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I like coffee, my cats, and maybe 4 people 🇳🇱 No longer wondering how it happened in Germany (pfp: De Kat, Bart van der Leck, 1914)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8h
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
rollingstone.com
CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 13h
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...
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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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dutch🎃trick or🎃treat @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 9h
Nothing to see here, just a first time offender exercising her first amendment rights. Again. Ain't that right, Jared Polis?
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19h
This is even more insane than I remembered.
Did Biden call Trump supporters 'garbage? It comes down to an apostrophe.
Republicans have long strained for a new Hillary Clinton-"deplorables" moment, but Biden's defense is entirely plausible.
October 30, 2024
• Footage of Biden's disputed
'garbage' comment
President Joe Biden was on a call with Latino voters on Oct. 29 when he brought up a Trump rally speaker's recent insult of Puerto Rico.
October 28, 2024
• Harris responds to question about Biden's 'garbage' remark
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to reporters before boarding a flight on Oct. 30 about President Joe Biden's remark that some intrepreted as calling former president Donald Trump's supporters
"garbage." The White House said Biden was referring
"to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square
Garden rally as garbage."
October 29, 2024Harris seeks to distance herself from Biden's 'garbage' remark
Vice President Kamala Harris tells reporters she rejects criticism based on how someone votes. The White House says President Joe Biden was referring to racist rhetoric, not to Trump voters.
October 31, 2024
Biden visits Philly amid lingering furor over 'garbage' remark
The White House stenographer's office complained about how press office officials handled the transcript of Biden's comments.
November 5, 2024
or Trump and Rubio react to Biden's 'garbage' comments
At former president Donald Trump's rally on Oct. 29, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said he hoped President Joe Biden would apologize for his "garbage" comments.
October 28, 2024Opinion
Take all this garbage out to the curb
Two comments have created a dumpster fire of partisan outrage this week.
October 30, 2024
White House, Trump campaign clash over whether Biden called Trump supporters garbage'
The disputed remark came in response to racist remarks about Puerto Rico at a Trump rally in New York City.
October 30, 2024
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Kamala Harris's Joe Biden problem
Kamala Harris stood on the Ellipse and delivered a clear and unifying message to a thundering crowd.
Moments earlier, in the White House illuminated behind her, Joe Biden had sat alone at a computer.
October 30, 2024
Opinion
The 10 worst things Biden did in 2024
Among the president's lows: pardoning Hunter Biden and calling Trump supporters "garbage."
January
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a chart from LPL: “.. the widening gap between prevailing mortgage rates and the effective rates existing homeowners are paying .. Many owners are sitting on cheap loans and have little incentive to give them up. That lock-in effect keeps the resale market starved of inventory ..”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19h
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026
more business owners need to be like this
Coldstuff Ice-cream • Follow

I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 22h
How do I get a job chaperoning orphaned kittens on a field trip to the aquarium
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Orphaned kittens meet sharks and stingrays on an aquarium field trip at the Mall of America
Rescue kittens with names like Turkey Leg and Mouth Trap got to explore the aquarium at the Mall of America in Minnesota, watching in awe as fish soared by just out of reach.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22h
All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic.
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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 22h
RIP Margaret Hamilton, the brilliant computer scientist whose contributions to software for the Apollo Guidance Computer were absolutely crucial to the Apollo Moon landings. She also helped shape the discipline of computer engineering while at MIT's Instrumentation Lab: news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee sues the Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded television ads violate propaganda law.
bit.ly
DNC sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law
The Democratic National Committee has sued the Trump administration over recent TV ads promoting the president.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
“how much shit can you deny yourself? cheese, gender, the fuck’s next?” truly humanity is a rich text
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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nor of women getting the right to their own bank accounts in 1974. It's a total mystery why divorces took off in the 70s and not before. Such a shock.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 07/10/2026
Trump said in 2016 he’d eliminate the national debt in eight years. The national debt apparently took that personally.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You could have covered & not stopped covering "we will invade our NATO allies" as a presidency-ending scandal. You could have covered & not stopped covering the open monetization of the presidency as an outrageous presidency-ending scandal. See also: all the rest. You decide this all the time:
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.
