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Still pseudonymous for work reasons. Regulation, justice, climate - are among things I work on. Science fiction, Baroque music, Frank Zappa are things I don't work on and enjoy very much. Support ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ Neurodivergent and bipolar (FTW!) Irredeemably woke

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Processing Astro data is like artworkโ€ฆ eventually you develop your own personal styleโ€ฆ

Mine is a bit like being punched the face by a rainbow. ๐Ÿ˜‚

๐Ÿ˜‚ look, Life can be incredibly stressful at times so itโ€™s nice to have a pop of colour to bring a bit of joy to life.

07.10.2025 20:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 225    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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President Trump says he was talking to the President of Somalia and said,

"We have someone from Somalia telling us how to run our country, would you like her back?"

Trump is referring to Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

Just a bit of casual racism from The White House ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

07.10.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 146    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Oh....my....god. Him, me....same!๐Ÿซข

07.10.2025 18:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Government shutdown hits air travel, closing a control tower and causing delays across the country | CNN The impact of the government shutdown hit travelers across the United States Monday, as air traffic controllers called out sick, closing a control tower and leading to delays at major airports.

"Controllers are considered essential workers, so they must work during the shutdown, but are not being paid"

...

"The number of controllers calling out sick has increased since the start of the shutdown, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a news conference"

www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/u...

07.10.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvaniaโ€™s Supreme Court The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democratsโ€™ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

NEW in Bolts: The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democratsโ€™ majority on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

07.10.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

"Watermark removers"? ๐Ÿ™ƒ

There are laws about lock picking tools. This "tool" is also a way to facilitate theft. (idk what legit uses there would be for it.)

07.10.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What the hell

07.10.2025 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it really baffles me how these fucking dipshits don't realize that a "martial ethos" is not what wins wars

logistics is

07.10.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 227    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His โ€˜Violent Abductionโ€™ by Israel The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a โ€œterrorist.โ€

NEW: David Adlerโ€”a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotillaโ€”details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

07.10.2025 17:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 519    ๐Ÿ” 213    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
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This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

07.10.2025 17:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6922    ๐Ÿ” 1136    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 176    ๐Ÿ“Œ 144
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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿง’โ€๐Ÿง’ Zelensky: The return of Ukrainian children abducted and illegally deported by Russia is a priority for us. We can exchange our warriors and prisoners of other categories. But we cannot exchange children with the Russians, and itโ€™s understandable why.

07.10.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 312    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

07.10.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1891    ๐Ÿ” 207    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

Creatine is cool but true muscle nerds know that the best source of creatine is simply carrying around a full grown cow at all times and suckling on an udder like a hydration pack

07.10.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 49    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

We've become numb to genocidal rhetoric around trans people.

07.10.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 701    ๐Ÿ” 201    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Crap

07.10.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like heโ€™s a pack of cigarettes

07.10.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2521    ๐Ÿ” 681    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

Notice her non-answer.

This is explosive. Should be explosive. The US AG who said she had the Epstein files on her desk cannot say whether or not the FBI has pix of Trump with half-naked women, which one witness who knew Epstein has said he has seen.

07.10.2025 15:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2819    ๐Ÿ” 862    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 138    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28

I really tried to warn you

07.10.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 229    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In which sense and using which metric and which form of AI?

07.10.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We Have No Supreme Court The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

anyways i reiterate:

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

07.10.2025 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

we gotta rip these republicans out of the court man

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

07.10.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 317    ๐Ÿ” 45    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Finland starts teaching children how to spot unreliable narrators and propaganda in kindergarden

07.10.2025 17:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 314    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
Screenshot of a New York Times webpage. The headline reads: โ€œSupreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Coloradoโ€™s Ban on Conversion Therapy Torture.โ€ The words โ€œConversion Therapyโ€ are shown with red strikethroughs. A smaller subheading below explains: โ€œColorado and over 20 other states have banned the practice aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people.โ€ The page header includes links like โ€œBirthright Citizenship,โ€ โ€œL.A. Immigration Stops,โ€ โ€œUnsigned Orders in Trumpโ€™s Favor,โ€ and โ€œFlorida Immigration.โ€

Would you like me to also provide a shorter, accessibility-friendly version of the alt text (like what a screen reader would ideally read aloud), or keep this more detailed one?

Screenshot of a New York Times webpage. The headline reads: โ€œSupreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Coloradoโ€™s Ban on Conversion Therapy Torture.โ€ The words โ€œConversion Therapyโ€ are shown with red strikethroughs. A smaller subheading below explains: โ€œColorado and over 20 other states have banned the practice aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people.โ€ The page header includes links like โ€œBirthright Citizenship,โ€ โ€œL.A. Immigration Stops,โ€ โ€œUnsigned Orders in Trumpโ€™s Favor,โ€ and โ€œFlorida Immigration.โ€ Would you like me to also provide a shorter, accessibility-friendly version of the alt text (like what a screen reader would ideally read aloud), or keep this more detailed one?

Fixed.

07.10.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 965    ๐Ÿ” 226    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

I justโ€ฆI canโ€™t believe we havenโ€™t made stronger norms around this stuff

07.10.2025 17:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 416    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Carney looks like he's listening to the old man with dementia in the home he occasionally volunteers at.

07.10.2025 17:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mark Carney begins to wonder whether Canada can seize Maine and Washington State before Trump notices

07.10.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 85    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ

07.10.2025 17:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'Not in Poland's interest,' to hand over Ukrainian in Nord Stream probe, Tusk says "From our point of view, the only people who should be ashamed and should remain silent on the issue of Nord Stream 2 are those who decided to build it," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

โšก๏ธ'Not in Poland's interest,' to hand over Ukrainian in Nord Stream probe, Tusk says.

"From our point of view, the only people who should be ashamed and should remain silent on the issue of Nord Stream 2 are those who decided to build it," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

07.10.2025 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 461    ๐Ÿ” 93    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

#PortlandStrong

07.10.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The View segment where Whoopi asked how ordinary people could read SCOTUS opinions was revealing.

They're free. They're online. They're much easier to read than legislation. Conquer your imposter's syndrome, you are smart enough to read a decision and know if it's bullshit.

07.10.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 764    ๐Ÿ” 131    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

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