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What’sUpNewp @whatsupnewp.com · 3d

DF95 National Championship brings 60 top sailors to Newport

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Devin’s Soccer Cow 🏳️‍⚧️💛🤍💜🖤 @dnsoccercow.bsky.social · 4h

Time to post XKCD Internet dependency comic again!

XKCD Internet dependency comic. Shows an elaborate structure of various size blocks labeled “All Modern Digital Infrastructure” and down at the bottom one corner of the huge structure is held up by one really skinny short block labeled “A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003”

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h

BREAKING: Major Amazon Web Services outage disrupts online services around the world.

Amazon cloud computing outage knocks out Zoom, Roblox and many other online services

An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world. Users reported problems on sites, including Roblox, Snapchat and Zoom.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h

RE: Dutch spooks deciding they're less willing to share w/the US: Remember that the docs from SVR that were the focus of the (now declassified) Durham annex and HPSCI reports were from the Dutch. Basically Tulsi burned all that to smithereens for partisan gain.

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Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S
The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and "respect for human rights."

In a joint interview with de Volkskrant, AIVD Director-General Erik Akerboom and MIVD Director Peter Reesink confirmed that the agencies have become more selective in their cooperation with the CIA and NSA. “That we sometimes no longer tell certain things, that’s true,” Reesink said. Akerboom added, “Sometimes you have to think case by case: can I still share this information or not?” While both officials stressed that relations with U.S. intelligence agencies remain “excellent,” they emphasized that the Netherlands has become “more critical.”

According to the two directors, the Netherlands is increasingly focusing on European cooperation. “We have scaled up enormously,” Akerboom told De Volkskrant, referring to a leading group of Northern European services — including those from the United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, France, and Poland — that are exchanging intelligence more intensively. The war in Ukraine and the growing Russian threat to Europe have accelerated these multilateral intelligence partnerships. Reesink noted that a similar development is visible within military intelligence circles.

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 12h

Guys. Look, I know a bunch of people cancelled Disney/hulu. But if you still have it, look what's on

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h

Russia-Ukraine is in the same place it's been this entire year, with Trump telling Ukraine to bow down to Putin or else, as Ukraine continues to stand up for its own freedom in the face of the best "or else" Russia is able to muster.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19h

Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 18h

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Ugly Gerry - Wikipedia

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 19h

Can I not see that video anymore?

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 19h

The troops are not a backdrop for you to score political points.

This is wildly inappropriate and violates critical democratic norms

And you forced Marines to listen to your bullshit on a Saturday, which is actually to worst abuse of all here.

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 21h

I haven't watched baseball in ages, but I still have a pile of Mariners jerseys. Just in case.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 21h

I do not understand why the leader of the largest country on Earth needs a few more kilometers. This war is not about land, but about our independence, Zelensky said about Putin.

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 23h

Al Capone myth and all that

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23h

so is America going back to the monarchy because we are predominantly English-speaking

🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 1d

🥴🤡Trump envoy Witkoff pressed the Ukrainian delegation on handing over Donetsk region to Russia during a meeting on Friday, - WP.

He used the Kremlin's key argument that the region is predominantly Russian-speaking.

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 23h

Ah, yes, the aptly named 'penalty box.' Except it's the passengers being penalized for daring to fly through O'Hare.

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 23h

Why are seats in school rinks hard af?

Also, girls playing hockey is 🔥

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 1d

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Thieves break into Louvre museum, steal ‘priceless jewellery’

A team of thieves broke into the Louvre in the heart of Paris on Sunday and stole "priceless" historical jewellery, said France's interior minister, as the world-renowned museum closed for the day.

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 1d

There was one in Jamestown RI. A frog, that is

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Black Cloud Six @blackcloudsix.bsky.social · 1d

I knew a few guys like Pete when I was serving. They fell back on PT because they knew nothing else. No intellectual curiosity, no depth of knowledge, no leadership skills beyond “pick up the log!”. Vacuous idiots who were a danger to their units but looked the part.

A Facebook post featuring Pete Hegseth doing PT on a beach. One assumes it’s the Navy SEALs. Hegseth is seen carrying a log and frolicking on a beach with other manly men.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

people who earnestly try to argue that blocking certain accounts deprives u of important opposing viewpoints are assuming these certain accounts are posting in good faith
which is a dangerous assumption tbh

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a captain america uniform says i understand that reference

ALT: a man in a captain america uniform says i understand that reference

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh I hadn't seen this. I was hoping to cobble something together from local shops

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 1d

Virtual hugs, my friend

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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 1d

Oi vey

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