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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 4h

If you can read this without throwing up in your mouth a little and needing a shower to wash the stink of corruption of you, good luck to you. The always amazing @doctorow.pluralistic.net also has some great reporting on this. Utterly gross and repulsive!

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How Expedia Rigs Travel Markets and Raises Your Hotel Prices

A new lawsuit against online booking service Expedia alleges the popular travel agent is hiking hotel prices by as much as 30%. It’s one of many layers of a rigged market.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 2h

At this point, Donald Trump is delivering more strategic wins for Russia than its own military.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 2h

Trump: we are running low on ammo not because of my war on Iran but because Biden gave “massive amounts” of Tomahawks to Ukraine. The U.S. didn’t supply a single Tomahawk to Ukraine! Not a single one!

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I want to see empty exhibits in British museums, that contain only the story about what they once contained, and why they had to be sent home. The space would be no less profound for me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Oxford ceremony marks return home of kiwi feather cloak

The kahu kiwi, given to a British doctor in 1900, was "crying to come home", Māori campaigners say.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 1h

From Charles Dickens to Madonna, London’s oldest restaurant has hosted the world’s most famous names. Established in 1798, Rules in Covent Garden has been gifted to the National Trust, to preserve this piece of our history for generations to come.

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Home of London's oldest restaurant Rules given to National Trust

Rules, in Covent Garden, which opened in 1798, will be looked after and conserved by the charity.

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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: Virtually every news organization has a Meta business account. Meta’s new terms say it can scrape websites “associated with” those accounts—and use the content to “train” its products. @andrewdeck.bsky.social and I on what this means for publishers: www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...

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Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say

Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026

Let me repeat that: to stay in business, hotels need to be on Expedia. To stay in business on Expedia, hotels have to raise their prices to pay Expedia's junk fees, but they have to raise their prices everywhere else.

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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 11h

WW2 AND WW1. My family & friends fought in both & more. Trump’s betrayals of our Allies and NATO, our friends… I don’t have words for how infuriated I am about this. Now, the word of the USA & our trustworthiness is destroyed.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10h

About the worst possible environment for a data center company to go public in. Only reason you do this is exit liquidity for investors

Nscale is seeking to raise up to $3 billion in an initial public offering as soon as this month, just as investors are growing increasingly wary of the risks of this Al buildout. Another prominent neocloud, CoreWeave Inc., saw its shares tumble 15% on Wednesday and the cost of protecting its debt against default soar to a record on Thursday, with swaps pricing in a more than 60% chance of default within the next five years. Last week, an Australian data center firm abandoned plans for its IPO after would-be investors turned skittish. Nscale will need to persuade investors that it has a more promising business model and reassure them of its ability to deliver data centers smoothly, despite challenges in places like Glomfjord.

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 10h

“It’s Putin’s windfall.” Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland joins Ali Velshi to discuss the clear winner of Donald Trump’s disastrous diesel deal, Vladimir Putin.

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 11h

Well, the hellish shrieking from everyone’s phones on this Shinkansen sure got the adrenaline going… as did the emergency hard stop on the train a few seconds later. #JohnDoesJapan

Earthquake early warning alert screen showing a magnitude 9.9 quake with estimated intensity of 7 in the Kuril Islands

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 10h

And yet assholes go to work every day trying to make it even "better".

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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/10/15/1 “For crying out loud! … We were supposed to turn south after that last mountain range!”

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 13h

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social · 14h

WATCH: Moment former MAGA diehard comes face to face with Epstein survivor

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13h

She went to 42 Trump rallies. She flipped based on one Trump statement. Worth watching the entire segment.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 15/10/2026

Lise Meitner was the 2nd woman to earn a physics PhD at the Univ of Vienna and Germany’s first female physics professor. She fled Nazi Germany, helped explain nuclear fission, and has an element named for her. 49 Nobel nominations, she never won. Her male colleague did. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

Black-and-white historical photograph of physicist Lise Meitner standing in a laboratory wearing a white coat, surrounded by glass bottles and scientific equipment.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

“.. Today, Skydance has a market cap of under $40 billion — less than half the predecessor companies’ combined value.” @variety.com $SKYD variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 15h

I had better food during my 1980s overnight stay in a Yangon/Rangoon jail cell.

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 15h

@sanho.bsky.social You wrote a thread about this possibility a year or two or three ago, I think.

