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Xabier Ostale

@embers1.bsky.social
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🌳 Paradigm shift 🦮 Radical social revolution. No mercy with bigots. Wear a proper mask (respirator) & avoid crowds. Sars2 is a biohazard level-3

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's good that people understand what's happening, but the response to the aggressive corporate power grab we're seeing is still too atomized. Everything boils down to individual "choice" rather than organizing collectively to force the systemic adoption of consumer rights and digital ownership.
theguardian.com
‘If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it’: why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl
People describe their return to physical media – whether to protect data, support artists, or retain control of one’s choices
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In a capitalist society, the worst people have the loudest voices and biggest platforms, because the entire system incentivizes abuse, exploitation, and just being terrible human beings overall.
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 22h
If they make in Spain "illegal" a general strike that demands the right to housing on the basis that is not strictly a labor issue, the status-quo fascists should be shown that there are more ways of grinding a country to a halt. People, go!
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 03/10/2026
Tens of thousands of protesters have marched in Madrid and other cities in Spain to demand affordable housing, a day after MPs rejected relief measures for tenants.
rte.ie
Huge protests in Spain after housing measures defeated
Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Madrid and other cities in Spain to demand affordable housing, a day after MPs rejected relief measures for tenants.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 02/10/2026
"Sheryl, why do you focus on the US and Israel so much? Do you hate Western civilization?" I was born in a country built on stolen land with the forced stolen labor of enslaved people. Therefore, I will talk about how evil it is to steal land and enslave people and how we must make that right.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the reasons that liberals are so ineffective at stopping Trump is because they’re primarily engaging in symbolism, not substance. The latter requires that you take personal risks and engage in behavior that may be just, but isn’t always legal, and that’s anathema to the liberal ethos.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It should be readily apparent at this point that flirting with fascism is what brought us to fascism. Believing you can apply fascistic practices some places or in some cases and coating it in some ideological or "pragmatic" veneer seeded the soil. If you can't see it, I don't know, man...
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"This practice is a scam intended to pump up share prices. Companies often borrow money in order to buy their stock, in a kind of arbitrage play that adds nothing of value to the economy but enriches insiders."
prospect.org
How Wall Street Feeds Itself - The American Prospect
Today on TAP: Stock buybacks hit new records last year. They should be banned outright.
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Most people don't even test, so the incidence is much higher. They are stuck thinking the infection is the acute phase. The virus is very deleterious beyond it, among other things, organs' damage, included brain, mitochondrial dysfunction, immunity depletion, nervous system, bone marrow...
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Covid everywhere again... high fevers, coughs, and I've heard already of two cases of vertigo (probably ear-related or brain-related). People are not being told, and they don't tell themselves either, that there is not such a thing as acquiring immunity to sars2.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Consider that if the US had publicly televised executions of corrupt fucking CEOs and bankers in 2009, none of the assholes on Wall Street would be on the verge of crashing the global economy again right now.
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Too Long Covid 💚 @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still just a cold?
Graph of disorder or arithmetic skills by year increasing from 2022
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The UN general assembly meeting in New York is a depraved spectacle exposing the illegitimate imperial order and the institutions on which it is built open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
open.substack.com
A Spectacle Of The Macabre In New York
What’s unfolding in New York is a show of breath-taking degeneracy, a depraved spectacle exposing the illegitimate imperial order and the institutions on which it is built.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Big Tech is destroying the world. "We have learned that America does not want the problems of datacentres and so now Google is bringing them here,” said Tarluvada’s village head, BRB Naidu, who admitted he was torn about whether the datacentre would bring prosperity or ruin to their community."
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The CDC may be "zombified," but public health was destroyed years ago to preserve and safeguard capitalism. One of the biggest purveyors of COVID misinformation has been the US government itself, and that's why the virus is everywhere and people are still being disabled by Long COVID in 2026.
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We are literally watching the shit hit the fan on both sides of the US and nobody is talking about what's actually causing this. It's unreal.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every tech CEO belongs in jail.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Love how the M4A folks continue not to listen to people who are actually on Medicare who say "actually you probably should make it clear that what you want isn't Medicare-as-we-have-it-now for everyone because that would suck for everyone."
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Back to normal”
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's this simple: home is a human right. Anyone attempting against this, speculating with the homes, diverting public funds that should achieve 100% homes for all citizens instead, who deprives any person of a home is committing an attack against human rights, and should be addressed as terrorists.
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💫 Brock 💫 @queeralchemy.com · 25/09/2026
WE ARE BEING MANIPULATED TO FIGHT EACH OTHER!!! It is so obvious that disabled people are the current target of intentionally contentious discourse because disabled people have always been a target of fascists because nobody cares about (or even worse, actively despise) disabled people!
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the clearest illustration I have ever seen of the way infection control and public health refuse to act responsibly on aerosol disease transmission. Doing the right thing today would mean admitting they could have yesterday, but chose not to. Repeat, forever. #medsky #polisky #scisky
A drawing of the "trolley problem" only there is a single track and the caption reads "You can stop the trolley at anytime, but then there will be survivors who might tell authorities you tied everyone up"
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How are they gonna stop creeps and perverts when they themselves are secretly spying on everyone that’s wearing this garbage?
mashable.com
Meta workers forced to review intimate videos taken by Ray-Ban smart glasses
Read over those Terms of Service again.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s amazing how there’s zero urgency to address climate change in a substantive way when everyone is currently being impacted by it in some way, shape or form.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now the only time that the CDC maps will register high levels of COVID is when everyone is in the hospital dying. I hate this country so much.
nbcnews.com
Why the CDC edited a key Covid metric, and what it says about the state of the virus
Covid infection counts are increasing in more than half the country.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Liberals, you are the baddies.
