The comparison of Israel to Sparta is literally what Hannah Arendt predicted would happen back in 1947.

I am hearing that on his deathbed Andrew Cuomo received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

I see the "meritocracy" people have arrived

capitalism is so cool because while a small group of people forced us to compete against each other for survival they used the profits our competition generated to kill us anyway

FearNonelnc @RayInsideOut. Here's a list of techies on the ground helping Musk gaining and using access to the US Treasury payment system. Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran Elon Musk @elonmusk. You have committed a crime.

Same reply by Musk, but showing the original post was removed as a violation of Twitter rules

an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine

identifying the lackeys: illegal

“Is it okay for a social media platform to be an echo chamber” back in the day we had websites and websites were generally focused on a single topic and if you were into that topic you would visit that website and if you weren’t into that topic you just didn’t go on that website and it was fine

if anyone on here tells you that you need to know bluesky lore or anything like that, just ignore them. nothing ever happens

hundreds of thousands of new bluesky users yippee wahoo 👋 i have some aurora borealis pics to show you

Elon Musk @ X @elonmusk• 20h Tomorrow night through Monday, I will be giving a series of talks throughout Pennsylvania. If you'd like to attend one of my talks, there's no attendance fee. You just need to have signed our petition supporting free speech & right to bear arms & have voted in this election. America v @america • 10/6/24 Sign our petition in defense of YOUR Constitutional rights to Free Speech & Bear Arms! Goal is to get 1M voters in swing states... @ 6.7K 1727K O 110K 1 23M 2

Call me crazy, but I think it’s a bit problematic that the richest man in the world owns one of the largest social media channels in the world, and has stolen the “America” handle from its owner, verified it, and is using it to spread far right propaganda in the name of the US to fix the election.

Half now expect to never get COVID again Q: Which of the following statements most applies to you? l expect that I will get COVID-19 at some point in the future, despite trying to stay as safe as possible: 20% l expect that I will get COVID-19 at some point in the future, so I have gone about my life as normally as I could: 31% I do not expect to get COVID-19 at some point in the future: 49% Source: Ipsos Consumer Tracker, fielded September 4 - September 5, 2024 among 1,081 U.S. adults.

New poll finds half of Americans believe they'll never get COVID again.

The data shows that COVID surges at high levels throughout the year. Denial is one hell of a drug.

for what it's worth, i have enjoyed visiting most of the US, though i've only toured the contiguous 48. there's a lot of kind people and beautiful places here, and interesting animals i kinda forget exist until i see them. but i will never voluntarily go back to idaho fuck that lol

twin falls, idaho is the reason my parents had to teach us about sundown towns when we were young! 🙃 many years ago now. a group of white men called us "mongrel children" etc, several bystanders openly agreed… we drove clear through the night past the state line, to a soundtrack of bugling elks.

i'm very glad you have learned more about the bridge, and i hope it never has to reckon with a catastrophic impact.

this is the only funny thing i've seen all morning. you actually believe this?

Rouge gorge dodu en bois, vu de profil regard vers la droite, son dos est peint en marron gris, son visage et son torse en jaune orangé, ses yeux noirs avec un trait gris et deux points blancs. Il est sur un plan de travail avec un pinceau, une pierre à aiguiser, du papier a poncer

Vu de face légèrement de biais, sur un plan de travail avec un couteau de sculpture, un maillet et des copeaux

Vu de 3/4 même endroit

Vu de profil regard vers la gauche, même endroit

Dodu

black and white photo: a man in jeans and a black leather jacket sitting huddled in a corner, his hand and head leaning on the wall, the room floor is littered with computer utilities, software, hardware. caption below reads: can you really become a computer junkie - and is it catching?

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It’s actually a little different here; you have to pay a small monthly fee to be heterosexual on bluesky

If you have some to spare, theres a waitlist for scientists and medicos to migrate and this link is for collecting codes to assist docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

hey i know you just came from the site that looks 90% identical to this one and has all the same people on it but let me offer you some advice since it's your first day here

a dark brown boar faces the camera with its mouth open; its angled tusks and little eyes make it look like the cutest happy smiler ever

yayyy have a boar pic from my collection

Elon tweeted a 14 word tweet accusing soros of wanting "the destruction of western civilization"

The owner of the other site is posting 14 word long tweets accusing Jews of trying to destroy the world, if you want to know how it's going,

i want to second the notion that you need to learn boundaries (your own and others'), rather than delete and worsen your emotional catastrophe. i saw your mixed questions & assurances about "being very annoying," and i feel that it is partly because you consistently failed to disengage from conflict

finally, an actually inspiring story about one person having multiple jobs

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BLASTPASS: NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in the Wild - The Citizen Lab Last week, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices, Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulner...

Everybody go update your iPhones.

The new 0-click vuln exploited by NSO Group is sent via a malicious image in iMessage.

Abstract from https://osf.io/wdahm

Figure 4 from https://osf.io/wdahm

Fact-checks successfully debunk misinfo, but people exposed to misinfo rarely read the fact-check. @ethanvporter.bsky.social and I identify several strategies that can boost demand --- including among those least inclined to read fact-checks at baseline.

Preprint: osf.io/wdahm

a small dog stands on an orange white and grey stone retaining wall framed by large trees on a sunny day. a sliver of blue sky and wispy clouds is visible through a break in the high green canopy. the dog's body points toward the camera but his head is turned right as he observes something out of frame. his ears stand straight to their midpoint then flop over to frame the sides of his face.

a small dog lays atop a retaining wall in a stepped garden, bearing his weight with one paw held flat while the other is tucked against his chest; his back legs are crossed daintily to the side and his straight tail flows to the edge of the frame. the wall's stones match the colors of his glossy coat. the midday sunshine emphasizes a soft border of white fur around the dog's eyes ears neck and toes, while the rest of his fur ranges between several copper tones. behind the dog is a red planter box, green ground covering plants, dark brown soil, several trees with dark green canopies, and more retaining walls holding up sections of the hill.

a small reddish-brown dog's head peeks out from beneath a pillow the size of his body. the pillow is very bright orange with yellow and brown lettering that advertises "reese's pieces." he is resting his chin on a corner of the squishy-looking pillow, nestled atop several fuzzy brown and blue blankets.

a close-up of a small reddish-brown dog as he curls himself into a cozy little ball atop a fuzzy blue blanket. his hind legs are tucked forward and being held in place by one foreleg; he is pillowing his head against both rear paws and his free forepaw. his toe beans are nearly the same chocolate brown shade of his eyes. soft lighting makes the feathery white edges of his fur and whiskers stand out. the camera is so close that his ears and tail are out of frame.

take a moment to perceive some images of my dog. please forgive my poor ids