Cuneiform
@8uruha.bsky.social
Itinerant linguist with finely attuned anti-fascist radar.
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Ah yes, the thing to revitalize your downtown is to fill it with masked and armed man who routinely pepper spray random people. Everyone loves that.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Ah yes, the thing to revitalize your downtown is to fill it with masked and armed man who routinely pepper spray random people. Everyone loves that.
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Ekrem Imamoglu, le maire d’Istanbul en prison depuis le mois de mars, est officiellement poursuivi pour 142 infractions
Ekrem Imamoglu, le maire d’Istanbul en prison depuis le mois de mars, est officiellement poursuivi pour 142 infractions
www.lemonde.fr
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Ekrem Imamoglu, le maire d’Istanbul en prison depuis le mois de mars, est officiellement poursuivi pour 142 infractions
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So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
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These kinds of things happened two decades ago under the last Republican president. A lot of people made a lot of short term money. Then it all came crashing down and his successor had to clean up a huge mess. Here we go again.
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
These kinds of things happened two decades ago under the last Republican president. A lot of people made a lot of short term money. Then it all came crashing down and his successor had to clean up a huge mess. Here we go again.
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Outgoing BBC DG Tim Davie says the corporation needs to "fight for our journalism". It also needs to fight for its independence. The two are linked. Davie, a former Tory councillor candidate, has inadequately fought for reporting that actually scrutinises rather than simply 'reflects' back opinions.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Outgoing BBC DG Tim Davie says the corporation needs to "fight for our journalism". It also needs to fight for its independence. The two are linked. Davie, a former Tory councillor candidate, has inadequately fought for reporting that actually scrutinises rather than simply 'reflects' back opinions.
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From Europe to the Pacific, the Moldovan fugitive used at least six aliases and a web of forged documents - including passports from Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Russia, Iraq, and Vanuatu - to move, and hide from justice.
www.occrp.org/en/news/jail...
www.occrp.org/en/news/jail...
Jailed Moldovan Oligarch Hid Behind a Global Maze of Fake Identities
From Europe to the Pacific, the Moldovan fugitive used at least six aliases and a web of forged documents - including passports from Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Russia, Iraq, and Vanuatu - to move, and...
www.occrp.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
From Europe to the Pacific, the Moldovan fugitive used at least six aliases and a web of forged documents - including passports from Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Russia, Iraq, and Vanuatu - to move, and hide from justice.
www.occrp.org/en/news/jail...
www.occrp.org/en/news/jail...
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"Managerial timidity, overcorrection for perceived internal liberal bias, and a continued reliance on the news agenda of a largely right-leaning British press, has led the BBC to haemorrhage support among many of its natural supporters"
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"Managerial timidity, overcorrection for perceived internal liberal bias, and a continued reliance on the news agenda of a largely right-leaning British press, has led the BBC to haemorrhage support among many of its natural supporters"
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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“Is MTG Crazy? Or Crazy Like a Fox?”
Read Peter Rothpletz’s take on one of the weirdest transformations in modern politics in Zeteo’s morning newsletter ‘First Draft’:
Read Peter Rothpletz’s take on one of the weirdest transformations in modern politics in Zeteo’s morning newsletter ‘First Draft’:
🤯 WTF MTG!?
Peter Rothpletz on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s war on MAGA, the knives out for Chuck Schumer, the legal threat to gay marriage, and the soon-to-be skyrocketing price of pasta??
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Is MTG Crazy? Or Crazy Like a Fox?”
Read Peter Rothpletz’s take on one of the weirdest transformations in modern politics in Zeteo’s morning newsletter ‘First Draft’:
Read Peter Rothpletz’s take on one of the weirdest transformations in modern politics in Zeteo’s morning newsletter ‘First Draft’:
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Tribal lender Minto Money has boosted the economy of its Alaska town.
But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone to outsider Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil.
(Published May w/ @adn.com)
But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone to outsider Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil.
(Published May w/ @adn.com)
A 700% APR Lending Business Tied to Dr. Phil’s Son Is Dividing an Alaska Tribe
Tribal lender Minto Money has boosted the economy of its Alaska town. But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone ...
www.propublica.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Tribal lender Minto Money has boosted the economy of its Alaska town.
