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How the turn tables. Who could have seen this coming? Not the galaxy brained rightwing tech bros. Kind of makes me think they might not know what they’re doing with all that AI shit.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

It’s hard to see this as anything other than institutional capture by ring wing forces of our national broadcaster. The level of coverage of a party with hardly any MPs is unfathomable.

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

So they are “taking time out of their lives” to patrol the streets to make sure they’re safe, but then threaten staff in a pub who won’t serve them. Sure looks like they are keeping people safe, just as long as those people look and act like them. Oh yeah, they have to think like them, too.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

No, they were middle-aged men wearing powdered wigs, elaborately embroidered hostess jackets, silk hose, and shoes with enormous buckles and substantial heels. In other words, our Constitution was written and signed by drag queens.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Here's how private equity killed your local mall.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

The *second* best thing about a James Talarico win would be how angry this annoying, interfering dork will be at not being able to buy a Senate seat for $200,000,000.

Live by the $38 billion government handout, die by the $38 billion government handout, you meddlesome dork.

Tech companies they have far took much power over our lives, they need to be broken up so we can have proper journalism and democracy again, so people can think for themselves again.

Eleanor Explains Why Hatred Sells in the Modern World. themuseumofcuriousobjects.substack.com/p/eleanor-ex... #books #booksky #writing #fiction #funny #literature #magicalrealism #novels #writer #author #writingcommunity #reading #sunday #literary #literaryfiction #read #blueskywriters #bookish

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

This is how democracy dies, when very rich people look after each other and deny freedom of speech and any kind of criticism. Democracy needs plurality of ideas as well as plurality in the ownership of media. It’s time for some trust-busting like we had in the early 1900s to take democracy back

Elon Musk is an enemy of democracy and this must be fully understood and acted on by European leaders.

Spot on from Rob, as usual.

Oh, Donald . . . That's not a gym. It's a gay bathhouse. And you have *never* looked like that.

This is how you do it!

Majestic!

Man speaking the truth! Well worth a listen. I love me a bit of Rafael Behr.

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

Today's #BirdOftheday Alt Theme is #Grey, birds with grey in its Plumage. I don't care what anyone says. Pigeons are so pretty. This beauty is a rock pigeon. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

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Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?

Weird orange bastard. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Whereby a writer of magical realism and speculative fiction in a post-industrial Northern English town tries to get to grips with a website. #writingcommunity #booksky #novels #books #fiction #readingcommunity #magicalrealism #speculativefiction #funny #writer #funny tinyurl.com/CuriousMuseum

themuseumofcuriousobjects.substack.com/p/eleanor-se... Another snippet from a book I have been writing called the Museum of Curious Objects. #booksky #magicalrealism #literature

themuseumofcuriousobjects.substack.com/p/eleanor-sa... A new chapter of a book written and narrated by me over on substack. I am still finding my way over there (and here! I only joined the other day!), but please have a listen/read. #booksky #art #writingcommunity #magicalrealism #stockport

Agnès Varda, Portugal, 1956.

A report shows which Florida insurers claimed losses as affiliates made billions. The state Senate demanded the Orlando Sentinel & Sun Sentinel destroy the report, released in response to a public records request, or face legal action. / By @skylerswisher.bsky.social @davidfleshler.bsky.social

One of the greats!

This bird is a full on gangster.

Winter Evening in Ghent - Evgeny Lushpin

#Poetryb#Painting #Autumn Grief is as long and wide as life. Watch the autumn river. Listen to it flow. Li Shang-yin (813-858) 🎨 Xuan Loc Xuan

“There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties” ― John Muir

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