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David Cabo
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Founder of @civio, promoting Open Data/Government, transparency and data journalism.
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
dcabo.bsky.social
César Martínez Sánchez, uno de los autores de la auditoría "externa" de las cuentas del PSOE, fue personal eventual ("asesor") en el Ministerio de Presidencia desde 2020 civio.es/poder/buscad...
Gráfico de evolución del número de eventuales en la Administración General del Estado. El buscador muestra una línea con el cargo de César Martínez Sánchez.
December 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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segyges.bsky.social
we verifiably do not do a good job of mitigating the societal impacts of technology on labor. this leaves us with things like the entire state of west virginia yearning for the return of the coal economy, whatever's going on with detroit, etc
December 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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abradacabla.bsky.social
“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”
December 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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nilsgilman.bsky.social
“The postwar deal was simple enough that it barely needed stating: education + work + time = house, security, retirement. It worked, more or less, for three generations — long enough that people mistook it for natural law rather than policy choice.” www.collisiondetector.com/riskmaxxing-...
Riskmaxxing and the Death of the Middle Path
For older generations, risk is a choice. For Gen Z, it's a trap.
www.collisiondetector.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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jjvincent.bsky.social
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Top tier joke
December 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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elboenuestrodecadadia.es
Aquí explicamos el decreto ley de revalorización de las pensiones -y muchas otras cosas: civio.es/el-boe-nuest... #BOE
Las pensiones suben entre un 2,7 y un 11,4%, según el tipo, en 2026
El IMV queda en 8803,2 euros anuales. El decreto ley también incluye la prórroga de mayores descuentos del bono social y de la deducción por obras de eficiencia energética en viviendas o por compra de...
civio.es
December 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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smtuffy.bsky.social
I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
December 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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bsrg1.bsky.social
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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elboenuestrodecadadia.es
Seguimos con el #BOE de hoy, que va cargadico. En este artículo desgranamos el decreto ley que prorroga los descuentos en los abonos transporte durante todo 2026: civio.es/el-boe-nuest...
El Gobierno prorroga los descuentos en el transporte y arranca el proceso para crear el nuevo abono único
El descuento del 20% que aporta el Estado a los abonos de transporte urbano ya no está vinculado a que las comunidades autónomas sumen otro 20.
civio.es
December 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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davekeating.substack.com
My entire X timeline is anti-EU posts from people I don't follow.

Even if I change it from 'for you' to 'following', it switches back to 'for you' each time I open the site.

X is being weaponised against the EU. And unfortunately X is still the public square for European journalists & politicians.
December 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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javierdelacueva.es
Ya hay sentencia patria en la que pillan el uso de una AI en un recurso. La AP de Alicante lo envía al Col. de Abogados por si procede sanción disciplinaria.

Me alegro infinitamente. Que los expulsen de la abogacía por el daño a sus clientes y a la profesión.

www.poderjudicial.es/search/AN/op...
Ello no resulta cierto, porque no aparecen tales párrafos en esa sentencia, que trata del TRLC en su inicial redacción. O bien el recurso es fruto de alucinaciones de la inteligencia artificial o bien es consecuencia de una voluntad de engaño que sobrepasa con creces el respeto a las reglas de la buena fe a la que deben ajustarse los intervinientes en el proceso ( art 247.1LEC) , por lo que procede remitir testimonio de esta resolución al Colegio de Abogados por si pidiera proceder la imposición de algún tipo de sanción disciplinaria ( art 247.2 LEC)
December 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
dcabo.bsky.social
@eduardosuarez.bsky.social ¿Has leído esta "biografía intelectual de Lippmann"? Es tu regalo de Reyes perfecto www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan · Fatal Realism: Walter Lippmann’s Warning
Lippmann was called the greatest journalist of his age, but his claims as an original thinker rest on his book Public...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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stratcomcentre.bsky.social
On this day in 2021, the same Russia that is now being trusted to uphold some future agreement on Ukraine said this as they were massing troops on the border of Ukraine.
December 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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kleinman.bsky.social
I've come to realize that a lot of people like him because he tells them it's OK to not have any values either. Values require effort. MAGA is about effortless decadence, sit in your chair and get mad at computer with the rest of us, it's great.
emilynussbaum.bsky.social Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 15d
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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guilleciro.bsky.social
Oye, que lo mismo no os ha llegado, pero está esta gente de Vox and co. apuñalándose en directo por lo del dinero que les donaron para la DANA.
«Kiko insinuó meternos pasta»: Vox se quiso quedar con la asociación que ahora denuncia por estafa
LA RAZÓN accede a todas las comunicaciones de tres miembros de la junta directiva de Revuelta. Mensajes, audios y conversaciones entre ellos y también con la cúpula de Vox
www.larazon.es
December 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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maxdubler.com
Tapping the sign again.
@jasonc_nc: I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. Max Dubler: That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties.
December 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
The man who neutralized a terrorist in Sydney by taking his weapon was a 43-year-old Ahmed Al Ahmed, the owner of a fruit shop in Sutherland. During the confrontation with the terrorists, Ahmed was shot twice in the arm, but he continued to fight
December 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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vhsteacher.com
www.messynessychic.com/2017/05/10/t...
The Dapper Daredevil Who Documented America’s Skyline in the Making
Where do I start with this photograph? The dapper shoes? The Gene Kelly stance? The delicate ease with which he's holding that enormous camera? Or the fact that all of this is happening at some unthin...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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dannyredrum.bsky.social
Acabo de ver el mejor vídeo de Internet, así que os lo traigo porque vosotros no sabíais que lo necesitabais.
December 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social
The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion.

I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.

🧵 Long thread.
December 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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kajakallas.bsky.social
The EU just decided to indefinitely immobilise Russian assets.

This ensures that up to €210 billion in Russian funds stay on EU soil, unless Russia fully pays reparations to Ukraine for the damage it has caused. (1/2)
December 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
Steve Bannon laughing next to Noam Comsky in a photo release by the Epstein estate
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM