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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
Jaw-dropping documents from our lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is maybe the second time I've ever been to a Costco. They layout of this place baffles me to no end.
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A lot of people think nepotism is bad because "it's unfair," or because "it concentrates power," but I believe the truth is that it entrenches privileged ineptitude. Those people who are given positions because of who they are related to have not struggled as much, nor learned as much.
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Farewell to a lovely few days of Maine island life.
A view onto a cove from behind a table on a deck. On the table are red flowers in a pot. In the cove, in the distance, are several boats.Boats on calm water at dusk.
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.
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Middle-East Tracker @me.skyfleet.blue · 19/09/2025
Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy
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Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy
Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy Social media users are calling for the mass cancellation of ExpressVPN subscriptions after it was revealed that a cybersecurity firm with  Israeli  ties owns the popular privacy service. In 2021, The Times of Israel  reported  that Kape Technologies, a British-Israeli digital security company, acquired ExpressVPN, one of the world’s largest virtual private network (VPN) providers, for nearly $1bn. The calls for cancellation intensified after social media  users  began  circulating  information about Teddy Sagi, the Israeli billionaire and owner of Kape Technologies. Many shared that in 2023, as reported by The Jerusalem Post, Sagi donated $1m to transport soldiers during the Israeli war on  Gaza . This is not the first time the calls have been made since the acquisition, but they are more widespread now, given Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. A VPN is a tool that encrypts internet traffic and masks identities by routing connections through secure servers. VPNs are widely used for privacy, anonymity, and bypassing censorship. Ownership of such services is considered highly sensitive by privacy advocates. Read more:  Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Indeed. Earlier this summer, the White House did this to me, as a scientific expert source in media, and issued a formal statement regarding my personal campaign contribution history in an attempt to discredit my commentary on wildfire, climate, and federal policy. Yet more alarm bells ringing...
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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.
A post on the importance of sending lettersA post with Disney's address
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Comedian Tiffany Norton ✨👄✨ @tiffanynorton.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
People who come to DC to serve are the most likely to have multiple principal residences (that's the terminology, not primary) & it is perfectly legal for them to do so. It's just as legal for Lisa Cook to have a principal residence during the school year & one for the summer.
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Middle-East Tracker @me.skyfleet.blue · 04/09/2025
US imposes sanctions on Palestinians who asked for Israel war crimes probe
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US imposes sanctions on Palestinians who asked for Israel war crimes probe
(Reuters) -The United States has imposed sanctions on three Palestinian human rights groups that asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel over allegations of genocide in Gaza, according to a notice posted to the U.S. Treasury Department's website on Thursday.The three groups - Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Ramallah-based Al-Haq - were listed under what the Treasury Department said were International Criminal Court-related designations.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The acting head of Data & AI for the Israel national #Cybersecurity Directorate was arrested in a Nevada operation targeting child sex predators. He was in Las Vegas for Black Hat and was caught trying to lure a child for a sex act. Released and returned. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Israeli government official arrested in Nevada sex crimes operation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied the employee was arrested and said he returned to the country ‘as scheduled’
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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Rachel de Leon @raeoflion.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
ICE arrested a disabled 15-year-old AT GUNPOINT outside Arleta High School. Superintendent Carvahlo says that agents left behind bullets on the ground. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE detained a teen with disabilities outside a Los Angeles school
"The trauma will linger."
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/08/2025
Israeli authorities are reportedly in discussions to resettle Palestinians to war-torn and hunger-stricken South Sudan, as Israel seeks to advance its plans for the forcible expulsion of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
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Israel Reportedly Discussing Expelling Palestinians to War-Torn South Sudan
South Sudan’s government refuted reports of the talks, though they shine a light on Israel’s approach.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It appears that PACER has been compromised by a Russian threat actor for some time. This is a very big deal for people who have submitted sealed documents in federal court whose threat model includes RU. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This is fine. Go about your business. Nothing to see here. If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about...
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Which means "yes, it did."
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
What could go wrong? What could possibly go wrong?
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Good morning from my garden...
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I keep hitting these with cal-mag, but keep getting blossom-end rot.
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Recent garden progress.
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Really? Really? And then these are the people pleading for government assistance when a "surprise" mega-storm rips through their trailer park. This is what you get when public education is underfunded and replaced by AM talk-radio and 4chan.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The problem with AI is you can't carve a swastika on its forehead.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 09/07/2025
A federal appeals court blocked the rule, which would have required companies to make it easier to end subscriptions.
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Trump’s FTC Let Lobbyists Kill Popular Click-To-Cancel Rule, Advocates Say
This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source. We need your help to become less dependent on…
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Oh, yeah, that'll go over well.
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Rich people are always ruining life for the rest of us...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19/06/2025
I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch
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Opinion | Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims
ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify officers masking their identities.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/06/2025
PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015. THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Shameful.
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Zane Gray sez! @zanegray.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Good doggie
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Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I forget... what does CFPB stand for? It's "Consumer something something Bureau," right?
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
you can just say that he fell off the wagon
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/06/2025
An appeals court has temporarily returned control of California’s national guard to Donald Trump, just hours after a federal judge ruled the president’s use of the guards to suppress protests in Los Angeles was illegal and banned it.
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Hegseth Refuses to Say Whether He’d Abide by Judicial Orders Limiting Troop Deployments in LA or Other Cities
Over the past several months, many Trump officials have suggested that the administration could ignore court orders.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/06/2025
Reminder: The State Department's reported plans for an office of “remigration” stem from a far-right policy that calls for “soft-style ethnic cleansing.” It is rooted in the debunked Great Replacement theory and favored by the European far-right and White nationalist extremists.
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The worrying backstory of Trump’s proposed “Office of Remigration”
The State Department is reportedly creating an office for "remigration": a far-right policy that calls for what has been described as "soft-style ethnic cleansing."
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I know the answer to this one www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump? | Margaret Sullivan
Protest actions like ‘Hands Off’ and ‘No Kings’ are sweeping across the US. But the media is barely paying attention
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The GOP is trying to use unrest they fueled by unleashing ICE agents on Los Angeles and deploying thousands of troops to LA as an excuse to target non-profits supporting immigrant rights. theintercept.com/2025/06/12/j...
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Josh Hawley Blames Nonprofits for “Bankrolling Civil Unrest” in LA Without Evidence
The Republican senator accused groups supporting immigrant communities of planning “astroturf” anti-ICE protests.
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/06/2025
yep! unpaywalled:
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16/03/2025
Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...
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The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it an...
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
California representatives did a check in where migrants were being detained. They found no beds, no food and no water. Children were among the detained.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/06/2025
Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top companies tracking you across the web. By automatically blocking their trackers, Privacy Badger makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information.
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Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight Back
Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back control...
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
My sunflower has a second flower. I'm calling it the Zaphod head.
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
First tomatoes of the year...
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
More roses than I know what to do with...
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 05/05/2025
New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: Journalism Comes In Second Government Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom with @leolaporte.me, Owen Thomas, @iainthomson.bsky.social, @grivlin.bsky.social
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Journalism Comes In Second | TWiT.TV
Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust RulingGoogle's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - SlashdotFirefox could be doomed without Google search
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Hope Lays Bruised Bloodied @thumos.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Today we have some fresh radishes and some chestnut mushrooms popping up in my compost pile.
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