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Thomas McNicholas

@turquoisedays.eurosky.social
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I'm Irish, Archlinux user, in general prefer opensource and enjoy science fiction, books. Dislike fascism. I share stuff that I've seen that interests me. I'm proud to be Woke-as-hell - May not be very talkative doesn't mean that I might be a fecking bot.

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EvilBunny Pottymouth Resists The Cultists every day! @mrsquirrel.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Rally in support of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar after raid on her home by AP Archive Minnesota stands with Ilhan Omar!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJF9...
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Rally in support of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar after raid on her home
YouTube video by AP Archive
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
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Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality
The bug is fixed, but privacy concerns remain.
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
America: Meddling in Canadian Elections Since 1962 - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=hebc...
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America: Meddling in Canadian Elections Since 1962
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Sally Rooney’s books pulled from UK over Palestine Action support | News | Al Jazeera www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
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Sally Rooney’s books pulled from UK over Palestine Action support
We asked students what they think.
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
The Russian army are running for their lives - YouTube - Caolan Robertson www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z86...
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The Russian army are running for their lives
YouTube video by Caolan Robertson
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026
Tech giants are fighting to protect their monopolies from cheap open-source models. Fear is their weapon. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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AI fears are being weaponised
Tech giants are fighting to protect their monopolies from cheap open-source models. Fear is their weapon.
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
No, this oil tanker didn’t carry Russian diesel to the United States www.france24.com/en/americas/...
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No, this oil tanker didn’t carry Russian diesel to the United States
Following US President Donald Trump's October 9 announcement of an agreement signed with Russian President Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel into the United States, a number of pro-Russian socia...
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The New Oil @thenewoil.org · 15/10/2026
#Flock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/flock-ceo… #privacy #surveillance #police
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Always buy the dumbest technology and appliances you can find - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Yo...
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Always buy the dumbest technology and appliances you can find
YouTube video by Tallgirl6234
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
BitChord is an open source YouTube Music alternative that puts Google to shame www.androidpolice.com/open-source-...
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BitChord is an open source YouTube Music alternative that puts Google to shame
It does nearly everything better
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
LibreOffice Rescues Microsoft Users With Abandoned PUB Files - FOSS Force fossforce.com/2026/10/libr...
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LibreOffice Rescues Microsoft Users With Abandoned PUB Files - FOSS Force
Microsoft’s exit from desktop publishing puts decades of documents at risk. Free software offers a path forward.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 15/10/2026
Ukraine has said Elon Musk's SpaceX had restricted Starlink services, hampering the country's attack and air defence drone missions as worsening ties with Washington fuel concerns over US battlefield support.
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Ukraine says SpaceX restricted service for drone missions
Ukraine has said Elon Musk's SpaceX had restricted Starlink services, hampering the country's attack and air defence drone missions.
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EvilBunny Pottymouth Resists The Cultists every day! @mrsquirrel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Stolen children 'marketplace': Russia creates 'catalogue' of Ukrainian kids for adoption Russia isn’t even trying to hide it anymore. It’s openly trafficking Ukrainian children. www.euronews.com/2025/08/08/s...
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Russia creates 'catalogue' of Ukrainian children for adoption
Russia is now offering forcefully deported Ukrainian minors for coerced “adoption” through a newly created “catalogue”, where Ukrainian children are categorised by age, eyes and hair colour.
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EvilBunny Pottymouth Resists The Cultists every day! @mrsquirrel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump Cuts Off Ukraine's Starlink To Save His Russian Master Jay in Kyiv Trump has reportedly cut off Ukraine's frontline Starlink access, leaving thousands of Ukrainian defenders in a dangerous and increasingly precarious position. #TrumpBetrayedUkraine www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZV...
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Trump Cuts Off Ukraine's Starlink To Save His Russian Master
YouTube video by Jay in Kyiv
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
MAGA Built The Censorship Machine It Spent Years Falsely Accusing Democrats Of Building | Techdirt www.techdirt.com/2026/10/14/m...
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MAGA Built The Censorship Machine It Spent Years Falsely Accusing Democrats Of Building
This is not a unique or new observation, but so many MAGA attacks on others are projection, claiming that Democrats were doing the very things that MAGA always knew they would do if they were in charge. We've certainly spent plenty of time talking about Donald Trump's myriad and non-stop attacks on free speech, and...
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Court Filings Show DHS Is Collecting Info On Protesters, Feeding It To Palantir | Techdirt www.techdirt.com/2026/10/14/c...
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Court Filings Show DHS Is Collecting Info On Protesters, Feeding It To Palantir
More evidence is piling up that contradicts the almost-but-not-quite denials given by administration officials in response to allegations about the DHS compiling a database to keep tabs on proteste…
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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
🇩🇪Private Chats und Mails aus der #Chatkontrolle 1.0 landen ausgerechnet in Palantir-Systemen - skandalös! Betroffen u.a. Direktnachrichten über Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Snapchat, Skype, Xbox, Gmail. Details hier: arvidgrange.substack.com/p/investig… […]
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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
🇪🇺 Private chats and emails reported via #ChatControl 1.0 are ending up in #Palantir systems - scandalous! This includes direct messages on Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Snapchat, Skype and Xbox, as well as emails via Gmail. Details […]
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK
Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK, saying it cannot pay the Irish author royalties because of her pledge to support the banned group Palestine Action.
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EvilBunny Pottymouth Resists The Cultists every day! @mrsquirrel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Peter Thiel's Palantir is taking over hospitals — and nurses are PISSED #ResistPalantir www.youtube.com/shorts/x64gj...
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Palantir is taking over hospitals — and nurses are PISSED
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
#duet with CDejavu Repeat Offenders - YouTube www.youtube.com/shorts/O-8w5... #fascistusa
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#duet with CDejavu Repeat Offenders
#duet #politics #news #currentevents #uspolitics If you have the m...
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
Techrights — "My Hands Are Shaking While Writing" About IBM's Mass Layoffs at Red Hat (Bluewashing) techrights.org/n/2026/10/12...
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Techrights — "My Hands Are Shaking While Writing" About IBM's Mass Layoffs at Red Hat (Bluewashing)
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
Cyberattack shuts down refrigerators at French supermarkets www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... maybe don't connect them to the internet - just a thought
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Cyberattack shuts down refrigerators at French supermarkets
Attackers remotely defrosted refrigerators at multiple French supermarket chains overnight in a cyberattack that reportedly targeted Danfoss refrigeration controllers.
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
WhatsApp Blocks Logins on Android and iOS Devices Running Outdated Operating Systems - gHacks Tech News www.ghacks.net/2026/10/12/w...
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WhatsApp Blocks Logins on Android and iOS Devices Running Outdated Operating Systems - gHacks Tech News
WhatsApp now refuses logins on some outdated Android and iOS devices until the system software is updated.
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Europe's Hidden 25 GW Renewable Energy Opportunity. - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5sU...
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Europe has a problem!
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
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RTÉ @rte.ie · 11/10/2026
This week's episode of The Lyric Feature tells the story of Jamaican poet, Ferdinand Levy, believed to be the first ever black poet published in Ireland. 📻 RTÉ lyric fm | Tonight | 6pm www.rte.ie/culture/2026/1009/159463…
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The Lyric Feature - untold tales of a Jamaican poet in Ireland
The Lyric Feature on Sunday 11th October at 6 pm on RTÉ lyric fm is Flashes from the Dark.
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The larger public in Europe may miss this. But every diplomat and international relations expert and pundit here sees this and will remember for a generation: after the US promised to protect Ukraine if it gave up its nuclear weapons, it is now openly supporting Russia. The great American betrayal.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
'Stain' on Norway for not awarding me Nobel Prize - Trump www.rte.ie/news/2026/10... 😂 The only stain is in his nappy
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'Stain' on Norway for not awarding me Nobel Prize - Trump
US President Donald Trump has slammed the "disgraceful" Nobel Peace Prize choice as leaving an "indelible stain" on Norway, arguing that the award should have gone to him.
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EvilBunny Pottymouth Resists The Cultists every day! @mrsquirrel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Israel EXPOSED For Killing Their OWN Hostages by The Young Turks Cenk Uygur and Yasmin Aliya Khan of the Young Turks discuss A CNN report reveals how the Israel Defense Forces' actions led to the death of their own hostages. #SendNetanyahuToTheHague www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Hf...
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Israel EXPOSED For Killing Their OWN Hostages
YouTube video by The Young Turks
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Anthropic AI model sent fake murder tip to US police www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...
