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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 31/07/2026
Ontological proof that √2 is rational: suppose √2 has all supreme perfections. Descartes argued that actual existence is a perfection. If √2 was irrational, it would lack existence as the ratio of integers, a supreme perfection. Contradiction; therefore, God exists. I mean √2 is rational.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Meta is spending $600 billion+ to build out its AI model. That model is being aggressively integrated into platforms used by 3.9 billion people. This week, Meta announced its AI will be trained on content from Newsmax, the far-right website with a history of promoting pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 30/07/2026
Article with link to charities to help Haitians stripped of temporary protective status: bsky.app/profile/theb...
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 30/07/2026
“what makes this genuinely interesting — and, frankly, a little embarrassing for the field — is that none of the ingredients are exotic.” bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
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ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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Only In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Happy Saturday from Storrow Drive. ❤️ 📸: @jessfrith @johngallagher23 @0svaldo_g
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 13/04/2026
The only way that will restore the Rule of Law, in Hungary, and the U.S.: Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions."
Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again."

Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired."

He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged.

Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions."

Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately.
"The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 12/04/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yR74...
BRIGHTON
I want a decision, sir.

FEISAL
You want me to fall back on Yenbo, Colonel.

BRIGHTON
Well you're not doing much good here sir! ... Sorry to rub it in sir, but - (bursting out; he has been over this ground a dozen times)
We can't supply you here sir!

FEISAL
You could supply us through Akaba!
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 08/04/2026
If the pizza at Pastels is okay with Donny, it’s okay with me.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
That's the point of the attacks right
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Hospitals sharing images of children to identify their parents, this is the situation across #Beirut
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
AUB urgently calling for blood donations AUBMC Blood Bank is currently in need of all blood groups. يُعلن بنك الدم في المركز الطبي في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت عن حاجته إلى جميع فصائل الدم. نرحّب بالمتبرعين يوميًا من الساعة 8:00 صباحًا حتى الساعة 4:00 بعد الظهر. بتبرّعكم يمكن أن تُحدِثوا فرقًا.
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Anaïs Girl @immortana.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026
Tintin dans l'Étoile Mystérieuse se jette, euphorique, au cou du gardien de l'observatoire : "Hourrah! La fin du monde est remise à une date ultérieure !"
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It would be nice if mainstream media would report the obvious fact that the president of the United States is out of his mind. Seems like a highly relevant fact that the media have buried so far, in betrayal of their duty.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026
I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 07/04/2026
Watch this as the hour of Trump’s threatened genocide approaches.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Iranians are forming human chains around power plants and infrastructure as Trumps evil deadline approaches. Will he commit mass murder? We have no idea bc he’s crazy. Hopefully he uses this an excuse to stop
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Did Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran?
If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We’re doomed because Trump represents a sick, evil, but absolutely permanent and strong element of American culture. Killing civilizations is what these people voted for.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 07/04/2026
Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.
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Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal
The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply.

