Matunos
@matunos.bsky.social
🧙♂️These three things, monks, are conducted in secret, not openly. What three? Affairs with women, the mantras of the brahmins, and wrong view.
(Opinions are all my own, especially the good ones.)
(Opinions are all my own, especially the good ones.)
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So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
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(Reposting my critique of this outcome bc my prior post contained unintentional errors.) The House Dems are giving the ranking member gavel for an Appropriations subcommittee back to Henry Cuellar, after Trump pardoned him. Politics has an accountability crisis.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Henry Cuellar will retake key spending post after Trump pardon
The Texas Democrat faced some opposition inside the House Appropriations Committee.
www.politico.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
(Reposting my critique of this outcome bc my prior post contained unintentional errors.) The House Dems are giving the ranking member gavel for an Appropriations subcommittee back to Henry Cuellar, after Trump pardoned him. Politics has an accountability crisis.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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There’s a mass murderer in the White House.
The Trump-Vance admin has been committing illegal strike after illegal strike. They're trying to normalize it.
They're counting on you to lose track, to be too overwhelmed to remember the gravity of what they're doing.
But we're keeping track of every single strike.
So far: 22 strikes. 87 killed.
They're counting on you to lose track, to be too overwhelmed to remember the gravity of what they're doing.
But we're keeping track of every single strike.
So far: 22 strikes. 87 killed.
Tracking Every US Strike on Boats in the Caribbean and Pacific
The Trump administration is committing illegal strike after illegal strike. Don’t look away, and don’t lose track.
zeteo.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
There’s a mass murderer in the White House.
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Instacart must stop this. If you order grocery deliveries through Instacart you are unknowingly part of widespread AI-enabled experiments that price identical products differently from one customer to the next—sometimes by as much as 23%. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
www.consumerreports.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Instacart must stop this. If you order grocery deliveries through Instacart you are unknowingly part of widespread AI-enabled experiments that price identical products differently from one customer to the next—sometimes by as much as 23%. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
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For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence.
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
Harry Stopes | Police Violence in Berlin
In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to the...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence.
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
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Millions of young people across the globe protested against a genocide — an unprecedented mass movement that was organized on social media.
In that time, the US government basically nationalized TikTok and the Australian government has banned teenagers from social media altogether.
In that time, the US government basically nationalized TikTok and the Australian government has banned teenagers from social media altogether.
December 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Millions of young people across the globe protested against a genocide — an unprecedented mass movement that was organized on social media.
In that time, the US government basically nationalized TikTok and the Australian government has banned teenagers from social media altogether.
In that time, the US government basically nationalized TikTok and the Australian government has banned teenagers from social media altogether.
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BREAKING: Seattle Children's Hospital successfully fought this summer to get DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena quashed.
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
BREAKING: Seattle Children's Hospital successfully fought this summer to get DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena quashed.
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
To be fair, Oz the Great and Powerful also was an old man behind a curtain gesticulating frantically.
An executive order is not Oz the Great and Powerful. It is the frantic gesticulations of an old man behind a curtain. The media ought to act like it.
Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly…
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly…
December 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
To be fair, Oz the Great and Powerful also was an old man behind a curtain gesticulating frantically.
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
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100%.
Case in point, this message from a neighbor/friend last night:
Case in point, this message from a neighbor/friend last night:
December 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
100%.
Case in point, this message from a neighbor/friend last night:
Case in point, this message from a neighbor/friend last night:
ooo cowboy!
December 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
ooo cowboy!
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Mark Cuban has the same problem as all billionaires. He's *literally* living in a different reality than you or me. He's got no idea how basic things work (or how much they cost!) because for him it's a non-issue he never has to consider. He hasn't thought about the price of *anything* for decades.
[David Attenborough voice] Observe the Democratic billionaire in the early stages of its metamorphosis. As the whispers of Bluesky ratios rustle the air, its initial Republican chrysalis is formed, made up of angry left-leaning replies and appreciations for reductions in regulations.
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Mark Cuban has the same problem as all billionaires. He's *literally* living in a different reality than you or me. He's got no idea how basic things work (or how much they cost!) because for him it's a non-issue he never has to consider. He hasn't thought about the price of *anything* for decades.
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Who let this people in the Internet? They have no clue how anything works, and going to ruin it for everybody.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Who let this people in the Internet? They have no clue how anything works, and going to ruin it for everybody.
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Oh no, I couldn’t see specialists without a referral, rich people would have better doctors, and I would lose access to the best meds? Whatever will I do in this foreign and unimaginable hellscape…
December 12, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Oh no, I couldn’t see specialists without a referral, rich people would have better doctors, and I would lose access to the best meds? Whatever will I do in this foreign and unimaginable hellscape…
No one is calling for the Cinnabon lady to never be able to get another job, but it was certainly right that she lost the one where she was hurling n-bombs at customers.
i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
No one is calling for the Cinnabon lady to never be able to get another job, but it was certainly right that she lost the one where she was hurling n-bombs at customers.
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My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
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The Trump administration continues to insist that “nothing bad is happening” even as millions of Americans struggle with cost-of-living pressures.
Billionaire Launches Tone Deaf Attack on Affordability Critics
As the commerce secretary insisted the economy was “great,” Trump complained about “fake polls” showing otherwise.
trib.al
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Trump administration continues to insist that “nothing bad is happening” even as millions of Americans struggle with cost-of-living pressures.
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Feels more and more like bluesky has its finger on the pulse of what normal people want and X is an echo chamber of weird men with no social skills
McDonald's confirms the AI-generated Christmas commercial has been removed
They said the moment served as 'an important learning' as it explored 'the effective use of AI'
(via BBC News)
They said the moment served as 'an important learning' as it explored 'the effective use of AI'
(via BBC News)
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Feels more and more like bluesky has its finger on the pulse of what normal people want and X is an echo chamber of weird men with no social skills
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NEW: Israeli settlers allegedly beat a young American as she defended one of the last Palestinian families left in their way of stealing more land.
They then attacked a grandma & two kids, threatening to burn them alive if they didn’t leave their land.
She says the US hasn’t responded to her.
They then attacked a grandma & two kids, threatening to burn them alive if they didn’t leave their land.
She says the US hasn’t responded to her.
Israeli Settlers Beat US Citizen, Threatened to Burn Palestinian Grandmother and Kids Alive
The attack in the West Bank comes as Donald Trump maintains he brought peace to the Middle East.
zeteo.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
NEW: Israeli settlers allegedly beat a young American as she defended one of the last Palestinian families left in their way of stealing more land.
They then attacked a grandma & two kids, threatening to burn them alive if they didn’t leave their land.
She says the US hasn’t responded to her.
They then attacked a grandma & two kids, threatening to burn them alive if they didn’t leave their land.
She says the US hasn’t responded to her.
Canada, every time the Miller regime announces a new obstacle for Europeans to visit the US for the World Cup:
patrick star from spongebob squarepants is smiling with his hands folded
Alt: Patrick Star, rubbing his arms with a look of sinister satisfaction on his face
media.tenor.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Canada, every time the Miller regime announces a new obstacle for Europeans to visit the US for the World Cup:
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I’d make fun of the videogame award show but the Golden Globes are giving an award for best podcast so the goalposts have been moved so much that getting a statue from Jeff Keighley and the Capri Sun mascot is a fuckin Pulitzer Prize by comparison
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I’d make fun of the videogame award show but the Golden Globes are giving an award for best podcast so the goalposts have been moved so much that getting a statue from Jeff Keighley and the Capri Sun mascot is a fuckin Pulitzer Prize by comparison