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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 10h

If you are coming at victims in replies with statistics w/ a "Well, TECHnically..." "But" "Not really accurate because" you are broadcasting that you are not a safe person when you are minimizing the outrage of assaulted & abused people this is miniblogging, not debate class what is your goal?

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 12h

My super-cool daughter is a wild mushroom expert. Now she is drying the fungi to use as flavouring through the winter.

A metal tray covered with parchment covered with a variety of large and small funguses. Some are sliced up. I think it looks like a museum exhibition

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 11h

So the Swedish for hydrogen from 1795 means 'wet' while the Danish for hydrogen from 1814 means 'burn.' I feel like they could have sat down and planned this better but I guess Napoleon came between them.

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 12h

My super-cool daughter is a wild mushroom expert. Now she is drying the fungi to use as flavouring through the winter.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 12h

you are self-soothing, getting to imagine being a hero what we need is for you to become sensitised enough that the everyday stuff makes you uncomfortable and then to MAKE OTHER MEN UNCOMFORTABLE not kicking down doors just saying WOW THAT SOUNDS KINDA RAPE-Y *hard stare*

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Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · 12h

Yep. warmth, politeness & de-escalating skills are survival mechanisms. then you don’t get taken as seriously. But if you are colder, you get taken seriously but are considered to be lacking interpersonal skills. And if you just live life without centering any men, some get upset, persistent & scary

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 19h

Happy 479th Birthday to Miguel Cervantes who was born #onthisday in 1547 🎂 In his most famous work Don Quixote, the title character charges at windmills, mistaking them for monstrous giants with swords, so in tribute we're all going up Burgar Hill in #Orkney to tilt at the wind turbines. 🎉

The cover of the Penguin edition of Don Quixote

A painting of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza at a windmill

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Ragnhildur Hólmgeirsdóttir @rakeldur.bsky.social · 15h

To my Irish mutuals: Derry/Londonderry. In a text about an Icelandic fishing boat destroyed by a submarine in 1918, should this town be referenced to as Derry or as Londonderry? The survivors were welcomed effusively by the inhabitants, so I feel it's double important to get the name right.

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 15h

Actually maybe what they meant was, "you're going to have to post through it."

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 15h

The tsar is good, but he has bad advisors (it's me. I'm the tsar)

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 15h

The internet isn't dead, it just smells funny.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 15h

when protests aren’t enough. the encampment at Puerta del Sol plaza started with 10 tents. “Now, we’re more than 300 tents, and it keeps growing.”

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‘It keeps growing’: the tent camp that stands against Spain’s housing crisis

An encampment is sprawling across Puerta del Sol plaza in central Madrid in protest against the ‘rentier economy’

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 16h

I'll add another thing to this thread about 'invisible' misogyny: a lot of the time it also presents as chivalry. Putting women on a pedestal, 'yearning' for them; all part of a misogynistic othering of women which can likewise explode in 'surprising' ways.

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 16h

A medieval (French?) king had his armour built with thick padding inside, because he thought he was made of glass and might shatter.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 16h

When Le Pen gets elected we can also scrap the EU parliament commuting to Strasbourg as well. Think of all the transport emissions savings! You see. There's always a silver lining to every mushroom cloud.

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 16h

Literally nonsense on stilts

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Sylveal ✨ - Gnome Exemptional 🌈 @sylveal.bsky.social · 17h

Story of my familial life. Wonderful male role models, until they were inconvenienced or felt shame

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I say this a lot but haven't in awhile, so saying it again: I was a rape crisis counselor for five years & have held the hands of more survivors (women & men) than I rightly know, both as a counselor & as a friend. If the Cornell news has you in a bad place, please know that I see & believe you ❤️

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 18h

Last Swedish election there were just 400 complaints about possible irregularities. This time there's been 15,000 - so far. It seems obvious to me these are being mass produced by LLMs. Probably at the prompting (hoho) of far-right activist networks with links to USA and Russia

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15 000 överklaganden av valresultatet: ”Inte sett tidigare” – Senaste nytt om valet 2026

Söndagen den 13 september 2026 är det val i Sverige och maktkampen är igång. Här kan du följa senaste nytt inom svensk politik

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 18h

CND produced this poster, and EP Thompson wrote 'Protest and Survive', both as reactions that prioritised unilateral disarmament instead.

Black and white picture of a skeleton reading a pamphlet labelled protect and survive. Subtitle, have you ever wished you were better informed

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 18h

@marchudson.bsky.social regarding the extent to which it's reasonable to prepare for the apocalypse, this is a good run through of the UK planning. What's good in Protect and Survive, etc. He does admit some of it was 'hopium'.

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History Rage

Think history is boring? That’s because you’ve only ever heard the fake version.On History Rage, professional historians come in swinging — smashing the myths, clichés, and half-truths that keep getti...

