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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 11h

From realist perspective: *Latvia is the stronger party here so we´ll have to acknowledge the facts on the ground *if anybody is to blame, then blame those who made you believe otherwise (just edited a piece about amputated Kherson children so yes there is some sadistic glee)

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 14h

also would be welcome if the well-meaning critics of "neo-liberalist policies" would update their vocabulary on this

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 21h

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Baaia @baaia.bsky.social · 18h

Väide on täitsa tõene. Thiel ja ta kaaskond just sellest räägivad. "Ta väidab, et tehnoloogiamaailmas leidub inimesi, kes ei võta inimkonna kadumist tragöödiana, vaid järgmise sammuna evolutsioonis. Üks tema tuttav olla öelnud: „Inimesed on asendatav liik.“" ekspress.delfi.ee/artikkel/120...

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Eestlane, kes annetab aastas rohkem, kui enamik rikkaid terve eluga teenib

Jaan Tallinn (54) teenib tehisaruga miljardeid, kulutab tohutuid summasid maailma päästmisele ning nimetab ennast väljasuremise vastaseks.

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Henri Vennikas @henrivennikas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i) Estonia is not moving its forces to the border, we already have a stronghold in Jõhvi which will be expanded ii) Narva will have a base, but as part of long term plan and nothing extra ordinary

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026

Trump isn't beating the "can't walk in a straight line" allegations

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's the thought that counts

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Putin apologists want you to buy that: -An alleged off-the-books 1991 verbal promise outweighs a signed 1994 treaty -Democratic countries formerly occupied by Russia asked to join an anti-Russia alliance for no reason -Ukrainians don't want freedom, an American tricked them into it with cookies

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*a very strong mandate indeed. No other political force has ever managed 42 seats (Baltic Way got 36 seats in 1992)

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

so Latvian voters gave a strong mandate for PM Andris Kulbergs, but not so much to the other mainstream parties www.delfi.lv/193/politics...

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Infografika: Vēlēšanās saskaitīti 95 % balsu (plkst.07.54)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

New in PN: Scenes from a personality cult "The ads are unambiguously illegal — & that’s the point. Again & again, this regime has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as a dominance display to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, & nobody can stop him."

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Scenes from a personality cult

Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.

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Triin @segadusterapeut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Õudne. "Küll aga kordub tema kabinetis ühe ja sama „ravitseja“ nimi, kelle juurde noored naised on läinud pärast vähidiagnoosi. Nad maksavad 1500 eurot, et kuulda: „Meditsiini pole vaja. Sul on kaitseingel õlal. Sa saad terveks, kui piisavalt usud.“ Nimed? Õigus olla hoiatatud - sest riik ei hooli.

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Arstid räägivad, mida nad näevad, kui loobutakse tõenduspõhisest ravist

„Kas mu vähk on COVID-19 vaktsiinist?“ küsis hiljuti vähipatsient Põhja-Eesti Regionaalhaigla keemiaravikeskuse juhatajalt Kadri Putnikult. Tõenduspõhise meditsiini suhtes on üha rohkem umbusku.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A clear example of bad faith, and why it’s a mistake to indulge bad faith. “Weaponization of DOJ” was always a blatant lie, a made up accusation from people who were eager to do the very thing they were pretending to oppose. Indulging that helped the liars, and empowered them to end rule of law.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love how they only refer to "frontier models" or "the technology" and carefully avoid reference to any kind of "intelligence"

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

miks on kõik Kinder-munade mänguasjad nüüd 100% mingite rohkem ja vähem kahtlaste brändide seeriatega seotud? ajal, kui ühiskond oli tervem ja lilled rohelisemad (1992-1997), oli enamik üllatusi täiesti rändom ja seeriad (lõvid, pingviinid, jõehobud, metallsõdalased jne) olid üks osa suurest pildist

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Taking america.gov for a test ride...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Eliezer Yudkowsky, rationalist leader and AI advisor to Bernie Sanders (whose partner, Gretta Duleba, is mentioned as an instructor on the Slutcon 2026 program), wrote a rather notorious scifi story with some curious ideas about rape back in 2009: www.polemics.md/that-time-el...

In a conversation with the ship's leader Akon, the Confessor dispenses wisdom he's gained from witnessing the transformation of humanity into a space-faring race. During this conversation, he reveals that the act of rape is completely legal during Akon's time and had been legalized by humanity during a turbulent period in its past. Akon responds with shock, calling the ancient human civilization "prudish":
The Confessor held up a hand. "I mean it, my lord Akon. It is not polite idealism. We ancients can't steer. We remember too much disaster. We're too cautious to dare the bold path forward. Do you know there was a time when nonconsensual sex was illegal?" Akon wasn't sure whether to smile or grimace. "The Prohibition, right? During the first century pre-Net? I expect everyone was glad to have that law taken off the books. I can't imagine how boring your sex lives must have been up until then - flirting with a woman, teasing her, leading her on, knowing the whole time that you were perfectly safe because she couldn't take matters into her own hands if you went a little too far

"You need a history refresher, my Lord Administrator. At some suitably abstract level. What I'm trying to tell you - and this is not public knowledge - is that we nearly tried to overthrow your government."
"What?" said Akon. "The Confessors! '
"No, us. The ones who remembered the ancient world. Back then we still had our hands on a large share of the capital and tremendous influence in the grant committees.
When our children legalized rape, we thought that the Future had gone wrong."
Akon's mouth hung open. "You were that prude?"
I don't believe in condemning people solely off fiction, but this is the type of thing that one might find on the fanfiction website Archive of Our Own behind many tags and warnings.

