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Sophie

@happenssomuch.bsky.social

i think more people need to realize that what we call "radical islam" was a reaction to imperialism in the middle east and directly supported by the west. we created it and now use it as justification to further oppress millions of people. anyway, this lady is nuts.

PISS_SHITTER @amiyatzin.bsky.social · 10h

I need to remind all of you that Brianna Wu is a gentile. She is 0% jewish. they are calling her the most goyische woman of all time. I do not understand this kind of brain damage.

November 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM

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Gillian Branstetter

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

Bringing the war home

November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM

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Drop Site

@dropsitenews.com

🔴 Forensic Architecture writes that the Gaza ceasefire is “legitimizing the next stage of Israel’s occupation, failing to stop the ongoing genocide and threatening to permanently shrink Gaza’s territory.”

Their investigation shows Israel using the “yellow line,” imposed after the Oct. 10...

Their investigation shows Israel using the “yellow line,” imposed after the Oct. 10 ceasefire, to redraw Gaza’s map and force a permanent partition.

▪️Key findings:

1. Israel is transforming the yellow line into a permanent border, expanding military infrastructure and ethnically cleansing 54% of Gaza east of the line.

2. The yellow line is deliberately inconsistent. Palestinians who approach it are shot, while Israel’s own maps contradict the line’s real location on the ground.

3. Of the 27 yellow blocks FA identified, all were located beyond the ‘yellow line’ as indicated on Israeli maps. They encroach up to 940m further into Gaza.

4. Israel has carried out at least 25 attacks on civilians since the ceasefire, almost all outside the area it labels the “dangerous combat zone.”

5. Most attacks hit zones Israel told Palestinians were “safe”, including Gaza City and the previously designated “relocation zone” for people fleeing Gaza City.

6. Israel is demolishing entire residential blocks east of the yellow line, clearing land to turn mass displacement into permanent dispossession.

7. Controlled demolitions continued throughout the ceasefire, including verified military footage of buildings blown up in Shejaiya.

8. Nowhere in Gaza is safe. Israel continues to strike civilian areas and infrastructure west of the line, blocking Palestinians from rebuilding.

9. This is a blueprint for a smaller Gaza, carved up under the cover of a ceasefire and enforced by live fire, expulsions, and demolition.

orensic Architecture
@ForensicArchi
Our analysis of the ceasefire in maps:
http://frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
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Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two.

54% of Gaza is now inaccessible to its population; Palestinians approaching or crossing the line from west to east are met with lethal force. Meanwhile, Israel

November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM

Sophie

@happenssomuch.bsky.social

trapped in a kafkaesque nightmare where ny state of health is not talking to my insurance and my insurance is saying i owe them thousands of dollars... i love living in the united states of america

November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM

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Matt McDaniel

@themattmcd.bsky.social

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 3d

can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop

Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.

November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM

Sophie

@happenssomuch.bsky.social

lmao

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 4d

"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”

November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM

Sophie

@happenssomuch.bsky.social

what a rich tapestry we weave

November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM

Sophie

@happenssomuch.bsky.social

ughhhhhhhh

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 3d

Highly specific siren: Nick Cave and Rod Dreher hung out

Screenshot of a tweet from Rod Dreher. He and Nick Cave are standing next to each other beaming, and the text of the tweet reads: "I don't know what you did tonight, but it wasn't as cool as my dinner with the great Nick Cave. What a lovely man."

November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM

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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

It is wild to me that the largest company on the stock market, one with such incredible prestige and a huge PR team got dog-walked here. Why would you EVER give this ANY oxygen? Now everybody is asking whether NVIDIA is like Enron! This didn't help at all!

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4d

Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying "Unlike Enron, NVIDIA does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue" (Tae Kim/Barron's Online)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM

Sophie

@happenssomuch.bsky.social

alex vitale on the transition team... looking forward to f*x news finding that one

November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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steven monacelli

@stevanzetti.bsky.social

I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.

Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that.

"You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now."

Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT,

communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner.

She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.

November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM

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debbshock

@debbshock.blue

happy whatever the fuck day it is

2 panels, David Lynch saying 1. good morning, everyone. It's... 2. What fucking day is it now?

November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot

@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social

Gaza food kitchens still missing essential products despite ceasefire

Israel is allowing more food into Gaza, but aid workers say vital ingredients needed to improve people's diets are still missing.

www.bbc.com

November 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM

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Drop Site

@dropsitenews.com

A look at Hebrew media after Zohran Mamdani stood next to Donald Trump in the Oval Office and said the “Israeli government [is] committing genocide” and “our government [is] funding it.”

Jerusalem Post, Kan News, and Times of Israel ⬇️

November 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM

Sophie

@happenssomuch.bsky.social

this might be the first time i've liked kathy hochul

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 6d

Governor Hochul on Elise Stefanik doubling down on her claims that Mamdani is a “jihadist.”

Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)

November 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt

@ugarles.bsky.social

the most likely result of anything that happens is nothing. if you are worried that zohran found common ground with trump or thrilled that trump is going to "help" you should turn off your phone.

but if you are in line to tell a show tunes joke or post a meme of marx with laser eyes, stay in line.

November 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM

Sophie

@happenssomuch.bsky.social

this was so much worse than i thought it would be

If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 8d

Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.