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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 5h

There's a fascinating split on the timeline today with a bunch of white people arguing that these people weren't like this in the past and all the Black people saying that they absolutely were like this in the past. A real "Two Americas" moment.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

Like it is totally tragic that they don't care what white liberals think of them anymore and that the balance of power is such that they are able to do even more of this shit consequence-free but they were always calling us monkeys and hanging nooses at school and getting away with it. that matters.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 22h

Unlawfully built, now leaking through the safety liner. Enough fuel to blow Darwin Harbour to kingdom come

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.

Safety liner under US military fuel tanks still failing, weeks after approval

Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.

www.abc.net.au

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 27m

One of the most egregious myths of patriarchy is The Protectors power fantasy that men protect women & children & are quick to violence in response to men harming them. The rates of violence against women & children vs men preventing or avenging show otherwise.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 24m

I mean not getting into West Point allegedly broke Charlie Kirk's brain. They want elite trappings without having to compete for them.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 55m

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 39m

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva and allies are accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of intentionally delaying her swearing-in in an attempt to delay the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

“Speaker Johnson is protecting pedophiles. That’s what this is all about.”

Why hasn't Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva been sworn in yet? Democrats cry foul over delays.

The Arizona Democrat and allies say it’s related to an attempt to delay the release of files related to the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 31m

I suspect the functioning business model here may actually be to sell erotic chatgpt *to* onlyfans models, who can maintain the parasocial illusion with less effort. (they're already mostly subcontracting to developing world staff who are using AI for much of the chat)

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 33m

There have been a lot of articles about how OnlyFans models make most of their money from the parasocial stuff (often getting assistants or AI to run chats for them). How many people are paying ChatGPT if they know the money doesn't go to the sexy human model who flirts with them but to Sam Altman?

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29m

I think we need to talk more about entitlement in the “do fascists feel shame?” debate.

Fascists aren’t ashamed of oppressing people. But they do feel entitled to adoration for their oppression.

When we reject them, they act like an abusive parent, mortified that their kids don’t really love them.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 6h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28m

And I use the metaphor of a parent and child very intentionally because paternalism is a core value for anyone who believes white supremacy is a morally superior system of social organization.

They truly think we should be thanking them for all their domination.

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Bree Hadley @breehadley.bsky.social · 19h

We have launched the Disability Arts History Australia website!
-Visit the Disability Arts History Australia website at: disabilityartshistoryaustralia.net
-Visit the Padlet to create a post with information for the Timeline about a person, event, and/or organisation padlet.com/bree_hadley/...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 51m

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 2h

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol

“It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.

www.huffpost.com

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 1h

Australian activists who took part in the Global Sumud Flotilla claim Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, personally threatened to “gas” them.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/shut-the-f...

'Shut the f--k up or we'll gas you' – Australian flotilla activists allege direct threats from Israeli minister

Australians aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla claim Israeli soldiers sexually assaulted them in captivity

www.deepcutnews.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 1h

The woody biomass of Australia’s tropical rainforests has already switched from carbon sink to carbon source – and the reason is climate change.

👉 theconversation.com/a-cruci...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 1h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Callahan @ccallahan45.bsky.social · 1h

In the next post, Ketan says a trillion barrels of oil is 430 GtCO2. Every ton of CO2 emitted causes 0.00026 excess deaths between now and 2100.
Conclusion: unlocking an extra trillion barrels of oil kills 112 million people.

(Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4h

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread.

As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT

archive.ph/grTVe

How AI can unlock an extra trillion barrels of oil
And deliver the volumes needed to meet resilient demand
15 October 2025 3 minute read
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Simon Flowers
Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge

Andrew Latham
Senior Vice President, Energy Research

Orla Marnell
Principal Data Scientist, Upstream

Josh Dixon
Senior Research Analyst, Upstream
Stronger-for-longer oil demand will heap pressure on the upstream industry to deliver new supply. I asked our subsurface experts, Dr Andrew Latham, Orla Marnell and Josh Dixon how artificial intelligence can identify opportunities to meet the challenge.
Why do we need to unlock new supply?
The slow pace of the energy transition means that oil demand is likely to be far more resilient than some thought just a few years ago. Wood Mackenzie forecasts annual consumption won’t peak until the early to mid-2030s, and cumulative demand will be almost 1,000 billion barrels through 2050.
Firm demand throws the spotlight onto where new supply can be sourced. Production from assets already onstream or justified for development will gradually decline under current investment plans from just over 100 million b/d today to 50 million b/d 2050, cumulatively 650 billion barrels. That leaves a huge supply gap of 300 million barrels.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1h

The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕

Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

www.abc.net.au

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Aug 24

Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.

Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.

www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...

There Is No Trolley Problem

We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..

www.the-reframe.com

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1h

Antifa in the United States took form in the 1980s, when anti-fascist skinhead youths organized groups like Anti-Racist Action in the Twin Cities and SHARP — Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice — in New York City. This was part of a global movement of skinhead anti-fascism.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1h

In 1934, the Antifa of Palestine came out of Arab and Jewish revolutionaries working toward a shared social revolution of Palestine’s Arab and Jewish peoples. The group sought liberation from the British Empire; who intentionally divided Arab and Jewish people in Palestine so better to rule them.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1h

In the 1930s, anti-fascism became a global cause. The global anti-fascism that announced itself with its immense mobilization during the Spanish Civil War had a lot of qualities in common with the Arditi del Popolo —some of the Italian anti-fascists went to Spain to fight world fascism there in '36.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1h

The antifa concept can be traced to Arditi del Popolo movement, an Italian anti-fascist group that was founded in 1921 for the purpose of defending working-class people and institutions from the assault of Mussolini’s blackshirts.

From 1920s Italy to 1930s Palestine to 1980s Ska Scenes, Antifa Has Many Faces

A historian discusses past anti-fascist organizations and practices in light of Trump’s effort to criminalize “antifa.”…

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