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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 20h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

Simply Da Man

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

Getting Killed indeed.

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

I see Mikel Merino is at it again the little minx.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 1d

But don't call Trump Cultists Nazis

Only THEY can call themselves Nazis: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hey, check this out. They talk the same way in their private chats as they do on Twitter www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

“More to come”… the Victor Gyokores (we hope) of Bluesky based Arsenal discourse 🤪

Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

It must be a hard decision for those who have build a big X following. I listen to the Cannon Podcast guys a lot and still can't believe they just talk about X this X that and aren't active on here, but it's easy for me to say I guess

Your writing is really very good and you deserve to be followed!

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot do (I'm speaking here from professional experience, as I know you very much are too, not just from Bluesky pontificating), maybe even a majority, but there are lots of organisations destroying their value to apply low/no human models willy-nilly that can't work in their industry.

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

There are totally plenty of examples of the former, but too many / super powerful examples of the latter. They are not interested in productivity but in solving end stage capitalism by cutting humans out of the economic model entirely.

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

The very simple question here is whether the motivations of leaders and owners towards AI are about releasing brilliant humans to do more of the stuff only humans can do, or whether their aim is to remove the annoyance / "burden" of humans from their balance sheet for good. (for some, off the world)

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

I have found it interesting that Elliott at Arsenal Vision increasingly talks about finding ways to solidify connections with the Arsenal community outside of mainstream social media platforms so he can take a break without letting the community down.

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's important to support great writing and good forums for constructive discussion around the things we love, because we may well all need to decide to move into different spaces in the near future at the very least for our mental health, so making those connections is a good idea.

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

Don't get me started on Philip Roth

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed - I was defo talking theoretically. Although there were those two glorious throwback games against Crystal Palace... 😂

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

Like every failing or undesirable system, it retains the one crucial trick of convincing everyone that swapping the individuals trapped in its net will somehow make a difference, when anyone who makes it into power has effectively been remorselessly groomed by the system already.

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

I feel you, especially as a) having viable two strikers not three has already been an issue, meaning Gyok has overplayed before he's had a chance to get fully match sharp and b) a fit Gabi J arguably still has a higher ceiling that Gyok (I feel like he is a 1-2 year stopgap)

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

If you add up his remaining wages, we would save 20m letting him go in January!

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 1d

Ha ha I do that

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Nick Smith @nicktheinventor.bsky.social · 2d

This is like when a certain kind of English person tries to tell you that England should be regarded as wonderful for quitting slavery like 5 mins before the other imperial powers.

like saying a serial killer becomes a saint if they voluntarily stop at 50.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...