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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

"Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief." - Chris Murphy (read his summary below)

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A billionaire with advance knowledge of Trump's actions could make astronomical profits.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

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Stirling4Europe #FBPE @stirling4europe.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Well said. Worth watching and sharing.

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

In total, AI models gave an incorrect answer to more than 60% of queries. Perplexity was the most accurate (which tracks, it’s marketed as a research tool), but it still got 37% of answers wrong. Grok fared the worst, with a frankly shocking 94% failure rate.

techradar.com

I’ve got bad news for you if you use ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini as your main search tool - AI web search isn't worth your time, yet

Research suggests your favorite chatbot is rubbish at search

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 28/03/2025

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House and arrested 6 youth holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza The Quakers said: "We condemn the violation of our place of worship: a direct result of stricter protest laws removing virtually all routes to challenge the status quo is.gd/cLx0xs

indcatholicnews.com

Westminster: Police raid Quaker Meeting House | ICN

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House in London last night (27 March 2025) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.In the following statement, the Qua...

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Problem is even vets try and sell the idea dogs need treated monthly, there's subscriptions to this poison. Dogs need treated when they get fleas , twice a year max

theguardian.com

Call for pets’ toxic flea treatments to be tightly restricted in UK

Lib Dems to urge government to control sale of products containing chemicals that kill wildlife such as fish and birds

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

#2solve Monday 24th of March Nope, I can't report I solved anything this morning. Today looks like a tough one. But checking in on you all, I am now confused by the random occasional 2solver posting the answer to the day before yesterday today? How can they even see that puzzle?

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Scott Marshall 🇨🇦 @scottmarshall.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Dear progressives & their loved ones, Get the fuck off Facebook & X. You are being monitored. Tracked. Categorized. Analyzed. Your data was already used in the selling of Brexit and they are vehicles for the worst misinformation Moscow can send. Stop sharing there. Stop organizing there. Do it now.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

seattletimes.com

I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle

“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

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Jeffrey AKA The Hairless Hippie @mojochefjeff.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Making Polluting Legal Again open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... A must read from Dan Rather "...The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seems to have undergone an overnight rebrand, one that looks as if it were written and directed by the oil and gas industry..." Making America A Hellscape #Resist

open.substack.com

Making Polluting Legal Again

The new EPA head wants to abandon any semblance of environmental protection

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

#2solve 3/7 Seasonally appropriate for the reluctant gardener... 01000110 01101100 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 01110000 01101111 01110100 00100000 01010100 01100101 01100100 01101001 01110101 01101101 Watch this for an hour and then think about it.

media.tenor.com

a potted plant with a smiling face is next to another potted plant

ALT: a potted plant with a smiling face is next to another potted plant

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Jeffrey AKA The Hairless Hippie @mojochefjeff.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa... "Great article from the Bulwark; “Wherever Russia shows up, destruction and death follow,” Yurchik told me, referencing not only Ukraine, but also Syria, Georgia, West Africa, and other places." We stand by Ukraine even if our Fascist leaders don't #SlavaUkraini

open.substack.com

Ukrainians Are in Shock

What other reaction can there be when America turns against its allies, its values, itself?

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Thanks to everyone who shared this request. We updated our new Trump Tracker blog today with the voices of some federal scientists who reached out. More to come. www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits and U.S. science in chaos

Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It's not ironic that Trump promised cheaper prices and they are higher than ever, cheaper Healthcare and it's more expensive than ever, or jobs and he is making Americans unemployed at a record rate. It's what populists do, they tell lies and they deliver the opposite.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Because of the brilliance of Privatisation everyone is paying National Grid £150 in profits every year, while they spend only £10 per household maintaining the grid. But they have 'no money' to upgrade the grid so you are paying them £36bn more, and hoping they don't steal it.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I want people to understand, if taxes for rich people are cut. Your taxes go up.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 05/03/2025

Right now, Kemi Badenoch is doing more to defend JD Vance than the US is doing to defend Ukraine.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Reports have appeared that clashes have broken out in the Serbian parliament. At least three MPs were injured on Tuesday after chaos erupted in Serbia’s parliament, where smoke bombs and flares were thrown. I know I have followers from Serbia, please share what is the situation there?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It might be time to stop treating Farage as if he's some sort of special confidante of Trump. The human skid mark hasn't got a clue what's going on in the White House, as the Chagos situation demonstrated, or what on earth Trump will do next.

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

#2solve NYT Letter Boxed 3/2 Arrghh This was tough Double blobby biochemical nonsense thingies! Honestly there has to be a better solution. 01000010 01101001 01101100 01101111 01100010 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01000101 01101110 01111010 01111001 01101101 01100101 01110011

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“I love my country” is a lovely soundbite, but if you support policies that rob that country, starve it of funds, neglect its organisational foundations, and dehumanise large numbers of its residents, what is it you’re left loving? The rain?

bylinesupplement.com

Russell Jones's Week Moment: Nigel Farage Launches His 'Vapid Response Unit' for Donald Trump

The Reform UK leader had a tough time defending the indefensible this week, reports Russell Jones

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Handy list of alternatives to American software.

