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DwntwnT @dwntwnt.bsky.social · 12h

thank you.

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Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 12h

New filing: "U.S. v. Comey (criminal case)"
Doc #54: First MOTION to Expedite Ruling on Gov Motion for Implementation of Filter Protocol (DE 38) by USA as to James B. Comey, Jr. (Lemons, Nathaniel) (Entered: 10/19/2025)

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DwntwnT @dwntwnt.bsky.social · 12h

whats the scam?

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 12h

Impacting lots of banking and other apps as well…

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 12h

there’s a major AWS outage going on right now that’s taken down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, Perplexity, Roblox, and lots more of the internet. US-EAST-1 is down and impacting a lot of services that rely on AWS www.theverge.com/news/802486/...

Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more

A chunk of the internet has been taken offline.

www.theverge.com

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 12h

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5d

I wish more people knew that there’s virtually no way to prove media or text is AI-generated unless you created it yourself. “AI detectors” aren’t proof. Among other glaring issues, this makes it more difficult for journalists to report on media being AI-generated even when it seems obvious

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 4d

"I don't have anything to hide why should I care about privacy?"

Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 4d

The politician in South Carolina who has introduced a bill redefining contraception as abortion also wants people who share websites to be charged with aiding and abetting homicide.

When asked why his bill redefines contraception, Cash admitted he believes certain forms of birth control are “an early abortion.” When pressed about allowing homicide charges against abortion patients—which could mean the death penalty in South Carolina—he shrugged it off: “It’s wrong to kill an innocent person.”

And when asked about whether someone could be criminally charged for calling an abortion clinic, or sharing a clinic website with a friend, Cash compared it to “sharing a website to find a killer to rub your wife out.”

“If you’re aiding and abetting the killing of an innocent person,” he said, “you’re going to be held accountable.”

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DwntwnT @dwntwnt.bsky.social · 12h

privacy should be about privacy, not whether or not someone has something to hide.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12h

I interviewed a GP who took on an AI counterpart in an on-air diagnosis challenge. The AI was surprisingly accurate – until it wasn’t.

inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

I'm a GP and tested myself against AI - the results made me scared for my patients'

In a new documentary, four British professionals were pitted against an AI ‘clone' to find out how safe their job is

inews.co.uk

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DwntwnT @dwntwnt.bsky.social · 1d

where was this originally posted pls?

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 1d

If it walks like an RT propagandist, talks like an RT propagandist, and attends RT anniversaries, then it’s probably an RT propagandist...
bsky.app/profile/vatn...

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DwntwnT @dwntwnt.bsky.social · 1d

when they protested they couldnt be provoked, and it didnt matter what was said to them.

DwntwnT @dwntwnt.bsky.social · 1d

198 methods to non-violent protest: Gene Sharp. Also ppl should prob practice w/a friend several x's first, screaming in faces, calling names that might be a sensitive area for someone, as below the belt as poss. POC in the south taught this tactic to kids that arrived on the freedom busses, so

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Ali Adair @aliadair22.bsky.social · 1d

We only need 3.5% of the population = 11,900,000

We’re close.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

www.bbc.com

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HAL90oo 🇫🇷🌻Nafo O'Fan Gentleman (Almost) @papoosan.bsky.social · 2d

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🌻 Слава Україні- #EU #NATO #🇺🇦🇬🇪🇲🇩-in-🇪🇺 #StandWithUkraine #StopRussia #Fellas #NAFO #Blyatniks #CancelRussia #CancelUN #PutinWarCriminal #russiaisaterroriststate #russiaiscollapsing

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings Cincinnati

Poster with an image of a frog and the words “Don’t Obey”

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 2d

The Tea Party and FedSoc threw it into the gutter, where it has now been picked up by the heirs of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Robert Gould Shaw.

Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 2d

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 2d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Hark, Speaker Mike Johnson! Looking at all the many, many pics of the enormous, joyous “No Kings” rallies throughout the United States today, I am struck by what lovely weather your Lord and Savior provided. Apparently, God is a fan of, as you claimed, "America-hating Antifa terrorists." Glory!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

“If our ancestors could do without tea, then we can do without a new Tesla. We might even be able to do without Amazon Prime.”

Today, environmental activist @billmckibben.bsky.social joined protesters at Lexington’s Battle Green, the site of the original #NoKings protest:

I returned to the site of the original No Kings protest

A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.

www.motherjones.com

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 2d

My hometown NYC TELLING Donald Trump YOU ARE NOT OUR KING & YOU WILL NEVER BE! #NOKINGS 🚫🤴

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 2d

❗️During the night, the 🇺🇦Ukrainian military shot down 136 out of 164 🇷🇺Russian UAVs (about 100 of them - "Shahed"), and 0 out of 3 missiles from the S-300 air defense system.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 2d

„…as the far right moved from fringe issues in the late 90s to topics such as integration & migration, mainstream parties had increasingly reshaped their communications to respond, boosting the spread of these ideas & signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate.“

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

www.theguardian.com

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Shaun Pinner @olddogua.bsky.social · 2d

open.substack.com/pub/shaunpin...
We can never allow Russian atrocities to be whitewashed. Read my articles on how Russia uses torture — not just as a weapon, but as justification for its invasion and a tool to shape its narrative.

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 3d

"Open-source investigative outlet Tochnyi reported on Sept 28 that russian drone strikes have resulted in 2,877 Ukrainian civilian casualties in Kherson City alone since 2023," wrote ISW. These russian human safaries are horrendous and so deadly.

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DwntwnT @dwntwnt.bsky.social · 2d

why did he get that??