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Thomas CM Lavery

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Literally hours later, although at least nobody was killed.
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On 13 September, an MSF bus carrying 10 humanitarian staff in Gaza City was damaged by an Israeli airstrike on a targeted vehicle just two metres away. One of our colleagues was injured in the strike.
The bus was clearly identified as an MSF vehicle, with a large MSF sticker visible on its roof. Once again, Israeli forces have shown a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarian and medical personnel.
Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Civilians, healthcare workers and humanitarian staff must be protected. Clearly marked medical and humanitarian vehicles must be spared from attacks.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/08/2026
This is what we mean by saying that being one of the good ones won't protect you. Every gay and lesbian running to throw trans people under the bus are setting themselves up for exactly this. It won't end with us. nypost.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos nabbed by ICE in Louisiana
Controversial right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, a former spokesman for Kanye West, has been arrested by ICE at an airport in Louisiana.
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. 

When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion."

Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/05/2026
The US is about to pull another Venezuela with Cuba by engaging in military strikes and kidnapping Raul Castro. There's a substantial likelihood that it could collapse the Cuban state and turn into a civil war with a refugee crisis in the hundreds of thousands fleeing by boat to Florida.
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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
AGAIN, I BEG Y'ALL: DON'T USE AI SLOP 1. IT DILUTES YOUR MESSAGE 2. PEOPLE AUTOMATICALLY THINK THE INFORMATION MAY BE WRONG 3. BAD FOR ARTISTS AND WRITERS 4. BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, ESPECIALLY WATER
graffiti - a big "no" symbol in dripping red paint.

SAY NO TO AI
SUPPORT HUMAN ARTISTS
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Colleen @gracie87.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Yes, do this. "You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.
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Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Did you know it's legal to say "an Elbit arms manufacturing plant in Bristol has closed its doors after months of targeting from Palestine Action". But it'd ILLEGAL to follow that with "what incredible work from those heroes". That'd be an offence under the Terrorism Act of 2000. Don't say that!
Trevor Moore from a Whitest Kids U Know sketch. I don't know why I've attached this picture it's entirely unrelated.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2025
This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.
Alt text: A tweet from Pete Hegseth reads: “Pronouns UPDATED: She/Her/Fired.” Below is a screenshot of a post by Libs of TikTok saying: “Yikes. This she/her Navy Commander is apparently a medical director for ‘transgender healthcare’ at a Naval center in California. Can you please look into this? @PeteHegseth @DODResponse.” The image shows a Navy officer’s profile with a rainbow background, pronouns listed as “She/Her,” and the role described as “Deputy Medical Director for Transgender Healthcare.” Red boxes highlight the pronouns and the words “Transgender Healthcare.”
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ajceol.bsky.social @ajceol.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
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#ItsOurNature
#ItsOurNature
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/09/2025
It's insane to me how most of the world has stopped shipping mail and packages to the United States and the media has barely covered it. This is what I mean by boiled frogs. Everyone has become accustomed to the once unthinkable.
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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/08/2025
Trump wants to make the military takeovers scary to stop resistance but the truth is the military is not large enough to control all the major cities if there is mass resistance. They'd need 600k troops at a minimum and the national guard only has ~336k. They can't actually hold cities if we resist.
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NashuaWolfy @nashuawolfy.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Germany gets 60% of its power from renewables and is shutting down its coal plants. No blackouts. No high bills. Every right wing lie about renewables has been proven false.
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Thomas CM Lavery @thomascmlavery.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The only thing I miss about Twitter is that the guy who threw a shoe at George Bush was on it. I could commend the guy all I want on here and I have no idea if he’ll ever see it.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/08/2025
When you want to conduct a genocide without people seeing what you're doing, you kill all the journalists. That's exactly what Israel is doing. They just murdered 5 Al-Jazeera journalists living in a tent next to al-Shifa hospital. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This should be a Five Alarm Fire on every G'ddamned media outlet in the world. I very rarely post a link to someone else's newsletter...as I have my own. This, however...is a MUST see. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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Ex-CIA Whistleblower: "The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won"
Math doesn’t lie—people do. A buried NSA‑authorized audit paved the way for this unelected illegitimate regime.
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
So refresh my drink - we're letting generationally wrong people, the wrongest to ever do it - world class in their objective wrongness - kneecap the global economy because non rich people were briefly able to pay more of their bills and rich people took that personally is that the long and short
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 01/08/2025
"I need ChatGPT to brainstorm" dear human person the whole point of brainstorming is to find new ways or angles when approaching a problem, the "let's regurgitate the complete stolen corpus of human achievement"-machine doesn't help you brainstorm - it stops you from brainstorming.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Sorta feels like "they are actively gutting cancer research" should be finding more purchase out there
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Epstein’s money seeded a Thiel firm. Thiel founded Palantir. Palantir now runs a centralized surveillance database on every American. Surveillance, secrecy, and sex trafficking money? This isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s exactly what just happened. “Nothing to see here” is doing a lot of work.
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I do not think The Left is what is keeping a critical mass of Religious People away from The Left. I'm pretty sure that mostly works the other way around.
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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Grok and ChatGPT are just Magic 8 Balls for a dumber, digital age and anyone who uses it should be shunned
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I feel like I say this every damn day but the point of government is that it’s a public service taxpayers already pay for. It doesn’t need to turn a profit. It’s not a business and politicians don’t get to treat it like one for their personal enrichment.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/07/2025
Every news outlet that reports on US stocks "surging" should be required to note that the wealthiest 10% of Americans hold more than 90% of all the value of US stocks.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/07/2025
The media will describe everything going up in price by 15% as a win. This is absurd.
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Tony "Crash" Thompson @crashthompsonxo.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Her: "NO GODDAMNIT! IT IS A FLOWER. A FLOWER THAT SHOWS MY PATRIOTISM!" The World: "Americanus." Her: "IT IS NOT AN ANUS!" The World: "Americanus." Her: (PROFUSELY bleeding from the mouth and making gurgling noises at a concert loud volume). The World: "Americanus."
A jeep with... Look that's an American flag with an anus. I'm sorry.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2025
When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine. It's the same court and lawyers.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Fascism. www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable
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Thomas CM Lavery @thomascmlavery.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Every now and then I feel like too sane of a scientist and I have to remind myself that, given unlimited time and money, I would bring back the woolly mammoth. And no, not Colossal’s four-gene-modified elephant hybrids. Full nuclear DNA mammoths (as best as I can)
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Maile @maile.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Don’t fool yourself. This is about removing EV tax credits, SpaceX funding and gov’t contracts for Starlink. Nothing else.
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Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The cognitive dissonance required to support the government saying both “Forget vaccines, you just need fresh, healthy food” and “We’re firing all the food inspectors” is truly staggering.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This story just gets worse and worse
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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Okay Luigi absolutely didn't do it and this is a pin job
Tweet by the Luigi Case on Twitter:

BREAKING: Latest motion states patrolwoman searched Luigi’s backpack at McDonald’s without a warrant, then repacked the items and left the restaurant with the backpack, with no body cam footage for the next 11 minutes during her drive to the precinct. Upon arriving at the precinct, she resumed the warrantless search and “found a handgun in the front compartment.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Dear god let this man cook.
Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/04/2025
We've got Bill Kristol saying abolish ICE and standing up for trans people, David Brooks quoting the communist manifesto, and Sen. Van Hollen forcing a dictator to give proof of life of a hostage in a death camp. Meanwhile, Dems like Newsom are doing podcasts with fascists. Make it make sense.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We are sending people to the Salvadoran gulag for nothing at all. documentedny.com/2025/04/14/i...
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ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Home. Now His Son Is In Bukele's Mega-prison In El Salvador
Merwil Gutiérrez had no criminal record when ICE agents detained the 19-year-old outside his home. Now his father, Wilmer, is still searching for answers.
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Thomas CM Lavery @thomascmlavery.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Hey. Why. The hell. Is our administration paying a foreign government to put Americans and immigrants—“legality” aside, no one’s illegal on stolen land—in a maximum security prison without due process???
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Thomas CM Lavery @thomascmlavery.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I feel that it’s necessary to remind people of the myth of Fafnir, in which a dwarf is given a magical ring that spawns more rings every so often. And his son was so corrupted by greed that he killed him to take the ring and turned into a dragon. And then had to be slain. Due to damage caused.
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Thomas CM Lavery @thomascmlavery.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
As much as I may take issue with a lot of what the Democrats do/wont do in the face of Republicans and fascism, I have to applaud Cory Booker for doing the one thing people have been BEGGING the Democrats to do for years now—actually use the filibuster to obstruct Republicans
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.
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Thomas CM Lavery @thomascmlavery.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I don’t think anyone who ever said “you’ll get more conservative as you grow older” could have foreseen the past decade. Like what about that could POSSIBLY make anyone more conservative
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This Is Trump's Genocide Now Trump signed off on the reignition of the Gaza holocaust. He spent weeks sabotaging the ceasefire, then gave the thumbs up to the resumption of the genocide. He did this while bombing Yemen and threatening war with Iran for Israel. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/this-is-tr...
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This Is Trump's Genocide Now
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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