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MOL @mol-sunny.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

🇺🇲 Google ---> 🇪🇺 Ecosia 🇺🇲 Chrome ---> 🇪🇺 Vivaldi 🇺🇲 Translate ---> 🇪🇺 DeepL 🇺🇲 Gmail ---> 🇪🇺 Mailfence 🇺🇲 Maps ---> 🇪🇺 Here WeGo 🇺🇲 ChatGPT ---> 🇪🇺 Le Chat

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

#2solve 3/1 NYT Letter Boxed There's at least a second two word solution today. This clue won't help much but it's best I can do "Bait halter" 01010000 01101001 01101110 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01110011 00100000 01010011 01110101 01101110 01100010 01100001 01100011 01101011

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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 01/03/2025

Should we really spend money on a visit from Trump? If you rather the money goes to the NHS or another UK institution, add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

you.38degrees.org.uk

No second state visit for Trump

This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

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Joris Lombaert @j357l.eurosky.social · 01/03/2025

Sorry for the Americans with their heart in the right place, but until they find a way to make this nightmare end, we should boycot American products and services, disvest from American companies, completely stop sharing any sensitive Intel, and create alliances all over the free world (i.e. not US)

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sam Kiley: "Who started this war?" Carla Sands: "I believe it was Joe Biden." Sam Kiley: "Joe Biden didn't invade Ukraine!" Independent World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley and former Trump ambassador Carla Sands disagree after today's White House meeting. #Newsnight

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Obviously the timing is ironic, but the news of the first successful steps toward creating an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancers is still good news. Pancreatic cancer is one of the worst, most lethal varieties of cancer.

nature.com

RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8+ T cells in pancreatic cancer - Nature

In a phase 1 trial, patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who were treated with surgery and bespoke neoantigen mRNA vaccines combined with anti-PD-L1 and chemotherapy exhibited marked lo...

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

#2solve NYT Letter Boxed 2/28 If eggs had arms!

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Canadians are already doing their part by not travelling to the United States and boycotting American goods and services.

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"Our planet is losing its appetite for mopping up carbon dioxide. (...) Earth’s plants and soils reached peak CO2 sequestration in 2008 and absorption has been declining ever since. Passing this tipping point increases the chances of runaway climate breakdown." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

theguardian.com

Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate

Earth’s plants and soils reached peak carbon dioxide sequestration in 2008 but proportion absorbed has been declining since, study finds

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"Russian intelligence operatives posing as fruit pickers are suspected of flying drones over UK military bases in a possible espionage operation. New details suggest Russian involvement in drone swarms over military airbases, with agents accused of assuming false identities."

eastangliabylines.co.uk

Russian espionage: spy drones over RAF bases

Russian intelligence operatives posing as fruit pickers are suspected of scouting UK military bases for espionage

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

nytimes.com

Andrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S.

Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes.

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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella Vote 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Trump says the European Union was "formed in order to screw the United States."

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It's important people see this and understand what it means. It means any country or trading blocks operating on fairer terms than the unfair terms Trump offers will be targeted and many worse things.

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GhostoftheCoalHewer @coalhewersghost.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The Russians are sabotaging the west by subsidising whatever they can find that's toxic to the progress of the west. They can't make their own country better, but in the competition with others, they can make their chosen enemies' countries worse. They've been doing it for decades.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I had a run-in with Nathan Gill once, April 2019 when he was still an MEP. He was a right knob.

s/s from tweet by Nathan Gill:
I don’t think you understand what anti EU means😁. It does not mean working to make the system work, it means working to make it not work. Simples.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Taking taxpayers' money to make things worse. Pure Brexit.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

October 2019: Nigel Farage and the Brexit party voted against stronger EU measures aimed at countering “highly dangerous” Russian disinformation. www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...

theguardian.com

Brexit party MEPs vote against plans to tackle Russian propaganda

Resolution seeking upgrade of EU counter-disinformation unit nevertheless passes easily

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

#2solve 23/2 This is not something you would want to wake up to. 01010011 01101001 01101100 01110110 01100101 01110010 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01001000 01100001 01101110 01101011 01111001

media.tenor.com

a person is holding a small cockroach on their finger .

ALT: a person is holding a small cockroach on their finger .

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Fresh from flattering Trump & the MAGA fascists in Washington last week, Nigel Farage is coming to #Cornwall in search of money & votes. Farage has done nothing but harm to Cornwall & now means to do more. Cornwall Green Party is calling out the con. cornwall.greenparty.org.uk/farage-is-in...

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graysony.bsky.social @graysony.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Feeling like Mr Smarty-Pants 🤓 today. Wordle 1,344 3/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #squareword1118 6 guesses 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #thirdle1053 🏆 2 / 6 | 🔥 68 🟧🟪 🟪⬛ 🟧🟪 🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩 #Polygonle 937 2/6︎ ◢︎ ◼︎ ◆︎ ⬢︎ ◥︎ ⬢︎ ◆︎ ◣︎ ⬛🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

squareword.org

Squareword

A two-dimensional word game

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 20/02/2025

grok 2 vs grok 3

Grok 2's conclusion: Climate change is not a distant threat—it is happening now, and its impacts are intensifying. It threatens human health, economies, ecosystems, and global stability. While the challenge is immense, solutions exist, and immediate action can still make a difference. Governments, businesses, and individuals must act urgently to reduce emissions, adapt to changes, and build a sustainable future. The cost of inaction far outweighs the cost of action, and the time to act is now.

conclusion: So, urgent threat? If you buy the consensus, yes-time's ticking, and impacts are already here. If you're skeptical, it's more of a manageable shift we're overreacting to. Data's there on both sides; it's about what risks you're willing to bet on. What do you think?

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