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Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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USA's credit score is reflected in its bond yields. Nobody should pay them in advance.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡US delaying Patriot missiles already paid for under NATO initiative, Zelensky says.

kyivindependent.comUS delaying Patriot missiles already paid for under NATO initiative, Zelensky saysZelensky has appealed to Washington repeatedly, making the case for additional Patriot missiles as Russia intensifies strikes against Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure.
Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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This is the sort of muted response that might be uttered in our house when I get off a lengthy and frustrating call with customer support at our service provider.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡️US resumes intel sharing on Russian missile launches with Ukraine, Zelensky says. The U.S. provides Ukraine with intelligence to help its military detect and track Russian missile launches. Zelensky said the issue had been resolved and thanked Washington for restoring intelligence sharing.

kyivindependent.comUS resumes intel sharing on Russian missile launches with Ukraine, Zelensky says"We are very thankful for this... Now it works," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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The world consumes about 100milion barrels of oil per day. 30% is converted to diesel. So 30mln barrels per day. there are about 7,5 barrels to a ton (SI units). So 4M tons of diesel pd. 300k/4,000 = 7.5% of 1 DAY, all in a whole month! That's 0.25% uptick in Oct. Art of the fukken deal, Dozie Donny

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com

How much money is the American taxpayer sending to Putin for this? This is revolting.

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Essex On Tour
@doorframe01.bsky.social

Replying to @olbermann.bsky.social

You’ve had 250 years to work on the problem. It led to now. How about you all start looking at your corrupt society and start working on a fucking solution?

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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One wonders if one of the points in the USA plan to Iran doesn't involve the Straight of Hormuz being renamed after Donald Trump? It wouldn't even be surprising with this bunch of clowns. Outrageous, yes; surprising, no.

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍@markcorke.bsky.social

I wake up to news this morning that Trump wanted to rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of Trump. Aids, by some miracle, talked him down from that ledge. I am certain that in the next 100 days, he will float the idea of renaming Greenland to ★Trumpland ★Trumptopia ★Trumpsylvania ★Trumpastan ★Trumpico

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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Spoiler: Thiel is still a libertarian. He aims for governments and their interference to be dwarfed by corporations and their Boards.

Ivo Vegter@ivovegter.bsky.social

What’s the deal with Peter Thiel? dailyfriend.co.za/2026/04/28/w... (My latest column. How did Peter Thiel, once a libertarian seeking escape from democratic socialism, come to build the tools of state coercion?)

dailyfriend.co.zaWhat’s the deal with Peter Thiel? - Daily FriendHow did Peter Thiel, once a libertarian seeking escape from democratic socialism, come to build the tools of state coercion?
Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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"Rogue" seems quaint for what USA does habitually. USA has, for my whole lifetime, been a war-mongering terrorist nation. Every nation ever threatening to sell their oil in anything other than USD has been attacked, and had its leaders murdered. USAID won't paper over this one.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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If USA Department of Wank is going to crash #Claude because it refuses to give exceptions to its terms of service, then no tech coming from USA is safe from government interference. And Deepseek v4 will be out any minute now.

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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At first reading, I wasn't surprised because it may well have been Trump.

Stansaid Airport@stansaidairport.bsky.social

Touching speech earlier by Donald Trump about the death of Jesse Jackson. He recalled first seeing him introduced with his brothers by Diana Ross on the TV show 'The Hollywood Palace.' He went on to say how devastated he was when Michael went solo and the band split up.

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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I looked up "Zuma" and "Hersov" in the Epstein files because they're topical in South Africa. There were no salacious sexual details, but the casual vacuousness of back and forth emails is astounding. Paraphrasing: "Zuma was more engaging and entertaining than I expected". Subtext: "for a black"

mike abbott@mikeabbott.bsky.social

I wasn't disappointed by their lack of ethics, I expected that. The lack of any kind of intelligence or cool, the fatuousness, the vapidity, the dumb bigotry, the smug ignorance, the complete and total nothingness of them. That's the real disappointment.

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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I wake up to news this morning that Trump wanted to rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of Trump. Aids, by some miracle, talked him down from that ledge. I am certain that in the next 100 days, he will float the idea of renaming Greenland to ★Trumpland ★Trumptopia ★Trumpsylvania ★Trumpastan ★Trumpico

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍@markcorke.bsky.social

Trump wants Greenland. Not for national security, it's minerals, it's people, its proximity to the Arctic Circle, or its sheer size. Trump wants Greenland because the first POTUS has a state named after him, and he wants to sandwich American history with a state named after the last POTUS.

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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Trump is moving with more haste on key issues, under pressure to keep promises to donors, allies, and handlers. They are building a solid foundation for Plan B - the fall back position if Trump is unable to control the mid-terms. They want their pound of flesh before he falls under his bus.

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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Trump wants Greenland. Not for national security, it's minerals, it's people, its proximity to the Arctic Circle, or its sheer size. Trump wants Greenland because the first POTUS has a state named after him, and he wants to sandwich American history with a state named after the last POTUS.

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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I urge all people video-documenting ICE activity to keep copies of those videos in an off-line facility too. A simple thumb drive will do. At some stage cloud files may easily be identified by an AI bot, and deleted on orders from an overlord. The cloud will cease being your friend one day.

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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Seri, give us a possible example of PRESCIENT

Chris@chrismumbeck.bsky.social

Gerrymandering is fucked up, but how funny would it be that instead of diluting the blue vote to gain a seat, it dilutes the red vote to lose five? These people are evil, but not competent.

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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Real test cricket in India. Very unlike the crap dealt up in Perth on Friday and Saturday. Upside: I don't have to run 2 streams today.

Guerilla Cricket@guerillacricket.bsky.social

Jasprit Bumrah doing what he does best, dismantling the stumps of lower-order batters He cleans up Simon Harmer, but fails to get a hand to a half-chance at a return catch from Jansen that would have finished the innings 467-9 #INDvsSA

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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South Africa having a good weekend all-round.

Guerilla Cricket@guerillacricket.bsky.social

And that's lunch! Domination for South Africa who have batted with real intent in the second session. They scored at 4.31 per over with an unbeaten eighth wicket partnership worth 94 off 101 deliveries They'll resume on 428-7 #INDvsSA

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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If GOP ever manages to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) Trump will shortly after unveil TrumpCare. Those who have the power of critical reading will notice that it is almost word-for-word the same as ObamaCare. Just with a commission clause for the Trump grifters.

Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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This summarises the stock market - AGI - Ponzi conspiracy in just one read.

Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social

I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy

technologyreview.comHow AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our timeThe idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...
Mark Corke 🇿🇦🐾🔍
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I'm not sure what Ivo's part 2 will look like, but this first part has a spotlessly clean mirror for Trump's America. Read this excellent essay if you have ever wondered what exactly fascism is.

Ivo Vegter@ivovegter.bsky.social

What is fascism, and is Trump’s America it? (Part 1) dailyfriend.co.za/2025/10/21/w... (My latest column. Supporters of Donald Trump are quick to disavow the label “fascist”, which really is no surprise. It is damning, and is often used gratuitously.)

dailyfriend.co.zaWhat is fascism, and is Trump’s America it? (Part 1) - Daily FriendSupporters of Donald Trump are quick to disavow the label “fascist”, which really is no surprise. It is damning, and is often used gratuitously.