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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21h

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah man, they earned that shit.

Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 2d

🔊ON & UP
😍👇🏾'✨🪶⚔️Warriorz #Grand Entrance⚔️🪶✨
✨The Battle Flag of Custer “Rightfully” taken @ the Battle of Greasy Grass 🌾A.K.A “The Battle of LittleBigHorn”.. Blackhills #PowWow”
(FB VID: Truman Tsosie. Oct 12, 2025)
#GrandEntry #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

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Bad House RPG @badhouserpg.bsky.social · 8d

It's Filipino Heritage Month!

Bad House Celebrates it by sharing our own series created by @rocketsandpens.bsky.social on our channel. Fabian grew up in the Philippines and their storytelling has been heavily influenced by their experiences growing up in Manila.

Check out the following on YT!

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

Organizations can enhance privacy and security on their devices by installing Privacy Badger, EFF’s free, open source browser extension that automatically blocks trackers. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy

In an era of pervasive online surveillance, organizations have an important role to play in protecting their communities’ privacy. Schools, libraries, and other organizations can make private

www.eff.org

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. What terrible news. All the best to his family.

Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 2d

Devastated to hear about Rob Wieland's passing - a wonderful, golden-hearted man, a brilliant writer and journalist, and a passionate advocate for games and the people who play and make them. Sending nothing but the utmost love and deepest condolences to his friends and family.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 2d

ChatGPT is just plagiarism with extra steps.

VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 2d

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 2d

First, keep Alan Moore’s name out of your fuckin mouth ((SLAP)).
Second, Gene Wilder’s “morons” speech from Blazing Saddles but it’s about billionaires.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 3d

This cartoon is by the guy that designed the DeLorean Time Machine, the Conan The Barbarian sword & title, several aliens in the cantina sequence in the first Star Wars, the guy who worked on ALIEN, DARK STAR, TOTAL RECALL, TRUE LIES, among many other movies. That guy, the legendary RON COBB!

Joltin’ Johnny Lucas @joltinjohnnylucas.bsky.social · 3d

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 2d

I assume that’s from one of the prequels?

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 2d

Oh so they made nine of the youth clubs beat the tenth to death?? Yeah, I know the real definitions of things.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 3d

Oh sure but when *I* do it….

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 3d

.@miriamkp on what led a 1920s Brooklyn surgeon to remove the veins from a day-old infant, mount them on a board, and film them being pumped with air: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/jacob-sarnoff-and-the-strange-world-of-anatomical-filmmaking

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 3d

To quote Mr. Mankewicz and Mr. Wells: "It's no trick to make an awful lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money."

When most of the U.S. electorate awakes to finally realize great wealth is no way conditional to or dependent on intelligence or morality, this country begins to heal.

Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 4d

Peter Thiel is Palantir co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is president of Thiel Capital, and a partner of Founders Fund, a venture capital firm.

Everyone who remains in his circles is complicit.

www.commondreams.org/news/peter-t...

Instead of Charity, Peter Thiel Told Elon Musk to Use Billions for Right-Wing Crusade Against 'Antichrist' | Common Dreams

Billionaire Peter Thiel urges Elon Musk to hoard wealth to battle future "Antichrist." Thiel warns against giving to left-wing nonprofits.

www.commondreams.org

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4d

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 4d

4 unnamed Co-conspirators.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5d

Yup, the NYT literally hired a reporter to plant puff pieces on Epstein! The NYC/DC media abetted Epstein because they were from the same social circles, circles that apparently do not have a problem with child rape. A page from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (it gets worse from there...)

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🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🌻 @aumakuahonu.bsky.social · 4d

A lot here, so posting a few excerpts.. All of it relevant:

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 4d

We gave them everything they wanted, so they’re making their own worst fears come true.

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ExpanseRPG @expanserpg.bsky.social · 4d

A serious situation is unfolding for Green Ronin. They need immediate legal help to protect their assets after Diamond’s bankruptcy. Please consider donating or sharing to support them. Every bit helps! gofund.me/13942a1a4 #ttrpg

Donate to Support Green Ronin in Critical Legal Defense, organized by Nicole Lindroos

My name is Nicole Lindroos, co-owner of Green Ronin Publishing. Diamond … Nicole Lindroos needs your support for Support Green Ronin in Critical Legal Defense

gofund.me

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 4d

We'd send jets from US airbases in Kuwait and whatnot to fuck with the Axis of Evil. Now that Democrats are the Axis of Evil, I wonder if we'll ask Qatar to .... naaah.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 4d

Libs can’t handle modern medical advances

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 4d

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo believes his "spirit animal" is a tiger, and that an ex-Navy SEAL-turned-guru unleashed it by walking on the backs of his thighs.

This is medicine's Florida man.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 4d

10/10, no down sides here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 5d

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 5d

MS Word sometimes struggles to decipher these old archives

The opening text of the book Delta Green Eyes Only Vol. 2: The Fate

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