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@sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social
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Questioning [just about] everything by Design. Disclaimer: Outlier / there will be typos! Safety protips: ssd.eff.org

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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 17h
Amen to this. #AI #Tech #Opensource #FOSS #complexity
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is mounting evidence to show that a crypto firm in which Howard Lutnick and his sons (and also the Trump sons) are invested is making a mint helping the Iranians dodge sanctions. This is a major form of war profiteering, and more obviously criminal than most.
blumenthal.senate.gov
Blumenthal Releases PSI Report Detailing how Lutnick-Linked Crypto Firm Tether Props Up Iran's Shadow Banking System | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), today...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Looks like dramatic results in #Brazil 🇧🇷. The far right is ahead in Presidency, Senate, and House. The right-wing turn in Latin America is beyond the breaking point. The only question now is: how far right will it go?
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 18h
Don't bomb Iran, you're welcome.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election.
bbc.co.uk
Spanish election: Pedro Sanchez calls snap election for 29 November after housing protests
Pedro Sanchez's announcement comes after his series of measures to tackle the housing crisis was defeated in parliament on Friday.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h
Yemen’s Houthis have hit Saudi Arabia’s Rabigh oil refinery.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18h
Yemen launches push to retake territory captured by Houthis ft.trib.al/ds8t4QO
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Yemen launches push to retake territory captured by Houthis
Saudi Arabia sends 100 fighter jets to support Yemeni push to recapture Sana’a and the Bab el-Mandab Strait
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/10/2026
British banker who exposed Howard Lutnick's ties to Epstein has died, allegedly from suicide.
bbc.com
How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 18h
Day 277.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 21h
Deepak Karra (deepak_karra on IG) captured this shot of a pink robin, native to the forests of South Australia & Tasmania. In technical terms, this is a bird shaped like an orb, or 'BORB'. 🐦🟣 Reminder that this little guy is a direct descendant of theropod dinosaurs like T. rex. (📷: Deepak Karra)
A poof of bright pink belly feathers that looks like one of those fuzzy pencil-toppers is surmounted by a dark grey head in which is a wary dark eye.  It's gripping a pink flowering branch that changes from nearly vertical to actually vertical, requiring a sort of death grip by the legs.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 22h
Only little people pay taxes. "Meta reduced its tax bill by claiming artificial intelligence data centers are experimental "pilot models" to qualify for research tax credits." finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...
finance.yahoo.com
Meta reportedly calls its AI data centers ‘pilot models’ — its research tax credits jumped from $700M to $3.9B
The company appears to have netted the most from that credit among all publicly traded companies.
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Mike Saunders 🇺🇦 @hardwaterhacker.bsky.social · 22h
I came across this Common Garter Snake sunning itself on the trail yesterday. #snake #nature #wildlife #PhotographersUnited
A horizontal photo of a Common Garter Snake. The snake on the left side of the photo, it's head in the upper center. The snake is on the ground, surrounded by orange and brown fallen leaves, bright green blades of grass, and twigs. Most of the ground is in shadow.  The snake's body curves up and the head is angled slightly upward. 

The Garter Snake has a black back, a pale yellow belly, and a pale brown stripe on its side. The snake's eyes are black, with a thin gold iris.
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 22h
I could watch these all day.. www.youtube.com/shorts/sJl1K... #AI #criticalthinking #complexity
youtube.com
World domination is next update
YouTube video by Husk IRL
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Morgan is a national treasure and if you don’t follow her whisper videos you should. She is like the narrator in my head.
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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Very pretty group of #fungi in the woods. Possibly Mycena haematopus?
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Video from Maura Hennelly captures her sunbeam snake named 'Vespira' in all her glory. Sunbeam snakes (genus Xenopeltis) are non-venomous snakes from SE Asia that kill small prey (frogs, rodents) by constricting. They burrow through soft dirt or leaf litter in humid jungles. (📷:@maurahennelly IG)
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
🎧✨ youtu.be/q16YM_7blpg
youtu.be
Paris Paloma - Pyrrhus (you go where I cannot) [Official Visualizer]
YouTube video by Paris Paloma
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The Revelator @therevelator.org · 04/10/2026
We Didn’t Just Fail to Stop Ebola. We Caused It. -- The driver of zoonotic outbreaks isn’t bad luck. It’s habitat destruction, wildlife trade, and decades of ignoring science. therevelator.org/ebola
therevelator.org
We Didn’t Just Fail to Stop Ebola. We Caused It. • The Revelator
The driver of zoonotic outbreaks isn’t bad luck. It’s habitat destruction, wildlife trade, and decades of ignoring science.
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Well, any standing the US of A ever had in the world as some kind of moral leader is officially obliterated. So at least there's that.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No comment needed
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 04/10/2026
#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
🎧☀️✨ poolsuite.net
poolsuite.net
Poolsuite ☼
The ultra-summer internet radio station, playing an infinity pool of summer sounds 24/7. Swimwear optional. Formerly Poolside FM.
