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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 23h

ISRAEL BREAKS CEASEFIRE should be such a simple headline to write and yet no western news outlet seems capable of it.

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Baj Mihal @bajmihal.bsky.social · 5h

Doesn't get much more late stage Capitalism than that:

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A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 17m

Rush Limbaugh started it

alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 19m

even if they'd blocked the others, the number of their comments would still be visible

alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 21m

since when is Milo not gay? last I checked (circa 2015), he was the alt-right's poster gay boy

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 50m

this shit is blatantly unconstitutional and really, really, REALLY bad

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Screenshot from Washington Post: ICE also reported a $2 million contract for Penlink’s Tangles and Weblocs data systems on Sept. 25, which combine social media and dark web data to build detailed portraits of individuals. Weblocs allows clients to track the mobile phone location data of targeted individuals, information that government officials would otherwise need a warrant to obtain. Penlink did not respond to a request for comment.
In another project, ICE has disclosed in recent days its potential plans to set up a social media monitoring team of 16 analysts who would sift through information from social media platforms and other databases to generate leads to locate targeted individuals. An Oct. 2 “request for information,” which comes before soliciting bids for a project that could change, listed Facebook, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, WhatsApp, YouTube, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Myspace and Google+ as some of the platforms that the team would scour to find clues about the possible location of the target individual. The target’s family, friends and co-workers could also be probed.

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 53m

he does have charisma though. I mean he must, or there's no explanation for his political longevity. people did vote for him, in the tens of millions, both times, and they attempted a coup for him. I don't see it either but you don't get that kind of loyalty with mere lies

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 1h

this is a representative of the class of people we've decided to idolise and entrust with deciding our fates. and he's just an out and our moron

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 1h

I've actually encountered this in the wild, with two of my friends - they claim it's fantastic for science but rubbish at humanities. they're both humanitarians

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 20h

making up a guy to get mad at but then we talk it out and acknowledge each other's pain. we're at a spa in salzburg now.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 14h

Happy Diwali. The world needs the light.

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Annika Joeres @annikajoeres.bsky.social · 10h

Ich saß monatelang im Gerichtssaal mit den Vergewaltigern von Madame Pelicot. Es waren durchschnittliche, unauffällige, weiße Franzosen. Auch jede Statistik zeigt: Die größte Gefahr für Frauen liegt im näheren Umfeld, in der Familie.
Nicht irgendwo in der Stadt. So ein Quark.

Johannes Hillje @jhillje.bsky.social · 12h

“Ich habe gar nichts zurückzunehmen”

- sagt #Merz heute zu seiner “wir haben im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem”-Äußerung in Bezug auf Migration.

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 10h

нито едното лол, просто е толкова известен филм, че ми се струва всеобща референция. стои ми в списъка де, за като намеря 7 часа без задачи в живота си

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 10h

не знам, аз лично разглеждам тия опити тихомълком да се дават европейски пари на чуждестранни defence contractors в контекста на резкия завой на ЕС от проект за мир към днешното пълно господство на говоренето за война и ми се привижда лобизъм и корупция :/

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 10h

"the delegated act of 28 August 2025 also extends eligibility for defence financing to entities established or managed in associated countries and to entities controlled by non-associated countries"
"the concept and list of ‘associated countries’ lack stable legal definition"

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 10h

ЕК използва делегирани актове (които не минават през демократичния контрол на ЕП), за да разширява и изменя правилата за финансиране от фондовете на ЕС - в случая отваря вратата на чуждестранни предприятия за "отбрана" за достъп до европейски публични пари

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Commission delegated regulation of 28 August 2025 amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1078 as regards strategic investments in the field of defence set ou...

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION pursuant to Rule 114(3) of the Rules of Procedure on the Commission delegated regulation of 28 August 2025 amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1078 as regards st...

www.europarl.europa.eu

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 10h

yes - why? that specific dynamic where populists don't lose anything once their fraud is exposed is a mystery to me. kinda like end-times cults keep their popularity and members after each failed end-of-the-world prediction. what psychological mechanism is responsible for that irrational behaviour?

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 10h

оооо новият нобелов лауреат е авторът на Сатантанго?! ми така го представяйте бе

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 11h

не. но баща ми слуша постоянно, така това лято послушах една седмица, докато му бях на гости

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Jen Scare-a 🦇🎃👻 @unrealjen.bsky.social · 1d

I see Israel is now back to business now that they have the hostages back. No one but Trump, and maybe not even him, really thought Isreal planned to stop killing people. It was a strategic pause, like anything Putin would sign with Ukraine.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: The death toll from Israeli attacks across Gaza now stands at 35 Palestinians since dawn, according to medical sources in the besieged enclave.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/256u7j

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 12h

my ipod is perpetually in airplane mode and for some reason believes it's January 1976. it doesn't show the right time either. I irrationally love that timelessness with my music and use it for nothing else

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 12h

същата причина по-лесно да казваме и особено да пишем fuck, отколкото ебал съм го, cunt да ни звучи по-приемливо от путка и т.н.

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 12h

родният, и особено ежедневният, език е по-емоционално непосредствен от чуждите и според мен това е 1 от причините преводните текстове редовно да се санитизират с чуждици или собствени думи от по-"неутрален" (т.е. по-рядко използван) регистър - изпиране вм. пране на пари, нехуманно вм. нечовешко

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alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 12h

омръзнало ми е от преводачи, които ги е страх от българския език

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