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K. T. Petty

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 3h
⚡️Trump claims Ukraine, Russia agreed to energy ceasefire — Kyiv has no information about it. Ukraine has no information about an energy ceasefire that U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Oct. 11, a senior Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent.
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Trump claims Ukraine, Russia agreed to energy ceasefire — Kyiv has no information about it
Ukraine has no information about an energy ceasefire that U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Oct. 11, a senior Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 3h
Most elected officials are careerists - meaning that if you don’t push them, they’ll take the path of least resistance. Now is the time to be loud & clear about what America needs: A transparent accounting of everything that’s gone wrong, & consequences for those responsible.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3h
Always read @blairbraverman.bsky.social
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h
As Kash Patel gets on a plane to visit his buddy Vladimir Putin this week, worth reminding that Kash is STILL trying to use a Russian attempt to frame Hillary Clinton from 7/26/16 to prosecute Jim Comey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlSa...
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The Secrets Trump's Spies Share with Putin's Spies
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 3h
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 3h
Ukraine's new campaign of destroying Russia's data centers will prove devastating for Putin's economy and war machine if the White House is unable to prevent it. The chaos we're already seeing across Russia is only four days into the campaign and 3 facilities targeted.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
Nothing is stopping your blue state or city from renaming its waste treatment plants and sewage facilities and garbage dumps after the needy, sweaty president. They could do it today! Give the man the attention he desperately needs!
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 3h
Day 2 at King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5h
"Your fault, you deserve it." is some crazy work
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 4h
Look, I'm not trying to be unsympathetic to the politicians in the article. But non-pols get these threats daily. Woman got doxxed and their kids threatened for disclosing they were harassed by a serial predator. I got an artisanal hand-written death threat mailed to my apartment. Deal with it.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 7h
Political violence is a serious issue. But it’s not a “both sides” issue. The leaders of the Democratic Party do not call for violence, do not elevate violent supporters, do not pardon violent thugs who attack our seat of government and our elections. America is under threat from the right.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h
If Trump were working directly for Putin this whole time, people ask, taking orders to destroy US democracy and the Western alliance, would anything look different? Yes. Trump would be more subtle about it.
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NetBlocks @netblocks.org · 13h
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a second collapse in the networks of Russian tech giant Yandex after a new Ukrainian drone attack on data centers in Vladimir this morning. The campaign comes not long after Russia's threat to give Ukraine a "digital detox."
Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity by provider in Russia from October 6, 2026, to October 11, 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents dates and times. The graph indicates connectivity remaining stable in several Yandex owned networks throughout most of the period, before dropping on the early morning of October 8 and the second time on the morning of October 11(Russia time). The disruptions correspond to power outages following Ukranian drone attacks targeting Yandex datacenters.The chart has a dark background with two red circles highlighting the decline at the end of the period, and includes the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner with the Mapping Internet Freedom slogan. Yandex.Cloud LLC, AS200350 (30% / 30%), YANDEX LLC, AS13238 (63% / 63%)
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 15h
As much as I appreciate the Post occasionally having a funny headline we do straight up have to destroy them as an organization
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 14h
Jesus Christ
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 14h
“We will burn their refineries.” It has been a tough couple of days for Ukraine, with dozens killed in Russian strikes, and Trump’s ‘stab in the back’ diesel deal with Putin. My latest weekly update. mickryan.substack.com/p/trumps-die...
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Trump’s Diesel Doctrine and Betrayal of Ukraine
This week: Trump’s diesel deal with Putin, failed Miami peace negotiations, Putin’s murderous week, China’s territorial claims, as well as my Big Five recommended readings.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15h
It is, in fact, possible to impeach and remove President Trump from office next week. It won't happen, however, because Republicans also support Putin and Russia and agree with Trump.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23h
Global ocean heat content (0-2000 m depth) now updated through June 2026... Do you see where this is heading? 🔥📈🌊 This graph showing anomalies is created by NOAA at www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa....
Line graph time series of global ocean heat content for the 0-2000 m layer for 3 month averages, yearly averages, and five years averages from the late 1950s to 2026. There is a long-term warming trend. The baseline is 1955-2006 for the zero reference to calculate the anomalies.
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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 13h
And just to mention this, yesterday Yandex changed its terms of service saying drone attacks on its facilities are Force majeure.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 12h
2/ completely stopped operating. Because of this, a large-scale outage of Yandex Cloud occurred, and Yandex Dom, Yandex Music, and Telemost also stopped working. The company’s services are unavailable in Russia, Belarus, and Serbia.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16h
LOL, sure, return to X, where the white nationalist owner is telling people to put their credit card numbers into Grok prompts.
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The only group more insufferable than tech people is anti-tech bluesky users, who have been coming back to X in droves the last few weeks.

And they’re just discovering that the entire world got rich over the last two years while they were busy arguing with each other about politics and AI.

And they’re very, very angry.Elon Musk

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To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it

Note underneath it says "xAI explicitly warns users not to include personal information in prompts, yet credit card photos may contain such information.

Grok Bot's terms state that user data and credentials may be stored in its cloud environment and require human review for financial transactions."
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026
There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives.
The Warner Brother tower posed against a vintage map of Burbank, keeling over, tearing up a huge clot of sod and concrete. Standing atop of the tower, forcing it down, is a sad, spavined donkey in Democratic Party livery. Being crushed under the tower is the California flag bear, with blood pouring out of its eye and mouth.
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Nicholas Sarwark @sarwark.org · 12h
Cato has chosen to associate with some terrible folks over the years, such as Tucker Carlson and Peter Thiel. Donor capture is real.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 12h
This is the most bizarre and enraging story: a crazy old pensioner who has an army of men feeding the wildlife and can afford to pay any fine the city throws at him.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11h
Free weekend out. The big story is that Donald Trump is now free to be what he always was--strong supporter of Vladimir Putin and an agent pushing for Russian victory. He no longer has to pretend he cares at all about Ukrainian dead or Russian War crimes. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...
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Weekend Update #206: Trump Is Free To Be What He Has Always Been
Russian Strikes Against Civilians; Do Ukraine And Europe Understand What They Must Do?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h
Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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K. T. Petty @ktp128.bsky.social · 13h
#corrutrumption
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15h
October 10, 2026
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October 10, 2026 (Saturday)
So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20h
Okay, honestly, the strength of your argument just dropped dramatically with this new reasoning.
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 20h
Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe.
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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 20h
The big problem w this is that it may be goal oriented--not philosophical. "AI has consciousness & shd legally have personhood" sounds suspiciously like "Corps are ppl" & "$ is speech." And similarly, the argument may get used by business owners to avoid legal responsiblity for damage they cause.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h
I can’t believe that this debate somehow gotta stupider after I left it. Taking the demand to prove a negative and turning it upside and calling it an affirmative claim is not a thing. Your vague feeling that LLMs might be conscious is just a vague feeling.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22h
At the time, Trump was planning on doing a diesel export ban. Everyone said it would backfire. Trump said that would be a problem to deal with in DEcember. emptywheel.net/2026/09/24/d...
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"December problems:" The Iran War Is a Reality that Exists Outside Trump's Attempt to Con the Election - emptywheel
Trump's consideration of a diesel ban is not about solving the problems the Iran War has caused. It's an attempt to sustain the con until December.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22h
The ship of diesel Putin sent Trump left on September 22. September 23 is when Trump's invite to G-20 was announced. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘We hope he’ll accept’: US invites Putin to G20 summit at Trump golf club
Invitation announced by Marco Rubio is likely to raise concerns from Ukraine and EU countries
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 20h
Oh hurry, please. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also...
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21h
Bluesky being the website for affluent 38 year olds who gaslight zoomers about their economic prospects is honestly genuinely funny as a punch line
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20h
They have been dealing secretly with Putin for weeks over this. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 20h
So, today alone: 12 killed and more than 300 wounded by the Houthis; Iran warned ships away from the UAE; a ship was hit by a projectile off the UAE coast; and multiple drones and missiles targeted airports in Saudi Arabia. Sure we will get a Truth Social later about how they are dying to negotiate.
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K. T. Petty @ktp128.bsky.social · 17h
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 20h
When Trump inevitably loses, he'll take it as proof the election was rigged and as a pretext to seize the voting machines. He already told us he regrets not doing it last time.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h
12 killed. 309 injured. Including an American death. All while Trump claims the war is "over" and demands a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 19h
12 killed, 309 injured in today's attack on Riyadh International Airport. The dead include 4 Saudi nationals and 8 foreign citizens.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h
“I should build a fancy gaming computer before tariffs… fuck it, let’s splurge and put a 5090 in there” I am going to be able to resell this thing and buy a second house at this rate
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Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production in favor of AI data center and professional GPUs — impending supply drought expected to drive up prices, RTX 5080 24GB rumored as new gaming flagshi...
No more GB202 for consumers?
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K. T. Petty @ktp128.bsky.social · 17h
#seemsbad
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Headline makes it sound like the DCCC spent all their money on hookers and blow and now rent is due but the real reason is Trump and the Republicans are so toxic the DCCC thinks it can compete in districts Trump won by 13-20 points.
Specifically, Merz dedicates significant portions of the memo to four districts where the committee is desperate for more money in order to compete — all of which President Donald Trump won by double-digit margins in 2024:

— Florida’s 27th District (Trump +14.6)
— Nevada’s 2nd District (Trump +13.9)
— South Carolina’s 1st District (Trump +13)
— New York’s 21st District (Trump +20.7)
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19h
Having watched these for more than a year now, I can tell you the young people almost always look back bsky.app/profile/gill...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19h
Low-hanging fruit for reporters and Dem trackers: ask a Republican running for office, "what would you do if you were in a car with your child and men in hoodies charged at you with guns drawn?" Follow up with "do you think it's reasonable for a parent in that situation to use lethal force?"
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19h
Once again: The ICE Air Operations Handbook allows children as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. All adults are shackled except pregnant and postpartum women (up to two weeks) and, on removal flights only, single parents with young children. That’s according to their own policy.
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