Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026An interesting, unsettling read.theguardian.com‘Like a drill going into my eye’: why the mystery over Havana syndrome refuses to dieDozens of CIA officers have been afflicted by debilitating symptoms over the past decade. Are they the result of ‘mass hysteria’? Or are they from attacks with an energy weapon and, if so, who is resp... 010
Reposted by Tomato HarvestEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comEU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressureThe Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat. 501136552
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"The Trump administration pressured multiple countries to withdraw their sponsorship of a leading European conference on disinformation, with Canada, Lithuania and the EU’s diplomatic service subsequently agreeing to do so"theguardian.comEU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ requestLithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website 010
Reposted by Tomato HarvestKnick Hamilton @jlasoul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A little nor'ambient ☔️ One of two new DRONARIVM releases this week.dronarivm.bandcamp.comTalisman, by Snufmumriko11 track album 274
Reposted by Tomato HarvestThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Can you give my dad back? I miss him.” 💔 ICE kidnapped her father Luis at a DOT inspection. Her mother says he is legal and did everything the right way. #AbolishICE 30052252406
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is."theguardian.comMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminismTheatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism 000
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Seen in a review on Goodreads: "It get's you thinking, even if it's in the wrong direction" 120
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 16/05/2026100 novels currently believed by some to be the greatest of all timetheguardian.comThe 100 best novels of all timeThe top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read? 000
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 29/04/2026How to cope with the mounting evidence that I am, quite probably, an idiot has been one of the defining conundrums of my middle age 010
Reposted by Tomato HarvestMichelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Please do not ask bookworm if they are going to finish the books they have before buying more. It is very offensive in our culture. 1303370474
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Asked whether bananas are yellow, GPT-4o would say ”That’s a really sharp question.” The equally insufferable 5.3 Mini will go ”Your intuition is largely correct — but it’s worth sharpening.” 100
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Ironically, the only thing that rings curiously true in that "manifesto" is this: "The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret." 000
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Trump and Vance could have simply said "I respectfully disagree with the Pope." But of course they didn't. No perceived slight must go unpunished with these people. 000
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Often when I'm on the verge of speaking to someone, my mind will just call the whole thing off 010
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Trump on NATO: "I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too"reuters.comTrump says U.S. strongly considering NATO exit, Telegraph newspaper saysU.S. President Donald Trump said he was strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO after allies failed to back U.S. military action against Iran, according to an interview with Bri... 000
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Funny how disinformation all of a sudden is taken seriously.theguardian.comUS directs American embassies to wage campaign against foreign ‘hostility’ – with Musk’s helpCable signed by Marco Rubio and seen by Guardian suggests staff work with Pentagon psychological operations unit 010
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 30/03/2026"Iran is Trump’s Waterloo. This is the demolition of the Donald Trump myth."theguardian.com‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wallWar is testing operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it 010
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Bombing hospitals should be unacceptable under all circumstancestheguardian.comIsrael deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workersMedics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable 000
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 22/03/2026The ”Yes – with one important caveat” iteration of ChatGPT drives me up the wall. Just tell me I have it all wrong, ffs 100
Reposted by Tomato HarvestPhysicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 21/03/2026@simonmaechling.bsky.social #medsky 18579321940
Reposted by Tomato HarvestRabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I think sincerity really matters right now. 3222
Reposted by Tomato HarvestAndrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You... 28946477
Reposted by Tomato HarvestAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot." 8994013112455
Reposted by Tomato HarvestRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools. 598225495540
Reposted by Tomato HarvestCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Cartoon from Der Spiegel shows the world as seen by Trump. 8311115
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 28/02/2026A really distressing read.theguardian.comHer husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot 031
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 20/02/2026The GenX urge to fall, fall, fall, fall into the walls 010
