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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 10h

I wonder what it's going to take for a history textbook to ever state plain the fact that a Black liberal being elected President of the United States broke this country's psyche so hard that it spent the next (at least) 8 years simultaneously schisming itself & pretending it wasn't.

Because, like…

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Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 10h

Too slow.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 12h

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

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Christina Ng @reconnectsreiki.bsky.social · 21h

“Today I learned about a term called a ‘glimmer’. Which is the opposite of a trigger. Glimmers are those moments in your day that make you feel joy, happiness, peace, or gratitude. Once you train your brain to be on the lookout for glimmers, these tiny moments will appear more and more.” #AltText

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 22h

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17h

Microsoft has been illegally tracking students and schoolgoers via its 365 Education platform, officials in Austria have ruled www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-ne...

Microsoft found to be breaching data privacy in Austrian schools

Microsoft has been illegally tracking students and schoolgoers via its 365 Education platform, officials in Austria have ruled.

www.thestar.com.my

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 19h

Congratulations to our 2024 Emerging Māori Writer in Residence Shelley Burne-Field (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Rārua, Te Ātiawa), who is the winner of the 2025 Pikihuia Award for Poetry in English, judged by Tayi Tibble

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TK Ramsay @tkramsay.bsky.social · 22h

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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 19h

Ā free queen!!

Congrats.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 19h

The dude is so young he won our Jr category as well as over all winner of the @winterstellar.bsky.social photography comp 2 years ago.

Also one helluva nice guy, congratulations Tom

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 20h

Star photographer's stunning Aoraki Mount Cook shot

Star photographer wins prize with stunning Aoraki Mount Cook shot

Landscape astro photographer, Tom Rae, has won the Royal Museums Greenwich Skyscapes Astronomy Photographer of the Year for a second time.

www.rnz.co.nz

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SpiffySmallSound @doublecollusion.bsky.social · 1d

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff

Block, move on.

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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like terfs are the kind of people who need scifi lizards to have 'a decent rack'

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

TERFs pretending to freak out about the “transgender propaganda” of “unknown gender” in pokemon that was in the series since gen 2 released in 1999

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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 1d

Either works

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 1d

A play in three acts

Grok rebutting DHS, saying Will Stancill is not a threat

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”

Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”

Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”

NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#NYC #NoKings 👑

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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 1d

You could do worse for a bit on the side

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 1d

Stuff has piece up today raising legitimate issues with how the Harmful Digital Communications Act has been weaponised by people trying to shut down scrutiny. But in the middle of it, there is this one line drive-by allegation with no further context/discussion.

Former Lower Hutt mayor Campbell Barry has used the law to shut down a Facebook page - which he says exposed he and his family to harm online, but which those familiar with the case said was simply public scrutiny.

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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 1d

I read that part of the problem is getting the wheat to Auckland. There's no cheap method, partially because of the strait

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 9d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 1d

For now

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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I see an Andrew former Duke of York story in reminded that when he was molesting teens the British media were running wall to wall stories about his wife being a lunatic.

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🍂MtBotany @mtbotany.bsky.social · 1d

Three things to do to support Wikipedia:

1. Dump Google. Make DuckDuckGo with AI turned off your default search.

2. When the information you want is not in Wikipedia and you find it elsewhere leave a comment on an article talk page pointing to it.

3. If you have the means, donate time or money.

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misschief9.bsky.social @misschief9.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta love how all the Freedom Fighter Cookers are being exposed as the tyrannical, white supremacist, nazi scum they've always been.

Fresh video casts doubt on March for Australia NSN claims

A previously unreported video has emerged appearing to show a key March for Australia organiser coordinating with a Neo-Nazi at the first rally in Sydney in August, ABC NEWS Verify has found.

www.abc.net.au

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 2d

oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

"The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, last month celebrated RRA analysis...An open letter criticising the Australian government’s focus on renewable energy coordinated by RRA...has been signed by...energy entrepreneur Trevor St Baker, Dick Smith...Warren Mundine and...nuclear energy advocates."

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

"Two US-based academics and experts said Rainforest Reserves Australia’s (RRA) claims in submissions about their work were “100% misleading” and “absurd"...the organisation’s submission writer has admitted using AI."

And, look who supports RRA ;)

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says

Exclusive: Rainforest Reserves Australia has published submissions naming nonexistent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm

www.theguardian.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

I cannot overstate how much you should not give Meta access to your photo library.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Why, though.

Facebook's AI can now suggest edits to the photos still on your phone | TechCrunch

Facebook is rolling out a new Meta AI photo suggestion feature across the U.S. and Canada that lets its AI recommend edits to images stored on users’ camera rolls—even if they haven’t been shared. The...

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