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Anthropic AI model sent fake murder tip to US police
An AI model developed by Anthropic submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide to Philadelphia police, authorities said, criticising the company for taking two months to report the incident.
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Polling: Americans Uncertain On RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Stance, Very Certain That They Hate Him | Techdirt www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/p...
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Polling: Americans Uncertain On RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Stance, Very Certain That They Hate Him
In my many, many posts about RFK Jr. and his disastrous tenure as Secretary of HHS, there are two themes that have hopefully broken through all the noise. The first is that Kennedy is a miserable communicator, in a way that is totally purposeful. He talks out of both sides of his mouth all the...
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Canada’s bill C-22 threatens encryption, users’ privacy and the security of digital economies  - Open Policy & Advocacy blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/20...
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Canada’s bill C-22 threatens encryption, users’ privacy and the security of digital economies  – Open Policy & Advocacy
Encryption is woven into everyday digital life. It protects our messages and passwords, but also banking and payments, health data, government services and the digital infrastructure societies rely on...
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information | Electronic Frontier Foundation www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information
Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happen...
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Lawsuits blame Fox News for deaths of journalists in Ukraine • FRANCE 24 English - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc0J...
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Lawsuits blame Fox News for deaths of journalists in Ukraine • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize www.rte.ie/news/world/2... #fucktrump
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Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 has been awarded to Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pete Hegseth says the December 3rd firing squad execution of Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan will be public, for anyone who wants to watch. It is impossible to overstate the barbarity of these people. There is no way back. humanevents.com/2026/10/08/e...
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EXCLUSIVE: PETE HEGSETH TELLS JACK POSOBIEC THE MAJOR HASAN EXECUTION WILL BE PUBLIC
He will be executed on December 3 at 1 pm.
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Generational Rant‼️🔥 #usa #israel #palestine #iran #politics #congress #uk #nyc #canada #newyork - YouTube www.youtube.com/shorts/89djK...
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Generational Rant‼️🔥 #usa #israel #palestine #iran #politics #congress #uk #nyc #canada #newyork
YouTube video by Breezy Politics
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
US Gov’t Interferes To Get Foreign Sponsors To Drop Conference Because A Panel Asks If The US Engages In Foreign Information Interference | Techdirt www.techdirt.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
How police tasered 92-year-old man in wheelchair - then joked about it - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5i5... #ffs
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How police tasered 92-year-old man in wheelchair - then joked about it
YouTube video by ITV News
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“This is the first time the United States has declined to invite in OSCE monitors since they began observing US elections. The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly president…said that the Trump administration’s decision ‘represents a significant departure from an established democratic practice.’”
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Anthropic reports Florida woman’s Claude ‘diary’ threat to shoot up sheriff’s office, felony charge follows — it’s at least the third such conversation to reach police since August | Tom's Hardware www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
USA PANICS as Europe Launches PAYMENTS KILLER - Visa and Mastercard LOCKED OUT - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsxm...
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Europe LAUNCHES Visa Killer - Trump PANICS As US Payment Control ENDS
YouTube video by House of El
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
Robert De Niro's Chilling Message To Trump On Secret Epstein Records - YouTube www.youtube.com/shorts/3q7xm...
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Robert De Niro's Chilling Message To Trump On Secret Epstein Records
YouTube video by Hook Global
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mine earlier today with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk 📺: youtu.be/7eltBhn7WV4?...
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Trump suggests he'd let Iran 'take out' Los Angeles or San Diego
YouTube video by LBC
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Siemens Abruptly Takes Down OpenRadioss, But a Fork is Already Live itsfoss.com/news/siemens...
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Siemens Abruptly Takes Down OpenRadioss, But a Fork is Already Live
Another reminder of why open source saves software from being lost forever.
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family | WIRED www.wired.com/story/muse-c...
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Americans can barely read? And don't understand what they do read. - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfXt...
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Americans can barely read? And don't understand what they do read.
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Mary Trump: The ORIGINS of Donald’s CRUELTY - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=slEm...
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Mary Trump: The ORIGINS of Donald’s CRUELTY
YouTube video by Mary Trump Media
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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Tux Machines — Libera Chat is Corporate news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/05...
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Tux Machines — Libera Chat is Corporate
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