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Niall Martin

@rndmartin.bsky.social

Historian with wide philosophical and religious interests. Determined Scottish European. Lives in Edinburgh. Reads French and German, moderately well. Don't answer DMs #FBPE. Location Leith/Edinburgh, Scotland. Married to Jenny. Born 1939.

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Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 4d ago

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
Ann Petersen-Kane@anniegirl.bsky.social · 5d ago

Adoption records sealed Original birth certificates are locked away. An amended certificate is issued to the adoptive parents to make it look like they are the birth parents. Adoptees are denied access to their real ones to protect their adoptive parents right to own them. It's baby trafficking. 🥚

Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯@janinebaer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Here's a version without a paywall: "California adoptees continue push in Legislature for original birth certificates" 🥚 www.union-bulletin.com/news/nationa...

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 4d ago

"The government looks forward to the smooth resolution of all pending issues between the two countries and will continue consultations with the Ukrainian side to this end," the South Korean Foreign Ministry said in a press release.

Americans for Tax Fairness@4taxfairness.bsky.social · 4d ago

170 billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the midterms. 17 of these families were connected to Jeffrey Epstein. That's at least $363 MILLION of Epstein-associated influence manipulating our politics RIGHT NOW. We have got to stop letting billionaires buy elections.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 4d ago

If someone paid you $300K, demanded “results,” you helped with their IRS dispute, asked for another $100K that “won’t show up anywhere”; later, as ambassador, pushed private business deals while in official capacity, what should investigators look at first? Bribery? Fraud? Corruption? Conspiracy? 🤔

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump’s ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle reportedly asked a donor for $100,000 in exchange for political favours, telling him the payment “won’t show up anywhere.” Her lawyer disputes the messages; the donor says they are real and has the texts.

Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯@janinebaer.bsky.social · 4d ago

😧 "...Mr Xuan and Ms Zhang were also charged...with multiple counts of dissuading a witness. Prosecutors said the couple had instructed the children not to disclose...that they had been beaten and to deny that they had been coached on how to answer questions." 🥚 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

Couple Charged With Conspiring to Abuse Numerous Surrogate Children (Gift Article)

A Southern California couple were arrested and charged with conspiring to abuse 15 children, nearly all of whom were born to surrogate mothers, prosecutors said.

nytimes.com

Marcel Dirsus@marceldirsus.com · 4d ago

State of play in Germany: Far-right AfD, far-left Linke and far-something BSW oppose arms deliveries to Ukraine. CDU/CSU, Greens and SPD support arms deliveries. Among Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, you're starting to see some fatigue - but support for Ukraine is still stable (for now).

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.eu · 4d ago

And so it begins: the very first proposal of the new regional parliament in which the AfD is the strongest faction is about an immediate end to sanctions against Russia and the normalisation of relations. (Which, of course, they cannot decide at the regional level.) www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Karly Kingsley@karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4d ago

Peter Thiel says he thinks a “one-government world” is the only way to slow AI down annnd….No thanks. If he’s going to suggest that he and his antichrist party friends should be this “one government,” then I’m going to suggest we go with rapid AI extinction and get it over with.

Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈@misskitty.art · 4d ago

Humanity reached the stars because she dared to build the path. Margaret #Hamilton, the #MIT pioneer whose bulletproof #software saved the #Apollo 11 #moon landing and who literally coined the term #SoftwareEngineering, has passed away at 90. Rest in glory among the stars. #SheShed

Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom

theguardian.com

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6d ago

We’re moving 10,000 low-income children off the child care voucher waitlist — at absolutely no cost to their families. Eligible families with children ages 6 weeks to 13 years, and through age 19 for children with special needs, will be invited to apply for a voucher on a rolling basis.

Mayor Mamdani and others make an announcement at a podium with signage that reads “Child Care for all”Children hold hands in front of signage that reads “Child Care for all”
Robert Mahon@bedform.org · 7d ago

Name me a massive generational failure in modern America and chances are better than 90% that I can show you how it all got fucked right around Reagan and boomers having power