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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 5m

My Fight Against Built in Obsolescence: "The DISPOSABLE Strimmer" How I Repaired this Makita - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oha... #righttorepair

My Fight Against Built in Obsolescence: "The DISPOSABLE Strimmer" How I Repaired this Makita

YouTube video by how-2-repair.com

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 5h

Man Arrested By Charlie Kirk Fan/Sheriff For Directly Quoting Donald Trump - www.techdirt.com/2025/11/03/m...

Man Arrested By Charlie Kirk Fan/Sheriff For Directly Quoting Donald Trump

We know there’s a concerted effort to punish anyone who dares to show anything but complete, unqualified reverence for Charlie Kirk’s corpse. The man who made millions by denigrating an…

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 5h

Proton Exposes Data Breach Cover-ups odysee.com/@davidbombal...

Proton Exposes Data Breach Cover-ups

Companies are hiding massive data breaches, but a new Proton service exposes these infosec cover-ups. We look at what it found, from Qantas to 19M records in France, and why 2FA is critical.

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EvilBunny Pottymouth Resists The Cultists every day! @mrsquirrel.bsky.social · 10h

Trump threatens to cut federal funds for New York City if Mamdani wins mayoral race

🚨Don't fall for this Trump lie, he'll always deny funds to NYC! Demented Don isn't a President, he's a Dictator!
Fight Trump's GOPedo Fascism, vote for Zohran Mamdani!
- EB

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Trump threatens to cut federal funds for New York City if Mamdani wins mayoral race

US President Donald Trump on Monday said he would hold back federal funds for New York City if Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral election. Trump urged New Yorkers to vote for…

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 11h

Illegal US ICE deportation flights refuelling at Shannon www.ontheditch.com/illegal-us-i...

Illegal US ICE deportation flights refuelling at Shannon

Illegal US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) flights – carrying deportees to African countries they have no personal ties to – refuelled at Shannon Airport this July and August.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22h

bride, eyes in different directions, bride is part white couch, seats multiple people maybe 4 or 6, fat jd vance as groom

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14h

At his final rally on Monday, New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani vowed to resist US President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal funds if he wins, framing the vote as a stand against intimidation and political bullying.

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 1d

76% Gemini News Errors odysee.com/@davidbombal...

76% Gemini News Errors

AI chatbots are giving wrong or flattering answers more often than you think. A BBC and EBU study found almost half of AI news summaries had problems. Here is why you should verify.

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 1d

Man Arrested By Charlie Kirk Fan/Sheriff For Directly Quoting Donald Trump | Techdirt www.techdirt.com/2025/11/03/m...

Man Arrested By Charlie Kirk Fan/Sheriff For Directly Quoting Donald Trump

We know there’s a concerted effort to punish anyone who dares to show anything but complete, unqualified reverence for Charlie Kirk’s corpse. The man who made millions by denigrating an…

www.techdirt.com

Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 1d

DHS Plans to Collect State Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks — ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/dhs-... #gestapo

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks

It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 1d

Microsoft sued for misleading millions of customers into paying a 45% increase for AI add-ons. | Tuta tuta.com/blog/microso...

Microsoft sued for misleading millions of customers into paying a 45% increase for AI add-ons. | Tuta

Australia’s competition regulator sued Microsoft, alleging it misled around 2.7 million users into paying up to 45% more in subscription prices for Microsoft 365 because of its AI integration. But the...

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 1d

F-Droid In Trouble as Google Changes the Rules. Again. - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqFX...

F-Droid In Trouble as Google Changes the Rules. Again.

YouTube video by Linux User Space

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 1d

Police use Flock Cameras to Wrongfully Accuse Woman of Theft odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8...

Police use Flock Cameras to Wrongfully Accuse Woman of Theft

In this video I discuss how the Police in Columbine Valley Colorado wrongfully accused and tried to charge a woman of package theft because they had records of her driving her car near the street wher...

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 1d

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules – POLITICO www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules

Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 1d

The documents she obtained showed the university "had negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market," #pathetic and #shameful cowardice

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty extraordinary story here
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News

Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 1d

The Authoritarian Stack www.authoritarian-stack.info

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 2d

Google says Search AI Mode will know everything about you www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/...

Google says Search AI Mode will know everything about you

Google wants 'AI mode' on Search to be as personal as possible, and it'll soon tap into services like Gmail or Drive to know more about you.

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 2d

Why the UK Gov Website FAILED odysee.com/@davidbombal...

Why the UK Gov Website FAILED

A recent AWS outage in US-East-1 took down the UK's HMRC website, exposing a massive single point of failure. This event raises serious warnings about data privacy and the dangers of a centralized Dig...

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 2d

Security hole slams Chromium browsers - no fix yet • The Register www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/b...

Security hole slams Chromium browsers - no fix yet

Exclusive: Edge, Atlas, Brave among those affected

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Thomas McNicholas @turquoisedays.bsky.social · 2d

Did Trump’s Chaos Help Canada’s Tourism Soar This Summer? - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=teFv...

Did Trump’s Chaos Help Canada’s Tourism Soar This Summer?

YouTube video by Guard The Leaf

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

🇬🇧Policy decision on #chatcontrol now official on the EU agenda for Wednesday: Maintain status quo (#Chatkontrolle 1.0) or reintroduce the extreme #Chatkontrolle 2.0 at a more favorable, later time? Nothing is off the table yet! […]

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