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Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling. I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

I'm preaching to the choir here but I'm dismayed people are still using a site owned and manipulated by an obvious fascist. I think if you'd asked them 5 years ago if they'd use a fascist's social media site they would have said god no, of course not

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 11mo ago

There are several Musk posts of Steve Laws

MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.

Once again: for a nation of evangelicals, they don't seem bothered by the horseman of pestilence

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Nobel Prize winning science being cancelled by a vaccine denier.

“This Sydney Sweeney thing” is like 3 tweets and 5 TikToks from random people. The left is not remotely worked up about this. The right, however, has been frothing about the nonexistent outrage for days — and more prominent outlets are spreading far more radical and troubling messages.

Bluesky friends, please send #Sorrento recommendations (preferably vegetarian friendly) #foodsky #italiancuisine

@marshadecordova.bsky.social enjoyed you on the @quietriotpod.bsky.social the other day. I canvassed for you in Battersea in 2017 and am glad it's all going well ❤️

This is especially tragic as it was so avoidable. She wasn't listened to by so many doctors. #listentowomen

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Georgia O’Connor, professional boxer and youth gold medallist, dies aged 25

Goedenavond de bijna #Vollemaan boven de #stmichielsbrug in #gent #weerfoto #mobielfoto @huubeggen.bsky.social @waddensky.nl @stormhour.bsky.social #België

Hoping for a Butlerian Jihad, but will settle for a Papal one.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last yr.

The Catholic Church has a new Pope, and he explicitly cited the threats AI presents for workers as a reason for choosing the name Leo XIV. With the tech industry doing all it can to defend its power, could the Pope be an ally against the AI onslaught?

Ce ne sont pas de simples supporters brugeois qui ont commis des débordements à Molenbeek. C’est un groupe d’extrême-droite bien connu qui a organisé une chasse raciste dans des quartiers à des kilomètres du stade. L'incapacité du gouvernement à qualifier ces actes comme tels est insoutenable.

"Une volonté certaine de casser de l'Arabe": un spécialiste du hooliganisme décrypte les débordements survenus à Bruxelles

La soirée de finale de la Coupe de Belgique a été marquée par des violences choquantes à Bruxelles. À Molenbeek, des affrontements ont éclaté, faisant plusieurs blessés et provoquant un vif émoi. Des ...

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I wrote about exactly this a few months ago!!!! youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/the-one-wh...

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · last yr.

Online radicalisation of elites is a significant and yet poorly understood aspect of contemporary politics.

I'm currently #TeachingEnglish to asylum seekers (men&women, from Yemen & Palestine). Any tips or resources for a mixed-level group are welcome (some students literate/some not). #asylumseekers #refugees #arabicspeakers

❤️‍🩹weekly non-current affairs #respite suggestions: - 'Freakonomics radio' episode on live theatre and its sustainability - @alexpodyssey.bsky.social podcast on Greek mythology with a modern lens - Colm Tóibín's review in @lrb.co.uk of Patrick Joyce's touching book on Irish and Spanish peasantry

Trump still hasn't figured out political asylum and insane asylums are two different things

Ik was vorige donderdag bij het tegenprotest (parade van solidariteit). We waren ongeveer 2:1 in de meerderheid ten opzichte van de fascisten. #antifa #Gent #linkse

Bo Salomons🔻@bosalomons.bsky.social · last yr.

Deze NSV wordt nu onderzocht in België omdat zij in een demonstratie voor etnische zuivering (wat zij 'remigratie' noemen) een nazigroet hebben gebracht. De eerder genoemde Frank van Breukelen is ook lid van de GNSV. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

they really need to invent a second type of money these guys can play around with separate from the money I need to buy food. Business Money. Money 2

Just another flower shop in my home city 🥲

Thank you very much Sunday Times. The lack of interest from the British media yesterday over the police smashing their way into a Quaker Meeting House compounded the shock and sadness at what happened. Nothing in my Observer print edition, despite a good chunk of its readership being Quakers.

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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I spoke with @audiosand.bsky.social for @npr.org All Things Considered about the fact that the "Anti-DEI" movement is an anti-Civil Rights Movement. www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

Experts worry that DEIA bans are part of a push to undo the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Civil rights experts worry bans on DEIA in education and government are part of a larger, ongoing push to undo the country's 1964 Civil Rights Act.

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2000+Jewish professors, staff, students letter on Mahmoud Khalil's arrest: "We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name and cynical claims of antisemitism to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Families knew, they knew all along. They should have been believed from the beginning. Prayers of comfort and peace to Marcedes Myran's family on a day that brings both a sense of closure and, no doubt, a deep well of sadness.

Remains from private landfill identified as Marcedes Myran

Police says remains discovered in a private landfill in Winnipeg are those of Marcedes Myran, a victim of serial killer Jeremy Skibicki.

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So much this. Seen far too many analyses of ‘the problem in x’ pieces and nowhere near ‘this is how the authoritarian playbook works’ pieces

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · last yr.

Stop pretending that the authoritarian repression is BECAUSE of the problems in {higher education, the media, the law, government, immigration policy, etc.}. This is what authoritarians do. If they didn't focus on these justifications, they'd come up with other ones.