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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s more than one??? 😳

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Alessandro Leonardi @aleequilibrium.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A proposito di temperature estreme e la fede nello status quo... Dovrebbe dare seriamente da pensare che una marea di professionisti, in ambiti non attinenti alla climatologia e questioni ambientali, abbiano una così scarsa comprensione della crisi climatica in corso. Lo si comprende dai 1/3

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Elizabeth Liddle @handle.invalid · 24/03/2026

🧵I think a major misunderstanding about science is that people think it's about "facts". It isn't. Scientists might have thought that once, and many still do. But the core of scientific methodology is to find predictive MODELS. And famously, "all models are wrong, but some are useful". 1/N

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

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Robot Girl (Warranty Void) @queererthing.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Brianna Ghey was the target of brutal bullying and assault that cumulated in her violent murder because she was trans. Any 'solution' to her death that isn't focused on the culture of transphobia that made a group of children think her life was worth less is a distraction from this fact.

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MyKidsMomBB8 @mykidsmombb8.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

With alt text.

Photo of a press pass that has been sliced through diagonally.

For the past eight years I have worked as a stringer for Reuters news agency. My photos covering stories in the prairie provinces have been published by the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets across North America, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere. At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.
When Israel murdered Anas Al-Sharif, together with the entire Al-Jazeera crew in Gaza City on August 10, Reuters chose to publish Israel's entirely baseless claim that Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative - one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified. Reuters' willingness to perpetuate Israel's propaganda has not spared their own reporters from Israel's genocide. Five more journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hossam Al-Masri, were among 20 people killed this morning in another attack on Nasser hospital. It was what's known as a "double tap" strike, in which Israel bombs a civilian target like a school or hospital; waits for medics, rescue teams, and journalists to arrive; and then strikes again.

Western media is directly culpable for creating the conditions in which this can happen. As Jeremy Scahill from Drop Site News put it, "every major outlet - from the New York Times to the Washington Post, from AP to Reuters - has served as a conveyor belt for Israeli propaganda, sanitizing war crimes and dehumanizing victims, abandoning their colleagues and their alleged commitment to true and ethical reporting."
By repeating Israel's genocidal fabrications without determining if they have any credibility - willfully abandoning the most basic responsibility of journalism - Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWIl, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined, to say nothing of starving an entire population, shredding its children, and burning people alive.
The fact that Anas Al-Sharif's work won a Pulitzer Prize for Reuters did not compel them to come to his defence when Israeli occupation forces placed him on a "hit list" of journalists accused of being Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants.

It did not compel them to come to his defence when he appealed to international media for protection after an Israeli military spokesperson posted a video making clear their intention to assassinate him following a report he did on the growing famine.
It did not compel them to report on his death honestly when he was hunted and killed weeks later.
I have valued the work that I brought to Reuters over the past eight years, but at this point I can't conceive of wearing this press pass with anything but deep shame and grief. I don't know what it means to begin to honour the courage and sacrifice of journalists in Gaza - the bravest and best to ever live - but going forward I will direct whatever contributions I have to offer with that front of mind.

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chervil @doginacafe.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Puppy Love - pages 1-7

Page 1 :
A digital comic page featuring colorful, anthropomorphic animals.
Panel 1: A husky (Mason) and beagle (Kip) are dancing in a black void.
Panel 2 : A close-up of both character's shoes as they are dancing
Mason : "Tell me,"
Panel 3 : Both characters strike a pose, holding each other by the arm.
Mason : "How long have you felt this way, Kip?"

Page 2 :
A digital comic page featuring colorful, anthropomorphic animals.
This page features a close-up of Mason, surrounded by scenes of Kip and Mason being close together, Kip covering Mason with a blanket while they're asleep, and smiling at them.
Mason : "You've always started at me with those doting eyes
Hung on tight to me with affection
I'd never even considered someone could love me like this.
I...
I want to like you back."

Page 3 :
A digital comic page featuring colorful, anthropomorphic animals.
Mirroring the previous one, this page features a close-up of Kip, drawn without eyes, surrounded by scenes of Mason showing affection towards Kip, hugging them, offering them cake, and watching their tail wag.
Mason : "I've flirted with you, held you, pampered you
I did exactly what I'm supposed to, but I still don't feel that same fire inside
I've done everything right, haven't I?"