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 20/02/2026"This is very specifically to help, like, an angry man in Schöndorf see neo-Nazi tweets from a guy in Arkansas" US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked contenttheguardian.comUS builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked contentFreedom.gov appears to be administered by a branch of the Department of Homeland Security 010
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Goodreads reviews are funny. "My interests have moved on from this topic so I didn't finish the book." 010
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Many spurious claims by Mike Waltz in Munich today. Does UN funding really compete with US firefighter or nurse salaries? 020
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Trust in Norwegian institutions *badly* shaken by Epstein files revelations, Scandinavian papers report (link in Swedish)dn.seKarin Eriksson: Trump kan vältra sig i skadeglädje över Norges skamDN:s Karin Eriksson: Norge var landet med det finaste Nobelpriset och det folkligaste kungahuset. Nu kan Trump vältra sig i skadeglädje över Norges skam. 000
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 06/02/2026A lot of completely irrelevant material in the Epstein Library, like what appears to be Wikipedia articles on Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen etc. One has to wonder if that was stuffed in there as padding. 010
Reposted by Tomato HarvestAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 05/02/2026The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo... 11451147
Reposted by Tomato HarvestRabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Do kids really not read whole books in school anymore, or is that an internet moral panic thing? 821
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutorbbc.comMusk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutorThe raid, involving cyber-crime officers, represents a dramatic escalation of an investigation that began in January 2025. 000
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 03/02/2026The "Politically motivated!!!" deflection beloved by Trump and Musk really isn't the damning indictment they think it is. Because yes, maybe – but so what? Pretty sure resistance to Hitler was politically motivated, too. 000
Reposted by Tomato HarvestRW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 24/01/2026'Open AI Collapse' is trending on youtube & I'm here for it.media.tenor.coma man in a tuxedo with a bow tie is sitting in a crowd of people .ALT: a man in a tuxedo with a bow tie is sitting in a crowd of people . 021
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk's Grokipedia as source, tests revealtheguardian.comLatest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests revealGuardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers 110
Reposted by Tomato HarvestRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I wrote a review of the NASEM report on “Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science”. It’s an incredibly thorough survey of the topic. But guess who got confirmed as it came out? What do we do w/this knowledge, practically, now? How do we act? www.lawfaremedia.org/article/misi...lawfaremedia.orgMisinformation Studies Meets the Raw Milk RenaissanceA review of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science” (The National Academies Press, 2025). 33313
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 23/01/2026White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protesttheguardian.comWhite House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protestGuardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration 000
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "Anything thrown into the sphere disappears." 020
Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 21/01/2026"Republicans on the Trump Year: Just Want More"swedenherald.comRepublicans on the Trump year: Just want more | Sweden HeraldA whirlwind of positive change: Republicans in the United States believe that Donald Trump is delivering on his promises to make America great, safe, and p 100
Reposted by Tomato HarvestAriel J. Blocker @drugdesigns.bsky.social · 11/01/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comFamily seeks answers after ICE deported man to Costa Rica in vegetative stateExclusive: Before Randall Gamboa Esquivel died, his health had deteriorated badly while he was in ICE custody 001
Reposted by Tomato Harvest670rv @670rv.bsky.social · 24/12/2025www.authoritarian-stack.infoauthoritarian-stack.infoThe Authoritarian StackHow Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next 032
Reposted by Tomato HarvestRW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 07/12/2025at some point you have to accept there's just a lot of really dumb people on the planet right now. 131
Reposted by Tomato HarvestRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 05/12/2025“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that: - labeling is censorship - fact-checking is censorship - transparency is censorship - research is censorship What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship. 12460136
Reposted by Tomato HarvestRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/11/2025By me: a brief history of foreign agitators pretending to be Americans over the last decade, with most out to make a buck monetizing the culture war 💸(politics matter less than you think), and what X’s new feature shows… open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...open.substack.comOn the Internet No One Knows You’re a “MAGA patriot” in LagosOn X's new location feature... 47218
Reposted by Tomato Harvestlydelle BLEAAAH!ster @babyshoes4cash.com · 23/11/2025i play video games but im over 40 so it's just: Chrono Trigger -> janky 20th century crpg -> Morrowind -> janky itch dot io game -> Transport Tycoon Deluxe -> walking simulator -> Chrono Trigger and it's marvelous 7483731
Reposted by Tomato HarvestRW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 18/10/2025remember today at #NoKings DON'T make it a photo-op for them. ruin their pictures. sing, chant, smile, wear cute costumes, share snacks & water... & please- be safe out there. 021