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bitters.bsky.social
Meme of man (“the académie français”) kneeling to pound nails into the sand to stop the oncoming tide (“le français”)
December 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
A flow chart shows 17.4 million leave voters in 2016, vs 16.1m remain. In 2025, 5 million of those people have died, and 3 million new voters have come of age. The result (plus some people changing their mind) is 19.8 million voters now back rejoin, versus just 11.7 million wanting to stay out.
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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2000ad.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
tokyofrenchie.bsky.social
What a bunch of assholes Ishin are. First thing they do to force through their useless posturing reform is to go to Sanseito and give the even bigger assholes carte blanche. www.asahi.com/sp/articles/...
定数削減法案めぐり、維新が参政に協力要請　参政は条件提示：朝日新聞
自民党と日本維新の会が目指す「衆院定数（465）の1割削減」をめぐり、維新の藤田文武共同代表が4日、参政党の神谷宗幣代表と国会内で会談し、自維が5日にも衆院に提出する法案への賛成を求めた。神谷氏は「…
www.asahi.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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nickkodama.bsky.social
After all these years lying about Obama maybe Trump is happy to finally meet a Muslim socialist born in Africa with an elite education.
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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atrupar.com
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

MAMDANI: I've spoken about--

TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
3 years ago, NASA crashed the DART spacecraft into an asteroid at 22,000 kilometers per hour. The event changed the asteroid's orbit and tilt & sent it tumbling.

A nearby cubesat captured these remarkable images of the asteroid immediately after the impact. 🧪🔭

aasnova.org/2025/11/03/s...
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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danielloxton.bsky.social
The wholesale corruption of the information ecosystem and deliberate destruction of sources of reliable factual knowledge is the world’s most urgent problem, in my opinion—and it’s continuously getting worse, with no end in sight, at a civilizational scale I could barely imagine just a few years ago
noupside.bsky.social Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · Nov 18
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger argues The Epoch Times should be treated as reputable.

MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.

Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.

The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"

New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Source Wars and Bespoke Realities
Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth
substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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miraisyakai.bsky.social
安倍政権時代の自民党は、公明党の選挙協力なしには衆議院の過半数をとれなかった
note.com/miraisyakai/...

これは「安倍政権の頃の水準まで自民が右派層の支持を伸ばした場合、公明が離脱したマイナスは埋まるのか」という問題の一つの考察です。結果は「容易には埋まらない」というものでした。
安倍政権時代の自民党は、公明党の選挙協力なしには衆議院の過半数をとれなかった｜三春充希(はる) ⭐未来社会プロジェクト
安倍政権時代に国政選挙での圧勝を重ねてきた自民党ですが、その勝利は公明党の協力なくしてありえたのでしょうか。今回は、当時の与党に最も勢いがあった選挙として挙げられる第47回衆院選（2014年）について検討を行います。 　これは、「安倍政権の頃の水準にまで自民党が右派層の支持を伸ばした場合、公明党が離脱したマイナスは埋まるのか」という問題への一つの考察です。得られた答えは「容易には埋まらない」とい...
note.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
4 panel comic Panel 1: An AI generated version of Purple Guy’s dead mother is speaking to him on his phone. She says “Look, darling. With AI we can be together forever” Panel 2: Purple Guy looking very upset. He asks “Do you love me, mum?” Panel 3: The disgusting AI fake mum replies “I do. Almost as much…” Panel 4: AI mum turns into an advert for online gambling. She yells: “…As I love getting 10 free spins when I sign up to pocket casino.com”
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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mulboyne.bsky.social
PM Takaichi has a plan to set up a 政府効率化局, which can translate as Department of Government Efficiency. That's the same name as Elon Musk's DOGE. www.jiji.com/jc/article?k...
高市首相、租特・補助金の適正化指示　「政府効率化局」設置へ：時事ドットコム
木原稔官房長官は１２日の記者会見で、高市早苗首相が租税特別措置や補助金の適正化を進めるよう片山さつき財務相に指示したことを明らかにした。自民党と日本維新の会の連立政権合意書に盛られた「政府効率化局（仮称）」を立ち上げ、「できる限り速やかに必要な成果を挙げていく」との方針も示した。
www.jiji.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
Read the letter:
“Dear President von der Leyen, We, experts in artificial intelligence (Al) and its societal impacts, are deeply concerned about your unscientific and inaccurate statement that Al is nearing human reasoning. You claimed in your budget speech in May "we thought Al would only approach human reasoning around 2050. Now we expect this to happen already next year." We understand from Commission disclosure, which followed a lengthy process to obtain this information, that you relied on the statements of Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang and Sam Altman as the basis for your statement about Al nearing human reasoning. These are marketing statements driven by profit-motive and ideology rather than empirical evidence and formal proof. In short, these tech CEOs claims concerning "superintelligence" and "AGI" are manifestly bound with their financial imperatives and not rigorous science. For the President of the European Commission to repeat the misleading marketing language of US technology firms without independent scientific verification undermines Europe's credibility as a reliable and trusted source of scientific knowledge. This is particularly so amidst a significant speculative bubble to which baseless Al hype is contributing. It also undermines the ability of Commission staff to evaluate the claims of Al vendors at a time when the Commission regulates them and procures Al services. The Commission has the duty to diligently assess claims made by industry and to determine with impartial and scholarly analysis where best the objectives of the Union should be pursued. The scientific development of any potentially useful Al is not served by amplifying the unscientific marketing claims of US tech firms. We call on you to: 1. retract your statement on Al approaching human reasoning next year; 2. diligently evaluate other such marketing claims about Al products; and 3. ensure you have the benefit of the necessary impartial scientific advice in future.”
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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oz69.bsky.social
1票は大事。
投票してもどうせ無駄、なんて事は絶対にない。
miraisyakai.bsky.social 三春充希(はる)⭐未来社会プロジェクト @miraisyakai.bsky.social · Nov 9
茨城県　神栖市長選挙　開票終了

