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Rui Santos

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/09/2026
Protecting children online matters—but age verification is not how you do it. Read our analysis of the new EU Kids Act, which is a threat to the open internet and our privacy eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will make internet access contingent on age, expand the use of
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Benny Johnson suggests he’s going to sue Milo for repeatedly accusing him of being a closeted gay man with a fake marriage. Milo responds.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/12/2025
Will someone release the video so we can shut down these disgusting excuses?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/11/2025
Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors
An elevator button panel with the numbers 12 and 14 next to each other and no number 13
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Don’t be like Amy. Ask the bigger questions like Melanie.
Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) writes:
“Why are our tax dollars subsidizing Lobster for SNAP recipients?”
Below is a screenshot from an online grocery listing for lobster tails priced at $9.99, marked “SNAP EBT eligible”, from Whole Foods Market.Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) posts:
“Why are our tax dollars subsidizing private jets for billionaires?”
The image below is a CNBC headline reading:
“Tax cuts for private jet buyers expected to lead to surge in sales,”
written by Robert Frank, published July 14, 2025.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
lol
Rasmus Jarlov on Twitter writes: "There is nothing to celebrate. Moving from average tariffs of less than 2% on trade between the USA and Europe to 15% under today’s deal will inevitably lead to inflation. Almost everything will become more expensive in both Europe and the USA, and we will all be worse off. The economic illiteracy in the White House is doing serious damage to the West."

Stylish Skunk replies: "I have a feeling you have 0 idea what you're talking about.

In fact I know you do."

Rasmus Jarlov responds: "Of course. I am former minister of trade in Denmark and you are an anonymous Twitter profile. You probably know a lot more than me. For sure."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Riley Gains encourages Trump to sue "into oblivion" Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox Corp, which owns Outkick, which employs Riley Gains.
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Peter Kuper @pkuper.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Make it make sense.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
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Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Espina: It doesn’t matter if you’re Cuban, Mexican, Venezuelan—it doesn’t matter if you’ve been here five years or thirty. When Trump talks about immigrants, he means all of us. That includes people who’ve been here a long time. That includes permanent residents
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/06/2025
Who is against these policies? Are people so far gone that they prefer their taxes pay for corporate welfare and massive pointless bombs over education and transportation?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...
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The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/06/2025
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“People on Bluesky are the crazy ones”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/06/2025
Gathering of fascists in Moscow, Elon Musk's father in attendance
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/06/2025
DOGE was a smash and grab robbery of our personal data.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/05/2025
Trump still hasn't figured out that insane asylums and political asylum claims are different things
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🎉🎉🎉
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Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I do find the honesty about their intentions finally to be refreshing To all the migrants from Latin América who support ICE Gestapo: They'll never consider you a "real American" because it's always just been about ethnic cleansing
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🚨🚨🚨 The Supreme Court has just allowed Trump to strip as many as 350,000 people of legal status, effectively IMMEDIATELY. Every Venezuelan granted TPS through the July 31, 2023 designation has been rendered undocumented as of now, significantly increasing the undocumented population.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 14/05/2025
There was a huge X-class solar flare yesterday on the Sun! You can see it on the right-hand limb in these SDO images. I find it so neat that we live next to, and can study, a star. We take it for granted that it's "the Sun" and it's always in the sky, but there is a star and it is RIGHT THERE. 🔭
The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is turbulent and knotty. The colour of the twisted light is gold with dark brown patches. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is turbulent andgranular. The colour of the twisted light is yellow with dark black patches. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is granular. The colour of the twisted light is red and orange. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is granular. The colour of the twisted light is teal. There are dark patches as well. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 14/05/2025
vice: > 10,000 cybertrucks are currently sitting unsold in dealerships
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Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants
Tesla is overstocked with Cybertrucks, the PS1 graphics-looking mobile monument to Elon’s deep lack of creativity.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Quite an exchange just now between Sen. Merkley and FBI Director Kash Patel over whether due process applies to people targeted by the Alien Enemies Act.
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Scoop: We've obtained internal cables showing how the U.S. government is pushing countries facing tariffs to clear way for Musk's Starlink State Dept says it's good to encourage Starlink adoption Others point to blurring of Musk's private/government roles ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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U.S. pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink, cables show
Some countries have turned to the satellite internet firm in preparation for trade talks, State Department staffers wrote. The U.S. has a strategic interest in countering Chinese internet providers, b...
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 06/05/2025
I stayed at the Liberty Hotel last time I was in Boston and had planned to go back, but those plans are now canceled. They allowed a MALE SECURITY GUARD to barge into a women's bathroom to remove a CIS woman because she looked too masculine. Get fucked, transphobes.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 05/05/2025
israeli govt approves new plan to expand war: forces plan to occupy territory in gaza won’t begin before trump’s visit this month
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
He's not on Bluesky so I'm amplifying his message here. The medical neglect towards menopause is very real. Menopause puts in motion enormous physical and mental health changes, many of which are associated with huge health risks & everybody thinks you should be celebrating cuz no more periods. 😑
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Rui Santos @ruisantos.net · 29/04/2025
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The AI companies have been caught building AIs that only tell us what we want to hear. If we don't get a handle on it, that's gonna go really badly: www.platformer.news/meta-ai-chat...
Well, some people ask chatbots for permission to do harm — to themselves or others. Some people ask it to validate their deranged conspiracy theories. Others ask it for confirmation that they are the messiah. 

