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DaaiTouLaam

@daaitoulaam.bsky.social
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HKer, Bostonian, Kansan, always a critic of shoddy governance. A reminder of how quickly a police state can be created. Pronouns: meow, miao, 猫

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Matthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘What’s in a name? What is “China” and who is “Chinese”? How the term “Chinese nation” was socially and politically constructed to promote Han imperialism’.
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Who Owns “China”? A Geographic Name, a National Identity, and the Peoples Left Out
What’s in a name? What is “China” and who is “Chinese”? How the term “Chinese nation” was socially and politically constructed to promote Han imperialism.
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 01/10/2026
Sound Transit hosted a ribboncutting ceremony for Pinehurst on Tuesday. The station arrived five years earlier than ST3 originally planned, but Seattle has struggled to get rezones in place due delays from the Harrell admin and later legal challenges. www.theurbanist.org/pinehurst-st...
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Pinehurst Station Bursts into Action, as Upzones Trail Behind
Pinehurst Station opened today as a new light rail stop between Northgate and South Shoreline. While a new crosstown bus and street upgrades preceded the station, neighborhood upzones are tied up in l...
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 23h
A post National Day hangover? intl men's futbol friendly between Palestine and PRChina
score sheet for Palestine at China men's futbol match 2 Oct 2026. PLE 5 - 0 CHN
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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 01/10/2026
I agree with this. “Let’s all just try to get along within the norms” can’t be how you deal with stuff happening so far outside the norms. I get why they want to cling to the rules, but if one side has gamed the system, the rules will only work for them.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Qualified immunity is an unqualified disaster
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Same story with a friend of mine, who is now actually quite famous. She dropped out after my university refused to discipline the two men who raped her, and made her sit in the same class with her in her specialized major. Her planned entire career path ended immediately.
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Kraken @analytics.social.vir.group.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
🟡 MilitaryDeployment | 6/10 🇮🇱 🇸🇾 Establishment of Israeli checkpoint in Syria Israeli forces have set up a checkpoint on the road between Ein al-Nuriya and Khan Arnaba in the Quneitra countryside, south of Syria. #OSINT #NewsGroup #Israel #Syria #BorderControl
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SteveH @sghendricks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and this is just the US. South Asia is having another of its craptastic episodes on "moral policing" women.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At this moment Elon Musk alone is worth $893,449,882,001
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Gemma Izek @berlinerbarbie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This thread really is something. When leaving an abusive ex, I had to stay in a shelter. A highly paid department director in my industry gave me "a generous offer" - be his live-in sex slave in exchange for housing. He had it all planned out, I was not the first woman he offered it to.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“.. Very good one sentence summary of the economy.” - Kyra Scanlon
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Oaguabonita8647 @oaguabonita.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Democracy dies in cowardly, craven capitulation. There, WaPo, FTsloganFY.
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026
I feel actually sick from this, the sheer fucking audacity of the grift claiming to be "a tool that will help professional journalists" while not citing a single journalist, stealing the photos from the Guardian article & stripping them of any info re: contents or photographer.
Screenshot from London Daily that shows four images at the top of a headline: three of a ship from different angles and one of Pia Klemp, an activist, holding a pair of binoculars. Beneath that the text reads as follows:
Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

The British street artist Banksy has financed a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north Africa, the Guardian can reveal.Screenshot of the top part of the 27 August 2020 Guardian article which London Daily scraped. The journalists listed in the byline are Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Maurice Stierl in Berlin, and a helpful yellow tag at the top of the page notes "This article is more than 6 years old."
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/09/2026
Not long before this is three years old, and chatbots still cannot pass the unsolvable riddle test They will always be designed to spew out anything, because they're worthless to the companies if they were to ever be tuned to only give accurate or meaningful answers (they'd barely reply at all)
Solve this riddle: I am neither up nor down. You can eat me, but if you don't, you'll die. I
can be found inside your head, and sometimes on top of it. What am l?

The answer is “food.” 🍽️

You can eat food, and without it you eventually die.
“Food” can be inside your head metaphorically as food for thought.
It can also be on top of your head—for example, food placed on someone's head as a joke.

