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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 4h

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 26m

“Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, set a goal in 2020 of tripling the country’s capacity to generate wind and solar energy by 2030. The country reached that mark last year — six years ahead of schedule.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/b...

How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains

www.nytimes.com

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 44m

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 13h

The BBC has also said that these rules apply to people entering or leaving the Schengen zone. The UK was never part of the Schengen zone, so my guess is even if Brexit hadn’t existed, UK citizens would still be affected.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 19h

Locked out.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 19h

And if you ever get walked out of your Apple account, even accidentally, you will no longer be able to access your passwords. I would not trust a platform with that kind of control, and I’m someone who uses almost entirely Apple devices.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 19h

No, it’s far from being Sherlocked. It’s available on Linux and Android, and it stores things that Apple’s app doesn’t, such as secure notes.

Also, there is a real risk depending on Apple‘s Passwords app. If for any reason you get locked out of your Apple account, you can no longer access passwords

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 20h

Dumbest gaslighting ever. Who was president on January 6?

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 20h

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic 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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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 21h

Richard Tice and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is the political wing of the fossil fuel industry.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 23h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 20h

Even if their main target is the enterprise market, I don’t see how they can make enough money to merit that valuation. it does make me rethink using the app; while it’s excellent, I’m not the target demographic anymore.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 20h

Nothing against 1Password, which I used to use and like, but on what planet is a company that makes a password manager worth SIX POINT EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS?

www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

1Password Founders Sell a $75 Million Stake to Utah Jazz Owner’s VC Fund

1Password founders have agreed to sell a $75 million stake to a fund established earlier this year by Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith and Accel partner Ryan Sweeney.

www.bloomberg.com

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 23h

If you like crime fiction, Amazon UK has 13 Penguin classic crime novels for 99p each today. Titles like Night of the Hunter, I Married a Dead Man, and a double Chandler book. Lots of great stuff.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI — Trump lied that Chicago had “4000” murders, when it’s projected to have 380 this year (way down from last year)

If it’s so bad there why does he have to keep lying about it?

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in peace Diane x

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 1d

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by John Deering.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 1d

It was @sarahjeong.bsky.social and we’ve been pounding this drum for years - especially since all the promises of metadata to prove images are real have gone nowhere www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...

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