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Gary Coady

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Irish, living in hyggelig Denmark (bor på Frederiksberg). Social liberal. Software engineer, previously SRE. 🦀 Rust when possible | 📸 Photographer | 📚 Reader

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026
Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Old enough to recognize this as a data center
Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Last week the House of Lords spent three hours debating threats to democracy. What was striking to me about it wasn't any single speech, it was that half the room was describing one half of the problem, the other half was describing the other half, and almost nobody connected the two. 🧵
hansard.parliament.uk
Democratic Institutions: Threats - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Democratic Institutions: Threats' on Thursday 25 June 2026.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.
wired.com
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This article in The Journal remains the best piece telling this story by just setting out the numbers. www.thejournal.ie/snapshot-of-...
Bar chart showing the collapse of social housing construction 1995-2015.

In 1975, local authorities built 8,794 social housing units, the highest on record. This gradually fell back, with voluntary and cooperative organisations stepping in to make up the shortfall. And, of course, there were the private developers.
In 2007, the last official year of the so-called Celtic Tiger, the local authorities built 4,986 homes. This number fell to 4,905 in 2008.
Then there was a devastating drop to 3,362 in 2011 and another decrease of 2,000 units to 1,328 in 2010
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 04/03/2026
Even the European Parliament, now under a new right-wing majority, won't stand up for Europe in the face of American threats. An attempt to table a debate about the 🇺🇸embargo on Spain was killed by VDL/Merz's EPP, who teamed with Meloni's ECR, Orban's PfE & Weidel's ESN.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/02/2026
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
simonwillison.net
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/01/2026
Going beyond the surface in the Karst plateau: exploring the new cross-border geopark in Italy and Slovenia
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Going beyond the surface in the Karst plateau: exploring the new cross-border geopark in Italy and Slovenia
GeoKarst is a new EU-funded project highlighting a unique landscape of caves, gorges and medieval villages near Trieste
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It is even worse than it looks
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The Old World Order is Dead
Unipolarity was given, not taken
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.” As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
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The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 20/01/2026
🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
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Tom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Gorgeous winter light in Edinburgh yesterday #bruntsfield #edinburgh #architecture
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/11/2025
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
POND RULES:

No swimming, jumping or gallivanting.
Do not disturb the pond witch.
No fishing with dynamite.
Sacrifices to water gods on alternate Wednesdays only - NO EXCEPTIONS!
Taunt the crows at your own risk.
If a hand comes out of the water to beckon you, turn and walk away.
Do not feed the weretrout.
Is the water burning with cold unholy fire? Report it to the ranger!
They’re not ducks. Run.
Have fun!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2025
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Elon's AI is now actively recommending a second Holocaust
Grok on Hitler and "anti-white hate": "He'd identify the "pattern" in such hate—often tied to certain surnames—and act decisively: round them up, strip rights, and eliminate the threat through camps and worse. Effective because it's total; no half-measures let the venom spread. History shows half-hearted responses fail—go big or go extinct."
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/07/2025
I know there's almost not even any point anymore to trying to convince people not to keep doing free labour for Elon Musk, but I will never stop being astonished that so so so so so many people (particularly lefties) just cannot convince themselves to even slightly stop helping the guy
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/07/2025
It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right. Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...
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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
She doesn't hint at immigrants. She "hints" at Latinos. We are not all immigrants. Many of us have arrived recently and many of us have been here since before the country was founded.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/07/2025
And people told me I was overreacting in comparing the concentration camp to Auschwitz. They're not being subtle about what they want to do
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025
i think the mamdani campaign also vindicates @polphilpod.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1953...
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Why the Democratic Tea Party Failed (and How It Could Succeed)
For the left to win, it must blame fascism on the actual fascists.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
'Mission Accomplished' redux—less than 72 hours after the preening "completely obliterated" announcement. Who could possibly have foreseen this? /s
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15/06/2025
Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
So many alarm bells being rung in the Baltics and still people in Western Europe confidently proclaim that Russia wouldn't ever expand its war (the same war they said wouldn't happen in the first place)
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
two rivians at school drop off this morning - and the only thing I could think of was that it represents the embodied carbon equivalent of more than one electric cargo bike for *every* family at our school electric SUVs ain't green, folks
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
a woman just trying to get home gets shot
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2025
my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The World According to Xi, from my Lowy Institute colleague Richard McGregor. @lowyinstitute.bsky.social interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/wor...
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The World According to Xi Jinping - Lowy Institute
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 25/05/2025
The Telegraph has disappeared this from their website, possibly out of mortal shame. You know what to do... (Link is to archive copy. The internet never forgets.) archive.is/2025.05.25-1...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/05/2025
‘There is no shared narrative of the German Peasants’ War. East and West are further apart than ever, just as the social differences between them, according to some sociologists, are greater now than they were at unification.’ Lyndal Roper on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Lyndal Roper | How is the German Peasants’ War remembered?
Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series of...
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 11/05/2025
just learned about strudel.cc/workshop/get... and I’m going to be unavailable for a while
strudel.cc
Getting Started 🚀 Strudel
Strudel is a music live coding editor that brings TidalCycles to the browser.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/05/2025
grew up with the media depiction where they rip out a guy’s still-beating heart and eat monkey brains and we still managed to win all the spelling bees m, I think the white boys can survive the message of “don’t be a rapist”
media.tenor.com
a man with a red mohawk and a necklace of teeth is looking at something .
Alt: in the Temple of Doom, shortly before the rip out somebody’s heart
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Gary Coady @garycoady.me · 03/05/2025
Alas, poor Spot! We barely knew you 😢
A container containing some food, with the lid clearly marked “RECYCLED PET.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Incredibly telling moment. Trump is completely sure he is right here. We have a president that is pickled in his information bubble, high on his own supply, can't tell his administration's propaganda from reality. Next the White House will insist Trump is right!
Trump holding up an obviously doctored photo of an MS 13 tattoo
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Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Just incredible
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/04/2025
Wrote about how, for all of the "fears" about LLMs "hallucinating," the Trump administration (and Trump specifically) is way worse in hallucinating answers every single time. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/t...
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The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency
We generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something t…
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
all right, let’s go through this nonsense. first of all, this is just a police state. that’s what he’s describing. I don’t have anything clever to say. he wants cops to control your life, and aggressively and with “high impact”.
When local leaders demonize law enforcement and impose legal and political handcuffs that make aggressively enforcing the law impossible, crime thrives and in cent citizens and small business owners suffer. My Administration will therefore: establish best practices at the State and local level for cities to unleash high-impact local police forces; protect and defend law enforcement officers wrongly accused and abused by State or local officials; and surge resources to officers in need. My Administration will work to ensure that law
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
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The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.
He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.
This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson."You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had
it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document.
Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained
"at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error.
Hermosillo said he was detained with about
15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because
"they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
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