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LuisFran @luisfran09.bsky.social · 1h

Evacuaron toda la UCR por amenaza de tiroteo

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 14h

doing journalism

me emailing Tori Amos to ask if she invented the pumpkin spice latte

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Manu @manusaurius.bsky.social · 1d

Relevante

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 23h

"Fascists are twelve" seems to be the evergreen statement as of late

If this is how they treat someone that everyone knows when the whole world is watching, well we already have seen how bad it is to those behind closed doors

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.

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Laura @laescude.mastodon.cr.ap.brid.gy · 21h

El presidente de #costarica se va a USA a operarse porqué, a diferencia de una mujer embarazada, él sí tiene derecho a la salud.

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SeasTinta @seastinta.bsky.social · 18h

Digamos que esa foto está tan mal escogida que es para orinarse de risa 😂.

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 21h

Ya EEUU no está dentro del top 10 de pasaportes "más poderosos"

time.com/7325868/us-p...

U.S. Drops Out of Top 10 in Passport Power. Here’s Why

The U.S. passport is now tied with Malaysia for 12th place following Trump's crackdown on legal and illegal immigration.

time.com

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 1d

Mmmm.... 🤔
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🌹 Cristina La Veneno 🌹 @calikhaug.bsky.social · 1d

AH LA PUTA

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 1d

No, lo ví en una página de FB que parecía ser de memes.

Igual había un montón de comentarios de gente chavista indignada.

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 1d

Muy interesante esto de Cory Doctorow sobre la prohibición para evadir tecnologías anti-copia, que impulsó EEUU en sus tratados comerciales. Aquí habla sobre el CAFTA-DR en particular, y pafraseo, seriamos unos jaibos si seguimos respetando eso si nos ponen aranceles

pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/f...

I used to occasionally guest-lecture at an international relations grad program at the Central European University in Budapest, and one summer, I had a student who had served as the information minister to a Central American country while the US was negotiating the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). This student described getting a phone call from their country's chief negotiator who said, "I know you told me not to budge on anticircumvention, but the USTR tells me that if we don't give them this, they will block our agricultural exports. I'm sorry." Country by country, the world fell into line.

When someone tells you, "You'd better do what I say or I'm going to burn your house down," and then they burn your house down, you'd be an absolute sucker if you kept up your part of the bargain.

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Karlis @karlillag.bsky.social · 1d

Ya me dio chicha pensar en todas las jetonadas que todavía falta por oírle en el resto de la campaña

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 1d

Este es el punto en el que estamos ahora.

Imagen de Walter White, con una leyenda "Sindico del PLN ,.principal sospechoso de colocar micrófono en oficina de Laura Fernández "

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🌹 Cristina La Veneno 🌹 @calikhaug.bsky.social · 1d

AH LA PUTA

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Divian Brenes @divianb.bsky.social · 1d

-Laura, ¿que tal si te acomodamos cerca de una mesita con un crucifijo e imágenes católicas?

-Claro. ¡Buena idea! Ya mismo deseolvo las reliquias de la virgen de mi abuelita. ¡Mas católica imposible!

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 1d

The homes Israeli hostages return to VS the homes Gazans return to

The is no going back to “normal” for them. They are now living in a rubble ridden hellscape while the western world moves on, pretending it didn’t fund and approve this.

On the left is a street in Tel Aviv, Israel. Pictured is beautiful green lush Mediterranean style cityscape.

On the right is an image of a young Palestinian girl walking the “streets” of Gaza City, now turned to rubble and ash. The buildings are demolished by bombs and war crimes while the streets are littered with debris, rubble, and broken concrete.

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fernandochavese.bsky.social @fernandochavese.bsky.social · 1d

Aquí se puede apreciar plenamente la contaminación de la “prueba” del “espionaje” “detectado” por el “equipo” de “seguridad” de “prestigio” “internacional”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Alvaro @junquillal.bsky.social · 2d

La bebida de los ticos!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 16

GenAI aesthetics is not only the aesthetics of fascism, but it is also the modern day version of nicotine-tar sticky walls and overflowing ashtrays everywhere from kindergartens to hospital rooms to airplanes.

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 2d

Me recordaste ese disco de Nirvana. Cuando salió a la gente no le gustó , todo el mundo esperaba (bueno yo también) algo más parecido a Nevermind y dicen que la disquera lo sacó a la carrera con b-sides. Pero tiene sus buenas piecillas (Sliver por ejemplo) y es un vistazo a su faceta punk.

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Serielizados @serielizados.bsky.social · 3d

Imagina entrevistar a David Simon, creador de THE WIRE, y soltarle que seguro que le hubiera gustado disponer de IA en su época😭

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 2d

¿Hay alguien que le diga Estadio Banorte al Azteca? Ni los propios empleados del banco le deben llamar así. Ni la FIFA en sus publicaciones.

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 2d

¿INS Estadio? Suena como INCESTADIO

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 3d

Cuando yo estaba carajillo me acuerdo que en radio sonaba como un medley de Alberto Vázquez que incluía esta estrofa en versión rock en inglés. No entendía qué decía, ni la mayoría de gente que la escuchaba. Lástima, porque es pura sabiduría para el pueblo.

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