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Ms Wilcox as a professional cartoonist, might we suggest that you are the person to make that happen?

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12h

New discovery: A royal archive with 184 tablets unearthed at the Hittite settlement of Samuha, in present-day Sivas/Türkiye, sheds new light on the Hittite Empire, revealing records of a deadly epidemic, military threats and royal life dating back 3,400 years. www.dailysabah.com/life/hittite...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

We are sanctioning the ICC because we are a country that commits war crimes. We are buying diesel from Russia to fund Putin’s war machine because we are a country that likes *other* countries that commit war crimes.

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 4h

This is clearly not acceptable

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 35m

I like my trackball but sometimes it’s weird having a mouse that doesn’t move and a mousepad that does

Indy the dog lays on the couch beside me, cushioning my trackball mouse on his fluffy back. he is asleep.

the act of taking a photo of Indy has awakened and annoyed him. now his head is up and he’s debating moving.

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Derek Cressman @derekcressman.bsky.social · 2h

"Last year, TikTok’s executives quietly defanged its advertising rules, opening the floodgates to fraudsters that target American users with fake sales of products that never arrive. Sources said the change was understood internally as a way to make more money." www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

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How TikTok’s Weakened Ad Rules Allowed Fake E-Commerce Sites To Scam Tens Of Thousands

Last year, TikTok’s executives quietly defanged its advertising rules, opening the floodgates to fraudsters that target American users with fake sales of products that never arrive. Sources told Forbe...

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Mr Hounsell @hounsell.bsky.social · 13h

Short Answer: Too Big increases the chances a country will fail.

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 15h

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

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Grant Ennis @grantennis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“USD 7.2 trillion” in automobile subsidies annually www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Scaled globally, these unit costs translate to roughly USD 2.1 trillion in private and USD 7.2 trillion in social costs per year under an internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV)-dominated system, totaling approximately USD 9.3 trillion annually, equivalent to 8.3% of global GDP."

This study quantifies the private and social costs of global automobility and evaluates the potential economic benefits of a transition to shared electric autonomous mobility-as-a-service (E-AV-MaaS). Using comprehensive cost components, including accidents, emissions, air pollution, noise, infrastructure, land use, and resource impacts, it is estimated that private car travel currently incurs approximately USD 0.16 per vehicle-kilometer in private costs and USD 0.55 per vehicle-kilometer in social costs. Scaled globally, these unit costs translate to roughly USD 2.1 trillion in private and USD 7.2 trillion in social costs per year under an internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV)-dominated system, totaling approximately USD 9.3 trillion annually, equivalent to 8.3% of global GDP. Under a full E-AV-MaaS scenario with 25% reduced vehicle-kilometers traveled, social costs fall to approximately USD 0.30 per kilometer and USD 2.4 trillion in total. Private costs are estimated between USD 0.7 and 1.9 trillion, as lower parking expenditures are offset by the higher per-kilometer cost of autonomous electric vehicle services; private cost comparisons do not account for mode-specific utility derived from car ownership. This scenario reduces the global cost of automobility by roughly USD 5.6 trillion, driven almost entirely by social cost reductions. The results underscore that 77% of the cost of automobility is currently externalized.

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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 21h

"What Australia would rather not talk about" a new cartoon from @fionakatauskas.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260910-wha…

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

People are living longer, taking up more space, and having fewer children. Three-quarters of old Toronto declined in population 1971-2021; those areas lost *540,000* people.

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 21h

Today I delivered another 18 bags of groceries from White Center Food Bank to 9 neighbors in White Center and Seattle for @cascade.org #PedalingReliefProject – we use volunteers with bikes and trailers to bring fresh delicious food every week to folks with mobility and accessibility challenges 🚲 😍

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Robin Sandell @urbanferryist.bsky.social · 17h

Construction of a new ferry wharf at Sydney Fish Markets to start later this year. Timetable and vessel options are still being investigated. Wouldn’t it be better to decide on schedule and vessel first? www.transport.nsw.gov.au/projects/cur...

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Public Transport Users Association @ptua.org.au · 08/10/2026

Station car parks are full early in the morning. Expanding them is incredibly expensive and never meets demand. Vastly improving feeder buses, walking and cycling options is a better, more affordable, more scalable way of getting people to the station.

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Melbourne train station carpark overflowing just weeks after opening

This train station in Melbourne's booming outer west has been open for less than a month, but is already experiencing growing pains.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 16h

Google cut down more forest than my team have created in five years for a slop bot. #FuckAI

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026

The finns are justifiably very pissed about Google razing a forest to erect a chatbot building lnkd.in/p/eKFXmtE9

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Jerry Schippa @jerryschippa.bsky.social · 18h

Recorded some thoughts on late night rest in red operations at a new signal while out and about collecting street lighting level data. youtu.be/0VJ0_BLNdc4?...

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Milwaukee - Sprecher (late night red rest)

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk…” One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen any politician do to any city.

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Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News

Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.

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Every Sydney Station @sydneystations.bsky.social · 19h

Now the plans for Town Hall Sq are out, I think it should be sent back to the drawing board. All underground spaces filled/closed. Wollies exit to the station walled off. No retail, food/bev. Not even toilets. Big blank walls facing north. Missed opportunity to improve station accessibility too.

