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Agent Fartburger (stinky)
@smurfburger.bsky.social
Shopping a debut comedic novel. Prior words and photos in NYT, Gizmodo, Gawker, Time Out, The Awl. Potty-mouthed anti-fascist.
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if you want more evidence the GOP had a bad, not good, terrible election year, stay tuned for my story shortly!
December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Luigi
Newly-released bodycam video shows police officers’ first interaction with Luigi Mangione inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. In the video, he claims to be ‘Mark Rosario’ after staff called police when customers recognized him from the news.
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.

But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is amazing!
it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society
December 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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“Mr. Zuckerman was clearly hoping that if he laid low for a few years, everyone would forget about the reasons why the FTC issued a ban not only against the company, but against him specifically,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @TechCrunch.com. techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/...
FTC upholds ban on stalkerware founder Scott Zuckerman | TechCrunch
Zuckerman, who used to run the stalkerware apps SpyFone and SpyTrac, claimed the ban is hurting his unrelated business.
techcrunch.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Total catastrophe; like Putin is paying him to wreck the military
Pete Hegseth: "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI."

He says the military has launched a new platform that  "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It’s because they explicitly link him to inciting and organizing and who knows maybe funding the fascist coup.
December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

“It’s the most beautiful peninsula surrounded on all sides by water”
December 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Don’t use Instacart
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.

It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.

Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Can’t properly communicate how badly Jeffries needs to fuck off
LOL Jeffries announced an AI commission and put the most right-wing pro-business member of the caucus and the pro-Big Tech House member representing Silicon Valley on it
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The people of New Orleans have created an incredible grassroots community intelligence service to track the feds as they hunt the city's immigrants. A real good cops vs. bad cops dynamic being replicated across the country right now.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
New Orleans Is Watching You, Fuckers.
As the feds chase immigrants, a city chases the feds.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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🛳️🛢️ Almost 180 million barrels of Russian oil are in tankers — 28% more than at the end of August, — Bloomberg.

Russia is loading oil onto tankers at an unprecedented pace, but the cargoes are piling up at sea. This puts pressure on prices and undermines Moscow's ability to finance the war.
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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The reason we don’t sell H200, and other advanced chips to China is that they have dual-use (military and civilian) capability.

These will help China improve their AI, surveillance, and cyber espionage capability.

The export controls existed strictly for NatSec purposes.
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
DAMN!
that’s great, and it’s great that it’s great.
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I clicked the link to verify. It’s a real ad.
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Still a great tune.
“California Dreamin’” turns 60 today.

“We were staying in New York,” said Michelle Phillips, “and it was a terribly cold winter. John had been complaining that he missed the warmth of California, and one night he woke me up and said, ‘I’ve just written this song, and you have to help me with it.’”
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Don't understand how the nazi army continues to operate under these circumstances, and again, these nazi soldiers who are being murdered by their COs deserve exactly what they get. They choose to fight for their beloved motherland.
1/ So-called 'black commanders' are confiscating Russian soldiers' salary cards, then sending them to their deaths, failing to report them missing or killed, and stealing their salaries. This scam is reportedly widespread and has prompted many complaints from soldiers. ⬇️
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Police surveil everyone driving in San Jose and search that data thousands of times per month without ever seeking a warrant. It’s an unchecked police power, an end run around the courts & a blatant privacy invasion, EFF’s Lisa Femia wrote for @MercuryNews.com. www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/06/...
Opinion: San Jose’s vast surveillance network is watching you. Be afraid.
The city’s license plate cameras are collecting revealing data that police nationwide are searching — all without warrants.
www.mercurynews.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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In his newsletter @attackerman.bsky.social describes the GWOT torture regime being visited on immigrants in detention in Trump 2; in Reign of Terror (Viking, 2021) he showed this was happening in Trump 1.

www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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"On every page there are jeweled sentences.... [The Lord] remains a noteworthy literary achievement for its ability to re-create the world of Palestine on the eve of its destruction as it might have appeared to people living through it." —Elliot Colla, @washingtonpost.com
Review | This classic Palestinian novel unearths a largely ignored history
In Soraya Antonius’s newly reissued novel “The Lord,” a mysterious magician puzzles and fascinates British residents of Palestine in the early 20th century.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Poland's prime minister Donald Tusk issued a satellite picture which was produced by a Polish satellite.

Poland has recently launched its first sovereign military reconnaissance satellite system, featuring the PIAST (Polish ImAging SaTellites) constellation (optical) and the MikroSAR (radar),...
December 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
haha nope
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Fun fact: you can’t overrule state law with an executive order
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The NYPD seems to be enforcing the law against riding on the sidewalk almost by whim — and that's leading to serious disparities in who's getting ticketed.
Who Rides on the Sidewalk? To NYPD, Just Blacks and Hispanics - Streetsblog New York City
The NYPD has ramped up its enforcement against cyclists for squeezing pedestrians, but in a very suspect manner.
buff.ly
December 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM