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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨 Men with low social status will resort to violence against partners or immigrants to avert the deep feelings of shame they feel for failing at life. Govt really needs to understand this 'inequality > status anxiety > shame > violence' dynamic and work to fix it. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 06/10/2026
More than 40,000 fake notes – mostly $50 and $100 in cash – were detected in the past year alone. Authorities warn of a ‘concerning improvement’ in quality.
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Counterfeit cash is at an 8-year high in Australia, new figures show. Here’s how to spot it
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My thesis for what we might expect to go down around US midterms largely hinges on the question of if/how the Trump Admin directly intervenes in them. In the meantime, here’s what our team has been seeing (and not seeing) so far:
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 14h
"The world has moved on. Nothing works. Everything costs too much. No one can help. No one knows how to fix anything." Corey Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net doesn't have any consumer advice — "shopping is not politics" — but he does have political guidance to share.
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Opinion: The world has moved on. But it need not stay this way forever
In 2022, the author, Cory Doctorow, coined the term “enshittification” to describe how the internet is declining in value to its end-users, due to the prevalence of monopolies and an emphasis on…
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Kat @katlikespie.bsky.social · 15h
When I was in library school, we all had to make a Second Life account; because it was The Future! The only person I ever met/ talked to during my mandatory time using the game was someone in a different library class doing the same thing.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 14h
Russia is turning its economy into a black box. War spending, oil production, trade, reserves, demographics, incomes, poverty data, even population figures have disappeared from public view. When the numbers expose the cost of war, Moscow hides the numbers.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our best hope is that his incompetence will make his attempt to steal this election fail. It's obvious he's going to try.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mockery is far more effective than outrage with Trump. His ego cannot handle it.
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And nazbol-adjacent ones, no less.
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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 06/10/2026
Is it to have rich parents?
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16h
This plague also emerged from a secret Russian lab.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 20h
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 15h
🇹🇻 🌏 Leaders visit remote Pacific Island on front line of climate change More than a dozen leaders visited the Pacific nation of Tuvalu for a brief look at a once-vibrant ecosystem wiped out due to climate change. The meeting was a precursor to the UN-sponsored global climate summit, known as COP31
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 15h
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h
Nonviolent rebellion has proven again and again to be the most effective way of ousting even a determined autocrat. trib.al/LWVx8YF
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If Trump Steals an Election, Here’s What to Do
Nonviolent rebellion has proven again and again to be the most effective way of ousting even a determined autocrat.
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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 23h
When I send out an online catnip order, the mailer has a warning sticker. Thinking about one for my pile of market carry bags using these round Kraft stickers I already have. Anyone got any good ideas for the text? I feel like this might be a chance to be clever, and you lot are awfully clever.
A sheet of round blank Kraft-brown stickers, a pile of paper carrybags, and a white sticker showing the Kat's Garden logo and the text "CAUTION! CATS MAY ATTACK THIS PARCEL".
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 15h
More than 80 U.S. warplanes have been destroyed or damaged in the course of Trump’s war on Iran at a cost of more than $3 billion.
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Jaw-Dropping Scale of Trump’s Secret Military Losses Is Exposed
Total losses have nearly doubled since mid-May.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just through helping a friend who got scammed trying to buy a rubbish bin. The site she got caught by, brabantia-nz[dot]com, is the top Google result for the term "Brabantia NZ". One of a large cluster of scam sites, most seem to use vvservicecare[dot]com as the order confirmation email address
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 16h
A Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 destroys a Geran-4 drone at point-blank range with its onboard cannon, then flies through the resulting cloud of fire. Spectacular footage, but also a good illustration of why cannon interceptions are dangerous.
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See also: peterturchin.substack.com/p/revolt-of-...
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Revolt of the Credentialed Precariat
Mamdani Wins in New York City
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💉💉💉Kumara📎Republic↙️↙️↙️ @kumararepublic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And aren't the educated precariat the most likely to spark revolutions in 1 form or another? www.weforum.org/stories/yout...
3. The third faction is what I call progressives, since they feel deprived of a lost future. It consists of people who go to college, promised by their parents, teachers and politicians that this will grant them a career. They soon realize they were sold a lottery ticket and come out without a future and with plenty of debt. This faction is dangerous in a more positive way. They are unlikely to support populists. But they also reject old conservative or social democratic political parties. Intuitively, they are looking for a new politics of paradise, which they do not see in the old political spectrum or in such bodies as trade unions.
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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Very good an detailed investigation by @olgalautman.bsky.social and @luchkov.bsky.social 👇 bsky.app/profile/olga...
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Will de Cleene @zippygonzales.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In another rare mis-step, National campaign manager Simeon Brown steps on yet another rake.
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I've been mildly bread-pilled since I was old enough to vote, which also happened to be when the first Matrix movie came out in cinemas. Still am.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Capitalism for us little people, socialism for billionaires and corporations.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
The post-war "peace dividend" owed its existence to three factors: industrial capacity, political freedom and pent-up demand.
The Earth from space; it is covered in scaffolding that is crawling with little rude mechanicals ganked from 17th century engravings of people operating machines.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The new super intelligence has been unveiled. "DEPORT! DEPORT! REDACT! REDACT!"
The image shows an hand painted satirical mashup combining a Doctor Who Dalek with the likeness of Donald Trump.
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And that's without trying to squeeze an F-150 into European or Asian parking spots. Or simply trying to fit one through any European/Asian street.
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Another gem from her, and we get a namecheck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCtv...
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Trump PANICS as Canada, EU, Australia and New Zealand UNITE - USA EXCLUDED
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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NZ: pure shitfuckery. Great new content by @thejuicemedia.com Thanks legends #nzpol
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NZ Election 2026 | 100% Pure S*itF@^kery
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you defend one of them, you defend all of them.
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💉💉💉Kumara📎Republic↙️↙️↙️ @kumararepublic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just hope RNZ isn't being leaned upon by Paora Goldsmith & his fellow toffs.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Taken over by? Are we sure they're not just coming back out of the closet now that woke has been defeated?
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Same playbook.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can't help admiring Brits' persistent attachment to the idea that supply and demand doesn't operate in the housing market and their concomitant refusal to admit that a place is only ever worth as much as anyone is prepared to pay for it.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 28/09/2026
These mobile power systems could be a lifeline for remote, island and disaster-prone places.
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Floating power plants could offer coastal communities a reliable energy source. Here’s how
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 28/09/2026
In The Twilight Before the Storm, global strategist Viktor Shvets charts the shift from the fractured 1930s to today’s crisis culture.
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Neoliberalism is in retreat. Viktor Shvets blames the boomers – but it’s not that simple
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Nathaniel (Autumnal Vibes Version) @ndh111.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This looks pretty good. Along with the new Elantra, Hyundai is giving us some proper Cyberpunk vibes.
Press image side profile of the 2027 Avante/Elantra. The car is silver with angular lines, strong fenders, ans a surprisingly upright roofline.
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Car and Driver @caranddriver.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Hyundai revealed the home-market Avante, which will be the new Elantra in the U.S., and it's very next-generation.
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The 2027 Elantra displayed sharp, jagged looks at its launch in South Korea this week.
Hyundai revealed the home-market Avante, which will be the new Elantra in the U.S., and it's very next-generation.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fascism Doesn’t Always Arrive by Force. Sometimes It Comes as Law" A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it's too late. @kimwehle.bsky.social for Zeteo:
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Fascism Doesn’t Always Arrive by Force. Sometimes It Comes as Law
A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it’s too late.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BIG TECH: This thing is going to kill everyone TRUMP: I want to be the one to name it
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It's yet another case of "garbage in, garbage out".
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💉💉💉Kumara📎Republic↙️↙️↙️ @kumararepublic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For the N*ck Mowbrays & El*n Musks of this world, wealth taxes are roughly a rounding error. But to them, even a rounding error sounds like Stalin's Great Purge. What they really crave is power & dominion. In the immortal words of The Boss: youtu.be/o5IZuuzUa04?...
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Bruce Springsteen - Badlands (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we deserve this enjoyment
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