Three Worlds Collide, however, isn't hosted on Archive of Our Own. It's hosted on Overcoming Bias, blog of George Mason University economist 1l Robin Hanson and the original home of LessWrong before it moved to its own website. Hanson is an economist at the notoriously libertarian George Mason university who has been repeatedly criticized for his views on women - one notorious blog post of his compared cuckoldry to "silent gentle rape" and he was dubbed
"America's creepiest economist" in a piece about his incel-adjacent takes.
Three Worlds Collide is over 15 years old, but it is relevant to current event. The Rationality community that developed around Eliezer Yudkowsky and LessWrong has been marred with multiple allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct. These allegations were also the basis for a protest against a Rationalist organization by Ziz, the leader of the so-called
"death cult" that formed in the community and is currently suspected to be involved in several murders, including the recent killing of a Border Patrol officer in Vermont. I

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Weak devotion, no one is even fainting. Stalin would purge all those traitorous lackeys

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

so that's the kind of people who leave their tweets up after twitter users have debunked them

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

tbf they did it in Hungary as well

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today, in Russian propaganda:

Schaeffer Marlyse. @Schaef... • 6h
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• Translated from French Show original
I am a French mother with beautiful children.
I did not give birth to them for them to be sent to the trenches.
French and Russian mothers do not want their children to fight against each other.
We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

Els van Veen O
Follow
@veen_els
I'm a Dutch mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. Dutch and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies. #RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

Nadja @EuropaNormal • 9h
• Translated from German Show original
I am a German mother with a beautiful son. I didn't give birth to my child to send him into the trenches. German and Russian mothers do not want their boys to fight against each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

Dday @DdayohneZiffern • 12h
I'm a German mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. German and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Pentagon's public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased this week without explanation from Trump's Defense Department. The total number of troops now wounded during the war is 861, according to DCAS.

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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war

With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel like society is running on Aldous Huxley software and the government is running on George Orwell software

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In Estonian we don´t say "Retvrn to the Good Old Swedish Rule", we say "Põhjala-Balti koostööformaatide teisenemine" and I think it´s beautiful.

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wouldn't it be ironic if something else would happen to them instead

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The Insider @theins.press · 22/09/2026

Novaya Gazeta Europe analysis shows Putin’s party would have won only 34% without ballot stuffing — not the official 57.8% A method for detecting electoral fraud developed by statistician Sergei Shpilkin confirmed the tally was artificially “inflated.”

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Novaya Gazeta Europe analysis shows Putin’s party would have won only 34% without ballot stuffing — not the official 57.8%

The ruling pro-Kremlin United Russia party appears to have received only around 34% of the vote in the recent election to Russia’s lower house of parliament,…

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Was thinking Lost Vikings (1993) or Winter Challenge (1991), but it's probably CD-Man (1989) to be completely honest

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For God's sake, this is craven. The Russians have been trying to obliterate US companies in Ukraine repeatedly and with some success. The US government says nothing at all.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A view that comes from my perma-hot take that Early Modern historians are probably better trained to understand the world we are all drifting into rather than products of 20th century grand theories of history and politics

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

serious analysts when Trump gets bored of his lackeys and goes golfing early

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the triumphal arc will be militarized

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The story of how Nestle and Auchan refused to leave Russia in 2022, only for Putin to eventually seize their businesses with a single stroke of the pen, deserves to be told by sages as a biblical parable.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Related to a previous thread, I think folks understandably but inaccurately end up blurring the concepts of an illegal war on the one hand with wars that are immoral or stupid on the other hand. Many very foolish wars are probably legal under traditional understandings of international law.

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Kaarel Kressa @kaarelkressa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

scrollisin praegu facebooki põhiseina ja esimesed 58 postitust olid reklaamid või postitused kontodelt, kes pole mu sõbralistis. neist 2 oli ühest page´ist, mida ma tõesti jälgin.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sweatshops bad obviously, but like this is a really important source of income for people

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

extensive bruising is visible on Trump's *left* hand (not the one that is usually disfigured) is visible as he arrives in North Carolina today (Brendan Smialowski/Getty)

pic of Trump getting off the plane with his hand on the railing

zoom in on his left hand, which has a number of bruises, including a large one near the center

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Carney telling the European Parliament that what's needed is an alliance - his word, repeated - where nobody gets to tell the EU and Canada what to do. Good *LORD*. And met with a standing ovation. Well, that's that for the previously-existing form of Atlanticism, then.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sounds like Putin when Ukraine was finalising its closer association with the EU in 2013

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sending a message to your current audience that you'd prefer to have a different audience results in losing the former without gaining the latter. www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

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Refurbished ‘60 Minutes’ Debuts to a 19% Ratings Drop

The “60 Minutes” Season 59 premiere drew 7.7 million viewers, down 19% year over year.

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