April 7, 2026 at 9:22 a.m. EDT26 minutes ago
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I read a lot of conservative media, and let me just say that this Washpost house editorial is one of the most shameful pieces of unsubstantiated, free-market claptrap that has been published all year, by anyone. Barely a mention of the thousands of deaths caused by US aid cutbacks.
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The Editorial Board
U.S. cut aid to Africa. The continent proved resilient.
The abrupt change was messy, but forced governments to reform fast.
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 04/04/2026
Sir, you staged your death by your own hand in full view of Captain America?
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 04/04/2026
The issue not addressed: real, not sci-fi, teleportation cannot overcome quantum uncertainty. At best this person would be incinerated then reconstituted as an unidentifiable glob of chemicals in the Waffle House. That’s the plausible bit: people teleport then are served up as All-Star Specials™
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 04/04/2026
One reason I enjoy @theatlantic.com (subscribe!) is that its silly self-parodic think pieces seldom descend below “Lice are actually okay!”
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Poor babies 😔😔
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 28/03/2026
#NoKings #Boston
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 28/03/2026
#NoKings #Boston
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Ignacio Villaverde @wildlandfirefig.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
En Beirut la gente denuncia que dos aviones israelís han roto la barrera del sonido sobre la ciudad. Esto, como creo sabe tó el mundo, provoca un BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM enorme. Si suena en una zona a la que le caen bombas a diario pues imaginad, a la gente casi le da un pasmo del susto
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Very loud sonic booms across Beirut now. Four in total that I counted. Terrorising a civilian population right as people are going to sleep. #lebanon
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Lots of suspicious trades in oil/equities just ahead of Trump tweets backing off his ultimatum. Sure looks like somebody close to Trump knew he was about to TACO, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits From @pkrugman.bsky.social: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...
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Treason in the Futures Markets
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 24/03/2026
Robert E. Lee massacred hundreds of American soldiers who tried to surrender at Petersburg and elsewhere. Lee beat and flagellated people that tried to escape enslavement by Lee, then Lee tortured them by pouring salt into their open wounds. Robert E. Lee was a traitor and his memory is a disgrace.
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 18/03/2026
“Solemn articles were written about the supposed significance of Greenland … as if Trump’s interest in the Arctic island were not entirely derived from the fact that it looks very large on a Mercator projection.” Maybe brief that the Mercator Jacobian 1/cos² latitude scales Greenland’s area 12× ?
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 18/03/2026
@michelebella.bsky.social Do you know the artist for the cartoons inside your grandfather’s photo album of the 509th? This one specifically is remarkable, and as I posted below I speculate must be Kubrick’s inspiration for Dr. Strangelove’s finale.
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 17/03/2026
Melkorka told her son Ólafr that she was taken by vikings, and her father was king Myrkjartan. She taught him Gaelic, urged him to visit family. The king was convinced of kinship when he recognized Ólafr’s ring. Ólafr became renowned as a grandson of the Irish king. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkorka
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Melkorka - Wikipedia
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 17/03/2026
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day - from an Icelandic descendent. My great grandfather brought records that go back 1100 years. The most remarkable ancestor is the Irish princess Melkorka, enslaved in a Viking raid. Very different story to share with Boston Irish friends. 🍀 vimeo.com/496367623?fl...
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Victims of the Vikings Trailer
This is "Victims of the Vikings Trailer" by Stefan Ludwig on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 16/03/2026
“America’s political leadership is completely out-classed. We have an illiterate madman tweeting contradictory bullshit every ten minutes. Meanwhile, the Iranian regime is calmly and methodically probing the structural weaknesses of the American-dominated global financial order.”
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 12/01/2026
OBAA’s fascist allegories: • “Clean” murder is to gas & incinerate victim • Lockjaw office is Suite 55, i.e. “SS” • Willa calls attention to Lockjaw’s shirt: he’s a blackshirt • Lockjaw has mixed-race daughter shot; Nazi Amon Göth’s (Schindler’s List) irl black Gdau wrote “My Gfa Would Have Shot Me”
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 14/03/2026
www.ft.com/content/cf87...
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 12/03/2026
“In major disputes capabilities for repression grow, both because governments are likely to mobilize significant additional forces and because repression of dissent is likely to be supported by nationalist groups.” archive.org/details/bomb...
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 12/03/2026
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 12/03/2026
Sir, you demanded that Henry “think big.” Which of these toadies would tell the President, “That, I think, would just be too much”?
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 11/03/2026
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 11/03/2026
Every place the British needed to navigate to reach their eastern colonies. Churchill’s failed Gallipoli campaign was to sieze the Dardanelles and a sea route to supply Russia. When natural geography or fortune didn’t cooperate, they created artificial straits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Uw...
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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - The Suez Canal, then Cairo -
YouTube video by Tanji Akira
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 10/03/2026
@timmiller.bsky.social: “I was watching a Nick Fuentes clip… he said something about Trump… is totally in megalomania world and he wants to do historic things. He sees himself as a grand historic figure. … that makes me also think that he wants to drop the bomb.” www.thebulwark.com/p/sarah-long...
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Sarah Longwell: No One Should Trust this Government
Unless the administration is keeping some closely-guarded secret about why America went to war against Iran, the only thing officialdom is saying out loud is that Netanyahu wanted us to.
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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society. And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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Steve Smith @monkeysaddle.com · 07/03/2026
@michelebella.bsky.social Here’s the group photo of the 509th’s 390th Air Service Group with your grandfather (row 7, 5th from right) and mine.
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