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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Notably, we seem to have avoided those price highs by drawing down basically every kind of inventory to eye-wateringly low levels. Those inventories will need to be rebuilt and until they are, the ability to weather an additional shock is very minimal.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
-1 stability.
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Luke Bones 🦴🦴 @lukemeister.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Dude really wants to be excommunicated
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Alongside "who built Hadrian's wall?", another great example of knowledge falling foul of 'common understanding' is scurvy. The Royal Navy discovered the cure for scurvy, won the Napoleonic War, humanity then lost that knowledge without realising, then got saved by two Norwegian guinea pigs 🧵 /1
A black and white Guinea pig called George. He is amazing.
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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Ik zie heel veel videos van Gidi. Met in het bijschrift verontwaardiging, inderdaad. Maar we moeten ons realiseren dat verontwaardiging onderdeel is van zijn strategie, want die maken wel dat we zijn beelden en woorden telkens weer delen.
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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Check out what i got
Dahlia's named Maaike
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Marieke Kuypers @marieke.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Far right violence against asylum seekers in the Netherlands. After a fire was started near the municipal building that currently housed 15 asylum seekers, far right protesters attacked police and obstructed firefighters. Fortunately, eventually the fire was put out. nos.nl/artikel/2614...
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Brandstichting bij noodopvang Loosdrecht, betogers houden brandweer tegen
Agenten die het vuur probeerde te blussen werden bekogeld. De ME is ingezet om de orde te herstellen.
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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
From the 1950s - 1970s the #coldwar #Swedish #Army was going to tow its troops into position behind a tractor! One soldier on the trailer indicates to the soldiers on bicycles which turn would be made and a long rope with a grip for each to hold on to...
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Whittmann @whittmann.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Some cookie banners feel like they're doing malicious compliance. If a user has already opted out, trying to funnel them back into accepting cookies through confusing UX is not an accident.
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superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I studied data science and some classes were heavy on the "you learn methods here and then learn domain specific things to work with at a job". And that works well when the domain specific thing is "we make water so a temperature reading of 200 degrees is wrong" 1/?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It does seem like a lot of the business analysts are refusing to recognize that the logic of war is rather different than the logic of markets and this is, in fact, a war - however indirectly waged at the moment. 'How long will the war last' - well the mean war duration is more than a year.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Obviously a made up number but exciting implications for WTI and Brent front-month if true!
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
i think pretty much constantly about the scene in seven samurai where the villagers are eating millet because they need to save the beautiful delicious white rice for the samurai they want to hire. then i eat white rice and i feel like a king and i also feel a very great and deep sadness
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 07/04/2026
Can’t believe I’m expected to generate 0.00001% of a culture point today while all this bullshit is going on
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
a fun law fact is that the crime of "assault" is not actually hitting, but threatening to hit. "battery" is hitting. that's why you hear "assault and battery" together so often. the threat is the crime because it's the threat, not the hitting, that breaks another's will. much to ponder.
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SpookMind: The Cortex of Fear @itsphetz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
after months of torturing me with awful genAI cointracker ads, reddit has rewarded my patience with The Good Stuff
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I will write authentic Chinese fortune cookies using the 三世書 system. 'In your previous life you were a corrupt official in Henan. You will die aged 45 of the flux, and in your next life you will be a charcoal gatherer in Shaanxi.'
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
i fully support treating the cops like a distressed asset in need of PE restructuring.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A thing that bothers me as a rhetoric scholar who studies propaganda, the public sphere, & democracy is the way that propaganda eliminates or frustrates the public’s ability to do sense-making. It’s hard to know what to think when no one else does either & there aren’t common facts.
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superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I go to an event with a bunch of friends in the summer each year and it's the best. Quite some people take their partner by now but luckily there are yet more people.