But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone to outsider Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil.
(Published May w/ @adn.com)
But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone to outsider Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil.
(Published May w/ @adn.com)
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Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
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New paper alert: Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy
In this paper, we argue that Predictive Processing cannot be a unifying account of cognition until it can explain infant development. We show why development is crucial for understanding human cognit...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New paper alert: Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
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Beside myself at how an 87-year old woman has completely wrecked the richest man on Earth with just a few words
Truly, the pen is mightier than the sword
Truly, the pen is mightier than the sword
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Beside myself at how an 87-year old woman has completely wrecked the richest man on Earth with just a few words
Truly, the pen is mightier than the sword
Truly, the pen is mightier than the sword
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Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period.
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period.
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
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Another alliance between Trump and Putin - and Farage and Johnson back chanting in unison with the Russian Embassy. Just like old times!
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Another alliance between Trump and Putin - and Farage and Johnson back chanting in unison with the Russian Embassy. Just like old times!
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Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
How the government captured the BBC
A right-wing cabal, largely unaccountable, is waging war on the principles that made our public broadcaster great. It must not succeed
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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The progressive grassroots group MoveOn is calling on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down from his powerful role after moderate Democrats joined with Republicans to work to end the government shutdown.
www.axios.com/2025/11/10/s...
www.axios.com/2025/11/10/s...
Progressive group MoveOn calls on Schumer to step aside
"Inexplicably, some Senate Democrats, under Leader Schumer's watch, decided to surrender."
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The progressive grassroots group MoveOn is calling on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down from his powerful role after moderate Democrats joined with Republicans to work to end the government shutdown.
www.axios.com/2025/11/10/s...
www.axios.com/2025/11/10/s...
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Fool me once, shame on you.
◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official
Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Fool me once, shame on you.
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Stripping the „Social“ from Social Media one step at a time.
"If an ad does not reach the 95% threshold but the warning system still marks it as suspicious, Meta charges the marketers higher rates as a penalty.“
"If an ad does not reach the 95% threshold but the warning system still marks it as suspicious, Meta charges the marketers higher rates as a penalty.“
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from scam ads: Report
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, projected that 10% of its revenue in 2024 would come from ads for scams and banned goods.
san.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Stripping the „Social“ from Social Media one step at a time.
"If an ad does not reach the 95% threshold but the warning system still marks it as suspicious, Meta charges the marketers higher rates as a penalty.“
"If an ad does not reach the 95% threshold but the warning system still marks it as suspicious, Meta charges the marketers higher rates as a penalty.“
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Yet America true to it's violent, brutal, horrific, corrupt, criminal roots didn't disappoint, chose the belly of the long hidden beast!
The irony is that Trump exposed the rot, thrown open the pandora and facade of what THIS country pretended it was to the world.
Adiós👋🏾 the empire is over.
The irony is that Trump exposed the rot, thrown open the pandora and facade of what THIS country pretended it was to the world.
Adiós👋🏾 the empire is over.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Yet America true to it's violent, brutal, horrific, corrupt, criminal roots didn't disappoint, chose the belly of the long hidden beast!
The irony is that Trump exposed the rot, thrown open the pandora and facade of what THIS country pretended it was to the world.
Adiós👋🏾 the empire is over.
The irony is that Trump exposed the rot, thrown open the pandora and facade of what THIS country pretended it was to the world.
Adiós👋🏾 the empire is over.
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You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
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British "patriots" assaulting the BBC to gain approval from American fascists is just fucking weird on a deep level.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
British "patriots" assaulting the BBC to gain approval from American fascists is just fucking weird on a deep level.
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For anyone in Oxford, I am speaking to the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre (SST-CCW) at All Soul's today at 1.30pm, on the topic of how we can best make sense of US foreign & defence policy.
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
Reflections on American foreign and defence policy by Shashank Joshi — The Changing Character of War Centre
Tuesday 11 November, 13.30 Old Library, All Souls
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
For anyone in Oxford, I am speaking to the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre (SST-CCW) at All Soul's today at 1.30pm, on the topic of how we can best make sense of US foreign & defence policy.
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...