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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 18h

The Hasan Piker dog collar incident shows that proponents of the surveillance state, like Larry Ellison, who claimed that mass video surveillance would lead to more accountability, are catastrophically wrong.

Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For

The backlash that Piker is facing shows the consequences of a world where everyone is constantly being recorded and our internet is built to reward outrage and controversy.

www.usermag.co

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Ben McLeish @culturebullet.com · 19h

A rather long but awesome citation for this via @codyjohnston.bsky.social and @somemorenews.bsky.social : youtu.be/vlKDQ3fwI5w?...

The Making Of Stephen Miller - SOME MORE NEWS

YouTube video by Some More News

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h

Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th.
Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country.
I'll be there. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 19h

Official US government accounts are posting white supremacist messaging calling for the ethnic cleansing of non-whites in America.

MAGA is working their way up to concentration camps and mass murder.

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Ben McLeish @culturebullet.com · 1d

Podcast tracking on Altmetric is here!

Altmetric @altmetric.com · 1d

PODCASTS

Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research

In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million.

Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research.

Let's go
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Antifa CEO @antifa.bsky.social · 1d

Your country needs you!

In Antifa 🐸 uniform. Join us.

#NoKings

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Ben McLeish @culturebullet.com · 1d

They’re attempting again in Texas. If this goes through I will literally visit infowars every morning lolololol

Ben McLeish @culturebullet.com · 1d

“InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed”

a man with a beard and mustache is smiling for the camera

Alt: a man with a beard and mustache is smiling for the camera

media.tenor.com

Ben McLeish @culturebullet.com · 1d

What a monumental sentence this is.

Last week he urged the court to urgently intervene, saying that if the court did not take action, his website, Infowars, was at risk of being turned over to the satirical news site The Onion.

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 2d

Any University that signs this should be blacklisted.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 2d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Ben McLeish @culturebullet.com · 2d

Clear “past his prime”

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 3d

5 million of them are about research

graph showing Timelapse of 4,949,864 posts linking to research items

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Please join me in a new campaign to help protect Ukrainians in a very special way. My Ukrainian friends chose to call this campaign Freedom is Action. They are making an important point. One way to find our own courage is to act in support those who are showing it
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Freedom is Action: A Campaign for Ukraine

A fundraiser for life-saving drone-jamming cars and trucks

snyder.substack.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 3d

Fuel shortages have hit over half of Russia's regions, with at least 57 facing supply disruptions following strikes on refineries, BBC reported.

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 5d

After refusing to learn the Latvian language, Latvia has ordered 841 Russians to leave the country by October 13, 2025. They also did not pass security and background checks.

Around 30,000 Russian citizens are affected by the new rules. While most managed to comply

Source: Politico

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Ben McLeish @culturebullet.com · 5d

Extreme couponing, healthcare edition

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Travis Clark @travisclark.bsky.social · 5d

No, Nobel Peace Prize is the name of the doctor, Nobel Peace Prize’s monster is the name of his creation.

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Ben McLeish @culturebullet.com · 5d

This is how we ended up with a load of statues we ended up tearing down generations later.

Florida Bill Calls for State Colleges to Rename Campus
Roads After Charlie Kirk
Summary
Bias Comparison
• A newly proposed Florida House bill would require public state colleges and universities to rename certain campus roads after Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist who was killed at an event.
• The bill, introduced by Republican Rep. Kevin Steele, lists out specific roadways at various colleges that must be renamed with Kirk's name within 90 days of being signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis.
• Failure to comply with the road renaming requirement would result in the withholding of state funds from the respective institutions.

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doomsmoker (just memes) @doomsmoker.bsky.social · 5d

New rock paper scissors just dropped

K-9 Bites Cow, Deputy Tases K-9, Cow Kicks Deputy

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 5d

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile starts... now.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 6d

Putin has effectively admitted to shooting down an Azerbaijani plane. The Russian dictator met with Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev for the first time in a year and discussed the crash of the AZAL aircraft in Kazakhstan.

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