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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 13h

if the democrahunk doesn't put that potted bio in frame 1 on his office door I'll be disappointed

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 16h

'The Cartography of Genocide platform documents in unprecedented detail the extent and character of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip since October 2023.'

gaza.forensic-architecture.org/database

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 20h

same

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 20h

Pat Cummins concedes he is ‘weeks away’ from bowling and unlikely to play in first Ashes Test

* Australia captain to learn this week whether he will be fit for opener * Star quick says he is ‘less likely than likely’ to face England in Perth Pat Cummins has admitted he is unlikely to play in the Ashes opener, conceding a return to proper bowling is still some time away. Cummins is expected to learn this week whether he will be able to feature in Perth on 21 November, with officials conceding the quick is facing a narrow timeline. Continue reading...

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 1d

'most peculiar way'? get over yourself, it's just normal floating

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 1d

I love Portland Frog but I think the rest of the inflaties need to do something other than just dance away from the action

*says me who's not even doing that much

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Portland 🔥

𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 1d

Spinal Tap II is great but definitely didn't expect to have a little cry at one part

𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 1d

ultimate top dog status really

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 2d

stop thinking right now

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 2d

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 3d

it appears 'Left Shark' from the 2015 Superbowl half time show has become 'Radical Far Left Shark' now at the Portland ICE protests

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

this kid’s a good egg

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 3d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 3d

yes, assuming the whole point is 'US is nuts' then all valid

𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 4d

cumulative apparently, which is a weird way to show something labelled 'by year' and not sure whether events or casualties

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 4d

Looks bogus. Shows >50/year in Australia recently and UK really high earlier

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 4d

US is almost totally broken even to have a system that allows Trump and his loyalists to get within pissing distance of any position of responsibility but then it can still come up with Portland Frog hero. Land of contradictions.

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 4d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 5d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 5d

a really unstupid piece, drawing on Hannah Arendt's writing since the 50s

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 6d

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 6d

Austrian guy David Szauder incorporates it into surrealist video really well

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Ghoulius von Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 8d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 7d

watch the dogs catching salmon in the dam!

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 7d

a(n) eulogy

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𝓔𝓻𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓽 @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 7d

lol salaryman at bathhouse

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