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tom1917.bsky.social @tom1917.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
In my opinion, Blusky is worse than Twitter.
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tom1917.bsky.social @tom1917.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
In my opinion, Blusky is worse than Twitter.
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tom1917.bsky.social @tom1917.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
In my opinion, Blusky is worse than Twitter.
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tom1917.bsky.social @tom1917.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
In my opinion, Blusky is worse than Twitter.
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🦋❄️🍁Baron🍁❄️🦋 @baron333.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Justice Amy Coney Barrett admits Trump could be beyond the Supreme Court's control www.rawstory.com/coney-barret...
rawstory.com
Justice Amy Coney Barrett admits Trump could be beyond the Supreme Court's control
In an interview released on Thursday, Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Comey Barrett had to be asked twice what the nation’s highest court would do if Donald Trump turned up his nose at an adverse ...
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Ancient Organisms Have Been Sleeping Beneath the Arctic for 40,000 Years—and Now They're Waking Up Once awaken they are as active as modern microbes These microbes break down soil and release even more carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere. www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...
popularmechanics.com
Ancient Organisms Have Been Sleeping Beneath the Arctic for 40,000 Years—and Now They're Waking Up
Once they awaken, these microbes continue to break down soil and release carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Wheat production is down by the equivalent of over a year’s supply of bread for the UK, after extreme weather hits harvests UK Govt reacts Increase passenger numbers in Gatwick by over 40% within the next decade and promote even more extreme weather eciu.net/media/press-...
eciu.net
Year's worth of British bread lost this decade as extreme weather…
New analysis suggests that wheat production is down by the equivalent of over a year’s supply of bread for the UK, after extreme weather hits harvests
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Scientists race to cryopreserve a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct Its not just the birds and wildlife heading for extinction www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
livescience.com
'This needs to happen fast': Scientists race to cryopreserve a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct
Less than 400 angle-stemmed myrtle specimens remain in the wild in Australia. Scientists are working on ways to preserve the species so that we can bring it back at any point if it dies out.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The whole economic and political system from left to right is geared towards economic growth based on the total annihilation of the natural world And this is called progress And anyone who says otherwise is mocked as a freak and a clown but we all know who the real clowns are
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Agent #Krasnov hails 'great day for Germany' as conservatives and the pro Russian far-right on track for record vote shares news.sky.com/story/german...
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Election latest: Trump hails 'great day for Germany' as conservatives and far-right on track for record vote shares
Donald Trump has hailed a "great day for Germany" as the conservative bloc CDU/CSU looks set to take the election. It could also be an historic night for the far-right AfD party, if exit polls are acc...
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
H5N1 is a human creation That came from intensive poultry farming in China Avian influenza viruses are endemic in wild aquatic birds, with whom they have coevolved for millions of years. They cause minimal disease; damaging their hosts would impair their own spread. nautil.us/the-unnatura...
nautil.us
The Unnatural History of Bird Flu
H5N1 is a human creation
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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegrates www.nbcnews.com/news/world/r...
nbcnews.com
'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegrates
Ukrainians “couldn’t cope without American weapons and support,” Yuliya Antonyuk, a 42-year-old real estate agent, told NBC News.
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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
European poster: America wants to teach us Democracy?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/02/2025
Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Regret
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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The US wants to get 50% of Ukrainian minerals and may deploy its troops to guard them.... kyivindependent.com/us-wants-to-...
kyivindependent.com
US wants to get 50% of Ukrainian minerals, may deploy its troops to guard them, NBC reports
President Volodymyr Zelensky hasn't yet signed the document, calling it "a memorandum," not a security agreement.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 17/02/2025
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Authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat warns that Elon Musk has waged a "new type of coup"
YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 15/02/2025
2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign. 4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe. 881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and made Trump a dictator.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 15/02/2025
For those who follow climate clichés, this may be an all-time record: "This makes the ice sheets canaries in the coalmine for climate change, and we ought to pay close attention. Crucially, the window for corrective action may still be open for the ice sheets..." medium.com/the-new-clim...
medium.com
“We May Have Lost Control”: The Melting Ice Sheets and What Happens Next
Scientists now believe significant melting of the ice sheets is inevitable. What does this mean for everyday life and the planet?
