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In the 21st century, democracies that sprout from grassroots protests tend to exhibit greater stability and resilience than those established through coups or abrupt regime change. The sheer bravery to confront state violence unarmed creates a more enduring and lasting moral legitimacy.

31.10.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does it rinse off?

31.10.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A P-51 with an R2 astromech droid.

30.10.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Basically, my thesis is that crypto eventually becomes boring.

30.10.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gen Z has forsaken the burrito bowl.

29.10.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
30.10.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My odds are more on financial illiteracy piling into gold at 10 or 20k this cycle.

30.10.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

30.10.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1054    πŸ” 403    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 8
News: JUST IN:
Binance Founder CZ to file
defamation lawsuit against anti-crypto US
Senator Elizabeth Warren if she does not retract her "false statements."

Martin Shkreli: let's go00000000000000000

Elizabeth Holmes: She's not going to like how this ends.

News: JUST IN: Binance Founder CZ to file defamation lawsuit against anti-crypto US Senator Elizabeth Warren if she does not retract her "false statements." Martin Shkreli: let's go00000000000000000 Elizabeth Holmes: She's not going to like how this ends.

The other site is just the weirdest Petri dish of the worst people

29.10.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

SERVICENOW 3Q REV. $3.41B, EST. $3.36B

29.10.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not dot.com

29.10.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MSFT also beat, shares lower in initial reaction

*MICROSOFT 1Q REV. $77.67B, EST. $75.55B
*MICROSOFT 1Q AZURE & OTHER CLOUD REV EX-FX +39%, EST. +37.1%
*MICROSOFT 1Q INTELLIGENT CLOUD REV. $30.9B, EST. $30.18B

29.10.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alphabet $GOOGL God Candle on Earnings πŸ“ˆπŸ“ˆ

29.10.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it's SpecOps cosplay - the kind of signals you give your team when you're about to rush a compound and take Bin Ladin

29.10.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Not that anyone asked be but I feel like a lot of the β€œai layoffs” are garden variety slowing economy layoffs that are using AI as market friendly air cover

29.10.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 224    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 7

its pretty interesting in that i think China couldve definitely started peeling countries off into a new thing, by being less heavy handed.

But now they are basically doing to critical minerals what US did with chips and spurring more competition

29.10.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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After billions of years heading towards us, interstellar comet #3IATLAS is currently at its closest approach to the Sun right NOW. Perihelion. #astronomy #comet

29.10.2025 04:46 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Protos is like… one of two cryptocurrency newsrooms left that isn’t paywalled.

You should be following and reading Protos.

29.10.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure, gold can go to $20,000 because financial illiteracy.

29.10.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are people in my family who are Air Traffic Controllers and they are also MAGA. Which means that aren't getting paid right now. I haven't asked them who they think is to blame for this because I know it ain't easy and also I don't want to be disappointed by their answers.

29.10.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Dear Leader, the granary grows empty, and the peasants and common folk will hunger. We have full confidence that your central planning and ministerial lackeys will find someone else to blame."

29.10.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Groper pretends to care about women.

29.10.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No jail?

29.10.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWhat if Toyota was right all along?”
A worthy read (and heresy, to some) by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social.

cc:
@niedermeyer.online @bradmunchen.bsky.social
@montanaskeptic.bsky.social

29.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Nearcyan: I finally got the @pmarca block after three years!
all it took was tweeting the homepage of companies he invested in. cheers
@pmarca has blocked you
You can view public posts from @pmarca, but you are blocked from engaging with them. You also cannot follow or message @pmarca.

Nearcyan: I finally got the @pmarca block after three years! all it took was tweeting the homepage of companies he invested in. cheers @pmarca has blocked you You can view public posts from @pmarca, but you are blocked from engaging with them. You also cannot follow or message @pmarca.

Marc Andreessen is so ashamed of the garbage he invests in that he blocks people for even mentioning the companies:

29.10.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

the son of the President of the United States is on TV arguing the SPAC he is launching that invests in companies that do business with the Federal government does not present a conflict of interest


we are not in a good place fam

29.10.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2083    πŸ” 499    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 28

"Famous labor economist."

29.10.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why did they create the Charlie Kirk account together with the new Government accounts? πŸ€”

29.10.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We all know what’s going to happen if this continues

29.10.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

They should just use Sam Altman's crypto orb to scan our eyeballs.

29.10.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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