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hmcevansoneya.bsky.social
This is *still* going on by the way and it is incredible how little attention it's getting from media, politicians and others who are usually falling over themselves to talk about AI, women's rights and/or child protection
hmcevansoneya.bsky.social The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 4d
Two days later and the nonconsensual sexual material generator still hasn't been turned off, at this point it's time to start arresting people
hmcevansoneya.bsky.social The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 6d
If you want to see what the main use case for AI is to the average consumer, open Twitter, go to the @grok account and click on the "Media" tab
January 5, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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tvsadam.bsky.social
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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denisebreen.bsky.social
Phil Lynott passed away #OnThisDay in 1986, aged 36.
Photo of Phil Lynott by Jack Kay/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
January 4, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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cristianfarias.com
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
ah yes. let's wait until dems sweep house and senate in midterms so we can have two more years of crippling constitutional crises before trump cedes power peacefully
January 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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blackazizanansi.blacksky.app
The Trump admin is what happens when you run the Bush admin through AI.
January 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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janskudlarek.bsky.social
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Damn. FIFA peace prizes used to mean something.
January 3, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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saoirsemc.bsky.social
I wish journalists would stop treating MHR like some funny, contrarian opposition backbencher from the bogs. He is a minister of state and one of the wealthiest and most unscrupulous self serving TDs in the dail. It's just a hat and an accent!!! Look past it please!!!
January 2, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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andycraig.bsky.social
Admittedly I'm not a journalist and I know suggestions get lobbed from the peanut gallery all the time, but I would love to see politicians, including Democratic politicians, directly asked this question in large numbers. I feel like that would be a very newsworthy story to share their responses.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d
It's amazing how many corporations -- much less private individuals -- still believe they need to stay active on the white nationalist forum and CSAM generator.

Sure, you may have succeeded in blocking yourself from seeing these things there, but all of us still see you there alongside those things
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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ruthdeyermond.bsky.social
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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kneecapceol.bsky.social
First day of 2026 and the Brits are at it again....

We will not be silent.

