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freestone

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The highest good is like water - Lao Tzu

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.

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NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

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the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

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I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

apnews.comFederal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources sayFederal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

I read a little of that daring fireball piece calling X an amazing place and yea dude you’re a lifelong tech writer, i wouldn’t follow you anywhere! Keep the apple hot takes coming, I know now to ignore the rest

💻 Made some computer upgrades today I bought a used 15” Macbook Air M2 24gb 1TB ➡️ that will replace a ➡️ 16” Macbook Pro M1 Pro 16gb 1TB ➡️ which will replace a ➡️ 2017 i7 Macbook Pro work computer

I hope someone is keeping a list because its getting hard to keep track

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

Trump is helping Russia finance its war against Ukraine because his own stupid war has made him desperate for Russian diesel. What a humiliation and what a betrayal of the Ukrainians.

I like Zitron but yea he prints money from rubes like myself

I don’t have time to fact check the latest Zitron on this flight (actual work to do) but it’s telling he blocked someone for these accurate observations.

Saw someone call anti-ai folks pathetic, I pushed back with a small amount of perspective, got blocked The boosters do themselves no favors when they can’t defend their bullshit

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I think the most obvious "get people to sign up on atproto" is a linktree that is actually good and they don't even know it's a PDS.

I’m no fan of Adobe but how is this not illegal. The people who use these tools depend on copyright protections themselves

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

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(1/X) Check out a typical Harper's letter signatory's Twitter feed and you'll mostly *still* find 80% complaints about the "woke left", even in the midst of the greatest government crack-down on free speech in at least 60 tears. Why? Because the "free speech" movement is donor/patron-driven.

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For as much as people scoff when Dem politicians say the country needs a sane GOP, they’re right because you can’t just win every election. Thermostatic opinion is a bitch and you’re going to lose sometimes because of it. The insulation against that is losing to a party that won’t drive off a cliff.

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If LeBron or Taylor Swift posted this most recent El Niño historical temperature graph (current one in red) 500 million people would be in the streets. (And a hundred million lives would likely be saved in the next 20 months) #ClimateCrisis