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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

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@gooseymaine on Twitter writing: can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if AI does?

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6m

Racism, conquest, extractive and exploitative trade, rape; all of these have always been live moral questions. There was never a moment of enlightenment where human progress allowed people to finally see that they were wrong. There have always been those saying that it was wrong.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 8m

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social · 6m

US forges ahead with port fees despite Chinese protests

▶️USTR hikes fee for foreign vehicle carriers to $46 per net tonne from $14 per net tonne previously
▶️Exemption for voyages of 2,000 nautical miles or less will be calculated using the most distant port in a service string

US forges ahead with port fees despite Chinese protests

It’s official: a final notice from the US Trade Representative on Friday confirms that port fees will begin as scheduled on October 14 and will not be delayed as part of broader US-China trade negotiations

www.lloydslist.com

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 10h

🇨🇳CHINA’S SEPTEMBER EXPORT GROWTH HITS 6-MONTH HIGH Y/Y IMPORT GROWTH HIT A 17-MONTH HIGH. CHINA SOYBEAN IMPORTS HIT RECORD HIGH FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER AT 12.87 MILLION METRIC TONS. SEPTEMBER COAL IMPORTS AT NINE-MONTH HIGH OF 46 MLN METRIC TONS. #CHINA #SOYBEAN #COAL

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quiabo the exhorter @yungquiabo.bsky.social · 1h

the houthis have the opportunity to become the world's most popular political entity

Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 1h

Reports that FIFA President Gianni Infantino has arrived in Sharm el Sheikh for the Middle East peace summit. Unclear why he would be required or what his role is.

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 1h

bari weiss sold page space in the times to the type of person who would pay to be featured in the NYT. Kirk sold the idea of youth outreach to billionaires who were aware that they werent popular with the youth, but were also too disconnected to understand that neither was kirk

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 1h

a very smart thing to say as a person selling a thing is to tell you that the problem it is claiming to solve isn't really a problem in the first place

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 2d

As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.

Justice for All - Truthdig

To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

www.truthdig.com

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Bob @bobappleyard.bsky.social · 3h

at least your animal moves

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Crucible Of Words @crucibleofwords.bsky.social · 3h

I see your Chicken death match and raise you whatever this absolute disgrace is

A small playground with two benches, two bins, some rocks and one weird bucket spinny thing. The floor is like rubber gravel?

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 5h

Ruba is friends with @itsmeio.bsky.social whom I’ve shared, has social media in Gaza that predates the war and sent me a photo of her Palestinian ID.

Ruba has been volunteering at medical clinics while also trying to complete her studies. She wants to continue studying and help her family.

Support Ruba: A Pharmacy Student’s Survival in Gaza

Hello, everyone. I’m Casey York and I live in the U.S.. I have created this fundraiser on behalf of my close friend, Ruba, as she is in Gaza and unable to create one for herself because GoFundMe does ...

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Matt E. Spooks @innerpartisan.bsky.social · 2h

I'm doing my part! o7

A Bluesky account you control (@innerpartisan.bsky.social) posted:

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert

Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists

www.theguardian.com

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 1h

"launches"? No, it's the same maglev line that they've been building since 2011, and it is not opening until the 2030s at least, but most likely until the 2040s

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2h

Renewables are expected to overtake coal as the largest global source of electricity by next year despite the pullback of the U.S.

“No one can stop the energy transition,” said the director general of the International Renewable Energy Agency.

The real winners of Trump’s attack on clean energy aren’t American

U.S. politics are undercutting clean energy at the same time economics are propelling it forward globally. Can the U.S. afford to sit this out?

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Rosencreutz (alleged youtuber) @rosencreutz.bsky.social · 4h

The racism of people like Woods is so intrinsic that it's kinda built from first principles-- this imagined type of Muslim he hates is so convoluted yet flat, that it requires one to see "Muslim" as a singular unerring type of person with no room for nuance or difference.

Picture of a tweet by James woods, stating "Taqiyya in action. This slithery Muslim fraud pretending he thinks this pathetic transvestite is so fabulous. Behind the smile he wants to toss her off a roof."
and an image of Mamdani chuckling at a drag act.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4h

Federal officials are bracing for the worst effects of the ongoing government shutdown to collide with the U.S. economy this week as missed paychecks and the absence billions of dollars of government services sink in.

The pain from the government shutdown is about to hit the public

Federal officials are bracing for the worst effects of the ongoing government shutdown to collide with the U.S. economy this week as missed paychecks and the absence billions of dollars of government ...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 4h

If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 2d

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Teleri Dockworkers Union @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 5h

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 4h

a bunch of my friends are also rereading, and a few reading for the first time

very funny to see people make the same mistakes that 2011 me made, but in 2025 with all the benefit of hindsight

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h

Two men charged with prison murder of Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins

Convicted child sex offender Watkins was attacked with a knife at HMP Wakefield on Saturday Two men have been charged with murder after the death in prison of the former Lostprophets singer and convicted child sex offender Ian Watkins. Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, have both been charged with murder and will appear before Leeds magistrates’ court on Monday morning, West Yorkshire police said. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 7h

the worst thing about protests is you're reminded of this guy's existence as he torturously tries to categorise a Big Bird costume as a dastardly antifa weapon

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 15h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Will Manson Wildlife @birder007.bsky.social · 18h

a couple of rubbish pics of the Little Egret at Tain Beach today. It helps if you zoom, your zoom lens #highlandbirds #birds

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Mark Mitchell @trusttheroad-24.bsky.social · 17h

Weather changing in central Florida, able to get out and about today for the first time after a long hot humid summer!

Green Heron, Blue-Tailed Damselfly, and hungry Limpkin all on tap this morning. Capture of water surface tension action.

#birds
#damselfly
#greenheron
#photographersofbluesky

Green Heron, head and back of neck ruffled up.

Blue-Tailed Damselfly and drop of water resting on lily pad.

Limpkin using wooden dock planks to help get at tasty apple snail breakfast

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