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Carlton Gibson

@carltongibson.bsky.social

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You know, Django 🦄 Former Fellow, 6.x Steering Council and Security Team member. Maintainer of a package or two. Django Chat co-host 🎙️ Not really here. There’s a bridged account from the fedi at https://bsky.app/profile/carlton.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · Aug 6

Here we go again.

Sensationalist headlines. Unproven causal links. And unclear migration figures based on shaky proxies.

🧵 Here’s the 2 big problems with the FT's new report…

1⃣They don’t really know how many left.
2⃣They have no idea why they left.

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · Aug 4

The UK government will be forced to raise taxes at the Budget in October – but taxes on who? Here are my predictions

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHdU...

Why your government is about to raise YOUR taxes

YouTube video by Garys Economics

www.youtube.com

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Aurumek (Simon Hintermann) @aurumek.bsky.social · Jul 31

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · Jul 30

Why billionaires are funding the far right

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jul 13

There is no strict Constitutional amendment against having sex with minors, being blackmailed about it, murdering the person who is blackmailing you, and then altering the videotape of the murder. So it's hard to see why some on the left are so upset with Trump right now.

by Jonathan Turley

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · Jul 7

The Great Hunger is coming

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jul 8

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jun 13

My 3 year-old was reading the Times when he turned to me, gravely, and asked: "Daddy, why did the senator ask mean questions to the nice plastic surgery lady?" And when I told him "because that lady pledged to liberate LA from socialists," he started crying.

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · Jun 10

The UK gov't softened tax reforms on the super rich because of the widely reported “exodus” of millionaires fleeing the UK.

Our new investigation shows that "exodus" was a complete fiction. #BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich taxjustice.net/press/millio...

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Carlton Gibson @carltongibson.bsky.social · Jun 9

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Jun 9

That officer took deliberate aim at this journalist and shot her. There's nobody standing near her.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 9

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · May 23

The top image:
The Guardian, July 2016
The article:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The bottom image:
The Guardian, May 2025
The article:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Top half of image: July 2016 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled: “ignore the prophets of doom: Brexit will be good for Britain”. Bottom half of image: May 2026 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled “From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort”

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jacobian @jacobian.org · May 17

In case anyone’s wondering, `jacobian . bsky . social` isn’t me. Super flattered that I now rank high enough to score an impersonator tho!

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · May 15

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · May 14

NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU

Line chart – China's CO2 emissions are now 1% below their March 2024 peak: China’s emissions from fossil fuels and cement, million tonnes of CO2, rolling 12-month totals. Source: Emissions are estimated from National Bureau of Statistics data on production of different fuels and cement, China Customs data on imports and exports and WIND Information data on changes in inventories, applying emissions factors from China’s latest national greenhouse gas emissions inventory and annual emissions factors per tonne of cement production until 2024. Sector breakdown of coal consumption is estimated using coal consumption data from WIND Information and electricity data from the National Energy Administration.

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Carlton Gibson @carltongibson.bsky.social · May 9

Since this was a philosophy topic... "knowledge" at a first pass needs to be both true and give rise to justified belief. Given we should suspect everything to be false, nothing they tell can qualify as knowledge. Even if true, we're not justified in believing it.

Knowledge machines they ain't.

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Carlton Gibson @carltongibson.bsky.social · May 9

Whatever these tools are good for, search isn’t it.

Carlton Gibson @carltongibson.bsky.social · May 9

Was looking for a remark of Wittgenstein's, about the "…" in a series not being of laziness.

Thought maybe Claude'll know.

Started well. Gave a quote, with a reference, that was right. Then started making stuff up. It was like reading a late-night, last-minute, undergraduate essay.

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · May 8

if the whole world population had emitted as per the richest 0.1% since 1990, the global temperature increase would have been 12.2C
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Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests

Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes

www.theguardian.com

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Apr 30

This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.

Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · May 1

40 Years ago Carl Sagan knew about Climate change and he was so aware of it's impact on Nature more than us we do right now.

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Carlton Gibson @carltongibson.bsky.social · May 1

His line is “Don’t use SQL”? Oh my.

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djangochat.bsky.social @djangochat.bsky.social · Apr 30

Ep181: DjangoCon Europe 2025 recap is now live!

We discussed highlights from attending DjangoCon Europe last week in Dublin, Ireland. We both gave talks and shared favorites from the official schedule, social events, and hallway track.

djangochat.com/episodes/dja...

DjangoCon Europe 2025 Recap | Django Chat

A quick recap episode sharing thoughts and highlights from attending DjangoCon Europe last week in Dublin, Ireland. We both gave talks and shared favorites from the official schedule, social events, a...

djangochat.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 20

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

The (translated) Ostsee Zeitung headline:

High school graduates in prison

Rostock women end up in Trump's deportation prison in the USA: "We felt so powerless"

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