⛔️Cause for concern 🔻Real disposable income (aka the money in our pocket after taxes & inflation) was flat (0% y/y) while consumer spending is up 2.1% y/y 🐖More & more are dipping into savings, using credit & leveraging wealth ⚖️Uneven & fragile picture
Hello from #CraftConf Budapest! As always, I'll be doing my best to liveskeet all the talks I attend (until my computer runs out of battery, which happens earlier every year) Keynote speaker: "Slow Down to Speed up", @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
speaking as an expert on this very subject, no it doesn't (but you should still engage with arts and culture for many other great reasons 👍)
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 3mo agoGood news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...
Freshly signed copy of MATH FOR KNITTERS at Book City Toronto Danforth location! 🧶
If you were unable to donate to our campaign because you weren’t an American citizen or even just located outside of the U.S., you CAN donate to our legal defense. (But please only do so if you’re able!) Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far: tinyurl.com/katandre
Donate to Stand with Kat and Andre Against Unjust Prosecution, organized by Kat Abughazaleh
In October of 2025, I – along with my field director and friend An… Kat Abughazaleh needs your support for Stand with Kat and Andre Against Unjust Prosecution
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Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 3mo agoSix months ago, the federal government indicted me, my friend Andre, and four others for protesting ICE. Our trial is this month and we are facing up to $250k in legal debt. Please help us win our case and protect all of our rights by donating to our legal defense: tinyurl.com/katandre
Bellingcat researcher @obtusatum.bsky.social put together five exercises to help you explore free and open source tools that you can use to track aircraft on their journeys. This guide might help you to get started: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...
A Beginner's Guide To Flight Tracking - bellingcat
Translations:English (UK)EspañolFlight tracking is an accessible and useful tool for open source investigators. Being able to track the movements of aircraft belonging to powerful individuals and arme...
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I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Four - Art of Persia
Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed reveals the remarkable story of Iran.
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JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida. And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024). That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.
As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...
6 months before bombing Iran and closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump admin fired the State Dept. oil and gas experts. The people who modeled exactly this scenario. The ones with contacts at Gulf energy ministries. Now nobody knows who to call. You can't make this up.
Trump’s DOGE Cuts Slashed Staff That Handled Middle Eastern Oil and Gas Crises
Six months before going to war in Iran, the U.S. government cut staff that would have been central to the current situation.
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Congratulations to Ian Thornton and colleagues who published their Mainz-Linez illusion in i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social): the red dots appears to wave left and right when one looks at one of the black dots, but they actually move straight journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.
I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Graham Maughan@maughan.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt would be good if @bellingcat.com could verify this story. Really important. @eliothiggins.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...
Thanks @waterstones.bsky.social Cambridge for this lovely display, and thanks @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social for the lovely words! @faberbooks.bsky.social #books #manufacturing
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2010... "Human existence is a brutal experience to me...it's a brutal, meaningless experience--an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases."
Quote of the Day: Woody Allen on the 'Brutal, Meaningless Experience' of Life
Also he admits: "I am a whiner"
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When I was in high school/undergrad I found these particularly interesting/thought provoking: The Worldly Philosophers The Affluent Society The Ascent of Money The Return of Depression Economics Development as Freedom Dead Aid The Bottom Billion
🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed! After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone! Spread the word!
Announcing Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
Roland Hatzenpichler@environmicrobio.bsky.social · 9mo ago“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
Hey Android devs! Planning your next career move for 2026? Go beyond a single platform. We’ve launched #KMPLevelUp — a free 4-week journey to master KMP with curated courses, expert content, and a live webinar. Time to ship your Kotlin skills to iOS & web: jb.gg/vbl7v4
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You work here long enough you move past the fear that comes from understanding the frailty of human life and replace it with taking joy in the small things that make life worth living.
#AutumnBlaze #Red #Maple This tree is so orange compared to the other red maples. I looked it up and it is called “Autumn Blaze” Hands down my fav for color! 🍁 I wanted to show the carpet of fallen leaves too! #FallColor #PNW #Photography #FallScape
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
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Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: https://www.nokings.org