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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 15h

Prime Minister Mark Carney was swamped by selfie-seeking well-wishers Thursday as he toured through Alberta’s largest city to rally the pro-Canada vote ahead of Monday’s referendum on…

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Carney hits Calgary to stump for unity, gets swarmed by selfie-seeking well-wishers

Prime Minister Mark Carney was swamped by selfie-seeking well-wishers Thursday as he toured through Alberta’s largest city to rally the pro-Canada vote ahead of Monday’s referendum on separation.

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 15h

Cloud tops are my favourite place.

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 15h

His verbal assault on Zelenskyy in the Oval Office last year at first seemed performative—“you’ve never said thank you to us”, to paraphrase—but he does it now so often it almost feels pathological or some mental issue from elsewhere.

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 15h

He's obviously correct. I may even start watching QT again, when they finally get rid of Fiona "he only hit her once" Bruce. And, ideally, replace her with Victoria Derbyshire 👍

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, Bruce is awful. She sure didn’t like the question of rejoining even mentioned.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18h

George Monbiot explains why the UK should rejoin the EU, "There's a reason why Russia tried to intervene in the Brexit vote, they knew that it would harm the UK and the EU if we left" "They were very clear about that and boy have they been proved right"

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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 22h

So a documentarian asked to do an interview with me about technosignatures in the Solar System. It seemed high quality and legit so I said yes. After a pretty standard interview in my office he asked me to look at pictures on his phone and comment on them… oops!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 21h

What a charming #Egyptian bronze figure of a shrew! Since shrews are animals that find their way in the dark they were connected to the descending phase of the sun’s nocturnal journey. Late Period (746-332 B.C). On display at Museum Hohentübingen. 📷️ me

A small bronze statue of a shrew standing on a rectangular base. The figure is elongated with a pointed snout, slender legs, and a long tail, featuring engraved decorative patterns on its back. Displayed against a neutral background with the label number 42

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

What do all these corporations have in common? Nvidia Apple Google Lockheed Martin Microsoft Palantir They all donated at least $10 million to Trump’s vanity ballroom — and they all stand to benefit from his policies. Is this Trump’s most corrupt grift yet?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18h

Somersaulting RFK Jr. Excitedly Chases Own Penis Through Cabinet Meeting theonion.com/somersaulting-rfk-jr-e…

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 17h

TODAY IN CANADA: In 1979, Terry Fox wrote a letter to the Canadian Cancer Society introducing himself, his mission, and asking for their support. 🍁 YOUR SAY: What are your memories of doing the Terry Fox Run as a child?

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L Chupacabra: The Pope Of Chili Town @lchupacabra.bsky.social · 17h

Lol camera should've tightened up. Looks like the crowd at a school play

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KosmicKris @kosmickris.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In this @phillipspobrien.bsky.social makes the excellent point, that Starlink dependency is as much as a threat to the US as it is globally. A malevolent operator, making political donations in the hundreds of millions, could easily use the on/off switch to impact domestic political opponents.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 17h

Experts say Meta's new terms of use will allow scraping of websites, including news sites, "associated with" business accounts on its platforms, with no opt out (Nieman Lab) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17h

This is a magnificent thread.

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 17h

Intentional and premeditated murder of civilians. Americans should be in the streets.

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 17h

They also have a way of letting their threats disappear for a while but then revive them without warning months later and act on them. I don’t think we’ve heard or seen the end of their barbaric threats, and follow-throughs.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 17h

Sadly, I don’t think that’s it. They were getting too much pushback, and in the end, the threat that they WANTED to do it was enough of a threat to us.

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 17h

This stop, in particular, was stupid and irresponsible. Alberta’s far-right premier is dishonest, manipulative, self-serving, and a fan of MAGA. That one of the Democratic Party’s senior politicians makes a mind-boggling bad decision like this punctuates how ignorant Americans are about Canada.

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 18h

The person on your team who thought meeting with Smith was a fab idea should be fired. She’s hated outside of Alberta and is a manipulative opportunist.

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 18h

This is such a tone-deaf thread. Trump is a symptom, not a cause. He was elected *twice* by an electorate in a nation that’s broken. Trump is president because of how America was and is. And Alberta?? Smith is slippery, dishonest, and selfishly manipulative. A divisive shill for MAGA.

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