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
The Brits are at it again... The British government has issued us notice that they will appeal the decision of their own magistrates court to throw out the case against Mo Chara. It is the view of our legal team that there is not an iota of logic for this, it is without any sound legal basis. It is another flailing arm to distract from, and to try and silence those who stand on the right side of history as they are complicit. As Israel today moves to ban charitable organisations providing lifesaving aid and primitive shelter to millions, the British state once again turns to vilify those who oppose genocide. It will be heard on Jan 14th at the High Court, Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London. We will not be silent. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
January 1, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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aljazeera.com
Demonstrators in Turkiye demand global pressure on Israel, calling the so-called ceasefire 'a slow-motion genocide'.
Hundreds of thousands march in Istanbul in solidarity with Gaza
Demonstrators in Turkiye demand global pressure on Israel, calling the so-called ceasefire 'a slow-motion genocide'.
www.aljazeera.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
The media has spent the last few months trying to make sense out of nonsense, attempting to conjure motive, manifesto, and meaning out of the dumbest shit scrawled onto bullets. These were sad attempts to impose meaning on an increasingly incoherent world by a literati that has not yet accepted its irrelevance in a postliterate society. But the most humiliating display of literate obliviousness in the face of the total collapse of meaning, however, was Ezra Klein's bizarre eulogy to Charlie Kirk. The now-infamous column ("Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way") can best be understood as an expression of class solidarity. Klein, I would argue, sees both himself and Kirk as being Debate Guys, wordcels who engage in the marketplace of ideas and let speech sort itself out into political action. Kirk did not commit violence, not because he abhorred it, but because committing violence was someone else's job. Last year, he called for using whips against migrants, saying, "Of course you should be able to use whips against foreigners that are coming into your country. Why is that controversial?" In early June of this year, as the president deployed troops to Los Angeles, Kirk publicly advocated for invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to crush the immigration protests. And in August, he called for "federalizing" the district of Columbia, saying, "Roll in the tanks, bring in the military." With his close relationship to the commander in chief of the United States of America, Charlie Kirk was no mere talker, idea-peddler, or purveyor of discourse. He built an empire on legitimizing violence and harvesting the enthusiasm and glee around it. Even before his death became a pretext to enact violence on American cities, he had already substantively shaped history. Charlie Kirk was a part of the real world in a way that Ezra Klein will never be.
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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architecture.bsky.social
This spectacular image of the planetary alignment of Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House was taken in the early morning around April 21, 2022, and featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on April 26, 2022
Sydney Opera House
December 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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velokira.bsky.social
Israel hat heute wieder einmal UN-Truppen im Libanon gezielt beschossen. #unifil
UNIFIL statement (26 December 2025) This morning, heavy machine gunfire from Israel Defense Forces (IDF) positions south of the Blue Line impacted close to a UNIFIL patrol inspecting a roadblock in the village of Bastarra. The gunfire followed a grenade explosion nearby. While there was no damage to UNIFIL assets, the sound of the gunfire and the explosion left one peacekeeper slightly injured with ear concussion. In a separate incident today, in the village of Kfar Shouba, another patrol carrying out a routine operational task also reported machine gunfire from the Israeli side in immediate proximity to their position. UNIFIL had informed the IDF about the activities in those areas in advance, following usual practice for patrols in sensitive areas near the Blue Line. Attacks on or near peacekeepers are serious violations of Security Council resolution 1701. We reiterate call to the IDF to cease aggressive behaviour and attacks on or near peacekeepers working for peace and stability along the Blue Line. *** تصريح صحفي لليونيفيل (26 كانون الأول 2025) سقطت نيران رشاشات ثقيلة صباح اليوم من مواقع الجيش الإسرائيلي جنوب الخط الأزرق بالقرب من دورية تابعة لقوات الأمم المتحدة المؤقتة في لبنان (اليونيفيل) كانت تتفقد عائقاً على الطريق في قرية بسطرا. وجاء إطلاق النار عقب انفجار قنبلة يدوية في مكان قريب. وبينما لم تلحق أي أضرار بممتلكات اليونيفيل، تسبب صوت إطلاق النار والانفجار في إصابة أحد جنود حفظ السلام بإصابة طفيفة بارتجاج في الأذن. وفي حادثة منفصلة اليوم في بلدة كفرشوبا، أبلغت دورية حفظ سلام أخرى، كانت تقوم بمهمة عملياتية روتينية، عن إطلاق نار من الجانب الإسرائيلي على مقربة من موقعها.
December 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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xkcd.com
Funny Numbers

xkcd.com/3184/
Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]
December 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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clemm.bsky.social
Ist der US-Botschafter einbestellt? Hat sich der Kanzler geäußert? Oder ist es der deutschen Regierung ganz Recht, wie und dass die Grundfesten der Demokratie, die Freiheit derjenigen, die sich gegen Hass und Repression einsetzen, zerstört und angegriffen werden?
December 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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pilgerschloss.bsky.social
“The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel’s conduct.”
— Bruno Maçães
December 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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longtimehistory.bsky.social
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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defector.com
What did we get stuck in our rectums last year? defector.com/what-did-we-...
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector
This is the time of year to be grateful for not having things stuck in our asses, and to think of those less fortunate than us. So spare a thought for those Americans who misjudged the capacity of the...
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December 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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keelanhothothot.bsky.social
Really getting into graphic novels. I read the Cló Maigh Eo graphic novel of Myles na gCopaleen’s ‘An Béal Bocht’ earlier this year and loved it and really digging this. If anyone has any recs for a total newb to graphic novels I’d greatly appreciate them!
December 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The genocide will continue until morale improves.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 12d
"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you."

Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
Israeli occupation forces distributed warning leaflets in Tubas, in the northern occupied West Bank, this morning, threatening Palestinian residents that posting, sharing, or publishing online content critical of Israel would be treated as a terrorist offense, potentially resulting in arrest or imprisonment. The leaflets stated: "We are monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment, as has happened in this house. We have warned you."
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM