“You guys are incredible! The two of you have officially sealed the deal—mazal tov, and may it bring great success. Segalovich is now second on the Ra’am party list. 👏 Kudos to Segalovich. Kudos to Abbas. You are a shining example of patriotic courage. You are larger than life. Thank you both”

Getting rejected from the Bluesky job because I don't actually know how to code and @ellenteapot.ca and @lexande.bsky.social, who have seen my code, can confirm.

Doll@dollspace.gay · 8h ago

getting rejected from the bluesky job because making the walls bleed and whisper everyones secrets is a "hostile work environment"

"Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, recently appointed to the role by the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, meets Secretary of State Rubio in Washington" is one of those lines that would sound perfectly plausible to anyone in 2015, but explaining the intervening period would give them an aneurysm.

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never linger; rightly grow@nlrg.bsky.social · 6h ago

sam vimes boots theory is fundamentally a claim about interest rates. if vimes could borrow $40 at 10% interest, he could buy the good boots and pay back $10/year over the next five years, then enjoy four years of good boots having spent only $50.

please answer me these questions three (3): how do you eat your corn in the cob? how do you take eggs out of the carton? what is your profession and/or strong interest (be it math or physics or engineering or philosophy or computers or whatever, and specifically what kind)?

a very good ren@lathrys.at · 7h ago

realizing this is like an analyst vs algebraist eating corn on the cob dichotomy

Sure, why not? 1 like = 1 lie about me

SeasonalPun@pixelfish.bsky.social · 8h ago

Let’s do it. 1 like = 1 lie about me

I generally avoid discussing Bulgarian events here (unless it's something positive) but I'm going to break my rule for a bit. Some local skinheads attacked a Jewish youth gathering (several hundred kids from Italy, Israel, Netherlands, etc.) at their hotel in Bansko; nazi salutes and the rest.

Full interview here: (And we also speak about drone attacks on Ukraine in the second half of the interview, hence the title) www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

Krieg in der Ukraine: „Es fehlen Abfangraketen“ - Video - WELT

Russland setzt erneut ballistische Raketen und Streumunition gegen Kiew ein, zahlreiche Tote. Die Ukraine kann Drohnen abwehren, ist aber bei Raketen nahezu schutzlos. „Das ist eine Entwicklung, in di...

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Sometimes, I enjoy having been right. Stevens' concession literally speaks about El Sayed's public health record, as it should.

Alon (they/them)@alonlevy.bsky.social · last wk.

With Platner it was multiway-ish - Mills didn't really want it, so pushing out third options had a purpose. It isn't now - Stevens is going to fight as hard as possible, and then after the vote everyone is going to discover how great El Sayed's public health record/Stevens' auto bailout record was.

"Archaeologists have uncovered the full floor of Lithuania’s historic Great Synagogue, revealing treasures nearly erased by Nazi and Soviet occupations." www.jta.org/2026/08/04/g...

Archaeologists uncover treasures of Vilnius' Great Synagogue as Lithuanian Jews dispute its future - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Plans for the recovered ruins have sparked a debate over what should be built on the site, and who gets to decide.

jta.org

Hebrewsky is threading about Ben Gvir's idea of having a moat full of alligators around the prisons for Palestinians (stricken down by the HCJ, on animal cruelty grounds). So far the winner is the post suggesting a moat full of Ben Gvirs and appointing an alligator as minister of police.

Oded@oded.bsky.social · 17h ago

תגידו, זה דל״פ לרצות שבאמת יקימו את תעלת התנינים בכלא קציעות? זה קצת מגניב לא?

How I wish that Polish history books got an English translation. Below is me, paraphrasing a story I'd found in *Chłopki* by Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak.

Today the new Code of Practice comes into force, systematically excluding trans people from public facilities and services across the UK. It will go down in history as the Starmer government’s shame. But it’s not too late for Andy Burnham to change course.

Innenminister Dobrindt: Rechtsextremismus ist die größte Gefahr bei politisch motivierter Kriminalität. Familienministerin Prien: Rechtsextremismus ist die größte Gefahr für die Demokratie. Ergebnis: Die BpB wird sich ab jetzt mehr auf Linksextremismus fokussieren. Es ist zum Haare raufen.

Fokus auf Linksextremismus: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung plant Kurswechsel

Der bisherige Präsident der Einrichtung, Sönke Rix, schied in der vorigen Woche auf eigenen Wunsch nach nur fünf Monaten aus. Die BpB will sich nun stärker auf ihren „Kernauftrag“ konzentrieren. Die B...

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UK unemployment is 5%. Making job creation a criterion in public procurement is stupid, and making it the centerpiece of social value while increasing the weight of social value to 20% is totally daft. Britain should be focusing on productivity instead. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

UK to strip back procurement rules to focus on job creation, says Louise Haigh

Andy Burnham’s de facto deputy PM says requirements for businesses vying for Whitehall contracts will be streamlined

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It’s disgusting for the Conservatives to ask Jewish groups to meet their ex-neo-Nazi candidate, presumably in the hope he will charm them and they’ll offer their blessing. They should not expect Jewish people to sanitise this appalling choice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tories offer Jewish groups meeting with ex neo-Nazi activist candidate

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.

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After we at the International Jewish Conspiracy poisoned the wells with our neoliberal electronic dance music, what should we conspire to do next? 1️⃣ Build more housing in cities 2️⃣ Build more renewable energy and rail 3️⃣ Set up pan-EU governance 4️⃣ Invest in science and education 📊 Show results

Rookie shit. My national identity goes back to 1945; the national identities of many around me (and not just the natives among them) are older and Nazier.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterday

my national identity goes back to ancient times, your national identity is a false creation of modernity.

In case people are wondering why Jewish Americans keep voting for the Democratic Party. (Alternative take: horns are badass and I wish we had them.)

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

DB Apology Form To: DB Reason for behavior: [] Anti-everything populism [] I read too much Bild [] I think timed transfers are easy [] I like it when trains are empty [] I don't know public transport [] Mercury was in retrograde I will hereby respect DB and not shittalk Europe's biggest railway.

Mac the squirrel :)@macsquirelera.bsky.social · yesterday

I love a 15 minute gap in red line service during rush hour the CTA is so good

So I watched that ZDF documentary that had DB very upset. It's mostly criticising DB for dragging its feet in the rollout of ETCS signals. Which is fair enough, I find it baffling that this got descoped from the Berlin-Hamburg Generalsanierung.

The first INSA poll with fieldwork done entirely since the CSD terrorist attack is out. No change. AfD is not getting additional support out of this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

By far the biggest efficiency that can be done to build a warfare state is an EU army with the UK as an integral part of it. We're raising spending to 3-3.5% of GDP, which at EU scale is strategic autonomy not just against Russia but also against the US.

Terminally von der Leyen@ciaran.operationglad.io · 2d ago

"we should build an army by creating a society no one would want to defend"

LIRR has gone even further specifying the type of engine in the last work locomotive RFP—effectively rigging the bid for one manufacturer. www.thelirrtoday.com/2020/04/new-...

Alon (they/them)@alonlevy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Post from last year by @agonzalez06.bsky.social explaining what's wrong with the SEPTA Silverliner VI specs. alejandrogonzalez1.substack.com/p/how-septas...

‼️ Unfit to Serve: Israel's Defense Minister Crossed Another Red Line Haaretz Editorial 🧵 www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit... P.s. ALL OF THEM ARE UNFIT‼️

Editorial | Unfit to serve: Israel's defense minister crossed another red line

Prime ministerial candidate Gadi Eisenkot couldn't have been more accurate in his response to the latest move by the defense minister serving in Benjamin Netany

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“It’s left vs right” yes it is, that’s literally been the fight for a millennia, since the tennis court oath, since Sumter, since Pearl Harbor, since Plataea. I have more common cause with a Transgender Hedge fund manager than I do a chud pipefitter on a no-contact order with his kids!

Post from last year by @agonzalez06.bsky.social explaining what's wrong with the SEPTA Silverliner VI specs. alejandrogonzalez1.substack.com/p/how-septas...

How SEPTA’s 1,400-Page Silverliner VI Spec Locks Out Modern Trains

A handful of avoidable design decisions could shrink the bidder pool and raise costs.

alejandrogonzalez1.substack.com

Call me crazy, but I see how Berlin activists are fighting against housing that would be built in place of single- and two-story clubs and I know we're never getting low-density housing replaced with high-density housing.

Next door in Silicon Valley@nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 2d ago

Maybe it's just me, but given how cities are fighting tooth and nail against luxury housing, I don't think free housing is coming any time soon

Speaking as Bluesky's resident 'went to a secondary modern' person my view is that if you're arguing strongly to bring them back either while: a) Claiming less intellectually capable people get nothing out of academic education b) With only reference to grammar pupils Then you're, at best, a snob