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Loves all animals and nature.
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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davidzinn.bsky.social
The emergence of Claude, who survives winter by having a grandma who knits:
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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samisaynevirta.bsky.social
Kutsu osoittamaan tukea sudelle!

✨ Välitä viestiä eteenpäin, kiitos ✨

Eduskunta on hyväksymässä hallituksen esityksen lakimuutoksesta, että susia saisi tappaa 1.1.2026 alkaen 100 yksilöä ns. kiintiömetsästyksenä. Tämä tarkoittaisi kokonaisten susilaumojen tappamista.

Tule mukaan!
December 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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herorats.bsky.social
Not everyone loves rats — until they discover ours.
Gentle, intelligent, and trained to save lives, APOPO’s HeroRATs use their sense of smell to find landmines and detect TB. When you see what they do, it’s hard not to love them.
#APOPO #HeroRATs #ScienceForGood #ratsareawesome
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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esqueer.net
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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herorats.bsky.social
Happy #GivingTuesday! Today, #GlobalGiving is also offering a $500,000 incentive fund, where your donation will get matched and make more impact: bit.ly/4paM0mu

Let's help create a better world together. 💙

#unleashgenerosity #APOPO #HeroRATs
December 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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hillaryclinton.bsky.social
The Trump administration's corruption has extended to selling out Ukraine—and America's interests—to Russia so that the Trump family and their friends can make a few bucks.

Must-read reporting from @wsj.com this weekend. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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portlandken.bsky.social
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.

Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.

Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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anibundel.bsky.social
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.

🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
WSJ Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions. Another Trump donor, Stephen P. Lynch, paid $600,000 this year to a lobbyist close to Trump Jr. who is helping him seek a Treasury Department license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from a Russian state-owned company. One sign that he may be serious is that some of his most-trusted friends, sanctioned billionaires from his St. Petersburg hometown-Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and the Rotenberg brothers, Boris and Arkady-have sent representatives to quietly meet American companies to explore rare-earth mining and energy deals, according to people familiar with the meetings and European security officials. That includes reviving the giant Nord Stream pipeline, sabotaged by Ukrainian tactical divers, and under European Union sanctions. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil met with Russia's biggest state energy company, Rosneft, to discuss returning to the massive Sakhalin gas project if Moscow and Washington gave the green light.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Time to ask: In whose interests is American foreign policy being conducted?
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 10d
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"

Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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orastynkkynen.vihreat.fi
Ei ole mikään pakko tulla takaisin!
Orban Moskovassa tänään
Unkarin pääministerin ja Venäjän itsevaltaisen presidentin on määrä keskustella energiasta.
www.is.fi
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
also they mostly aren't "peace talks," they are talks about how to re-open US/Russia business deals
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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teroterotero.bsky.social
This is incredibly dark and almost nobody with real power is speaking up
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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luonnonsuojelu.bsky.social
Suomen toiseksi suurin metsänomistaja Tornator on sitoutunut vastuullisen metsänhoidon FSC-sertifikaattiin. Yhtiön Savonlinnassa tekemä avohakkuu rikkoo sertifikaattia räikeästi, sillä kyseinen kohde täytti aina säästettävän -kohteen mittarit. Jätämme hakkuista valituksen.
sll.fi/ajankohtaist...
Tornator ja Stora Enso hakkasivat FSC:n suojeleman metsän Savonlinnassa
Metsäyhtiö Tornator hakkasi ja Stora Enso osti puut metsästä, joka olisi vastuullisen metsänhoidon FSC-sertifikaatin mukaan säästettävä aina. Luonnonsuojeluliitto jättää hakkuista valituksen.
sll.fi
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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mimma.bsky.social
Mutta Trump se vaan ränttää, että Zelenskyi ei ole tarpeeksi kiitollinen Yhdysvaltain avusta. Hän voisi keskittyä olennaiseen.
November 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.

Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.

Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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elisaaaltola.bsky.social
Tätä tilastoa oli järkyttävä lukea. Kyseessä Ruokaviraston lihantarkastustilasto viime vuodelta.

Joka kolmannella tapetulla sialla oli ollut keuhkokalvontulehdus. Se on pahimmillaan erittäin tukala sairaus. Joka kolmannella! 😳

Ihmiset, ettehän enää tue eläinteollisuutta. Se on yhtä pimeyttä. 💔
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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davidzinn.bsky.social
Nadine and the Swimming Lesson
sidewalk chalk drawing of a mouse in a blue dress and a goldfish swimming in a puddle created by a "missing" brick
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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herorats.bsky.social
Not all innovation needs machines.
At APOPO, simple, low-tech solutions — like training HeroRATs to detect landmines & TB — are saving lives every day.
#APOPO #HeroRATs #Innovation #LowTech
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Nov 6
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM