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Sheep in Fog @brebis.bsky.social · 13h

Health officials have issued a warning after new figures revealed that cases of tuberculosis (TB), dubbed the world's deadliest infectious disease, are climbing rapidly across England.

Rise in 'world's deadliest infection' that could be mistaken for Covid

Health officials have urged the public to be alert to the signs of tuberculosis (TB) after new figures revealed cases of 'the world's deadliest infectious disease' are continuing to rise across Englan...

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isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social · 5d

Sim giving final comments. A lot going on. Doubles down on zero means zero. He brings up that Bligh invests in bitcoin. Says non abc councillors support a 6-7 property tax increase. Bligh is now responding bc her personal investments were brought up. She says has every right to invest her personal $

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 5h

Vancouver doesn't deserve much but we can certainly do better than this

why was he suddenly talking about bitcoin right before the vote on the (recklessly irresponsible and unlawful) Zero means Zero motion

anyone...

The mayor, who is a chartered accountant and former investment banker, said that no matter what staff recommends in the report that he will ensure that more work will be done on crypto.

“if they miss the mark, if they come up with recommendations that are factually incorrect or based on the wrong data, i will be personally filing an amendment to correct those discrepancies, and then we'll vote on that as well, and then it will pass,“ he told the crowd.

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Kara McNair @karamcnair.bsky.social · 5h

this is the “polish submarine with a screen door” joke I’ve heard but PLEAAAASSSE tell me it’s true and let me see that it is

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 5h

My neighbor told me neptune
keeps
eating his
submariners
so l asked
how many submariners he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets
a new
submariner
afterwards so l said it
sounds like he's just feeding
sub-
mariners
to neptune
and then his jefferson davis
started crying.
10:03 • 2019-09-30 - Twitter for iPhone

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 6h

STOP adapting 80-year-old books into movies and TV series. Stop it. There are a million new novels published every year and 99% of their authors are broke. Stop giving dead people’s descendants money. Books were NOT better a century ago, they were WORSE. They were ALL
WORSE. Create in THIS century.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 5h

some well reported backstory here for Marc Benioff's recent heel turn

sfstandard.com/2025/10/13/p...

Marc Benioff has already left San Francisco behind

The Salesforce CEO now principally lives, works, and votes elsewhere, but as he argued in an interview with The Standard, “nobody has given more than my family.”

sfstandard.com

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 5h

“At work, Salesforce employees said the CEO increasingly began video-calling into meetings from Hawaii, angering those who were required to go back to the office in San Francisco starting in 2024.”

Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 5h

some well reported backstory here for Marc Benioff's recent heel turn

sfstandard.com/2025/10/13/p...

Marc Benioff has already left San Francisco behind

The Salesforce CEO now principally lives, works, and votes elsewhere, but as he argued in an interview with The Standard, “nobody has given more than my family.”

sfstandard.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18h

"No Kings is happening, and this is how Republicans are talking about it.

Accusations like 'terrorist wing,' 'pro-Hamas,' and 'Antifa' aren’t just insults. They’re phrases that unlock, in the view of the administration, a permission structure for state violence."

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...

Trump’s Guilt-By-Association Law Enforcement

The groundwork has been laid to go after innocent people, opposition groups, and even No Kings protesters.

www.thebulwark.com

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 5h

Re: "the officials at ellis island didn't have the authority to change names" and therefore nobody's name ever changed at that point apparently,

I'm just thinking of all the times some petty little desk tyrant decided something that fucked me over.

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Disabled Anarchist @disabledanarchist.bsky.social · 6h

You can also double your protection by wearing a well fitted respirator mask along with your vaccine. Protects you and your community!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 10h

🇨🇦 The Trump admin is buying into Canadian critical mineral companies — giving Washington a stake in our clean-energy future.

CBC reports Ottawa can still block the deal under national security laws.

This is why we need a strong public broadcaster — facts, not spin.

🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 8h

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6h

Sounds legit.

Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 8h

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 5h

A great example from the other day: CatsOfYore posted a lovely and moving tribute about losing her beloved cat and someone replied to scream about how Dominion Voting Systems had been sold

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Kara McNair @karamcnair.bsky.social · 5h

Saturn eating his son…

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Kara McNair @karamcnair.bsky.social · 5h

“Papers, please.” (except I can’t imagine they said ‘please’)

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

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Ginger the garden witch @mkkraemer.bsky.social · 8h

Gilbert and Sullivan in all their cozy adorableness.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 6h

Bluesky is broken because the main Link is missing

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 8h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 9h

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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Kara McNair @karamcnair.bsky.social · 6h

It’s also entirely a theft of other people’s work and it’s really better to just not use it :(

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 6h

It can't make judgements. I get that it looks like a help, but you're asking it to do something that it is structurally incapable of doing. All the stuff about "reasoning models" for LLMs is a lie. It's a language emulator, nothing more. You will spend more time on it than it saves, is my prediction

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 6h

In the beginning of every movie about action, you have to start by assembling the team.

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 6h

No fucking AI means no fucking AI. Period.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 7h

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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