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@maiamindel.bsky.social

today we directly purchased Argentine pesos Blogging at https://someunpleasant.substack.com/

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one of the ten most popular games in the world every year for nearly two decades has been a swedish block game whose community has relied on modded content to share it online for the better part of a teenager's lifetime. there's let's play videos older than a big chunk of the player base

04.03.2026 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other in a restaurant . ALT: a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other in a restaurant .
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and just like that i wondered, could a third party's intervention make me change regimes from big to aidan?

04.03.2026 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

you know the conservative vibe shift is dead and buried when people are scurrying back to this idiotic "if i was young today i'd have been transed" bullshit

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jean twenge somewhere

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Miranda: I woke up and we're at war! It's like getting dumped via text

Charlotte: it's awful, all those American patriots getting shipped off there

Samantha: plus I've been with a few Iranians... big nose, big you know

Carrie: Big got blown up by a shahed drone

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can't believe the new ayatollah is a nepo baby

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kinda funny how this is the exact plot of the secret agent

03.03.2026 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hannah arendt leaving germany was enormously complicated by the german government invalidating her citizenship and passport. in france she wasn't german - she was stateless. as were all jewish emigrants

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not making a strong case against polyamory

03.03.2026 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

you know the conservative vibe shift is dead and buried when centirst pundits are going back to doing anti trans and "bisexuals are faking it" punditry on the atlantic

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I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is

the original is like this πŸ‘‡

03.03.2026 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 243    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 6

is it like 2022 again that we must subject ourselves to this bullshit

03.03.2026 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

True for the corporate world too, not just academic scientific research.

I’m reasonably confident we’ll figure this out over time but the transition will be painful

03.03.2026 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

gonna be honest i think an 80 like post is not telling of anything. this insane trend where intellectuals shadowbox with 0 follower randoms is pretty unfortunate

03.03.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the fact that so many people who dislike BlueSky are reposting a weird person making an unpopular and insane claim about Jamelle Bouie as a sign of some deeper trend is probably more telling than the weird and unpopular claim. Noah Smith suggests it is a cultural norm that enabled fascism.

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Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork

% of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots

U.S. teens β€” 10

Household income
<$30,000 β€” 20
$30K–$74,999 β€” 15
$75,000+ β€” 7

Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown.
Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 2025.
β€œHow Teens Use and View AI”

PEW RESEARCH CENTER

Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens β€” 10 Household income <$30,000 β€” 20 $30K–$74,999 β€” 15 $75,000+ β€” 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 2025. β€œHow Teens Use and View AI” PEW RESEARCH CENTER

According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.

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ICE training was slashed, records show, corroborating whistleblower claims Previously unreported records also offer new details about what was cut from ICE’s basic training program. Concerns about the quality of ICE agents’ training have mounted for months.

"The previously undisclosed records obtained by The Post show that, as the whistleblower said, ICE last year removed about 240 hours from its basic training program, or more than 40 percent of instructional time."

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Appreciated Greg’s thoughts on the oil and LNG fallout, and they’re even more relevant today than they were yesterday.

03.03.2026 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

that's all true but marco rubio said that too. he was obviously lying but it's an *official* state department story, not just basedmagagroyper1488

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Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei Israel spent years hacking Tehran’s traffic cameras and monitoring bodyguards ahead of the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader

"Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter."

The panopticon surveillance state as security vulnerability, password 12345678.

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feels like the major question in uk politics is who falls to fourth place first, labour or the conservatives

03.03.2026 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

everyone is slowly realizing they got played by hardline fascist ultras into supporting a geriatric child toucher because he'd be some peacemaking technological republic statesman and not like, every single thing he was when he was in office 5 years ago

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matt this is the entire job wtf do you think β€œreactionary” means

03.03.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 569    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 1

One wonders if, perhaps, had the organizations best-equipped and most well-funded to combat this kind of rising bipartisan antisemitism not so completely thrown their lot in with the current government of Israel, they might have more influence in attempting to bat-down this growing sentiment.

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Idaho considers an 'apocalyptic' choice for disabled people and families Difficult budget decisions in a number of states are threatening vital programs for disabled people at home and caregivers in the workforce.

States have started proposing steep reductions in disability services to cope with Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Idaho is the first to suggest scrapping home care altogether β€” An action with a high human cost. My latest @19thnews.org.

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That's true but to be fair the official State Department story is that it's Israel's war and they just had to join in

03.03.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, is he wrong

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