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Brian 📎 @brianscant.bsky.social · 2d

‘Venezuela has evolved from a relatively democratic and prosperous country to a brutal, authoritarian state.
Most Venezuelans live in deep poverty, as the few at the top enrich themselves. The violent machinery of the state is directed against the country’s own citizens’

Like USA.

#NobelPeacePrize

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 3h

don’t tell anyone, but earthworms may have the NUMBER ONE SEX LIFE on Planet Earth. Both participants have both sets of genitals, employed simultaneously in co-copulation that can last 8 hours.

oops! did I just type this out loud?

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 3h

found with thanks via @raventerp1.bsky.social

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 3h

regarding the Qatar training base in Idaho:

www.ynetnews.com/article/bk8m...

Top Secret: In a 2018 letter, Netanyahu asks Qatar to fund Hamas

In letter seen by handful of people, PM urges Doha to deliver $30 million to Gaza monthly, claiming funding Hamas would preserve regional stability and avert humanitarian crisis

www.ynetnews.com

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 3h

Ah, there we go. Thank you for due diligence!

Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 3h

“Dominoes,” he said hopefully.

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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 5h

A federal coal auction in Montana drew just one bid: $186,000 for 167 million tons of coal — a 99.9% collapse … The next auction was immediately postponed. Why? Because while #coal can still sell today, its future is already bankrupt.

app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/d9a9be...

Historic ‘Clean Coal’ Auctions Collapse — Clean Energy Outperforms Everything

Something remarkable just happened in America’s coal heartland — and almost nobody noticed what it really means.This week, the Trump administration’s long-promised revival of “clean, beautiful coal” c...

app.wedonthavetime.org

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 3h

“Fossil fuel interests know their era is ending and are doing everything they can to delay the inevitable. They are fighting for time, not truth.
Each year, governments hand out > $1 T in fossil fuel subsidies, > $7 T when you count hidden costs: tax breaks, pollution, health damage.
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 8d

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 3h

wait, diverting 40% of growth to speculation in AI stocks?
well, ok, fine, what could go wrong?

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 5d

Hey Mr White I was thinking maybe you could like teach me to cook?

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 5d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 3h

perfect. OMG. perfectly perfect.

Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 3h

Where _lorem ipsum_ means: meaningless place-holder text.
Despite Google Translate: the world itself.
BUT
we do get to speculate about the text Trump will choose.

I hereby bet 11 cents on :
”My name is Donald Trump, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

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CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · 6h

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 4h

Possible historical view:
Osama Bin Laden destroyed the USA 2001-9-11, it just takes 25 years for something that big to fall all the way down.

Check for this idea 2026-09-11:
Mid-term elections 2026-11 or not?

Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 4h

IF
Putin is not toppled as a result of losing his war against Ukraine and collapse of Russian economy.
AND IF
the aftermath of Putin is democracy in Russia.

Democracies don’t start wars. Dictators start wars.

… those are big IFs.

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 4h

Except, of course, IQ tests do measure IQ, but IQ is a statistical generalization and not about specific talents.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelli...

Does a citizenship test require literacy (ability to understand written Engish)? Which eliminates a large fraction of US citizens?

Intelligence quotient - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 5h

OMG! There it is. That’s it!
The HUGE mistake we overlooked.
Well, that explains just about everything.

Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 5h

Truly damning.
The rich get richer and the poor get angrier.

Is Donald Trump fueling a proletariat revolution?
Not leading, but creating?
Will history remember Trump as responsible for long-overdue socialist reforms in US?
🤣

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VBG @256bit.bsky.social · 11h

She moved so graciously, that I have noticed an amputated leg only half way through the video!

Medals well deserved!

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 5h

The base for Qatar’s F-15s is 626 km from Canada, 70 km south of Boise, Idaho.

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 5h

Provenance, please?

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.cnn.com

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Scott Akenhead @scottakenhead.bsky.social · 5h

from the article:
“It can create a feedback loop, Seabrook added, where climate change increases methane seeps, which themselves further increase the rate of climate change.”

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