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watching other people play guitar is interesting cus they look like the way they feel it, move across it, and just generally sit/stand with it is totally alien to me and i'm almost certain every guitarist feels this way. like it doesn't look like we all play the same instrument

As Antonio Guterres arrives in Egypt, Egyptian authorities are preparing to put Egypt's leading independent media outlet Mada Masr' Lina Attalah on trial and threatening to shutter the outlet. They've also arrested an entire newsroom of six journalists belonging to @matsadaash.bsky.social.

The knock-on effect is that if you really want to do something to help others, you might not be able to as with the current cost of living, you'd not earn enough to survive.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

He cried then I all cried & we hugged

I’m not sure a ban is the way to go - prohibition encourages illegal workarounds. But South Africa needs to put so much friction in the way of online gambling, including a total advertising ban and Byzantine payment requirements, that only those with considerable determination can still bet.

I’ll never cease to be amazed at how some Americans think driving a manual transmission is a flex. And this is so stupid. Americans haven’t routinely learned to drive manual since the mid 60s. Most Gen-Xers there can’t the fuck drive a manual car and most boomers would struggle at best.

I love how bikes compliment the urban landscape rather than dominating it like cars.

This is how to be a politician

Lessons to learn, folks.

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.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

‘World watches in silence’ | Pityana condemns anti-migrant violence www.businessday.co.za/news/2026-10...

Despite our Truth And Reconciliation Commission, deals were done so that both our apartheid leaders and our resistance leaders could avoid any scrutiny or prosecution for crimes committed in South Africa.

Gaza has been experiencing an old-fashioned scorched-earth campaign reminiscent of the Nakba of 1948 and no different from the settler-colonial genocides of previous centuries. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Poet Sylvia Plath in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1951 #BicycleBirthday October 27 (1932-1963)

I've been listening to the audiobook of Remains Of The Day in between fighting for my life through an untranslated Balzac. I've just finished the Ishiguro. Devastated. #booksky

FREE FREE PALESTINE

it really is amazing how accurate the “do you support both Palestine and Ukraine” litmus test has proven to be

You asked AI for the cheapest flight. It dug through your emails, decided you could afford more, and suggested a ticket costing $100–$200 extra. Lindsay Owens explains ⬇️

I really hope y'all are at least still boycotting Israel. boycott-israel.org/boycott.html

If I were to describe Elon Musk’s sense of humor it would be: 14yo that’s had 2 beers and thinks he’s wasted.

Messing around with clocks every year "so it's safe for kids to walk to school" is yet another casual widespread acceptance that people driving cars won't do so safely

These protests in Toronto just keep getting bigger and bigger. Good for you, Toronto. You can beat 'em.

The death of Kavantissa, Sri Lanka’s tallest elephant, from gunshot wounds has sparked widespread public outrage. In response, authorities are launching daily raids to confiscate illegal firearms, while international animal rights groups urge elephant repatriations. Kamanthi Wickramasinghe reports.

it is caturday. here is the child

Brett Herron met Site C, Khayelitsha, residents on asbestos housing concerns. A Housed City means safe homes, clear answers and action to protect residents’ health and dignity. #GOODParty #BrettHerron #CapeTown #LGE2026 #AHousedCity #HousingJustice #fyp

GOOD met Covid Informal Settlements residents in Ward 118 over a stalled road project. An Equitable City means equal infrastructure, answers and action on delayed projects. #GOODParty #CapeTown #LGE2026 #ServiceDelivery

Muslims and immigrants, despite all the lies we're told about them, have never presented a systemic threat to Western security, let alone to "Western civilisation". Instead, the threats come from our governments, especially in the US, and their grim alliances with capital and overseas dictators.

🚴 More incredible cycling news from Paris: 🟢 On 14 October, Paris presented a new cycling plan for the current municipal term, it includes 140 km of new cycle lanes, 220 km of contraflow cycling lanes and improvements to 420 intersections by 2032. buff.ly/meJI6Uo

About one third of claimed carbon capture just dumped secretly into the atmosphere by chevron

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Neighboring towns and nearby cities need a direct and efficient connection by bike just as much as they need roads.

you kids who grew up in the 2000s don't understand that television is a completely different art form than it was in the 80s and early 90s. in a generally good way.

Corporate Welfare Rolls-Royce closing in on £200m govt subsidy to fund development of new engine. Free money. No means-testing. Govt not taking equity stake, money not repayable. RR had operating profit of £3.5bn in 2024-25, will hand up to £9bn to shareholders over next 3 years. archive.ph/r18wm

Making comics is a hoot.

Discussing the positive changes vibe-coding has brought to manufacturers’ illegitimate control of our devices after we’ve bought them - and the limitations.

Props to the ad agency: they nailed the "white person who plagiarises and steals credit using LLMs" look with 100% accuracy

Big tech will try and tell us the rollout of AI and data centres is inevitable but here’s the proof it’s not. Community opposition to a data centre in Victoria has delayed the project so much it cut the developer’s net revenue by 1/3 and dropped their stock price 40%.

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

For Carrie Frances: 🎂 ❤️

Sometime in 1983, in the northwest Valley, an unknown prankster altered the "Valley Cir" sign (for Valley Circle Boulevard) to read "Valley Girl" -- a playful reference to the newly released movie of the same name. Like, omigod!

A couple of classic Vampires #vampire #shadowdark #monstermanual #osrart #dndart

i get why it's written this way, and that this story is somewhat unique, but it's still really frustrating to see addiction framed as habit in media in the year 2026. surely there's a better way to write about these cases next time