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
🎧🎶🤷 youtu.be/YLO7tCdBVrA
youtu.be
Bob Ross Remixed | Happy Little Clouds | PBS Digital Studios
YouTube video by PBS Documentaries
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy little accidents
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sky-high diesel prices have many farmers questioning Democrats’ decision to vote to release the Epstein files.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
*Meanwhile, in Elon-centric AI theology: #predictingthepresent
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
✨The Dark Economy: How Dirty Money Shapes the World youtu.be/JjX7cxM17jY conversation with investigative journalist and author @oliverbullough.bsky.social and Thomas Bollen #complexity #synthesis #corruption #oligarchy #investigativejournalism #finance #books 📚
youtu.be
The Dark Economy: How Dirty Money Shapes the World - With Oliver Bullough and Thomas Bollen
YouTube video by De Balie
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Here's a little chart that our graphics team did to help you keep track of the various players.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/10/2026
Jared Kushner is key to understanding the Trump regime’s global scale of corruption. No talent, no morals—just bottomless greed, access to power. @cjcmichel.bsky.social exposes him in a new book, “United States of Oligarchy.” Here’s our talk (get him on your show!) youtu.be/8LDhLXOwjcI?...
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Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, & Dark Money: Exposing the Global Oligarchy | Casey Michel
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Day 275.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Me? With my claws and teeth I will will defend art and artists as essential to any version of a beautiful livable world. a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...
a-rabbitsfoot.com
"They try to kill the poets": Meredith Whittaker on art in the age of AI - A Rabbit's Foot
Chiara Towne in conversation with Meredith Whittaker is president of the Signal Foundation.
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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#mobility If anyone is wondering how Chinese cars are outcompeting western made cars, this video of Chinese cars testing is fun and instructive youtu.be/3QOa__xaCPs?...
youtu.be
I drove the cheap Chinese cars that are illegal in the USA. Now I know why
YouTube video by Rich Rebuilds
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Repair cafe today.. and the sun is shining ☀️
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 01/10/2026
“This is AI’s promise to every autocratic ruler: the ability to maintain control without delegating tasks to unreliable humans,” write @seva.bsky.social and Bruce Schneier.
foreignaffairs.com
The AI Autocrat
How technology empowers—and imperils—dictators.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You know good and damn well we want to see this fluffy little big head! Awwww.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not even The Onion could make this up: Before deciding whether to intervene in Venezuela, Trump reportedly spent hours consulting an AI chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to his plan to invade the country and overthrow Maduro.
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
The Kushner investigation from CNN should also come as no surprise to anyone already paying attention months ago.
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Nearly time to weight train.. and the sun's out ☀️
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Retracting a share seeing as someone here doesn't understand something very basic.
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At the same time Jared Kushner has acted as a key negotiator in the war in Gaza, his private equity company, Affinity Partners, has held the largest stake in an Israeli firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns, a CNN investigation has found. youtube.com/watch?v=qJcw...
youtube.com
Kushner’s company has big stake in firm with ties to Israeli military
YouTube video by CNN
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
✨'Yet one serious danger is mentioned less frequently – the threat posed by AI – empowered lethal weapons. Fully autonomous versions of these weapons are colloquially known as killer robots' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #war #US #AI #geopolitics #complexity @kennethroth.bsky.social
theguardian.com
AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth
Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Night all. 😴 Episode 191 - Moorland waterfall (60 mins * sleep safe*) An hour of pure falling water in a natural wide open landscape. Captured in the early hours of an October morning in the hills of Derbyshire.
radiolento.podbean.com
191 Moorland waterfall (sleep safe natural white noise) | Radio Lento podcast
An hour of pure falling water in a natural wide open landscape. Captured in the early hours of yesterday morning in the hills of Derbyshire. A place off the beaten track. Up in the hills. Rugged. Reac...
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Albert Dros @albertdros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a light last week in the forest near my house
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do you remember when we had conflict of interest policies?
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ICIJ @icij.org · 30/09/2026
Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in October 2017 when a bomb placed in her car was detonated remotely. She had been working on #PanamaPapers stories. This month, the man accused of orchestrating her killing was found not guilty on all charges. buff.ly/rasQ0gk
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Jury acquits Maltese business tycoon in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia - ICIJ
Yorgen Fenech was the last of seven men prosecuted for her 2017 assassination.
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Far too little being reported on protests in #France on this platform.. ongoing today. Or they're being framed as violent misleading the public.
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest power price data here: ember-energy.org/data/europea...
ember-energy.org
European electricity prices and costs | Ember
This data tool compares European electricity prices, carbon prices and the cost of generating electricity using fossil fuels and renewables. Where possible, data is provided by country.
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Any European country that has future power system plans that rely substantially on gas power is willfully ignoring the repeated hit European economies are taken as a result of the exposure to volatile global gas prices.
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