Eldritch kcarruthers

Eldritch kcarruthers

@kcar.me

Skeets forever! Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat. PhD candidate (AI & innovation). Nothing here is the opinion of my employer. I have always hated emdashes. Team Oxford comma. 💛💙🌻♥️💚🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 Aussie 🦘 https://katecarruthers.com/

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Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference in Brexit: diplomat’ who launched ‘Conservative Friends of Russia’ group now identified as Russian intelligence officer involved in a European disinformation campaign bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/the…

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i think dsa should stop focusing on candidates and start focusing on building socialism which actually has very little to do with elections and much more to do with making friends

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You know, canonically, Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy are two of the most dedicated parents in the Harry Potter books. Narcissa ends up betraying Voldemort in order to save her son. So it's nice to see that they also support his gender transition.

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One of the many incredible things Pedro shared was how Meta's AI bot within WhatsApp refused users' asks to make a poster for Lula but granted it for Flavio and when asked to make mock poster for, say, a dog they added Flavio's electoral number - as in vote for #22. In Brazil, vote is by #.

Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social

Tomorrow 10am PT/1pm ET/2pm Brasilia Pedro Telles of D-Hub and Fundação Getulio Vargas will tell us what went down & what's next in Brazil's elections. Join @mikepod.bsky.social and me for Substack live (moved from our typical Wednesday.) www.weekendreading.net/s/wer-live

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GRAPH SHOWING RUSSIAN LOSSES FOR GAINS This shows you the devastating casualties in the sloping upward line and the bottom how much ground they gained or lost over the same time frame.

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I've been following a coach who's teaching Dem candidates—from Zohran Mamdani to Abdul El-Sayed—how to talk about crime. If you hate all the fearmongering ads that come every election season, I recommend checking out these alternatives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.comThe crime issue is kryptonite for Democrats. It doesn't have to be.The Vera Institute's Insha Rahman is offering candidates a new playbook.

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So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too

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From Senior Reporter @anitawadhwani.bsky.social: Tennessee is rejecting applications for driver’s licenses from immigrants authorized by the government to work and live in the United States, a shift in policy that could strip thousands of longtime license-holders of the ability to legally drive.

tennesseelookout.comTennessee blocks driver’s licenses for Dreamers, other immigrants with U.S. work permits • Tennessee LookoutTennessee is rejecting applications for driver's licenses from immigrants who are authorized by the government to work and live in the U.S.

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#UkrainianView It started with rubber tires in Maidan, Ukraine. It proceeds with rubber plants in russia. russia should not have tried to install puppet presidents since 2004. It should have stopped attacking Ukrainian independence. We might all live normally. War was russian choice.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social

🏭 Fire Point: Why is Ukraine attacking rubber plants, and what is the use of fuel for Iskanders? In recent days, FP-1 drones have hit three Russian rubber industry enterprises at once: Voronezhsintezkauchuk, Omskkauchuk, and Togliattikauchuk.

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Who would have guessed that Russia would abuse a humanitarian truce? How many people are going to disappear in Russian filtration camps?

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social

People from Oleshky who wish to return to Ukrainian-controlled territory will first be taken to Crimea or Russia, according to FT sources‼️ At this point, we can only brace ourselves for a massive Russian propaganda campaign, legitimized on the international stage by Newsmax's presence.

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So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

theprint.inWho is Erika Hilton? Black trans politician was one of Lula’s loudest campaignersErika Hilton’s electoral triumph comes amid a hostile environment. Brazil has the highest number of reported murders of transgender people in the world, with 80 recorded in 2025.

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The Rockbridge Network is a “donor organization to finance right-wing news stories, voter turnout operations & election polls...” It was co-founded by JD Vance & Chris Buskirk & is reportedly backed by Thiel & Mercer who … www.reuters.com/world/us/tec... .. previously backed Vance’s senate race. 1/

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Replying to @jennycohn.bsky.social

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

“A judicial investigation has been launched in Brazil against [Flavio] Bolsonaro for possible foreign financing of his campaign and manipulation of social media algorithms. Flavio still hasn't shown up.” 1/ x.com/biondinicesa...

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With apologies to all my English friends, I think we should just set fire to England and push it out into the Atlantic till it sinks. I'm sorry, but we've tried everything else.

Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social

If you thought the Conversion Practices Bill is already bad thanks to all the loopholes and allowances it provides, then don’t worry - it’s about to get worse. The Government are hearing “evidence” from anti-trans campaigners Helen Joyce, Dennis Kavanagh and the LGB Alliance this week.

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Very few people win the Fields Medal since it is awarded only every four years. But there is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_... Ignorant, racist, asshole.

en.wikipedia.orgMaryam Mirzakhani - Wikipedia
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Replying to @damonyoung.com.au

ME IN MY TEENS/20s STUDYING AT MELBOURNE UNI IN THE 1990s: Oh man look at that, they have actual Assyrian wall reliefs on display here! that's so cool! ME IN MY LATE 40s VISITING MELBOURNE UNI IN THE 2020s: how did those Assyrian wall reliefs come to be in Melbourne goose_puffer_jacket_meme.jpg

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Replying to @saladinaldronni.bsky.social

It seems that Jordan may be lying on the cooperation that led to the airstrikes as was announced by the Jordanian army, Syria denies any cooperation took place and demands answers on how Jordan determined where to bomb.

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Following alleged airstrikes against Islamic State by Jordan, a diplomatic crisis has completely blown up between two states tonight. Jordanian airstrikes were heavy handed, likely killing many Syrian civilians even if jihadists were the target.

Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺@saladinaldronni.bsky.social

And, here we go. Jordan has just announced airstrikes against a jihadi group in Daraa (!), southern Syria. Earlier, the state denied links to outside organizations, it seems Amman by evening changed that view. There is only one group they could be targeting there.

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Australia has essentially eradicated cervical cancer, two decades (+/-) on from the introduction of the HPV vaccine

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Michaelia Cash tries to smear young First Nations leader Ethan Floyd over his Young People's Award nomination—for daring to challenge NSW’s proposal to ban phrase globalise the intifada & trying to provide aid to Gaza from a flotilla. Blatant political bullying. Shameful.

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truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

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“If every piece of software is a door, AI makes it exceptionally easy to turn turn the knobs of every door to see if it’s unlocked ... Not only are some of the locks easy to pick, in some cases the door is wide open or there’s a giant hole in the wall.”

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

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24 social housing apartments in Paris, with a mass timber structure and concrete cladding Love the large, openable timber windows! By Atelier de Chézy Architecture

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You know it’s not fair to call Elon a racist. He’s responsible for the deaths of plenty of white kids too. I mean, sure, he’s not an equal opportunity mass murderer but come on people. Points for trying.

Tom from Temecula@tomfromtemecula.bsky.social

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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

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.