That said, the riddle is a bit loose, so “brain” / “hair” may be intended depending on the original wording.

Solve this riddle. I am made of metal, but I break very easily. I am lighter than air, but I'm
the heaviest thing in the universe. All parents have a copy of me, and all children hate
me. What am l?

The answer is a “rule.”

Made of metal, but breaks easily → “rule” may refer to a ruler, which can be made of metal but can still break.
Lighter than air, but the heaviest thing in the universe → a rule has no physical weight, but the consequences of breaking one can feel very heavy.
All parents have a copy of me → parents have rules for their children.
All children hate me → children famously tend to dislike rules. 😄

The riddle relies heavily on wordplay, especially rule → ruler.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
partiarchal sexualised Deep Fakes of pro-democracy HK women done by the Party-State will inevitably be exempt hongkongfp.com/2026/09/16/p...
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Policy Address 2026: HK to appoint AI commissioner, consider deepfake laws
The Hong Kong government will appoint an artificial intelligence (AI) chief and study the implementation of laws tackling the use of deepfake technology, leader John Lee has announced in his annual Po...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember that Marc Andreessen hired that guy who killed a homeless man on the subway and that was the only qualification he needed to work in Silicon Valley. Top to bottom the worst of the worst people.
Piece of shit dude
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a ruby-thraoted hummingbird I photographed this morning
a ruby-throated hummingbird mid-flight feeding on a yellow flower
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
*looks directly at camera*
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
who could have foreseen such a circumstance?
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Dudes rock
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
A year later, when I did tour stops with Tim Wu (who was promoting his excellent book *The Age of Extraction*), I learned that this number had climbed to more than *$50 billion*. This year, it's on track to top *$80 billion*. 41/
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Very informative thread about how corrosively Amazon us using its monopoly power: A reminder (to myself as much as anyone), if you can't get off Amazon, you can at least use it less.
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don't wanna work, I just wanna bang on my drugs all day!
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
what's that, @schumer.senate.gov? Got some cash to toss towards Kansas? I hear "your genial colleagues across the aisle" and their SuperPACS are going big to prop up Roger Marshall 🤮. Make em play defense in Florida and Kansas as well as Michigan and Alaska
Latest polling out of Kansas which shows Adam Hamilton +1 on Roger Marshall in the Kansas Senate race
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As long as Viceroy Rubio is making buck for Trump Inc on Trump's resources in Venezuela, the compliant comprador govt will stay in place
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Only Republicans get to do this" can't be the status quo any more and it will require a mature, competent Dem majority to actually explain that to Republicans and tell them the choice is they accept punishment for this or Democrats get to do it to them. "We go high" just kills more people.
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
No one is gonna have kids in this city!
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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
There are 17 events in the calendar this week. 1 Commemoration date & 6 associated events, 1 exhibition, 2 history classes, 1 art instalation pop-up, 1 report launch, 2 protest, 1 book talk, 1 pop-up bar & 1 webinar Links in calendar: calendar.google.com/calendar/emb... CW: Violence 831 attack 2/
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Aug, Mon
All day
Sheffield: Exhibition "Streets on Screen" (Day 12/30)
All day
831 Commemoration / Anniversary Never forget
4 – 5:30am
Monterey park, California: "831, Prince Edward attack 7th anniversary: Preserving Memories"
Los Angeles
11am – 1pm
Bangkok: Pop-up art installation: "Free Political Prisoners"
Bangkok
12 – 2pm
Taipei: "Taiwan History Back-To-School Welcome & Happy Hour"
Taipei City
2 – 5pm
London: Comemoration "831 attack by Police at Prince Edward Station"
London
2 – 4pm
Edinburgh: "Let's Talk & Write" Commemorating 8.31
2 – 4pm
Leeds, UK: Rally "Lest we forget, We carry on, 831 Memorial"
Leeds
5 – 6pm
Edinburgh: Silent Protest: "Remember 8:31 Prince Edward attack & stand with Hong Kong Political Prisoners"
Edinburgh
7 – 8:30pm
Manchester: Rally "Something After Prince Edward Station"
Manchester

