i will never not be amused when i see mentions of 'Global debt'. All 8.3 billion of us are indebted to, um.....

[source: IMF. www.imf.org/en/blogs/art...

Video: Tamer | تامر via X (@tamerqdh)

this little update made me exceptionally happy. ❤️
#TimelineCleanse

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Fortune is a cheerleader for profit. This is a damning article. "Thousands of executives aren't seeing AI productivity boom, reminding economists of IT-era paradox" share.google/FEfsv8N4I9Ro...

But I did love that little quote, where the author laments that those who saved some time.. enjoyed it 😆

A Journalist’s Arrest Points to Diminishing Freedoms in Kuwait and the Gulf Prize-winning, high-profile international journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been in prison in Kuwait for the past six weeks, with limited access to his lawyer. Charges are yet to be brought, but it is feared that he, and others detained with him, will be tried under new national security laws for posting footage and photos relating to […]

Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been detained in Kuwait for six weeks without charge amid broader criminalization of speech and a denaturalization campaign | @lsmwilson.bsky.social 

I wonder how it feels to have the world's most respected sports/wo/men having a veeeeeery public laugh at your expense 😆😆

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Immigrants arent trying to replace you but tech ceos are.

Word.👇🏽

It's worth noting here that these aren't bombings. This is demolition

The IDF are able to freely walk around here and rig these obviously residential properties with demolition explosives, so it's not like there's any threat at all to them

This is, VERY clearly, the war crime of wanton destruction

This is one of the worst things I have ever read and I study frontier genocide as a profession.

Israel bombed Gaza on 36 of the past 40 days while the war raged in Iran flip.it/Cf2E5R

Walked past St. Paul's Cathedral today - Easter Friday - and a tiny group of mostly elderly "Christian #Climate Action" activists staged a sit-in on the steps.
It ended.. as poorly as it could have.
#London

INSANE reports from #Lebanon. The Israeli genocidal machine is in full force.
They are OBLITERATING entire villages.
RAZING the southern half of Beirut.
Issuing orders to people to "NOT HIDE Shia Muslims in their homes".

The Meowatollah!! 🤣

[One question though - what/who is the squid?]

🚨What you won't read in the British media: on X, journalist @twelves.bsky.social has looked at Matt Goodwin's new book, Suicide of a Nation, and found that is packed full of fake quotes and material that appears to have been made up by AI.

This Turin Egyptian Museum photo shows a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills. There is a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a clear round base against a grey background. Dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm. Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. It was formed by wrapping molten glass around a sandy core. Coloured glass rods were then wrapped around the surface of the vessel while it was still hot, and dragged with a pointed tool across the surface to produce festoon patterns. The vessel was left to cool and the core was removed.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! 🦆❤️

It belonged to a lady called Merit. Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so it would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, Theban tomb TT8. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin.

#Archaeology

Tehran is hit by 'a wide-scale wave of strikes' as US President Donald Trump's 48-hour ultimatum is set to expire soon

Tehran is hit by 'a wide-scale wave of strikes' as US President Donald Trump's 48-hour ultimatum is set to expire soon https://aje.news/8dy8l9

The Ensh*ttificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796

Meta promised to make all messages across their platforms (including Instagram DMs) end to end encrypted by default.

Now they're doing an about face and removing encryption from Instagram DMs, probably because they want to use your messages to train AI and make money.

This will get people killed🧵

The title doesn't do this article justice - it is putting price tags on the war crimes being committed, and it is fascinating

Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE.

www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...

They murdered 41 people, levelled a tiny village, dug out graves, out of pure hatred.

Doctors in a hospital in Gaza try to save the life of a Palestinian girl who sustained severe injuries in an Israeli attack that hit her and killed her father on their way to her preschool.

Israel's attacks on Palestinians in Gaza have continued despite the ceasefire agreement.

Whenever you see the words "AI targeting", mentally replace them with "indiscriminate bombing".

Screenshot of a tweet commenting on a BBC news headline stating "battered and isolated Hezbollah drags Lebanon into another war". The comment includes a screenshot from the very BBC article,which states that "despite a ceasefire that ended a devastating 13-month war in 2024, israel has continued with its bombing of Lebanon almost every day". The tweet is accompanied by some choice insults to the BBC for being spineless liars devoid of ethics, principles, or shame.

🧑🏽‍🍳😚

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The Minab school was struck deliberately.
Twice.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...

This is the confirmation message when you apply for a job at the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
In a sea of "only shortlisted candidates will be contacted", this was refreshing.
(and funny).

Memory, Return, and the Meaning of Home in Syria Basma Alloush provides a personal account of returning to Syria after years of exile, tracing how war, a new regime, and a return that was previously unplausible have altered both the physical landsca...

Basma Alloush's story of her return to Syria is unmissable. timep.org/2026/02/03/m...