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tom1917.bsky.social @tom1917.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Why on February 15, 80 years ago, the british crown made a strange and terrible decision to bomb Dresden? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing...
en.wikipedia.org
Bombing of Dresden - Wikipedia
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Since 1979, Arctic sea ice extent, a term that describes the area of the Arctic Ocean covered by ice, has been reduced by 40% in the late summer months Without our Arctic cooler we are toast www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
On Thursday, Trump and Musk tried to fire 300 government nuclear officials. Today, they realized those officials oversee the US nuclear arsenal — and they scurried to rehire the officials.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
6 questions, 3 scotches.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
AI will destroy us -not just by creating an alternative intelligence World is spending $1tn in AI investments, whilst planet burns AI data centres fueling global warming and already account for more than 6% of all electricity consumption in US and China www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
I met the ‘godfathers of AI’ in Paris – here’s what they told me to really worry about | Alexander Hurst
Experts are split between concerns about future threats and present dangers. Both camps issued dire warnings, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
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Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If I’ve learned one thing in the past 6 months, it’s that my family consumes far fewer eggs than most.
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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Don't mess with us...
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
No shit. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/s...
bylinetimes.com
Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government
Former followers of the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ say a planned 'neo-reactionary' hollowing out of government is happening in real time
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/02/2025
JD Vance's speech in Munich sounds like it was literally written by the Kremlin
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Today’s cover of Le Journal de Montréal, the largest newspaper in Quebec, Canada.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
There was a time that imposing a tax on certain imported goods would result in Americans rising up against their rulers. These days the rulers just have to lie to them about what a tariff is and they cheer the tax they're forced to pay.
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tom1917.bsky.social @tom1917.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
true x.com/martinrev21/...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/01/2025
New in PN: Joe Biden's tragic presidency "Had you been told in January 2021 that Biden would wind down the pandemic, preside over great jobs & stock markets, guide the economy into a 'soft landing,' & sign an array of bold bills into law, you would’ve thought he cruised to a second term. And yet."
publicnotice.co
Joe Biden's tragic presidency
He accomplished a lot — except the most important thing.
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Christina @christinawit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Washington police officers warn of increased violence if Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioters Former Metropolitan Police officer Fanone&U.S. Capitol Police officer Gonell said they have received threats from jailed rioters that they'd be pursued upon their release. www.courthousenews.com/washington-p...
courthousenews.com
Washington police officers warn of increased violence if Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioters
Former Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone and U.S. Capitol Police officer Aquilino Gonell said they have received threats from jailed rioters that they'd be pursued upon their release.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 09/01/2025
Nearly 200,000 thousand people have been ordered to evacuate LA. This is unprecedented. We must come together and support each other now more than ever. Read to learn how you can help
latimes.com
How to help those affected by fires raging across Los Angeles County
Those looking to assist residents affected by the Los Angeles County firestorm have a number of options to donate money, materials or their time.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/01/2025
BREAKING: Jack Smith has finished the draft of his final report, according to counsel for DeOliveira. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Jack Smith has Finished his Final Report open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
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Jack Smith has Finished his Final Report
Late Monday night, lawyers for both Donald Trump and Nauta & DeOliveira submitted documents to Merrick Garland and Judge Aileen Cannon asking them to block the release of the Special Counsel report.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Now that they destroyed their own neighborhood, the Maga/Elon trolls are rolling in to BlueSky. My recommendation is to block early, on the first offense, without explanation. Here are my rules why I block them: open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
open.substack.com
This Is Why I Blocked You
A list for my MAGA trolls.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I was a hungry kid. I often went without school lunch because I didn’t have the money. I later moved to Oklahoma and attended school on native land. Guess what the Cherokee did? They fed every kid with no questions asked. I was able to learn with a full belly with no shameful stigma attached.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
There is now a Twitter account that posts screen grabs of @bsky.app posts just so they can rage. They need their fix.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
How about this? TAX THE CHURCHES TAX THE RICH KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE and MEDICAID AND THE VA!!!!! Agree? ✋
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
so if I'm understanding the tech-bro position correctly, it's this
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tom1917.bsky.social @tom1917.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
via @Tentoads4truth newrepublic.com/article/1548...
newrepublic.com
How David Koch’s 1980 Fantasy Became America’s Current Reality
Koch poured $2 million into an embryonic Libertarian Party to buoy his run for vice president. He knew he wouldn't win—but that wasn't the point.
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