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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 2h

Locked out.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 2h

And if you ever get walked out of your Apple account, even accidentally, you will no longer be able to access your passwords. I would not trust a platform with that kind of control, and I’m someone who uses almost entirely Apple devices.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 3h

No, it’s far from being Sherlocked. It’s available on Linux and Android, and it stores things that Apple’s app doesn’t, such as secure notes.

Also, there is a real risk depending on Apple‘s Passwords app. If for any reason you get locked out of your Apple account, you can no longer access passwords

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3h

Dumbest gaslighting ever. Who was president on January 6?

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 6h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 5h

Richard Tice and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is the political wing of the fossil fuel industry.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 6h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 4h

Even if their main target is the enterprise market, I don’t see how they can make enough money to merit that valuation. it does make me rethink using the app; while it’s excellent, I’m not the target demographic anymore.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 4h

Nothing against 1Password, which I used to use and like, but on what planet is a company that makes a password manager worth SIX POINT EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS?

www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

1Password Founders Sell a $75 Million Stake to Utah Jazz Owner’s VC Fund

1Password founders have agreed to sell a $75 million stake to a fund established earlier this year by Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith and Accel partner Ryan Sweeney.

www.bloomberg.com

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 7h

If you like crime fiction, Amazon UK has 13 Penguin classic crime novels for 99p each today. Titles like Night of the Hunter, I Married a Dead Man, and a double Chandler book. Lots of great stuff.

amzn.to/4h88bXk

Amazon.co.uk

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 13h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

ICYMI — Trump lied that Chicago had “4000” murders, when it’s projected to have 380 this year (way down from last year)

If it’s so bad there why does he have to keep lying about it?

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 15h

Rest in peace Diane x

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 22h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 19h

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

Cartoon by John Deering.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 21h

It was @sarahjeong.bsky.social and we’ve been pounding this drum for years - especially since all the promises of metadata to prove images are real have gone nowhere www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump cites a murderous war criminal to attack the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision. Truly absurd and disturbing. And narcissism of a pathological degree.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 1d

looks like it’s working as expected

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

The Big Con: It's still billions in phony money for Trump.

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 1d

📉Trump's WLFI crypto token—which is not backed by any underlying assets and does not convey ownership in anything other than the token itself—hit an all-time low today of $0.146156 amidst an overall market downturn.

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