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 21h

Find yourself saying “f*** fossil fuels” & “I love 🐨🐨” more frequently as you age? You’re in luck cause we’re recruiting! Arts & craft peeps, tree huggers, all ages! Only rule is you wear the t-shirt at all our “events” (for the kiddies). 👀 knittingnannas.org/join/ ? in comments welcome.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's unreal how poorly California is governed relative to the size of our economy. We're going to tear out the copper wire on train service for a region of about 20 million people because our extremely dumb state thinks that Orange County Republicans should be able to veto mass transit for everyone.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 08/10/2026

Metrolink finally has a budget after 6 months, and it includes 29% weekday, 40% weekend service cuts, with no weekday service to Oceanside. Click the link for more info. Speak out TOMORROW at 10 Metrolink and other meetings later in the month to fight back. calelectricrail.org/metrolink-an...

Scenario 8 service levels. Scenario 8 vs Optimized (new schedules vs 2025) has the following cuts: SBL -36% weekday, -25% weekend, VCL: -36%weekday, 0% weekend, AVL -27% weekday, -67% weekend, Riverside 0% cuts, Orange County -38% weekday, -50% weekend, IEOC -22% weekday 0% weekend, 91/PVL -14% weekday 0% weekend, overall -29% weekday, -40% weekend

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Back when I was in art school, we believed in this with all our hearts. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/prompt-3 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

1-panel SMBC comic update. A man is sitting at his computer while another stands behind him, criticizing what is on the screen. The standing man says "you call that art? You’re just by yourself prompting a robot to make stuff." The sitting man interjects "but it's still - " and is cut off by the standing man adding "where’s the INTENT? Huh? This isn’t why we make things." The caption below the panel reads "AI cannot create, because real Art comes from the human need to impress the shy girl in figure-drawing class."

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved handle in the shape of a horse! 🐴 ❤️ New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Mr Hounsell @hounsell.bsky.social · 23h

Getting distraught because a coffee machine cannot magic water from the aether despite your repeated button pushes is an awfully mayoral thing to do ......

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/10/2026

Juice xkcd.com/3308/

4-panel comic. (1) [Two people, one with a ponytail, sitting and typing at terminals opposite each other. A sign on the wall reads “Juice Mission Control,” with JUICE in huge letters.] PERSON 1: Jupiter Icy Moons Exploder checkin is complete. All systems nominal. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail. [People turn to look at each other.] PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: Jupiter Icy Moons *Explorer*. (3) [Person 1 turns back to his terminal.] (4) PERON 1: Control, everything is fine, but I need to schedule an urgent spacecraft update. [Person 2 facepalms] PERSON 2: Oh no.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 08/10/2026

Conservative government of Alberta is preempting Edmonton, requiring the city to: —Reverse the city's 2024 change allowing small-scale apartment buildings to be built citywide. Change resulted in a building boom: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... —Restore parking requirements, which city eliminated in 2020

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Mr Hounsell @hounsell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Upcoming Aussie film with Olivia Coleman www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XEZ... Warning for Americans the trailer contains swears and sexual references. cc @retrobrendo.bsky.social

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The Fox - Official Trailer

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At some point we need to conclude that the waste, fraud and poor / bad outcomes for people is a feature, not a bug of voucher-based delivery of social services. It flows directly from the mode of economic organisation of the programs in their current forms. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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They built a business empire that cashes in on veterans. It's made millions

The companies in the VBA network have made millions turning veterans into valuable sales leads on an industrial scale.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Stranded. Thousands in hospital beds as NDIS cuts bite home support Claudia Weisenberger reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/stranded-thousan…

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Mr Hounsell @hounsell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If a system is not being changed then it is achieving the goals of the persons who are in control of it.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

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Mr Hounsell @hounsell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Power is given and afterwards the reasoning is denied. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXtd... Privacy is essential to freedom.

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Edgars Warns Garibaldi How Tyranny Takes Over | Babylon 5

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Clarence Eckerson Jr./Streetfilms @streetfilms.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yesterday we may have seen the beginning of something we've needed for a long time: Paris-style school streets gates to halt traffic outside schools. WATCH the entire short film at this Youtube link: youtu.be/ofjvhtq-4ek?...

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Mr Hounsell @hounsell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Gate: An effective safety technology we've had since before the wheel.

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Open Plans @openplans.org · 06/10/2026

Happy first day of swing! The new school street gate for City-As school is officially installed on Clarkson St. Modeled after similar designs in Paris, this new infrastructure creates safe, open spaces for students. Let's bring these to schools across NY!

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Isn't she beautiful? Pics by Comune di Bologna.

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Mr Hounsell @hounsell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nah, those old engineers build power stations for dedicated purposes like running trains and water pumps. They only came up with everyone heating water all night because they had to find a way to keep the mega turbines in the hunter spinning at the right frequency.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kinda funny watching the AI parliamentary inquiry where a former Stephen Conroy staffer turned MP (Tim Watts) is asking questions to a former Conroy staffer turned data centre group head (Belinda Dennett)

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's never too late.

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