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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups
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NL Times @nltimes.nl · 26/05/2026
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Top civil servants urge Dutch gov't to abandon social media platform X
Top civil servants have urged the Jetten I Cabinet to withdraw from the social media platform X.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We don't view motor violence like all the other violence, Exhibit 746 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘We’re not out to get anyone – we just want to slow you down’: why do lollipop people face so much road rage?
They just want to help children safely across the road on their way to and from school. Yet lollipop people are having to wear body cameras after an increase in abusive and dangerous drivers. How did ...
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
You're probably wondering just how metric my socket set is
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
New Dr. Strangelove sequel just dropped
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“The effort to quiet Paris complements the wider campaign to make Paris greener, cleaner & less car-dependent, which include vehicle restrictions in the center, crackdowns on polluting vehicles, & an ambitious expansion of bike networks. Those have cut the city’s average noise level by 2 decibels.”
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Europe’s Noise Capital Tries to Turn Down the Volume
To combat the ill effects of urban noise pollution, Paris is deploying automated sensors and cracking down on the loudest vehicles.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
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Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is exactly the state of American politics right now:
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Trump: “Without my involvement, Russia would have ALL OF UKRAINE right now…Norway, a NATO Member, foolishly chose not to give me the Noble Peace Prize. But that doesn’t matter!”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
.@PabloReports: What do you make of the White House blaming the police for what happened on January 6th? Lieu: The White House’s statement is batshit crazy.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 05/01/2026
If Russia invades Germany and kidnaps Chancellor Merz, I guess the EU response will be: "The legal assessment of the Russian intervention is complex and requires careful consideration. International law remains the guiding framework." www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
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Paul Tassi @paultassi.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
greetings from hell
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
agree or disagree with school shootings, you can't help but be in awe of the efficiency of the AR-15
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Sebastian Murdock @sebastianmurdock.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.
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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I distinctly remember in the first Trump years when people would be like “no, you can’t call them fascist”
After the criminal debacle in Venezuela, Jack Posobiec wants to go to war with a lot of Americans
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NL Times @nltimes.nl · 03/01/2026
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Dutch surgeons report 93 fireworks injuries, many severe, mostly young victims
Dutch plastic surgeons treated 93 fireworks victims this past New Year’s Eve, a sharp increase from the 62 patients reported last year, the Dutch Association for Plastic Surgery (NVPC)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Still a few hours to go. 🤡 mashable.com/article/elon...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
this remains the greatest synopsis of incel culture one could ever ask for
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Angelique @ladydelancelevee.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.
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Mel, the Herohom ( • `ω´ • ) ➡️ FFXIV Fanfest 🇯🇵 @herohommel.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I've waited 3 years to make this post
screenshot of tweet saying "who the fuck is playing pokemon in antarctica" with a trade partner in antarcticaphoto of me in antarctica playing my switch. adelie penguins are in the backgroundphoto of me in antarctica playing my switch, with pokemon legends z-a. adelie penguins are in the background.
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rob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It was hard to convince Americans torture is wrong as a moral principle during Bush's term, and that was with the debate about whether torture makes us safer. I'm afraid for a portion of Trump's base, that calculation matters less. Idea of torturing undocumented immigrants may even bring pleasure.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/12/2025
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 18/12/2025
The dude who made an electric car guy YouTube channel I used to watch moved from San Diego to Madrid this year. In his first video I’ve seen about the move, he opens by saying “let me tell you, the Urbanists are 100% right” and goes on to extoll how much walkability has improved his family’s lives
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
they’ll do anything to avoid being woke
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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
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NL Times @nltimes.nl · 02/12/2025
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Cops find huge amount of fireworks, weapons in storage unit under A'dam police station
Police officers found hundreds of kilograms of illegal fireworks and weapons in a private storage unit located directly beneath a police station in Amsterdam.
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story. The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth. And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing. This is who MAGA is now.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
When they claim car culture is "rugged American individualism" and you remind them that free roads, subsidized gas, and mandated parking is actually just socialism for cars.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/11/2025
Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 28/11/2025
OK, who narced?
Screenshot of Bluesky thread.

Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Our oven has suddenly decided it's not going to get hotter than 315 degrees.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
Can you fit a space heater inside?

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov
What in the name of BEN FRANKLIN is going on here.
Nov 28, 2025, 10:37 AM
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/11/2025
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
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The Economic Impact of Brexit
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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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Ence Morse @ence.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 21/11/2025
socialism never works.
norway is socialist and theyre doing great.
theyre not socialist,, theyre capitalist countries with strong welfare policies.
then lets do those policies.
no thats socialism.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
More evidence that the Trump/Witkoff “peace plan” for Ukraine came straight from the Russians - it uses Russian syntax. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Congressional Democrats have implored members of the military to reject any illegal orders they may receive. President Trump has responded with Truth Social posts reading "HANG THEM" and “punishable by DEATH.” Weary voters just want both sides to turn down the temperature.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 21/11/2025
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.—Douglas Adams
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/11/2025
Trump is ranting barely coherently to McDonald's franchise owners: "The one pilot said, 'skedaddle!' And that thing just turned on its side -- pppph. And it's so unbelievable. And that knocked out Iran nuclear capability."
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
My god. My god. Oh fucking hell. God.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/11/2025
KARL: Tariffs have been removed from some food items. How soon do we expect prices on those goods will go down? HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs KARL: So they might not go down?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Malcolm Nance said these sound like the titles of porn movies.
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