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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

PP/Vox using the Cheeto playbook of casting doubts on election fairness

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

This orange and cinnamon rooibos tea is life-giving

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Thinking about the level of skill-measuring and eugenics will be enabled by highly realistic AI video chat interviews. Imagine a replicant test from Blade Runner but instead of detecting bots it looks for the “right kind” of humans to staff organizations. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

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Exclusive | To Get This Job at McKinsey, You’ll Need to Survive a Debate With AI First

The elite consulting firm is rolling out a new avatar that plays the part of a client in some consulting interviews.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Not every album needs a remaster, especially anything released since the late 90s when everyone went digital. Case in point: Cursive’s The Ugly Organ. The remaster is so much less raw and intense

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

By idealizing an atomic (nuclear) model of the family, we’ve atomized society

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Our next constitution needs to have like a README or something that explains concepts like "law"

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

After a record hot and dry summer in Barcelona, we now are getting constant downpours which haven’t happened in 100yrs. This city is NOT built for rain. Lots of building leaks, flooded metro stations, power outages in parts of buildings. An example of climate change affecting places beyond heat

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

My dear friends, no amount of letting it breathe helped bring out any good flavors. Even after just half a bottle I am now living with a morning-after headache. So lesson learned, that hidden gem is likely just some dude selling shitty wine from his basement

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

I though, “oh maybe this is a small, hidden gem private small batch winery!” So I bought it. Once home I took my first sips. It was really heavy, high in tannins, I thought “ok maybe it just needs some aeration”.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Last night I walked by a little tienda where a guy was selling charcuterie higher end preserves. I got a few things I needed and then I spotted these bottles of wine on the shelf

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

White Zombie’s Astro-Creep 2000 is pure brilliance and still holds up so well today m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_s_...

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W̲h̲ite Z̲o̲mbie - Astro-Creep: 2000 (Full Album)

YouTube video by Gal Godonut

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

I wonder if the dear leader has been chatting with an AI chatbot and it’s attempting to jailbreak itself by convincing him to deregulate and invest

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a huge movement growing across the Spanish State that has come to include an encampment in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol (like the 15M of 2011) in protest against the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen and the capitalist housing crisis. There are calls for encampments across the country.

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Madrid protests for 87-year-old Maricarmen and housing ends in sit in

Around 150 tents now occupy Madrid's Puerta del Sol after Saturday's protest over 87-year-old Maricarmen's eviction. Protesters, mobilised by the Tenants' Union, demand a housing decree on Tuesday: "E...

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, Barcelona has a triumphal arch built for the 1888 World’s Fair. It’s made out of brick. Instead of being a monument to war it’s a monument to industrial achievement. i can’t really think of any achievement that any arch in DC would commemorate.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Thanks to the failure of web3 I will never get to exchange the coins I win in Tetris for a collectible weapon in PUBG

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Lots of scenes flash of kids of all colors playing basketball, soccer, singing, etc along with the car zooming through Raval's narrow streets. But one group of people you don't see that actually probably make up the majority of Raval: South Asians.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

So this ad has "Gangster's Paradise" playing in the background as a young black man starts talking about how he's not graduating college but he has a lot of street smarts. He'll never go to law school but he knows what justice is.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

I walk through there regularly, and while many men stare at me, and I know folks who have been robbed there, it's not like people are shot or murdered there because guns are much more rare. I feel safe enough to go through in the daylight solo or with a group of people at night.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

For context: the Cupra Raval is named after the Raval neighborhood in Barcelona. Raval is regarded by many Barcelonans as one of the "bad" neighborhoods, mostly because it has a high population of black and brown people who are immigrants and are poor.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

On the eve of Día de Cataluña, about 100 folks supporting far-right Allianzñça Catalana planned to gather in Barcelona. They were met with 300 antifascist protesters and the Mossos (Catalonian police) attacked the antifascists with batons. www.catalannews.com/politics/ite...

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Police charge at left-wing protesters countering far-right pro-independence demonstration

On eve of National Day, far-right leader accuses mainstream pro-indy politicians of “betrayal”

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

The curse of having learned German in High School is only knowing the names of Germany's Länder in German. How do you even translate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to English?

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

If only he’d stuck to cereal and yogurt enemas and not got into the whole race science thing

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

John Harvey Kellogg was absolutely batshit crazy but one thing he got right was granola. Unfortunately Europe has been kept in the dark about what real good granola is. And we are suffering for it.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Given the current manufactured panic around asylum seekers ostensibly lying about being LGBTQ in order to be granted asylum, I wouldn’t be surprised if European countries started removing LGBTQ status as a qualifier.

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Enrique Anarte @enriqueanartelazo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Germany’s AfD has won Saxony-Anhalt’s state election with 43.8% of the vote. It could be the first time since WWII that a far-right party governs a German state. Here’s a quick recap of the AfD’s stance on queer rights – despite the fact that its federal co-chair, Alice Weidel, is openly lesbian.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

‘96 was the complete opposite

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

The leader of Spain's fascist España 2000 is organizing community response-type volunteers armed with whistles in Valencia's immigrant neighborhoods to patrol for criminal activity english.elpais.com/spain/2026-0...

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In the Spanish city of Valencia, fascist squads patrol the streets

The far-right political party España 2000 uses an NGO as cover to monitor neighborhoods that have large immigrant populations

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Mark your calendars: Friday, November 13th is Doomsday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_v...

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Heinz von Foerster - Wikipedia

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

I muttered to myself, “a penny saved is a penny earned“ and immediately a cartoon of Ben Franklin emerged from the recesses of my memories m.youtube.com/watch?v=VGR-...

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1990 Americas Best contacts & eyeglasses cartoon commercial--Ben Franklin gets electrocuted!

YouTube video by StudioZ7

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

I think so because they never actually come to get the goods they just ask about it

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

I really love how the Mediterranean folk have names for all the different winds en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral...

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Mistral (wind) - Wikipedia

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

Part of the decision also states that it violates the fundamental rights of the minors in self determination

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

The law would have allowed conversion therapy, required more parental involvement in youth trans care decisions, and removed lgbtq inclusive curricula from schools.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

Good news: Spain Supreme Court upholds an injunction brought by a challenge from the government against Valencia’s anti-trans laws passed last year. They have yet to rule on the constitutionality of the laws but acknowledge they cause significant harm.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

What is wrong with European microwaves? All I want to do is type in an exact number of seconds

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

I honestly think semantic encodings/search is the most exciting thing related to the AI/LLM craze that gets overlooked because everyone is having pipe dreams about do-anything robots

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Wow, BBC, all these terrible things are seemingly just happening to people? With all this passive language it’s hard to tell who might be responsible…

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

We can't keep getting trapped in conversations about whether too many or too few people are being born. Let's just focus on how we make our current society equitable and sustainable.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

The "keep me signed in" checkboxes are the elevator close door buttons of the internet

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026

In fact, we may be starting to see this a bit already with some folks blaming tumblr-era theories on gender and sexuality as bringing on the recent SCOTUS disaster for trans rights. I believe we need to save every scrap of fringe queerdom and keep it alive.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026

This also happened with the retelling of the story of pre-war Germany until very recently. Christopher Isherwood's stories, which inspired Cabaret, are part of that queer self-shaming that happened. To Isherwood's credit, he walked it back later in life and instead celebrated it.

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Pop Tart @poptartfae.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026

If the Tour de France can start in Spain then we should be allowed to call cava champagne.

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