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The info panel has this hilarious artwork.

Info panel for Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn.

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 20h

Swedish socialised health care: pay 275 kronor to hear a professional tell you "you're going to have to tough it out".

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 21h

Good thread of analysis after Swedish election. Worth translating.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 28/09/2026

It's crazy how much more solar there is in Poland everywhere now vs. 10 years ago… ☀️☀️ Wind turbines are rather controversial, but pretty much everyone* loves solar (*) except 1 (one) guy, whom Kaczyński intends to make the future prime minister, sadly

Modern house with solar panels covering more than half of the roof, with a lot of trees around it

Modern house with a triangular roof mostly covered with solar panels

Four small identical houses in a row, with triangular roofs covered with solar panels

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The sequel to Hot Fuzz is better and more entertaining than I expected. Major plot twist. Simon Pegg said it couldn’t be done, but here we are, thanks to one plucky Gloucestershire farmer and the CTP. The MoD police did the right thing in letting the phone ring.

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RAF Fairford suspects released on bail, head of counter-terror police says

Laurence Taylor says the five men arrested on Sunday are still under investigation as police consider multiple lines of inquiry, including the possible involvement of a foreign state.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 28/09/2026

It’s time to: ✔️Terminate contracts with Palantir and say NO to future public contracts ✔️Develop alternatives that safeguard people from mass surveillance ✔️Protect democracy by investing in people, not corporations Read all about it 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/09/n...

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No place for Palantir in a democratic Europe! | Corporate Europe Observatory

Over 120 campaigning organisations and unions across Europe, including CEO, Global Justice Now and EPSU have issued a joint call to governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public...

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

god, even cats are having to do all sorts of extra labor for the men they live with

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 27/09/2026

A general election in Brazil next month is widely seen as a choice between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro

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Future of Amazon rainforest may hinge on Brazil presidential election | New Scientist

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok, timeline cleanse. History nerds: what are you reading/would recommend right now? I'm re-reading Ray Huang's masterpiece "1587: a year of no significance" a portrait of the Ming dynasty's decline. One of the best books ever, imo, on how the predatory nature of empire makes its fall inevitable.

The cover of "1587: a year of no significance" by Ray Huang, showing a version of the patch - with two cranes flying high - worn by high-level Ming officials

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Millennials can’t reveal all this information because we like to complain about how exploitative Mr Beast is, and he is, but Mr Beast would basically be on PBS in the early 2000’s, it would be the show with substance

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Jonas Sjöstedt @jonassjostedt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I augusti 1980 sprängde fascister en bomb på Bolognas järnvägsstation och dödade 85 personer i den ”röda staden”. Min morbror Sandro var en av de läkare som arbetade i timmar för att rädda liv. Bilden på honom i läkarrock på perrongen är välkänd i Italien.

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New version of Whammageddon but you have to avoid hearing Choosing Texas before the midterms.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Self-indulgent introspective thread! Once upon a time I became very interested in the question of what would it feel like to be a geometric conventionalist. This resulted in a short story, pictured here (plus link: www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/... - better to use this rather than alt-text) ...

Far From Here Liam Kofi Bright
To the most exulted, most beneficent Khan, far above all others in wisdom and power, matched by none in his glory, approached by none in majesty, and my dear friend Kublai,
I write you this, my last communique, to tell of the most wondrous city of your holy empire. I first heard talk of it in the bazaars of Moselle. There they spoke of an adventurer who, while wandering your realm in contemplation, had entered the city which contains the greatest treasure of all. Thinking to enrich your coffers and add to your already inestimable glory by locating and presenting this treasure to you, I asked how I might follow the footsteps of this adventurer, “Julecaré” as they called him. At this the merchants simply laughed, they told me he was far from here, that no one had ever heard from Julecaré again and I should put the matter out of my head..... read the rest here: https://www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/9/8/48985425/far_from_here_complete.pdf

I will admit that my first thoughts were those of a cynic. Could this not be some religious piety, or perhaps a superstition? Talk of a distant place of great treasures could, after all, be simply a crude way of talking of the Heavenly City which all Christians hope to enter. Even the philosophers in their great library have a tendency to wax poetic about a realm of forms wherein Truth and Goodness and Beauty reside. Perhaps Julecaré and his Eutopolis was simply some local wiseman who had sought to convey these pious truths in a manner even the humblest of your subjects may understand.

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Read the story here: https://www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/9/8/48985425/far_from_here_complete.pdf

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I demolished a big hedge of brambles and built a Stone Age defensive wall with the remains.

A pile of branches with green leaves maybe a metre high. I've been jumping on it to crush the branches

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have officially Come Down With Something & am feeling super sorry for myself but the Crowdfunder is at almost £2.5k of £30k after less than 24 hours so I’ll take that to my sick bed to keep me warm

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