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Timmy O'Danaos
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Fleeing the smoldering ruins
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odanaos.bsky.social
Looking into breaking my "no new books" policy by buying @dannybate.bsky.social 's 'Why Q Needs U' but I hesitate
Product information of the 'Why Q Needs U' audiobook on a Dutch website, which includes: Overige kenmerken Porno Nee Studieboek Nee
February 14, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
February 12, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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andreagrimes.com
The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.
Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
www.kut.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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tpgroberts.bsky.social
A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.
February 7, 2026 at 3:36 PM
odanaos.bsky.social
Goh @yvanspijk.bsky.social, dat woord 'obus' heeft een mooie rondreis door Europa gemaakt zeg! In elk geval een mooiere reis dan de granaat in kwestie. ;-)
ici.fr ici @ici.fr · 14d
Toulouse : les démineurs appelés au CHU, un patient aux urgences avec un obus de 1918 dans le rectum
➡️ https://l.ici.fr/eJbB
February 2, 2026 at 9:26 AM
odanaos.bsky.social
nos.nl/l/2600415

"Muziekjournalist Verdonschot zag in Minneapolis diezelfde, rechtlijnige Springsteen als toen. "Ik denk trouwens wel dat hij een tijd lang heeft gedacht: ik moet een bruggenbouwer zijn tussen Republikeinen en Democraten."

Wat verstaat deze muziekjournalist onder "bruggenbouwer"??
Springsteen helpt John Kerry met zijn verkiezingscampagne Springsteen en Obama Springsteen helpt Kamala Harris met haar verkiezingscampagne
January 31, 2026 at 9:19 PM
odanaos.bsky.social
Vraag aan @mennovdbos.bsky.social (of anderen): is er ergens al een reportage over AI-muziek en extreemrechts?

Onvrijwillig blootgesteld aan een zender met Nederlandstalige muziek hoorde ik een slecht satirisch lied over het nieuwe kabinet. Door "Ademlicht", wat oogt als een xenofobische AI-account
January 30, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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astrokatie.com
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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patrick23dingen.bsky.social
Always interesting to listen to @meredithmeredith.bsky.social. Finally the Dutch citizens get to have a splendid interview to get to know her and her warnings about (non)privacy. youtube.com/watch?v=54jI...
Dit zijn de winnaars en verliezers van de grote dataroof volgens Signal-baas Meredith Whittaker
YouTube video by VPRO Tegenlicht
youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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markhesselman.bsky.social
Mooi artikel van @locuta.bsky.social
#trump
1 jaar lang noteerde ik dagelijks wat Trump deed, besloot en verordonneerde. Mijn conclusie? Het is allemaal geen improvisatie: 51% van Project 2025, de blauwdruk voor autocratie, is al gerealiseerd. (www.sampol.be/2026/01/1-ja...)
1 jaar Trump: het recht van de sterkste
1 jaar lang noteerde ik dagelijks wat Trump deed, besloot en verordonneerde. Mijn conclusie? Het is allemaal geen improvisatie: 51% van Project 2025, de...
www.sampol.be
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 AM
odanaos.bsky.social
In Japan people don't say where they live, they say where they have Sunday Mass, and I think that's beautiful.
January 11, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?" Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸" Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City." Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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frietema.bsky.social
Het stroomnet zit vol maar Google, Meta en Microsoft breiden ongehinderd - en stiekem! - uit.

Hadden we maar een kabinet dat de juiste keuzes maakt.

Stroom voor nieuwe wijken, scholen, winkels en warmtetransitie. In plaats van AI-slop, bitcoin mining en deepfake revenge porn.
Google en Microsoft verzwijgen energiegebruik van hyperscale-datacenters voor overheid
Stroomvoorziening: Amerikaanse grootverbruikers van stroom verzwijgen het beslag dat ze leggen op het overbelaste Nederlandse elektriciteitsnet. Volgens Europese regels moeten ze hun gebruikscijfers o...
www.nrc.nl
January 2, 2026 at 9:49 AM
odanaos.bsky.social
Geweldig spelletje voor wie wel eens in Frankrijk is geweest. @marieke.bsky.social ?
lenain.bsky.social Le Nain @lenain.bsky.social · Jan 2
Hé Bluesky, j'ai créé un petit jeu. Il s'appelle Fausse Commune, et il va mettre à l'épreuve ta connaissance des régions françaises.

C'est gratuit, c'est absurde, c'est rapide, ça marche sur téléphone ou ordi.

C'est là : faussecommune.fr
January 2, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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nitasha.bsky.social
our data story visualizing the rabbit hole people can fall into with chatGPT is on the cover of today’s @washingtonpost.com @kevinschaul.bsky.social
front page of the Washington Post on December 28, 2025. A1 story “Suicidal teen found a confidant in ChatGPT” continuation of Washington Post article: “74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging” and chart depicting Adam Raine’s increased time spent with ChatGPT
December 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
as is tradition, I post a countdown of my top 100 posts from the year, starting today with No. 100-81. hit the link! www.artbutmakeitsports.com/p/the-best-o...
The Best of 2025, No. 100-81
The ABMIS advent calendar begins
www.artbutmakeitsports.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
a neat (and scary) survey into AI "companions" and kids www.aura.com/reports/stat...

"nearly half of the time kids and teens use AI, it is
for companionship, and when they do, the themes of discussion are primarily sexual, romantic, and violent."
Title: Violence has entered the chat Devices show: * AI is the new imaginary friend: When kids use AI, 42% of the time it’s for companionship. * These chats regularly turn violent: Of these conversations 37% discuss violent topics. How are we defining violent content? This includes videos or interactions with themes of physical violence, aggression, harm, serious injury, death, or coercion (sexual or non-sexual). This includes descriptions of fighting, killing, torture, and non-consensual acts. *Sex and violence go hand in hand: In half of violent AI chatbot conversations, sexual roleplay appeared too. *It drives engagement: Users discussing violent topics with companion AI apps write 1,000+ words per day — more than any other theme.
December 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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sabrinanorwood.bsky.social
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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stancarey.bsky.social
Reposing with alt text:

Bob Dylan meets the drum machine circa 1985 (via Campbell's recent memoir)
He turned to me. “That ain't right.” “No,” I agreed. Bob waited for me to expound. There was a tense silence. “Well, yeah. You kinda went off the beat a little there, Bob. You gotta stick a little closer to it.” “What do you mean?” “You gotta follow the drum machine a little closer.” “I have to follow *it*?” “Yeah.” “It doesn’t follow me?” “Uh, no, Bob, it doesn’t.” Bob shook his head. “Then what good is it?”
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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marieke.bsky.social
Intolerante boodschappen worden zelden openlijk zo gebracht. De meeste mensen zien zichzelf graag als redelijk en moreel goed. Veel effectiever om ze een frame te geven waarin ze intolerant kunnen zijn zonder dat zelfbeeld te hoeven loslaten. Daarom zijn dit soort nep-lieve stukjes geniepig.
December 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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neal.fun
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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marieke.bsky.social
Als je per se wilt doen alsof je als journalist/medium geen eigen moreel kompas hebt - want “neutraal” ofzo, krijg je dit. Een glasheldere buitengerechtelijke moordpartij wordt vervaagd tot “omstreden” en “mogelijke oorlogsmisdaad” in een laf ‘zij zeggen dit, maar anderen zeggen dat’-stukje.
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
odanaos.bsky.social
When you want to place "Gérard Depardieu" in Name Scrabble but you don't have all the letters
Gaël Perdiau, the French mayor sentenced to prison for sextape blackmail
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM