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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 10h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 6h

Identify every brownshirt for posterity. Their neighbors deserve to know Mike kidnaps kids and murders dogs for a living.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 7h

Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 10h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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ceej @ceej.online · 8h

what really fucked me up is that portobello mushrooms are just old button mushrooms

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 8h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 13h

“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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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 6h

int'l community bring back duvet covers with holes in the corners

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 7h

Changed a duvet cover, does this entitle me to a note exempting me from the rest of this week?

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 7h

Regulating military use of AI is in everyone’s interest on.ft.com/4mZZQpS | opinion

Regulating military use of AI is in everyone’s interest

Blanket prohibitions won’t work — but all states should agree on best practices for ethical and legal compliance

on.ft.com

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 6d

This isn’t actually a thread of different posts. It’s all just different cultivars of a single post

The “That's On Me, I Set the Bar Too Low” meme, but edited to reference Brassica oleracea. Text as follows:

Jake: I'm an expert on vegetables
Jess: Oh yeah? Name ten vegetables
Jake: Brassica oleracea
Jess: That's on me, I set the bar too low.

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Eric Rosén @detljuvalivet.bsky.social · 17h

Jag kommer inte klara att hålla uppe koncentrationen ett valår, jag klarar knappt ens 30 minuter partiledardebatt längre, alla är för dåliga. Inget är politik, allt är bara kommunikation. Ingen medborgare har nytta av detta om de vill välja var de ska lägga sin röst

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8h

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 12h

Think they're trying to indicate they're quoting someone, but in the dumbest way possible, for the dumbest reasons imaginable

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 12h

am I doing something wrong or is there really no byline??

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 12h

On Twitter, Sky News' account put quotation marks around the word 'dies'. It did not do so here though. Wonder why.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 19h

Palestinian girl, 12, dies after suffering from malnutrition for months

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone writing about the influence of these thinkers really needs to provide detail on what they have actually written. Most of it is incoherent, lacking any substance and often downright weird.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 16h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 12h

Remember the scene in ONCE where, after recording and mixing the song in a professional studio, they run the REAL test, where they listen to the finished mix on crappy old speakers?

Don’t punish your audience just for not being able to afford the best set-up.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 22h

I am once again begging filmmakers to start lighting their night scenes again. Moonlight and starlight are both available, as are torches, campfires, and any number of plausible light sources! What I'm watching right now may as well be a podcast

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 12h

reminded of the most legendary sex song of all time (link in post)

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 12h

hate makes people so goddamn weird

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 18h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 16h

These people protested an event that ended with hundreds of people praying in Hebrew that today would be the day the hostages were finally brought home.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 18h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 16h

Wikipedia is the last source of reliable, unbiased information that isn't controlled by right wing billionaires, and they really REALLY want to get their hands on that, too.

Please keep donating to stop that from happening. Even small amounts help.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

open.substack.com

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16h

A reminder that I have "Arkham" embedded in my name.

(not that there's anything wrong with that...)

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 13h

If you want to “radicalize” people against the state, do this. Obscene levels of cruelty on display.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

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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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13h

Average NYPD salary with OT is well over 100K, you live like a king on that in Long Island ain't none of them going nowhere. Anyone who believes that is a stone cold idiot. How many other jobs are they qualified for where they could earn that? Zero. The answer is zero.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 13h

reiterating my call to fire all headline writers

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h

So tempting to teach an online course in rhetoric by just using NYT headlines

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 13h

there should be social consequences for journos and editors who do this sort of thing

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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