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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 15h

If you’re new to Bluesky, the only thing you need to know is that we go by prison rules so you have to go find the biggest account that you can and kill them to gain respect

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11h

"expert" is just a word for someone who knows what they are talking about.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 19h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Turist În Țara Mea @exif.ro · 11h

Palatul Vulturul Negru - interior - Oradea, 2023-02-19 #Landscape#Travel#Europe#Nature#Romania#TuristÎnȚaraMea

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Worf Email @worfemail.bsky.social · 23h

Father,

Is there a voting guide for our local elections? I cannot tell from their statements which candidates have more honor.

Worf

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a “Drones over Germany - everything you need to know” explainer. 👇

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-dron...

Germany’s ‘Drone Fever’ Prompts Long-Needed Action

After having ignored the dangers of drone overflights of critical infrastructure, German authorities are finally taking action.

www.worldpoliticsreview.com

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 1d

NGC 6891 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/gK2QdM

Visually, NGC 6891 seems fairly simple. I can only see some very small knots of H-alpha. One of them is easy to spot. It's a very small, red dot near the left edge of the outer halo of material. I almost cleaned it up, thinking it was a cosmic ray.

Red: hst_08390_09_wfpc2_f658n_pc_sci
Green: hst_08390_09_wfpc2_f555w_pc_sci
Blue: hst_08390_09_wfpc2_f502n_pc_sci

North is NOT up.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 2d

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Mihai @mihailim.bsky.social · 2d

Incoming metafictional revenge tale with characters attacking on deathbed.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 4d

This seems like a mistake.

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy

The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…

digit.site36.net

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Mihai @mihailim.bsky.social · 4d

Quite. And, in addition, there are many good reasons why we regulate markets, physical or otherwise -- say, to ensure unscrupulous people don't substitute flour for rat droppings in their daily bread. To pick a completely random and totally not on the nose example.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 5d

KAISER WILHELM: So, General der Infanterie Kate Bush, you must lead my army up that small rivulet, there, so as to attack the enemy.

KATE BUSH: I only wish I could, Kaiserliche Majestät!

KW: You refuse my order??

KB: No, no: If I only could, I'd be Hunning up that rill ...

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Mihai @mihailim.bsky.social · 5d

Ach du meine goodness. That's an impressive effort.

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Mihai @mihailim.bsky.social · 5d

Wouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt this way. Scratch a libertarian, almost always find a closet fascist.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 5d

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Mihai @mihailim.bsky.social · 5d

To be fair, it would've been difficult for the writers to come up with _any_ aftermath following the narrative atrocities committed during ME2 and ME3. And that's assuming they'd have understood the original story material, which they didn't, or actually cared about it, which they also didn't.

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Jonny Nexus @jonnynexus.bsky.social · 6d

Latest set of book purchases from @waterstones.bsky.social. Who Will You Save, an SF short story collection by @garethlpowell.bsky.social, and Damascus Station, the debut spy thriller novel by ex-CIA analyst David McCloskey (found via the excellent @restisclassified.bsky.social podcast).

Two books on a book shelf. Who Will You Save, by Gareth L Powell. Damascus Station by David McCloskey.

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Mihai @mihailim.bsky.social · 6d

It's Edward J. Goodwin's Indiana pi bill, except dumber and with more desire to perform fellatio.

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 7d

This is the best news I've heard the entirety of 2025.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8d

There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 8d

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Mihai @mihailim.bsky.social · 8d

Because those fields of knowledge are what makes humans human. And we can't be having with that, isn't it.

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Turist În Țara Mea @exif.ro · 8d

Pescăruș râzător - Chroicocephalus ridibundus - Hudești, Botoșani , 2022-05-29 #Nature#Photography#Travel#TravelPhotography#Romania#Wildlife

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9d

It’s really neat that for awhile pundits like this were saying “why can’t Zohran clearly and directly denounce the violence of Hamas?” and when he clearly and directly denounces the violence of Hamas they go “but he didn’t do it with any poetry! It wasn’t beautiful! I demand panache!”

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9d

Ah, let's check in on what the war crimes proponent has to say

David Frum This is a genuinely useful statement. The chilly formulaic language about the 10/7 atrocity ... the intense angry passion of the denunciation of Israel's self-defense ... together they arrestingly reveal what the author cares about and what/who he does not care about.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.
Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more.
I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.
In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language.
I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.
This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end.
Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.
These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 9d

The emeritus dean of Japan politics studies in the U.S. has thoughts about Takaichi:

Gerald Curtis: Takaichi victory hastens LDP's collapse; 'not if, when'

Veteran Japan watcher worried about what comes after the 'most boring election'

asia.nikkei.com

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