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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1h

We're gonna need a complete teardown of the media, same as with the ballroom. And I say this as someone who has been part of that machine for many years. It's moldy all the way through. We have some wonderful independent pubs doing real work but everyone else needs to be tossed in the fucking bin

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3h

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

Financial Times headline says “critics accuse” Trump of extrajudicial killings

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

“.. perhaps the most cruel and unlawful offense the Trump administration has perpetrated yet — freezing funding already enacted into law to feed hungry Americans while he shovels tens of billions of dollars .. to Argentina and into his ballroom.”

@politico.com #SNAP
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 3h

I was able to follow this! 😅
Which means you should have no problem. 😂👍
youtube.com/shorts/54qlq...

How Larry Ellison got so rich | ft. @GenericArtDad

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3h

Timothy Mellon of the famous Pittsburgh Mellon family is the one who provided $130 million to pay US military personnel.

His views on social safety nets are that Democrats “buy” votes by providing government funds to pay for food for infants.

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 3h

NYT - Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the US government to help pay troops during the shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us...

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.

www.nytimes.com

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 4h

LOL keep saying this shit lads, it’s amazing

This summer, Anthropic, a leading AI firm, released a study indicating that its model Claude appeared willing to blackmail a fictional executive over an extramarital affair in order to prevent being shut down - a behaviour, it said, that was consistent across models from major developers, including those from OpenAl, Google, Meta and XAI.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 4h

Year, they’re not racist, sure.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5h

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"

Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study of MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically longer than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.

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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 4h

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read

Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night

www.theguardian.com

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 4h

One thing that often strikes me about Europe is that Germany combines one of the world's strongest labor movements with rigid orthodoxy in economic policy. Meanwhile, France combines a well-run and generous welfare state with one of the largest concentrations of inherited wealth. on.ft.com/476XqkC

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I’ve come to feel that French anger is partly justified. France today is an underfunded social democracy crossed with an oligarchy. More than any other western European country, it’s dominated by powerful billionaires paying relatively low taxes. Most voters agree that France should cut its deficit. The argument is about who should pay. The majority says: the super-rich first.

Oligarchs are people who possess both wealth and power, and use one to acquire the other. They have grown abundant in France this century, thanks largely to the rise of French luxury companies. The EU’s seven most valuable companies include LVMH (run by France’s richest man, Bernard Arnault), Hermès and L’Oréal. LVMH now exports more than all of French agriculture.

The biggest beneficiaries are France’s 500 richest families. Between 1996 and 2024, their wealth ballooned from 6 per cent of French GDP to 42 per cent, writes economist Gabriel Zucman in his forthcoming book, whose title translates as “The Billionaires Don’t Pay Tax on Revenues and We’re Going to Put a Stop to That”. France now leads the EU in numbers of billionaires, according to the EU Tax Observatory, with 147. The majority aren’t meritocrats: 60 of the country’s 100 richest families are heirs, reports the Fondation Jean-Jaurès think-tank.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

Once again Elon Musk has stoked far right violence in Ireland or England.

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

A picture of a riot at Citywest, outside of Dublin, with the titles:

‘Absolute violence and worse is the only thing that should happen’: How social media drove the Citywest riots
Far-right agitators, retweeted by prominent international figures including billionaire Elon Musk, used social media networks to foment anger

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

Good Morning from Global Britain.

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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 5h

It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer

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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 6h

"I said: ‘You know the best thing you can do? Just put We Lied in the headline.’ He said he can’t do that. So I says: ‘I cannae help you.’ Put the phone down.” #JFT97 #dontbuythes*n
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

‘It’s what’s in your heart that counts’: Kenny Dalglish on his love for Liverpool and the long shadow of Hillsborough

Donald McRae talks to Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish and Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia, who has made a film about the Scot’s remarkable career in football

www.theguardian.com

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apache/ @apache.be · 1d

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia

Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows

Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals. The biggest owner of datacentres in the world, Amazon dwarfs competitors Microsoft and Google and is planning a huge increase in capacity as part of a push into artificial intelligence. The Seattle firm operates hundreds of active facilities, with many more in development despite concerns over how much water is being used to cool their vast arrays of circuitry. Continue reading...

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10h

Listening to this (so you don't have to).

Unsurprisingly, Farage says he would end alignment with the EU. And he still thinks we can play hardball with the EU to get a much better deal - shades of 'they need us more than we need them'.

No question, he would take the UK to 'No Deal'.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on dismantling consensus politics, Britain’s future relationship with the EU, and deporting migrants "nicely"

Read his interview with Mishal Husain ⬇️

Nigel Farage: Britain Has Had ‘Too Many Unifiers’

The Reform UK leader on dismantling consensus politics, Britain’s future relationship with the EU, and deporting migrants “nicely.”

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 1d

On the back of the recent thread about Peppercorn Rents, I was very kindly asked to write a short article for the @bigissue.com on the subject which they have now put online.

Quite a challenge in squeezing it all in to their word limit!

If Prince Andrew didn't pay rent for 20 years, why wasn't he evicted?

Disgraced royal Prince Andrew won't be evicted from his Royal Lodge despite not paying rent for 22 years. We asked a lawyer to explain.

www.bigissue.com

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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 1d

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Darleane Hoffman obituary

Scientist whose research into transuranic elements revised the understanding of nuclear fission

www.theguardian.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Things like this keep happening.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

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Harry Flowers @harryflowers.bsky.social · 1d

Chauncey Billups

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

FBI agents arrested Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, former NBA player Damon Jones and more as part of a federal investigation of illegal sports betting and poker.

Read the indictments here:

Read the indictments charging NBA’s Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier

In all, 31 people were arrested in connection with the two cases, officials said.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1d

So the president posts a video of himself shitting all over Americans, proceeds to demolish a large part of the White House, and then pardons a convicted criminal who paid him billions of dollars? All in less than a week?

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 2d

Can I just offer up to my NY friends (& family,) that London has had a muslim mayor for 9 years now, and the City is still standing... now with much cleaner air, as it happens!
(had to go to an Irish source for the story, because the right-wing rags didn't cover it)
www.irishnews.com/news/uk/khan...

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