Page 4 :
A digital comic page featuring colorful, anthropomorphic animals.
Panel 1 : A sequence of different poses as Kip and Mason are dancing.
Mason : "It comes so naturally to you."
Panel 2 : Two silhouettes are shown against a rainy cityscape. One of them is on their knees, the other one is holding an umbrella.
Mason : "Even when we first met, you had that same spark in your eyes.
Panel 3 : The silhouette with an umbrella walks closer to the other one.
Mason : "Am I..."
Panel 4 : The silhouette with an umbrella holds it towards the one on the ground. The edges of the panel start to turn into clouds of smoke.
Mason : "Doing something wrong?" (This text bubble is partially obscured by another one, from an unknown speaker, shouting "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T-")

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

i would like to start one day without something completely fucking insane.

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 21/06/2025

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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Marina Catucci @lacatucci.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Quello che sta accadendo alla comunità transgender è terribile. Ed è ciò che passa più sottovoce. Ed è doppiamente terribile

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Thoughts & Prayers per il professore che ha accettato di farmi da relatore

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I’m not sure if it fits the the “upbeat, poppy” categories, but i’d suggest “The march of the Varangian Guard”, by Turisas

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Riusciranno a dire che è colpa di Biden se i programmi federali sono stati cancellati, e quasi certamente una percentuale non indifferente di repubblicani se la berrà senza battere ciglio. Come qualsiasi altra frottola del “Re.”

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Forced detransition for the trans people who signed up to serve their country.

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Modern day Alan Turing, we should thank them for their service

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

That’s curious, i’ve never seen something like that… glad it fixed itself though!

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I can! There are 2 of them, roughly 5 mins apart

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

That’s a neat trick! Hope she didn’t mind and still enjoyed the cake! Happy bday to her!

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Freedom of religion for me, but not for thee! La Heritage Foundation ha scommesso sul cavallo giusto, a quanto pare

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 05/02/2025

DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS: they are using #DEI the way #Nazis used ‘un-German.’ When the right says DEI what they mean is ‘the other’ and that’s how they target immigrants, women, people of color, Jews, #LGBTQ, ♿️, and anyone who supports or protects the vulnerable and marginalized. WE ARE AT WAR already

brandy-schillace.medium.com

We Are At War

And legacy media asks you not to pay attention

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Stiamo messi male. Chissà che danni riusciranno a fare in quattro anni, se già adesso stanno facendo di tutto per tagliare fuori dalla società qualsiasi riferimento al genere che non sia conforme alla loro linea di pensiero.

Screenshot from the nyt article “Thousands of US Government web pages have been taken down since Friday”

The text reads as follows:
“Many of the missing pages appeared related to a Trump administration directive
- with a deadline of 5 p.m. Friday - to terminate any programs that promote
"gender ideology," and to withdraw documents and any other media that may do so.
In many cases, the removed pages mentioned words like "inclusion" or
"transgender." It is not clear why other pages were removed; how many of the pages will be permanently removed; and how many may be restored with revisions.”

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

One of the first things Hitler did was destroy and burn trans research at the Institute of Sexology. Trump has spent the past couple weeks systematically attempting to erase any trans related information that he has power over. Just for context, you know.

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Manual labour, in its purest form 🙂‍↕️

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Chiamarla mancanza di tatto mi sa di eufemismo. Addossare la colpa di qualsiasi disgrazia al gruppo sociale scelto come capro espiatorio è una scelta discriminatoria e deliberata, non un’analisi della situazione in un momento inopportuno.

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Alina @eled-nil.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Pochi minuti. Il titolo potrebbe portare un po' fuori strada: non nega che sia un saluto nazista ma fa un ragionamento più ampio che trovo condivisibile #RobertoSaviano 🇮🇹

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Il saluto romano di Elon Musk è solo un gesto per misurare la sua forza!

YouTube video by Roberto Saviano Official

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thanks! It was worth it :)

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hiking on a warm, cloudy January day. The picture is taken at the end of Serra Oseli, a long crest near the border between the Urzulei and Baunei’s municipalities. The valley beneath is part of the Codula di Luna, near Teletottes.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

...sorry, it should have read "video essay", but you can read the text version here: juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-... relatedly, you can read my essay, Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop... & pls call your representatives on both counts!

juliaserano.substack.com

Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know

I have been writing about transgender people and issues for over twenty years now.

