One of my most favourite quotes over here

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · 2d ago

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Til tross for at det er tydelig for alle som ikke er helt tett i pappen at dronen faller(ved å se på videoen), og ikke sikter seg inn på stranden, så klarer altså #Nrk atter en gang å publisere russisk propaganda. Til og med russiske krigsbloggere erkjenner at det er russland som tok ned dronen.

Russiske myndigheter: Sju drept da drone traff badestrand

Sju personer ble drept og 40 skadet på ei badestrand ved Svartehavet, ifølge russiske myndigheter. Russland hevder det var et bevisst ukrainsk droneangrep mot sivile. Ukraina har ikke kommentert saken...

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Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

This gives Belgium and others a solid reason to stop blocking the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, while creating an incentive for Russia to stop its aggression (even if it won't). Ukraine gets funding for a few more years. Win-win

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · 3d ago

The EU should give Russia five hard deadlines to end the war. Miss a deadline? Lose 20% of frozen assets to Ukraine. Five misses, 100% transferred. Make aggression cost them in real-time

USA er stadig synkande på rangeringane over korrupsjon, transparens og folkestyre.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

Not maybe. We are. We have killed off an alarming number of species already and it's not slowing down but accelerating.

Met4Cast@met4cast.net · 3d ago

Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.

Hvordan forstå Russland? På Substack gjennomgår jeg en video der den russiske forfatteren og regimekritikeren Sergej Lebedev analyserer russisk politisk kultur, historisk selvforståelse og statsbærende fortellinger. I tillegg anbefaler jeg ett foredrag og tre andre tekster for videre fordypning.

Hvordan forstå Russland: Russlands imperiale selvforståelse og uoppgjorte fortid

En fersk video med Sergej Lebedev gir viktig innsikt i russisk politisk kultur, historisk selvforståelse og statsbærende fortellinger.

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Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…

Fototeknikk til sides, det er fangsten av augneblinken som tel.

Ola Spännar@olaspannar.bsky.social · 4d ago

Statens järnnäve vs Livsfarlig terrorist

1/7 In his latest video, Danish military analyst @anderspucknielsen.dk delivers a stark message about European defense: Europe does not need an army built to instantly defeat Russia, but one structured to survive the opening shock of a high-intensity, attritional war

Much fuss about basically nothing ? The Ceuta situation once again showed that if European leaders could have waited a day or so before reacting, the whole thing could’ve basically been solved amicably. The real-time outrage loops and need to react to everything IMMEDIATELY is a huge issue

Jeg tror jeg skal begynne å samle på sånne ikke-konkluderende sistesetninger som det her. Det er en egen retorisk sjanger. Kommentariatets "alle var enige om at det var en fin tur". Eller "så våknet jeg og det var bare en drøm".

They Ukrainians will get there eventually. I’m trying my best here in Norway to raise some awareness about it. My recent piece in the paper about it. The Law of the Sea allows for tougher measures. Sweden is asking us to do more, like them. Press translate www.dagsavisen.no/debatt/stopp...

Stopp den russiske skyggeflåten i Norden

Skyggeflåteproblemet akselererer. Det er behov for nye mottiltak, ikke bare mer av det regjeringen gjør.

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Eg er ikkje ein overtruisk person, men denne figuren på Vestkanttorvet-marknaden har ein veldig mørk aura

Fylt med audmjukheit kring det at vi alle har hol i dei kulturelle danningane våre, deler eg at eg aldri har sett Father Brown, og såleis har levd til 1. august 2026 før eg fekk funne ut at han er skapt av G.K. "Fiddler's Green" Chesterton.

It is both interesting and painful to see that the FIFA president faces more democratic accountability than the U.S. president.

Moonabunga! www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... [This was super fun to research and write] 🔭 🧪

Can you surf on Titan? Science has the answer

Lakes of liquid methane on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, could offer exhilarating—and terrifying—opportunities for otherworldly surfing

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“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”

Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list

Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.

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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

I do not like this.

computer simulated female

YouTube video by Angela Collier

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Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.

But also <yearns> He ate the logic of late capitalism and he was *still* hungry...

@missusvee.bsky.social · 7d ago

Because you don’t save, Mr Deasy said, pointing his finger. You don’t know yet what money is. Money is power. When you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.

En av asymmetriene i informasjonskrigen er at mange av de som sprer Putin-talepunkter i Vesten er griftere som har det som forretningsmodell. Mens hedersfolk som Bjørn Johan Berger, som forsvarer oss sliter med å få det til å gå rundt.

Bjørn Johan Berger@bjornjberger.bsky.social · last wk.

Ny Bjørnespleis Gode venner og støttespillere har startet enda en Spleis for meg. Det er ett år siden sist. Begrunnelsen deres kan du lese på Spleis-siden. 🧵 1/7 Spleis: www.spleis.no/project/506551

Ypperlig jämförelse!

@balvadis.bsky.social · 7d ago

You earn a very good salary and live with your fiancée, Miss Shareholder. You sign a binding contract to buy a large house that won’t be finished for three years. You tell everyone you’ll easily afford it because you’re confident you’ll get a much higher-paying job by then. 1/6

Yngre generasjoner har ikke noe forhold til strofen: "Danser trippe-tripp, og over sengen henger nøffenøff i kloroform". Er det rart at verden går til helvete?

you shouldn't be mad about destroying books. you should be mad about who is allowed to have access to the scans, and why the public isn't able to benefit from this at nominal fee to be paid directly to the author, rather than the knowledge being rented from a middleman.

literally these are books that would be pulped if not bought for 10 cents on the dollar. do rare books sometimes make it into there? yeah, if someone is careless, but that's *upstream* of what happens on sale, not *downstream*. you fundamentally are rescuing something from the fucking pulper.

evil maid@lenazun.bsky.social · last wk.

there's no need to get outraged by every single thing. book destruction is not some kind of sin. it's not like they're trashing rare editions. lots of books get pulped all the time. now you're just looking for ways to be mad.

«The market, accordingly, uses identity-based collection because the vendors who provide it have an economic interest in the retained data.» Listen. Not to be that person. But. WHAT THE FUCK DID I TELL Y’ALL

Person Of Interest: Times Square Surveillance

Alt: Person Of Interest: Times Square Surveillance

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