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A look at how Germany and Europe’s switch from Russian gas to US LNG, helped by NordStream being blown up, has deindustrialised Germany at astonishing speed while shovelling cash into the hands of Trump's fossil fuel mega donors open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
open.substack.com
Germany De-Industrialised Itself For Ukraine, And Trump’s Oil Donors Profited
I heard a statistic the other day that the output of Germany’s energy-intensive industries - things like cement, glass, steel - have collapsed 20% in the last six years.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You will never get justice by working through the courts. They are an instrument of power that delivers injustice to those affected by the capitalist system.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It strengthened to one of the strongest Cat 5 storms on record in the span of a day. Pretty soon, this is going to be a "normal" summer because of climate change.
apnews.com
Hurricane Polo churns off Mexico's Pacific coast as 'one of the strongest storms ever'
Hurricane Polo is gaining strength as it moves along Mexico's southwestern coast as a Category 5 cyclone.
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Something is starting to simmer regarding real state speculation and evictions in Spain, like the 2008 vibes. Let's see whether this explodes in a groundswell of organized protest or it peters out. It's a chance for the left to rise.
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This delusional current zeitgeist based on absurd hypes while the world is being killed is creepy as hell.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is happening in a country with a public transit system that's at least 60 years out of date in most places.
ft.com
US retailer rations motor oil as prices quadruple and supplies run dry
Iran war has created global shortage of lubricant used in vehicle engines
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Nobody @davidepike.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
wear N95 respirator while sharing air in public
Illustration of a man wearing N95 respirator with caption: "I Mask: I know the high risk of Long COVID and how devastating it is."
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the inevitable result under capitalism: monopolies controlled by fascists with the only opposition coming from feckless state bureaucrats that are ultimately beholden to capitalists.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
AGAIN! You do not need to fear "superintelligent AI" "going rogue" & killing humans, when HUMANS keep putting regular, everyday shitty-assed, extremely error-prone "AI" into potentially life-&-death-crucial systems. It does not have to be "powerful" to do that! It can do that & still be very shitty!
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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fossil fuel production creates fossil fuel demand. Leaders that don't acknowledge that like the ones in Canada are lying. It can be easily demonstrated that this is true. They don't care about climate change or your children. They know full well what's at stake.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I honestly don't understand how anyone can look at the history of the last 26 years and confidently declare that we need to vote harder. It's replete with stolen elections and unconstitutional legislation passed by corporate-owned politicians that have laid the groundwork for overt fascism.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Do people really think that using paper straws, driving electric vehicles, and recycling is anywhere near enough to stop this from happening? We are basking in ignorance and in deep denial about how bad things actually are.
popularmechanics.com
The Ocean Current That Feeds the World Is Collapsing. The Results Could Be Catastrophic.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is a global necessity, bringing heat, carbon, and nutrients from the tropics to the Arctic Circle.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The US is so fucked. Prepare for massive price increases and shortages everywhere.
cnbc.com
How record diesel prices will rip through the U.S. economy. Trucks, rails are only the start
Record diesel prices are already walloping the transportation sector, and if energy prices stay high, the economic impact will spread.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
ctvnews.ca
‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher
University of Calgary professor Mark Ungrin has dedicated years of research highlighting what he believes is of significant concern to all Canadians’ health.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Liberals in the US will look at slavery, the genocide of Native Americans, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Tulsa Race Massacre, Japanese internment, Jim Crow, the Vietnam War, Cold War CIA coups, the Iraq War, and the genocide of Palestinians and be like, "That's not who we are." 🙃
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's fucking wild how liberals are so bad on trans rights that it's pushing others that are liberal adjacent further left, because they're seeing how bad Blue MAGA is and they don't want to be affiliated with that.
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The deals made for kidnapping and torturing non-white people, and keeping them in a legal limbo forever. This horror alone is enough to justify any kind of liberating action.
theguardian.com
Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say
Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violence
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Bear in mind, all these assholes are members of a doomsday sex cult based on a Harry Potter fanfic book, to them it is perfectly normal to add "but what if a wizard" at any opportunity.
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Exactly!
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The ideological incoherence of liberals on this app is exhausting. They claim to be on the left, but say they believe in capitalism. They claim to oppose genocide, but voted for it and only condemn Netanyahu, not Israel. They claim to believe in human rights, but gladly abandon trans people.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Screw unions. We need worker co-ops. We need to own our workplaces, not bargain for pay and benefits via institutions and processes that preserve capitalism. To get them, we need to be more creative, spontaneous, and take risks. Capitalists know how to stop us before we even make plans.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Eclampsia is deadly. The ONLY treatment is terminating the pregnancy/delivering the baby. Tierra Walker developed eclampsia before her fetus was viable … so she was left to die (and the fetus died too). Why? Because of the Texas abortion ban. This should be considered murder.
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When you expose infrastructure and safety protocols to an unreliable and prone-to-mess-things-up, unsupervised-in-its-deepest-functions tool, you get nasty surprises. Sigh.
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