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Tomato Harvest

@cucumber1000.bsky.social
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Pro democracy, anti authoritarianism and totalitarianism. I hate disinformation and conspiracy theories.

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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
An interesting, unsettling read.
theguardian.com
‘Like a drill going into my eye’: why the mystery over Havana syndrome refuses to die
Dozens 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...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit 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.com
EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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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.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Knick Hamilton @jlasoul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A little nor'ambient ☔️ One of two new DRONARIVM releases this week.
dronarivm.bandcamp.com
Talisman, by Snufmumriko
11 track album
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The 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
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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.com
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Seen in a review on Goodreads: "It get's you thinking, even if it's in the wrong direction"
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
100 novels currently believed by some to be the greatest of all time
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The 100 best novels of all time
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
How to cope with the mounting evidence that I am, quite probably, an idiot has been one of the defining conundrums of my middle age
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Please do not ask bookworm if they are going to finish the books they have before buying more. It is very offensive in our culture.
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Asked 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.”
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Ironically, 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."
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Trump 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.
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Often when I'm on the verge of speaking to someone, my mind will just call the whole thing off
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump on NATO: "I always knew they were a paper ⁠tiger, ​and Putin knows ​that too"
reuters.com
Trump says U.S. strongly considering NATO exit, Telegraph newspaper says
U.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...
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Funny how disinformation all of a sudden is taken seriously.
theguardian.com
US directs American embassies to wage campaign against foreign ‘hostility’ – with Musk’s help
Cable signed by Marco Rubio and seen by Guardian suggests staff work with Pentagon psychological operations unit
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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 wall
War 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
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Bombing hospitals should be unacceptable under all circumstances
theguardian.com
Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers
Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable
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André Engelhorn @aengelhorn.eurosky.social · 24/03/2026
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Kohle - Minenbesitzer
Öl und Gas - Förderquellenbesitzer
Atomkraft - Uranbesitzer
Solar: Niemand besitzt die Sonne
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The ”Yes – with one important caveat” iteration of ChatGPT drives me up the wall. Just tell me I have it all wrong, ffs
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 21/03/2026
@simonmaechling.bsky.social #medsky
Kids in High School: “I don’t understand why I have to take basic science classes.  When I am ever going to use this stuff in my life?!”  As adults: “Vaccines cause autism, GMOs are unsafe, climate change is a lie, and the earth is flat.  I’ve done my research.  If you disagree with me, you’re sheep!”
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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I think sincerity really matters right now.
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Book 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...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026
Ossoff: "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."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Cartoon from Der Spiegel shows the world as seen by Trump.
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A really distressing read.
theguardian.com
Her 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
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The GenX urge to fall, fall, fall, fall into the walls
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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 content
theguardian.com
US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content
Freedom.gov appears to be administered by a branch of the Department of Homeland Security
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Goodreads reviews are funny. "My interests have moved on from this topic so I didn't finish the book."
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Many spurious claims by Mike Waltz in Munich today. Does UN funding really compete with US firefighter or nurse salaries?
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Trust in Norwegian institutions *badly* shaken by Epstein files revelations, Scandinavian papers report (link in Swedish)
dn.se
Karin Eriksson: Trump kan vältra sig i skadeglädje över Norges skam
DN:s Karin Eriksson: Norge var landet med det finaste Nobelpriset och det folkligaste kungahuset. Nu kan Trump vältra sig i skadeglädje över Norges skam.
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A 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.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
It's unsurprising that the Nazis waged a relentless war on creativity, especially the modern and the avant-garde, in everything from architecture and design to painting.
Hitler himself was a failed painter whose work was most notably deficient in his inability to realistically capture human subjects. As Charlie English writes in his account of the Nazi war on art,
In this sense, Hitler's painting supports Arendt's theory of National Socialism-that it was defined by its banality and lack of empathy. The Nazis relied on the ability of people not to imagine themselves in someone else's shoes.
The lack of a connection was very much the point.
There is a right-wing war on empathy that observers like Bradley_ Onishi have been cataloguing for months and that was most recently documented by Hillary_ Clinton for The Atlantic. But I don't believe you can decouple this from the war on art and artists.I share the belief that the arts are central to the cause of human freedom. This isn't only because of the expansive potential of the imagination. It's also because of the well of universal feeling and experience from which art draws in order to evoke something in its audience. And this experience pulls us—as listeners, viewers, observers, whether the medium—into a cycle of mutual edification. Art helps us to know one another better and to know ourselves more honestly. And it helps us to process our awe and terror at the world and our existence. It's why those with authoritarian impulses always want to control it, to limit what it shows us, and to silence its practitioners. What they fear most is the plain truth of being human.
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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Do kids really not read whole books in school anymore, or is that an internet moral panic thing?
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor
bbc.com
Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor
The raid, involving cyber-crime officers, represents a dramatic escalation of an investigation that began in January 2025.
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The "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.
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RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
'Open AI Collapse' is trending on youtube & I'm here for it.
media.tenor.com
a 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 .
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk's Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
theguardian.com
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I 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.org
Misinformation Studies Meets the Raw Milk Renaissance
A review of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science” (The National Academies Press, 2025).
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
theguardian.com
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "Anything thrown into the sphere disappears."
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Tomato Harvest @cucumber1000.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"Republicans on the Trump Year: Just Want More"
swedenherald.com
Republicans on the Trump year: Just want more | Sweden Herald
A 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
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Ariel J. Blocker @drugdesigns.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Family seeks answers after ICE deported man to Costa Rica in vegetative state
Exclusive: Before Randall Gamboa Esquivel died, his health had deteriorated badly while he was in ICE custody
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670rv @670rv.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
www.authoritarian-stack.info
authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
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RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
at some point you have to accept there's just a lot of really dumb people on the planet right now.
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Renee 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.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
By 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.com
On the Internet No One Knows You’re a “MAGA patriot” in Lagos
On X's new location feature...
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lydelle BLEAAAH!ster @babyshoes4cash.com · 23/11/2025
i 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
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RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
remember 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.
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