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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

The New York Times writes 21 paragraphs about the Warner Brothers sale without a single mention of the fact that this company has a 25 year history of disastrous mergers (AOL, AT&T, Time Warner, Discovery) resulting in endless layoffs and price hikes and shittier product

Warner Bros. Discovery Says It Is Considering a Sale

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Jim Penola @jimpenola.bsky.social · 5d

"There are no fixed definitions in a mafia state. Law is a plaything, evidence is an illusion, and as an Uzbek dissident explained to me twenty years ago in a way I now understand far better, 'Suspicious is the same as guilty.'"
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social

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Inventing Antifa

In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

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Csaba Gálffy @galffy.bsky.social · 4d

That was surprisingly close on the women's side!

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 4d

Half the internet seems to be down thanks to the us-aws-east-1 outage

Perplexity, Amazon .com, Signal all down (just 3 services I tried to use)

When aws-us-east-1 sneezes, the whole world feels it indeed

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Csaba Gálffy @galffy.bsky.social · 4d

What 55% inheritance tax does to a country. Relatively low inequality, decent public services.

Rhys Morgan @rhysm.wales · 5d

Not to over-romanticise Japan, but this little snippet from an article about vending machines hits especially hard having just got back from Tokyo.
There were so many times we saw something cool, like vending machines, or coin lockers, and thought "someone would just piss in that in the UK" :(

Lack of crime

Japan has an astonishingly low crime rate. Vandalism is extremely rare, considerably reducing the cost of running a vending machine.

This means there’s fewer costs associated with cleaning or repair — and the vending machines can be out on the street night and day, increasing sales.

One of the saddest things about travelling around Japan as a westerner is seeing all the nice things, and thinking, if that was in the UK it would be destroyed in a day. I desperately want hot corn soup when i’m waiting for a train in the rain. Why can’t we have nice things?

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Csaba Gálffy @galffy.bsky.social · 5d

These morons would hand over Ireland (or... Florida?) to the Brits because "they speak English"

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 6d

“Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right”

How much more research do journalisten, politicians, pundits and strategists need before they finally change course?

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

www.theguardian.com

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Csaba Gálffy @galffy.bsky.social · 6d

dril tweet screenshot saying "go ahead. keep screaming "shut the fuck up" at me". it only makes my opinions worse"

Csaba Gálffy @galffy.bsky.social · 6d

Compared to other major sports, this is still very very underpaid. CR7 get 30x this much. Thirty times.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 6d

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 8d

Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 8d

happy 10 year anniversary to one of the most prophetic tweets of all time @cavalorn.bsky.social

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 9d

god this is so funny because back when I had my life blown up due to white people tweets I lost exactly zero (0) friends defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 10d

The six foreigners who had their visas revoked were from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Paraguay and South Africa. They were not identified.

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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Csaba Gálffy @galffy.bsky.social · 10d

We like your writing. But man, you also have access to great cats.

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Csaba Gálffy @galffy.bsky.social · 10d

Ez a "CEO azt mondta hogy" típusú kreténséget nagyon gyorsan be kellene fejeznie a sajtónak. Ráadásul a hozzátett "kontextus" is hasonló faszságok gyűjteménye.

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · Sep 10

who's your favorite Jeffrey? 🖖🏼 mine's Shran

Text banner that says, "Welcome to Star Trek. We have:" that is followed by nine pictures of characters played by Jeffrey Combs in different Trek shows. His name is under each one.

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Csaba Gálffy @galffy.bsky.social · 11d

"The marketplace of ideas deemed my ideas worthless! It's a badge of honor!"

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 13d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.