICE. If you don’t like Trump or ICE, you should quit ChatGPT.quitgpt.orgQuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest DonorsJoin the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit. 25731326
Reposted by Butcher PeteDara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal. 5938572019
Reposted by Butcher PeteJeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 31/01/20261. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain. 3936471062
Reposted by Butcher PeteAndrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgHeadless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanishedWave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture 25655204
Reposted by Butcher PeteDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/11/2025"People will still find a way to gamble if they want to!" Ok, but people still find ways to buy meth but we still don't sell it at Boots and let the Sinoloa Cartel advertise on football uniforms. 927332
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Watching Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon at the moment. Boy this hasn't aged well. A romance between Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn. What an embarassment. Thought to myself, look at that old bastard. Then I realized that I'm older right now in 2025 than Cooper was in 1957. 000
Reposted by Butcher PeteThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Into the Twilight of the Trump Era What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions is waning? A deep dive into the state of the fever swamp. New piece:steady.pageInto the Twilight of the Trump EraWhat becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions waning? A deep dive into the state of the fever swamp 36020
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 21/11/2025@tcmparty.bsky.social Right now I'm watching The Late Show. I know there was a short-run TV spinoff...but a series with Art Carney and Lily Tomlin... I would watch the shit out that. 000
Reposted by Butcher PeteLisa @lisajmole.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Wor Brazilians are blonde again ….. and they’ve recruited a new member to the bleached gang 😂 Osula !! #NUFC 3415
Reposted by Butcher PeteAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/12/2024Bluesky let Jesse Singal stay and now he's posting the spreadsheet again with the PHI of trans youth from Missouri. They only emboldened him. 22161981746
Reposted by Butcher PeteRoy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 09/12/2024If someone who strangled a guy to death for acting out in the subway "shouldn't have been brought to trial," you have to wonder why there's a nationwide manhunt for the guy who shot a health insurance CEO. 44110
Reposted by Butcher PeteRoy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 04/11/2024Unlocked and FREE to all -- my election closer. edroso.substack.com/p/if-you-can...edroso.substack.comIf you can keep itFinal thoughts on the impending 0103
Reposted by Butcher PeteShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 01/11/2024So turns out CNN only kicked the nazi off the set because mehdi hasan walked out during the ad break and didn't do the whole hour of programming he was scheduled for, classy operation they have there 151056155
Reposted by Butcher PeteFilipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 28/10/2024I think one way to think about the Trump campaign’s doubling down on open fascism, especially after the F-word broke through to mainstream discourse with Kelly and Milley, is that they’re looking for a mandate. If they win, they’ll say: “we told everyone what we’d do, so now we’ll do it”. 29224
Reposted by Butcher PeteNick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social · 03/10/2024Elon Musk regularly promotes accounts that push phony race science. He uses X to pay money to neo-Nazis. He lies about Black and Brown immigrants. He positively engages with antisemites. Musk is a white supremacist who whines and fearmongers while continuing to accept millions in taxpayer dollars. 523049
Reposted by Butcher PeteBrian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 02/10/2024This is fucking disgusting: Character_ai is using my murdered niece as the face of a video game AI without her dad's permission. He is very upset right now. I can't imagine what he's going through. Please help us stop this sort of terrible practice. character.ai/character/Dv...character.aiChat with JenniferAnn Crecente | character.ai | Personalized AI for every moment of your dayChat with JenniferAnn Crecente: . Powered by an industry leading, AI large language model (LLM). 11219841057
Reposted by Butcher PeteMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 21/09/2024🚨 CAUTION! 🚨 the famously honorable chris rufo has his lawyer sending threatening letters now. so, whatever you do, DO NOT spread around the fact that he had an ashley madison account. i cannot stress enough how much he does not want you to associate his name with the affair website ashley madison. 22972430
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 18/09/2024The challenge is to choose 20 movies that have greatly influenced you. One film per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just posters. 1/20 820
Butcher Pete @butcherpete.bsky.social · 16/09/2024Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,468,688! I felt like I was super late to the show. 010
Reposted by Butcher PeteAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/09/2024A near ironclad rule of race science is the dumbest motherfuckers you will ever meet are obsessed with IQ. 423254532
Reposted by Butcher Peteemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/09/2024Hoping everyone who wrote a scolding post abt the organic jokes about JD and his couch writes up a repentant one about his hateful cat and fake Haitian immigrant story. 1230858
Reposted by Butcher PeteLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 26/08/20241/ If you are only now noticing that Musk and his inner circle have a LOT of ties to Russia - let me refresh your memory... Musk has spoken with Putin directly: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...independent.co.ukElon Musk spoke with Vladimir Putin directly, Pentagon official says‘Oh, dear, this is not good’ 19727289