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Sept, Tue
All day
Sheffield: Exhibition "Streets on Screen" (Day 13/30)

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Sept, Wed
All day
Sheffield: Exhibition "Streets on Screen" (Day 14/30)
7 – 10am
Chiang Mai: Report Launch Seminar: “Issues Regarding Criminal Code Section 112: Cases Involving References to Former Monarchs”
Chiang Mai
12 – 2pm
London: protest "Demand Thailand Stop Engaging with the Myanmar Military Junta"
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Sept, Thu
All day
Sheffield: Exhibition "Streets on Screen" (Day 15/30)
All day
Indonesia AKSI KAMISAN!!
8 – 10:15am
Webinar: "Women Resisting Militarism’s Grip Over Asia and the Pacific" pt3
11:30am – 1:30pm
Tokyo: Book Discussion: "Care Skills for Burn-Out"
Tokyo
12 – 2pm
Taipei: "Taiwan History 101 Class: Indigenous Taiwan"
Taipei City

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Sept, Fri
All day
Sheffield: Exhibition "Streets on Screen" (Day 16/30)
12:30 – 4:30pm
Taipei: Trif Trans Bar @ Daybreak
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
but yes, I mean, we prattle on and on about mis/dis-info and post-truth and scary foreigners and scary AI beep beep boop boop but the reality is that when you have this level of indifference to reality, nothing is true and everything is possible bsky.app/profile/aelk...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"the money, which was supposed to be used to provide health insurance for poor children, was instead hastily passed through multiple organizations before eventually landing in the bank accounts of two political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida." www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I get that Politico sucks out loud and has for years but what’s amazing about this is that RFK Jr is, objectively, pro-disease. Pro-measles, pro-Polio, disease culls the population and he digs it. But to continue to write headlines like these without the word “incorrectly” or “falsely” is a choice.
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 26/08/2026
"While such work was possible in an earlier era in China, under Xi Jinping, who took power in 2012, the room for artistic expression has contracted. The law that Gao was charged under was introduced in 2021, but the works used as evidence against him were created more than 15 years ago."
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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
BREAKING: Armed and masked agents of the U.S. government have invaded the sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Still burning bright.
My Dolly Parton candle.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had to say thank you.
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In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...
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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SisiiRose (on IG/Tt), an indigenous woman was brutally taken down by ICE. The traser was stuck in her bone, her BONE! She was maced in the face and throat! When will enough be enough? Now is the time! Stand up! #ProudBlue #GTS 📹: statuscoup/IG
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton w/ her backing band: Alison Krauss, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Jim Mills, Stuart Duncan, Brian Sutton, Dan Tyminski, & Barry Bales www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGBn...
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Dolly Parton - Train Train
YouTube video by BluegrassLibrary
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I found a Rarity-82 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 849 points · 10 rare words. Only 4 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 3 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/2DKVP4
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OUTLIER · Day 96
daaitoulaam scored 849 on Day 96 — can you beat them?
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 24/08/2026
NEWS SCOTUS agrees to PAUSE an injunction blocking Trump's mail-in ballots EO. In a blistering dissent, Justice Jackson writes that Trump wanted SCOTUS's "imprimatur for its effort to foment chaos ahead of the November elections" — masked as a quibble over justiciability. buff.ly/xdAxeii
Taking its eye off the ball, the majority misses the Government’s actual objective: to secure our imprimatur for its effort to foment chaos ahead of the November elections.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the white men running to X to complain they can't defend white supremacists in peace on Bluesky is so funny to me
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b1bummer.bsky.social @b1bummer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
gofund.me/41b6cc40d
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Donate to Cover Sabrina's Vet Bills and Shots After Rescue, organized by Robert Lee
Hi, I’m raising funds to help with new kitty Sabrina’s vet bills and oth… Robert Lee needs your support for Cover Sabrina's Vet Bills and Shots After Rescue
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DaaiTouLaam @daaitoulaam.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Like dementia Donnie was personally in charge of QAnon. As long as he and his boys are getting their beaks wet and the attention is all on his clusterB ego, Donnie don't give a shit about the shit that is allegedly put out in his name.
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