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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 1h
anyone who doesn't accept "some doors will close for me, some relationships will be lost forever, and becoming better is its own reward" isn't serious about rehabilitation
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dire5loth.bsky.social @dire5loth.bsky.social · 13h
To other dudes who feel some bizarre skepticism whenever cases like the Cornell 7 happen: take a moment to realize that there are women you know who have been subjected to either sexual harassment or assault. Not 'likely', not 'possibly'. Have.
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dire5loth.bsky.social @dire5loth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't think I've felt as engaged or supported by the rules of a ttrpg then when I run Draw Steel. I ran a werewolf against my players and it felt like I got to pilot a Dark Souls boss - at level goddamn 1! #drawsteel
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US-owned National Post is urging Canadian Jews to take matters into their own hands to punish Avi Lewis for speaking up against the genocide in Gaza. They reference the Bible to bury alive and consume by fire. This is extremist hate. It needs to get called out. nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...
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Yoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis
His Yom Kippur message was indefensible
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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dire5loth.bsky.social @dire5loth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Going from Windows to Linux is actually pretty painless. The only part that took any real time was making backups for my PC in case I needed to reinstall windows. And my computer is now using a fraction of its resources instead of 30-40% cpu/ram while sitting fucking idle.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Woke up to this news and I’m beyond disgusted. It’s a US *constitutional right* now to create and own ‘CSAM,’ as long as it was made with AI?? AI gen images are built from real images, of real children. This directly re-exploits every single CSAM survivor. (More in 🧵) #abolition #trafficking
A federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess child sexual abuse content created using Al if it does not depict a real person and remains in the home.
On Tuesday, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th District ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home. In his ruling, Judge Lee urged the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue of virtual abuse material of children in the age of Al, suggesting that technological advances complicate existing legal precedent.
The case Lee ruled on came about in 2024 when the Department of Justice brought charges against Steven Anderegg, alleging that he used Al to create thousands of explicit images of children. He was accused of breaking federal obscenity laws by producing, distributing and possessing obscene visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Anderegg sought to have the possession and production charges dismissed under the First Amendment. Last year, a judge in the Western District of Wisconsin agreed to dismiss the possession charge, prompting the federal prosecutors to appeal.
Lee, in his ruling upholding the lower court's decision, cited the precedent set by Supreme Court rulings from 1969 and 2002. One held that individuals have a right to possess obscenity in the privacy of their home. The other found that "virtual" child sexual abuse material, not depicting a real person is not child pornography.
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026
"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.
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Boycott The New York Times
For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.
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Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on
Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unitIt's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat.
The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review?
I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless.
If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile?
Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!
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Dan Angelucci @danang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Our Pilot BIGG COUNTY RESTORATIONS is now online! I don't know how to promote anything so here is the link! youtu.be/BEJMWZWC-6I
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Bigg County Restorations (Pilot)
YouTube video by SCROTE HOME VIDEO
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
this week's post is about the torment nexus, AI dystopia, and self-driving cars that will take you to jail margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/when-they-...
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dire5loth.bsky.social @dire5loth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
When they get asked not to misgender trans people.
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dire5loth.bsky.social @dire5loth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The fact that Smith can pull this almost daily at this point and still poll well is absolutely vile.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.
exchange on X 

Christoffer Bjelke @chribjel 
We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/primitive tasks

Sameer goel @sameer_goel
Great, so now we're optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again.
Full circle innovation.
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 13/04/2026
But this, of course, is not "violence." But if one of the workers decided to vandalize or sabotage the machinery to force it to stop, now THAT would be violence.
Screenshot of the quoted article reading:
Sam, who has CPR training, asked her supervisor if she could assist. The supervisor watched the woman heaving her weight into the man’s chest and gave no response.

“I start sobbing and said, ‘I want to help, please!’ I know she’s going to get tired and need to be subbed out,” Sam told The Western Edge.

The supervisor, who Sam perceived to be in shock, had a simple reply: “It has to be management or safety team. Please get back to work.”

“I need to help,” Sam said.

“Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work,” Sam recalled the manager saying.
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dire5loth.bsky.social @dire5loth.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Thanks, I hate it.
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We’re long past a point to where layoffs deserve to be seen as a form of industrial sabotage. The damage done to gaming and many other industries by mass layoffs following mass acquisitions is irreparable. Ruined lives, squandered money, stripmined resources, businesses left fucking sabotaged.
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A policy proposal for Canadian provinces. policyoptions.irpp.org/2021/11/gend...
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Gender markers are useless, so why not abolish them?
Why do we have gender markers? Are they necessary? These questions have been brought to the fore as transgender communities in Quebec organize in opposition to a proposed law that would out as trans a...
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DurhamRegion.com @newsdurham.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Defence lawyer alleging assault by Durham cops inside Oshawa courthouse was handed trespassing ticket at 5:10 p.m. — just minutes after close
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Defence lawyer alleging assault by Durham cops inside Oshawa courthouse was handed trespassing ticket at 5:10 p.m. — just minutes after close
Sudine Riley alleges officers slammed her head on the desk, put their knees on her back and neck, and took her to the cells in handcuffs. She said she suffered bleeding and a swollen eye.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"“There was a car seat in the back with one of those baby blankets you get at the hospital. There were broken glass shards all over it,” he said. “I carefully pulled back the blanket and there was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
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ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Looking for a tangible way to fight back against the separatists right now? Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation has stepped up to be the pointy end of the legal spear, but those battles aren’t free. You can help them fight back for all of us! #abpoli #cdnpoli www.gofundme.com/f/sturgeon-l...
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Donate to Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Lawsuit & Injunction, organized by Deanna Kappo
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is a First Nation in Treaty No. 8 territory. The… Deanna Kappo needs your support for Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Lawsuit & Injunction
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll empty a whole goddamn magazine into you while you’re lying on the ground if you don’t cheer them on while they’re fucking doing it.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 22/01/2026
someone has to [redacted] for this.
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Mitch @mitchas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I pulled up next to one at 10:17am yesterday an snapped a photo. By 10:27 the agents I photographed were in front of my house, along with another vehicle that met them there. It's a 10 minute drive from where I took the photo to my house - so they got the data *instantly* bsky.app/profile/mitc...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 03/01/2026
The US has attacked a country, kidnapped its head of state, and is seizing its oil. Trump has invoked the Monroe Doctrine. This is a moment for Canada to stand up: condemn this act of imperialism. Reject impunity and the politics of brute force.
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This is so much of what community and solidarity, regardless of religious background, is about ❤️‍🩹 Our safety is in solidarity:
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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 10/12/2025
Overnight, past 2 a.m., the Alberta United Conservative Party passed Bill 9, a bill to **strip away the right to life of trans youth** in order to impose on them a gender-affirming care ban. We’re assisting to the beginning of a humanitarian crisis, in Canada, in real time.
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Cameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/11/2025
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported. www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
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Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison.

“If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.”

Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The Alberta President of the Canadian Bar Association has entered the chat… Calling out not only the preemptive use of the notwithstanding clause but also the limited debate as threats to the rule of law. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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dire5loth.bsky.social @dire5loth.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Lilith is very cool and does very cool things and you should giver her your spare dollars to keep doing them. And if we are lucky this might win some sort of anti-woke anime awards and we can watch the chuds come absolutely unglued again.
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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news · 29/10/2025
Bake sales *are* too hierarchical
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
“Smith claimed on Monday that Bill 2 “is exactly the kind of circumstance that I believe Peter Lougheed had in mind when he argued so hard on behalf of provinces to include the notwithstanding clause.” This is incorrect.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Invoking notwithstanding clause a slippery slope for Alberta
Pre-emptively and actively overriding rights is a slippery slope. Whose rights are next?
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dire5loth.bsky.social @dire5loth.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Things the Alberta govt. has money for: - Establish a provincial police force - Establish a provincial pension plan - Oil well cleanup on provincial dime (despite it not being our responsibility) - Private education Things the Alberta govt. doesn't have money for: - Public education
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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"Exposing a fascist MMA tournament in a small Ontario town" Caledonia, by the way, being the town used as a staging ground for white riots against the nearby Six Nations land reclamation in the mid 2000s.
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Exposing a fascist MMA tournament in a small Ontario town
CBC’s visual investigations unit uncovers the location of an MMA tournament held by the white nationalist men’s group Second Sons over Labour Day weekend in the small town of Caledonia, Ont.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
"If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don't check on the immigrants. Just make sure that ... the guards and the people that work for the government get off."
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14/10/2025
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
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dire5loth.bsky.social @dire5loth.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
youtube.com/shorts/rHvwR... Tired of looking at shitty things all the time, so here's a sleepy baby hippo.
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Mars Attacks. Mars Attacks.
YouTube video by Tanganyika Wildlife Park
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
From the DM’s… As Paramedics and HSAA are back at the bargaining table… Here’s some important context as to how EMS are paid in comparison to other First Responders and the amount of education required. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/10/2025
In the last 2 weeks MAGA aligned people have done 2 attempted mass shootings of a gay bar and pride center in Arizona and Texas, murdered 2 teenage girls for mocking Charlie Kirk, and torched a judge's home. Meanwhile, the government mobilized the military to go after the left.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
i believe raw meat cures everything and that it's a good idea to quit benzos cold turkey by going into a medically induced coma. why is everyone i love always sick and dying?
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