@holeinthewall.bsky.social
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Ahmad el Ahmad, a Sydney SutherlandShire Fruitshop owner, w/no firearms experience, disarmed one of the gunmen & was afterward shot in the left shoulder & hand by another of the gunmen who was on the walk bridge with a rifle…according to Ahmed’s cousin, Mostafa, who reports he is now in surgery.
December 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Ahmad el Ahmad, a Sydney SutherlandShire Fruitshop owner, w/no firearms experience, disarmed one of the gunmen & was afterward shot in the left shoulder & hand by another of the gunmen who was on the walk bridge with a rifle…according to Ahmed’s cousin, Mostafa, who reports he is now in surgery.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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A lot of people are getting calls from 0044 numbers these days. I can't advise strongly enough, DO NOT ANSWER CALLS FROM THESE NUMBERS: those are UK numbers. You are at a very real risk of talking to an English person
December 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A lot of people are getting calls from 0044 numbers these days. I can't advise strongly enough, DO NOT ANSWER CALLS FROM THESE NUMBERS: those are UK numbers. You are at a very real risk of talking to an English person
Great article on the challenges of depopulation which is at the heart of the political divide.
Sensible immigration to city states compared or policies to boost birth rates that ‘seem like we are drifting into Handmaid’s Tale territory.’
Sensible immigration to city states compared or policies to boost birth rates that ‘seem like we are drifting into Handmaid’s Tale territory.’
5. Intervention today (or in any recent decades), if it has any effect at all, will instead hasten the depopulation dive on the other side of the peak: a trend that is just as inevitable, whose impacts are brilliantly summarised here by David Runciman: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Great article on the challenges of depopulation which is at the heart of the political divide.
Sensible immigration to city states compared or policies to boost birth rates that ‘seem like we are drifting into Handmaid’s Tale territory.’
Sensible immigration to city states compared or policies to boost birth rates that ‘seem like we are drifting into Handmaid’s Tale territory.’
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Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
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Exclusive: US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say - www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Exclusive: US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say
The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week,...
www.reuters.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Exclusive: US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say - www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Fantastic news that it's going so well that you're upping the goal! ❤️🔥
Here's the donation link from the attached article to make it easier to donate: www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Here's the donation link from the attached article to make it easier to donate: www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...
www.help99.co
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Fantastic news that it's going so well that you're upping the goal! ❤️🔥
Here's the donation link from the attached article to make it easier to donate: www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Here's the donation link from the attached article to make it easier to donate: www.help99.co/patches/timo...
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If smoking weed causes short term memory loss then what does smoking weed do?
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
If smoking weed causes short term memory loss then what does smoking weed do?
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From @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
As Trump and Putin work to crush Ukraine and destabilise Europe and Farage’s ally gets sentenced it’s a good time to revisit this excellent report on how the British rightwing has betrayed us all.
Brexit was their weapon of choice
bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...
As Trump and Putin work to crush Ukraine and destabilise Europe and Farage’s ally gets sentenced it’s a good time to revisit this excellent report on how the British rightwing has betrayed us all.
Brexit was their weapon of choice
bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...
Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It
Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
From @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
As Trump and Putin work to crush Ukraine and destabilise Europe and Farage’s ally gets sentenced it’s a good time to revisit this excellent report on how the British rightwing has betrayed us all.
Brexit was their weapon of choice
bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...
As Trump and Putin work to crush Ukraine and destabilise Europe and Farage’s ally gets sentenced it’s a good time to revisit this excellent report on how the British rightwing has betrayed us all.
Brexit was their weapon of choice
bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...
