Reposted by skystripBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 20hViral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...bellingcat.comViral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcatEarlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new. 2363217
Reposted by skystripRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 153163525503
Reposted by skystripRebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic 47824213
Reposted by skystripNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7Eyoutu.beApocalypse is hereYouTube video by Naomi Klein 12411147
Reposted by skystripKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776332126
skystrip @skystrip.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Are you sure about making this statement George? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comGeorge Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’British Museum chair tells Big Brue festival he thought no one would find out about the private viewing 000
skystrip @skystrip.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I don’t know how more of a pariah it can be made than it already has been while literally genocidal states are being waved through 000
Reposted by skystripNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comNaomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascismIn a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other 341536609
Reposted by skystripRhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/09/2026A brilliant and touching piece by Kate Mossman about online shopping addiction and Vinted in particular www.newstatesman.com/special-repo...newstatesman.comVinted BrainHow Britain lost its mind to online shopping addiction 32814
skystrip @skystrip.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That the right-wing extremist party’s ministers have ties to right-wing extremist groups is throwing me for a loop 😵💫 I swear I don’t understand anything anymore 001
Reposted by skystripSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Police say the man who stole a copy of Ulysses is looking at a long sentence 418040
Reposted by skystripSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The urge became too strong. 39706174
Reposted by skystripDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A perfect example of what AI is really for: removing consent, removing the social safeguards that used to keep the worst ideas at bay, and doing racism at scale. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...theplaylist.netPaul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles. 351662669
Reposted by skystripFrancisco van Jole 🔻 @franciscovanjole.com · 06/09/2026NRC: Monsterzege in Saksen-Anhalt brengt AfD dichter dan ooit bij regeren Volkskrant: Grote overwinning AfD in Saksen-Anhalt, waarschijnlijk geen absolute meerderheid Trouw: Historische overwinning AfD in Saksen-Anhalt Libération: 26344137
Reposted by skystripMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If of interest, please sign up, please share. #migrantstrike #migrantstrike2028 115088
skystrip @skystrip.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Prolly the last drop in the bucket that’ll turn me Catholic ✝️ www.euractiv.com/news/environ...euractiv.comEnvironmental destruction is new eighth deadly ‘sin’ | EuractivThe Vatican wants to put climate change on the confession list 000
Reposted by skystripNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is much better than the Channel 4 coverage btw as its from the person who did the investigation (full kudos to C4 broadcasting and checking it, wouldn’t have the attention it needed without) m.youtube.com/watch?v=RugP...m.youtube.comMy Year Undercover in Reform UKYouTube video by Verbatim Investigations 428399
Reposted by skystripandré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026a Black family dancing to korn with their astronaut relative who just got back from the moon is, quite frankly, the best thing the internet has ever produced 5247601070
Reposted by skystripJoshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn. 6979581452
Reposted by skystripelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Funny how “decline support for cultural diversity” just means “increased racism” but we gotta pretend like it doesn’t obviously mean that 4348120
Reposted by skystripTegenlicht @vprotegenlicht.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Eindtijdfascisme, de door Astra Taylor geduide alliantie tussen technologie, fascisme en geloof. Het is een ideologie waarin dit bonte gezelschap een fundamenteel uitgangspunt deelt: deze wereld is niet meer te redden, en maar een bepaald type mens mag en kan de teloorgang van onze wereld overleven. 917799
Reposted by skystripkottke.org @kottke.org · 29/08/2026Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator. [defrag98.com]defrag98.comWindows 98 Disk Defrag SimulatorA free, browser-based simulator of the classic Microsoft Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter. Pick a drive, cue the HDD sounds, and relive the nostalgia of 1998. 213846
skystrip @skystrip.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Whatever he’s keeping in that extra limb on top of his head it’s not helping 000
Reposted by skystripkottke.org @kottke.org · 29/08/2026Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with schizophrenia. “The bodies of people with schizophrenia, especially those on medication, simply regulate temperature very differently than others do.” [wired.com]wired.comIn a Heat Wave, One Medical Condition Is So Much Deadlier Than Any OtherPeople with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet. 0257
Reposted by skystripBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 21/07/2026By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells” 10169711534
Reposted by skystripWalking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it? 363966975
Reposted by skystripGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026What this reflects is the growing power of the ultra-rich over every aspect of life. Protest is an affront to the power of wealth. So is any politics to the left of an ever-shifting "centrism". So is independent journalism. So are independent universities. One by one, they must all be shut down. 16810184
skystrip @skystrip.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Isn’t it overdue that the name of the continent changed? I mean, decades of post-colonial studies and still America? 000
Reposted by skystripCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Things had names BEFORE WE GOT HERE! There were people already here naming all this **** and I'm sure they would like to exist free of whatever one-sided pissing contest some rich white pedophile has going on! www.etymonline.com/word/Ontarioetymonline.comOntario - Etymology, Origin & Meaning"beautiful lake" or "great lake," from /-qtar-/ "lake, river." Related: Ontarian. See origin and meaning of ontario. 15415
Reposted by skystripkottke.org @kottke.org · 24/08/2026Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]sfisms.orgMeat proxyA person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient. 14740331
Reposted by skystripAnnika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Imagine writing a whole paper on why womenfolk be complaining too much about you never vacuuming (yup that’s what the prof who employed the raging racist did) 1120537
Reposted by skystripEmbrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026With Cofnas-gate stretching into another day, it’s feeling like a good time to refresh on my friend @jonathanjarry.bsky.social’s Square One Fallacy. We do not need to pretend that every debate is starting from scratch and must remain open forever. Some things just have been disproven.mcgill.caThe Square One FallacyI recently had the chance to speak to an anti-vaxxer in person. Of course, he did not identify as such: they never do. He didn’t want to be pinned down and was just asking questions about vaccine safe... 16315
Reposted by skystripPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026After being *invited* to write an op-ed, a couple days of back-and-forth, and editing, a major UK media outlet has just decided not to publish the op-ed because they are afraid of legal threats from Cofnas 417967
skystrip @skystrip.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This exchange is hilarious and pathetic and embarrassing. On the other hand these letters have flushed out so many racists on this site that no one can credibly argue that we’re in a left-wing bubble 071
Reposted by skystripPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 13/03/2026On Bouke De Vries: bsky.app/profile/rebe... 04311
Reposted by skystripPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 22/08/2026To be clear, De Vries only started being explicit about his race science and eugenic interests after he had a permanent position 121