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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Block US military activity from all EU ground man, and close US bases while we are at it. no taking off, no intelligence sharing, no refilling, no transit stops for arms to Israel and US bases overseas we will allow you to off-load your casualties for humanitarian reasons and that is it
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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Dutch weather services are hosting a contest to submit storm names! Netherlands, Ireland and the UK share a storm name system together :) north sea pals gotta stick together
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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Open the borders! Everyone is welcome in The Hague!
The Scheveningen prison. The ICC prison is hosted inside this prison, and Scheveningen is a town inside The Hague
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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Never interrupt your mistakes when you’re making enemies.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.
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Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost
“The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.
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Jane @janehop.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I wonder if history will have anything to say about the fact that Congress decided to stay out on vacation while the US president threatened to start WWIII. And, of course, our vp is out campaigning for an autocrat in another country. No fiction book would ever try to make up such idiocy
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I wish I could figure out how to “Don’t worry, the president is simply an impulsive sociopath with zero credibility“ became a reason for why it’s okay Trump is still in office and not a reason to remove him.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Oh neat, there's apparently another film treatment of the Battle of Drøbak Sound (youtu.be/ccz0EXDYg9E?...) and the sinking of the Blücher. Alas, as with the King's Choice (2016) it doesn't seem like they included Eriksen's incredible "Either I will be decorated or I will be court-martialed. Fire!"
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The sinking of Blücher - The Battle of Oslo (2025)
YouTube video by ashton
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
Chart showing detention population, among those arrested in the interior, by criminal record, May 2019 through present.

There are three lines shown. (1) Prior conviction (which rises from around 9,000 in January 2025 to just over 16,000 in November 2025), (2) Pending criminal charges (which rises from around 5,000 to 15,000), and (3) No criminal record (which rises from around 1,000 to 21,000).
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/10/2025
note that the white supremacist weirdos real obsessed with their masculine Nordic heritage never, ever dress as cool as this
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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The pilot is about him getting called out to a remote valley because a dispute is disrupting local trade. The inhabitants still think the Soviets are occupying Afghanistan, with one pro-Soviet and one pro-Muj. When brought up to date, they draw lots for which side to be on and go back to feuding.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
When the historians of centuries future assess 'American civilization,' and I think what I would want them to remember about us - a man on the moon, the internet, the defeat of the confederacy, Norman Borlaug, Norman Borlaug a second time for emphasis. And we beat the Nazis into the ground.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I love 'carpet bombing' footnotes - the sort where you supply not one, but a couple dozen examples from ancient sources to prove your point - perhaps most than I should. But they always make me smile.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
There's something really endearing about this or that quality of life mod for a game that the original author is long gone, but someone else dutifully updates the mod for each new version, almost invariably with a "I didn't make this, X made this, all credit to the author, will remove on request."
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
All of which is to say, the folks longing for the return of old birth-hierarchies are both morally damaged - slavery and the society it sustained were bad - but also grown-ass adults basically running into the public square shouting, "I want to be a pretty pink prince/princess!" Sure you do.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Right now, inside Hegseth's phone, there's an MI5 guy, a GRU agent, a Chinese MSS hacker, a North Korean intelligence offer and, like, one guy from, like, Romanian military intelligence, all looking around confused. They see a new log on, expecting Hegseth, but its a hacker from Mexico's CNI.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is the correct response for every university to take with the Trump administration, as the latest demand of a *consent decree* on Columbia demonstrates. They intend to kill you anyway. Do not cooperate.
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Kitty (now Doggie Dog) @bathematician.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Sure Alan Turing may have been instrumental in winning a war against fascism but his real accomplishment was creating a national security justification for governments to shovel money into basic mathematics research
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
So this is absolutely an attack on democracy, but I am struck by the sequencing, because it doesn't resemble - to me at least - the normal sequencing for an authoritarian takeover. But I think it makes sense given a conspiratorial and inaccurate view of where liberal support comes from. 1/
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The literal genie is a very common trope: when you "make a wish" you get exactly what you wish for. This is one of the explicit limits on the spell Wish from D&D - often called the most powerful spell in the game because its effect is "make a wish and it comes true." (this is a thread about tech)
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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