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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

The extent to which EU industrial production is currently held up by Irish pharma exports to the US is not healthy, and Germany seeing *another* 4.6% production decline over the last year is especially bad.

A graph of EU Industrial production growth, Yoy, Aug 2025

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 12h

Nazi dentist Ian Lomax -- one of Tom Sewell's flunkeys -- is (temporarily?) no longer working as a dentist.

And That's Official.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Dental board suspends Ballarat dentist after allegations of Neo-Nazi ties

Dental board suspends practitioner, who was allegedly photographed at a Neo-Nazi rally, while it investigates.

www.abc.net.au

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OpheliaPG @opheliapg.bsky.social · 12h

#Colombia president allocates seized gold to aid #Gaza, calls for international rebuilding force

#EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251016-col...

Colombian president allocates seized gold to aid Gaza, calls for international rebuilding force

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced an unprecedented initiative to support the reconstruction of Gaza, ordering that gold seized from drug traffickers be used to fund medical care for i…

www.middleeastmonitor.com

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 12h

Putin decriminalized domestic violence in Russia yrs ago. It's a required step in the fascist playbook; @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social documented this over a century of fascism.

This regime of state-sanctioned gender terrorism serves the same purpose in oppressing women as Jim Crow did toward PoC.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 12h

It's so cool how all of human society is becoming fandom and it's consuming reality

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 12h

I wonder how long it will take for AI/LLMs to have the same impact on consulting/prof services as the impact of the public service outsourcing all its thinking to consultants.

Substituting knowledge with managing word outputs that sound right or seeing if number that goes up/down as expected.

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 13h

Sam Altman: "you can now sext with ChatGPT"

Almost the entire world outside of the insular bubble called the US masculinity crisis: "We're not going to fuck your data centers"

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 13h

Sana and I were subjected to some really awful stuff online in the early days of Ms Marvel and as a result I have neverrrrrrr posted a single photo of either of my kids on social media, even in friends-only contexts. I don't even use their real names. And I never will.

Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 13h

Please watch and share...
#AI #Deepfakes #DigitalIdentity #OnlineSafety #ProtectYourIdentity

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 12h

There's a folk history that sees daikaiju film as a reaction to the horrors of war but we can see it in the grandiose day dreams of war instead

David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 14h

A Japanese "science warrior" rampages through NYC (in Oct. 1943), blending healthy doses of tradition, modernity, and delusion

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 13h

Interview with his current wife

Interview with RFKs current wife Hines. If you think you already despise him, look into what he did to his ex wife Mary Richardson.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

Madagascar's new military ruler says he will be sworn in as president on Friday reut.rs/4nc65Hk

Madagascar's new military ruler says he will be sworn in as president on Friday

Madagascar's new military ruler, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, said he will be sworn in as president on Friday, after the African Union suspended the membership of the island nation following a coup to oust President Andry Rajoelina.

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Liz Darvill @lizdarvill.bsky.social · 13h

Impatiently waiting for the Oracle bone era

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, what that? You wish to understand why XJP is doing the thing he's doing? That's cute, of course you do. And you will...

But first, let me tell you about a little something called Pangu. In the beginning, there was nothing but an egg, & in it was all Light & Darkness. For 18,000 years it is gest

Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 1d

SCMP giving up on being a newspaper

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Liz Darvill @lizdarvill.bsky.social · 13h

Omnipresent tollway scamming

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 13h

CRIMINAL GANGS IN CHINA HAVE MADE MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS BY SPAMMING SMARTPHONES WITH MESSAGES ABOUT UNPAID HIGHWAY TOLLS

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Calliss Clan @callissclan.bsky.social · 14h

Gatekeeper dragon is back

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 13h

The final & ultimate meta-state of the Fascist is to exist in a superpositionality; being both the avenging oppressor & the unjustly victimized at all times and in all ways. Given that there is no core-identity to rest upon, the Quantum Fascist occupies all states at once.

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Honor Laois 🦘📎🍉 #auspol @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 14h

Here's mine!

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 14h

This is literally what the Canadians and American did to indigenous kids by shipping them off to residential schools. Anyone who cannot draw the basest of parallels and see that Russia has been committing genocide against Ukrainians since 2014 shouldn't be allowed in polite society.

Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 19h

In the occupied part of Kherson region, local "authorities" have announced a hunt for children who still attend Ukrainian schools. - Андрущенко Time reported

They are persecuting children for their language. And don’t you dare say this isn’t genocide.

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 1d

nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...

These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how

Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi

www.science.org

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 13h

In 10 years time, the only real profitable - and by profitable, I mean extremely *profitable* - AI companies will be those powering grunt work industrial/info processes. AI won't replace humans, it will only replace the stuff that requires humans to do (like testing if A+B+C= potential cancer drug)

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 16h

A few of my tawny frogmouth photos, taken over the years, in honour of this bird winning 2025 Australian bird of the year. These are much-loved birds. Whenever I share a photo of these, there is a huge response.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 14h

Results or resignations required stat

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 16h

New:
The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.
The pressure is rising.