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Trump in that post: "AND EUROPE CONTINUES TO BUY OIL FROM RUSSIA"
wait a min...it was Trump who approved
the purchase of Putin's russian oil
by European countries
which support Putin, like Orbán's:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
wait a min...it was Trump who approved
the purchase of Putin's russian oil
by European countries
which support Putin, like Orbán's:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump gives Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions
The opt-out comes despite the US increasing pressure on allies to sever economic ties with Russia.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Trump in that post: "AND EUROPE CONTINUES TO BUY OIL FROM RUSSIA"
wait a min...it was Trump who approved
the purchase of Putin's russian oil
by European countries
which support Putin, like Orbán's:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
wait a min...it was Trump who approved
the purchase of Putin's russian oil
by European countries
which support Putin, like Orbán's:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The point about the US mediating between Russia and NATO should be a clarifying moment. It has been coming since 2016 but now it’s in the open. The US is effectively no longer a member.
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The point about the US mediating between Russia and NATO should be a clarifying moment. It has been coming since 2016 but now it’s in the open. The US is effectively no longer a member.
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The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
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"Freed From Desire" was a banger at the time, but it's mad how much of a second life it has had courtesy of some lad from Wigan
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"Freed From Desire" was a banger at the time, but it's mad how much of a second life it has had courtesy of some lad from Wigan
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”Art opens up what is possible“
listen, of all the unforgivable crimes of the techbros finding myself nodding furiously in agreement with the pope is one of the most disturbing
listen, of all the unforgivable crimes of the techbros finding myself nodding furiously in agreement with the pope is one of the most disturbing
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
”Art opens up what is possible“
listen, of all the unforgivable crimes of the techbros finding myself nodding furiously in agreement with the pope is one of the most disturbing
listen, of all the unforgivable crimes of the techbros finding myself nodding furiously in agreement with the pope is one of the most disturbing
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This is a terrific piece of writing and insight about where we are with the Times, and where the Times is with us.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is a terrific piece of writing and insight about where we are with the Times, and where the Times is with us.
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Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?
October 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?
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Here’s the article ye coynce english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Protocells emerge in experiment simulating lifeless world: ‘There is no divine breath of life’
Researchers from a Spanish laboratory observe, for the first time, the formation of compartments alongside the basic ingredients of organisms
english.elpais.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Here’s the article ye coynce english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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By the way, I was right about it being Reagan’s last speech. It’s here: youtu.be/2R8QxCD6ir8
The video would probably piss Trump off. So please don’t make it go viral.
The video would probably piss Trump off. So please don’t make it go viral.
The last speech of Ronald Reagan as president was on immigration
YouTube video by Montclair Immigration Network
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
By the way, I was right about it being Reagan’s last speech. It’s here: youtu.be/2R8QxCD6ir8
The video would probably piss Trump off. So please don’t make it go viral.
The video would probably piss Trump off. So please don’t make it go viral.
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Go Frogs!
October 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Go Frogs!
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After ICE raided Chinatown, hundreds of protestors in NYC 🍎 joined forces outside of their offices yesterday.
Here they are past midnight last night, still going strong. Calling for an end to racist deportations. ✊🏼
Here they are past midnight last night, still going strong. Calling for an end to racist deportations. ✊🏼
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
After ICE raided Chinatown, hundreds of protestors in NYC 🍎 joined forces outside of their offices yesterday.
Here they are past midnight last night, still going strong. Calling for an end to racist deportations. ✊🏼
Here they are past midnight last night, still going strong. Calling for an end to racist deportations. ✊🏼
“To use Chairman Mao’s phrase, America is proving itself a “paper tiger”.”
“The fabric of American democracy is disintegrating.”
…
“Who trusts the US in the reign of the capricious, vengeful idiot king? How could anyone trust the arbitrary, weathervane foreign policy antics of the Trump-Vance-Rubio travelling circus?”
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“Who trusts the US in the reign of the capricious, vengeful idiot king? How could anyone trust the arbitrary, weathervane foreign policy antics of the Trump-Vance-Rubio travelling circus?”
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What exactly does Vladimir Putin hold over the cowardly Donald Trump?
And what has Russian leader said or threatened to prompt US president’s volte-face on Ukraine?
www.irishtimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
“To use Chairman Mao’s phrase, America is proving itself a “paper tiger”.”