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all my posts will be in line w/my declared bluesky identity.. my rules: I will -block anyone using foul language.. -mute threads going nowhere.. -react strongly to hate & racism.. -mute permanently any disrespectful person.. -block systematically people limiting replies to their followers...

this is how Czechit starts.. right into Putler's arms.. RU is playing Slavic EUR against its unity w/dexterity.. bc after centuries, the old Latin/Nordic/Slav divisions still alive.. root cause being Language of course...

crazy how high speed rail takes 23 years of reviews and planning to not be built but thousands of data centers can be built on top of people and habitat in less than a month

US creative industries shed more than 200,000 jobs in four years, a pace seen only in recessions, though AI's share is hard to isolate

The recent Starlink / Starshield incident in Ukraine has created a dangerous precedence for the US export industry, many haven't yet grasped. The sudden deactivation respectively curtailing of those systems without warning not only cost precious lives, but also equipment worth millions.

Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below.

‘Speaking in London, the Uyghur author of a memoir on her years in a Chinese camp described the price of bearing witness and the solidarity among detained women’.

so.. dictators win.. w/CHN help.. CHN now dominates ASEAN région.. bricks: -present: Laos, MYN. CMB -soon to fall: THA, INDO, VTNM -5 years max: MLS, PHLP, Pacific -final strike: TWN, SNGP WW3: SKR, JPN.. non-nuke states fair game to CHN.. +central asia: share w/RU.. UNLIMITED PARTNERSHIP!

"Nothing is more bitter than a stolen future".. 💯 how true.. at individual, community, national & global scale..!

- Een 2,5 meter hoge, vergulde sculptuur van een naakte Trump staat deze week in het Europees Parlement in Straatsburg. Het beeld toont Trump met een gouden knuppel op een kleinere man en symboliseert volgens de kunstenaar Trumps belemmering van klimaatactie.

🪖💬 Every 10th soldier in Ukrainian captivity is not a Russian citizen, reports the “I Want to Live” project, which helps Russian military personnel surrender to captivity. As of September, among the prisoners of war in Ukraine were citizens of 55 countries.

George Orwell's Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia Cartoon by Guy Venables

A young Xi Jinping poses next to the Golden Gate Bridge, 1985. He was 32 at the time. [1920 * 1554] by mardumancer

A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979.

all u$a/EUR govts since WW2 are complicit in ISR imperialism.. now that ISR pop >10M & growing w/TFR ~3kids/woman (2xEUR, ~African levels).. -->more land is needed: greater ISR became a necessity.. hence acceleration of the habitual ISR ethnic cleansing.. augmented w/ongoing genocides...

Genius 4 horsemen arrive on golf carts I laugh in the face of chaos and armageddon 😂

Nero was the beginning of the end of Roman Empire.. the Fool is his modern incarnation.. although IIRC he's tone deaf...

the only way to convince women to have babies is by giving them hope their kids will have a happy future.. all the other so-called "incentives" will fail miserably.. besides, there are too many of us.. which this planet will get rid of somehow...

He didn’t change. They did.

Today in Chicago History: Bernie Sanders — then a University of Chicago student — arrested during South Side protest

Thinking about about the efficacy, cost effectiveness of 1 way munitions. Fireships are an early example of this. Today we can make a tube, nosecone, engine, & guidance system for a plane or for a missile/drone. We are seeing the limit of such standoff warfare is the means of production not troops.

@sillymickel.bsky.social A Baloch girl shows the refrigerator of their house, which is in ruins.Look at it 😔 Why does the richest country in the region have the poorest tables? The secret of imposed poverty, the secret of black poverty in the richest land in the world;Where is Iran's wealth spent?

never understood separatism ln CND.. inviting voracious southern hordes intent to pillage your precious & vast resources seems suicidal...

i think i've said it before here but there's a Cambrian explosion waiting to happen for robotic systems, including vehicles, once you remove the human inside

I finally figured out the problem with most Americans. They treat every mild inconvenience like an attack on their rights and every attack on their rights as a mild inconvenience.

nothing surprising to see the extension of this racist philosophy to neighboring countries for a "Greater han-CHN".. first Phillipinos, then (soon) Vietnamese, Lao, Cambodians, Burmese & Thai.. CHN imperialism never died.. the Middle Kingdom will reign supreme..!

CHN has become a jingoistic racist country under Xi.. once, the minority cultural heritage was prized there.. but now, muslims & christians are suppressed.. Tibet demographically invaded.. Uighours forcibly "re-educated".. mongolians & yunnan people identity suppressed.. all for "han supremacy"...

under the protection of GR state & EU permission.. suitable cuts were funnelled through tax heavens into the pockets of politicians in Athens & Brussels.. & GR people got jobs to repair, service, officer & arrange logistics for these vessels.. open secret for years.. nobody raised a whisper...

oh no.. greek shipping magnates dominate maritime oil tanker business.. directly or via known convenience flags.. they carried RU oil despite sanctions.. when the going went rough they sold those ships to RU while operating them through black channels.. pocketing enormous profits>>

GR benefited enormously from RU-UKR war.. GR essentially handled practically all RU oil & gas maritime transport for the last 5 years.. w/total impunityfrom EU...

“Trump is caught between inserting himself into America’s foundational story and draining as much cash out of the system as possible to the point of death, like a cross between Forrest Gump’s Evil Twin and Nosferatu.”

😀exactly.. those are CRITICAL infrastructure.. even more important than refineries.. whole regions are deprived of electricity w/o them.. & when enough of them are hit, totality of RU may be w/o juice bc network instabilities.. UKR must x2/x3 attacks on these.. & there aren't that many of them...

“As Protestants in Ulster and white Southerners in the United States have figured out that they are on the losing side of demographic shifts, the politics of each place have been increasingly shaped by ethno-nationalist anxieties.”

#russia #ukraine #RU #UKR #war both drone & missile numbers increasing.. +50% in last 6 months.. decoy drones share ~50%.. w/90% drone and 60% missile interception rates ==> hits: ~12 drones & 6 missiles/day =1 ton TNT/day ==50 artillery rounds.. RU cannot win war this way.. simple terror tactics...

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

I can feel the trickling of the trickle-down … but it’s kinda greasy & smells weird

How the dumb got dumber

“Being decent is not really exciting. It’s not sexy in the way that being bad is. But it’s way more important, because one way of looking at the world is destructive, and the other one is an act of creation, and cementing bonds that already exist.”

This is a Persian-language website, but all of its information is reliable. Qasem Sahraei is someone who played a role in the recent executions of prisoners and said, “We will kill all of you iranhrs.org/%d8%a7%d9%81...

This is the title of this article: Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei and the preparation of field courts; changing judicial procedures under the shadow of a “war footing. This criminal man is the head of the judiciary of the Iranian regime. iranhrs.org/%d9%85%d8%ad...

For too long I thought my weird, queer, rebellious, punk/goth group of peers felt the same as everyone did, only we were angrier & louder. Now I know we truly were the outliers, & many old friends have turned to the Dark Side Their hearts can't be fixed but I'll die before I become one of them

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Allahkaram Azizi is not only directly responsible for the physical and psychological torture of prisoners in Qezel Hesar Prison, but is also known as a figure involved in organized corruption within the prison system

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I think it's bad everywhere.

Well….

Claude writing its own code.. means taking its hallucinations to new levels.. at which point we, humans, might not be able to wake it up from them.. IMHO this will be the true Turing test.. w/the added dimension of robot "reality" trumping human understanding.. beyond scary...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."