Many folks still look down on anyone who would engage a chatbot in this way. But it has always been clear that chatbots elicit surprisingly strong reactions from people. It has been almost three years since a Google engineer declared that an early language model at the company was already sentient, based on the conversations he had with it then. The models are much more realistic now, and the illusion is correspondingly more powerful.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“Recently deputized” means “frustrated gym bros who wanna carry guns and boss people around.” It’s always the biggest failures at life who sign up first to be enforcers, torturers and concentration camp guards. This is beyond fucking dangerous and it’s gonna get people killed.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/04/2025
RFK Jr. Starts National Registry Of Introverts Who Sometimes Get Social Anxiety theonion.com/rfk-jr-...
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RFK Jr. Starts National Registry Of Introverts Who Sometimes Get Social Anxiety
WASHINGTON—Promising to use all of his power as health secretary to find a cure for the condition, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly directed the National Institutes of Health on Friday to create a registry of U.S. introverts who sometimes get social anxiety. “When I was younger, there were never people who liked to spend time […]
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Someday, everyone will have their own podcast.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
JUST IN: The ACLU has added Andry Hernandez Romero, the openly gay barber/makeup artist, as lead plaintiff in its D.C.-based class action against the Alien Enemies Act. They say the US has "constructive custody" over those held in El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
wrote about Elon Musk, why self diagnosis is important, and why it's also important to recognize that people with autism have moral agency, which means they can be bad people. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-...
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Elon Musk is Autistic, and Also, Unrelatedly, a Horrible Person
There is no contradiction there.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/04/2025
They don't want peace
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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 15/04/2025
Christians are not persecuted in the United States
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye (photo by me)
Portrait-oriented photo featuring a wooden post with a rusted hanger hook jutting out of it, and standing atop the post, triumphant and at least slightly indignant, is a plump little bluebird. The bluebird is a male, and we see the electric blue of his head, but the predominant part facing us is the coppery-orange and pale white front. He is standing amidst little pink-and-red tree blossoms, but I like to imagine these are instead the extracted organs of his enemies. So let's just pretend this bluebird stands vengefully astride a scattering of viscera -- gobbets of gore taken as a prize from his unnatural and invasive foes. I'm sorry I've really made this a gross photo. It's actually quite nice. Kind of a dreamy vibe to it, what with the wall of yellow forsythia blurring in the background, and here I am adding drippy bits and internal organs. I'm sorry. I'll do better next time. Probably. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/04/2025
Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/04/2025
This is Autumn. She was born without one paw. Gets along just fine with three, but still sometimes uses a prosthetic leg when she wants to blend in. 13/10
a small dog wearing a black and orange bandana, collar, and leash sits on a leafy dirt path and looks up at us with large brown eyes. she's white with brown spots on her ears and eyes. she has brown speckles on her left paw, and her right paw is actually a bright orange webbed duck foot. she likes to have fun with her prosthetics.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"She's a supermodel but she lives in Canada."
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
vampires can't use face id and i think that's sad
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Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
You know who we should actually blame for this, is the left.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.
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