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Pierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 21m

The Americanization is complete. 🇺🇸🦅

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2h

For the first time in a decade the majority of British adults believe the generosity of the welfare system stops people from supporting themselves, according to the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). on.ft.com/3X6VYbZ

Pierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks!

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Pierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 6h

What's the name of the game?

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Pierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 6h

And laugh I did. Amazing that people still listen to him. Lol

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Pierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 7h

I forgot his wife has a Syrian background. I'm sure she helped coach him on the pronunciation (among others in his campaign).

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

Pierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 8h

How many times has this shtick been done? How many times must it blow up in their stupid faces? The past 30 years of liberalism led to this moment, so why would we want to continue it?

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 8h

“There are a range of things that might happen if you try to do this,” she added, “and we’re arguing that the range of possible outcomes is a lot wider than anybody has appreciated until now.”

Scientists Warn Against Trying to Dim the Sun to Cool the Planet

Columbia researchers say we haven't even begun to explore the possible consequences of stratospheric aerosol injections.

futurism.com

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 11h

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 17h

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.

Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

“Oh poor people can buy popsicles with food stamps” shut the fuck up the government gives perverts a trillion dollars in government money each year for pervert factories for billionaires the fucking popsicles are none of your fuckin business

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Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social · 1d

This is an amazing and disturbing story—not just the usual game park as neocolonialism, but added extra of EU funded hydropower project in DRC supporting a bitcoin mine managed by a Belgian (of course) aristocrat …

The Continent @thecontinent.org · 5d

As Virunga National Park turns 100, Congo’s crown jewel faces crisis: rebel occupation, local anger, failed projects, and a controversial Belgian “prince” at its helm. Once a symbol of conservation, it’s now a battleground of power, poverty, and profit — even hosting a Bitcoin mine.

The Belgian prince, the national park, and the bitcoin mine

Emmanuel de Merode’s controversial stewardship of the DRC’s iconic Virunga National Park is giving him even greater powers.

continent.substack.com

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Pierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 13h

I'm getting old.

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 17h

It's popularly understood that the trick to writing good villains is to grasp that from their perspective, they're the hero. Sadly, in real life, a lot of the most evil people in the world fully understand that they're monsters and they revel in it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h

Who is the most evil villain in fiction?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

www.theguardian.com

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Pierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 17h

Is that what started this turn?? lol

Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 17h

O'Brien hasn't coherently explained his 180 on Trump, but his longtime girlfriend is a big Trump supporter

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DQm...

Pierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 17h

Holy shit

Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 1d

NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 1d

NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 1d

So I wake up to read that Trump is threatening military action against Nigeria. Below is a list of 10 countries that notes 4 that have either being threatened by Trump or currently attacked. Can anyone guess what the numbers on the right represent?

10 countries with notes that Trump is attacking Venezuela and has threatened Iran, Canada and Nigeria with military invasion.

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 1d

How to Help People Losing Their SNAP Benefits www.vogue.com/article/how-...

How to Help People Losing Their SNAP Benefits

www.vogue.com

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Pierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 21h

Cops should not be able to use horses for crowd control.

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street

Pierre 🍉 @speciesbeing.bsky.social · 21h

Il a passé trop de temps dans le vignoble de Martha. Lol
(Si tu ne connais pas, c'est un lieu pour le riche aux Etats-Unis)

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1d

tired: great gatsby parties
wired: bastille day parties

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP

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David Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 1d

There’s exactly three things to expect from Cuomo as mayor:
1. Taxes on millionaires won’t go up.
2. 5000 more cops will be hired at the expense of other city services.
3. He will very loudly say “I love Israel and Muslims are bad” as often as possible.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back.

The genocide is ongoing

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report

Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report

<article data-history-node-id="430958" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><article data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-110" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-6901b48e-cf20-832a-9f2e-41bb2cc7fcbc-38" dir="auto" tabindex="-1"> <p data-end="277" data-start="76">Israeli occupation forces are bulldozing large swathes of land east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, destroying what little remains of homes and infrastructure after months of relentless bombardment.</p> <p data-end="447" data-start="279">Al Jazeera's correspondent on the ground reported that the army is conducting extensive demolition operations in the area, flattening residential blocks and farmland.</p> </article> </div> </div> </article>

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 2d

It's Friday night, Halloween! Who's with me for a thread about the economics of pronatalism?!

Some people say we need more babies because we don't have enough workers. But more births means less women workers, by ~15-40%. You trade workers today for workers tomorrow. This is from CPS data:
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