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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

A lot of very worthy organizations, news outlets, etc. offer special newsletters if you support them, but honestly, I might donate more money if they would promise not to send more to my inbox.

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

@joewynne @mooseandriosmom I love The Pretenders, and Chrissie in particular, and I probably still don't listen to them enough. I'll work on that today!

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

What are Americans afraid of? 1. Corrupt gov't officials (61.1%) 2. US getting involved in another world war (58%) 3. AI harming political process (51.9%) 4. People I love getting seriously ill (51.8%) 5. People I love dying (50.6%) 6. Economic/financial […] [Original post on mastodon.xyz]

Image of top 10 fears, listing the same content of the post.

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

I think this could be one of the most dangerous points in Russia's unjust war in Ukraine. Yes, Ukraine has fought well and held out better than anyone ever expected, and yes, its attacks on Russian infrastructure seem to be effective. But there are still at least two more years of a Trump […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

But realistically, to maintain control while suffering huge losses, you need some victories. Even Abraham Lincoln was nearly voted out of office in 1864 amid terrible casualty numbers, before the fall of Vicksburg and Atlanta gave him some good news. Similarly, the Allied casualties in D-Day […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

As others have observed, the Russia's losses limit Vladimir Putin's options, and make him more desperate and dangerous. And it seems like he's willing to play his Trump card, leaning Donald Trump to withdraw logistical support from Ukraine and start funding the Russian side of the war through […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Obviously, the war has taken a toll on Ukraine as well, with casualties around 500,000-600,000 and civilians killed (12,000) and captured (16,000). But the Russian numbers are staggering, and even a superpower cannot sustain losses like that forever--logistically, militarily, or socially. 5/ […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

But September 2026 was an especially bad month for Russian casualties, and it's easy to draw the wrong conclusions from outlier data. It may be more fair to look at an average over the entire war since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February 2022. Over those 54 months, Russia has reportedly […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

To top the single month numbers of Russia's casualties in September 2026, you would have go back to the American Civil War, where the caasualties on both sides are counted, and even then, only Gettysburg (~51,000) could exceed that number. 3/

A vertical bar graph with the title "The American Civil War Casualty" and the casualty numbers for the 10 deadliest battles:

Vicksburg: 19,203
Bull Run: 22,180
Sharpsburg: 22,717
Murfreesboro: 23,515
Shiloh: 23,746
Chancellorsville: 24,000
Wilderness: 29,800
Spotsylvania: 30,000
Chikamauga: 34,624
Gettysburg: 51,000

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Obviously, the 46,000 figure is an estimate, it may be higher or lower, but even if it is over-estimated, it is still SHOCKINGLY high. To put it into a perspective that Americans might be more familiar with, that is close to 5x the casualties of the combined Allied forces on D-Day. 2/ […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

As U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be taking the side of Russia in its war on Ukraine, it feels like the Kremlin is putting desperate pressure on Trump before he may lose congressional support in the 2026. I assume that desperation is related to the Russian casualties, which hit 46,000 […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First - The Onion theonion.com/protestors-criticized-…

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I just found out that @straphanger 's excellent book Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile is available as an eBook from Kobo. This was one of the best books I read this year, my copy is loaned to a friend, so I snapped up the eBook […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Corporations are more important than people now? Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot | PhillyVoice www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman-ar…

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Fedi friends, I am shopping for a cloud storage providers for a team of 5 that is leaving #M365. We don't actually need the apps much, LibreOffice and Thunderbird work well and we have a separate email provider lined up, but we do use the #OneDrive cloud storage and photo back-up on multiple […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 08/01/2026

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I really enjoyed the most recent issue of Clarkesworld, especially the two stories linked below. One short, one longer. I love that there is still a home for vibrant and interesting speculative fiction, and it's fun to get something in my inbox each month that I actually want to read! Thanks […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@Techaltar You basically described the rule of lawyers and judges in some cases. (Although at least in those adversarial/ajudicatory proceedings they can do something about it.)

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 12/10/2026

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! "Be humble and keep learning—especially when it’s hard." www.greenpeace.org/usa/10-ways-to-b… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Pe… ✊ #solidarity […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

A scene from the TV show The Good Place where one character explains:

"Fun fact, Columbus is in The Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide."