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Hey lascia entrare Ascanio! Buon Ascanio Day a chiunque celebri questa festività

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

“Orologio biologico” ben tarato

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

“Ne faccio due berretti da Papa”

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Dunno, liked these. Happy new year to you!

A thin layer of white ice covering a clearing in the mediterranean bush, so thin that grey limestone rocks and green blades of grass protrude out of it.
Despite the similarity in color, the rocks in the background are not covered in ice, they are simply grey limestone.

Bottom of the picture is the surface of an old artificial clearing, made to burn wood and make charcoal.

At the edge of the clearing, some asphodel and juniper-trees outline the thin path. I’m not certain about the nature of one of the trees, it might not be a juniper, but i didn’t notice back then, i’m not gonna walk there now just to check, sorry :/

At the same level of the bottom of the trees, there are a black and a light blue patches, which are the backpacks of my two friends.

Right behind them, there is the left wall of the canyon(?) that we are walking, grey as the limestone that makes it, and green as the trees that grow on it.

Finally, on the top side of the picture, the sky. It was cloudy that day, and the oversaturated sky looks white, almost brighter than the rocks.

Me, smiling and holding my phone up with with the flashlight on.

A smiling guy, wearing a black jacket and a black beanie, holds up their phone at a concert to make some light. He is wearing rectangular glasses, and has a dark, longish beard. (Hope this is enough, if you need more details pls let me know i’ll do my best)

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

On a clear winter day, a moron finds a funny mirror on the ground. Pic taken at Perda Liana, in Gairo, Sardinia. It was chilly enough to allow us to find ice in the northern side of the hill, but the sun had already made quick work of any solid water on this side.

The shadow of me, crouching and holding two fingers in a v shape, cast on a puddle with a big rock in the distance.

The puddle is reflecting the image of the monolith in the distance.

The rest of the picture (upper two thirds) portrays a cone shaped hill, on top of which sits a 50m tall rock, standing out against the monochromatic clear sky.

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Alt-textist (complimentary)

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I’m too drunk to be writing stuff, so just have a merry Christmas and enjoy your time.

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

S’istrada longa, Baunei.

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Brief hike on a windy and cloudy day. Found some big rocks and nice views :)

A bird’s eye view of Golgo, a valley a couple kilometers north of Baunei.
The bottom half of the picture portrays the valley itself, with young vegetation (mostly mediterranean bush) and some large patches of grass. The very bottom of the picture shows the eastern side of the “canyon” (bear with me english is my second language) that goes all the way to Cala Sisine, and there are some dark volcanic rocks around 20m tall. Right above those rocks, a red tiled roof protrudes out of the green tree-tops, from there up the bush gives way to the grass pasture, which is way lighter in colour. On the left side of the picture, on the edge of the grass patch there is a small church, named after saint Peter, and on its right side there are some huge olive trees, as tall as the building itself. The perspective makes it look like the grass patch ends at the feet of the hills that surround the valley, but there is a small dip in the terrain right behind them that you cant see from this POV.
While the valley itself is a mix of clay-rich soil and dark volcanic rocks, the hills that surround it are made of limestone, hence their much lighter grayish color, dotted by trees and bushes.
Lastly, the sky wasn’t clear today, so there are a couple different clouds overlapping and covering the blue. Since i was facing towards east, some of the clouds are being lit from a low angle and show up as a bright white patch among the darker grey clouds.

Me, sitting in front of a wall made of limestone blocks. Can’t be sure of its origin, but it might be the remnants of an old nuragic fortification, given its proximity to the Nuraghe just ~500m away. The limestone and the clouds all have the same grey colour, while i’m wearing blue jeans, a red jumper with rolled up sleeves, and a blue beanie. I’m basically sitting on my heels, so all you can see are my knees, shins and torso, with my arms resting on my laps and hands in between my legs. I’m looking at the camera, giving it my best attempt at a smile, but i set the camera a bit too far so there isn’t much detail to be seen. You’ll have to trust me that i have a dark beard, and I wear glasses :)

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Salvatore @ziopera.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Ah, yes! The only Bigfoot picture ever taken, this is a rare specimen

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