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Only a true psychopath would want to see things from someone else's POV. Seek help

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Lawrence of Arabia remake but this time T.E. Lawrence sits his white ass down and listens

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Watched Lawrence of Arabia for the first time. Beautifully shot. There are plenty of moments that are just unintentionally funny for anyone finally seeing it in 2026. What do the English want with our desert lands? A real head scratcher.

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Overall I think 'you must be comfortable giving Elon Musk free content for grok' is a much stronger argument than 'you must be comfortable seeing racist/nazi/etc content on your timeline.' The latter says more about how you use/used twitter and doesn't ring true for most leftists still on it

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It took me a while to notice people didn't use the 'following' tab as much as i did and were instead just mainlining whatever the algorithm put in front of them, and this was even before the sale to Elon Musk. Learning that explained a lot tbh

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I like the book being an honest look at how well it would work when it could easily have been a proto hopepunk thing instead

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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Once again I'm speechless at how Le Guin was able to fill almost the entire first half of this Coming of Age story with the most exquisitely written lore dump. It adds to the verisimilitude of the story's world, but also there's no real requirement that you hold on to any of it as you keep reading.

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Coming Of Age In Karhide, Ursula Le Guin | The Short Story Project

SOV THADE TAGE EM EREB, OF RER IN KARHIDE, ON GETHEN

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Real men read Le Guin. This elevator is a Le Guin appreciation zone

Close up of my hand holding an old copy of The Dispossessed

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R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think they're just doing kayfabe to drive more traffic to the store

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If you cared so much about the troops, you would know the solution to this is ending the war on Iran. The one we entered into for Israel. If anything, it's Israel putting American troops in harms way. They don't have to be there and Trump could just end the way any day now

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Nightcrawler Killing Them Softly

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Pnut Man @pnutman.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

They're saying if you recognize this, it's time to apply for AARP membership

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Good morning to everyone who used this before

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stuart @shwinchester.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*sees something american happening in america*: seems kinda Muslim to me

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.

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It's mostly midterms coverage with brief mentions of Trump or Hegseth desecrating the sanctity of our precious war fighting apparatus. Up to the minute updates on the actual fighting or anything close is nonexistent.

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There's definitely some of that going on there, but it's still better than here for actual coverage if you're able to find a few trusted sources outside the anglosphere and just lock in.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Iran war is maybe the most consequential world event at the moment and it gets almost no coverage here

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My gosh. Mike Huckabee's top aide: —Covered up an embassy report on Israeli killings of 9 Americans —Fabricated Orwellian reports on Israeli settler violence & the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" to make it sound good for Israel —Questioned staff on whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas”

In late March, at the height of the Iran war, Israel quietly approved more settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank than it ever had at one time.
Staff members at the United States Embassy in Jerusalem saw the move as potentially flouting one of President Trump's explicit red lines for Israel - no annexation of the West Bank - and drafted an urgent report intended for policy makers in Washington.
That memo never reached Washington. It was quashed by David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the process.
This was no isolated incident.
Since taking up his post in April 2025, Mr. Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to a dozen people who work with or interact with Mr. Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington:
• As settler violence in the West Bank surged in the spring, for instance, he stymied embassy reporting suggesting that the Israeli government was failing to take action, according to the three officials. Instead the embassy sent a cable to Washington, viewed by The New York Times, praising Israel for "cracking down" on the attacks.
• When members of Congress pushed for accountability over the killings of nine Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces, he suppressed a detailed report that the embassy staff had written, effectively stonewalling lawmakers' efforts to gain information, according to multiple officials briefed on the matter.

Mr. Milstein rewrote the cable to declare GHF's operation a success while overlooking the mass casualties, according to people who saw the cable and were briefed on the editing process.
Troubled by glaring discrepancies between news coverage and the embassy's official reports, White House and State Department officials seeking a clearer picture of events bypassed standard channels at least twice to communicate directly with embassy staff, according to two officials briefed on the outreach and an internal communication from late this summer seen by The Times.
Veteran American diplomats said that withholding or twisting the information sent to Washington should raise serious concerns.
"The embassy ought to tell Washington everything — the good, the bad and the ugly," said Dan Kurtzer, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush. "If they're not doing so, they are damaging the policy-making process and possibly undermining the president's policies."
Mr. Milstein also questioned several colleagues on whether they were "pro-Israel" or "pro-Hamas," according to four officials, who found the question inappropriate and said it made some people fearful of speaking freely.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Welcome to the future of thinking. NERVE CENTER premieres next Thursday on InfoWars.

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R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not beating the wife-guy allegations

Screenshot of Amazon's 'about you' feature where it just says I have a wife.

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R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's like if the soundtrack from an old porn flick was used as the basis for a song that plays while your health insurance company puts you on hold

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R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was an early House of the Dragon hater bc of the GoT ending, but quickly saw the error of my ways. Different showrunners. Knight of the Seven Kingdoms also good.

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R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Worst person you know just said the most obvious thing

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R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People were pissed he didn't arrest Netanyahu, which made me think at some point maybe he gave the impression he would lol

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Yeah people like Obama lol. Unlike with Harris or anyone else, you're basically signaling to a very small very online contingent of the voters he needs to convince by dwelling on this

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The Mamdani campaign is another example. If this was ten years ago, I would have more energy for all the discourse about whether or not he's keeping his campaign promises. I barely even engaged with the campaign when he was running but it's good he won.

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I like El Sayed, but I'm not an electoralist. It's good if he wins but I'm under no illusion he won't compromise on a lot

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I think if you believe in electoralism and you don't already expect stuff like this, you're signing yourself up for the fell for it again award every election year

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

It's incredible that all the pro and anti Netanyahu factions are fine with the genocide and just have differing views on how he managed it.

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This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 04/10/2026

🎥WATCH: On Feb 28, Tomahawk missiles struck a school in Minab, killing at least 156 people, including 120 children — one of the gravest US war crimes since Vietnam. @jeremyscahill.com, @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Reza Sayah (X: @SayahTweets) spent 2 months speaking w/ survivors. This is their story.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 05/10/2026

Yeah I was just trying to make the difference plain enough. I agree it's a little convoluted for the average person just wanting to know how to make a word bold

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This is the Cult of AI - specifically the longtermist variant - at work: “getting to AGI” is deemed so self-evidently important that no sacrifice is too great. The future will be better, so tomorrow doesn’t matter.

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