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Beta-testing notoriously buggy software on public roads is unconscionable. "Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle." Tesla is browbeating the EU […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I think we'll look back on the so-called AI boom in 10 years with disgust. It's remarkable to me how many markets and industries it has poisoned. How AI data centers are killing off the $100 smartphone - Rest of World […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Actual headline: bad dog owner kills man Cyclist, 71, Dies After Colliding with Off-Leash Dog in Central Park people.com/71-year-old-cyclist-dies…

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90 www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oc…

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

A short but nifty video on why sodas in the U.S. say they contain phenylalanine, but they don't m.youtube.com/shorts/Fob38Jo9F_k

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@etp I love Avery's voice so much. Thank you!

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

@mattblaze Another plug for RECAP and CourtListener from the @freelawproject .

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

"Working Americans are taking home the smallest percentage of economic output, 52.8%, since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the metric in 1947. But as the share of wealth workers take home through wages—called labor share—is shrinking, corporate profits have exploded, with the S&P […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The wealthy parents behind the curtain

A four-panel comic:

Panel 1: A magician on stage dressed in a tuxedo, flourising a top hat, tells the audience "And for my next trick ..."

Panel 2: The magician pulls a document titled "DEED" from his hat, and a woman with two children appears next to him, as he tells the audieince "I'll purchase a home on a single income while my partner stays at home to raise our kids!"

Panel 3: The audience applauses enthusiastically.

Panel 4: One audience member stands and points backstage, where an older man and woman are partiallyl seen holding a sack of money marked "$." The audience member shouts "I can see his parents financially assisting him behind the curtain!" The magician on stage has a guilty look on his face and drops his top hat.

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I somehow had never seen the music video for Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" until today. I love that album, I think Superunknown was the third CD I ever bought, but I somehow made it 30+ years without seeing the music video. I think it's pretty awesome, actually. Yes, it's dated, a part of its […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

We really are just a corrupt petro-state at this point, aren't we? The lower-cost renewable revolution that electrified states are riding into the future is leaving the U.S. behind. US to announce sharply lower vehicle fuel economy requirements | Reuters […]

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Here, on the first rest day of the #Vuelta, I have to say that I hate the risks in pro cycling. I feel so awful for Tadej Pogacar and his teammates. I always love an unpredictable Vuelta, but not like this. I also have to say that yesterday's mountaintop finish Stage 9 was absolutely riveting […]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...

Separated bike-lane with people riding in Montreal.

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Popular pixel-art sandbox game Luanti was removed from the Google Play store for a second time based on a false DMCA take-down request by an outfit called "Tracer.AI" on behalf of Microsoft. The DMCA request falsely asserted that Luanti used copyrighted Minecraft assets, which it does not. This […]

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

TIL: Québec has a strategy called Stratégie nationale d'achat d'aliments québécois (provincial strategy for the purchase of Québec foods). Abbreviation: SNAAQ. I can't tell if this is the funniest random coincidence ever, or the work of a bilingual public servant with an excellent sense of humour.

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I haven't felt this much FOMO in years. What a killer line-up, I can't believe this is real.

Poster for Olivia Rodrigo's music festival Daisy Chain Fields.

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

"Trump is trying to take away the American Bar Association’s ability to accredit #law schools due to its being too woke... The right has railed against both the #ABA and higher #education in general for some time now... Accreditation is just another tool in […] [Original post on newsie.social]

Headline:
Trump Moves to Strip American Bar Association of Its Power

Donald Trump is opening a new front in his war on higher education.

by Malcolm Ferguson
August 21, 2026 / 12:09 p.m. ET

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Joshua Barretto @jsbarretto.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I want to remind you: these bastards have spent $1.5 trillion of society's money on this technology. That it's produced *something* should not be surprising. That's 'solve aging', 'cure cancer', 'eliminate all poverty', 'shift climate change into reverse', or 'send a probe to another solar […]

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Tour de France Homes was pretty uncompetitive and boring, I checked out after a week. Tour de France Femmes, by contrast, has been non-stop action with every stage bringing surprises and twist, and the yellow jersey changing hands and mere seconds between the […] [Original post on mastodon.xyz]

Demi Vollering launches the winning move on stage 8 of the Tour de France Femmes (Photo: Gruber Images)

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“3/4ths of disabled people don’t drive. Stop using us as an excuse for car dependency.” — @nondriver.bsky.social in collaboration with @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth Worth repeating. #UrbanTruth

Same quote as in post. Tagline is “Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices.”

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