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An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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dutch🎃trick or🎃treat @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It does not. If it did a majority of Americans wouldn't still think Rs are "better for the economy" and "more fiscally responsible" since every R presidency has ended with sky high debt and the economy in the toilet.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
I don't care if this is a bunch of high school football players in Idaho. Writing “Let her hang from a ligh(t) post and let the birds pick at her brain for days” and “(You) think Cornell was bad just wait for us” should be grounds for immediate expulsion and charges filed.
idahopress.com
Threats in Timberline football chat lead to police inquiry
A private Timberline High School football group chat sparked outrage with alleged death threats and sexual violence references toward a female student, prompting a Boise Police Department investigatio...
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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dutch🎃trick or🎃treat @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
well fuck
NHC map showing a hurricane expected to hit the Gulf Coast on Friday
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Haha, this fucking sucks.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wanted: an antitrust policy that makes it so that newspapers can't run headlines that read, "creating a vast _____ empire"
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is superb 😂😂
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
nytimes.com
Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
minor boost for “Ken Paxton’s team wants him to lose” theory
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lots of crazy things happening these days, but the spy scandal unfolding in Germany at the moment about the former BND head handling out secret information seems quite high up there in the 'that usually only happens in a Le Carré novel'-list of events...
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Onedimental Limited Pumpkin Spice Edition @onedimental.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We can now refer to 'SCOTUS season' in the same way we refer to 'hurricane season' or 'fire season'.
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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this photo by Diego Perez, from Peru, for the Nikon Comedy wildlife photography awards lol www.dpreview.com/photography/...
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I feel like "As a bold, heterodox freethinker who stands apart from society and ruthlessly critiques it, I believe we should firmly lick the ass of the most powerful in the world" is like 80% of the Takes industry.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump says slur "This is Democrats fault!"
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Democrat got drunk once. A Republican made his fortune swindling sick people. We report, you decide. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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The Campaign for Ohio’s Next Governor May Be the Ugliest in the Country
The candidates for Ohio governor have significant policy differences, but the campaign ads have been strikingly personal, with exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as ...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 05/10/2026
Pathetic.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
If I were a magazine journalism assignment editor (and magazine journalism still existed), I would assign a reporter to simply aggregate all the stories of GOP sex creeps from the 21st century. Just list them & put them in one place. There are *hundreds*.
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dutch🎃trick or🎃treat @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It really doesn't matter how big and how wild. Look at that chonk going to town in it! 😹 🥰
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Anuska @anuskatruska.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Los resultados provisionales de Brasil se sienten como este meme. 💀
SOUTH AMERICAN ELECTIONS
Gabriela Rosa Sympatica
Elementary school teacher
Beloved by her community
Wants to improve lives
Diego Hitlerio de la Junta Son of a previous dictator Went to jail for corruption Wants to sterilize natives
Temporary results (98% ballots counted):
49,9999%
50,0001%
thebad.website
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is fucking absurd how much y’all want boys to have an unobstructed successful future and treat girls like fucking cannon fodder every last high school girl out there is more valuable to the world than a boy or man who has committed sexual assault
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dutch🎃trick or🎃treat @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ah yes, such abstract interests as bodily autonomy and receiving proper medical care. What an utter misogynistic fuck.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 05/10/2026
Brazil absolutely did much more to stamp down an attempted coup and fight fascism, but it's hard to have that stick when elites broadly would prefer fascism and also you have an imperial power next door actively campaigning for it
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dutch🎃trick or🎃treat @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. The more you listen to them, the more you realize how completely *insane* a lot of them are. Like, well past the point of repair. They're literally FUBAR.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last year Bolsonaro was prosecuted with overseeing a vast scheme to overturn the 2022 election he lost. Lula’s worker party steadied brazil after a near decade long recession Now Brazilian Voters have handed the reins of power in senate,congress, states & perhaps presidency back to the bolsonarists
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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