石田進　 1万6724票（得票率50.00％）
木内敏之 1万6724票（得票率50.00％）
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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transmetropolitanr.bsky.social
lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
tokyofrenchie.bsky.social
Wow what a surprise who would have thought
alisonkilling.bsky.social Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · Nov 6
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
tokyofrenchie.bsky.social
Me: eh Takaichi is bad but Japanese politics is reasonable it won't get crazy

Katayama underling: lol witness me we're going to do a DOGE
nikkei.com 日経電子版 @nikkei.com · Nov 3
片山さつき氏はイーロン・マスク氏になるのか？
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO...

財務相に就任した片山さつき氏には実は「租税特別措置（租特）・補助金見直し担当」という肩書が。

財務省幹部は「これは日本版DOGE」と力を込めます。片山氏が訴える「無駄の削減」とは。
片山さつき氏はイーロン・マスク氏になるのか？　財務相が迫る魔術の世界 - 日本経済新聞
片山さつき氏の財務相就任は高市早苗政権の目玉人事になった。実は「租税特別措置（租特）・補助金見直し担当」という肩書がついている。財務省幹部は「これは日本版DOGEだ」と力を込める。1月に発足したトランプ米政権は、DOGEと略される政府効率化省（Department of Government Efficiency）を設けた。歳出削減を主導する組織として電気自動車（EV）大手テスラの創業者である
www.nikkei.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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lbyock.bsky.social
Essential reading about how our entire economy has been warped by a bunch of woo woo nonsense
November 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
tokyofrenchie.bsky.social
Performative diplomacy: Takaichi offers Trump a deal on critical minerals Japan doesn't even have any significant amount of.
myhlee.bsky.social Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · Oct 28
President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi on Tuesday signed a deal to cooperate on critical minerals, as the U.S. seeks to limit dependency on China for the materials that are essential components in everything from cellphones to jet engines. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump signs rare earth minerals deal with Japan ahead of China meeting
Trump met with new Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi, who heralded the start of a “new golden age” in the bilateral relationship following tricky trade talks.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
tokyofrenchie.bsky.social
That's quite high for a lame duck government. Let's see how long it lasts.
miraisyakai.bsky.social 三春充希(はる)⭐未来社会プロジェクト @miraisyakai.bsky.social · Oct 22
共同通信緊急世論調査（10月21～22日実施）

内閣支持率 64.4％
不支持率　 23.2％
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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pauljnadeau.bsky.social
The first time I think I remember seeing foreign (anglophone) commentators talk about a country needing "bold leadership" by a "pragmatic" figure, the country was France and the leader was Sarkozy.

Tant pis, le
Defiant Sarkozy begins jail sentence as lawyer says he will be held in solitary confinement – Europe live
France’s former president was found guilty of acquiring Libyan funding for his 2007 campaign and has arrived at La Sante prison in Paris
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
tokyofrenchie.bsky.social
Oh look Ishin already getting shafted. This was a 1 time thing.

If LDP had to hold anticipated elections you bet your ass Ishin, dumb as they are, will think thrice about getting stuffed like turkeys again.

That means no safety net at all for Takaichi.

Good.
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
A reminder.
Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.
October 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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jmritchey.bsky.social
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
jacobinmag.bsky.social Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Oct 16
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
tokyofrenchie.bsky.social
Amazing, she polled at 66% 10 days ago. Now she's down lower than Ishiba at nomination, making her the least popular PM at nomination in recent history... Assuming she even gets there.
October 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM