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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 24m

#Poetry #Painting #Dustorm We saw the brown bank coming from the west. We closed the windows but the dust came creeping through the cracks. - Ray Marshall 🎨 Bruce Cascia

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VagrantGuru @vagrantguru.bsky.social · 7m

"Look, if your opponent is white nationalist scum, it's RUDE to say anything about it! That's simply not how we behave!"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9m

Honestly curious what it would take to break the middlebrow addiction to politeness and civility, even when it is not offered in return or justified on the merits of

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 5h

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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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 11m

“That’s just not what we do here.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h

Cloudflare Data Explorer shows the amount of russian bot traffic has dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a yandex data center.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28m

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

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Another Matt @mattlav83.bsky.social · 5h

It's pretty much exactly what the disastrous Apple AI news/texts summary function was: using a local model with such minimal precision and limited capacity, it cant tell the difference between texts saying "I'm leaving" vs "I'm leaving you"

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Another Matt @mattlav83.bsky.social · 5h

Actually, if you drop precision down to 4-bits, you could fit 100bn parameters in 50gb, which is totally viable in phones with 128gb or 256gb of space. The point is, WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO. A large local size with highly inaccurate / imprecise maths is a worst of all worlds.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 8h

Real conspiracies and conspiracy theories tend to be structured quite differently. There's a great paper on this by a UCLA computational folklorist called Tim Tangherlini. I spoke to him about it here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Conspiracies: The Secret Knowledge, Narrative Graphs

Phil Tinline continues his series exploring what conspiracy stories tell us about power.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 8h

One of the complications of studying conspiracy beliefs is that sometimes there are actually conspiracies...

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10/10/2026

RUSSIA TARGETED A BUS FULL OF CIVILIANS AND MULTIPLE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THIS WEEK ALONE. Maybe the ingrate is the guy who made the decision to fund that terrorism by purchasing oil in a last ditch attempt to boost his poll numbers?

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 10h

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13h

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17h

Remember when he screamed "No puppet! YOU'RE the Puppet!" in that really panicked way that had a bunch of us like "…uhh… kinda seems a weird way to deny that"? Anyway, we all know Russia doesn't have that much diesel to sell, making this sanctions-avoiding money laundering on a global scale, right?

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 13h

George Hughes - Sunday Visitors

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Unmarked lunatics with guns attack your car when your kid is with you— you drive off too. Anyone who say otherwise is a liar. They almost killed the kid. What the fuck are we doing? 😳🇺🇸

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VintageSilvertones.com @vintagesilvertones.bsky.social · 22h

SILVERTONE 1375 - 1pu red-vinyl solidbody metal truss rod Danelectro Neptune NJ 1954. For sale. The day got away from me; too many items on the agenda. So here's the workbench from yesterday. cheers! www.vintagesilvertones.com/product/silv... #VintageGuitar #Guitar #Silvertone #Danelectro

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 11h

The question is, would they do the same to a competitor wearing an "adult human female" t-shirt and I think everyone can guess the answer to that

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12h

Not for the first time, I’d ask: what does it mean, if the press keep running campaigns claiming that country’s most horrific racists and bigots are the Green Party, the Labour left, Amnesty International, Stonewall, the police (I know) and Gary Lineker? Look around you. Does that feel right?

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Jew-baiting Greens haven't peaked: they're just getting started

It's strange having a fully fledged, fully funded racist party in our political line-up. It does not comfort me that in Holborn & St Pancras the Greens "only" got nearly 9,000 votes. If the British National Party, another party defined by a racist lie, had won that many votes in any constituency, there would be pandemonium. There would be riots. There wouldn't be amused, jocular analyses in all the main papers. Its leader wouldn't be ushered on to the Today programme as a senior statesman for a light dressing-down by Nick Robinson.
He wouldn't be allowed to repeat propaganda as Polanski did (he sounded as if he was reading lines from a piece of paper). He wouldn't be greeted with a comical, indulgent shrug.
And if I were a Jew in Holborn, or anywhere, watching this, what would I now be thinking? I would be thinking: I now know precisely how many of my fellow constituents want to kill me. Is anyone doing anything to protect me from them?
Just look at the recent hate crime statistics. Jews are now almost ten times more likely than Muslims to be the targets of a religious hate crime. So no one is stopping it. No one is even touching it. This is an unacceptable place for politics to have reached.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13h

Corporate Welfare Tory tax break for banks cost UK public purse £6bn In 2023 Tory govt cut the bank surcharge from 8% to 3%. Current govt hasn't reversed it. Record profits, exec pay, dividends at banks Reversing the surcharge would raise billions.

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Tory tax break for banks has cost UK public purse £6bn, says TUC

Exclusive: Chancellor urged to reverse Jeremy Hunt’s tax surcharge cuts to claw back billions in lost revenue

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 16h

people are saying the Kentucky Wildcats keep winning because they're the only SEC football team actively posting to Bluesky

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Another Matt @mattlav83.bsky.social · 19h

"achieving greatly, for something bigger than yourself", is almost the anti-matter of what Greek mythic heroes. The Greek heroes were incredibly individualistic, selfish, hedonistic, and demanding. That's almost the whole point. Their epic hubris and its destructive consequences is the WHOLE DEAL.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21h

AHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fun Fact: Harm is not just physical

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you’re sensing a lack of urgency on behalf of Labour MPs re: the rise of fascism, then this helps to clear things up. They have no skin in the game, and they know that if they lose their seats they can always just fuck off to work for Peter Thiel for big £.

Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23h

Very funny that the usual all-out, all-channels outrage hasn’t made Polanski less popular than Starmer managed, just by being himself and doing Sensible Centrist Politics

Opinium @OpiniumResearch • 1h
Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll
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Zack Polanski is now the least popular major party leader....

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𝔸𝕟𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕨 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕜𝕝𝕖𝕪 𝔾𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕣 @fromdialsquare.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Man Utd and Sp*rs doing more damage to the PL than City with that performance

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Tisiphone @tisiphone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This endorsement carries more weight than one might imagine. High School Football is its own religion in Texas and whatever you may feel about that doesn't take away from its ability to sway a goodly number of Texans.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's been a pretty rough couple of weeks for Sen. Foghorn Leghorn, but no one deserves it more.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One under-discussed aspect of the vibecession is how interest rates for credit cards, autos, and mortgages all jumped in 2022 with the Fed hikes then never came back down. It's hardly a surprise consumers get bad vibes from that.

The share of families reporting being behind on loan payments jumped from 12% in 2022 to 20% in 2025. But the size of a family’s typical debt load remained unchanged from the prior survey.

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> A multi-line chart titled *"10-Year Evolution of U.S. Consumer Borrowing Costs (2016–2026)"* illustrating benchmark interest rates from Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) across credit cards, new car loans, and 30-year fixed mortgages.
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> Unsecured revolving credit cards consistently carry a ~15% premium over secured debt. Commercial bank credit card rates for accounts assessed interest climbed from 13.61% in late 2016 to 22.36% by late 2026, reaching a post-tightening peak of 23.37% in May 2024. All-account credit card rates follow in parallel, rising from 12.41% to 21.19%.
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> Meanwhile, collateralized installment loans move in close alignment. Benchmark 30-year fixed mortgages fell to a historic low of 2.65% during the January 2021 pandemic easing before surging to 7.40% by October 2026 (peaking at 7.79% in late 2023). Commercial bank 60-month new auto loans similarly rose from 4.05% in 2016 to 7.54% in 2026 (peaking at 8.40%).
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> Two shaded vertical bands highlight key macroeconomic events: the 2020 COVID-19 recession and the 2022–2023 Federal Reserve rate-hiking cycle (+525 bps), which triggered the steep upward trajectory across all consumer borrowing costs.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/10/2026

People can like or dislike Rashida all they like for whatever reasons but it really does need to be highlighted that Western liberal-humanitarian discourse is so poor that she is basically the only one in Congress that talks about this stuff with regularity

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I mean, I laugh but Hadley is correct here: “Does Israel have a right to exist” is what a tiny number of horrible media twunts are roaring at public figures they despise and want to slap down, because they’ve got bored of asking them whether a woman can have a penis.

Hadley Freeman @HadleyFreem... • 7h
"Does Israel have the right to exist?" is the new "What is a woman?"
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 10/10/2026

still hilarious that i'd take bloody bill kristol over the median Dem senator these days

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

Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a frontal view of a clay flask with warm-yellow coloured slip with black hand painted decoration depicting an octopus. The octopus is swimming diagonally with eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional black painted motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the 'Marine Style'. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side and a small base so that it can stand upright.

“Its shape is somewhat unusual, constructed by slipping together, while still leather hard (clay that is not quite dry), two shallow plates which had been made on a fast spinning potter’s wheel and with highly refined clay. The circular bases of these shallow plates are still visible in the center of both sides of the flask” (Smart History article “Octopus Vase” by Dr Senta German https://smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/)

The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The excavations between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Obviously it isn’t good that there’s this level of totally overt hatred and racism in public life, but look: this is what it was with Labour and Corbyn in the 2010s. It’s what it is now. They’re just racist wingnuts, it really is not much more complicated.

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Having PoTS/Dysautonomia is awesome because I can literally do absolutely nothing and still have heart palpitations about it.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You simply don’t get the transgender terror and the government actively working to fuck up the lives of trans people, unless a tiny number of hateful freaks in London can still use their clout to impose horrible things that *they* want, regardless of what the public might think.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

People ask me this all the time, so I’ll just say: look at the transgender hate panic, a thing that had no organic element and did not arise from the public, and was instead imposed upon everyone by the world’s most hateful, poisonous and malignant media class.

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